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Chapter 794 Disease
Looking down at Liyang County from above, one can see two bright rings of lights tightly enveloping the city, with the two rings of lights several miles apart.

The inner wall was the city wall of Liyang County, while the outer wall was naturally the siege wall built by tens of thousands of soldiers from the eight garrisons of Jiangnan.

A patrol team of more than ten people walked between the two lights.

Actually, the moonlight in the sky is so bright that you can see everything clearly without any lighting.

Before this high wall was built, this land was a bloodbath, soaked in the blood of countless people.

After fighting for so long, neither side has gained an advantage, and the two sides are now locked in a stalemate, which makes the Southwest Wolf Soldiers very proud.

They were facing the once most formidable Tiger Warriors of the Chu Kingdom.

But they couldn't gain any advantage over them either.

If the other side doesn't resort to underhanded tactics, they won't be afraid of any so-called powerful army in the world.

Unlike the Tiger Warriors, the Southwest Wolf Soldiers were organized by village and stronghold, and based on father-son and brotherly soldiers. Soldiers in a team or battalion were mostly related by blood or marriage. Therefore, they were fearless in battle, helped each other, and succeeded each other. The greater the casualties, the stronger their fighting power became.

Since this high wall was built, the other side has never launched an attack. The only battle was a counterattack launched by the city three days ago in an attempt to destroy a section of the wall.

A fierce battle did indeed break down a section of the high wall, about a hundred meters long, but behind the wall, a trench several meters wide blocked their counterattack. The enemy had set up an even stronger defensive formation on the other side of the river, and the Southwest Wolf Soldiers had no choice but to retreat.

After they retreated, the Tiger Legion worked day and night to rebuild the destroyed wall.

However, the southwestern wolf soldiers had lost interest in attacking again.

Their opponents wanted to trap them, but they didn't really want to fight.
Let's just drag this out!
With a thud, one of the wolf soldiers in the middle of the formation fell to the ground, causing a commotion among the ranks.

"Xiao Jiu, what's wrong?" A man in his early forties, who was leading the group, squatted down and looked at the young man lying on the ground.

The young man was breathing rapidly, his eyes were somewhat dazed, and his hands were unconsciously scratching at his sides.

The middle-aged man reached out and touched the young man's forehead, and was immediately startled.

It's terribly hot.

"What happened? He was fine when he came out!" The middle-aged man was stunned, while the young man on the ground was clearly delirious, shouting incoherently and tearing his clothes with his hands.

The middle-aged man stared wide-eyed at the young man's chest.

The strong, firm chest was covered with red blisters, some of which had begun to spread outwards, with concentric red rings spreading outwards, and the original red spot inside had turned black.

The middle-aged man heard a gasp behind him.

He turned to look at the two people behind him, who were also his relatives. At that moment, they were staring blankly at Xiao Jiu's chest on the ground.

The middle-aged man reached out and ripped open their clothes with a ripping sound, revealing red blisters covering their bodies under the bright moonlight.

The middle-aged man stumbled and nearly fell to the ground. Looking at the dozens of people around him, he whispered, "Who else?"

In the ensuing silence, almost everyone lowered their heads.

Among the unbuttoned clothes, everyone had the same red dots, the only difference being the number and size of the dots.

"Plague, it's the plague!" The middle-aged man looked down at the red spots on his body. Among this group, he had the highest martial arts cultivation and the strongest physique, so he had the fewest red spots. Unlike the young people who were inexperienced in the ways of the world, he had experienced a lot and knew that the only thing that could cause everyone here to contract the same disease was a plague.

All the able-bodied men in the village are here. The middle-aged men are seeing black spots. If they can't make it through this, the future of the village will be completely ruined.

Without the support of able-bodied men, a village in the remote mountains of southwest China would inevitably face certain doom; that goes without saying.

"Let's go find the witch doctor!" The middle-aged man flicked his finger, knocking unconscious the dazed young man on the ground. He then picked him up and strode back.

Wuli was completely numb.

A person who was unconscious was carried in front of him. The dense red spots on his bare chest and the persistent high fever shocked Wuli.

He was just a minor witch doctor with a martial arts cultivation level of six. He only had a superficial understanding of the witchcraft methods. He could handle minor illnesses and pains, but what he was seeing was clearly beyond his comprehension.

Before the first case could be resolved, one after another, people who had fainted were carried over.

This startled the witch.

The same symptoms have been appearing in one case after another, and many more people, while not yet seriously ill, are also experiencing the same problems.

Even though Wuli's medical skills were limited, he knew that this was not an ordinary illness, but a plague.

"I need to go into the city to find my master, I can't cure this!" Wu Li swallowed hard. "Also, there aren't enough medicinal herbs outside the city, I need to go into the city to find some!"

"Hurry up, hurry up!" someone shouted from the crowd.

Wu Li wiped the cold sweat from her brow, squeezed through the crowd, and rushed headlong toward the city gate.

This is a plague.

A plague has broken out outside the city.

If there aren't enough medicinal herbs in the city, it will cause a big problem.

And even if there are medicinal herbs, would they still be useful to these people?
Wuli glanced back at the shadowy crowd under the moonlight. In just a short while, someone else screamed, clearly another person had fallen ill.

Only a fool would come out again!
Wu Li swallowed hard, then took out a brocade pouch from his bosom. Inside was a pale blue pill; if someone from a large medical clinic were here, they would recognize it as a Longevity Powder.

Wuli swallowed the dumpling in one gulp before stepping inside.

Outside the city, the able-bodied men's camp fell into chaos that night, while inside the city, things were not peaceful either, with the plague first breaking out in the wounded and sick camp.

A few days ago, after a fierce battle, the wounded were all transported back to the city to a special wounded and sick camp, where they were treated by more skilled shamans. This was also one of Nawei's methods of winning people's hearts. All the wolf soldiers were his own brothers, and Nawei's motto was to not abandon any of his relatives.

The injured were more vulnerable, and many died before the disease even manifested. This meant that even though the city's witch doctors were far more skilled than the witch doctors, they didn't immediately realize that the disease was the culprit and instead assumed that the injuries were too severe.

The failure to dispose of these corpses in a timely manner became a catalyst for the rapid spread of the epidemic.

When Wuli stepped through the city gates, the city was already rife with undercurrents of unrest.

Kong Yuan's calculations were spot on; exactly three days later, a large-scale epidemic broke out in Liyang County.

(End of this chapter)