Chapter 70: Compassion
It was not difficult for them to find the hostess, and Cheese had already agreed on the meeting place when he was working separately with them. Not far from Turbidity, the same abandoned village they had found for Gloria to hide. By the time Cheese arrived on horseback, the sun was already setting in the west. The knights of the kingdom who were on guard at the entrance of the village were very happy to see the figure of the mage, these warriors who were born and died with Leon and Cheese in Canyon City were locked up in the quarantine area with the mage and them in the previous time, which is also an important reason for Elsa to act alone, she had to flee here alone with the knights in the quarantine area, Mona and Jack in the chaotic battle, because at that time no one could say what Lothar would look like when the rat people were repulsed.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, honorable grey robe, Lady Elsa is in the village, and she will be glad to see you. With a knightly salute, the sentry knight happily led the cheese into the abandoned village. Cheese breathed a sigh of relief from the knight's appearance and reaction, which at least meant that Elsa had managed to escape with her companions in quarantine. And it looks like she's not hurt either.
Following the knight into the village, Cheese noticed that there seemed to be more people in the village than he had imagined. Moreover, the knights of the kingdom walking in the village also seemed very busy, not at all like they had just escaped from prison yesterday. Most of the knights wore no armor or weapons, and their faces wore rudimentary masks made of damp cloth. The knights walked through the village with clean or stained cloth towels and buckets in their hands, a sight that struck the mage as very strange.
"What's going on, and why do they look busy?" asked Cheese.
"Well, yes, because of the number of patients, we had to spread the beds in different areas of the village. But fortunately, there are enough brothers, so ...... Ah, sorry, it seems that my explanation has confused you, so go ask Lady Elsa, it's all her idea. After noticing the increasingly confused look on the mage's face, the knight simply stopped trying to explain. He led Cheese straight to a house in the village, where Cheese saw the proprietress and the two companions of the Frost Guard.
It's just that at this time, Elsa, Mona, and even Jack are far from the military uniforms in the mage's impression, they are wearing close-fitting cloth clothes and cloth masks on their faces, walking around the patients lying in the house. As soon as Cheese entered, the people in the room had already seen him, and Elsa hurriedly walked up to the mage in three steps and two steps, looking him up and down as if to see if the mage was injured.
"So, when you escaped with them, you rescued the refugees who were still moving?" And this can also be seen from the side, the nezumi did not waste their troops on the quarantine area when they attacked Turbidity Town, which made the mage even more convinced that someone had planned yesterday's attack behind his back.
Elsa nodded in response to Cheese's question, and then she led the mage outside the room, as the proprietress was afraid that Cheese would reprimand her for helping the refugees, which would affect the patients in the room.
"I don't think there were many nezumi coming this way, and the soldiers just left them in quarantine waiting to die...... Besides, you have a way to cure them, don't you?" Outside the room, Elsa said to Cheese. There was a pleading tone in her tone, and although it might cause a lot of trouble, the proprietress really couldn't bear to leave these patients there to die.
For the boss's act of saving people, the mage actually did not feel unhappy. While this would certainly increase his workload, since he didn't have any plans to travel elsewhere in the first place, it would be nice to have more exposure to the plague cases. And considering that even if the culprit behind the scenes is found, this plague may not disappear out of thin air because of the defeat of the other party, so it is still necessary to find a way to treat and prevent the plague.
"I did my best. Even if it doesn't make them completely healed, at least it can prevent them from becoming proto-nezumi. Cheese nodded, indicating that he was willing to try to treat the patients. In fact, Cheese had observed the refugees himself in the quarantine area when they were first confined to the quarantine area, and in the mage's opinion, most of them were in the early stages of infection, but the poor sanitation and almost non-existent food in the quarantine area had made the refugees extremely weak. As a result, they often suffer from other diseases in addition to the rat-man plague. This is not uncommon in this era of lack of hygiene, and in general, places where the sick are concentrated, such as in quarantine areas, must be cremated along with the bodies of the sick after use, because no one can guarantee how many diseases those who are inside.
Instead of reprimanding her for being nosy, Elsa was overjoyed to see that the mage offered to help treat the sick. At this time, the mage noticed that although the proprietress was smiling, it was difficult to hide the tired look on her face, and it seemed that she had not had a good rest since she said goodbye yesterday.
"You go get some sleep first, and I'll come and see the patients. Cheese said.
"No, I'll help you......" Elsa subconsciously wanted to refuse the mage's suggestion, but her weak body caused her a wave of vertigo due to excessive emotional fluctuations. If it weren't for the cheese hand who quickly helped her, I'm afraid the proprietress would have fallen to the ground.
"I asked Mona to take you to rest, you can't help like this. This time, Elsa did not refuse, she nodded weakly, and agreed to go and rest for a while.
The mage probe came into the room and beckoned Mona to help Elsa find a room to rest in, then he took a pair of gloves from his robe and began to examine the patients in the room. At this time, Cheese had to sigh that the medical knowledge he learned with An Lina at that time really played a key role in this operation, if he didn't take advantage of his spare time to study medicine at the same time, I'm afraid the only thing he could do at this time was to make these patients die less painfully.
"By the way, I haven't seen Gloria yet, you should have joined her when you got here, right?" Cheese suddenly asked about the Count's daughter, who had not yet appeared, while examining the patient and doing some emergency treatment. And Jack, who was helping by his side, had a noticeable fluctuation in his breath after hearing the topic. The "monkey" organized the language and said to the mage.
"She's in a bit of a special situation, you can go and ask her in person later on. ”
Cheese looked up at Jack with a puzzled expression, but "Monkey" had no intention of saying anything more on the subject.