Chapter 110: The Plague
"Tsk, it's so hot" Looking at the Chaos Fearless who flew into the distance with a puff of black smoke, Su Qin suddenly felt that the coat on his body had become hot inexplicably, and he couldn't help jumping to throw it off.
"I thought I would succeed with this robe as a carrier." Looking at the Sith robe that slowly recovered to room temperature in the cold wind, Su Qin's expression looked very helpless.
Through the interpretation and study of Kalias's psionic notes, he has gradually mastered more advanced psionic knowledge, and is even able to try to make his own psionic equipment. As a reincarnation on the legal side, even if you don't hold a wand, you should at least wear a magic robe.
Although, he usually uses his blade and gun to communicate with enemies much more often than casting spells.
Jokes aside, the robe in front of him had been transformed into a psionic device with a large number of materialized spells embedded in the ritual. Functionally, it is relatively close to the dimensional coat made by the Chaos Wizard. However, due to the implantation of black blood, it also has the ability to partially transform while maintaining the ability to transfer space.
Of course, Su Qin was only a novice when it came to crafting items. Perhaps due to his own lack of ability, among the several prototypes, even the most successful Sith robe had a 30% chance of overheating when initiating a spatial transfer.
However, it is better to burn clothes than to burn brains. The subspace reactions brought about by the spatial transfer will be absorbed by the spells in the outer robes and converted into heat and dissipated into the air.
Moreover, at this time when the Black Blood Demon Sword-Henig was asleep, Su Qin finally had the opportunity to contact the core control authority of the Demon Sword. Therefore, the part of the black blood that has been refined has been completely incorporated into his hands.
At the same time, this meant that after a long struggle, Su Qin finally saw the possibility of completely getting rid of the entanglement of the magic sword. Of course, there's still a long way to go.
In the distance, Jin Li and the others cheered up and gathered their spirits to collect the wounded and reassure the people. The bursts of cries from those gang made Su Qin have to temporarily put aside his troubles and start thinking about what to do next?
Although they managed to repel the enemy this time, they also revealed their own intelligence. Three Chaos Space Marines with little combat experience don't represent anything, and not being able to leave behind the battle-hardened Chaos Dreadnought is the biggest regret. In the encounter, both Su Qin and Huang Quan showed some of their strength. If the Chaos invaders on the other side are experienced, it must not be difficult to deduce their power system. Although each has their own hole cards, the next battle will not be as smooth as this one.
What's more, they didn't know how many reinforcements had been summoned from the other side? How many more people crossed the Misty Mountains to attack?
These problems all need to be thought about and solved by him, Su Qin rubbed his temples and sat on the ground, feeling very tired.
"Whew, I'm so tired. Lend me a lean. "Controlling the Elven Fire has caused Huangquan to expend a lot of energy. She walked to Su Qin's side and sat down on the ground tiredly, leaning behind her companion, the tragic scene in the camp made her unbearable to look directly, and she couldn't help but turn sideways to look away.
"Why is it always the ordinary person who hurts the most?" The girl's purple pupils showed a sense of confusion, and the answer to the question may have been in her heart for a long time. But she still wanted to hear a different response from her companions, at least—not so cold.
"Because...... These are troubled times. Su Qin stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around her shoulder, and his tone was full of depression.
None of them are the kind of people who like to be sad and sad, but looking at the team of refugees wailing in the distance, the two of them still feel extremely heavy. Although, they led away the extremely threatening Chaos Space Marines squad in advance. But in just a few minutes, the even more dangerous Daring Do inflicted nearly unbearable damage on the entire team.
The loss of vehicles and materiel was heavy, and the total number of casualties and deaths of all types combined was close to one-fifth of the total. No less than three of the steam caravans alone were destroyed, and none of the occupants of the two vehicles directly hit by the hot melt cannon were spared, their bodies twisted and fused with the molten metal, and they could no longer be separated from each other. In the steam caravan torn apart by the power claw, only a few refugees escaped. Add to that the casualties caused by the orcs who sporadically crossed the line in the chaos, and the total number is staggering.
After the battle, almost all the families of the entire team were killed.
Even more disturbing is the fact that the large number of germs carried by the fallen orcs also spread around their corpses. During the concentrated incineration, a skull-like smoke rose from the pile of corpses, adding a new shadow to everyone's hearts.
Sure enough, on the third day after the battle, the plague began to appear among the refugees, at first only some of them began to fall unconscious, and then they began to have the same rotten sores on their bodies as the fallen orcs. Over time, the sores will even devour the entire surface of the human body, but they will not cause the patient to die quickly, as if they have become one with him.
This slow-devouring horrific disease slowed down the team's progress, and one steam caravan after another was infected and turned into moving coffins laden with corpses.
In terms of time, it is estimated that the dark army has already entered Fort Clarion to start a siege battle. However, the various supplies stored in the city could not last much time, so Su Qin and the others had to arrive at the Morrell Mine as soon as possible to establish a new supply channel for Fort Clarrum. Reason told him that he should abandon the infected, but this cold view could not convince even himself, let alone others.
In order to prevent further exacerbation of infection, all steam caravans with outbreaks have been distanced from those that have not yet been infected. The convoy was then divided into two detachments, one in front and one in the rear.
An oppressive aura pervades the entire team, and riots can break out at any moment.
Standing outside the quarantine circle of the infected convoy, Su Qin secretly made up his mind.
"I don't want to give up on them......"
"Just do it, I'll support you no matter what."
Su Qin nodded, but prevented Huang Quan from entering with him.
"If I don't come out of it after two days, you'll burn all the infected caravans with elven fire."
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
"I'm sorry to leave you with the most tiring job."
“…… I'll wait for you to come back. ”
Putting on a gas mask, Su Qin came alone behind the enclosed steam caravan. Slowly open the carriage door and the inside is surging. There was a malice that almost condensed into substance, mixed with the smell of decay.
"Quick...... Walk, the car's ...... People are no longer ...... Alright," said a dwarf who had been as muscular as a bison by the door, half-leaning against the wall of the car. The rotten sores with yellow-green liquid crawled all over the left half of his body, and the whole person seemed to be swollen. Swollen rotten meat.
"Don't give up." Su Qin jumped into the carriage and closed the door.
Leaning against the dim gas lights inside the car, he saw that the steam caravan the size of a heavy truck was full of patients who had fallen to the ground. There was a purple-yellow mist floating in the air, and the source of this mist came from the most severe patients, who had been completely covered in rotten sores and turned into wriggling pieces of flesh.
Half-kneeling beside the dwarf, Su Qin began to inquire about the development of the epidemic. After learning about the infection process of the entire car from his mouth, Su Qin couldn't help but smile helplessly, and then took off his gas mask.
As a race that is proficient in ore mining, the dwarves naturally know how to protect themselves from the poisonous gases that may be produced in the mines. The gas masks they made were almost identical in principle to the modern ones in Suzhou's hands, but that didn't work at all. Feeling the virus floating towards him like a living thing, Su Qin sat in the middle of the sick crowd and began to enter a deep meditation state.
At this moment, he has not given up hope.