Entering the house, Huang Xiaozhi found that all the pictures she had made up in her mind before had come to naught, and there was nothing in the empty house!

There are no people, no ghosts, and no evil spirits.

The baby's cry came from within, and it was silent. Huang Xiaozhi closed the door, and her voice was a little louder.

"Baby, are you in there?"

The curtain was lifted, and there was only a wooden bed in the small room, and on the bed lay a woman, and the voice came from the woman's arms.

Huang Xiaozhi walked to the side of the bed and immediately saw the little baby with a blue face lying in swaddling clothes, the woman leaned sideways to protect the child in her arms, her right wrist was on the baby's mouth, and the blood flowed into the child's mouth, and the excess blood had stained half of the baby's body.

Huang Xiaozhi was frightened and hurriedly reached out to touch the child's mother's snort. The woman's body was still warm, her breath was still breathing, and although it was extremely weak, it could still be saved.

Picking up the child from the woman's arms, Huang Xiaozhi immediately gave the mother and son a physical examination. Due to the continuous feeding of the mother's blood, the child was just a little out of breath after being pressed by the arm for a long time, and his body was fine. The woman lost too much blood and fell into a coma, with yellow muscles and skinny skin, which was very uncomfortable to look at.

She is not an ordinary person who does not need to eat, so Huang Xiaozhi does not know what to give to the comatose patient. I touched it in my own small basket, and found a piece of osmanthus cake that I bought when I was hungry on the road, and after thinking for a while, I still put the cake in a bowl and soaked it in cold water, and then helped the woman stop the bleeding.

The effect of her spell treatment was so good that the deep wound quickly disappeared, leaving no scar. Huang Xiaozhi also separated a wisp of true qi and injected it into the woman's body, awakening all organs in the body from the inside out.

The osmanthus cake turned into porridge paste in the water bowl, and Huang Xiaozhi intimately used internal force to help her heat the food, and then helped the woman to lean against the bed, and fed her little by little with a spoon.

The woman who has been doing farm work for a long time is in good health, and Huang Xiaozhi only fed her most of the bowl, and the woman woke up with a low groan. Looking at the girl in the yellow dress in front of her in a daze, the corners of the woman's mouth moved slightly, as if she wanted to speak.

"Shhh, don't open your mouth yet, your body is too weak to rest. The child is fine, I will take care of you, don't worry. ”

After feeding all the porridge paste in the bowl, Huang Xiaozhi helped her lie back in the quilt. Seeing the tears glistening in the woman's eyes, she took the child and showed it to the woman.

"The baby is fine, but he was a little depressed because he was too tightly protected by you, and his little face was blue when I came. You see, it's getting better now, chubby and so cute. ”

The baby slept very soundly in Huang Xiaozhi's arms, and under the woman's gaze, she used her small handkerchief to dip the water in the bucket behind the door to help the child wipe the blood stains on her body. The weather was too cold, the baby's clothes and swaddling clothes were soaked with blood, Huang Xiaozhi looked around and found no replacement clothes, so she could only take off her coat and wrap the child.

"This child is destined for me, and he will definitely be successful when he grows up in the future." The more Huang Xiaozhi looked at it, the more she liked it, and after cleaning up the child, she didn't let go, but fortunately, the little guy could eat and sleep, and only hummed a few times to express her dissatisfaction under her fiddling, and the little man moved and fell asleep again.

Sitting on the edge of the bed and observing the woman's recovery, Huang Xiaozhi took out a hand and put it on her wrist: "Yes, the recovery is quite fast." However, my true qi can only save the emergency, you still need to recuperate for a period of time to recover from excessive blood loss, and you can't rush it. ”

"Girl...... Are you a fairy from the earth? ”

Huang Xiaozhi was still thinking about whether she could stay for a long time, what should the mother and son do, and the woman suddenly trembled and asked vaguely.

"Well, you'll treat me as a fairy."

She didn't dare to say that she was from the ghost world, and Lord Simo never allowed them to reveal their identities on the outside! Since this woman calls her fairy, then it's okay, anyway, she's only here to complete the task. After destroying the evil sorcerers and restoring the order of the mortal realm, the messy livelihood problems have nothing to do with them, they should all be the things that Ye Shiyuan and Fang Qiuyan worry about, and it is not the turn of Lord Si Mo to take care of it.

"O fairy, save us...... Please......"

The woman was a little excited, and Huang Xiaozhi hurriedly comforted softly: "It's okay, it's okay, since I can come in, I will definitely take you and the child to leave alive, don't worry, I will accompany you." ”

"Seeing that you are older than me, shall I call you sister?"

The woman nodded with tears streaming down her face, and Huang Xiaozhi asked softly, "Do you know that there are still living people around here?" I'd like to check it out, maybe I can save a few more. ”

"I don't know......," the woman sobbed weakly, her voice full of despair and pain, "and when the gates were closed, the city was in chaos, and many people were smashing and looting everywhere. But after this famine has been raging for a long time, who will have a surplus of food? Many people were trampled to death in the chaos, beaten to death, and scattered on the streets. Later, the plague became more and more severe, and more and more people died, and wailing could be heard outside day and night. ”

"I have been hiding in the cellar of the house with my child in my arms since the city gate was closed, and the child's father was locked outside the city, and when he left, he told me to hide everything that could be eaten at home in the cellar, so that we could survive on that last bit of food for more than two months."

The woman didn't say much about the child's father, presumably she knew in her heart that her own man must have been more than lucky in such a chaotic world.

Huang Xiaozhi didn't ask any more, the woman had basically cut off contact with the outside world after hiding with the child for so long, and it was reasonable for her to not know the situation of the neighbor.

"Fairy, I know you must be a good person with the ability, every house on this street is lived, I don't know how many people are still alive, but if you are willing to go and see them one by one, you will definitely find a living person. Save them, please! ”

The woman couldn't cry again, and Huang Xiaozhi naturally understood that time could not be delayed.

After finding the mother and son, she already had some hope in her heart, as long as there are still living people in this city, there will still be salvation, she and Zuo Qiuyue must speed up the search, there must be people struggling on the edge of life and death waiting for them.

Unable to get any useful clues from the woman's mouth, Huang Xiaozhi put the child back into the woman's arms, and took out two pieces of pastry from the basket and wrapped them in oiled paper and stuffed them into the woman's hands.

"When you are hungry, you eat, and the water is on the table. I'll go out for a while and take a look at other houses, you watch the child well, don't let him cry, wait quietly for me to come back, the situation outside is unclear, you must be careful alone. ”

After placing the woman, Huang Xiaozhi carried the basket and closed the door and continued to walk on the empty street, knocking on the door one by one.

Her search became faster and faster, and more than a dozen families searched for it, but they didn't find a single one alive. There were corpses lying in every house, some died of illness and starvation, and some were beaten to death and half of their bodies were eaten, and all kinds of hellish tragic conditions were bloodily presented in front of Huang Xiaozhi's eyes.

From the initial exclamation to the numbness that followed, the human nature was exposed under the extreme chaos and death threats, and its cold-blooded ferocity was even more ferocious than that of a beast, which sent chills down her spine.

After searching the whole street, Huang Xiaozhi finally found only 21 living people with breath alive in hundreds of households, and only 23 lives of the mother and son were saved.

Stimulated by so much, she couldn't care about the dangers hidden in the shadows of the city. picked a slightly larger mansion and cleaned up all the corpses inside, and Huang Xiaozhi moved the more than 20 people alive into it one by one.

There is a room for three people, and if the bed is not enough, a thick quilt is spread on the ground to open the bunk. Most of the victims were young and strong young men and children who were desperately protected by their parents, including three pregnant women. Huang Xiaozhi vacated the largest room and put three pregnant women and a woman holding a baby together for easy care.

It took a whole day to save so many, Huang Xiaozhi sat by the fire expressionlessly, her heart felt like a huge stone had been pressed, she couldn't cry or breathe, her eyes were red but she couldn't shed tears.

"Sister Zuoqiu, why haven't you come back yet......"

The little girl put the empty basket on the ground, hugged herself with both hands, buried her head between her knees, and her back looked very pitiful under the firelight.

She gave all the food and medicinal herbs she brought to the victims, but people can't take care of it for a lifetime after eating one meal, today has passed, what about tomorrow?

Compared with Huang Xiaozhi's helplessness, Zuo Qiuyue's efficiency is much higher. In half a day, she had searched half of Yuzhou City, rescued more than 150 men, women and children, and also faced the lack of supplies, Zuo Qiu Yue immediately found a place where no one was casting a spell, and used the phantom mirror to report the situation in the city.

"Lord Simo, his subordinates and Xiao Zhi have arrived in Yuzhou City in the southeast, and the situation in the city is not optimistic. The people under the black fog have suffered heavy casualties, I searched half of the city and only found more than a hundred living people, I believe that the same is true for Xiao Zhi's side, now that the support of the imperial court has not arrived, what should we do next? ”

In the moonlight, the man in blue stood quietly by the window, and the candles in the room flickered to reflect his cold face.

"The lives of the victims are not in our hands, that is a matter for the imperial court to worry about. Your mission is the mastermind behind it, understand? ”

"Yes, my subordinates will inform Huang Xiaozhi to continue the search."

Retracting the phantom mirror, Zuo Qiu Yue looked at the silent house, and the rescued victims had already fallen asleep after eating. She stood in the faint black fog for a moment, then finally sighed and turned around, and disappeared into the night.

"Xiao Zhi, Lord Simo is not wrong. Everyone has their own destiny, we can't go against the sky, doing our part is the greatest comfort to them. ”

summoned Huang Xiaozhi, looking at the pitiful appearance of the girl who wanted to cry without tears, Zuo Qiuyue was also a little unbearable.

"The two of us can only save them for a while, whether these people can survive or not depends on Ye Shiyuan in the end, I hope that kid can quickly think of a way to come in, otherwise these people may not last long."

"Sister Zuoqiu, then do we go to the mastermind behind the scenes now or continue to save people? Does Master Simo have any instructions? Huang Xiaozhi hated the sorcerers so much, but if they delayed for a while, they would miss a lot of opportunities to save people, which really embarrassed her.

"Save people, of course!" Zuo Qiu Yue raised his eyebrows, "Master Si Mo just emphasized the mission goal, and didn't say that he wouldn't let people be saved." As long as we do our best to obey the destiny of heaven, nothing serious will happen, your Mr. Ye must be more anxious than us, and it won't be long before we can bring people in to rescue. Don't worry, everything will be fine! ”

Zuo Qiu Yue's comfort calmed Huang Xiaozhi's mind a lot, they did everything they could in the city, and then it was up to Ye Shiyuan to arrive with the support of the imperial court.

Mr. Ye, the lives of the victims are in your hands, don't let our efforts go to waste!

The two sisters flew to the streets of the city that had not yet been searched, and searched for survivors in the night, but never found the source of the black fog. The situation in the city was far more complicated than they imagined, and if they could not find someone to perform the evil arts, the threat of epidemics and locust plagues could not be completely eliminated, and no matter how much the court did, it would not cure the symptoms.

In the Nianying Academy far away in the capital, the study room in a remote courtyard is still lit.

Jiang Simo sat on the chair and picked up the pen to write, the letter paper was slightly yellowed in the candlelight, he did not sign after writing, put down the pen and dried the ink and put it directly into the envelope.

The snow-white envelope was spread out in the palm of his hand, and gradually transformed into a wisp of starlight floating from the window to the palace......

Do your best, obey the destiny of heaven.

Fang Qiuyan, as the king of a country, do you also feel that you are lacking in skills?