For the next two days, Tasa traveled back and forth between the Margary Chamber of Commerce and the outskirts of the royal capital. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The boats that pick up the fugitives were provided by Margaery, and the First Army would disguise themselves as mercenaries and go to the canal docks at an agreed time to arrange for the fugitives to be embarked.

As for spreading the word and tempting them to take the bait, Black Hammer is already at it, and Tasa is not worried about this. It is much more convenient for rats to do this kind of thing than outsiders, although the range is only in the northern city district, but the fugitives will definitely spread to each other. And it is impossible for him to take everyone away at once, His Highness has explained that this matter can be done slowly, and sending away a boat is a boat.

On the day the fleet arrived, nearly a thousand displaced refugees arrived on the docks, much to Tasa's surprise. If the First Army only relied on propaganda to do so, it would be good if there were hundreds of people who believed it.

According to the screening requirements of His Royal Highness the Prince, he first let the children on the boat, then the families with children, and finally the adults. As for the elderly...... He found that there were almost no gray-haired old men in the crowd, perhaps they were not willing to venture to a remote place again, or they simply could not afford to escape from the eastern realm to the royal capital.

The first flotilla of ten dhows with more than 500 men on board set off, and the rest were driven back to camp, but they also brought back the news that the flotilla would come back.

Originally, he thought that the first task assigned by His Highness would be successfully completed, but he did not expect that soon after the merchant fleet transported the second group of people, Tasa encountered tricky trouble.

Suddenly a strange illness appeared in the royal city.

The deceased was first found lying on the side of the road, with dark spots on his body, teeth falling out, cracks in his skin, and blood changing color - as terrifying as when a witch was consumed by demonic power. But the deceased was not a woman, but a male civilian living in Beicheng District.

Several more corpses with the same symptoms were found one after another, and some people who had come into contact with the corpses began to develop dark spots on their bodies, which could not be subsided by herbs or ice, and even during the bloodletting treatment, the blood was red and black, as if mixed with a large amount of ink.

Fear soon spread among the crowd, and more and more people went to church to pray, but it was all useless, and more and more people appeared with dark spots on their bodies, even the fugitives outside the city showed the same symptoms.

The high priest of the church came forward, declaring that it was a conspiracy of witches who unleashed the power of the devil to infect other innocents. No current treatment can protect against the power of demons, and those who are corrupted will die in excruciating pain. But the Church will not sit idly by, and they have developed the Holy Spirit Medicine, which is enough to curb the evil power of this hellish devil.

This sermon gave a glimmer of life to the infected, who sat around the door of the church every day, waiting for the medicine to be distributed.

Although Tasa was deeply skeptical of the church's claims, he temporarily suspended the transportation of the fugitives just in case.

"Why stop?" Black Hammer said in great confusion, "Now that those guys are also being eroded by demonic power, if you don't send them away, do you want them to stay outside the city to make seeds for witches?"

"That's what it means," he said impatiently, "it's just an ordinary fugitive, but what will become of the kingdom if the Westside is also infected by this evil force?"

"Uh-" Black Hammer choked slightly, "but it's none of our business what the Westlands will become, Lord Tasa, or you should drag them all away as if you didn't hear it." Come to think of it, this kind of thing can be eroded if you touch it, and I don't want to be around a whole bunch of hellish demons, even if it's through a wall. ”

"I only have one head," Tasa said coldly, "and you have only one." Do as I say!"

After leaving the tavern, he found a shop with the emblem of Margaery's caravan and displayed the token.

"I want to see your boss, the sooner the better. ”

It didn't take long for him to see the businesswoman again in the secret room of the shop.

"Witches must have nothing to do with this disease," Margaery began, "and if the demonic power unleashed could not even resist the Divine Punishment Stone, they would have turned Hermes to death." ”

"I think so too, but it is imperative that this matter be reported to His Highness Roland. Although the two groups of people on board the ship did not see any symptoms of the dark spots, it does not seem that the illness occurred on the spot, and if someone on the ship was infected with the power of demons, the border town must respond immediately. Tasa took out a folded letter from his bosom, "I need your help to send the letter back to His Highness as soon as possible." ”

"Of course," she nodded, "the message delivery is always the fastest among merchants. ”

......

The days on end made Lucia want to vomit.

In the past month, she seems to have been on the run, fleeing from the east to the royal capital, and from the royal capital to the west. However, the former was driven from her home, while the latter was the last hope in her heart.

"Sister...... Water, I'm thirsty......"

Suzu let out a groan of pain and reached out to grab her arm.

"Okay, I'll go get you some water. ”

Lucia grabbed the cloth bag in her hand and staggered out of the cabin, crawled to the lowest side of the boat, and reached out to dip the bag into the river. The acid in her stomach surged up again, and she couldn't hold it back, and finally vomited out. The few wheat porridges in my stomach were vomited up, and acid water flowed from my nostrils. She resisted the urge to cry out loud, gritted her teeth, wiped her face with the back of her hand, and continued to soak the cloth bag. It wasn't until the bag had sucked up enough water that she took it in her arms and ran briskly back to the cabin.

"The water is coming, open your mouth. ”

But Suzu's face was worse than before, her cheeks were abnormally flushed, and her forehead was horribly hot. She closed her lips tightly and let out staccato moans.

Lucia had no choice but to force her mouth open and tighten the bag so that the water would fall into her sister's mouth.

"Don't get too close to her, the dark spots have spread to her neck, and she won't last long. A middle-aged man in the cabin with a weak breath said, "We're all going to die here, so you'd better mind yourself." ”

Not long after leaving the royal capital, someone on board was stricken with a terrible illness, first with a fever all over his body, and then with dark spots on his skin, which would deteriorate rapidly after three or four days, not only falling into a coma, but also infecting his contacts with the same disease. So on the fifth day, the fleet cleared a sailboat to carry the sick. Lucia guessed that the reason they didn't throw all the sick fugitives into the river was that they had infected people among themselves.

After the dark spots on Suzu's body, she didn't listen to the persuasion of others, and resolutely followed her sister to the ship full of patients.

In order to take care of the young Suzu, she almost didn't close her eyes for two days.

Lucia still hasn't given up, believing that everything will be fine once she reaches the West.

If the rumors are true...... Mutual aid was her last hope. (To be continued.) )