Chapter 404 - Give Me Three Days (1/2)

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…”