Chapter 221: Riot (II) Escape
The time of the transition between summer and autumn in 9999,
In the human kingdom of Gipsy, the plague of this country, which has only a dry season and a semi-dry season all year round, has finally begun to break out in the imperial capital of this country after nearly a month of spreading. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
There are many theories as to how it was caused in the first place, one is to blame a dark group called the "Black Forest", who brought this terrible plague here, so that the people of Gypsyine exile in the next ten years hated it when they heard the news of the dark forces, and the other is to blame the guards of the imperial capital at that time, who introduced the plague to the city. Although the latter has been questioned and sprayed from all sides......
But one thing is certain, the mighty empire that once stood hundreds of years in the eastern part of the human kingdom has completely collapsed in less than a year. A few years later, it was absorbed by Castile, the nearest empire and one of the two most powerful empires on the continent at the time.
It wasn't until more than thirty years later that the princess of the new generation of Castile emperors, who is said to be the royal orphan of that country, changed the area originally belonging to Gypsy to the Castilian Empire, the Gypsy District, in order to commemorate the vanished empire.
At this point, the two largest human empires in the history of the world finally spanned the entire north and south regions, bordering the Rankians in the north and the barbarians in the south. The world has entered the era of the 'Cold War' in which the two empires are the main competition, and the rest of the small countries are choosing one side of the two camps, and the history of mankind has entered a new chapter.
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It's so cruel that this plague is full of corpses.
A resident of an imperial capital in Gypsyne recorded at the time: "Fathers abandon their children, wives abandon their husbands, and the plague seems to be transmitted by breath and sight." And so they died, and there was no one to bury them, because there was no one to be found, and friendship and money were not working. The bodies were piled up in several large earth pits, and I buried my five children with my own hands. There are too many dead people...... The half-concealed bodies were pulled out of the soil by hungry dogs and torn apart...... "The spread of panic interrupted normal production and economic operations, people were uprooted from their homes, and communities were in disarray."
In a city of more than 600,000 people, about 7,000 or 8,000 people die every day, and nearly 10,000 people are incapacitated, and priests who often deal with the dead have the highest mortality rate. These seemingly most sacred professions, the servants of God, are so vulnerable that people despair and begin to flee continuously.
The gods have abandoned the earth, and the end has come.
Only five days after the outbreak of the plague, the death toll had multiplied, the palace had issued a dozen notices in a row, and fewer and fewer people were able to enforce them, and ironically, even the heralds who came to greet them were wrapped in turbans, and in the end they were gone. On the seventh day of the plague, King Mondrian knelt in the ancestral hall with his family, preparing to flee with the rest of the royal family.
Everything can no longer be stopped, all that remains is to hope that the gods will favor us, and Mondrian has several masters with him, including the Gülen Sword Master and the Great Sage Devon.
"Command the rest of the soldiers to follow me out of the city tonight. Mondrian said to Gülen.
"But your majesty, how are we going to get out?" asked Gülen, for it was too easy for him to get out of the city, but if even the king of a country left his people behind and fled, that is, the country was destroyed.
Gülen is one of the few old courtiers who has experienced three emperors, and he can't bear to watch the country he fought for with his own hands collapse in an instant.
Mondrian probably guessed the other man's thoughts, and his eyes were red.
"Do you think I want this? You're a Juggernaut, but more people are just ordinary people and soldiers, they can't resist such a terrible plague, my people, my country ......" Said here seems a little excited, just a few days ago he was confident that all his troops were free to prepare to fight against the two dark forces to the end, but he didn't expect that only two days later, there was news of the plague in the city, and the speed was amazing, the night before it was said that it was found in the garrison of the city gate, but the next day it was said that the entire garrison was infected, and there was constant news of plague infection in the city.
There is no way to send out the army by himself, if it is a living enemy, it is fine, at least how many people die can know how strong the other party is, but the opponent is an invisible plague.
Devon patted Gülen on the shoulder, signaling not to be so kingly.
Glenn looked at Mondrian V and at the previous emperors who were lying in the Great Hall and had set up their ranks.
He closed his eyes...... It was as if a difficult decision had been made.
"I'm sorry Your Majesty, but I swear that as long as I live, I will keep you safe, and I will find the murderer of this plague and give an account to the dead people. He said firmly.
Mondrian patted Gülen on the shoulder in relief and slowly approached the other.
To outsiders, it looks like a hug to the other person, but whispers in the ear.
"If I die, please protect my children, they are still young and are the hope of the future of the Empire, and I must ensure their safety. ”
"Your Majesty!" what do you mean by that?, Glenn struggled to ask questions, but was caught by Mondrian.
"Don't make a big fuss, I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I have to think about the worst...... My mother is the daughter of the former Regent of Castile, and the current Prince Lothema is also my brother, and if you leave my children to him in the unlikely case, he will take care of everything. "For this brother Mondrian, who has met but is half related by blood, he can only gamble.
Castile has not had a bad relationship with Gypsy for a long time, and taking in the royal family of Gypsy will bring him the benefit of public opinion, so he believes that he should accept his children even if he does not value blood.
"Your Majesty!" Gülen couldn't hide his excitement.
"Well, don't look at me with that expression, I'm just making assumptions, and I'm not really there yet. Mondrian said.
Ordered everything, just wait for the night to fall, due to the outbreak of the plague, the door to the palace is closed, all the ministers and soldiers in the palace have been temporarily guaranteed safety, but although the palace's defense is not leaky, after all, it will not last long, the food will be eaten, and there is no guarantee that the plague will not appear from the inside, so the only defense seems to be impregnable but there is no point at all.
All imperial palaces are designed to leave a way back for themselves, and so does the Mondrians, who prepared an escape route when they built the palace, and now seems to be the time to use him.
Mondrian led an elite squad of 100 people and evacuated along the escape route.
After watching the whole group leave the passage, Ketika Lucy, who was waiting above the palace building, finally saw the exit.
"Phew, after all these days, this king still ran away, hum. Damn the guy just left a city of people and fled. Ketica Lucy said angrily that he had sensed the danger of the city since the day after the plague broke out. In addition, I kept recalling the warning of "that person" at that time.
He felt that he should find a place to hide first, so he chose the place of the palace, because the palace was relatively loose at the beginning during the plague period, and the passage was completely sealed after he entered.
The outside world can't get in, and she can't get out, but it makes Ketika Lucy enjoy a princess addiction.
Eat the best food every day, and take turns resting in the hundreds of spare rooms in the palace. If I could really want to stay here for the rest of my life......
"Alas, it's a pity that there are so many inhabitants of the city. ”
After all, Lucy Ketika was born as a thief, and although she pities the poor, she cares more about her own life, so she chooses this safest place in the first place.
"Let's go, little red crow, they should be ready to escape, as long as you follow them, you will be able to get out. Ketika Lucy said, beckoning the king who was standing aside to prepare to follow.