The village of Buyulin is surrounded by at least three meters wide canals, which are overflows used to irrigate the water.

The aqueduct that surrounds the village like a moat looks like a lot of work, which is probably the work of Dean a few years ago.

There is a small wooden bridge at the entrance of the village, which connects to the road.

There was a brazier lit by the wooden bridge, and a few knights walked back and forth at the entrance of the village, looking like they were maintaining law and order.

Inside the village, some people could be seen leaning against the village and sitting, as if moaning in low voices.

Occasionally, a few coughs can be heard in the distance.

Seeing the convoy coming, the knight at the entrance of the village stopped the carriage.

The lord lifted the curtain in the carriage and looked at the men of the Knights of the Radiant Cross, and the cross coat of arms on their chests was conspicuous.

Several of the Radiant Knights wore pointed helmets, which had a protruding visor at the muzzle and a pointed beak that looked odd.

The steel beak has holes in it for breathing, and the inner layer is filled with a cotton fabric filter to cover the mouth and nose tightly.

This is not only a helmet, but also a gas mask of this era, which should still have a little protection.

Dean and several other exotics got out of the car and stepped forward.

"What's going on, what's going on here?"

Due to Creon's connections, Dean was familiar with the Knights of the Radiant Cross, and the village of Jublin was where he had worked, where he had built a canal to irrigate the fields, so he was very concerned about what happened here.

The Radiant Knight came closer with his torch in hand, recognized the Exorcists, then looked at Dean carefully and pulled down his mask.

"Are you...... Master Dean? My lord, don't go into the village, there's a plague in the village! ”

The Radiant Knight seemed to know Dean.

After all, his father was a sergeant major of the Knights of the Radiant Cross, and many knights knew him.

"Plague?!"

The exorcists exclaimed.

Dean was calm, but he also frowned deeply: "Knights, do you need our help?" ”

"We do need manpower, but don't go in, it's the Red Death, and it's serious!"

When I heard that it was the Red Death, the lord became nervous.

This virulent contagion was the direct cause of the collapse of the kingdom of Gupend, which ravaged the continent for seven years.

In just seven years, the population of Pander had plummeted by half.

Especially in the bustling big cities, social production is basically in a state of complete stagnation.

The reason why it is called the Red Death and the Blood Disaster is because the skin of the infected person will gradually festering and falling off, and in the end, only blood-red muscles will remain, and the whole person will be a blood demon of the Red Lake.

Those who die of illness will eventually look somewhat similar to the Fallen, but by the time the Red Death reaches the skinless level of the Fallen, they are basically dead.

This is one of the reasons why people in various countries are extremely nervous when they find out about the Fallen, and many people believe that there is a connection between the two.

The healers of the Knights of the Radiance Cross had been pioneers in the fight against the Red Death, and it was because of the ravages of the Red Death that they began to recruit exorcists from among the civilian population in order to protect the doctors.

Interestingly, more than a hundred years ago, it was not the Knights of the Radiant Cross who first achieved results against the Red Death, but the thief Alfred and the Lion Knights who collaborated with him.

After establishing the Lion Kingdom and maintaining a brief peace with the nations, presumably to protect the lives of the upper nobles, Alfred declared the Red Dead to be heretics, and he ordered all the 'Apostles of Heresy' to be killed.

All villages where the Red Death was found were to be sealed off, and all things related to the infected were destroyed.

As long as it is confirmed that the infected patient is directly treated as a heretic - killed and thrown into the fire and burned, and many are burned alive.

Perhaps Alfred was only trying to protect himself and the nobility, but his approach inadvertently created a de facto system of segregation, and it was an effective forced segregation.

At that time, Alfred was the first Lion King, a dictator, and he had always killed those who disobeyed him, so his orders were carried out very well.

Of course, a large number of innocent people were killed by mistake, and there were also shameless people who took this opportunity to massacre and loot, but in any case, the Lion Kingdom did suppress the spread of the Red Death in its territory in a short period of time.

Sometimes, a little more vicious people can solve the problem - at that time, no king except Alfred would slaughter the villagers of his country like this.

This is not a secret, except for the Lion Kingdom, all countries have records of this.

But this history is recorded as a stain on Alfred – just as he was nicknamed the 'Thief of Nations' by various countries, he was also considered a tyrant among the people.

After all, his order to kill patients indiscriminately is indeed brutal.

It's just that this brutality actually saved most people......

Strangely enough, however, there is no record of the origin of the Red Death, as if it appeared on the mainland overnight, and it was probably destroyed in the same way as the records of the six months before and after Alfred's accession to the throne.

After the Red Death in the Lion Realm was resolved, other countries began to use quarantine to solve the problem, which put the entire continent back on track seven years later.

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However, other countries did not adopt too drastic methods to enforce quarantine, and the implementation was not thorough enough, and many fish slipped through the net, so this terrible plague did not completely disappear.

As a result, for more than 100 years after that, the Red Death continued to appear repeatedly, but it did not form the terrible scale that covered the continent.

And the Lion Realm, which is now also the place where the Red Death is least detected—this is indeed thanks to the previous killings, which were cleaned up more thoroughly.

Originally, the helmet of the Lion Knights was also the first to be changed to a pointed helmet style, but at first it was not for epidemic prevention, but to avoid the stench.

Because most of the people who carried out the blockade and killing, they changed the traditional helmet to a pointed beak and filled it with cotton fabric or sponge, mainly because the stench emitted by the infected people, and even more so when burned.

However, the knights later discovered that wearing pointed helmets did not seem to be easy to be infected, and the Lion Knights had been on missions with sick people for a long time, but few of them contracted the Red Death, so many knights began to follow suit.

In particular, the knights, who originally belonged to the kingdom of Gupande, basically all helmets were pointed beaks.

The Knights of the Radiant Cross were the first to follow suit.

They are more medically savvy and understand better than others that face shields filter the air and prevent the epidemic.

Leon jumped out of the carriage and stood beside Dean, "Are you sure it's the Red Death?" ”

"Sure, I've seen a couple of patients in the Blood Lake...... The plague spreads quickly, and there is no cure, so we have to lock down the village. It's too close to the Imperial Harbor, and if it spreads to the big city, the consequences will be unimaginable......"

The Radiant Knight sighed and shook his head.

"Since that's the case, then you'd better send someone to find more manpower quickly, just a few knights and plague repellents, I'm afraid this village won't be sealed."

Leon looked towards the entrance of the village, where only a few knights and seven or eight plague repellents were guarding.

The knight nodded at Leon and Dean: "Someone has been sent to spread the news, and someone will come soon." I hope you will help, stay at this intersection for a while, and wait for our Knights to come. ”

Li Ang nodded without hesitation and shouted to his subordinates: "Come down, let's block this intersection." ”

"Your Excellency, you'd better not stay here......"

Hearing Leon's order, Klose hesitated, but still led the team to get off the train and line up in a row.

Although Klose had not experienced the Red Death, he knew that any plague was extremely terrifying, and he did not want Leon to face that risk.

"We have to help with this kind of thing, if a few infected people escape, I'm afraid it will harm the entire continent. This is not a matter of a country or a nation, let alone a matter of a knighthood, this is everyone's business, and no one in the village can be allowed to escape! ”

The lord said to his men very seriously, and then tore off the curtains in the carriage, tore them into face towels and distributed them to everyone, and asked them to fold them in two layers and tie them to their faces.

The curtain is made of plush and linen, which probably does some work.

A group of people followed Leon's example and covered their mouths and noses with cloth.

Leon didn't know how the Red Death was transmitted, but since the pointed helmet was protective, the homemade mask should be able to do the same.

While it's impossible to have the filtering power of a modern mask, it's at least a little better than having no protection at all.

People of this era already knew the role of breath and air, and it was understandable to cover their mouths and noses when encountering a plague - it was because of the bloody natural disaster more than a hundred years ago that people had such common sense.

"Thank you for your selfless help, Your Excellency, may I ask your name?"

The knight gave a knightly salute to Leon and Dean.

Dean began to introduce: "This is His Excellency Leon, a kind nobleman. ”

Well, someone actually said that Leon was kind.

But Li Ang shook his head directly: "I'm not a kind nobleman...... I'm just trying to keep myself safe, and if it's not controlled, people who are sick may end up on my territory......"

The Knight of Radiance frowned and thought for a moment: "Your Excellency Leon, I seem to have heard this name somewhere......"

But then he shook his head and didn't think about it anymore, and put on the bird's beak mask: "You're right, Your Excellency Leon, this is for everyone's safety...... Such a thought is in itself the greatest goodness. If every nobleman thought like you, the Red Death would have been cut off long ago. ”

He was just about to turn around after he finished speaking, but he looked at the carriage behind Li Ang and turned around again.

As he spoke, there seemed to be a little commotion in the village, and voices were heard from afar.

"Don't abandon us! Heal us, please ......"

That should be the voice of a middle-aged woman.

"Sorry, we can't ......"

Another deep voice came.

The Knight of Radiance sighed, said sorry, and hurried over with the people.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, a group of peasant-looking people ran out in a panic, and the farmer in the lead shouted as he ran: "They want to lock us up here!" They don't heal, they want us to die here......"

Several Radiant Knights stopped them with their shields and pushed them towards the village: "You can't get out of here!" Go back! ”

Several of the exorcists also raised their shields and hammers and rushed forward without saying a word, as if they had seen such a scene before.

But they were too few of them, and it was too difficult for a dozen or so people to completely block the hundreds of villagers, and the leading farmer struggled desperately to break out of their blockade.

"Is this the Knights of the Radiant Cross? You're trying to kill us! You don't heal us, you want us to die here! ”

The creature ran out of the village with his hands in hand, shouting as he ran.

Then all the villagers became noisy and began to desperately charge and besiege.

The Knights of Radiance tried their best to stop, wielding hammers to intimidate, but no one dealt with them.

Lord Lord frowned, that guy seemed to be fanning the villagers?

He pointed at the guy and said to Amy next to the carriage, "Shoot that guy!" ”

"A bunch of sanctimonious liars......"

"Peng!

”

The leading farmer shouted and rushed out of the village, and when he was still about twenty meters away from the lord, there was a loud bang that silenced everyone.

Amy was behind Leon's side, her sword stuck in the ground, a musket already set up on it, and a cloud of smoke almost completely obscured her figure.

The sound of muskets was so loud in the night that for a moment the entrance to the village became silent.

And the guy who had been fanning the farmer, with a hole the size of an egg in his chest from lead bullets, had fallen on his back on the road.

This is the effect of muskets of this era - if you don't wear armor, the lead bullet will deform after a direct hit on the body, and it will form a frontal wound much larger than the caliber, as long as it is hit on the torso, most of them will be killed directly.

And if the armor is pierced, then the lead bullet will shatter when it hits the armor, and if the armor is penetrated, what remains in the body is irregular shrapnel.

After penetrating the armor, the hit, due to the slowing down of the bullet, may not be fatal on the spot.

But the wounds caused by this irregular shrapnel were quite troublesome, and in terms of medical techniques of this era, they basically only increased the pain, and in the end it was still difficult to revive.

However, the leading farmer was obviously not wearing armor, and he had already been shot and killed.

The lord is obviously much more ruthless than the Radiant Knights, regardless of whether this guy is deliberately fanning or not, anyway, his actions do play a role in fanning - then the lord directly let Amy kill him, so that he can control the situation in the fastest way.

Amy didn't hesitate to shoot this shot at all, the lord said so clearly, he was going to shoot the guy.

Li Ang had never given her an order before, because she was not Li Ang's subordinate, but a disciple of the school.

Although the relationship is very good, she is actually not on the list of lords' team so far.

But now that Leon has given Amy an order to kill, Amy naturally understands that this person must be killed.

She always had a round of ammunition in the chamber of her gun, and all she had to do was light the arquebus and aim it to fire.

This is the correct way to prepare for muskets in this era, after all, this is an arquebus, as long as you do not pour the gunpowder and do not ignite the firing, it is impossible to go off.

The arquebus is only ignited in battle, and the ignition powder is only poured into the powder pool during battle, but there is always a round of ammunition in the chamber that has already been pressed so that it can quickly enter the battle.

Actually, this is the real reason why the muzzle is facing up when marching with a gun on your back - this habit has been around since the days of arquebuses to avoid compacted ammunition from loosening and falling out when walking.

Amy waved her hand to fan away the smoke, lowered the butt to lift the barrel, cleaned the chamber with a strip, tested the temperature of the barrel, and began to reload.

"All back! I don't have the best temper as the Knights of Radiance! ”

The lord took a few steps forward, walked over to the corpse, drew his sword, and drew a line on the ground.

"As long as someone dares to cross this line, I will not hesitate to kill!"

The Metenheim also drew their swords and stood behind the lord, lined up behind the line.

The corpses on the ground have proved that this is not a lie, the cold and shining sword is also in front of him, and more than a dozen tall mengmen have sackcloth scarves on their faces, and they look like a gang of bandits.

The image of the bandits was obviously more intimidating, and the villagers retreated to the village in fear.

The Knights of the Radiant Cross also slowly retreated outside the line with their shields in their hands, and stood in the front row of the Great Swordsmen.

The knights apparently agreed with Leon's quick slash, and in fact their shield wall would have been broken if it hadn't been for this shot.

"You should be decisive...... I thought you would be more experienced than I was. ”

The lord said to the leading knight of light.

"It's useless for us to do it, it will only cause more conflict...... Hammers are less intimidating than muskets and broadswords. Thank you for your help, Your Excellency Leon, you made a very timely move! ”

The Radiant Knight was clearly sensible, and he nodded at Leon and raised the mace in his hand.

It is true that their maceheads are a threat to the knights' plates, but the civilians are not afraid of them......

The loud sound and smoke of the muskets, as well as the large and long blades of the sword, can intuitively make ordinary people fearful.

"Are there any other exits to this village?"

Leon nodded in understanding, and began to think about how to seal the village completely.

"There's an exit behind that mountain, and the rest of the place is surrounded by canals, so it's not so easy for people to get out, so we have people there."

The Knight of Radiance pointed in the other direction.

"Take your knights and patrol the outskirts of the village, load the repellents' crossbows, and don't hesitate if this happens!"

Leon stared earnestly into the eyes of the Radiant Knight.

The Knight of Radiance nodded, and rode away with the other knights.

Lord Dean looked at the canal and the small wooden bridge at the entrance of the village, and said to Leon, "I remember that there are more than 3,000 people living in this village!" If it's completely blocked, they may ......"

The lord shook his head with a heavy face: "There is no way, the Red Death has not been treated, lockdown and isolation is already the best way, you can't let them infect everywhere......"

Dean sighed deeply and began to pray to Goddess Damia.