Fang Zhai more than ten acres [system]

All kinds of uncomfortable sounds intertwine in my ears, the uncontrollable crying of the fat merchant, Zhou Fangzhen's uncontrollable vomiting, and...

Among the tongues of flames, the living, burning "sacrifice" wailed.

inhuman!

His hands and feet were cold, and his body was trembling uncontrollably... It was hard to tell whether it was anger or grief, and the mixed and chaotic emotions seemed to burst through the chest in the next moment.

Resisting the desire to vomit, Yu Rong suddenly closed his eyes, not daring to look at the flames for even a second longer.

He took a deep, deep breath, maintained the last trace of calmness, and silently aroused the system.

[Are you sure to use the only system rescue service?

Tip: The price to be paid is random (unpredictable);

Please use this function with caution. 】

Yu Rong didn't dare to open his eyes, but he couldn't block the interlaced and undulating wails that drummed between the eardrums.

Hearing the prompt from the system, he didn't hesitate at all, and said silently in his heart: Yes.

——With his ability and the strength of a few people, he could neither break through the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of soldiers, nor rescue the at least dozens of people who had already been burned in the flames in time.

Powerless.

There is only one path to the help system.

[The host 8674972 confirmed to use the system rescue service. 】

The mechanical reminder is just a few words, and it takes less than a few seconds, but it seems to be as long as the world.

Burning with anxiety, Yu Rong felt that he was going to be unable to bear it any longer, when he suddenly heard the system sound, just like the sound of heaven——

[It has been tested and confirmed that human sacrifice violates the ethics of this plane.Is it determined to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims? 】

Yu Rong chose without thinking: Yes.

【warn!warn! 】

[The 49 victims have no chance of survival.The laws of life cannot be violated, and humanitarian assistance fails. 】

Yu Rong suddenly opened his eyes wide, watching the flames in the southwest grow more and more vigorous, but the howling in his ears was so weak that it was almost inaudible... A burst of vomiting, and he could no longer control himself.

"cough……"

What was coughed up was not vomit, but red blood.

——The cost of the help system, because the rescue failed, it only maintained a one-month depleted state.

No time to care.Yu Rong supported the tree trunk, holding on to prevent his suddenly weak body from falling, enduring bursts of angina, restraining himself from coughing.

Don't forget that they are in a very dangerous situation.

Yu Rong could still maintain a little reason.

The commotion between Zhou Fangzhen and Xie Dongguan was too great, and it didn't take long to attract patrolling officers and soldiers.

A group of four people, either were frightened, or vomited too much, or like Yu Rong, all hands and feet were weak, even with the knife resting on their necks, they had no energy to escape.

A dozen sergeants surrounded the old tree, each holding a long halberd, and the head of the halberd pointed directly at the four people on the tree.

If it weren't for Yu Rong's high position, they might be strung together... Fortunately, the archers are not here.

"Report to the head."

Yu Rong, who was in a state of "weakness", leaned on the old tree branch with great difficulty, and heard someone below report to the leader: "That person is Cheng Anlang bestowed by the imperial court."

Dutou suddenly waved his hand, and the soldiers put away their weapons one by one.

"you……"

As soon as Dutou opened his mouth, he heard the sound of several clusters of arrows coming through the air, and he snapped: "Who is it?!"

"Xu Dutou, long time no see."

Yu Rong was stunned for a moment, couldn't help but coughed, looked down, there was a shadowy figure, unable to distinguish the face of the person coming.But listening to the voice, it was the Niji Langwei and An Langxi that he was somewhat familiar with.

While An Langxi was speaking, there were more than a dozen Lang Guards with bows and arrows, who spread out and surrounded the soldiers here.

"Lieutenant An, what are you doing here?"

An Langxi said bluntly: "I am ordered by the commanding officer to come to clean up the house, come with me."

Xu Dutou smiled: "I haven't seen you for a few days, Captain An has learned how to joke... Could it be that I forgot that I only obey the orders of His Royal Highness the King of England." After finishing speaking, his tone changed, "For the sake of my former colleagues , I will not investigate Andutou for your crime of trespassing, it is not appropriate to interrupt the ritual of Tiankuang, please forgive me for not being able to entertain you, please go back."

Here, Zhou Fangzhen, who had finally recovered from his stress, leaned next to Yu Rong and whispered: "These people... are all rebellious guards? Are they betraying the water from within?"

Shaking his head sullenly.

He didn't know what was going on, and he didn't want to explore it.His eyes stared blankly, facing the southwest, the flames were like tongues, kissing and licking the night sky, and the screams of the "sacrifice" had died down.

Suddenly thinking of something, Yu Rong cheered up and shouted at An Langxi: "Lieutenant An, hurry up and save someone."

On the other side of the big house, there are at least seven or eight hundred nearby villagers.

He fears……

An Langxi immediately comforted him: "Young master, don't worry, our people have already controlled this place."

Yu Rong heaved a sigh of relief, suddenly, as if the last trace of strength had been taken away from his body, his whole body was weak, if it wasn't for the good position, he might have fallen down because of this slack.

Xu Dutou scolded: "An Langxi, you are so brave!"

In the war of words, the two sides confront each other.

Apparently, An Langxi's side had the upper hand, and with a few bangs, Xu Dutou and his subordinates were subdued.

"It's not as bold as you, Xu Du," An Lang said in disbelief, "You actually took a living person..."

Xu Dutou snorted coldly: "It's just a few people who will die sooner or later. For His Royal Highness, even if there are hundreds or thousands of people, it's nothing."

An Langxi was silent, and suddenly said: "The King of England is old, and the Commander has taken him into the forbidden courtyard to spend his old age."

Xu Dutou was anxious when he heard the words: "You guys! This is ungrateful!"

"En? Righteousness?" An Langxi whispered, as if she didn't want to argue with the other party anymore, and ordered to her subordinates, "Take them back and wait for the Commander to deal with you." No matter what Xu said, he raised his head and charged Looking at the man on the tree, he said, "I'm sorry to frighten you, but I was late. The commander was caught and couldn't get away, so I couldn't make it in time, so..."

Yu Rong shook his head, he has no right to criticize these people, it's just...

"Who is the King of England?"

An Langxi answered every question: "The King of England is the uncle of the official family, that is, the great-uncle of the Commander, the former Commander of Ni Yiwei, and the Regent of the early years of Longxuan."

Yu Rong was stunned: "So those officers and soldiers..."

An Langxi's tone was heavy: "Before the Commander-in-Chief took office, the King of England was actually in charge of the Rebel Guard for nearly 50 years."

After a pause, he continued: "He is a very powerful person who has done a lot of good things for our Min country, so he has a very high reputation among the military guards. Back then, the Commander-in-Chief was in charge of the Rebellion Guard... It turns out that the left middle The three guards on the right, and the middle guard are supporters of the King of England. They were so hard to convince His Majesty the Commander. Afterwards..."

A brief account of Ni Yiwei's past...Of course it must be known by Yu Rong.

"The original Zhongwei existed in name only, but now it is different from the past. It took several years for the Commander to truly control the Niyiwei."

Yu Rong was silent.

An Langxi seemed to know that he was upset, and continued to explain: "The King of England is old, these two or three years..." Paused, and vaguely said, "The Commander has been investigating secretly, this trip to Yanhai During the trip, I got a little news, but there were some changes in this place, no one expected..."

This iron-clad tough guy couldn't go on talking until here, and heaved a long sigh, as if he was a little dazed: "His Royal Highness shouldn't be like this."

Walking silently, without saying a word, he waited until he saw countless officers and soldiers in front of him—couldn't tell whether it was the guards or the king's people—running nervously, and he couldn't help feeling tense.

"Don't worry, son, they are all our people."

Noisy and noisy, Yu Rong only felt a sudden pain in the forehead, and suddenly asked: "How many people died?"

An Langxi was a little embarrassed: "A total of one hundred and three..."

"One hundred and three?" Yu Rong couldn't believe it, "Isn't it 49?"

An Langxi hesitated for a moment and said, "58 people were burned to death before and after the human sacrifice, and the rest were...infected people."

Yu Rong was startled: That's right, when they were locked up, they could smell... the smell of fire.The 49 people just now couldn't be the first batch.

Afterwards, An Langxi explained carefully.

Yu Rong finally figured out the general situation.

The King of England and his confidantes have been crazy about the Duoharaya religion introduced by Tiandu in recent years. It coincides with his [-]th birthday.

Cholera was originally a coincidence.

Speaking of it, it has something to do with this matter—one of the missionaries from Tiandu got cholera for some unknown reason.

This time, the real cause of the cholera epidemic was not the Tiandu foreign businessman who was buried by the owner of the small inn. The village where the small inn is located has spread a step earlier.

As for the real connection between human sacrifice and cholera...

It is said that at the beginning, the King of England was a little hesitant about living human sacrifices. As a result, many people died of cholera, so he made up his mind.

On the one hand, send people to kill the sick people and clean them up to prevent the epidemic from spreading;

On the other hand, people are arrested according to the horoscope of their birthdays, and "sacrifices" are selected from those who are not sick.

Only then did 58 people be burned to death in human sacrifices, and the remaining 40 people, just like the shopkeeper of the small inn, were directly killed because they were ill.

There seems to be no logic.

The logic is—

The King of England and his confidants believed that cholera was an omen and a warning.

People who contracted cholera were haunted by "ghost poison" and died badly. Killing them was a relief.

People who are not sick will be infected by "ghost poison" sooner or later. If they are not living sacrifices, they will also be spared from suffering from cholera and will not live in peace after death.

Yu Rong couldn't understand this logic, and almost laughed angrily: "What the hell is this?!"

It's better to say it bluntly, taking advantage of the chaos of cholera, killing people's lives, and "exchanging life" by means of living sacrifices.

The human sacrifice actually made a lot of sense for the sacrifice, it's just, it's just...

Shameless especially!

An Langxi was also obviously confused, and after a while, she finally replied in a muffled voice: "I don't understand either. No one understands what the King of England thinks. Now the Commander is interrogating... having a secret conversation with him."

Yu Rong lowered his eyes, not wanting to say another word.

Those 49 people watched as they were burned to death...but he was incompetent, powerless, and unable to do anything.

Perhaps, the only consolation is that it wasn't too late for An Lang Xi to lead the people.

It is said that there is a set of rules in the Tiankuo Ritual. According to the time and number of people, live sacrifices need to be divided into batches.

The first batch of nine people, the second batch was exactly the 49 people Yu Rong saw, and the third batch had as many as 81 people... If it wasn't for the thousands of soldiers sent by the Ni Zongwei, I'm afraid it would be impossible to stop these people's insane behavior.

I don't know if I should be thankful that the King of England and his confidants didn't bother to hide these things.

This mountain forest is not a confidential place, but according to calculations, it is a "favorable location" for human sacrifices.

Those people made a temporary camp and built an altar.

That's why An Langxi and the others were able to find here so quickly.

Therefore, Yu Rong and the others can still run around by relying on the guidance of the system.

After all, the King of England probably thinks he can do whatever he wants, so he has no scruples in doing things!

What the King of England thinks and does, Yu Rong is incapable of intervening, unable to understand...

All he knew was that he couldn't even sleep peacefully after seeing the scene of the human sacrifice.

I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and because of the price paid by the help system, my body was extremely weak.

After following An Langxi to the temporary residence of Ni Yewei, he lay in bed in a daze, thinking and doing nothing.

Drowsily falling asleep, the cries of those people suddenly sounded in my ears, my heart tightened suddenly, and I suddenly woke up, staring at the gray tent in a daze.

Yu Rong knew that her state was not right, but...

The whole body is full of powerlessness.

It feels like it's hard to even breathe.

With a sound of "shua", the tent was pulled away from the outside.

The sudden bright feeling in front of his eyes made Yu Rong close his eyes uncomfortably.

"Rong'er."

This familiar call made Yu Rong's bewildered and chaotic consciousness suddenly sober for three points.

"Sorry, I didn't take good care of you..."

Yu Rong raised the corner of his mouth with difficulty: "What are you doing, brother?"

Nie Xinzhi hugged him carefully, and said in a low voice, "I brought the special plum cake here, do you want to eat it?"

"Not hungry."

"Then sleep for a while."

"Can't sleep."

Nie Xinzhi was silent when he heard this, and after a long time, he suddenly asked, "What's the reason?"

Yu Rong felt that his brain was completely rusted: "I don't understand what brother said."

Nie Xinzhi was silent again, and when he was young, he said: "The weather is fine today, how about an outing?"

Yu Rong was listless: "It's summer, why go green?"

Nie Xinzhi finally said nothing, lowered his head and pecked lightly on the forehead of the young doctor who had lost a lot of weight.

Yu Rong closed her eyes unconsciously, her body still felt powerless, but...

The extremely suppressed and anxious mood calmed down a lot inadvertently.

I gradually felt a little peace in my heart.

"So what if you ignore what you can do?"

Yu Rong chuckled involuntarily: "What exactly do you want to say, brother?"

Nie Xinzhi didn't answer directly, but picked him up and strode out of the tent.

"...Brother?"

The powerless Yu Rong struggled a few times before giving up.

He knew that he was too ugly...just let this man be happy!

"here is?"

Standing on a high place, Yu Rong stared blankly at the Lang guards who were hurrying back and forth. In the distance, there were a few familiar figures.

A few years ago, there was Jin Jiuzhen Zhou Fang, who had met once, Su Chongbi, who was no longer Baoan Lang, and many other Chinese doctors.

Everyone seems to be too busy to leave.

Nie Xinzhi's tone was light: "In the cholera epidemic, there are thousands of people who are not sure who are infected. In addition to those who were killed by mistake, there are more than a hundred people who cannot be treated due to illness."

Yu Rong was taken aback: "So many people..."

Nie Xinzhi watched him quietly: "Does Rong'er have the heart to save the epidemic?"

Yu Rong was slightly stunned, and after a long time, he smiled wryly: "Where is the brother, I am a doctor, how could it be possible..."

The voice gradually died down.

"It's really bad for me to be so depressed."

Nie Xinzhi lightly said: "The case of human sacrifice is not Rong'er's fault, it was originally the fault of my rebellious guard's negligence."

Yu Rong shook her head, listening to the man's words, she gradually felt relieved.

Maybe Ni Yiwei was negligent, maybe he was indeed incompetent, but... the one who was really wrong was the villain who committed this heinous crime.

However, it was really frustrating for me to be so decadent and almost devastated.

"Ronger?"

Yu Rong came back to his senses, and smiled at the other party: "Where is the plum cake brought by brother, I'm hungry."

Eat a full stomach first, recharge your energy and store up your energy a little bit, that is, it is time to devote yourself to the prevention and treatment of cholera epidemic.

Human sacrifices he was powerless to stop;

But for those who were sick, he was able to do his best to save as many infected people as possible.

Fortunately, I only spent a whole night and increased it for half a day... I couldn't really delay the business.

Otherwise, it would be a sin if the person who could be saved could not be rescued in time because he was hurting the spring and the autumn here.

"Do your best to do what you can, and you have no regrets." Yu Rong abruptly answered Nie Xinzhi's question in the account, "If you can do what you can, then neglect it... If you are lazy, you will miss the doctor, or kill someone."

Nie Xinzhi stroked a mole on the end of his eyebrows, but did not comment.

"Sorry for worrying my brother."

Rarely, what Nie Xinzhi said this time was not "no problem", but: "Let's not be an example."

Yu Rong curled the corner of his mouth: "There will be no next time."

After regaining his composure, Yu Rong naturally focused on the cholera epidemic again: "With so many patients, are there too few doctors?"

Nie Xinzhi replied: "Nearby doctors are also helping, and there are also Chinese doctors and medical households on their way."

"What about the medicinal materials?"

"A batch has been transferred, but there are still some shortages. Special personnel have been sent to Qin'an and other places for urgent mobilization."

"In this way... I will have a week to defend against them, and then I will have time to refine the anti-plague pills. Those of your guards who run in and out are easily infected. Lime and realgar alone may not be enough to prevent and control... that's right. , I have to write down all the methods of treating cholera from... ahem, overseas, so as not to delay the good chance of curing the disease due to dialectical disputes."

Nie Xinzhi listened to him quietly, and suddenly picked him up.

"Brother?"

"Wash up first."

After being reminded by this, Yu Rong realized that he was disheveled and full of the demeanor of a sage.

"..."