Chapter 51: Isolation
The group who gave up their resistance was taken to a simple wooden house outside the town. It is said that it is a wooden house, but in fact the so-called house is nothing more than a shack of rags and wooden planks, and even the cheese suspects that there is no need for heavy snow or rain, and only a gust of north wind can bring down these humble buildings. However, such a simple building can be regarded as a high-rise building in this refugee ghetta, and the places where ordinary refugees live are even more dilapidated, and the so-called dwellings are only holes in the ground covered with a piece of cloth on them. Such a tomb-like dwelling seems to illustrate the attitude of the people of Turbidity to these refugees. Ironically, the perimeter of the quarantine zone is surrounded by a high wall made of logs, forcibly separating the area from the outside world.
The men who led the way were not following through the gate of the quarantine zone, and they just pointed to the area where the team lived and ran away.
"Before I left, I instructed my men to build simple shelters for these refugees. But as far as I know, simple dwellings are anything but like this. Leon said with a frown as he looked at the miserable situation in the quarantine zone. Although the Knight Commander ordered the quarantine of the refugees, his quarantine was definitely not a hellish scene in a quarantine area like the one now.
As the last person entered, the door of the quarantine area was slammed shut, and the guards guarding the door couldn't wait to close the heavy wooden door, as if countless demons would rush out of the quarantine area after a second's delay.
"The real hell is never underground. "The mage was not surprised by all this, since the apothecary had never intended to cure the refugees, it was merciful that they did not kill them all. Or maybe the reason why they didn't kill them was that they were afraid that they would be infected with this terrible plague in the process.
"Look!" Elsa whispered, tugging at Cheese's sleeve and pointing to a corpse on the ground.
The mage looked in that direction, although it was still some distance away, but the thick black hair on the corpse was clearly recognizable, and the corpse seemed to have almost the same appearance as the one they found near Vale! He didn't care at all about the smell of corruption and the excrement on the ground that filled the entire quarantine area, and when he saw a sample of research value, Cheese immediately entered research mode, and despite the dissuasion of the people around him, he walked to the corpse and rummaged through it with his gloved hands.
"He, is it all like this?" Feeling the stench of all kinds of terrible smells in the air, even Leon had to cover his mouth and nose with his hands, and several young knights couldn't help but vomit. But looking at the cheese, who seemed to be completely unaffected, the chief knight couldn't help but turn his head to the proprietress and asked. Although I have seen mages working in the underground Leon of Valley City before, the lighting environment is poor at best, and the concept of hygiene of the awake people is still similar to that of humans, and even due to the overly sensitive sense of smell, the sanitary conditions there may be better than the ordinary streets.
Elsa's situation at this time is not too good, no matter how strong her personality is, her nature as a female ** makes her feel doubly uncomfortable about the dirtiness of this place, and the proprietress at this time is pale, as if she is enduring the desire to vomit, and there is no way to answer Leon's question. However, Mona, as a warrior, is much more receptive to this place than Elsa, and although her body is also instinctively uncomfortable, the female warrior still resists the desire to vomit and answers the question of the blood lion.
"Although we knew that he was terrible to be serious, we didn't expect him to be dedicated............ "Well, it seems that Mona didn't hold back her desire to vomit because ......of what she said. And as she vomited, the proprietress and Jack also lost their grip one after another, and the vomiting became a chain reaction, and for a while, except for Leon, who could barely hold on, everyone else began to vomit frantically, until they vomited bile, and only stopped this instinctive behavior because it was too painful.
"Hey, if you don't do something, I'm afraid we may not survive tomorrow!" Feeling helpless at the reaction of his teammates, even if he is a fighter who sees death on the battlefield, it is difficult to make a difference in such an environment. The chief knight had no choice but to ask for help from the mage in the distance.
Cheese looked up at the people who were already standing against the wall, he frowned slightly, and turned his head to look at the corpse in his hand regretfully, feeling very unhappy that he could not finish studying it. But not daring to say anything, the mage walked back to the group, and pulled out a large mass of cotton-like something from the lining of his robe, only to see him tear the flocculent into small balls, and then forced it into Leon's nostrils despite the knight's objections.
The Knight Chief's refusal at first to the mage's move. But soon, as the flocculent mass was stuffed into his nostrils, he felt like the air he was inhaling was immediately much fresher. Although the smell has not been completely eliminated, the disgusting stench has been greatly reduced compared to before, and he even feels that he is a lot more energetic. Seeing that the blood lion was back to normal, Cheese took out another ball of cotton wool, wrapped the large ball of floc in strips of cloth, and stuffed it into the knight's hand.
"Stuff them too, this kind of cotton wool can act as a filter. But remember, you can't stuff too much at once, it has a slight hallucinogenic component, and if you inhale too much at one time, you can go crazy. It is changed every two hours, and when used for filtration purposes, it does not cause long-term side effects. The mage said as he stuffed cotton wool into Elsa for her.
"You go to the quarters they have assigned us first, and I'm going to see the refugees here. Don't worry about my safety, no one here has extra stamina to hurt me. ”
After greeting the others, leaving Leon and Elsa to stuff the rest of the group with cotton wool, Cheese returned to the corpse he had looked through earlier, and studied it silently. The Blood Lion and the proprietress did not have any objections to the mage's arrangement this time, except for Cheese, who seemed to be immune to the stench in the air, and the others had cotton wool filter, but it was still difficult to control their reactions when they saw those disgusting scenes. Moreover, without the mage's reminder, the group also knew that in terms of the possibility of contracting the plague, I am afraid that this quarantine area is much larger than the valley city full of rat people. So the group had to honestly go to the area that had been specially zoned for their use, which must have been newly expanded, and there were no refugee bodies or anything else around the boarded houses.
As the night gradually came, there was no fuel to heat in this quarantine area, and people either hid in small dirt holes or crowded each other to keep warm, but fortunately, the harsh environment of Longji Mountain made Elsa and them more tolerant of the cold wind than ordinary people, so although it was getting dark, the proprietress could still watch the movement of the cheese. Finally, when Elsa couldn't take it anymore, the mage returned.
"It's not normal here, I need someone to follow me to see what's going on in Turbidity. Who's going with me?"