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Chapter 445 The Dying Man
"The people who used to live here... apart from the destroyed crops, were they alright?"

"Back then, I seemed to have heard that some of them had contracted strange illnesses, and others had been possessed by evil spirits. I can't really say what happened. In any case, later on, in order to save their lives, they all left their homes and went as far away as possible, not daring to stay here anymore." The old man sighed heavily. "Now this wall is almost right under our noses, and it's only about a hundred feet away from our farmland."

Who knows, one day they might want to push the wall forward again, and then it will be our village's turn!

I've figured it out now. It's just a matter of time, and we have absolutely no say in it.

I'm practically a man on my deathbed, so it doesn't bother me much. But I feel sorry for those children. They could have lived peacefully, but now they have to be ready to move at any moment, making room for others in their own homes.

The old man wiped his eyes sadly, waved his hand, and refused to discuss the topic any further.

The middle-aged man wanted to say something more, but when he turned his head and saw that the soldiers of the Brahma Kingdom at the pass had already turned their attention to the people of the Lan Kingdom who had gathered here, he gave a wink to the people he knew around him, and then said to Yan Daoxin, "Young brother, we have already reminded you. Whether you go or not is ultimately up to you to decide."

In short, that place is different from other places, so you must be very careful.

Yan Daoxin bowed to him gratefully, and the middle-aged man left silently with the others, seemingly worried that if he stayed to watch the commotion any longer, he would provoke the Brahma soldiers.

After the Lan Kingdom citizens had gradually dispersed, Yan Daoxin swaggered over to the notices, reached out and tore one down. He turned to look at the soldiers guarding the pass, only to find that they had completely ignored his action of tearing down the notice.

"This... I've already taken down their notice that the prince is seeking medical treatment, aren't they going to come and question us?" Yan Daoxin turned his head with some doubt to look at Lu Qing, who had been silent all along.

Lu Qing's gaze remained fixed on the high stone wall beside him. Upon hearing Yan Daoxin's words, he slowly withdrew his gaze, glanced at the notice in Yan Daoxin's hand, and smiled faintly: "I suppose there have been too many people from Langzhong who have already taken up the challenge, hoping to obtain treasures and beauties from the Brahma King. It's just a pity that, obviously, no one has ever cured the Brahma King's illness."

Moreover, those doctors who accepted the challenge probably only saw the thief eating meat, not the thief getting beaten. They were only thinking about the lifelong wealth and luxury they would enjoy if the thief was cured, forgetting that if the thief couldn't be cured, this matter wouldn't be so easily resolved.

"Then this Brahma King is in luck! I want to see if this fellow has horns on his head and a tail behind him, or if he has occupied someone else's land and angered the gods and ghosts. When he meets me, Daoist Master, I'll find a way to deal with him." Yan Daoxin shook his sleeves and said to Lu Qing, "From now on, you should speak less and not be too conspicuous, otherwise you won't look like a wandering doctor at all!"

Zhu Yu smiled to herself.

Yan Daoxin's words were indeed true; no matter how you looked at it, Lu Qing's demeanor did not resemble that of a traveling physician.

Even if one insists on identifying him as a doctor, his extraordinary demeanor suggests he is at least a young and exceptionally talented Imperial Pharmacy Attendant.

Lu Qing spread his hands helplessly: "I haven't uttered a single word since just now."

"No wonder it felt unusually quiet around me earlier, which inexplicably improved my mood," Yan Daoxin said, raising an eyebrow and deliberately teasing him.

Lu Qing glared at him but didn't reply.

Yan Daoxin pulled Zhu Yu ahead, letting Zhu Yu follow behind him, leaving the three more conspicuous figures—master and servant—behind. As they walked towards the city gate, he whispered to Zhu Yu, "Once we reach the territory of the Brahma Kingdom, you must keep a close eye on him."

"Are you worried that his personality will change drastically once he arrives in Brahma? Is there someone or something there that might influence him?" Zhu Yu asked, somewhat puzzled. She felt that although Yan Daoxin's voice was very low, his attitude seemed exceptionally serious.

“Jade Snowbird,” Yan Daoxin reminded her, “and everything along the way has been leading him this way.”

I'm afraid that if something really happens, it will upset him and make him lose all sense of reason and the bigger picture.

With you keeping an eye on things, it's always safer.

"Okay, don't worry." Zhu Yu nodded to Yan Daoxin. "I'll be even more irrational than him then, and I'll force him to calm down."

Yan Daoxin turned to look at her in surprise. Seeing a hint of mockery in her expression, he knew that Zhu Yu was just teasing him. He breathed a sigh of relief, grinned, cleared his throat, waved his sleeve at Zhu Yu, signaling her to adopt the posture of a little apprentice, straightened the cloth bag he was carrying, and walked towards the city guards with the notice in his hand.

"Brother!" Yan Daoxin greeted the soldier with a smile, bowing politely. "I am a traveling physician, wandering the world practicing medicine. My junior brother, my apprentice, and I were passing through this place when we saw the notice posted outside the wall—"

Before he could finish speaking, the soldier, with a mocking smile on his face, waved his hand dismissively as if he couldn't be bothered with him, and then shouted to his brothers on the other side, "A few more doctors have come to take up the notices. Tell them to go over there."

Yan Daoxin was taken aback for a moment. In any case, it was good that they had let him go. He didn't intend to dwell on anything else, lest they change their minds later.

So he gestured for Zhu Yu, Lu Qing, and the others to follow him directly to the other side of the doorway.

Three soldiers stood on each side of the gate, seemingly conducting a routine check on people entering the Vatican.

But the six men looked at them as if they were a few silly rabbits willingly jumping into a tiger's mouth, with a mocking expression on their faces.

Yan Daoxin carried the notice all the way, as if he were holding some kind of token, and passed through without any hindrance.

No one expected that the notice would be so useful. After all five people passed the test, Yan Daoxin was reluctant to put it away and held it in his hand as he paraded through the streets.

However, after wandering around the city a few times, he changed his mind, folded the notice a few times, and stuffed it into his pocket.

He soon realized that when the group of people were waving the notice around, the people in the town would all turn their attention to them.

But unlike the soldiers guarding the city gate, these people looked at them with pity.

It was like watching several people who were about to die...