polar demon

Chapter 127 Plague ([-])

The flame monster was circling rapidly in the sky, and he kept preying on the cohesive group of strange birds.

The chaotic strange birds were frightened and kept being dispersed, but soon regrouped. The temptation of the living people in Pengcheng made them unwilling to leave without high intelligence.

The result of this is that they are either eaten or burned to death by the flame monsters that quickly return, and the hunting efficiency is greatly improved.

Although the strange birds tried fiercely to fight back, they were too weak to get close to the flame monster before being burned to ashes.The situation has become one-sided massacre.

The dark cloud formed by the strange birds above Pengcheng was also being torn apart bit by bit by the flame monster.

Everyone at the top of the city stared at all this with dumbstruck eyes. This kind of battle is completely beyond their ability to intervene.

The night wind howled, and everyone's hair and beards were flying in the wind. No one spoke, and everyone just looked up quietly until their necks became sore.

Time passed by, but the flame demon was still preying on the strange bird, and had no intention of landing in Pengcheng.

There were fewer and fewer strange birds, and it was no longer possible to gather in groups. Only the team was still circling Pengcheng to avoid the flame monsters.

The county magistrate suddenly asked:

"If those black strange birds are eaten by the flame monster, does it mean that the plague in Pengcheng will not happen?"

The anti-epidemic envoy Fang Qian replied:
"It's not that simple. The seeds of the plague have already been scattered by these plague ghosts. It is inevitable. But if all the plague ghosts are eaten by the flame monster, the scale and severity of the plague will be reduced a lot."

You Mingxuan asked at this time:
"Could the flame monster come to help us in Pengcheng?"

However, after finishing this sentence, You Mingxuan also secretly scolded himself for being an idiot, there would be no reason for ghosts to help living people.

Sure enough, everyone chose to ignore this sentence.

The county magistrate asked again:
"Master Epidemic Envoy, should we continue to evacuate?"

The flame monster and the black strange bird were just above Pengcheng, and it would be too dangerous if they didn't evacuate.But if you choose to evacuate rashly, then the matter will be serious. It is not a child's play for a city's population to flee.

Besides, Lingcheng is the closest city to Pengcheng. It is only a small city, so how can it accommodate so many people.

Both strange birds and monsters can fly, no matter how fast ordinary people can escape, how can they outrun them.

Fang Qian thought for a while, and suddenly asked:
"What time is it now?"

The county magistrate hastily replied:

"It's almost Mao time, I understand what your lord means! It won't be long before dawn!"

Fang Qian nodded:
"No matter how strong that flame monster is, it can't resist the sun. It is attracted by the plague ghost, and it can't take care of the people in the city for the time being. As long as it takes a while, it will have to leave Pengcheng and go to a hidden place to avoid the sun."

When everyone heard this, their hearts settled down a little.

But the magistrate went on to ask:

"But... even if we pass tonight, if the flame demon goes away tomorrow night, how can Pengcheng be preserved?"

Then everyone fell silent again, which is also a very likely problem.

At this moment, scorching air waves suddenly hit from the top of the head, and the sound of flapping wings was deafening.

Everyone could smell the burnt smell of their own eyebrows and hair.

They looked up in horror, only to see that the strange birds had almost been hunted down by the flame monster, and the flame monster was slowly descending.

The place where it landed was just in front of the city tower.

Everyone panicked, they didn't expect the strange bird to be hunted down so quickly.But at this time, the sky is not yet bright, and the flame monster has already landed, what should be done.

The county magistrate exclaimed in horror:

"Let's go! Go down the city wall!"

Everyone ran in panic, heading for the stone steps away from the city wall.

"Bang!!!"

The flame monster suddenly landed on the ground, the top of the city trembled violently, and people couldn't stand still and fell down one after another.

Only Fang Qian stood firmly on his feet like nails, staring at the huge monster that had landed in front of the city wall.

The flames flew chaotically, illuminating the surrounding city walls brightly.

Although the monster was standing on the ground, a pair of giant claws rested on the city wall. Its huge head and shoulders were exposed from the top of the wall. It folded its wings and was staring at the people below the city tower with red eyes.

The scorching high temperature caused the dry city tower to burn, and the flames became more and more intense in the night wind. The three-story city tower seemed to be a tall torch in this night.

The beams and pillars of the house crackled in the flames, and the blue tiles on the eaves burst.

The people remaining on the city wall screamed and fled down the stone steps, away from the city wall.

Only Fang Qian, the exorcist, was still standing there. He knew that it was too late to escape, so he gritted his teeth and stared at the huge and hideous head:

"What exactly do you want to do?"

The flame monster noticed him, and only heard a "hoo!", and bright red flames gushed out of its nose and mouth.

Fang Qian couldn't help taking a step back, cold sweat dripping from his temples.

His heart was beating wildly. Could it be that this flame monster is finally about to make a move?

However, the flame monster just glanced at him emotionlessly, then turned around, flapped its huge wings, and this huge monster flew up again.

It first swooped over the mass graves in the western suburbs of Pengcheng and stopped for a while. Its giant claws slammed on the ground. It seemed to pick up something in the flying mud, and then flew towards the plague ghosts gathered in the sky above a village in the distance.

The flame giant flew farther and farther, and soon a bright red flame appeared in the sky.

"Boom!!!"

The city tower collapsed in the raging fire, and sparks flew everywhere.

Fang Qian just woke up like a dream. He hurriedly avoided the broken wall of the tower, and then kept shooting out the flames on his body.

In the end, he looked into the distance in shock, and the flame monster had rushed into another place where plague ghosts gathered, hunting wildly.

"Pengcheng is so dangerous." Fang Qian stood solemnly on the city wall, "I have to ask for help from above! But in such a city, would the superiors be willing to line up experts?"

The long night finally passed, and as the sun rose, the strange birds hovering above the gathering place of living people turned into fly ash one after another under the sunlight, and everything in the world became brighter.

Qingniu Village is a day's journey away from Pengcheng. Pedestrian caravans often stay here for one night before continuing on their way to or away from Pengcheng.

This was originally a prosperous and peaceful village, but today it exudes this rotten atmosphere.

There were strange birds entrenched in the sky above the village last night, and then a flame monster appeared to hunt and kill the strange birds.

After the villagers spent a night of panic, they found that many people were sick.

First there was a cough and fever, followed by round nodules and lumps without warning on the armpits, corners of the mouth, back or inside the legs. A foul-smelling yellow pus.

The most frightening thing is that these festering places are so itchy that people can't help scratching with their hands. The more they scratch, the more itchy, and even at the back, people can no longer control themselves. Relieves itching.

This kind of strange disease seems to only affect people, but other poultry and livestock are safe and sound.

Although the sun has risen, no one in the village can go to work in the fields. The villagers are crying and groaning in pain all over the village.

Jiang Yuan originally planned to enter the village to find a fast horse and return to Pengcheng, but he encountered such a miserable scene.

He kept hunting those strange birds last night, going further and further away, so that when he was about to return, he realized that it was almost dawn.

In order to avoid being discovered of his whereabouts after exiting the form of flame, Jiang Yuan took advantage of the night to land in the mountains and forests far from the village, and only walked out this morning.

After Jiang Yuan saw the tragic situation in the village, Yuan planned to leave immediately to avoid being infected with the disease.

But Princess You Yue, who followed him and was covered in a black robe, said:
"Don't worry, this plague is caused by evil spirits, and it can only be contagious after nightfall. And even poisonous feathers can't do anything to you, and this plague is even more ineffective against you."

Jiang Yuan also remembered that when he hunted those monsters with human heads and bird bodies last night, the ghost energy absorbed was indeed the same as the ghost energy of Poison Feather back then, with special attributes, but it was burned by his own hot blood , turned into pure ghost energy and absorbed by the shadow.

After understanding all this, Jiang Yuan entered the village with confidence.

He came to a weak villager lying on the side of the road, put his hands on his body, and carefully felt the situation in his body.

Soon he noticed the ghost aura in the villagers' bodies, and to his surprise, the ghost aura entered and covered the villagers' bodies like cobwebs.

Although the ghost aura is weak, it penetrates everywhere and takes root everywhere in the villagers.

This situation is completely different from the situation where Jiang Yuan once introduced ghost energy into the bodies of the four children.

At the beginning, Jiang Yuan's ghost energy was in the four children's bodies, swimming and shuttling through their bodies like earthworms, absorbing the life essence of the human body.

This time, the ghost aura encountered was even more domineering. Although it was only a faint trace of ghost aura, it stretched out countless tentacles in all directions and firmly implanted them in the villagers.

Jiang Yuan could even feel that as long as he pulled out the ghost energy from the villager's body, the villager would definitely die due to the damage of his whole body's vitality.

After the inspection, the villagers still looked weak and listless.

A voice came from behind Princess You Yue's black veil:

"Don't look at them in the daytime. After nightfall, they will be alive and well one by one. But that's just the appearance, and the disease will attack them more severely at night. It is estimated that half of them will not survive three nights. Within seven One night, everyone who catches the disease will die."

Jiang Yuan asked:

"Is there any way to get rid of the plague?"

Princess Youyue replied:

"Perhaps King Yi's subordinates, that is, those ghosts who released the plague, have a solution. But it is impossible to learn from them."

Jiang Yuan frowned, this situation is really serious, I don't know if the plague exorcist can do anything about it.

Immediately, Jiang Yuan found a fast horse in the village and was about to leave for Pengcheng.I don't know what's going on in the city now, so I have to go back and have a look.

Princess Youyue hurriedly stopped in front of the horse:

"Take me to my sister!"

Jiang Yuan raised his whip and pulled her away:

"Find a place to hide near here! When I think the time is right, I will send someone to look for you. I will use three lanterns as a letter. It is best not to let me find out that you have entered Pengcheng privately, otherwise you and your sister will lose their lives." !"

Princess Youyue was afraid that her clothes would be damaged by the whip and the sun would leak in, so she could only dodge in a hurry, watching Jiang Yuan ride away resentfully.

(End of this chapter)