Chapter 574: The Plague

Leo is also sure that if he uses the corpse collector's power uncontrollably like the corpse collector to collect the corpses of powerful creatures and use them to improve his own strength, the final result is probably the same as the current corpse collector will become a low-level existence whose instinct far exceeds wisdom.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the corpse collector continues like this, then the little wisdom he has gained through the corpse of the gods will also be completely wiped out, and he will become a puppet of his divine power.

Although the power of the Corpse Collector's Mark is full of drawbacks and dangers, it is not really useless, and Leo almost immediately thought of the most suitable place to use this power after learning about the pros and cons of the Corpse Collector's Mark.

The further the psionic level goes, the more difficult it is to break through, Leo has been a fifth-level psionic for a while, although he has made great progress in witchcraft, and has already reached the top of the fifth-level psionic in terms of psionic energy, and even touched the threshold of a sixth-level psionic, but it is still difficult to improve the psionic level.

According to his estimate, if nothing unexpected happens, he is afraid that it will take a few years for him to break through the current idle psionic energy, so that the psionic energy can transform and become a sixth-level psionic person, as for the seventh-level psionic person, I am afraid that it will take even longer.

But now the appearance of the corpse collector's mark has given him an opportunity, an opportunity to easily cross the bottleneck when the spiritual energy reaches the bottleneck of ascension, just like now he estimates that he only needs to get a few corpses of a sixth-level psionic person, and he can shorten the accumulation and qualitative transformation time of several years, and easily cross this hurdle and become a real sixth-level psionic.

Even, he thought that when he reached the peak of the ninth-level psionic and needed to complete the final evolution of ordinary lifeforms and become an omega-level advanced lifeform, he might be able to use the corpse of the falcon god to cross this abyss that could stump countless psionic beings in the universe.

Just as Leo was about to continue sorting through the knowledge passed on from the remaining corpse collector's sigils, a sharp knock on the door brought his mind back to the real world.

Leo, who was very disgruntled in his heart, sensed the people knocking on the door outside through the spirit net, and Old Belen was not alone, and the captain of the Ice Queen, judging from the application on their faces, they were very anxious, as if something had happened.

Before sorting out the knowledge of the corpse collector's mark, Leo had very cautiously told Old Belen not to disturb him unless the ship capsized, and he had been classified as a troublesome person in the old captain's mind, and the old captain would not come to him if it was not necessary, and now that the two appeared outside the door together, then it was very likely that something happened on the ship, and it was something that the two of them could not solve at all.

Thinking of this, Leo stood up, walked to the door, opened the door, and a chaotic noise came from outside the cabin, making him frown, but he still held back his displeasure and asked directly, "What happened?"

As soon as the old captain wanted to speak, Old Belen preemptively said: "Those people died suddenly yesterday, and today there was a plague on Chained Island, and the first people to be infected with the plague were the people on our ship, so the sheriff and garrison of Chained Island think that we are the source of the plague, and have sealed the ship, and sent all the sick people on the island to the ship." โ€

Leo's brow furrowed even tighter when he heard this, and his mental net unfolded, surrounding the Ice Queen and the perimeter of the docks.

As Belรฉm the Elder said, the surroundings were indeed cordoned off, and not only the ships that were blocked, but even the surrounding docks were cordoned off in it.

The local garrisons in charge of the blockade mission were covered with a heavy layer of leather clothing, which could wrap the whole body, and the gaps in the leather clothes were smeared with a layer of special fish oil, which could block the air, and their faces also wore special masks, the faces were connected to a tube and a box around their waists, and a large number of drugs used to purify the air were placed in the box, and they breathed air through this box, which could block any plague virus.

The great plague that affected the entire Velen world back then, even after so many years, is still fresh in people's memories, and the prevention and control measures of various countries against the plague are also very perfect.

Not long ago, the great plague in Miria City made countries pay a lot of attention to the plague prevention and control again, and now the protective leather clothing worn by these garrisons is all the latest type of prevention and control leather clothing, which was also shipped not long ago to replace the old model of prevention and control equipment in the warehouse, but what these people didn't expect was that these new equipment came in handy so quickly.

On the ship, it was already overcrowded at the moment, all the original passengers were transferred to the advanced cabin, and the remaining lower cabins, even the material cabin and cargo hold, were vacated to accommodate the patients sent from the city, and some patients were even placed directly in the temporary shacks on the blockade dock, roughly counting at least hundreds of people.

Each of these people showed symptoms on the surface as if they had dysentery or something, and there were patches of red spots on their faces, although the color was wrong, but these red spots reminded many of the dark spots on the patients of the Great Plague in those days.

I have to say that the people of Shackle Island are quite restrained, if they are placed in the city where the great plague has occurred before, these patients may not be able to survive now, and they will all be executed and burned, after all, their fear of the plague has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and this fear will be passed down from generation to generation.

"How can this be?" After seeing this scene, Leo couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately used the spirit net to carefully check the bodies of all the patients, and easily found the reason for these people's sick state.

"What about the corpses of the men?" asked Leo at once to old Belen.

Without waiting for Old Belen to speak, the captain took the initiative to introduce: "In the bilge, there is a sealed chamber there, and when he finds that something is wrong, he will transfer their corpses over. โ€

Leo was suitable for the captain to lead the way, and the group soon came to the bilge seal room, and in order to prevent anyone from accidentally breaking in, the old captain sent two sailors to guard outside.

Although these two sailors are dependents, the fear of the plague is still rooted in their hearts, after all, during the great plague, there are many relatives who died because of the plague, so they all put protective clothing on their bodies one by one and wrapped themselves tightly.

It's just that their protective clothing is obsolete, not only is it bulky, but it also has no protective mask to cover their mouth and nose, so they have to find a random cloth, wrap it with some medicinal herbs that they think are useful, and tie it to the cloth to make a simple breathing filter.

Because these things were made on the fly, it was naturally impossible to have any beautiful appearance, and the bloated protective clothing made them look like two bulky wine barrels.

The old captain also seemed to know that the image of his two men was really a bit embarrassing, so without waiting for Leo to speak, he took the initiative to say, "Open the door." โ€

One of the guards couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, and said loudly, "Open the door, are you crazy......?"

"I said open the door!" the old captain's face became even more ugly when his subordinates retorted like this, and he almost ordered through gritted teeth.

Sensing that the old captain was not talking and playing, and the two guards could also see that the old captain's emotions were on the verge of rage, so they didn't dare to ask or question again, and hurriedly took out the key, inserted each into a hole in the door, and twisted the key at the same time to open the door of the sealed room.

Perhaps out of fear, they instinctively backed back some distance the moment the door was opened.

Seeing the actions of his subordinates, the old captain suddenly felt that his face had been completely lost, and almost gritted his teeth, and shouted at the two subordinates: "Get out, you two guys get out of me immediately, and then let me see you here, and I will tie you to the bottom of the boat to feed the fish." โ€

Hearing the old captain's order, although the two sailors knew that they had annoyed the old captain, the best thing to do at this time was to stay where they were, but in the face of the plague that might be infected, even if they were afraid of the old captain, they still couldn't resist the fear of the plague, so after hearing the order, the two didn't even hesitate and ran away immediately.

The old captain looked at the figures of the two men who disappeared at the end of the corridor, and suddenly felt in his heart that he should go and deal with the two subordinates immediately in order to calm the anger in his heart.

However, Leo's action of pushing the door still suppressed his anger, and he reached out to stop Leo in a little panic, saying, "It's not safe, I'll prepare ......"

Leo shook his head and said, "Don't worry, if you are infected, then you will already be infected in the first place, and you will not wait until now." โ€

Then, without waiting for the old captain to make other blocking moves, he pushed the door directly and walked in.

However, the moment the door opened, both Old Belen and Old Captain were stunned by the sight of the sealed room behind the door, because they found that the empty sealed room, which was supposed to be just a few corpses, had now turned into a botanical garden, and a large number of plants they had never seen before had grown all over the sealed room.

However, Leo showed no surprise at what was in the sealed chamber, and he stepped inside, brushing aside the dense foliage and carrying it towards the middle of the chamber.

Old Belen and Old Captain glanced at each other, and without saying anything more, they quickly followed.

Soon the three of them came to the center of the room, only to see that the corpses of the treasure hunters that were originally placed on the ground have now turned into several thick tree trunks, on which the faces of these people can be seen, and the plants in the room are also the result of the spread of these tree trunks.

Leo walked under the trees, crouched down, reached out and dug at the roots of the trees, which were clinging to the ground, and soon pulled out a few fruits that looked like hearts.

When he pulled out the fruits, the humanoid trees immediately became much more wilted, and the surrounding branches and leaves quickly withered, and soon only a few branches of the main trunk remained.

"What's going on?" the old captain looked at the scene in bewilderment.

But old Belen seemed to know something, and stared at the few fruits in Leo's hand, his face a little strange.

"Do you know anything?" the old captain naturally noticed the obvious expression of old Belen, and asked in a deep voice.

"I thought this plant was extinct, but I didn't expect it......" Old Belen looked at the situation in front of him, his face was extremely ugly, he muttered to himself, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and immediately said to the old captain: "You must have a way to spread the news, right?"

"Yes, I have a way to get the word out. Although the old captain didn't know why Old Belen was so nervous, he knew that now was not the time to hide things, so he nodded and admitted.

Old Belen immediately pulled the old captain out, and said in a rather alarmist manner: "Go, I have news to spread immediately, this matter is too important! โ€

It's not the first time that Old Belen has been an Ice Queen, he can be said to be an old customer of this ship, and even has an exclusive cabin, the old captain naturally knows his identity very well, and in the other party's opinion, it is definitely not a trivial matter to be able to make Old Belen panic like this, so he didn't ask more, and immediately walked out quickly behind Old Belen.

Leo didn't stay in this room much either, but he still had some things to do before leaving, so he walked up to the trees that the treasure hunters had turned into after the mutation, put his hand on the trunks, and began to see if he could collect these human trees as corpses according to the method he had obtained.

It turned out very well, when Leo drew the power from the corpse collector's mark and wrapped the tree in the way he knew, the tree disappeared from his eyes in an instant, and almost at the moment when the tree disappeared, Leo felt a surge of power from the corpse collector's mark poured into his body, almost unhindered and merged with his spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy in his body that had not been improved for a long time instantly broke through that layer of interval and entered the sequence of the sixth-level psionic at this moment, and just when his psionic energy level was raised, his body also underwent a metamorphosis under the action of psionic energy, and patterns that looked like cosmic celestial bodies appeared on his face, and then quickly disappeared.

It's just that at this moment, all of Leo's external perception has disappeared, and he doesn't even know that his psionic level has crossed that threshold and become a sixth-level psionic person. At the moment, he was concentrating on relying on his powerful willpower, which was equivalent to a ninth-level psionic person, to resist the interference waves that poured into his brain or soul with that power, and tried to keep his mind awake from the interference waves.

I don't know how long it took for the wave of interference to weaken and subside, and an unprecedented sense of exhaustion immediately hit Leo's body and mind, causing him to feel dizzy, and he needed to hold on to the wall to be able to stand firmly.