When several people heard that they had entered the house together, the fifth child had already carried the little girl out of the counter and put it on a dining table. The little girl's breathing was very weak, her eyes were closed, and her expression was extremely painful. "Feed him a few sips of water first." Qiubai untied the kettle on her waist and handed it to the fifth child, and the little girl swallowed a few mouthfuls with difficulty before falling asleep, and then shouted that there was no movement.

When the little girl woke up again the next morning, she was lying on a bed in the inn and her dirty clothes had been changed. "You're awake." Jing who came in handed the little girl a bowl of mixed vegetable soup, "Hungry, drink." The little girl seemed to be really hungry, and gobbled up the soup in the bowl. The face is also bloody for the first time in a long time.

Qiubai pushed the door into the house and sat on the edge of the bed, "What's the little girl's name?" ”

"Ciel." The little girl's voice was still very weak.

"Well, Ciel, nice name." Qiubai continued, "We are passing travelers, hoping to stay here and repair, I think you are the only one in this hotel, what about Mom and Dad?" “

The little girl shook her head, "Passed away." ”

Qiu Bai was stunned for a moment, "Is it only you here?" ”

The little girl nodded.

"It's okay, we'll leave after a few days, and I'll see that you have a price list in your store, and I'll pay you when the time comes, okay?" Qiubai helped Hill lie down and tucked her quilt again. "You're taking a break, and if you need anything, tell this sister." After that, he pushed the door and left.

At this time, Ann, who was sent out, was already waiting in the corridor.

"The situation is probably clear, more than half of the houses in the city are empty. Most of the patients had been sent to a makeshift hospital in the center of the city, and now Miss Ruzakura had gone with Falgar, and the lord of Fort Deteberg was there. Mademoiselle asked me to come back to inform you that the lord of the castle has given you a new commission. As he spoke, he took out a brand-new letter of entrustment and handed it to Qiubai. Qiu Bai opened it and looked at it, "Investigate the cause and find a solution," Qiu Bai shook his head helplessly, "I feel that since I met this Liuying Princess, I have been in trouble one after another." ”

At this moment, Lao Wu appeared at the staircase panting, "Boss, come here." I found something. ”

After hearing this, the two hurriedly followed. When the three of them came to a house on the corner, a foul smell poured into their nostrils, and the three frowned. But I still endured the smell and entered the house. I saw a corpse lying across a chair, and the stench emanated from him. It was a man of about 30 years of age, but he was already too thin to look human, with shriveled skin and dark purple patches all over his body. "Black Death." Qiu Bai frowned, "Sure enough, it's the magic contamination caused by alchemy. ”

"The Black Death?" An's expression became solemn, "In my memory, the old man said that there was an outbreak in the original capital of the empire, Milani, which was the early days of the establishment of the Imperial Alchemy Workshop, and a mistake caused a large amount of magic leakage and invaded the capital's underground water system, which caused the death of nearly 300,000 people in just half a month, and Milani was also abandoned, and the Empire moved to the current capital Tagrik, and re-planned and built the current Imperial Alchemy Workshop. The fifth thought for a moment, "Mirani? Qiubai reminded, "The remains of the plague hotbed of death." Only then did the fifth child suddenly realize, "Oh, oh, oh~ I see, that place turned out to be the capital of the empire." ”

"That's not right." Lao Wu and everyone left the house, "Look at this situation, the outbreak of the Black Death is no worse than it was then, but this place doesn't look like a large alchemy workshop, and the pollution that can cause this effect will definitely not be a simple thing." The point is, what can be refined in a predominantly agricultural city in Detberg? When Qiubai heard this, he threw the power of attorney he had just gotten to Lao Wu, "Cha Cha Bei, the power of attorney has been given, and it doesn't seem to give us the right to refuse, let's find the source first." See what the clues are. ”

Lao Wu unfolded the commission and glanced at it a few times, and said with a smile, "This really has a clue." Qiu Bai looked at the proud expression on Lao Wu's face and knew that he must know something, and asked, "Tell me, the second-in-command of the white." Lao Wuyi listened to the words with a depressed face, "The white is okay for the two of them now, and they are the second in command." After complaining, he was satisfied, "But it sounds comfortable, and when we expand, Lao Tzu will definitely have to show off his might." The black line on Qiubai's face.

"Actually, I've inquired, this disease first broke out in the western part of the city, it's a slum, it used to be a gathering place for craftsmen when the city was built, and then after the craftsmen left, slowly homeless, thieves and other things began to slowly gather, anyway, that land is a lawless land, and the lord of Fort Det also framed them with a wall." Lao Wu said excitedly, "Do you think there must be a problem with this place?" You say they didn't do it. Qiu Bai rolled his eyes, "Old Five, use your brains, if they do this, will it do them any good?" When people are dead, what do they get? Besides, aren't they more seriously injured or killed? The fifth man smiled, "That's right." That's why. Qiubai silently walked in that direction, "Go and see, guess what's the use." ”

"Little boss, wait for me."

Soon the three of them were at the foot of the wall. Because this is the area that was the hardest hit, it is also the area where it started first, and it is naturally the area with the most deaths. There is no breath of life in the whole area, there is silence everywhere, you will see one or two tombstones in any open space, and some even just insert a broken wooden plank, and write a name on it. There was a dead silence. The three of them quickly found the main entrance of the fence and got inside. The scene inside is like hell, the houses are dilapidated, full of messes, a disgusting musty smell mixed with the putrid stench of corpses makes people breathe miserable, many corpses are discarded on the side of the road at will, some have turned into white bones, some have not completely rotted, crawling full of deworming. There are even a lot of scavenging birds pecking. "It really is the most serious place." Qiubai looked at the tragic situation in front of him and couldn't help but sigh. "But this place shouldn't be able to fit such a huge alchemy blast furnace." Saying that, Qiubai looked at Ann next to him, "I said, where do you nightingales usually put huge things?" An thought for a while, "Underground, generally speaking, cities will have relatively developed underground waterways to treat urban wastewater. Qiubai nodded, "I think what you said makes a lot of sense." As he spoke, Qiu Bai leaned down and grabbed a handful of dirt on the ground, and then the soil in his hand turned into a mouse in a burst of light, jumped down, and went directly into the ruins. Seeing this, Qiubai clasped his hands together and slapped the ground violently, and in an instant, no less than a hundred mice scattered in all directions.

"Alchemy, creation and refining, no matter how many times I watch it, I still think it's incredible." Ann clasped her hands around her chest and waited quietly.

It didn't take long for Qiu Bai to open his eyes, "Ann, it seems that you are right, there is really something underground." As he spoke, Qiubai walked towards a pile of ruins in front of him. Boom", the rubble on the upper floor was blown out by Lao Wu's blast gun. A jet-black iron gate on the black-brown earth was exposed, and it looked out of place. "Normally, the sewers in the city have this kind of entrance for easy maintenance, but this is the first time I have seen an entrance with a tungsten steel door made of this alchemical material." As he spoke, Qiubai attached his hands to the tungsten steel door, and then the entire door panel was like cream melted at a high temperature, directly dissolving a big hole. But the dripping droplets were still solid, and they rolled down the stairs with a clang. "Little boss, do you think there will be strange monsters here?" The three of them walked through the dimly lit sewers with fluorescent stones in their hands. The entire sewer was eerily quiet, and the sound of footsteps echoed in the enclosed space, and several people could even hear their own breathing and heartbeat.

After groping and walking in the dark for a while, the three of them came to an open circular room, the whole room looked like it was three or four stories high, and there were several passages open in the stone walls around it, and Qiubai and the others walked through one of the passages just now. Lao Wu on the side groped for a handle on the side of the wall, and pulled it down curiously, and then several giant gas lamps on the stone wall lit up, and the whole space turned into daylight. "I've never heard of such a big light in a sewer." Qiubai put away the fluorescent stone in his hand. A pedestal in the center of the room caught his attention, and he climbed up the pedestal in a few steps.

Qiubai's fingers pinched a pinch of powder on the platform, read it between his fingers, and sniffed it again. He let out a long sigh, "Looks like there's something there." With such a large base, the alchemy blast furnace is not much smaller. At this time, Lao Wu held two stones in his hands and put them in front of Qiu Bai, "Look at this." Qiubai picked up a piece and weighed it, "Such a large piece of the Blue Bay Mine is all thrown here, and it seems that I am in a hurry." After all, what are you refining, and the amount is still so large. and secretly refining in such a dark place. Ordinary people are afraid that they can't do it. ”