The "Golden Handle Tavern", once a gathering place for coolies, is now deserted.
No, deserted is no longer enough to describe it. As one of the sources of plague outbreaks in the outer city, a faint stench came from the Golden Handle Tavern. Even if it was suspected that there were dead people inside, no one dared to go in and collect the bodies.
This undead plague has spread to most of Huowu City. As long as ordinary people get closer to the patients, they will be infected without knowing it. It takes almost half a day to make people feel tired and weak, making them bedridden, and they will be sick in two or three days.
Can take away lives.
The death state of the deceased infected by the plague is often very horrific. The skin is covered with yellow and black patches, the trunk is swollen, and the internal organs will rot rapidly after death. If not dealt with, the corpse will explode.
But the so-called disposal was nothing more than dragging the corpses to the city cemetery and burying them. Ordinarily, this vicious plague, which was obviously full of necromancy and negative energy, should be intervened by the clergy of the Holy Lord Church, but
Fire Dance City has always excluded churches from getting involved. Only a few wealthy families in the inner city can hire family pastors alone, or some adventurer pastors with no fixed residence.
However, in the face of the undead plague that has spread throughout the city, with only a dozen or so middle- and low-level church priests, their miraculous power is simply not enough to alleviate the spread of the plague. Although there are many mages and alchemists in Huowu City,
But with thousands of infected people at every turn, the Imperial Legion that controls Huowu City has little to do. All treatment methods can only prioritize easing the situation in the Legion.
Fortunately, a recent group of doctors from Can Can Street suddenly gained inspiration and proposed to the Imperial Legion that Huowu City should be divided and closed according to different streets and districts, and the patients should be classified and controlled centrally. No one can enter or leave without permission, and the Empire should
The legion was strictly guarded, and food and supplies throughout the city were rationed according to wartime patterns.
Of course, in the closed city, the legion is not responsible for any affairs. They leave everything to the wandering doctors in Can Can Street to handle, and only provide limited food supplies, magic scrolls, and healing potions, which are basically unthinkable.
Although it is not stated explicitly, many people understand that the Imperial Legion is almost giving up on the outer city. Anyway, the inner city has various living conveniences provided by magic and arcana. Even ordinary drinking water comes from the water elemental plane.
After extraction, filtration and purification are completely incomparable with those in the outer city. Not to mention that the inner and outer cities are separated by city walls. As long as the city gate passages are strictly guarded, no one can disturb the daily life of the wealthy people in the inner city.
Also stranded in the outer city are a large number of Fire Dance City guards. Among them are a few low-level mages and mysterious knights. When they surrendered to the Imperial Legion, almost all magic items were confiscated. Some of them relied on their good physiques.
With Fortitude immunity, he will not fall ill and help doctors treat patients - more often than not, they rely on force to suppress them.
After all, at this time, even the food supplies transported into the quarantined city are very limited, and how to distribute them has become a big problem. Some people think that they should be reserved for those who are seriously ill, but many people think that they should be left for those who are seriously ill.
The spiritual plague is a certain death, and food supplies should be provided to other healthy people.
In short, all this is a test for everyone who is tortured by the plague. Chaos broke out in some urban areas, and doctors were beaten to death by the trapped people because they could not successfully cure the patients; some urban areas were relatively stable, and doctors came forward to organize the people and carefully
Distribute food supplies and teach everyone how to prevent isolation; some urban areas are barely surviving, looking lifeless.
All of a sudden, all kinds of living things are constantly evolving in this seemingly grand, but actually narrow city.
However, there are also some places in the outer city that have been completely abandoned. For example, the area around the Golden Knob Tavern has long been empty. The remaining people are just living and dying. Rats roam unscrupulously through the streets and alleys, and flies are like swarms.
Black clouds, they are full of rotten flesh, pus and blood, as if they are walking in a food paradise.
No one would come to a place like this anymore. There was news that the Imperial Legion planned to burn down all the corpses and houses in this neighborhood in a few days.
It was said that no one dared to come, but some people still appeared outside the Golden Knob Tavern. Xuan Weizi had her long hair tied up into a bun with a calm expression. Standing next to her was the tall Wolf, who couldn't help but frown and look around.
"Doctor, even if you want to treat diseases and save people, you wouldn't come to a place like this, right? Or do you want to dissect corpses?" Wolf pinched his nose. With his berserker's physique, he dare not say that he is immune to all diseases, but unless it is a spell
The effect directly penetrates the Fortitude save. Even if you walk among the dead bodies, you will not get sick, but the smell will be unpleasant.
Xuan Weizi glanced at it and said: "I sense that there are still living people here, and along the way, we have quietly treated people with different conditions. We also need to find more severe cases that are closer to death to study the effects of the plague on body functions.
Impact."
More than half a month has passed since Xuanweizi achieved great success in alchemy cultivation. Xuanweizi did not choose to leave Huowu City, but secretly traveled to various isolated cities to assist doctors in treating the plague.
Thanks to the fact that the Imperial Legion had no soldiers guarding the isolated city areas, Xuan Weizi once again traveled back and forth through the sewers and wells leading to the ground.
Xuan Weizi walked in the area where the plague was most serious and did not need any protection. To be precise, after the golden elixir was completed, it was difficult for external evil to invade, and the life level was completely different from that of ordinary people, not just how high the toughness save was.
Following Xuan Weizi's steps, every time he takes a step, there are ripples invisible to the naked eye spreading out under his feet. The spirit moves Qi and activates vitality. The "Danhua Liuxia" - that is, the purple-gold glow of the past, slowly shines outward, hooking
The free positive energy in the natural environment destroys the evil spirits and the lingering negative energy, making it naturally clear and clear within a radius of dozens of feet.
"Dan Hua Liu Xia" is not a spell deliberately cultivated by Xuan Weizi, but a natural reaction generated when the physical body is transferred to the furnace after the golden elixir is completed. If it were still on the earth, there would be no visible protection at all.
The body's brilliance is just a special kind of vitality fluctuation. It will naturally become restrained with a little more proficiency in cultivation. It has no miraculous power in itself.
However, in this world, due to the foundation of Xuan Weizi's internal and external communication, he has achieved great success in the golden elixir. In addition to condensing vitality, he is also connected to positive energy. Not only has he mastered the permanent "anti-death barrier", but he can also activate "
"Danhua Liuxia" allows the "anti-death barrier" to expand outward, suppress and destroy necromancy spells and negative energy, and even transform the "Danhua Liuxia" to directly perform various healing spells and "restoration spells".
In fact, "Danhua Liuxia" is upgraded and transformed from "Spiritual Root Jade Liquid", but it has become more comprehensive and perfect. At the same time, it can be used by oneself and others, and it has the appearance of celestial beings shining brightly, benefiting people and illuminating things.
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When Xuan Weizi came to the second floor of the Golden Handle Tavern, he heard a rustling sound and the sound of chewing. Wolf thought it was a wild dog eating human flesh at first, so he walked up and shouted
A sound as a deterrent.
Unexpectedly, what came into view was a rickety figure squatting on the ground. He was wearing tattered clothes, his hair was almost falling out, and his skin was a waxy yellow color that was completely lifeless. This figure was chewing rotten black food in his mouth.
Dead human flesh, with a broken tibia in his hand.
Wolf clenched his teeth to prevent himself from vomiting. He saw the inhuman monster roaring, exhaling a foul breath, getting on all fours and attacking Wolf like a beast. Its teeth were stained with blood and flesh, and it seemed to be trying to kill Wolf.
Bite Wolf's neck in one bite.
Swish——
Silver light flashed past, and the inhuman monster's body was broken into two pieces, rolling away with a rumble, its rotten internal organs flowing all over the floor, and even its blood was a weird mixture of red and yellow mucus.
But Wolf just held down the handle of the axe, leaned down, and swung the ax in a semicircle without using any force to chop. It was like an inhuman monster hit the edge of the axe, and died cleanly. As for whether the monster was still alive.
Things, it’s hard to say.
"That's right, be aware of your strength, don't use it too much, and use the power brought by the relative movement between ourselves and the enemy to cause greater damage. This is not only a grasp of one's own body functions, but also a deep and detailed understanding of the external environment by the spiritual consciousness.
Judgment. What's even more rare is that this kind of judgment can be instantly reflected in the internal movement and the enemy." Xuan Weizi slowly walked upstairs, talking as he walked.
Wolf just looked at the corpse of the monster that was broken into two parts with a disgusted look on his face, and said: "Doctor, this is a ghoul. I didn't expect this kind of monster to appear in the city!"
Xuan Weizi didn't mind the filth and filthiness, so he leaned over to observe, and tapped the space with his sword a few times. Under the influence of "Danhua Liuxia", the ghoul's waxy skin actually melted like ice cubes, and even a little juice
None were left.
Rosalian emerged from Xuan Weizi's collar and asked, "What kind of spell are you doing?"
"Hmm... From what I read in the book before, it may be similar to the 'Return of the Undead', which can destroy undead creatures." Xuan Weizi rubbed Rosalian's head and said, "It's just the arcane 'Undead'
The "Return to Death" is similar to a targeted "dissociation technique" that specifically disintegrates the morphological structure of undead creatures. The "Return to Death" of the church priests uses miraculous power to fight the flow of negative energy. Both of them use miraculous power to fight against the flow of negative energy.
They look similar on the surface, but the actual core differences are quite large."
After saying this, Xuan Weizi approached the innermost room of the tavern, raised his hand and pressed the door panel lightly. Without any guidance from his eyes, his magic power directly removed the heavy object blocked behind the door, and then pushed the door open and entered.
In a hot and humid space, a fat man lay on the bed, panting hard. Although he tried his best to breathe, the air in his mouth and nose could be said to be "like a gossamer", and his life was already hanging by a thread.
"This guy is still alive!" Wolf said in surprise: "Didn't the Imperial Legion abandon this city a long time ago? There are still people who can survive to this day?"
Xuan Weizi said: "It seems that he noticed the abnormality in the outside world, blocked the door and locked himself in, but he himself was also infected with the plague."
No nonsense, Xuan Weizi immediately unfolded "Dan Hua Liuxia" to fill the entire room, like the warm sun of the morning sun radiating from Xuan Weizi's body, "removing curses", "removing diseases" and other supernatural powers penetrated the room one after another.
For obese men, the lingering vitality causes positive energy to rush out, sweeping away all the diseases and evils in obese men.
I saw that the skin of the obese man was cracked, and then a trickle of thin blood flowed out. His bloated body shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if all the flesh and blood on his body had turned into this thin blood, soaking the bed, leaving only a light skin.
, covering the skinny body with jagged bones, it looked very strange.
"That's disgusting." Rosalian retracted into Xuan Weizi's arms.
Wolf felt that he was not going to eat today, and he might not even want to drink water, so he had to ask: "Doctor, what's going on?"
"This guy is lucky. Although he contracted the plague, the disease did not develop rapidly. The 'Necrotic Cyst' took effect at a slow speed, almost melting away all the fat and muscle in his body." Xuan Weizi took advantage of the situation and used the treatment again.
The spell allowed the patient to barely recover.
"Water, water..." As expected, people who have just recovered from illness are in urgent need of water. Xuan Weizi shook his head and signaled. Wolf brought the water bag over to give him water. The patient drank most of it in succession, as if he had just recovered.
Come on.
"Thank you, thank you so much..." The patient was still very weak, but he regained some energy and was no longer groggy.
In fact, this is the "talisman water" previously prepared by Xuan Weizi. He used the astral spiritual talisman as the basis, and used the internal and external interactions to condense the vitality to write the "Essential Miaoqi Talisman". The talisman itself attracts the compound natural energy, and after the talisman is thrown into the water
It exudes a slight energy-boosting effect. This is not the holy water sold in large quantities by the church, but closer to a highly diluted version of the "life-extending elixir".
Xuan Weizi learned this method from Jingyang Xu Xun Zhenjun, but Xu Tianshi "placed talisman bamboos into the river, and the sick would drink under the bamboos or drink after returning home, and the disease would be cured."
Therefore, Xuan Weizi can only imitate cats and tigers now.
In fact, this is the reason why Xuan Weizi can ensure the treatment of patients everywhere even when there is a shortage of doctors and medicines in isolated cities. As long as the "Essence and Wonderful Qi Talisman" is repeatedly practiced every day, a considerable amount of talismans can be produced
Water, if the symptoms are mild, drinking Talisman water can save lives and slow down deterioration. In particular, Talisman water can induce hidden vitality in the patient's body, allowing them to survive.
"No wonder so many Taoist sages practice medicine and provide relief. Successful cultivation not only benefits oneself, but also benefits others." Xuan Weizi thought to himself.
After Wolf fed the patient water, the patient asked: "Who are you? Thank you for coming to save me..."
"We are doctors from the Changqing Chamber of Commerce, specially coming to Huowu City to eliminate the plague." Xuan Weizi asked: "But you, why are you hiding in the tavern alone?"
The patient smiled with difficulty: "I am the owner of the tavern. If I am not here, where can I go?"
"Oh, that's it..." Xuan Weizi said: "The nearby area is the last urban area that lacks governance. I plan to borrow your tavern and temporarily transform it into a hospital for scattered patients. I wonder if you are willing?"
The tavern owner who had saved his life had nothing but indescribable gratitude in his heart for the shimmering man in front of him. He propped up his thin body and said, "Thank you, doctor, for saving me. It's a pity that I don't have anything here."
, but as long as you want, you can make the decision here.”
"Okay." Xuan Weizi flicked his fingers, the beaded bracelet on his wrist shimmered slightly, and two sacks of snails appeared beside him, and said: "I'll put these foods here for you first. You can eat some if you are hungry.
But remember to leave it for those who come later."