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They visited the villages of Baku, Bahrain and Bazhu...... A large number of settlements ranging from a few miles to each other and a dozen miles away from each other, all of which are derivative settlements of Buck Village, but the villagers are either just hearsay, or they are frightened, and they don't get the key information they want after asking for a long time, but they have heard about the strange behavior of a well-known person. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Dr. Mithelel, who lived outside the village of Bajin, said that if there was another living dead, the body should be brought to him, and the bite should also be brought to him. ”

"Why, he has a cure for this?"

Mohr's eyes rolled around, and he guessed casually: "It is also possible to destroy the corpse and remove the physical evidence." ”

After paying attention, they inquired further and soon heard more information: the doctor named Misherel had settled in the neighborhood long before the phenomenon of the living dead, and had long had a rule of taking money to collect the corpses of villagers—if a family had died and had no money to bury them, or that a homeless homeless man had died in the wilderness, he could be brought to him for a small sum of money.

"If he hadn't been messing with the dead all day long, maybe he was the one who caused this disease of the living dead!" some villagers whispered to Rod and Ciri with fear, "If he hadn't treated many people, and had connections with the city's magnates, and we had no evidence, we would have rushed to the door and smashed down his house and drove them away." ”

"And what's going on? Rod looked at his companion with some suspicion: "Why don't we go check it out?"

"Well, we have to go and see, and if we find that he caused this disease, then arrest him and send him to the official, and if he has a way to cure it, carry the person who was bitten to him for treatment. ”

After lunch, they rode their horses and asked for directions to the Dr. Mythelel's lodgings.

"Be careful later, don't eat and drink on the other side's territory, don't touch things, everything depends on my eyes. Grom rarely said a second word, which was to remind everyone to pay attention to safety: "If there is any situation, leave immediately, and I will stay and deal with it." ”

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Following the guidance of the villagers, they found the doctor's residence, a small building isolated in the fields, a few hundred meters away from the nearest derivative village.

Grom stopped Rhodes and stepped forward and knocked on the door.

"Who?, the living, the dead, or the living?" a voice came from behind the thick plank, and the door opened. A middle-aged man with gray hair and thin cheeks appeared in front of everyone. Anyone with a bit of common sense could tell that, unlike Rod's shiny dark silver-gray or Ciri's pure, light gray hair, this man's gray hair was not congenital, but the result of overwork. "Who are you, the corpses, or who are sick?"

"We're here to investigate the 'living dead', and we hope you'll cooperate. Morfan hugged his chest and posed as a businessman, although in fact, the other party couldn't do anything if he didn't cooperate.

"Oh?" The middle-aged man looked at everyone with confused eyes and nodded, "Come in." ”

It is a large house full of all kinds of corpses, simple structure, empty and tall, with good lighting, bright sunlight shines into the house through the transparent glass on the high walls and even on the roof, illuminating every corpse around it brightly and clearly.

It is not very accurate to say that every corpse is not very accurate, because there is no complete corpse in sight, except for the three or two mutilated bodies displayed on the operating table, there are many pieces of flesh tissue and organs soaked in glass bottles on the shelves next to it, and the middle-aged man is wearing an apron with some blood splashed on it, and most of the time Grom is still "working" when he knocks on the door.

Rhodes felt creepy, and with the slight tremor of the pendant on his chest, he almost couldn't resist drawing his sword, but seeing that Grom didn't do it, he resisted the urge.

After a while, he realized that the cold he felt was not an illusion caused by being frightened, but that the temperature in the house was indeed slightly lower, and the pendant had a slight reaction, which should be the result of magical temperature control.

"Ahem...... Sit down, oh, there aren't that many seats, sorry. Because I don't want people to be here all the time to disturb my work, I never accept guests except patients. The middle-aged man quickly explained, presumably the weapons carried by everyone were still somewhat deterrent: "You must know my name, but I have to emphasize in advance that every corpse here was sent by nearby villagers, not me who ran out and brought it back through illegal means." I'm a doctor, and I want to study the dead to understand the anatomy of the human body in order to better treat the living. I don't force you to accept this, but at least I want you to know and understand. ”

"Uh......" There was only one seat in the room except for the middle-aged man, or the chair under Mithelel's buttocks, and everyone simply stood and looked around warily. Ciri couldn't speak as well as she used to, she crossed her arms and hesitated, "I don't understand, why would they be happy to send the body......?" I mean, in the eyes of most uneducated peasants, this is a blasphemy against the dead. ”

"Ah, the young lady got to the point. Exactly right, it's worth mentioning that I was kicked out of the Empire for the crime of 'blaspheming the dead'......"

"The Empire has not expelled anyone for this crime. Morfan quickly debunked his lie: "The empire supports doctors and scholars to conduct research with corpses, why are you lying?"

"Ah...... Is there such a thing? The doctor was confused for a moment, and quickly reacted: "Oh sorry, you should be Midlanders." I'm talking about the empire in the east, and Midland was just an ordinary kingdom when it happened. You know, the power of the Eriken Church is so great that while the law does not prohibit it, their dogma does not permit such research. Actually, I'm already thinking about immigrating to your country, but the process is complicated...... It's easy to say that you want to be a Midland citizen, as long as you stay in the conquered lands, but it's hard to say ...... It's hard, too. ”

Seeing that everyone was no longer talking, he didn't continue the topic of moving, but instead answered Ciri's question just now: "Of course, who doesn't want enlightened people to voluntarily donate their bodies...... Unfortunately, I couldn't wait for a corpse all year round, so I simply offered a bounty - whoever brought me the corpse would pay according to its freshness and condition. ”

"Color?" The muscles on Rod's face twitched, he had always thought that he was extremely receptive to new things, but he was also uncomfortable by Mithelel's words.

"I'm sorry, it's not my desire to use such a word to describe the dead, but I can't find an alternative...... And the value of corpses is objectively high and low, for example, you are young and healthy...... Forget it, it's like not fighting, the layman doesn't need to know so much, he won't be able to eat. Seeing the young man's look of hell, the doctor had to add: "The person who provided me with the body, I will record the identity, the source of the body and the cause of death, and report it to the authorities regularly to ensure that there are no crimes that destroy humanity and lose conscience." The same must be true for Midland...... Uh, no one is talking?"

Grom didn't want to speak, while the others were shocked by the sight of the whole room being "people." Rhodes looked at the severed limbs that covered the walls and shelves, and somehow remembered Pauli's words. He said that people are only equal when they die. I didn't think so at the time, but after listening to the doctor's remarks on the "objective value" of the corpse, I realized that even if I died, people and people were not equal.

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