The night is dark.

Only the thin moonlight under the sky is left.

Half a mile outside the village and town, there is a wooden horse-resisting horse and a fence siege a line of defense. Two soldiers guard every five steps. There are three lines of defense in total, blocking people from entering and leaving the epidemic area.

Every late at night, the soldiers were even more energetic.

The epidemic area is covered with despair and silence under the shadow of death. Not to mention common people and slaves, even the soldiers and doctors sent here cannot withstand this pressure.

Many people want to escape in order to survive the night - there will be a glimmer of hope for escaping here, but if they stay, they will get infected with an epidemic sooner or later! Once they get caught, they will become unconscious in less than a few days, and their limbs will twitch and their skin will be blue and purple.

In just seven or eight days, a patient turned from a fat man into a skinny mummy, with black all over his body and silted purple all over his body, as if he had been sucked by some evil ghost. His expression was ferocious when he died, and his eyes almost protruded out of his eye sockets.

Some patients vomited blood after the onset of the disease, their cheeks were thin and sunken, but their body quickly swelled like a blow, pushing their skin almost transparent. Given a little external force, the tight skin broke open on the spot, and the flesh rushed to the beams.

A doctor was close to him and was blown up.

The smelly internal organs hit him in the face.

The next day, the doctor also developed symptoms of an epidemic and died of illness soon after. The body was carried to the open space outside the house.

There was a shortage of manpower in the epidemic area. At first, there were soldiers helping to carry and bury the corpse, but I was too busy in the past two days.

"Stop!" The soldiers guarding guards noticed the movement. He held the longbow in his hand and warned loudly, "Go back!"

The person who comes does not care or not.

He warned again.

“Say it again – go back!”

An arrow fell on the man's escape path.

It just fits against the other person's toes.

At this time, the man finally responded.

The voice collapsed and begged for mercy, "Please let me out! I'm not sick! I'm not sick! Look, I have no symptoms! I will die if I keep staying here! Let me release you! Wait for this to take human life!"

The two soldiers guarded indifferently.

The bow holder is ready to pull the bowstring vigorously.

If this person is still obsessed with it, he will hit the other person's head or heart with the next arrow and kill him with one arrow!

A quarter of an hour later.

A special person came to drag the body with a temperature not cold and moved it to the wooden cart. There were three or four corpses of different ages on it, and the fatal injuries were all on the head and chest. The wheels rolled, and blood ticked along the gap between the wooden boards.

Similar scenes happen several times every night.

The soldiers' expressions changed from the initial unbearableness to the current indifference, their eyes were numb, their movements were mechanical, and the process of bending the bow and shooting arrows was repeated.

It seemed as if the arrow went out and the person who shot was not a living person, but a or two insignificant livestock.

They also don't want to shoot the unarmed commoners.

But just looking at the power of this epidemic, we know that the epidemic cannot be blocked within the line of defense. Once it spreads, the entire Shangnan capital will fall. By then, it will not only die in such a few people, but tens of thousands, or even more!

No one can afford such an ending.

The soldiers guarded for another few hours.

The dawn is getting brighter.

The soldiers were thinking about when to change shifts.

"What sound?"

His spirit and body were tense all night, and his five senses were slow to react, as if he could hear the sound of horse hooves? He was not sure until another soldier standing guard also said, "It's a sound!" As he spoke, a figure riding a horse gradually became clear in his sight.

"stop!"

Another soldier held a spear.

The spear tip was rushing towards the people, and the soldiers standing guard nearby also heard the noise and were ready to come and support at any time.

The person came to say, "Let it go!"

The soldiers ignored him.

"The county magistrate has a order that no one is allowed to enter and exit here!"

"A bastard, can't even recognize me?"

The person riding a horse was anxious.

The soldiers ignored his trick.

Although he also felt that the person who came was familiar with his voice, it was not a proof of release. If you want to enter, you must have a handwritten or stamped by the county magistrate, and they only recognize this.

Apart from this, I will not recognize you when the king comes!

"If you can't go in, you can't go in!"

"Don't blame me for being ruthless!"

There were more than a dozen bows and arrows aimed at this person in the open and secret.

The person who came was angry when he saw this.

But he came in too haste and did not prepare a pass warrant at all. While he was hesitating to show his identity with the brave tiger talisman, or directly breaking through with force, a familiar scolding sound rolled into his eardrums: "Stop! Stop all!"

The alert soldiers stopped at the same time.

The visitor called out ecstaticly: "Twelfth brother!"

The voice master rode forward.

"Brother Ninth?"

Chao Lian, who was called the "twelfth brother", almost couldn't believe his eyes. Why did his ninth brother become like this?

These two are all sworn brothers of Gu Ren.

One is nine, the other is twelve.

Xingjiu has sharp-mouthed cheeks, and he is not the mean appearance of a good person at first glance. His dense beard, which has not been trimmed for a long time, almost blocked his entire face. His long hair was chaotic by the wind, and he was left with only a cloak left on his body.

"Brother Jiu, are you??" Seeing how Brother Jiu looked after he was robbed, Chao Lian was shocked and speechless for a moment.

"Brother, can you be here?"

Chao Lian said: "Here!"

The literary scholar has literary spirit to protect his body.

Staying in an epidemic area is not very risky.

The epidemic area is short of manpower, so Gu Ren can only go over to help, in order to keep in charge, so as to avoid chaos.

"Quick! Take me to see my elder brother!"

Chao Lian waved his hand to signal the soldiers to open the entrance.

These soldiers were all private departments under his jurisdiction, so they naturally followed military orders. The two brothers did not talk much nonsense, ran wildly, and rushed all the way to reach their destination-

A temporary residence separated from the epidemic area by a low wall.

Unlike the purgatory silence of the epidemic area, the temporary storage is more lively, but everyone is in a hurry.

Before the two brothers got close, they heard the sound of emotional debates coming from the house. Listening to the sound, they were all acquaintances.

One person was excited: "Control? Control? This is what happened for most half a month. When did he control it? A real man should break it. Only by withdrawing from the two places to seal the entire territory can he keep the safety of Shangnan. Brother Six, do you know how many lives have escaped in the past few days? We can guard for a while, but can we still keep a guard for a lifetime? Just one escapes and go to Nan is over!"

The psychological pressure brought by the epidemic is not just doctors, but the common people can’t bear it? They can’t bear it either.

These are all second-most importantly, the spread of such a brutal epidemic will affect more innocent people. However, my sixth brother refused to give up and was still working hard in vain.

He asked him to give up when it's time to give up!

"Yes, brother, sixth brother, third brother, these words are a little bit ugly, but they are also considering the overall situation... How long has the epidemic occurred? More than half of the two villages were infected, and even the soldiers we brought were infected with more than 300 diseases..."

Not every soldier has a martial arts protection.

Most of them are ordinary people, but they are stronger and cannot block the disease.

Several people expressed their opinions one after another. Even if they don’t give up now, the rest will die in seven or eight days. The natives in the epidemic area have almost been infected, and now the new patients are all soldiers or slaves who bring labor.

Persistence is meaningless.

One of them was even more cruel and suggested slaughtering the village and burying the corpse.

Gu Ren's faces were ashen.

But I can't scold these brothers.

When they learned that Gu Ren was about to enter the epidemic area, they were the first to respond to the call and took risks in person. They helped them with their efforts, but they tried not to organize the epidemic to spread and sweep wildly.

"Brother, I'll make a decision early!"

Gu Ren's voice was hoarse: "This matter--"

Before he finished speaking, he heard Chao Lian bring Lao Jiu in.
To be continued...