Chapter 404 Give Me Three Days
Lin Luoran meets some epidemic victims who have not died along the way to the city. She wants to go to Shen City as soon as possible so she only leaves medicine powder for patients who can take care of themselves. For unconscious people, she pours medicine into their mouths forcibly. She has saved dozens of people in need of treatment along the way.
Therefore, she has delayed. It is dark when the three arrive in Shen City.
The strange thing is that it is bright outside the city but there is no light in the city. The city guarded by many soldiers is reasonable to be an isolated area. However, if no food is provided, people without doctors treating them are just left to death in the city. What kind of quarantine zone it is?
There is no food and no medicine in the city.
This big city is totally surrounded by soldiers. There are many civilians in the original buffer zone between the moat and the city. They are uninfected people. If people show a little sign of illness, they will be thrown into the city mercilessly by the soldiers.
There are only about 10,000 healthy civilians but there are 30,000 well-trained soldiers here. Infected people in the city are separated by the high walls. They have eaten everything in the past few days and now they can only rely on the well water to sustain their lives.
Lin Luoran finds the truth with her spiritual mind and she is so furious.
Who says that the rulers of Ying have no resolution? This is obviously a very resolute action. They gather these civilians infected with the plague together. Isn’t it a good way to remove out the source of the trouble with one shot to clear the plague?
The city walls have already been covered with black oil which is unrefined and extremely combustible. It seems that the General of the soldiers are struggling between conscience and monarchy order so he still has not carried out the last order to burn the city.
Lin Luoran is glad that she is here before it is too late but Sang Ye somewhat feels it ironic.
Well, if it happens to Penglai, there is no way to transport food and medicine here which can support tens of thousands of people in the case of war on the front line—burning it all and then blaming it on Penglai? What the rulers of Ying do is really time-saving and labor-saving. He feels he is much more merciful than them.
When she stands nearby, another two civilians are thrown into the city because of the new red spots on their bodies.
The crowded becomes restless but it soon calms down under the threat of the soldiers’ cold swords.
Someone is carrying a wooden barrel to serve porridge. Regardless of civilians’ various sizes of earthen bowls, he only serves one spoon. The soup is totally some water and you can even count the rice of the porridge.
One man who is in ragged but fairly good clothes suddenly breaks his bowl and becomes angry, “Only two bowls of rice soup a day! Do you want to starve everyone to death?”
There are whispers agreeing with him, mostly from people who relatively dressed well.
Before the disaster, these people were wealthy. They have never lived life with only two bowls of porridge a day but they also don’t have enough power or money to leave Shen City. They are trying to start a revolution while other people are flinching, not as active as they expect.
These people have no idea about how docile people at the bottom of society are after being bullied for so long… some civilians in ragged dress are staring at him sympathetically. The man suddenly has a bad hunch.
Sure enough, the soldier serving porridge sneers and stomps on the bowl the man overturned. He says coldly, “This man is sick. Throw him in the city.”
“Yes!”
The rich man in the shabby purple silk clothes is panic. He argues, “I am not sick. Don’t frame me!”
Well, everyone says that he is uninfected but who will believe it? The turbulence is controlled within a certain range. People have been accustomed to this kind of people who still haven’t accepted their fate these days. The man is tied up by soldiers and put into the city from the ladder.
There is a loud sound which can prove that the soldiers are not gentle.
Lin Luoran doesn’t want to look at it anymore. She has just used her spiritual mind to sweep through the city outside and the buffer zone of the moat lack of water. She hasn’t found Ximei’s mother and brother.
They were either driven into the city or dead. She hopes it is the former situation.
Lin Luoran turns her head.
“Do you want to follow me in or stay outside?”
Sang Ye takes the initiative to step forward and tells her his choice. What a joke! Staying outside and drinking gruel? He has already known that Lin Luoran can cure the plague so he doesn’t have to worry about being infected. He is very willing to stay with Lin Luoran.
In the situation of water and food shortage, it is the wisest choice to be with an immortal who can make water and various food out of nowhere.
Lin Luoran sees him nodding. She grabs his waist and throws him into the city wall. The lingering energy from her hand still makes Sang Ye who just gets his martial arts back very embarra.s.sed when he lands, especially when he sees Lin Luoran holding Ximei landing on the city gracefully. He can’t help but purse his lips tightly.
This immortal seems to be kind-hearted but she is extremely revengeful. He can know it from her att.i.tude towards the strange girl and himself. The seventh prince Sang Ye quietly makes a conclusion for Lin Luoran and he is almost right.
“Look, someone flew in…”
“Your eyes must fool you after being hungry for a long time.”
“I am d.a.m.n sober!”
When Lin Luoran flew into the city, she didn’t use the Mini World to hide her body so many hungry people saw it clearly. The civilians are talking about it but soldiers and officers whisper that these people are crazy. Who will enter the city at this moment? Maybe someone who wants to commit suicide.
Even so, this news is still reported one after another and the General who leads the army thinks a lot.
Someone flying into the city?
He knows that if someone’s martial arts reach a certain realm, he can acquire the skill of Gravity Defying Kung Fu like flying in the air with the support of internal force. Why does such a strong man suddenly come to Shen City?
The General feels suspicious. He asks his men to check whether there are civilians rumoring to make an upheaval.
The civilians are sure it did happen. Although the sky is dark, the figure in white is clearer and brighter than white snow. Two soldiers also witnessed it with their own eyes. It is not made up by these civilians.
The General is so amazed but still wears a calm look. He is about to appease the emotions of the civilians as usual and tells them how the royal doctors are doing in the research of the treatment for the plague. At this moment, colorful light bursts out from the dark city.
A female voice spreads across the city throughout the thick stone wall.
“Those who burn the city in the following three days… will be dead.”
The general stares closely at the colorful light. What kind of treasure is that? The woman who is talking must be the mighty martial artist who just entered the city. It is absurd to stop the military order by one person alone!
Citizens are discussing noisily. What? Burn the city? Will they also be burned to death?
The general also has expectations in his heart, hoping that the female warrior can do something to show herself… He doesn’t want to give the command of burning the city at all. There are 40,000 civilians and they are people of Ying.
For a man, his sword can only be used against the enemy and should never be used to kill civilians.
The general looks at Shen City with full hope. However, the scenery he expects doesn’t appear. The female voice rings with hesitation again.
“I need a hundred women who can cook…”
She needs women to enter the city? At this moment, who dares to enter the city? Civilians all step back. However, women are always more soft-hearted, especially those whose family members are locked in the city. They are hesitating.
The General has asked those women. Their families are either dead or imprisoned in the city.
If they can not escape from death either, then family reunion is also a good result. Some women think a lot. Eventually, more than a hundred women enter the city.
“Give me three days to save them.”
More than one hundred women have entered the city and the female voice disappears after saying the last sentence. However, it is like a drop of water in a hot oil pan.
Save them?
—Who is she going to save? Everyone?
The civilians always feel numb but now they are kind of touched. Will someone risk her life to save people as humble as them? Liar!
Well, are you lying?
Many people want to vent this question out of their chests. Eventually it turns into subtle tears and hopes.
If they can survive, why will they choose to die?
If they can survive…
The light of torch trembles in the night breeze and the black oil has covered the city walls. Shen City will be engulfed by fire instantly with a spark.
Lin Luoran only gets three days to save 30,000 people.