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The night is silent, and the bamboo forest is dyed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe humid and sultry mountain breeze blows through the mountains, bringing countless bamboo leaves to rustle and set off layers of green waves.

In the wind, with an unbearable rancid smell.

Not far from this bamboo forest is a mass grave. It is said that it is a mass burial, but in fact it is just a pile of corpses, and most of the piles are some ownerless corpses.

The imperial court once issued an official document, even if it is an ownerless corpse, the local government yamen should be properly buried.

It's just that the capital is just an inch of land, the world is big, although it is the emperor's land, but where can the emperor manage?

Therefore, there is also the theory of dumping corpses in this mass grave.

Not only here, but also in the places under the jurisdiction of the magistrates and yamen in various places, there will basically be such a place, because all the corpses involved are ownerless, and the officials above have a kind of indifference to this.

And under the jurisdiction of Liantang County, this mass grave located in Qingxi Mountain has more than a dozen corpses tonight.

"Damn, that's bad luck!" a strong man scolded, spitting and scolding with displeasure on his face.

"Let's go, I don't want to be here for a moment. ”

"But isn't this body buried?"

"Isn't that pile over there also unburied?"

"That's different, these are all sick and dead. If the prefectural magistrate finds out that we didn't bury these bodies, we will go to jail. ”

"If we don't talk about it, who knows? Besides, after staying with these corpses for a long time, aren't you afraid that it will reach you? I don't want to anyway. If you want to bury it yourself, I'm leaving, it's a big deal for you to go to the county magistrate to sue me. ”

"Then I'll listen to you, if you don't bury it, you won't bury it. ”

Fang Yege vaguely heard a conversation, and then was thrown into the pile of corpses by the two of them. As for the two men, they drove the ox cart and left here in a hurry.

He twitched his fingers slightly, his eyelids wrinkled, but he couldn't open them after all. He had a high fever until his mind was blurred. Fang Yege knew that he hadn't escaped after all.

He still has a faint breath left, but he is infected with the plague, even if the doctor with the highest medical skills in Liantang County tries his best to treat him, I am afraid that the chance of surviving is less than one percent, let alone being abandoned in this mass grave at this moment.

Although he knew that there was little hope of survival, Fang Yege still did not give up the idea of survival. Although his body no longer obeyed the call, and his mind began to blur, he still did not give up, and tried his best to wake himself up and crawl out of this pile of dead people.

No one knew that he had already crawled out of the pile of dead men once. He was the only one in the entire village who escaped.

Just over half a month ago, there was a plague in Liantang County, and Fang Yege's family of six people, except for him, were not spared. His grandfather, parents, and younger siblings all died of illness, leaving only thirteen-year-old Fang Yege to escape from the village.

Dragging his sick body, he gritted his teeth and insisted on walking towards the county seat. A hundred miles away, he walked for nearly half a month, during which he didn't know how many times he was unconscious, but every time he was about to lose his breath, he miraculously stood up again.

Relying on the perseverance beyond ordinary people, he went through a lot of hardships and finally came to Liantang County. He was overjoyed for this, and only waited for the next day to go to Huichun Hall, the largest medical center in Liantang County, to seek medical treatment.

I just didn't expect that his condition would worsen that night and he finally collapsed on the street. Although there was still a faint breath, the yamen's work confirmed that he was infected with the plague, so he was sent to the mass grave at the foot of Qingxi Mountain overnight, along with other people who died of illness.

In this case, only death awaits Fang Yege.

It's just that he can't die, so how can he be willing to die like this?

Even more ridiculous, he still did not know if he had fallen from the plague or had fainted from hunger after three days of not eating. If someone gave him a bowl of hot porridge at this moment, he felt that he would still be able to stand up again.

The outbreak of plague in Liantang County caused panic. Even the county seat of Liantang, which is a hundred miles away from the center of the plague, is now under martial law in the whole city, and all the people who are found to be infected with the plague are immediately escorted to Wuli Pavilion outside the city for treatment.

Wuli Pavilion is not a pavilion, but a place name, originally just a small village of less than 100 people. After the outbreak of the plague, people from all over the country rushed to Liantang County, and many of them were infected with the plague.

For this reason, the Liantang County Ya immediately requisitioned Wuli Pavilion, temporarily converted it into a shelter for plague-stricken people, and sent doctors to treat it.

It's just that when he found Fang Yege, his aura was too weak, making people feel that he might lose his breath in the next second. Therefore, he was carried directly to the mass grave.

"I can't just die, I want to live, live!" Fang Yege shouted in his mind, but no matter how hard he tried, his body didn't move.

Without the support of his strength, relying only on willpower, Fang Yege couldn't control his body at all. He seemed to be able to feel that the temperature of his body was slowly decreasing.

When his body turned into a cold corpse, Fang Yege knew that he was really going to die. So he screamed desperately, struggled, and in his mind, he used all his means to wake up this body.

No matter how he roared, this body was still like a corpse, lying quietly in the pile of dead people, as quiet as a dead man. In fact, he is not much different from the dead.

At that moment, several gray-brown rats crawled out of the grass in the distance. Then he came to the place where the corpses were dumped in the mass grave, and turned into several small people three feet tall, with hands and feet, and wearing a tattered coarse cloth shirt, but the head was still a huge rat head.

These rats turned out to be half-transformed rat demons!

"Boss, more than a dozen fresh foods were delivered today. A rat demon jumped into the pile of dead people, tossed up and down, and then said excitedly to a rat demon with a handful of red hair on its head.

The red-haired rat demon also had a smile on his face, and waved at the younger brother, "Brothers, everyone has a full meal first, and then move all this food to the cave." ”

"Yes. The rat demons cheered, then immediately jumped to their feet, baring their sharp fangs, and rushed hungrily towards the pile of dead men.

Although Fang Yege's body couldn't move, his mind was still quite clear. He also roughly understood the conversations of those rat demons, but he was a little confused.

Just as Fang Yege was still thinking about how to move his body, he suddenly felt a furry thing tear his clothes apart, and then a sharp pain immediately came from his shoulder.

A rat demon tore off a piece of flesh the size of a palm from Fang Yege's shoulder, and blood splattered all over the place. The intense pain rushed to Fang Yege's mind like a tide in an instant, and his mind felt like he was about to faint in pain.

But he persevered, not only did he not faint, but he became more awake. Enduring the severe pain, Fang Yege had already shouted: "Ahhhhhh

Fang Yege gasped, and the roaring sound resounded throughout the bamboo forest. The bamboo leaves swished with the mountain wind, and hundreds of birds were startled in the forest, and the rat demons all looked at Fang Yege's side sluggishly.

The heart-rending pain did not make Fang Yege faint, but only stimulated his body even more. At that moment, Fang Yege suddenly found that he had miraculously woken up again.

Fang Yege, who had regained his mobility, instinctively threw a punch towards the position above his shoulder. It's just that this soft punch didn't reach the rat demon's body, and he easily avoided it.

Fang Yege's move did not anger the rat demon, but instead made him smile, and hurriedly reported to the red-haired rat demon on his head: "Boss, there is still a living one here. ”

"Oh, alive?"

"There are still people alive?"

"Let's go, go over and have a look. ”

So several other rat demons walked over to Fang Yege one after another and surrounded him. There was even a rat demon who was curious for a moment and sniffed Fang Yege's body.

Seeing Fang Yege's heaving chest and the heavy gasp, the red-haired rat demon on his head laughed and said, "Let us meet a living one, the flesh of this living person is much better than these dead people." ”