Lord of War

Chapter 400 Plague (please subscribe)

In recent days, there has been a solemn atmosphere in the city of Betis. Those dwarf laborers who used to extend the underground city up and expand its ancillary structure every day have disappeared. Meslet, the head of the sacrifice, has issued a ban on ordinary citizens in the city to stay in their own rooms. Today, only patrol soldiers and the busy aristocratic class at the bottom of the city are still active in the city.

Most dwarf workers don't know what happened, but they only know that many ethnic groups seem to have been infected with serious diseases recently. For three days in a row, the bodies of the clan were thrown into the well of the abyss every day, so the rumors of the plague gradually spread from the upper floors of the city.

Plague, this is a taboo word. The vast majority of underground people have a strong body from birth to old age. Not to mention those snake women and scorpion men who have had the potential to be soldiers since they were born, even dwarf hard workers, and they rarely get sick in their lives. But in the city of Betis, there is such a legend. Legend has it that when the city of Betis began to build, a plague broke out.

In that plague, most of the strong soldiers and hard workers were killed and injured. It was the darkest day in the city of Betis. Every day, people died in an extremely painful way. Death seemed to stay in the dunade, allowing the chief priest to pray to the abyss and could not stop the continuation of the disaster.

No one knows when the plague ended, just like it happened quietly, and it disappeared quietly. Since then, there has been no major outbreak of the epidemic, and the underground people have had the opportunity to rest and recuperate. The tragic number of people who were almost exterminated after the plague has reached a huge scale of 3,000 to 5,000. The head of the sacrifice attributed this to the abyss and believed that it was protected by Naga, the king of the underground clan.

So from then on, the saying that Naga will one day wake up from the abyss spread in the city.

But now, the city of Beez doesn't seem to be able to wait for Naga's awakening, but for the outbreak of the second plague.

As the lowest dwarves of the underground clan, they can only act as coolies because they are short and unable to become warriors at birth, so they are unable to share information with the nobles. The important resources and information of Betis are in the hands of the nobles at the bottom of the city. Under such circumstances, suspicion and distant words made the dwarves living above the dug city uneasy.

It's not just the dwarf who is also uneasy, but Meslet has also been restless recently. As the sacrifice of the underground clan, it has several times the life of the clan. Compared with other races, the life of the underground people is very short. The life expectancy of strong warriors is only more than ten years, and the average life expectancy of dwarves is only five to eight years. Elite warriors can live up to 15 years due to the completion of the initial transformation.

And only a life like Meslet who has completed three metamorphosis can have a life expectancy of nearly 40 years. Huo Xian, the guardian, and Moson, the leader of revelation, live as long as Meslet. These two elders come from the warrior and the hard labor class respectively, but are also the best among them. In particular, Mosson, who comes from a lowly background, but has the talent to come into contact with the elemental world, becoming the only alien in the underground family that can communicate with elements.

Meslite, Hossen and Mosson are all people who experienced the plague when the underground city was first built. Meslet forgot the dark memory, but unexpectedly, history would repeat itself.

In fact, after the plague disappeared, the disease did not stay away from the underground people. Every year, only a hundred people are infected with strange viruses. Although underground people are comparable to those who are at the forefront of the times in terms of science and technology, as a new intelligent race, they lack a thousand-year-old civilization like human beings. Therefore, the coronaviruses that appeared in the old era cannot be eliminated, let alone be eliminated for the underground people living in the new era, but do not know their composition and causes.

This situation did not improve until the first transaction with Pavalić. At that time, the underground people found black blood in the abyss and found that they were combustible energy sources through various attempts. This accelerated the development of the city of Bice and became an important currency for trade with the outside world. During the first transaction with Pavalic, Mawson accidentally found that among some drugs provided by humans, a drug called aspirin played a very obvious role in delaying the suffering of infected people.

So in future transactions, the city of Bates will specify some toilets. Although all they need is aspirin, in order to prevent humans from discovering their secrets, the wise Morrison pointed out that only one fixed drug cannot be traded to humans. With the supply of Pavaric, the use of aspirin has reduced the number of people infected with diseases every year.

Meslet is very gratified and believes that his people will one day get rid of this terrible disease. But three days ago, since the emergence of the first newly infected person, a series of patients appeared. This plague has concentrated in the class of soldiers and nobles, and today, the upper-class dwarf laborers have also been infected with the disease one after another.

This makes the city at the bottom of Betis almost a mess. People die every day. The number of deaths is so shocking that it is the highest daily death to die since the founding of Betis.

"My king Naga, what's going on? Has the abyss abandoned us?

Between the prayer, Meslite's beautiful face was full of sadness. It stared at the portrait of King Naga on the wall and sighed sadly. At this time, there was the sound of crutches behind him. The chief priest turned around, but the old dwarf Moson came with his hands behind his back.

"The situation is out of control." Morson sighed, "Meslite, we don't have enough drugs. If it goes on like this, we will soon have no medicine available. Moreover, this plague is very terrible. Even if it is the right medicine, the controllable force is far from enough. We have to find a way, otherwise..."

The old dwarf didn't go on, but how could Meslite not know the result? The chief priest closed her eyes, as if after some thought, she made an important decision: "Now, I can only ask Pavalic for help. By this time, we can no longer care whether the weaknesses of our clan will be exposed to human eyes. Doctors, we need human doctors and a lot of drugs.

"Your decision is right, and there is no way. If we worry about these things again, when the plague spreads to the whole city, we will be finished. Morrison weighed his crutch and said, "I'm going to Pawarichi now."

"No, I'll go!"

The rough voice came from outside the door, and Huo Xian, the tower-like guardian, came in from the door with his body lowered. It looked at Meslet and Mawson and said, "In terms of foot travel, I'm afraid there is no one in our race who is faster than me."

Mesri's characteristic head said, "Then I'm sorry to trouble you, chief guardian. You can convey what I mean. As long as we can stop this disaster, we will pay mankind accordingly.

"It's cheap for those greedy guys!" Huo Xian said hatefully, "This time, they will definitely go to more blood."

"The blood of the earth is good, and it is not as precious as the lives of our people. Go ahead, chief of the guard, I hope you come back soon. Mesriet said lightly.

Huo nodded first and left.

The caravan needs to walk a day's journey, half a day at Huo Xian's feet. It left the city of Beez in the afternoon and only in the evening when it arrived at Pavalić. When the soldier on duty saw Huo Xian's lobster coming straight from the other side of the snowfield and pointed straight to Pavalić, he thought it was a monster invasion and immediately sounded the alarm. So the next moment, more than a dozen rifles greeted Huo Xian at the same time.

Unfortunately, the power of the rifle is limited. Not to mention Huo Xian's biological armor, even its skin ** without any stomach protection in the cold wind can't be penetrated. At ordinary times, the guardian would have smashed it with a hammer, but now he has asked others, but he dare not act recklessly. It stopped outside the shooting range of the rifle, touched back with its big hand and brought up a dwarf from behind its back.

The dwarf was the person in charge of the handover of goods with old Rob that day, and was one of the few people in the city of Bethes who were proficient in human language. Huo Xian shouted at it, " Tell them that we are going to make a deal with them."

The dwarf supervisor has never been out of Bates City in his life, and he has been taken by Huo Xian to run wildly on the snowfield for half a day. The body of the dwarf is also much stronger than that of ordinary human beings, but it can't stand such tos. Now his face turned blue with cold, and he was roared by Huo Xian, the famous bad-tempered guardian, and immediately trembled all over. As soon as Huo Xian threw it to the ground, the dwarf supervisor immediately shouted intermittently in the direction of Pavalić with a trembling voice: " Stop... Human beings, this is what we respect... The guardian called your patriarch out and told him that we are going to make a deal with him in the city of Betis.

Hearing the four words of the city of Bethes, the soldiers in the sentry tower finally reacted. They stopped shooting and called a soldier to report the situation to the current town of Changsha. So a moment later, Sharon personally went out of the city to welcome the brave guardian and dwarf supervisor into Pawarichi.

Huo Xian has to admit that although human beings are vulnerable, their food is very delicious. Especially that strange drink, it burns like a fire after drinking it in the stomach. Huo Xian liked this feeling very much, so he kept asking the dwarf supervisor to ask humans to bring this drink.

In the assembly square, Sharon arranged a simple but lively dinner for Huo Xian's arrival. The people attending the banquet were all face-to-face figures in the town to show the respect of the friendly neighbors of the city of Dace and its long-time trading partners. Huo Xian didn't like Sharon, a fat man, but as Sharon's wonderful flattery entered the ears of the guardian after the translation of the dwarf supervisor, coupled with delicious food and drinks for his appetite, even Huo Xian began to like this ball-like human.

On the other side of the square, a small three-story house. Zero put down the curtain of the window and looked at Beyonris, who was sitting by the fireplace and turning over a hard book: "The fish has been hooked."

Beatrice closed the book, held her glasses on the bridge of her nose and smiled, "Thanks to your reminder."

Since that day,bi li has had a preliminary plan since it was discovered that the virus that caused the genetic collapse of underground people turned out to be a common coronavirus in the old days. The plan is divided into three parts. First, the man-made virus will be sent into the city of Betis, so that the underground people will be infected with the virus. Secondly, when the local people ask Pavalić for help, they will be designed to transfer some underground people to small towns and become human hostages and cards. Finally, they will use hostages as bait. It angered the city of Betis and made it lead troops to attack. In this way, the battlefield of the two sides will change from a complex city to a flat snowfield, so that human beings can take more initiative.

In this whole plan, how to unknowingly send the virus into the city of Beez is the most critical and difficult part.

Originally in Beatrice's plan, she considered the way of air transmission and let people secretly find natural vents to spread the virus in the geographical environment near the city of Kamchatidius. But such a vent is extremely difficult to find, and in terms of efficiency, it is far from reaching the speed of plague level. If it is not for the sudden outbreak of the evil disease, it may be difficult to psychologically exert great pressure on the aliens of the city of Tess, thus forcing them to ask for help from human beings.

For this reason, at the war meeting, the officers of the three families thought hard about this issue. Finally, I thought of the water source. When he explored the underground city, he found buildings such as reservoirs. Obviously, the underground people also need to drink purified water. Beatrice is located in the hinterland and uses nothing more than a tributary of the mountain, such as water, so Beyonice changed her goal from the original natural vent to the source of the earth.

With the support of advanced survey equipment, Beyonris's people soon found several water sources. Next, the work becomes simple. Beyonice asked the biochemists in the army to make a large number of coronaviruses, and even in order to achieve better results, these biochemical lunatics artificially cultivated an upgraded version of the coronavirus. When these viruses, which were more terrible to the underground people, were thrown into the water, the city of Bethes naturally had a plague.

Everything is going according to the plan, and the city of Betis has sent an envoy to Pawarić for help. Judging from the current situation, the messenger who is eating and drinking in the small square still has a pivotal position in the underground city. The requirements of Betis City are simple and clear, and they need doctors and drugs. The medicine was expected by Beyonris, but as for the doctor, she didn't expect it.

When it comes to the doctor's words, Beatrice or two other families have military doctors. However, in order to arouse the suspicion of Beatrice, Beyonris did not dare to use military doctors. After all, they are not native small towns. As for Pavalić himself, there are several doctors, and now their list is in Beatrice's hands.

Beatrice stroked the screen of her brain and finally landed her finger on one of the doctors.

"It's you."