Chapter 18: The Cats' Purgatory (Part II)

“…… Wow, there are only five people left dead in the city? This is indeed miserable, worthy of being a real City of Death, there is no exaggeration of the artistic angle at all," Wang Qiu's eyes widened and whistled, "...... But what exactly do you want to mean? Professor? ”

“…… What I mean is to say, Comrade Xiao Wang, the epidemic situation in this area of the port of Marseille is strict, and I am afraid that it will be far beyond your imagination. ”

Professor Guo sighed and said, "...... According to your original thoughts, it was expected that a third of the people in this place would die in the Black Death, and the remaining two-thirds would be so frightened that they would rather go bankrupt than seek medical advice, or even bow down in front of you saviors...... But the problem is, if you continue to proceed slowly, the citizens of Marseille will not only be frightened, but will probably die so many people that there will be no one left, and by that time, who will you sell the medicine to? From whom do you get the money? Do you have to die and make money? ”

He gestured to a line on the screen describing the situation of the Black Death in Marseille, "You know, even in terms of the entire European Catholic world, the south of France has one of the highest rates of death, with a mortality rate of 75 second only to Sicily in southern Europe.

And the Provence region centered on Marseille is the most epidemic in the south of France, and the mortality rate is estimated to be as high as 2 about Sicily, according to the historical data listed above, in the spring of 1348, within a month of the introduction of the Black Death, 57,000 of the 80,000 citizens of Marseille died, and it was not recorded after that, because the person in charge of recording also died. What Cheng dù died in the city of Marseille in the end, it is estimated that only God can know...... Maybe it's worse than Smolensk in Russia, and the whole city may die in one breath

In this case, when the people in the city and the country are almost dead, who are you going to sell the medicine to? And what is the point of Mr. Levi's hard work to manage the connections, power and fame in a deserted ruin? Don't you have to run elsewhere and start all over again? ”

After listening to Professor Guo's reminder, and imagining the scene of standing on the ruins of a ghost town with only rotting corpses and skeletons, Wang Qiu, Doraemon and others were all shocked for a while

Well, although it is not impossible to dig up treasure from a ghost town where no one else is able to dig up treasure - just like the adventurers in the PP drama team up to explore the ancient ruins, but the efficiency of this fundraising is only greatly reduced: the degree of rummaging through boxes and cabinets to loot money is definitely slower than others taking the initiative to send money. And the key to the worse is that Comrade Qì Cat, who seems to have great powers and omnipotence, is precisely what he lacks most at the moment is time

――There is only a little more than a week left until the next monthly interest payment (based on the time flow of Doraemon World)

“…… Well, you have a point, Professor, it seems that we really need to speed things up, otherwise with such a high mortality rate, the market in Marseille will be ruined, and we will have to make a cameo appearance in 'Tomb Raids, looking for riches between skeletons and rotting corpses......"

Wang Qiu touched his chin and sighed without palpitations, "...... Without further ado, let's go out and talk to Levi."

However, what they never expected was that when they set foot on Levi's manor again, they would see such a shocking scene

- The outskirts of the Mujahideen Manor have been turned into a purgatory torture ground for cats......

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“…… Bell-bell-bell-"

In the warm sunshine of early spring, the alarm bells and wolf smoke are lit in the Mujahideen Manor, which sits on the seaside headland. The drawbridge leading into the manor had been lifted high, and the metal glow of swords, arrows, and armor shimmered at every battlement in the wall.

The Knights Hospitaller's white crusade flag on a red background, waving in the wind on the towers of the manor, seemed to be waiting for the flames of war to come.

And on the other side of this small battlefield, outside the trench of the Mujahideen Manor, there was a team of about 300 people scattered. This group of enemies can hardly be called an army, because it includes knights in armor, priests in robes, and armed citizens mobilized from nowhere. In the afternoon sun, they carried all kinds of flags and gathered around the outside of the manor, constantly shouting and scolding, threatening the people guarding the mujahideen manor with all kinds of foul language, asking them to confess their sins and surrender to the law.

It's a pity that the people in the manor are completely unmoved by such pediatric cannons. With no mouth cannon and no siege equipment, the invaders could not do anything about this manor, which amounted to a small castle - although its walls were not high, and the trenches were not wide, at least it was not something that a war horse could jump over. Even if it is the legendary "ant siege", at least a few strong long ladders must be used

The problem was that the mob besieging the manor seemed to be unprepared for anything, and could only go around in circles in front of the manor like fools, shouting and cursing in a different way, and then crawling backwards in fright by the arrows fired by the defenders...... It's a shame

Looking at this depressing scene in the streets, the vice president of the Marseille Apothecary's Guild, Mr. Pomorro the Red, couldn't help but raise his forehead with his hand and let out a helpless sigh: those overconfident and ignorant and reckless men in the Inquisition have messed up everything

-- The prestige of the Inquisition is indeed enough in the Catholic world of Western Europe to stop children from crying at night and silence strong men. But the problem is that that deterrent effect is not so good for the ruling class that it is for the common people: believing in God and fearing the Church are two different things

The people of the Knights Hospitaller of Rhode Island are not some kind of country fools who blindly believe in priests, nor are they the kind of nerds who read the Bible and read stupidly, but the real power within the church, who have been exposed to countless ugly overturns within the church, and have been fighting on the front line against infidels all year round. Although this military order has always claimed to be God's sword in the East, it has been stabbed by church insiders in history a lot, and the lesson is very profound. It would be a bit whimsical to want them to bow down in front of a mere local Inquisition.

Not to mention, the Knights Hospitaller branch of the Mujahideen Manor on the outskirts of Marseille has been operating for years under the leadership of a group of future world travelers who do not believe in God at all. Although these modern people did not deliberately do anything to enlighten their minds and dispel superstitions, as a pastime in their free time, they also boasted to the crowd about a lot of shady scenes, scandals and pornographic jokes about the church, which the whole manor talked about it......

As a result, the people in the manor became less reverent of the Catholic Church, at least at the level of the local bishop.

In fact, even those ordinary noble lords are mostly those who pay lip service to piety and faith, and value land and interests more than the root of life. It is very difficult for the church to collect their tithes, and there are often some misers who refuse to pay the taxes that have been in arrears for decades, and the church has nothing to do with them. There were even many robber barons with crosses, who actually took the robbery of monasteries and churches as a daily pastime, shouting God bless, while hacking the monks to death, knocking down the nuns, and looting all kinds of gold and silver sacristy...... If you want to deprive them of their territory and title based on a letter from the bishop, without the backing of the army, do you believe that they will teach you how to be a man with a long sword every minute?

However, perhaps because there were too many old women and poor widows burned over the years, or perhaps because they were so stunned by the Black Death that they had set up an ambush to capture Levi, the head of the Inquisition in Marseille seemed to have completely forgotten how unruly the knightly nobles with swords in their hands were! The creatures, who had not organized a sufficiently strong army - in fact, with the actual authority of this guy and the current catastrophe of the Black Death, could not actually organize many soldiers and horses - and forgot to kidnap the knight Levi himself as a hostage, let alone contact and bribe the internal response, so they took a knight, two priests, and five retinues, and came to take over and seal the manor of the Mujahideen, intending to search for evidence of heresy, witchcraft, and devil worship with their own hands, and tie every sinner to the pyre and burn it, I didn't even think about which side was stronger.

What was even more unfortunate was that the person in charge of the Inquisition in Marseille had just taken advantage of the other party's unpreparedness to break into the gate of the Mujahideen Manor, and before he could say a few words, he suddenly stumbled, vomited blood and fell, and never got up again-Obviously, this guy was also plagued Next, his entourage did not dare to go up to help him because of their lives, but were so frightened that they turned around and scattered, thus missing the best opportunity to seize the manor......

As a result, when two hours later, Levi's cheap cousin in this world, the Knight of Nice, got the news and excitedly pulled a large number of people to accept the property of his unlucky relative Levi, and Mr. Pomorro of the Apothecary's Guild also hurriedly brought some people over to find out the elixir that could cure the plague, and the Mujahideen Manor had already reacted, closed the door, put away the drawbridge, sounded the alarm bell, and was ready for battle. The fellows of the Inquisition, along with their corpses, were thrown out of the manor, wandering outside the trenches, not knowing what to do.

Faced with the embarrassing situation of the blatant disobedience of the Mujahideen Manor and the fact that these "law enforcers" were not allowed to enter the door, the three groups of people all lost their minds for a while.

A strong assault was obviously impossible, and although they numbered more than three hundred men, and the armed forces of the manor numbered only thirty, the battle was not a race of heads—the defenders were either professional infantrymen long employed by the Knights Hospitaller, or vassal warriors belonging to the Bacon family, and they were professional soldiers of this era, with stone walls and trenches as a stronghold. And the guy outside the manor, except for the knight of Nice and the other three genuine knights, as well as the servants of these knights, are just a rabble brought in temporarily, and there are no siege equipment, no matter how you look at it, you can't win.

So, they had to send messengers to the Bishop of Marseille in the city to ask for reinforcements, while they wandered around the manor in boredom and tried to break into the workshops and hospitals that were outside the walls—unfortunately, the craftsmen in the workshops had already taken refuge in the manor, and the nuns and sick in the hospital had been evacuated, and the invaders had only found a few cats that had been left behind.

So, under the instigation of the members of the Inquisition, these thugs, who had nothing to do for a while, turned into cat sadists one after another, and began to use all kinds of terrible tortures, and tortured these poor cats from the future world with extreme ferocity......

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