"Boom ......"

The dull thunder roared again and again, and the lightning shuttled through the dark clouds like a swimming dragon.

It was Horn's first rainy day in the Valoran continent.

Spring has sprouted, and many new leaves have been hit by the rain and their heads have been lowered, and they will soon bounce up with great resilience.

Green vines crawled over the castle's ancient walls, hanging silently on top of the walls, listening to the whispers of the maids who sheltered from the rain in the house.

In this era, there was no such thing as an umbrella, and they all used very thick cloaks to keep out the rain.

Horn asked for two finely woven wool cloaks from Carl and prepared to go out with Uheng.

The cloak was thickly coated with a layer called "Ta."

The oil has a water-repellent effect, similar to the tar obtained by smoking birch bark, trunks and roots at high temperatures.

Ordinary tar is used to prevent corrosion and waterproofing of houses, boats and ropes, while high-quality tar can be used on clothing such as cloaks to protect against corrosion and water. Charcoal and pine resin are also obtained during the making process.

"Your Majesty, this is too risky! you can stay in the castle, and I will go with my assistant." Wu Heng dissuaded while wearing a woolen cloak.

"As the Empress of the Sikaya Empire, how can I, as the Empress of the Sikaya Empire, endure the suffering of my people...... I'll have to see what happens. ”

Horn put on his cloak and took two steps down the stairs and stood in the rain.

"Let's go. ”

The hood was so large that only her small white chin could be seen...... on the face towel.

She stretched out her hand, took some rain in her palm, and after waiting for a while, she shook her hand and shook off all the rain.

"Alas......"

Wu Heng also plunged into the rain curtain, stood behind her right, and said, "Your Majesty, the carriage is too dazzling...... We had to hike to the East Market. ”

"Good. ”

Horn wore brown deerskin boots and stepped through the stagnant water towards East City.

After walking for a while, she didn't hear the splashing sound of trampling on the rain, she looked back at Wu Heng suspiciously, and said, "Doctor Wu Heng has no assistant, so he won't ask me to help you carry the medical box, right?"

The doctor walked up to him directly with the medical box and said with some hesitation: "No, Your Majesty." ”

"The situation in Higashi is a bit chaotic, and it's already risky for you to leave the guards with you...... To be on the safe side, I would like to ...... I will no longer call you Your Majesty. ”

That's right......

Horn thought something was going on.

"Oh, it's okay to call it, I don't care. ”

Horn directly pulled up the corner of the doctor's cloak, pulled it gently, hooked the corner of his lips, and said softly: "Let's go, uncle." ”

Uncle......

"Ahem......!"

Wu Heng froze and didn't react.

After being led away by Horn for a while, he was quite embarrassed and said, "Your Majesty, this ......"

Horn glanced at him and said, "Well, that's a loss for me. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, my uncle would be 30 years old this year. You worked hard when you were young...... My daughter won't be much younger than me. ”

"Ahem, ahem!"

Wu Heng was extremely embarrassed, some tacit things were really taken out, even if he couldn't see his face covered by the face towel, he would be embarrassed under the face towel.

"Okay, good ......" In order to prevent Horn from saying anything more shocking, he could only respond to this title.

"And what do I call you?"

"You. ”

......

Once Marlowe's most prosperous market, the East Market has become the most inhospitable place since the spread of the plague.

Looking out from the street, there was no one in the bazaar.

The paving is scattered and the ground is littered with garbage and silt. Far from making the ground clean, the rainwater washed away the filth in some of the sewers because there was no advanced sewerage system, and the smell was overwhelming...... Marlowe is a mess right now.

It was gray, and it was about eight o'clock in the morning.

Horn and Wu Heng stood side by side in the rain, looking at the mess in front of them...... Oh, her shoulders weren't there, and the doctor was a head taller than her.

"The patients I asked Carl to secretly fish in from outside the city are now in the East City, uncle, are you sure you want to touch them personally?"

Wu Heng tightened the medical box in his hand, and said without hesitation: "Naturally, it is a ...... to be contacted."

"I had to test one of my conjectures before I could proceed to the next step of dispensing. ”

Horn said, "Okay, let's go." ”

"Wait......"

The doctor suddenly came to her, tightened the face towel for her, and said very seriously: "Your Majesty...... Please promise me. The face towel is not allowed to be taken off casually, I can touch the patient, you can't touch it, and you can't touch anything in the room. ”

"You just stand, stand aside...... Just look at me. ”

Horn has been here for so long, and no one has ever asked her so seriously, and what Wu Heng said on the phone suddenly made her feel very novel.

Wouldn't I be bored?

Horn felt like a play-goer, a boring play, and he could only stand and watch.

But she can't say, she can only secretly find some fun for herself.

So she nodded and said, "I will cooperate with you, uncle......"

Horn also stretched out his hand and carefully tightened his face towel.

Intentionally or unintentionally, his fingers ran over the doctor's smooth skin, and the doctor's facial muscles suddenly tensed.

"I'll ...... it myself"

Horn tightened the face towel and directly interrupted Wu Heng's words with his actions.

"Seems to be a little tight...... I'm sorry. ”

She lifted a little of her hood and looked at it, but still not satisfied, she simply took off the face towel and put it back on again under the gaze of the doctor's blue eyes as clear as the sky.

"The doctor can't take off the towel either, so wear it well. ”

......

This is a warehouse with a huge area, which was originally used as a granary for Marlowe, but Marlowe has been locked down for so long, and the people's food has long been exhausted.

A spider hung down from the eaves and swayed on the silver threads, dangling right in the middle of the gate...... Horn casually brushed it away, and immediately got a warning from the doctor.

"Don't forget to promise me...... Obedient, please let me go ahead. ”

Horn was thrilled by this "obedient", and the doctor really regarded himself as a niece......

"Woo woo woo ......" "Ah......" "Cough cough cough!" ......

As soon as I entered the door, all kinds of painful ** sounds, sobbing, and dream whining were endless, constantly stimulating the eardrum, making a lot of noise, but making people feel a lifeless panic.

Everyone seemed to have a grim reaper standing beside them, with a scythe hanging from his neck that could fall at any moment.

Men, women, the elderly, children...... A representative of the patients of each age group came out, lying on a rudimentary straw mat, ragged and covered with a torn quilt to keep them warm, with a partition between them.

There were no soldiers in the warehouse—the sick people didn't have the strength to do anything, which would also prevent the soldiers from getting infected.

Wu Heng took off his cloak and shook off the remaining rain on the cloak, and his blonde hair and blue eyes instantly gave the dull room another color.

"I'll hold it for you, uncle, go ahead, be careful. ”

Seeing that his cloak had nowhere to put it, Horn spoke, Wu Heng nodded, handed it over, Horn held the cloak in his arms, and stood in place without moving.

The doctor opened the medical box and said, "The patients we met outside the city when we came had only physical contact with them at most. I've checked on our guards and they show no signs of infection. Those infected with the plague will have a fever and blue lips that night...... Marlowe's walls were not high, and the gates were not sealed, and the soldiers stationed at the gates had nothing to do. I'm sure the mode of infection does not include physical contact or breathing. ”

"You just stand here, and I'll take a closer look. ”

"I've wronged you......"