Chapter 199 The Demon Cult Witch 28

In this world, there are not many people who dare to promise the position of city lord easily.

Even the most beloved princess of the current emperor cannot do it.

But Ah Xi can.

The reason?

As she said, she is the daughter of Yao Rong, the master of Juexian Pavilion.

——Her identity is her confidence.

Zhuo Ma looked at Ah Xi for a few times, with a look of surprise on her face: "Are you the young master of Su Yingxi?"

Ah Xi nodded: "It's me."

"Do you have any evidence to prove your identity?"

"Everyone around me can prove it."

Zhuo Ma looked at Doctor Zhao and Doctor Qian.

The two doctors nodded vigorously.

Zhuoma said: "They are your accomplices. Maybe you are colluding to deceive me."

Ah Xi took out the tokens of Juexian Pavilion and Juxian League from her arms: "The token is proof."

Zhuoma took the token and studied it. She had never seen the tokens of Juexian Pavilion and Juxian League, but just looking at the material of the token, she knew that it was not something that ordinary people could take out.

However, Zhuoma still couldn't believe it completely: "With your status, you must have guards following you when you come to such a dangerous place as Mocheng. I want to see your guards."

Doctor Zhao said: "There are a total of 20 guards who escorted us to Mocheng. They are all outside."

Zhuoma looked outside: "The strength is okay."

But there are many guards of this strength in her mansion.

Ah Xi said, "These guards were transferred here in a hurry after they learned that I was going to Mocheng. You want to see my secret guards, right?"

Ah Xi walked out of the hall and gestured to the night.

Two men in black landed silently behind Ah Xi.

Zhuo Ma's face was solemn. She actually didn't notice the existence of the two men in black from beginning to end.

"Do you need me to prove it again?" Ah Xi asked.

Zhuo Ma clasped his fists and changed his words, "Please forgive me, Master Su Shao. I didn't mean to make things difficult for you, but I didn't expect that you would personally take risks with your status."

Doctors Zhao and Qian nodded repeatedly, obviously understanding Zhuo Ma's feelings.

They were willing to come to Mocheng, half because of the compassion of doctors; the other half was because they were moved by Ah Xi's sincerity.

Ah Xi smiled helplessly, and got back to the point: "Then you can consider my proposal."

Zhuoma sat back in the armchair, tapping the armrest with her fingertips.

It must be said that she was very tempted by Ah Xi's proposal.

"Do you know what it means to make a decision to close the city?"

Ah Xi nodded: "I know."

Zhuoma narrowed her eyes: "Do you really know?"

Her tone suddenly became low: "In fact, the most difficult part of closing the city is not to hold back those forces that want to escape. But, once you make this decision, you will be responsible for the life and death of the people in the city."

Ah Xi still nodded, and her tone did not change: "I know."

Zhuoma was choked by Ah Xi's nonchalant attitude.

Axi sat down beside Zhuoma and said, "I once heard from a friend about the plague in Xiangcheng."

Xiangcheng was originally a very prosperous city, but first there was a flood, and then there was an outbreak of plague. In order to prevent the spread of the plague, the prefect of Xiangcheng directly sealed off the city and did not allow anyone in the city to escape.

At that time, Axi could not understand the choice of the prefect of Xiangcheng at all.

Until she made a similar choice to the prefect of Xiangcheng, she suddenly understood the prefect of Xiangcheng's state of mind.

Doctor Zhao asked: "Since you mentioned the plague in Xiangcheng, do you still remember the final outcome of Xiangcheng and the prefect of Xiangcheng!?"

Ah Xi: "I remember."

Doctor Qian sighed: "Because of the prompt decision of the prefect of Xiangcheng, the plague did not spread. The people around Xiangcheng were saved. But after the plague, the furious people of Xiangcheng rushed into the mansion and beat the prefect of Xiangcheng to death."

Ah Xi shook his head: "My situation is very different from that of the prefect of Xiangcheng."

"After the plague broke out in Xiangcheng, the court did not take any response, resulting in a lack of medicinal materials and doctors in Xiangcheng. The prefect of Xiangcheng sealed off the city, and the people in the city could only wait to die." "The

Juexian Pavilion behind me has no shortage of medicinal materials, and my mother will never give up on me. As long as we wait a little longer, doctors and medicinal materials will be available in Mocheng."

"And the situation in Mocheng and Xiangcheng is different."

"In addition to the wealthy families in Xiangcheng, ordinary people also want to flee. But in Mocheng, only those powerful people want to leave the city, and ordinary people have given up fleeing."

"In this way, the resistance I face will naturally be much smaller."

Zhuoma nodded: "You are right, but-"

"I must remind you that if you successfully cure the plague, everything will be fine. But have you thought about the consequences of failure?"

"Do you think that after you fail, your fate will be much better than that of the prefect of Xiangcheng?"

Ah Xi took a breath lightly: "I don't know what the consequences of failure will be, but it is better not to ask about the future before doing anything, otherwise it is easy to look ahead and behind." Doctor Zhao

, Doctor Qian and Zhuoma were all silent.

If you say that in the face of the plague, it takes a lot of courage to go against the flow and enter Mocheng.

The first person to stand up and make the decision to seal off the city on behalf of everyone else required even greater courage.

In the face of such courage, their hesitation seemed so pale.

"Okay."

Zhuoma suddenly smiled.

"Master Su Shao, a stranger, can do this for Mocheng. How can I, a native of Mocheng, stand by and watch?"

"Tell me, what are you going to do?"

***

Old man Zhang is an ordinary citizen in Mocheng.

When he was young, he did odd jobs in the caravan and traveled around with the caravan, so he had some experience.

Thirty years ago, a plague broke out in the northern part of the Saibei. His whole family died, and he was the only one who survived.

Later, he married a wife, who gave birth to two sons. After the two sons each married a daughter-in-law, they gave him three grandsons and a granddaughter.

The family of ten lived in poverty, with many quarrels and fights.

If life continued like this, perhaps one day when Mr. Zhang and his wife passed away, the two sons would separate and live their own lives. But a few days ago, a plague broke out in Mocheng.

The wealthy families were all trying to escape. The two sons were also discussing whether to escape at home. Old Man Zhang drooped his eyelids and said coldly: "Why are you running? You must not run!" The

eldest son was puzzled. Old Man Zhang took a puff of his dry cigarette and said: "We escaped once thirty years ago. What was the end? I was the only one in the family who survived!"

His wife peeled garlic and sighed: "You were not born at that time. You didn't know how terrible the northern frontier was. No matter where you run to, there is plague. Running away is a waste of time. . If you have the energy, you might as well save it, maybe you can get through it. "

The second son said with red eyes: "Are

you just going to wait for death?" Old man Zhang asked his wife to cook more these days so that everyone can eat about 60% full. Then he took out a dime from his pocket and handed it to the eldest grandson: "Da Lang, go and get two talismans to drive away evil spirits. Hang one at the door and burn the other into talisman water. Then the whole family will drink it."

The eldest grandson asked: "Grandpa, can talisman water really drive away evil spirits?"

"It really can." Old man Zhang looked far away, and it was unknown whether he really believed that talisman water could cure all diseases, or he was simply seeking a spiritual sustenance.

The eldest grandson took the talisman and ran out, and did not come back until lunch time.

Just as Old Man Zhang was about to curse, he saw his eldest grandson rushing in with a look of surprise on his face.

"Grandpa, the city gate is blocked by a girl and her men! The girl said that from today on, no one is allowed to leave the city!"

"What!?" Old Man Zhang was surprised, "Girl? Is it Lady Zhuoma?"

The eldest grandson said excitedly, "No, she said her surname is Su and she is a doctor."

Old Man Zhang asked suspiciously, "Can a doctor block the city gate?"

***

At this time, Ah Xi was glad that she was not just a doctor, but also had the Juexian Pavilion and the Juxian League standing behind her. Her mother arranged two secret guards for her with extraordinary martial arts.

The secret guards alone could not seal the city gate.

But superb martial arts, coupled with an identity that cannot be easily offended, can often achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The wealthy families in Mocheng confronted Axi and Zhuoma's people at the city gate for half a day before they quietly retreated.

Axi knew that their temporary retreat did not mean that they had given up on leaving the city.

If she could not control the situation in Mocheng, if the plague in Mocheng continued to worsen, then at that time, these people would no longer care about her identity.

So after a short rest, Axi found Doctor Zhao and Doctor Qian to discuss with them the establishment of an isolation area.

The plague that appeared in Mocheng was a new kind of plague. At first, the symptoms were similar to those of a cold, but they would gradually worsen after a few days, and finally the patient would faint and die from a high fever.

This plague is not particularly contagious, but in the past few days, there have been hundreds of cases in Mocheng.

It is not difficult to build an isolation area. The real difficulty is how to convince those infected with the plague to live in the isolation area.

Zhuoma said: "They would rather spend all their savings to buy magic water to treat their illnesses than to hand over their lives to doctors."

Doctor Zhao said: "This won't work. We must quickly gather the patients."

Doctor Qian was also furious: "Since we can't reason with them, then we will use force and go directly to their homes and take them to the isolation area."

The three of them were a little undecided and subconsciously looked at Axi.

Unknowingly, Axi had become their backbone.

Ah Xi pondered for a moment and said, "I have thought of a way."

The three asked, "What is it?"

Ah Xi couldn't bear to use force against the sick people, but she was ruthless to those charlatans.

She ordered people to capture all the charlatans in the city overnight and let them persuade the people infected with the plague to move into the quarantine area.

The people didn't listen to them, but they listened to the charlatans and cooperated and moved into the quarantine area obediently.

Doctor Zhao was at a loss for words: "What the hell is this?"

Ah Xi, wearing a simple mask on her face and gloves on her hands, stared at the scene quietly: "This situation will definitely change."

Epidemic prevention work is complicated. Zhuo Ma is mainly responsible for dispatching personnel and coordinating work;

Doctor Qian leads a group of people to use the methods recorded in ancient books to control the spread of the plague among the crowd;

Ah Xi and Doctor Zhao are responsible for taking care of patients and trying to find a prescription to cure the plague in the shortest time.

However, this time the plague came with great force. Ah Xi and his team looked through all the ancient books on hand, but could not find an effective way to cure the plague.

On this day, another patient infected with the plague died in pain after suffering a lot.

Ah Xi had no time to grieve, and quickly devoted herself to treating another critically ill patient.

When she finished her work, she heard that Zhuoma was looking for her.

Ah Xi changed into clean clothes, fumigated her whole body with mugwort, and then went to see Zhuoma: "What's wrong?"

Zhuoma sighed: "Several waves of people came to me today, saying that their relatives were infected with the plague one after another. I reluctantly sent them away, but judging from the situation, if they still can't find a prescription in three days at most, they will definitely rush out of Mocheng regardless of anything."

Ah Xi pursed her lips.

Zhuoma asked: "Do you have any idea?"

Ah Xi smiled bitterly: "Not yet." It has

only been five days since the city was closed. If there was an idea so soon, so many people would not die every time the plague broke out.

Zhuoma didn't want to pour cold water on Axi, but there were some things she had to tell Axi in advance so that Axi could be mentally prepared: "There are not many herbs left in the city."

Axi asked: "Didn't they just transfer a batch from a nearby town?"

Zhuoma shook her head: "The herbal medicine reserves in the northern part of the border are not rich, and that batch of herbs is just a drop in the bucket."

Ah Xi was silent for a moment, then said, "Is there anything else? If not, I'll go back first. I have a lot of things to do." Ah Xi

said goodbye to Zhuoma and just returned to the gate of the quarantine area, he saw two men pulling a cart.

An old man and a child were lying on the cart.

The old man was still somewhat conscious, but the child was already unconscious from the burns.

It was Old Man Zhang and his eldest grandson.

"Doctor, doctor, please save my father and my son." The man saw Axi, let go of the cart, cried and rushed towards Axi, and even pretended to kneel down, "My father and my son have been drinking the magic water to exorcise evil spirits these two days, but the magic water is useless. My son can't eat anything today. He started vomiting and diarrhea in the afternoon. No matter how we called him, he couldn't wake up..."

Upon hearing this, Axi walked quickly to the child, opened the child's eyelids, thought to himself that something was wrong, and quickly took out the silver needle in his arms, aimed at the acupuncture points and injected two needles into the child, slowly moving the needle.

The child's pale face regained some color.

Seeing the men crying and full of remorse, Ah Xi did not say any more accusations: "You go back first."

The two men were reluctant to leave, and Ah Xi said: "It's windy at night, they can't be exposed to the wind. The isolation area is full of patients, you will only cause trouble if you go in."

After the two men left, Ah Xi asked someone to send Old Man Zhang and his eldest grandson into the tent.

She washed her hands with hot water, took the cloth next to her to wipe the water off the surface of her skin, and used a candle to heat the silver needles, and continued to give acupuncture to the child.

Soon, the child's body was full of needles.

When Ah Xi finished removing the needles from the child, her forehead was full of sweat.

Old man Zhang, who was lying beside him, suddenly asked, "Doctor, can my Dalang still be saved?"

Ah Xi did not hide the truth from old man Zhang, "I'll ask someone to give him some medicine later, and see if he can wake up tomorrow."

Old man Zhang's eyes were filled with turbid tears, "Thank you, doctor, thank you, doctor..."

"It's all my fault. When Dalang just had a fever, my eldest son and daughter-in-law said they wanted to send him to the isolation area, but I disagreed. I didn't believe you would be so kind as to treat us for free... I let him drink the talisman water all the time..."

"If Dalang dies, doctor, don't waste your time on me. I don't have the face to go out to see my eldest son and daughter-in-law..."

Ah Xi sighed, not knowing how to persuade old man Zhang. She just hoped that this child named Dalang could get through it.

Otherwise, this poor family would have ended in tragedy.

Fortunately, Mr. Zhang's eldest grandson survived.

When Ah Xi gave his grandson two more injections, Mr. Zhang struggled to get up and was about to kneel down to Ah Xi. Ah Xi quickly supported him and said, "You haven't recovered yet. Don't be too happy or sad. It won't be too late to thank me when you are fully recovered." As soon as she

comforted Mr. Zhang, Ah Xi heard a series of rapid and sharp screams.

She asked Mr. Zhang to lie down and rest again, and she walked towards the gate of the quarantine area.

When she saw the situation at the gate of the quarantine area clearly, Ah Xi's face darkened -

a team of guards with weapons in their hands surrounded the gate of the quarantine area.

Doctor Zhao stepped forward to argue with them, and nearly fell to the ground during the shoving.

Ah Xi crossed the crowd, quickly supported Doctor Zhao, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

The leading guard said respectfully, "Master Su Shao, my master said that he has no intention of hurting you, but just hopes that you can stay in the quarantine area and not go to the city gate to block them from leaving the city."

Ah Xi gritted his teeth and said, "Who is your master?"

The guard bent his back slightly, but did not answer Ah Xi's question, so his respect was only superficial.

Ah Xi smiled coldly: "You don't dare to say? If you don't tell me, I won't know?"

This group of people didn't wear anything that could symbolize their identity. Ah Xi quickly scanned them and said loudly: "The degree of wear on the knuckles is much higher than that of ordinary martial artists. You must be used to using heavy weapons. You have all changed weapons before coming."

"The center of gravity habitually falls on the left foot, which should be related to the martial arts you practice."

"The breathing is heavy, and the fire in the body is strong."

"Are you from the Wuba Hall in the east of the city?"

The guard changed color slightly: "Since Master Su Shao has guessed our identity, please give our hall master a face. Our hall master said that he is willing to donate two carts of herbs for free in exchange for Master Su Shao's forgiveness."

Ah Xi stepped forward slowly.

The guard drew out half of his long sword: "Master Su Shao, please don't make things difficult for us. We are just following orders."

Ah Xi said: "No one can leave Mo City today. If you think you can stop me and my people, just try."

The guard gritted his teeth and threatened: "If Master Su Shao insists on going to the city gate, we won't stop you. But after Master Su Shao leaves, we can't guarantee what will happen in the isolation area behind you."

Ah Xi's face changed drastically, and the onlookers also made noises.

However, the leader of Wu Ba Tang has always acted in a domineering manner. Especially the skills he practiced have a great impact on the mind, and only he would ignore such an order.

But it was this reckless madman who happened to grasp Ah Xi's soft spot.

She was not afraid that these people would hurt her, but she was worried that these people would delay the prevention and control of the epidemic.

"You..."

Ah Xi was about to say something, and a familiar voice, blessed by the inner strength, rang in everyone's ears.

"If she leaves here, what will happen to the quarantine area behind her?"

Ah Xi raised her head suddenly.

The crowd dispersed to both sides, leaving a passage.

Yao Rong was dressed in black and covered in dust.

Chang Yue was holding a bloody skull and stood diagonally behind Yao Rong.

Behind Chang Yue, a dozen men in black stood still with swords.

"Am I seeing right? That head seems to be... the leader of Wu Ba Tang!?"

"The leader of Wu Ba Tang has dominated Mo City for decades, and he is just... dead?"

No need to say more. Seeing this scene, everyone had only one thought in their mind: the person who supports Master Su Shao has arrived.

***

"Mother!"

Ah Xi was startled at first, and then overjoyed.

She subconsciously ran towards Yao Rong, but when she remembered that she had just walked out of the isolation area, she stopped halfway.

"I haven't fumigated myself with mugwort yet, so don't get close to me."

Yao Rong looked Ah Xi up and down, and finally let go of the worry that had been hanging in his heart all the way.

Ah Xi's condition was certainly not good.

During this period of time, Ah Xi was under tremendous pressure, and she had not slept well for a day, with indigo under her eyes.

But at least, she didn't worry about her life.

Yao Rong comforted her, "Don't worry, let me take care of the rest."

Ah Xi nodded, and most of the burden in her heart was lifted, and she became a lot more relaxed.

In the past few days, she has become the backbone of many people. She cannot show cowardice in front of them, nor can she hesitate and retreat in front of them.

Because she must be responsible for the decisions she makes.

But now, her backbone has arrived.

As long as her mother is in charge, Mocheng will not be in chaos.

When Yao Rong's gaze moved away from A Xi and fell on the team of guards who blocked A Xi, every inch was as sharp as a knife: "Are you the Deadpool trained by Wu Ba Tang?"

The leading guard's hands trembled: "Replying to Master Yao, no."

"Since he is not Deadpool, he is already dead, why don't you surrender?"

The leading guard's hands finally lost their strength, the long sword slipped, and fell heavily to the ground: "Please forgive me, Master Yao."

Yao Rong did not look at him again.

Her gaze shifted again, falling on the spies from various forces hiding in the crowd, and finally on Zhuoma who had hurried over after hearing the news.

"From now on, I will take over the city of Mo for the time being."

"Before the plague ends, anyone who uses force to break into the city gates, spreads rumors to disturb the people, or hoards goods to affect prices will be killed without mercy!"