Chapter 280 Plague: Everyone is Doomed

Two days later, Gu Nan began to distribute porridge on a small scale.

Temporary shelters also began to accept homeless people, and at the same time, they worked together with yamen runners to organize them to clear the snow on the roads.

It has been thirteen days and the snow has not stopped. In some places, the snow is almost half a person's height.

This winter is only half over, and there may be more snowstorms in the future. The disaster will be far more serious than this. In any case, they have to restore traffic first.

But the manpower was limited and after a few days, there was little result.

"Look! There's someone!" Someone shouted, and those who were busy clearing snow began to look up. "Where are they? Where did they come from?"

Gu Nan also stopped what he was doing.

In the distance, a few swaying black shadows suddenly appeared in the white snow.

The wind and snow were blinding, and they had a hard time walking. Behind them were slowly moving figures, and the team was very long.

After a while, they seemed to see them clearing the snow and waved their hands and shouted.

The first person started running, and the people behind him also ran one after another. Some people fell, but no one helped them. They all ran towards them frantically.

Gu Nan saw it clearly. Some of them were able to get up and continue walking, but some seemed to have fallen into the snow and could never stand up again.

Gu Nan keenly sensed something was amiss, handed the shovel to De Zhao beside him, and said to everyone, "Stay still here, I'll go check it out."

These days, Gu Nan's absolute strength and leadership, which can defeat ten opponents at once, have already been deeply rooted in people's hearts, so no one raised any objections, and some even admired her initiative.

In the face of the snowstorm, Gu Nan took in the affected people without hesitation and provided them with porridge. She is undoubtedly a great philanthropist. Moreover, her principles and sharpness make her destined to be the most reliable person among the crowd.

It has almost become an unspoken rule that she goes first when something happens.

Everyone watched Gu Nan walk through the uncleared snow. The thick snow covered her calves, but she seemed not to feel the obstruction and her steps were as steady as ever.

The closer he got, the clearer Gu Nan could see.

These people who risked their lives to come to Kyoto were dressed in thick clothes and carried bags on their backs. Their exposed hands were red and swollen but not rough, and they did not look starving at all.

"Stop, don't go any further." Gu Nan said.

No one paid any attention to her, and no one even looked at her as they walked past.

Gu Nan kicked the leading man over, grabbed his neck and pinned him in the snow. His sharp eyes swept over the people running behind him, "Stop! If you keep running, you won't be able to enter the city."

It was like pressing the pause button, everyone stopped suddenly and looked at Gu Nan in unison.

They were breathing rapidly, and their defensive eyes were filled with deep malice, like a group of blood-eating and flesh-devouring beasts.

Gu Nan seemed oblivious and asked calmly, "Where are you from? Why are you here?"

No one answered.

Gu Nan tightened his grip on the man's neck, and a muffled wail suddenly rang out from the snow. "Tell me, tell me, we came from Fengcheng to escape the disaster. Fengcheng is out of food, and we had no other choice but to brave the snow and come to Kyoto."

Fengcheng is the city closest to Kyoto.

Someone added, "Yes, yes, we had a carriage, but the snow was so heavy that the carriage couldn't move, so we had to walk."

Gu Nan didn’t know the situation outside Kyoto, and couldn’t tell what was wrong, so he didn’t say anything for a while.

"Miss, please let us in. It's freezing cold. If this continues, someone will die." As she said this, she knelt down in front of Gu Nan.

The others followed suit and knelt down to kowtow to Gu Nan, crying sadly.

"Girl, please save us."

"Please, we can't walk any further."

"Ahem."

A suppressed cough mixed in with the sounds of pleading.

It was not abrupt at all, but the person who heard it had a pale face and crawled up in the snow using his hands and feet, as if what he heard was not a cough, but the death curse of the King of Hell.

Even the man that Gu Nan had caught suddenly struggled desperately and howled in fear, "Let me go, let me go!"

A group of people were terrified and fled in all directions, with broken snow dug up all around them.

Only the coughing boy knelt in the snow blankly, as if he didn't know what was happening.

Gu Nan's heart sank.

He grabbed the man's head and said sternly, "What happened in Fengcheng? Tell me!"

The Ghost King's intimidation was extraordinary. The man was trembling with fear, his face pale and ugly. He suppressed his extreme fear and said tremblingly, "Fengcheng has plague. Fengcheng is finished!"

Gu Nan was shocked.

I couldn't believe my ears for a moment.

plague?

The Black Death that wiped out one-third of Europe’s population?!

"The plague has spread to Kyoto. We will all die, everyone will die!"

He was shaking like a sieve, a strange flush rising on his face, and suddenly he coughed up a mouthful of blood and sprayed it on Gu Nan's face, "You are going to die too, you can't live anymore!"

"Run, get into the city!"

I don't know who suddenly shouted.

The crowd awakened by the sound suddenly ran towards the city gate.

Gu Nan was horrified. An indescribable chill rushed to her brain and she almost couldn't control her trembling.

She threw the man aside, turned around and ran a few steps, shouting to De Zhao and others who were still waiting for her on the roadside: "Run!!!"

Her face was covered in blood, and in her extreme shock and anger, her gentle and pretty face looked like a demon.

They were all frightened by the sharp, even shrill roar, and their whole bodies trembled, and a thin and dense chill like needles ran up their spines.

What on earth could have happened that could have made Gu Nan, who had been at ease for so many days, so frightened?

Gu Nan is a high wall standing in front of them. If there is something that this high wall cannot withstand, then they will have no chance of winning.

After a brief panic, they followed Gu Nan's arrangements and decisively returned to the city.

De Zhao slowed down by two steps and fell behind, holding Gu Nan's shovel in his hand, hesitating as if waiting for her to go back together.

Everyone ran away, and Gu Nan had no more scruples. He cast a spell to trap the crowd in place.

"Close the city gates immediately after entering the city. No one is allowed to enter or leave without my permission!"

She paused, closed her eyes, and suppressed all the weakness and pain in her eyes. "You will also wait for me at the city gate. Don't run around, and don't let anyone get close to you."

After giving the instructions, he cast a spell to push De Zhao into the team.

The snow started to fall again.

The wind seemed to have suddenly lost its direction, blowing wildly from east to west, south to north.

Gu Nan took a deep breath and dragged the group away.

More than ten people were tied together tightly by an invisible rope. Someone started coughing again, and the cough became more and more urgent and louder.

They struggled desperately but to no avail, and finally broke down and cried.

"Please let me go, I don't have the plague, I'm not contagious."

"Help, someone please save me, I don't want to die, I'm still young, I don't want to die..."

The howling wind and rain mixed with their cries, like a tragic song of death.