After a moment, he felt as if he had heard a voice. One voice belonged to Han Sung, but the other was a shrill hiss. Even though he couldn't hear anything clearly, the strange hissing sound creeped the timid official to the bone.

After a few minutes, the voices in the cellar quieted down, and he heard Han Cheng's boots walking up the stairs with heavy steps. So he hurriedly left the door, and when Han Cheng walked out, he saw him standing upright waiting for him.

"Go find a few errands." Han Cheng said, "Find some guys with quick hands and feet, I want to give an urgent order to the generals of the city defense army in Nanyu, remember not to be discovered." ”

"Is something wrong?" The official couldn't suppress the curiosity in his heart and asked.

Han Cheng nodded and said solemnly, "The King of Nan has ordered to launch an attack on those rebels, and there are traitors in the Nanyu army, and they are preparing to pose a greater threat to the Nanyu together with those rebels. ”

Humpty Dumpty's eyes widened in shock, his mouth gasping for air in disbelief, "So what are you going to do?" ”

A grim light flashed in Han Cheng's eyes, and he said in an extremely cold tone, "Of course you killed them all." ”

......

In the small city of Yangning, the Speechless Man stopped at the door of his brother's house, his eyes staring solemnly at the Holy Sect symbol smeared on the door. When the plague ravaged the town, and with similar markings on the doors of almost every house on the street, the Silent Man believed in the idea that God would bless his family, but now that hope was dashed.

The Silent One stretched out his pale hand and knocked on the marked door. He waited a long time, listening to the sound of snowflakes falling on the thatched roof, watching the rats crawl around in the gutters, smelling the stench of disease emanating from the city. As time passed, he felt his body temperature continue to decrease, his body began to tremble, the worry on his face gradually replaced by anger, and he knocked on the door in front of him again, only with much more force.

The door slowly opened, his brother propping one hand against the wall and the other struggling to pull open the doorknob, which should have been light. The always strong, masculine brother was now almost as pale as his little man who was not good at exercise, and his unkempt hair and sunken eyes made it impossible for the speechless to accept the facts before him for a while.

The elder brother opened the door and muttered a few words, and then was about to close the door and go back to the house, when the wordless man snatched the doorknob and said loudly and angrily, "Do you know how worried I am about you? Do you think I can calm down after seeing you like this? ”

"But we have to have one to live." A hint of determination flashed in his brother's tired eyes, and he roared with all his strength.

"Yes," said the Silent One, "we have to have one person to live, and that person should be you, not me......."

"No, that person should be you." The elder brother put his hand on the shoulder of the Silent One and said, "My brother, I have been infected with the plague for a short time, and you have a better future. As a speechless person, you are the last beacon for the confused people in the city, and if you die, I, the dying man, can't support a family as big as you, then I won't have the face to go down to see you. ”

The Speechless was about to retort when his brother interrupted him again, "You can go, although I would like to say a few more words to you, but she doesn't want you to stay here any longer." ”

"Is she sick?" The Speechless Man shook off his brother's hand, knocked on the door with his cane and closed it, his voice full of horror at the moment. Although he knew he had no right to worry about the woman who was now his sister-in-law, he couldn't keep himself calm.

"No," replied the brother, "it's Biao'er." ”

When the speechless man heard his nephew's name say it in such a tone, his heart went cold. No matter how complicated his relationship with that woman is, he has the right to care about this nephew of his. "Where is he?" The Speechless asked anxiously, but his brother would not answer his question, and the Wordless didn't care so much at this time and walked directly upstairs.

"You can't go up there!" The elder brother hurriedly followed after seeing the speechless man walking upstairs, trying to grab his younger brother, "She doesn't want you to ......"

The Speechless One turned around and stared coldly at his brother, "She has made it clear back then, I won't pester her anymore." Today's action is not for her, nor for myself, it is to save Biao'er's life. But just as he was about to walk up the stairs, he noticed a stranger coming down the stairs.

It was a monstrous figure, with a fat body, but his limbs were extremely thin, and his disproportionate body was wrapped in a waxed cloak. The man's face was hidden behind a wooden mask with the front end of the mask stretched forward to form a bird-like beak, and a pair of narrow green eyes were squinting at the Silent One behind the glass lenses of the mask.

The Wordless had never seen this strange creature, but he had heard about it. After the people of the town failed to pray to the Old Gods, they turned to an even more foolish way to save themselves from the plague. They sent someone to a nearby hill to hire a man who claimed to be a plague doctor, who claimed to be a doctor who specialized in treating the victims of the plague and preventing the spread of the disease.

"We all want to save this little boy's life," came the deep voice of Dr. Bird's beak, "and we call this disease the Black Death, and prayer alone cannot defeat it." ”

Doctor Birdbeak picked up his bronze staff with his gloved hand and pointed at the wooden staff of the Speechless, "I have been to many places where there are many people like you, and even those who believe in the goddess of life cannot escape death, so what else can we do?" Pray that the god of Hades will spare our lives? ”

The doctor shook his head, the mask's long beak swaying back and forth, the aroma of vinegar and cloves permeating the entire second floor, and the bird's beak doctor turned his gaze to the brother of the Speechless One, "Of course not, the gods cannot be trusted. What we need is science, and the word may not have appeared in your place yet. But it doesn't matter, Mr. Yuan, I'm glad you made the right decision. Although this child is very sick, I believe he can be saved with proper treatment. ”

Hearing the doctor's words, Yuan Kou's tired eyes lit up. He ran past Yuan Rong, ready to give the benefactor a big hug. The doctor quickly dodged Yuankou's arms and pressed the copper staff against Yuankou's body to keep a certain distance. Recalling the doctor's aversion to physical contact, Yuan Kou consciously took a few steps back with some guilt.

"So what do we do now?"

Seeing his brother's submissive appearance, Yuan Rong was furious, and he angrily banged on the floor with his cane and shouted, "You can't listen to this charlatan!" He is blaspheming the gods! ”

After hearing Yuan Rong's words, Doctor Birdbeak reappeared and turned his gaze at the ignorant speechless man, "Science can save this poor child, although I don't know how to explain it to you, but science is sometimes more effective than God. ”

After finishing speaking, the doctor turned his attention back to Yuan Kou, "I need some potions to balance the bodily fluids in this child's body, the plague he is infected with is caused by black spiders, unlike those infected in the north of your country, the venom in the black spider's body is the source of the disease, this child must be bled and the venom in his veins must be sent out." ”

The Plague Doctor paused, sighed deeply, and said apologetically, slumping his shoulders, "All the treatments that go beyond will be time-consuming and expensive. ”

As soon as Yuan Kou heard this, he immediately took off the money bag from his belt and handed the bag full of coins into the doctor's hand.

After receiving the money, the bird's beak doctor quickly injected a tube of medicine into the child lying on the bed, and then told Yuan Kou, "The child should drink some broth when he wakes up, but he must not eat meat, because the meat will harden more black spiders." The doctor packed up his medicine box and turned to leave the room.

As the doctor approached the bottom of the stairs, the Wordless Man stopped him and said in a warning tone, "Get out of here with your money, remember, and don't lie again." ”

"It seems that you, like the rest of the clergy," the doctor scoffed, "you mortals who believe in gods have one thing in common, that is, you hate more advanced science, and that your ignorance is the greatest obstacle to human development. ”

"The gods are omnipotent."

When the doctor heard this stupid remark, he immediately pushed away the speechless man who was blocking the way with a brass rod, and said with some anger, "Then where is your god now?" Can your faith help you overcome the plague? ”

The Speechless Man did not continue to argue with the strange man, but said coldly, "If you dare to hurt my family, you will know what a person's faith can do?" ”