The inexplicable appearance of the plague made Zhou Shu, a car driver, feel very unreal.

The news quickly spread among the fleeing ranks and immediately caused widespread discussion and panic.

In the group, the leader seemed to be a few elderly people who were walking in front of the line, as well as the Miss Cai who was guarding Miss Lan's side. At this moment, the march of the procession stopped again, and a dozen or so refugees gathered around Cai, asking if the plague would affect their travels.

They just wanted to get a comfort from Miss Cai's mouth, which they probably knew even themselves, and Cai also gave them what they needed.

"Don't worry. She said to everyone in her natural pleasant voice, accompanied by a dry tone, "We will walk around the plague." It is not clear what is happening, the scale of the plague is not known, and we will plan for the worst-case scenario. ”

Some asked what the worst-case scenario meant. Cai replied: "Originally, I was going to bypass Wanghai Mountain, but in the worst case, I would have climbed over there. ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to go over the mountain, the few people who dragged all their belongings on board trucks were not happy.

"No, Miss Cai. If we go over the mountain, what will happen to the injured Miss Lan? and our horses, do we have to throw them away?"

Wanghai Mountain is a mountain by the sea, not very high, but no one has built any winding roads for the mountain. At the foot of this mountain there are already two rutted roads that lead to the sea, and now Miss Cai is obviously planning to avoid these inhabited foothills.

As soon as they heard that they were going to cross the mountains, most of the people in the team disagreed, not only them, but also the elderly people who took the lead. With their physical condition, it was already good to be able to walk so far, and they had proposed to take a few breaks before. Walking on the main road is still supported by others. It's so difficult, if they climb the mountain, they feel like they're going to say goodbye to their knees.

Zhou Shu did not speak on the side. I kept staring at Cai's face, trying to see if this woman would show any interesting expressions. Cai didn't disappoint him either. An inadvertent smile revealed some of her bad intentions.

"Otherwise, I'll go to Traveler's Town and see what the plague is. Go on your way to the temple of the sword and wait for me to return. ”

Miss Cai said so.

Zhou Shu didn't know what this guy was holding back when he said this, but he instinctively told him that maybe he should go with this woman.

Compared with those who fled, Zhou Shu felt that he should be the one who needed a break the most. There is no free time these days. It's miserable to go over there before I'm done here.

He was now sure that he was a man who could not be idle. You can completely fool around, don't care about the propagation efficiency of the rumors, let it spread slowly, anyway, it's not in a hurry, when it's almost spread, and then pull the dragon out and take it around, there's no need to be in such a hurry.

Miss Cai's mention was approved by most people, she was a townsfolk of Voyager's Town, and it was only fitting that she should go.

After determining the situation. She offered to ask for a horse. It's a little bit away from Voyager's Town, and for her to walk or run like a warrior, it's just for her to die.

The problem is that there are no suitable horses in the team at the moment. There was a horse before, which was ridden by Lan to the town of Baituchang, but she herself was broken and her leg was still lying on the cart with a high fever, and the horse was directly missing. In the face of the stinking scoundrels in Hundred Slaughterhouses Town, the group of refugees who were not as good as people had no one to chase after the horse, and the owner of the horse was now bleeding from his heart but could not say it.

Zhou Shu originally planned to go with Cai, but now that he saw that he had the opportunity, he decisively raised his hands like a good student in class who knew how to ask questions from the teacher.

"Can I go with you?"

"You?" Miss Cai raised her eyebrows, not waiting for her to answer. A group of men were already shaking their hands vigorously in disagreement.

"Ah Cai, you must not go with a stranger like him. ”

"Yes. There is also a road of dozens of miles, and there is an outsider around you......"

Zhou Shu stared at these xenophobic guys with an unhappy expression. The heart said that you have forgotten the righteous act I just took to save the girl with the broken leg? I don't look like a bad person, do I?

Since cultivating martial arts, Zhou Shu's figure has grown a lot. Although he still thinks that he is the original Wenqing, in fact, others see him more like a bandit.

Miss Cai hesitated for a moment, and then pulled a group of companions and muttered in a low voice for a long time, all of which were heard by Zhou Shu. It's not something you have to say behind someone's back, the girl is just helping to persuade her, saying that she will be fine on the road, please rest assured. And the broken leg blue needs to be treated by a doctor, and it also needs medicinal herbs. Let the man take himself and Lan in a carriage to Voyager's Town

, which may also help with Blue's injury.

It seems that the two women of Cai and Lan are popular in this male-dominated team, and Cai's words are very effective, and the group of people agreed after thinking for a while.

Fortunately, Zhou Shu didn't have the habit of hanging weapons on his body, and everyone thought that he didn't have weapons on him, so it was still relatively easy to be accepted. After a courteous young man gave Miss Cai a brightly decorated knife, Zhou Shu drove the cart on the road.

It is not clear how fast the carriage was, but the good news is that the road ahead is straight and wide, flat, and it is almost catching up with the highway, and there are not many bumps along the way, and it takes less than three hours to see pedestrians.

It's almost dawn, and the countrymen who don't have much nightlife will already get up early to get busy. It is autumn, and it is the time when the fruits in the woodland and mountains are more abundant, and some women are already carrying baskets to collect fruits in the small forests they know in the early morning.

Master Zhou has never eaten anything just picked from the tree in his life, and he went out with the sick princess before, and it was also this season, and there were fruits full of raspberries, but neither of them had the idea of picking, and they really didn't have this knowledge of these city children, and they always felt that wild fruits were flood beasts, and if they didn't eat well, they would be poisoned and sick.

Traveler's Town is a very large town, after all, it is against the mountains, not against the graveyard like the Hundred Slaughterhouses. Mountains are able to feed a lot of people. There were also merchants who were willing to come here to trade and collect mountain goods, so the town gradually developed together.

Zhou Shu was lying on the cart. Holding the candy in his hand, he hesitated to give it to the girl with a broken leg who was sweating all over her body. In fact, it was not a big deal to give her food, but he had a desire to repay the favor. I wanted this girl to know that I saved her, hoping to harvest some peach blossom luck with this, so I didn't make a move.

It was Miss Cai who drove the car, and Zhou Shu's skill in driving the car, even if the road was straight, could drive the horse to the mountain. Horses are good carriages are good cars, and the person who sells this set of carriages and horses seems to be a very reputable merchant. Although the money taken away is definitely dozens of times more than that of this carriage and horse, it finally did not cheat people in terms of quality.

Miss Choi is a capable woman. The reins of the carriage could whip out, as if she were driving a chariot rather than a cart. She didn't talk to Zhou Shu at all along the way, and she didn't say a word except for reporting each other's names at the beginning. Master Zhou was a little afraid of this girl who laughed with all kinds of scary people, so he didn't pay attention to her, and kept staring at Lan in a coma in the car body.

Lan seems to be a good person, this is clear to Zhou Shu. Before she volunteered to report the situation in Baituchang Town, it was enough to show that she was kind and responsible.

These fugitives who believe in the attack of the black dragon are basically followers of the sky god who have a relatively future future. Believers are usually good at this thing. It is true that high-ranking religious personnel are prone to problems, but this has nothing to do with believers. They are nothing more than an ordinary ruling class, and it is still relatively difficult to get rid of the inherent characteristics of the ruling class.

This world is also a good person, and it is unlucky. Zhou Shu sighed. Roll over and jump out of the car as the traveler town arrives.

Traveler's Town is a town built on a hillside. The whole Wanghai Mountain has a wide range, and the terrain slope is getting higher and higher along the way. If only the mountain had been a little shorter. Basically, it's called a highland, and it doesn't look like a mountain at all.

The buildings in the town are mainly made of wood, which is normal, after all, the wood in the vicinity is no different from not asking for money, but unfortunately there is no canal, and these wood cannot be transported out, and it cannot become the income of the town.

As soon as they arrived at the right place, Zhou Shu and Cai wondered vigorously, and at the same time completed the first sentence of the dialogue between the two.

A: "This place looks ......"

Zhou Shu: "...... It doesn't look like there's a plague. ”

It really doesn't look like there's a plague. It's just getting dark. There was already a group of children driving the sheep up the hill to herd them, and the children were in good spirits. He looked like he was well fed and drunk, and the clothes on his body were also very warm. It looks very rich, not like the children of sheep herders.

Zhou Shu has always liked this kind of mountain goat, and hurriedly recorded it with the Book of Summoning, preparing to conjure it up in the future. His three personal favourites are goats, kangaroos, and geese, and he likes Cheng dù so much that he wants to change his name to Zhou Kangaroo. None of the three animals had a good temper, and each one was more fatal than the other when he saw a stranger.

There were also many carriages pulling goods parked at the entrance of the town, probably about to leave, and the people who drove the cars looked good, but they didn't seem to have woken up much.

"It can't be that your letter is mistaken, Miss Cai?"

"No......" she said it, but her tone was not confident at all.

The person who sent the letter to Cai was an old acquaintance of hers. She is twenty-eight years old this year, and although she looks young, she is actually long past the marriageable age. Her parents died early, but they had actually lived past the average age of forty-five in Bai Yueguo. There weren't many people in the town to make friends with, at least when the plague broke out, no one would write to them to keep them from coming back, and there were some of the friends and neighbors who usually met and greeted each other.

Zhou Shu and Cai walked to the town in a daze, and many people in the town greeted Cai. "Cai, are you back?"

Since Blue's condition is so bad, Aya decides to knock on the doctor's door first. There is no temple in the town that can use divine power to heal injuries, and the townspeople have a headache and brain fever and have to eat herbs to see a doctor.

Zhou Shu doesn't trust such things as herbs, this kind of medicine that has not even been discovered in the microscopic world is basically experimental science, but for things like trauma, some experimental grass can also have some effect.

Early in the morning, there is no doctor to open the door for consultation, but it doesn't matter, anyway, there are only two and a half doctors in the town, and they are used to being knocked on the door in the middle of the night or early in the morning to go out of the emergency room. This time, Cai pulled the patient over, which was already a face-saving gesture for the doctor.

The doctors of the White Moon Kingdom all work in the temple. It's also a clergyman, but he has a good temper. An old man who was so old that he couldn't bend down squinted at the wound on the blue leg and instructed Zhou Shu and Cai. In the home where he lives alone, he is busy with boiling water and looking for herbs.

A blue quilt is placed on the bed in the warm guest room. Breathing was about 10% faster than an hour ago.

"How's Blue doing?" Aya asked, not looking very worried.

The doctor said that it was okay, it shouldn't be able to die, and it would be okay to walk in the future, but it would be a little lame. If you want to race with a crawling baby, you can also win or lose.

Zhou Shu heard this, carefully observed Cai's expression, he especially likes to do this now. He could feel the grief emanating from within the woman. The face is still the same, as if a face is full of botulinum toxin and can no longer make expressions.

After confirming that Lan survived, Cai asked the doctor if there had been any recent epidemic in the town and if the number of sick people had increased.

The doctor said that if the weather is cold, how can there be an epidemic, just nonsense. However, there are quite a few people who come to take headache decoction when they have a cold, and there are also strong antipyretics. The old man said. Sprinkled a bottle of fever reducer on Blue's face. He originally wanted to feed it to Lan, but unfortunately he was old and his hands were shaking so much that he couldn't control it.

This statement is even more bizarre. Lan pulled out the letter again. Since neither the sender nor the recipient is known, it is impossible to determine where the letter came from.

However, it is certain that the letter clearly states that there is a plague in this traveler's town.

Zhou Shu scratched his head, thought of a possibility, called Cai away from the doctor, and said to her secretly.

"Miss Cai, did you say that it is possible that the incubation period of this plague is relatively long, and most people are only infected but have not yet fallen ill. So you can't see it, and no one notices it?"

It took a lot of effort to understand the meaning of the word 'incubation period'. I understood what the person in front of me was trying to say.

"That doesn't make sense, doesn't the person who wrote the letter know very well about the plague? In other words, the writer has already died of the plague. Cai shook the letter in her hand.

"Indeed......" Zhou Shu couldn't figure out what was going on, so he didn't bother to ask. "Maybe it's just a prank. ”

The two of them hoped that there would be no plague, although Zhou Shu didn't care about this, but the word itself made him uncomfortable enough. His home is in the south, and there was an epidemic in the school near his home when there was a violent uproar, and the whole school was almost quarantined.

The two completely unfamiliar people stopped talking and did not speak again, but stood silently to see the doctor take medicine there.

Although the old gentleman is a little older, his craftsmanship is still good. It refers to the craft of cooking.

Cai's disease is very simple, take some medicine, apply some medicine, and put a splint on it. All that's left is for her fever to subside and wake up, which will take time. The old gentleman originally planned to sleep until three o'clock in the morning, but since he came to business, he simply did not sleep, and used some vegetables and dry goods in the yard of the house to boil a pot of stewed things for breakfast and entertain guests.

The smell of the food is very good, I have been walking all night on this cold day, and I have been sneaking out since last night, and there is no comfort in my body. There was something hot to eat at this time and enjoyed it very much.

Zhou Shu helped Lan pay the consultation fee, but Cai had no money. After thanking Lan, Zhou Shu went to the dinner table, and he started eating with a bowl full of soup.

"How's it going, isn't it too light?" asked the doctor, trembling as he grabbed a spice bottle, which contained salt.

"No, it's moderately salty and delicious. Zhou Shu replied with a smile.

The old man let out an 'oh' and began to sprinkle salt into his bowl.

Zhou Shu is a southerner, although he is also a staunch salty party, but the taste of eating is still relatively light, and he can't eat anything too salty, and his tongue will hurt. Comparatively, people in cold places have fewer fresh dishes, so many dishes are preserved with salt, and the taste will be heavier over time.

This Beihai can't be cold anymore, Zhou Shu is now a martial artist and is more frost-resistant, but it doesn't mean that he can't feel the temperature.

The old man in Beihai in front of him seemed to be quite heavy-mouthed, and a bottle of salt was sprinkled back and forth by his trembling hands for a long time, and he didn't stop. Zhou Shu and Cai were shocked, and said in their hearts, how can this old man eat salt so much?

The two obviously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the old-timers. The old man's hand shook carelessly, just as he had just made the medicinal powder blue and his face was blue, and he poured half of the salt from the bottle into the soup bowl. The old man looked at his bowl, which was almost saturated with salt, and took a sip to the shocked gazes of the two guests.

Zhou Shu and Cai were ready for the old man to spit out the salty things, but when the old man was strong, he grabbed the bottle of salt and poured it a few times, and then began to eat his own things with peace of mind.

"Oh my God!" Zhou Shu borrowed the bottle and sprinkled it into his bowl. He also thought there was something wrong with the salt here, it wasn't salty enough. I tasted it myself, except that the salt grains are a little coarse and not easy to melt, is there nothing special?

This state of affairs is absolutely unnatural. Zhou Shu would have already felt a hint of strangeness from his sixth sense. There was no major calamity, but it was a sense that something was wrong with the keenness. Thinking of the letter about the plague, he could be sure that the town was definitely in trouble. (To be continued)