Ciri took off his leather gloves and reached out to examine the man whose mouth was gagged and his eyes were covered, and as soon as he was touched, he moved violently, shaking the wooden bed so violently that the wooden bed almost fell over, and although the moving parts of his body were bound with thick hemp rope, the skin of these parts was worn out by the movement of the struggle. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info He struggled like a trapped beast, his limbs unable to move freely, reaching for Ciri with all his might, and his mouth being gagged and biting hard. Despite his gagged mouth, Rhodes seemed to be able to hear his growl.

"The body temperature is already far below normal, but you can move?" said Ciri suspiciously, retracting his hand and not daring to stimulate the other party again.

"Be careful, you better wear gloves. Rod said worriedly, he did not dare to touch the living dead, although the rope that bound the man looked strong, in case it broke and he would be bitten.

"Dead people, the body temperature must be low. The steward stood nervously between Grom and Morfan, not daring to approach: "Oh, the one over there is not dead yet." ”

The gray-haired girl went to the other side to examine the living man, but he was not cold at all, he was hot and had a startlingly high fever, and he was shaking terribly - the difference was that this was a muscle twitch, not a desperate attempt to get up and bite.

Ciri moved his hands and feet, and the patient let out a coherent whisper, as if begging for something, but could not make out the meaning. The girl opened his sleeve, and there was a wound on his right forearm, a bite mark.

"This one was bitten by the one next to you?"

"That's right. ”

"Sounds like rabies. Ciri put her gloves back on at Rod's reminder and stood up.

"No, it's not rabies!" the steward swallowed and said nervously, "rabies is the first to occur, and when it reaches the most serious level, the person dies, but this disease of the living dead is the first to develop and then die...... Half a day later, I got up again and bit people! I heard that if you don't cut off your head, you won't stop until your body rots, and the cut off head will bite people!"

"Hmm...... But why is there no one to take care of the bitten man, or is it said that the bitten man must die?" Ciri questioned: "Even if he must die, he should have some hospice care!"

"We are all worried about contagion...... And I don't know when I died...... It's too unlucky. The steward muttered, "So ......."

"So put it with the dead and wait for him to breathe?" Xili opened his eyes, glared fiercely at the person who ordered it, and said sharply: "Dispose of the dead, carry the living out, give them food and drink, and continue to tie them up for fear of corpse change, but someone must take care of them!"

"Yes, yes......"

The steward said nothing about this little settlement, but to put it bluntly, he was only a peasant, and how could he dare to argue with this group of well-dressed and armed outsiders, who might not be civilians, went out and called two young men, and carried the bitten man out, and a young woman rushed up and grabbed Ciri's arm, and asked if her husband was still saved, and it was evident that she had been crying for days, looking haggard and her eyes were red.

"We'll figure it out. Ciri took her hand away and comforted her, and then continued to ask, "Didn't you report the situation here to the government officials in this area?"

"I reacted, but they just sent the army to investigate, and nothing came of it...... Finally, we were instructed to split the deceased's head and burn it, and if this happened again, we did so and left. The woman sobbed and said, "This method cannot be said to be useless, after it was burned, it was indeed a hundred, but every once in a while, I heard that there were people who went to work in the fields and became sick for some reason, and when they came back and lay down for a few days, they died, and then their bodies changed again." People are panicking, and some people are thinking about selling their land and moving. ”

After receiving an affirmative reply, the girl continued to ask solemnly: "Is there any sign, did the person who was infected first go to any special remote place? ”

"I want to think about it......," the woman thought for a while, and then suddenly cried out: "I remember, this kind of thing happened twice in our village, and each time the person who was infected first was cut on the sole of his foot when he went to work in the field, and when he came back, he fell into a fever and coma, and finally died......! When my husband went to help kidnap someone, he was bitten by the man who suddenly turned into a corpse. ”

"Why are you so careless, is your husband the first one in the village to be bitten?"

"I've heard about this in the neighborhood...... But here, indeed, this is the second time, and my husband was the first to be bitten by the living dead. As she spoke, the woman began to cry and weep, "You will surely cure him, the pillar of the family, right?"

"I'm a witcher, not a doctor. "But we'll look into the matter carefully and try to get to the bottom of why." As long as the cause is understood, there will naturally be a cure. Can you take us to see where the first infected person works?"

"Okay, let's go. ”

The five followed the young peasant woman to the outside of the village, and the three older swordsmen saw the living dead with their own eyes, so they no longer questioned it, and Morfan was bored for a while, and suddenly asked: "The soles of your feet are scratched, and you don't wear shoes when you work?"

"They are all farmers, how can they afford it, and they wear shoes when they want to work in the fields, so they can't make a new pair in ten days and half a month. It's nothing to make shoes, and when we are not busy farming, we women have idle work, but materials cost money. The woman complained with red eyes, "We all go out with our shoes on, and when we work, we put our shoes on the ground and go to the fields." ”

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They arrived at the edge of the field where the only two initially infected people in Baka Village were working, and quickly understood the reason why they would be scratched on their feet: Anteli is northern to Midland, but it is still in the temperate zone, and the farmers here are all growing rice, which is close to yellow maturity at the moment, and the water has been drained, but the surface conditions of the fields are still complicated, and some small pebbles and clods of soil are indeed normal to scratch their feet...... Several of them, all wearing shoes, walked around the fields and found nothing.

"There was water for the first two days, but as soon as the harvest was made, the ...... was released"

Ciri looked up at Rod and looked at each other, then touched his lips and looked down in thought, "Hmm...... Perhaps the water poured into the fields has been poisoned or contaminated, and a survey of the water source should reveal something. ”

Nothing was found, there are many rivers in this area, and the water network extends in all directions, not to mention that there are far more living dead people than the village of Baka, and after wandering around for an afternoon, there is still nothing to be found.

Seeing that it was about to get dark, Ciri had no choice but to give up temporarily: "You go back, tell the people in the village that the bitten patient only needs to take good care of it, and find a doctor or herbalist if possible, but don't treat it indiscriminately if you can't figure out the situation, especially don't take any superstitious and ridiculous plans, wait for me to think of a way tomorrow!"

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