Elelius's spell was covered again, and then the king felt something furry brush his cheek, and the cat jumped on his shoulder, licking his face.

The king closed his eyes and tried to control himself: "What plague?"

"The Black Death. ”

The king's chest suddenly rolled violently, he leaned back on the arm of his chair, and the sky was dark: "Duke of Orleans...... "God, for the first time he prayed so devoutly, please bless him, bless Philippe, hope he is outside, whatever it is for...... Even if he was caught by the rebels, but it backfired, and he heard Elelius say mercilessly: "The Duke of Orleans is in the city of Nancy." ”

The king finally vomited uncontrollably, he had always eaten very little at night, and this time was no exception, he had nothing in his stomach, he couldn't vomit anything, but the great mental pressure pressed him like a heavy stone, and Elelius wanted to cast a spell, but was stopped by the king: "I'll be well soon," he said, and then pulled out the drawer, took out a small bottle of wine and took a sip: "...... That's it," he said, gasping slightly, as a king, as an elder brother, he knew that what he needed most now was calm and decisiveness.

The Black Death is the plague, a virulent infectious disease, and its last outbreak was just three hundred years ago, people remember it vividly, from 1347 to 1353, the whole of Europa was covered by the shadow of the Black Death, its source came from the Battle of Kaffa, when the yellow-skinned bandits who were expelled here by another powerful empire attacked the Black Sea port of Kaffa, because they could not take it for a long time, they put the bodies of people who died because of the plague on catapults and threw them into the city, and the city suddenly broke out of a terrible plague, and then the plague was brought to Italy by Arab traders, and then spread from Italy to France and SpainThe Holy Roman Empire, and then from these places to the northern countries such as Denmark and Sweden, and from the former to the Baltic region, and finally to Russia, the catastrophe resulted in the death of 25 million people, almost a third of the population at that time!

According to the famous writer Boccaccio, Florence was like a hell on earth, with swarthy p-swords everywhere...... People used this symbol painted on the wall to warn the black dead patients to get out of the way quickly, but it didn't work at allEven in the seventeenth century, people still didn't know that the plague was brought by rats, and as long as the rats were still scurrying around, the disease would not disappear Pedestrians walked in the streets and suddenly fell, people at home died silently, and no one knew until the bodies decomposed, and every day there were bodies being transported out and dumped in valleys or swamps, but those who transported the bodies often fell down and died as they walked。

Only a lucky few people will be able to escape before being chased by the plague, but it also depends on their status, if the average civilian will still be rejected from the city and the estate, the soldiers of the lord, even the most humble peasants, will not hesitate to kill them, because they are likely to carry the plague on their bodies, and the town will be determined to be irretrievable, or even burned, if the city is also blocked, until all the people inside are dead.

This is the only way people have fought against the Black Death for hundreds of years, and the others are killing black cats, killing infidels, holding Mass, atonement processions, etc., always either to destroy other living beings or to ask God for blessing, Louis knew very well that he should immediately order the blockade of Nancy, but the Duke of Orleans was in Nancy, he may have been ill out of selfishness, the king almost ordered Elelius, to save the Duke of Orleans from the plague at all costs, but when he looked at Elallho, Elehoan just shook his head: "Your Majesty," he said, "we are not omnipotent, or rather, if we could banish the plague, then the Church of Rome would not have weakened to this day. ”

It is also true that if the church had mastered the cure or prevention of the Black Death, they would not have been silent to this day, and there would be countless fanatical believers who would remove all obstacles for them, and the kingdom of God on earth might not be a term written in books.

"What about the wizards?"

"It's the same with wizards," said Elarius, "our bodies may be stronger than mortals, and we are less susceptible to the plague, but we have no cure for the Black Death, and we can't prevent it, and even if we don't get it, it's not that it's not easy, it's not that we won't, and if we stay in the plague area too long, we'll be approached by death." ”

"What about the Bloods?" the king asked Theoderick, the catboy.

The cat boy sighed rather humanly and jumped off the table, and after a few minutes, a swarm of black bats poured into the open window, and Theoderic appeared in front of them, Elelius looked a little strange, but he still managed to endure it in the king's apologetic expression, "I beg your pardon, sir, I did not intend to put you in this awkward situation, but the matter is urgent," the king said, "Is it possible that the bloods are infected with the plague?"

"Bloodlines can't get the plague," To be precise, sometimes they will also spread plagues, among the thirteen holy weapons of the blood clan, there is such a thing as a rotten bracelet, it is said to be the cause of all plagues, all the plagues in the world are spread by it, but in this way, the holy weapon was lost from the hands of the patriarch of the owner of the Nophil clan very early, otherwise the Nophil would not be so contemptuous of other clans Vampires often wander the city that was blocked because of the spread of the Black Death, because there will be no priests and paladins there, they can hunt as they please:" But if the Duke of Orleans has contracted the plague, he will not survive death unless we convert him into one of us. ”

The king didn't speak, just looked out of the dark window, he could almost be said to have carried out the rebuilding of Paris, that is, he was worried that too dense and dirty cities would lead to the spread of plague, but he didn't expect that Philippe, Duke of Orleans, did not suffer from the plague in Paris, and Lorraine, who was a hundred miles away, collapsed, "I need the current situation of Lorraine." The king whispered, "And the Duke of Orleans." ”

"I'll let my kids check it out. Then he left the king's study, and even the doppelganger cat boy was left behind, and it was enough for him to be unbearable to stay with his mortal enemy for a while.

Elelius kept a smiling expression all the time, and only deliberately restrained when the king looked at him: "Your Majesty?"

"If it's just the Black Death in Nancy, it shouldn't be you who repay me," said Louie, his mind calming down, though there was still a fire burning in his chest, "what else do you want to tell me?"

"Your Majesty, don't you think that the Church of Rome has become extraordinarily quiet since you laid siege to Rome?"

"You're going to say ......"

"Yes, Your Majesty, though I am not sure, but consider to whom the blood cup was originally owned?, Mr. Bishop Mazarin," he said, "in fact the Church of Rome, which first owned it, was acquired by the Bishop of Richelieu in a transaction, and of course, for the Church of Rome they thought that all they were giving was the right of use, after all, as a source of dispossession, the inheritance of the clergy should have belonged to the Church, and who knows, Richelieu left it to Mazarin, and Mazarin left it to you...... Oh, of course, it was, and now it is said that it has been returned to the Bloodline, in the hands of the Prince of Van Zhuo. ”

"You're saying they'll have rotten bracelets too. The king said that his voice was very low and weak, and that it was not intimidating, but that Elelius knew that it was the calm before the storm, and that the present king was in desperate need of all the information concerning it, so he was calm, like a hunter waiting for his prey to step into a trap, but instead immersed himself in a state of self-forgetfulness, and when useless emotions were removed, what remained became terrible.

"I don't know, but some of our friars have been called by the Church of Rome It is said that the clergy of the Church of Rome are busy with all the things necessary to prepare the Great Mass, not one, but many, and the number of them is more dense than that of November to May, but, Your Majesty, the Feast of the Holy Communion and the Feast of the Holy Blood has just passed, and there are still two months before the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, and many of the Mass supplies are not ready to be stored, and some merchants are required to deliver them within two weeks, which is strange...... Whether or not a king is going to die recently, or that a future king is born, it can only be said that they probably expected something to happen about a great Mass. ”

What's in it for the church? The king asked softly, "They themselves are in danger." ”

"Alas, if only the world were full of wise men like us, Your Majesty," said Elarius brazenly: " But herein lies the problem, the fear and shame you have brought to the whole Church of Rome in a state of misery, and you know that for some foolish people, the power may make them cringe, but if they are too much to bear, they will jump up and bite you like rats in a corner, and they probably can't imagine whether you will be thrown to death or burned to death by you, and besides, Lorraine and the Vatican are separated by half of France, a third of the Holy Roman Empire, a whole of Switzerland, and two-thirds of Italy, and they may not think that the Black Death will reach Rome。 ”

Elarius was right, the people of the Roman Church (who were very suspicious) might not care how many people died in the re-flooding of the Black Death, but neither Louis XIV of France, nor Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire, nor the Federal Council of Switzerland, nor Spain, which controlled the Duchy of Milan, would turn a blind eye to this, and they must have done their best to do so, and the Church would ......

"The church just needs to pray. Ilarius said, "Well, they also accuse certain nations, or rather kings, of being responsible for this catastrophe." ”

"Do they want me to stand barefoot outside Vanessa Castle in linen robes and beg for the Pope's forgiveness?" Louis asked mockingly, "perhaps my wife and my children standing around in ragged clothes?"

"That's probably what they want to see the most. "But they may have preferred to reclaim the right to ornate and to collect church taxes." ”

"Do you know when they're planning to let this break out?"

"Just a few days, Your Majesty," said Elarius, "maybe tomorrow." ”

"As long as it's not immediate, we have a way. Louis stood up with a pale face, "Bontang, go and inform the Queen Mother, the Queen and the Dauphin, and let them leave for Notre-Dame Cathedral and Prince Condé, Prince Conti ......" He said a series of names of princes and dukes of the royal family.

Although many people in Paris could not see clearly in the night, the musketeers and guards lit a continuous stream of torches, as if a river of light had been opened up in the night, the magnificent carriages were one after another, the nobles and ministers who were rarely seen appeared, the bell of Notre-Dame was ringing, and Cardinal La Rivière led the priests in holy clothes and holding the Bible with a dignified and solemn face, holy relics, holding candles, shaking incense burners to welcome the king, it is not at all obvious that he was still on the bed of a plump "celebrity" when he was pulled up by the Count of d'Artagnan.

The king entered Notre-Dame Cathedral and walked straight to the center of the church, where the cross-plane buildings intersect, where there were two symmetrical transepts, one of which contained the altar of the Virgin, which had been completed in the 14th century, but it was not long ago that the statue was moved from a chapel to the altar of the Virgin on September 5 last year in order to welcome the king, the statue was almost as tall as two adult males, the Virgin was in her arms, wearing a crown and a look of pity, and at the moment when the king knelt down to her, tears suddenly broke down in her eyes carved out of stone。

There was an uproar among the people present, and everyone was desperately drawing crosses, prostrate down in fear, and put their foreheads close to the cold ground.

Before dawn came, a rumor spread rapidly from Paris to the heart of the king in the dream of Our Lady, telling him that a great calamity was about to befall the north of France.

Such a counterattack would be too stiff to be harsh on the harshness of the well-intentioned or the wise, but for the ordinary beings, they did not need to accept too much complicated news, they only knew that a miracle had come to their king and Notre-Dame in Paris, and that when the first pilgrims came to Paris, Our Lady was still weeping, so there was no doubt about it, and the warning that the king had heard was not long after the Black Death broke out in Nancy.