The Emperor's Daily Nitpicking

As a royal city, St. Antis has a peculiar terrain.

The God's Road where the Wujin Hanging Palace complex is located is embedded in the Great Rift Valley, and the entire city of St. Antis starts from the Hanging Palace and extends all the way from the west bank of the Rift Valley. The terrain is evenly lowered. From the shape of the map, Like a semicircle with edges going in and out.

The architectural style of the entire royal city mostly matches that of the Wujin Suspended Palace, with a calm and atmospheric tone.Standing on the highest hanging palace and looking down, countless roofs inlaid with black ink and gold threads are scattered in height and height, which always gives people a sense of grandeur.

Except today...

Oswald, who received the urgent report from the Royal City Patrol Army, stepped on his horse without saying a word, and rushed out of the hanging palace with a small team of black armored black horses.

It was raining heavily outside, day and night.The stagnant water flowed along the terrain and splashed under the horse's hooves.

There are a total of six large and small medical clinics in Wangcheng, and Oswald visited all of them with a tall horse and non-stop iron hooves.The sharp and crisp sound of horseshoes flowed back and forth in the streets of Wangcheng, almost never stopping.Probably because the atmosphere was too tense, even the residents of Wangcheng, who were used to the sound of horseshoes, couldn't help but look out from the window, and after a few glances, they hurried back, the doors and windows were closed tightly.

It doesn't work if you don't close it, because flying insects are infested, and you can't stop it.

"Your Majesty, you have seen that all the hospitals are packed to the brim." Patrol Commander Peter pushed away the copper wire mask on his face and rushed to Oswald, "It was more chaotic before. It's slippery, easy to fall, and once you hit it, you can't move at all. People are blocked everywhere on the street. I mobilized the whole city's patrol army, and then dispersed and moved them to the nearest hospital. But... ..."

The streets were tidied up, and people temporarily settled down, but the fear had already spread unstoppably.

If there are only one or two people, the news can be temporarily blocked to avoid causing more panic.But this happened to people everywhere in the city, so it was impossible to seal it off.Although the Royal City of St. Antis is large, true and false rumors erupted in various streets and corners at the same time, and it only took one lunch to spread from point to point throughout the city.

Peter said: "Most of them are old people and children, who are prone to bumps and bumps, but now they have won the lottery like a gust of wind. We were afraid that our hands were not serious, so we paid extra attention when helping, which wasted a lot of time. By the time most of the people have settled down and come out of the hospital, the street has already become what it is now."

Oswald grabbed the rein and glanced around, his solemn face was hidden behind the copper wire mask, and his expression could not be seen clearly.

Although the Golden Lion Kingdom has been suppressed for nearly 700 years, the emaciated camels are bigger than horses, at least the royal city can still be called lively.But now, a plague of insects and a strange disease of "petrification" turned St. Antis into a lifeless empty city in just half a day.

The doors of most of the houses are tightly closed, for fear of leaking a little gap.

No trace of pedestrians can be seen on the criss-crossing streets. Except for the overcrowded and crying clinics, there are not even any human voices heard in other places.

The original calm tone of the main city, at this time, showed a great sense of dilapidation and emptiness, gray and lifeless.

Wangcheng has become like this, let alone other places.

In the evening, the old priest of the Priest's Academy dragged his body full of cumbersome flesh, lying on the back of the vulture, and rushed into the hanging palace, followed by his two young assistants, who looked anxious as if they were sitting on their buttocks. on the fire.

When they saw Oswald almost rolled off his horse, the old priest failed because half of his body was also sandstone.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, the Red Iron Army in the north and the Bronze Garrison in the west have come to report urgently!" The old priest yelled while lying on his horseback.

The two assistants hurriedly lifted him down, and leaned against the chair with ease.

When Oswald heard the word "emergency report", his brows jumped: "Has this happened in the barracks?"

"It should be!" The old priest nodded before he could catch his breath, "Because it was a call for help, and asked the palace to add medical officers to the garrison battalion."

The long history of conquest has allowed the Golden Lion Kingdom to develop a complete set of emergency signals, just like Xinsha, which will appear in the observation pool of the Priest's Academy. Different colors and states indicate different meanings.No matter how systematic such information is, the meaning expressed is limited after all.So only when it is extremely urgent, will it be used to deliver military reports.

Generally, when delivering, there will also be a more detailed emergency report, which will be urgently delivered back to the base camp through traditional methods.What Kevin held in his hand was the one he had just received.

He let go of the almost breathless white eagle, buckled his mask and got on his horse. He entered the hospital without any obstacles, and almost galloped in front of Oswald before he pulled the rein suddenly: "This phenomenon appeared in a large area in the bronze garrison. This situation was mostly caused by the collision during the drill today, and now it has been urgently stopped. In addition, Mio said that he had been watching for a whole day, and those flying insects that found that area mainly passed from the northeast. He has now Order people to build a fire trough on the border, first block it with a smoke wall, and ask the medical officer to bring some herbs to burn together."

Before the vulture stopped completely, Kevin rolled over with a sweep of his long legs, and handed the military report in his hand to Oswald.

"Northeast direction?" Oswald squeezed the center of his brows, quickly glanced at the general content, and said, "His northeast direction, isn't that the area around Mayne Town?"

Kevin nodded, and added thoughtfully: "But if you draw a line along Mayne Town, you can reach the Kela River."

"You mean—" Oswald was about to speak when another burst of horseshoes approached.

"..."

Today's emergency military bulletin was dropped as if it didn't cost any money. The one who had just sent away from the Priest's Academy came to Kevin again. Kevin hadn't left yet, and Camus, the commander of the Red Iron Army's base camp, also came.

The military report brought by Camus just completed what Oswald hadn’t said—those flying insects came out of their nests along the Kela River.

"Ladd led people to almost turn over the soil along the bank, and the ground was full of insect eggs. It was there before, but it was not so exaggerated. Ladd said that it was as if the river bank was 'fertilized with some kind of fertilizer'. They planned to Burn the excavated soil and clean up part of it. But the rain is too heavy, and the effect is not obvious.”

"Fertilizer?" Kevin frowned.He couldn't help but think of the pile of sand that was all over the ground that night. It was impossible to touch that thing with hands. Except for a part that fell into the river, the rest was almost buried underground to avoid accidentally injuring people.

Could it be the sand piles?

Once things have something to do with sand ghosts, anything becomes possible.

"Also, Ladd arranged for a small group of people to go to the Northern Emerald Country. Guess what, Your Majesty?" Camus rushed to Oswald, "The density of flying insects in the Northern Emerald Country is at least that of the river." Twice, it is said that Sapir's illness is getting worse and he can't get up anymore. His eldest son, Manko, is gone, and the playful youngest son, Bott, was rushed back to Wangcheng, and I don't know what his plan is."

Bot was the little bastard who bet on Mai and Shaw in the gambling house back then. Oswald became angry when he thought of his dishonest face, and immediately sneered, saying: "Whenever a certain country is about to kick its feet and die , God will always arrange a few idiots for it to exhaust the last few remaining breaths."

However, the worse situation in the North Emerald Country made Kevin more convinced that the flying insects were related to the sand pile. To be precise, it should be related to the bottle that the Sand Ghost gave to the North Jade Country.The female insect shot through by his arrow, and the small flying insects that got into the body of the Mankau guards should be the culprit of this "strange disease".

Oswald obviously thought of the same thing as Kevin, so he said with a cold face: "I knew that the Sand Ghost couldn't be so kind, giving Sapir help in vain but retreating to his old den."

Insect plagues and "strange diseases" are enough to make the other tribes feel overwhelmed and careless.But when the rainy season is over and they make a comeback, the other clans have already been seriously injured, and it is easy for them to attack.

What makes people gnash their teeth the most is that even if you connect the cause and effect and know their intentions, you still have to bite the bullet and continue to move forward, because there is no delay in resisting the plague of insects.

Everyone has been bitten by those flying insects more or less. In the past, it was just a matter of itching for a few days, but now it has become a sword hanging above the head. An ever-present reminder.

Everyone had an extremely tormenting night, no matter whether it was in the palace or outside the palace.

Oswald stayed up all night, staring at the garrison newspaper.The Priest's Courtyard was also brightly lit, and a few priests lay on the side of the observation pool, not daring to blink their eyes.The hospital was so busy that they could not even touch the ground, and if they could dispense an effective medicine powder one minute earlier, they would be relieved one minute earlier.

In addition to the Wangcheng Patrolling Army, more Wangcheng Army was divided into countless small teams and rushed to various towns in the Golden Lion Kingdom overnight.

In the early hours of the morning, Ian, the old housekeeper who has been in the grave for thousands of years, because his neck was hurt while sleeping, it was hardened from the top of the spine to the back of the head, and he couldn't move his head:

When the little lion class woke up in the morning, they found that the ring finger and index finger of their right hand were crushed and turned into gravel;

Angela's left eye turned a lifeless gray, as if a piece had been picked out of a statue and stuffed into her eye socket;

But in just one day, the grayish-yellow dividing line on Xinia's elbow spread up another centimeter:

……

Kevin propped his hands on Oswald's desk, eyes slightly lowered, and said in a calm but undeniable tone: "It's not difficult to enter the tomb of Phae, I can do it alone."

Oswald couldn't help cursing: "A person? Are you crazy?! What a joke!"