Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 105 Blood Plague

This is a very serious matter.

Li Wei dared not watch the commotion any longer. He immediately fetched a pot of water from a nearby stream in the dark, lit the embers that had been deliberately suppressed in the mess hall, boiled another pot of water, divided the last of the food into two portions, cooked a pot of porridge, and ate it all up by the light of the fire to the south and amidst the terrifying screams.

He then suppressed the fire, but could no longer hold on. He crawled back to his tent, hugged the iron spear, and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up again, the sun was high in the sky, and he still had a high fever. The wound on his left arm had become infected and festering. He felt weak and listless, and his vision was blurry. Yes, it had affected his eyes.

However, Li Wei remained quite calm. He first summoned three cards to check their current attributes, and sure enough, this time there was information.

[You have been infected with the Blood Plague, currently in the first stage. Your wounds are also infected and festering, with surrounding flesh rotting. This is not good news.]

【Life: 80/150】

[Stamina: 80/200]

【Strength: 5/15】

Agility: 2/10

Defense: 0/3

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Huh, it's not so bad after all!
Li Wei laughed, then climbed out of the tent and looked around; it was very quiet.

It was as if nothing had happened; only a few wisps of smoke still drifted silently from the farm to the south, like the unyielding, wronged spirit of the female ghost.

Li Wei continued to tend the fire and cook, finishing off the last of the food as porridge. He then boiled a pot of water, let it cool completely, filled his water pouch, and waited a while until his strength returned to 100 points. Only then did he take out his dagger, heat it over a fire for a while, and then, biting on a wooden stick, he dug out the rotten flesh around several wounds on his left arm.

This process is naturally extremely painful, but since no bones are damaged, it cannot be considered a bone-scraping treatment.

Yes, even without biting into the bone, the two-star leather armor still offers pretty good defense.

Even so, Li Wei was in so much pain that she was covered in sweat and completely exhausted.

Then, with no other options, I could only lie in the tent and survive on the cool boiled water in the water bag.

From day to night, and then to dawn, this is the eleventh day of the month, and the fourth day since he came out.

He didn't know how he got through it. Sometimes he was lucid, sometimes he was delirious. The whole world was upside down. He was weak all over. His high fever would come down and then come back up again. He was tormented by the ups and downs.

During that time, all he could do was boil water and drink it!

Strangely, the mutated blood wolf's head did not attract any wild beasts; not even flies dared to approach.

No crows flew by, nor were any of the witch's accomplices seen.

Anyway, Li Wei was going all out. He even carried a dagger with him, ready to sever his own meridians at the worst!
Anyway, there won't be any loss.

In the end, he made it through.

At that moment, he felt like he had lost ten pounds and was incredibly hungry.

But he felt much better; the wound on his left arm had scabbed over, and his eyes had basically returned to normal.

Looking at the attribute panel again, his maximum health has decreased by 10 points, becoming 140 points. Everything else remains unchanged, except for an additional piece of information at the bottom of the attribute panel.

[You survived the Blood Plague's attack, just like the survivors in Kah City. However, your maximum health has been reduced by 10 points. From now on, you are immune to the first stage of the Blood Plague infection.]

Good guy!
Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't feel it was a loss. It was good that he survived, and he was immune to the first stage of the plague, which would be very beneficial for his upcoming trip to Kahe City.

He packed up his tent and set off. He was very hungry and couldn't hunt anymore. If he encountered the black-robed witch again in the wild, he would be in deep trouble.

He then examined the blood wolf's head that he had stuck in the wooden spear. Tsk tsk, it still stank horribly, but strangely, it didn't rot. Instead, it was somewhat dried out, which was really bizarre in the current weather with the highest temperature in the twenties.

After thinking for a moment, Li Wei threw the extra wooden spears into the bushes, took the bowstring from the two-star composite bow, put it in the bow bag, carried it on his back, and then pulled out the wooden spears to remove the nearly half-dried blood wolf's head.

This thing was key to his entry into the city of Kah.

"what?"

Li Wei was suddenly stunned. He looked down at the ground around the wooden spear. A lot of black blood had been dripped here before, and in less than two days, a large area of ​​grass nearby had withered.

Wild grasses stained with black blood withered immediately.

"This...this is a bit strange!"

Li Wei pondered for a moment, and for some reason, he thought of the grove of trees he had seen a few days ago. It looked normal, with green leaves in bloom, and it was lush and green, but there was an indescribable sense of withering and death about it.

Could it be because of this black blood?
"So, just who exactly is this Black Blood Witch?"

Li Wei felt that this matter was really complicated, but he dared not linger. He left the mountain pass and headed straight for Kah City.

More than half an hour later, he approached the farm where smoke was still rising. He then discovered that no battle had actually taken place there. Some simple and dilapidated thatched huts were still intact, but there were no residents in sight. The entire farm was very dilapidated, and the farmland around the farm was largely barren. Only near the river could one see signs of cultivation.

With the keen eye of a Samsung farmer, Li Wei could tell at a glance that these farmlands had been abandoned for at least two years.

It's so interesting that no one is farming it.

This place has plenty of rainfall, so why not cultivate the reclaimed farmland? I don't know if the lord is out of his mind or if the farmers have lost their minds.
Just then, a white object in the grass not far away caught Li Wei's eye, and for a moment he almost didn't react.

It was a human skull.

Li Wei then explored the area and discovered that there were far too many white bones in the roadside bushes.

Just passing by the farm, I found at least twenty bodies.

Was it a massacre?
No, they were more likely to have died from the plague.

Although the thatched huts in the farm were dilapidated, they were not burned to ashes.

After all, burning, killing, and looting have always been standard practice.

Just then, Li Wei suddenly saw several gallows standing at the entrance of the farm village, where the small bridge was. A flock of ordinary-looking crows landed or circled on them. Two skeletons were hanging on the gallows, but there was another one that was still fresh, fresh enough that it was still alive yesterday.

But these things only gave Li Wei a visual shock. What really made his scalp tingle, his whole body feel uncomfortable, and even his soul tremble was a clearing further away from the gallows, where there was a large pile of ashes. It must have been the place where the fire started the night before last.

In the center of this pile of ashes, a crooked stone pillar stands, upon which rests a corpse long since charred...

(End of this chapter)