The palanquin carrying Wang Qiu skirted the pyramids, passed through the empty small square, and passed through several tall wooden fences to the palace where the family of King Awaha and his wife lived in Wende.

It is said that it is a royal palace, but it is actually quite shabby, but it is just a few ordinary simple mobile houses with colored steel plates. Just to distinguish it from the blue and white "aristocratic mansions" around the pyramid, the roof was painted a striking bright red.

However, in terms of the comfort of the living environment, this kind of modern bungalow is actually not bad.

In the middle of the courtyard of the royal palace, a four-meter-high cement totem pole was erected, and the main body was a statue of an Indian warrior - according to the level of the indigenous jishu, such a large statue would have taken at least a year to build. But in a small modern workshop, as long as the drawings are sent over, it only takes two or three days to finish pouring.

At the other end of the courtyard, there is a simple white mobile house with a huge red cross painted on the roof, which is a temporary residence for the travelers, and a makeshift hospital - although this hospital usually sells medicine and rarely treats people.

-- At a time when a flood of modern goods was pouring into this Shijie Central American market across five centuries of distant time and space, a terrible plague, seemingly carried by the travelers, followed a few months later and quickly struck many city-states and villages on the Pacific coast of southwestern Central America.

And the first to bear the brunt is naturally the kingdom of Hungshutizgan itself.

All of a sudden, people were coughing, feverish, and shingles everywhere in the fields, cottages, and lumber yards.

As a result, the great chief of Awaha, who had not yet been crowned king, began to gather his ministers to discuss the matter. The Mesoamerican Indians' traditional response to the plague was to perform human sacrifices, with hundreds of beating hearts and warm blood smeared in the pyramids, to please the temperamental and brutal gods.

Obviously, this superstitious and ignorant cruelty has no positive effect on the treatment of the plague.

Moreover, after the execution, these living sacrifices were customarily placed near the pyramid temples for a long time, and the local weather was so hot that if so many carrion corpses were piled up in densely populated cities, it would definitely lead to the further spread of the plague.

Fortunately, there is a group of "godmen" around them at this moment who can ask for help, and there is no need to go to great lengths to build pyramids to hold blood sacrifices. As the next monarch, Wen Dehei naturally resolutely opposed any human sacrifice, so Hong Xiutiz did not do the above stupid thing.

Fortunately, the travelers were not the Spaniards who would later bring smallpox and the Black Death, and were prepared for it - after the outbreak of the epidemic, all kinds of oral antibiotic pills, cold powders and anti-inflammatory and fever-reducing medicines were transported in a steady stream and sold at relatively low prices. And within the kingdom of Hungshutizgan, it was simply distributed free of charge, so that the slaves and poor people would not die en masse.

I have to admit that before germs evolved drug resistance, antibiotics can be said to be a miracle cure. And these Indians, who were able to survive tenaciously in the flood and wilderness, were far more resilient than modern people. After the bitter white tablets (oral penicillin) and the rainbow of small particles (cold powder) were distributed, the vast majority of patients showed a noticeable improvement.

Then, Professor Yang flipped through a handbook of rural barefoot doctors published in the 60s, and instructed the aborigines to sprinkle lime powder on the roads and courtyards of the villages. In the room where the sick person has been lying, use a small pot to boil glacial acetic acid to disinfect; Healthy people who are not sick should also take preventive medicine; Then there was the order that it was forbidden to drink raw water, and everyone could only drink cold boiled water.........

It just so happened that the first batch of green onions, onions, and garlic brought from the other world could also be picked, so they were also distributed so that everyone could eat more of these sterilized foods, and at the same time, the planting area should be further expanded...... One of the bad consequences of this was that he was reluctant to kiss his wife for a whole month - in order to prevent her from dying of illness, he ate garlic to Princess Maca almost every day, not to mention the smell.

Half a month later, the plague was basically over in the kingdom of Hunghiutizgan, and Wen Deji made a rough count and found that only 50 people died in the whole country during this period, half of whom died not because of the plague, but were unfortunately stoned to death in an accident while logging, or disappeared in the water while fishing. The bodies of a small number of deceased people are cremated to cut off the source of infection.

According to the test results that Wang Qiu spent a sum of money to bring the patient's sputum to a modern hospital, everyone was finally shocked to find that this seemingly menacing and terrible plague was actually just an ordinary influenza.

But outside the borders of the kingdom of Hungshutizgan, the influenza disaster was not so slight.

For example, the city of Tepetvanc, the closest Mayan city-state to the kingdom of Hunsutizgan, in what would become Guatemala, suffered an almost devastating catastrophe.

According to what a merchant sent to sell medicine had seen there, in the city of Tepetvank, from the harbour wharf to the lord's palace, there were dying, sick and rotting dead people, and pedestrians on the road would suddenly vomit blood and fall down as they walked—this puzzled the travelers, for even if the cold worsened into pneumonia, it did not seem to reach the point of vomiting blood—the whole city was stinking, and the streets were littered with pools of vomit, and corpses were littered and crawling with maggots. Gnawed and devoured by stray wild dogs, there was no one to clean up at all.

However, despite the horrific conditions in the city, the Mayan priests maintained their rule, blaming the gods for the plague and holding a massive human sacrifice to atone the wrath of the gods by disemboweling 800 criminals, prisoners of war, and willing warriors on the altars of the pyramids, offering their blood, hearts, and skulls to atone the wrath of the gods.

And the corpses of the victims were still stuck in spears as if they were wearing barbecue, and they were densely erected in the square in front of the pyramid, like a terrifying forest of human flesh, many of which were black and rotten, apparently dead for a long time.

-- When the Mongols attacked Europe, they used trebuchets to throw dead people into enemy cities in order to create a plague. The Mayans, on the other hand, piled up carrion in their own cities, lest the plague not spread badly...... No matter how you look at it, it looks like you're killing yourself.

Even, when the merchants of Hungshutizgan tried to sell drugs and shiyan on the spot, they were rebuked by the Mayan priests of Tepetvanc City as demonic bewitchment, and even threatened to tie all of them to the pyramid for sacrifice! As a result, they were so frightened that they had to take advantage of the fact that before the pursuers came, they quickly climbed into the canoe and rowed desperately to escape, and did not dare to go to that ghost place again.

Before receiving this information, Wen Deji had been eager to lead the team to see if he could take the opportunity to send medicine and show off the "boundless mana" of his travelers, so as to bring this group of Mayans under his command - according to the Great Chief of Awaha, during the heyday of the Honshutizgan Kingdom, he had conquered the city of Tepetvanc, but unfortunately lost it decades ago - but when he heard that the situation there was so horrific, and the actions of the Mayan nobles were so cruel and bloody, he immediately dispelled the idea. …,

People have already become crazy like this, if he, a "god man", is in the past, who knows if he will also be directly slaughtered and sacrificed to the gods?

The Aztecs had done such immoral things when they were still very young—in order to obtain a noble enough human sacrifice, one of the early Aztec emperors first asked a neighbor to marry a princess, and vowed to make her empress. When the poor princess was married, the Aztec emperor immediately turned his face and sent the princess to the pyramid the next day, where she disemboweled her belly and gouged out her heart to sacrifice to the gods......

However, there are still a few strange people like Tepetvank City who like to kill themselves. Most of the Indian tribes facing the threat of the plague still expressed great welcome to the "miracle medicine" of the traversers. Many very poor tribes, unable to afford medicine, simply migrated en masse and joined the kingdom of Hungshutizgan to pray for the protection of the "men of God" from their diseases.

By the time the sudden plague had largely ended, most of the Mesoamerican natives along the Pacific coast had come to worship the travelers as their own—for the Native Americans, the gods knew no borders at all, and as long as they were useful, they had to be worshipped.

Moreover, the Indians also had the idea of "animism", that is, they believed that everything had a soul and a god who ruled over them, such as the god of the sun, the god of potatoes, the god of corn, the god of the sea, the god of salt, the god of rain, and so on......

It can be inferred from this that the traversers who can resist the plague should naturally be in charge of the priesthood of disease.

To put it simply, the traversers are the plague gods.

And the heir of Wende, who will become the king of Hunghiutizgan in the future, is the chief servant who serves the plague gods, the noble archangel.

In short, when they learned that they were worshiped by the Indians as a plague god, Wang Qiu and the others' faces were really wonderful. When he knew that he had inexplicably become the chief divine servant and archangel, Wen Desi's face was also very exciting.

-- He always thought that he had become a national civil servant, that is, a subordinate of these compatriots in front of him...... It seems right to understand it as a servant?

…… Uh, this ...... Should it be said that it is crooked?