Chapter 122 019: Plague
Wind extinguished city.
"Gulu gurulu." The sound of wheels rolling was heard, and the carriage passed through the long street.
In the car, Luo Xi leaned on the sofa and looked at the street scene outside through the window.
Fengxi City is the largest city-state in the western border of the Kingdom of Karel. It has a permanent population of over 300,000. Even among the human kingdoms on the south coast, it is one of the most famous cities.
However, at this moment, Luo Xi did not see the prosperity and prosperity of the city, but only desolation and ruin.
The deserted streets were filled with closed shops. The fruit on the only fruit stall had long since rotted. Rats were crawling around on the rotten apples, and the rotten fruit was scattered everywhere.
There were hardly any pedestrians on the street. Occasionally one or two people passed by and they covered themselves tightly. From time to time, one or two coughs were heard, and the passers-by immediately covered their mouths and avoided far away. In the two eyes that were only exposed through the black scarves, there was only fear and despair.
The plague is still spreading in the city, people are falling down every day, and the city is heading towards decline and destruction.
Across the sofa, Carol worriedly introduced the situation in the city to Luo Xi: "At the worst time, there were 100 to 200 deaths every day. Even now, people still fall down from time to time."
"I have tried many methods, such as asking people to stay at home and not go out, and isolating infected people separately, but it seems to be useless. When someone is isolated here, someone else is infected there. Even those who stay at home will develop diseases for no reason."
He sighed and said in despair: "Although I have always known that it is not easy to deal with the plague, I really don't know what to do now."
Rosie frowned.
He knew about the plague spreading in Windhurt City, but as far as he knew, the wizards on the South Coast should have arranged people to help deal with it. After all, the large-scale death of humans in a big city like this would be a relatively large loss for the wizards.
He asked in doubt: "Has no wizard come here?"
Carol replied, "Yes, she has been here two or three times. The most recent one was three months ago. It was a young witch."
As the current ruler of Windless City, he was the first wizard to come into contact with the human world, and Carol's horizons were broadened as a result.
He explained: "It's strange, when the wizards come, the plague in the city will be cured quickly, but once the wizards leave, the plague here spreads rapidly again for some unknown reason."
Luo Xi was surprised and asked, "So weird?"
Carol nodded and said bitterly: "If it weren't for this, Fengxi City wouldn't be what it is now."
He felt sincerely sad to see the city that the Fernandi family had worked hard for generations go into decline. What was even more heartbreaking was that he saw his people falling one after another but was powerless to do anything. As a ruler who was burdened with the expectations of countless people, this was a complete torture.
Carol laughed and half-jokingly said, "To be honest, sometimes I wonder if the plague will find me too. I can just lie down like everyone else and not have to worry about anything."
"But sometimes I wonder, if I fall, what will happen to the city? What will happen to the people in the city?"
Carol leaned on the sofa, looked up at the carriage, and said helplessly: "I used to fantasize about it. If I were not a bastard, how great it would be to even own a territory."
"I have imagined that I would govern the territory to be prosperous and strong, make every citizen happy and healthy, and never let anyone be harmed."
"But I never thought that fate would come to me one day. But when that day came, I realized how difficult it is to be a leader."
"Luo Xi, can you imagine? That child believed in me so much, believed that I could change everything, but... I watched him fall in front of me, and I couldn't do anything."
“At that time, I really wanted to die.”
Carol looked extremely distressed.
After a pause, he shook his head to cheer himself up, and then pleaded with Luo Xi: "Please help me, Luo Xi, I really have no other choice."
"I don't know what price I should pay, but as long as this city can be better and people here stop dying, I am willing to pay any price, even my life."
Rosie hesitated.
This matter is not his business. Since the plague is still breaking out here, the Alliance should send wizards here later. If they don’t come, according to the worst result, once a certain number of people die here, the plague should end. Even if all of them die, it doesn’t matter to him. He is a person who wants to leave the South Coast and will not be affected at all.
However, seeing Carol's almost desperate look, Luo Xi really found it difficult to say no.
After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "I'll try my best."
The deadline given to him by the Tower is to go to the Black Witch Domain to conduct intelligence investigation within 20 days. There is still a lot of time now, and the area north of Fengxi City has completely fallen. Strictly speaking, this place can also be considered as the investigation area.
After making the promise, Luo Xi immediately began to prepare a plan to treat the plague.
The medical level in this world is still at a very primitive stage. For ordinary humans, the plague is absolutely an incurable disease. Once infected, they can only rely on their bodies to fight it, and life and death are completely left to fate.
But for wizards, the plague is not something particularly serious. There are many ways to treat it, such as purification potions, water of clarity, etc.
However, different plagues require completely different treatments. In order to fully understand the plague, you still need to first figure out the type of plague.
So when Luo Xi returned, he asked Carol to arrange for two people infected with the plague to be sent for examination. However, the result of the examination surprised Luo Xi.
The type of plague that spread here was the Black Death.
Among the plagues controlled by wizards, the Black Death is just a very basic virus, and apprentice-level spells are more than enough to deal with it.
Logically speaking, the wizards sent by the alliance cannot be unable to handle this disease, so why has it been delayed until this time? "Could it be..."
Luo Xi suddenly thought of a possibility. If this was the case, it would not be difficult to explain why the plague here kept recurring, and every time it would recur after the wizards of the alliance left.
As for whether this is the case, it still requires a little verification (end of this chapter)
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