Urban Night Returner

"What's the matter, still no improvement?" Before the battle, Ding Lancha was in a dilemma, and his plan to attack the camp by night had to be shelved.Luo Jing is the number one general under him. He not only takes the lead in the charge, but also makes changes when the situation arises.Without Luo Jing, he became more and more unsure about this battle, and he didn't dare to attack rashly.

The sergeant who came to report shook his head: "The general still has a high fever. Moreover, my subordinates saw at the gate of the courtyard..." Luo Jing was isolated in an empty room by the military doctor as soon as he was diagnosed with the epidemic. , other people are not allowed to enter, and people in the courtyard are not allowed to come out, except for delivering meals three times a day, and the inside and outside are isolated.

"And what?" Ding Lancha was agitated, his hand almost squeezed water out of the sword hilt at his waist.

The sergeant lowered his head and said, "Mr. Zheng's complexion is flushed, I'm afraid...he is also infected with the disease."

Ding Lancha's expression changed.In the past two days, all kinds of medicines to avoid and cure the epidemic were used like water. As a result, not only Luo Jing was not cured, but even the military doctor was also infected with the epidemic.This army doctor Zheng has also been with the army for more than ten years. His medical skills are not outstanding, but it is easy to cure some plagues and Jinchuang. Now even he is infected with the disease. Where did the disease come from?

"Go and call the man surnamed Shen who followed Luo Jing." Ding Lancha suddenly remembered what Shen Mobai had mentioned about the plague in his anxiety, but before the sergeant left, the spies had already rushed to report: "Commander, Beiman The camp is in chaos!"

Looking from a distance from the top of the city wall, the camp of 20 people in the northern barbarians seemed to be full of people coming and going, and there was indeed a panic.The spies panted and pointed: "The subordinates seem to be preparing to break camp and retreat when they see them."

Ding Lancha cheered up and looked far away. Sure enough, the northern barbarian army seemed to be slowly moving back, but the formation was a little chaotic.He stared at it, and repeatedly analyzed in his heart whether the Beiman was pretending to retreat to lure the enemy, but in the end, the desire to win prevailed, and he waved: "Check the soldiers and horses, and prepare to pursue."

The gate of the city opened slowly, and Ding Lancha was dressed in military uniform, ready to go to battle in person.It's just that the horse under his crotch had just started, when someone beside him suddenly shouted: "You must not leave the city!" Ding Lancha looked in surprise, and saw that the sergeant at the edge of the team had already grabbed hold of a person who rushed out from nowhere, it was Shen Mobai.

Ding Lancha frowned.It is unlucky for the army to be blocked from traveling, that is to say, it is known that Shen Mobai is the person brought back by Luo Jing, otherwise he would have ordered to drag it down and beheaded: "What's the matter?"

Shen Mobai used his breastfeeding strength to break away from several soldiers and rushed to Ding Lanchama: "The commander must not leave the city. Close the city gate immediately and prepare a large amount of anti-epidemic drugs."

Ding Lancha was even more puzzled: "What does this mean?"

Shen Mobai's face was pale: "The plague spreads in the Northern Army. If the commander leads his troops to pursue it, he will also get sick. Now that the weather is getting colder and the wind direction is about to turn to the northwest, the commander must prepare the anti-epidemic medicine immediately, otherwise the epidemic will spread. Wu Cheng It's also out of control!"

Ding Lancha has been on the march for many years, so he has naturally seen the epidemic.The epidemic is really terrible. If the plague really broke out in the northern barbarian army, then it is really not suitable for him to attack, but the camp of the northern army is thirty miles away from Wucheng, and the retreat of the northern army will be farther away. The northwest wind can also spread the plague, which is unbelievable.Although he stopped sending troops for the time being, he didn't take Shen Mobai's words too seriously, and only sent more than a dozen scouts to track down and inquire about the news of the Northern Man army.

Tanma came back very quickly, saying that there was indeed a plague in the northern barbarian army. I don't know how many sergeants and horses fell along the way, almost every three steps a man, five steps a horse, corpses littered the field.According to this development, before they return to the Northern Barbarian Kingdom, at least half of the army will be lost.

Ding Lancha was really surprised, happy, suspicious and worried.What surprised me was where did the plague come from so severe, what pleased me was that the northern barbarians retreated without a fight and was seriously injured, wondered how Shen Mobai knew that the northern army had the epidemic, and worried that if the plague really was so severe, the infected So what should Luo Jing do?Just thinking about it here, the sergeant from Luo Jing's side crawled to report that not only Luo Jing was not awake, but the military doctor and Bi Quan also fell ill.Ding Lancha was shocked and wanted to see it. As soon as he stepped out of the tent, he felt the cold wind blowing in his face. He looked up to see a large Chinese army flag fluttering in the air. The northwest wind was strong, and he suddenly remembered what Shen Mobai said.At this time, he couldn't help being alarmed, and quickly summoned all the medical officers in the army to buy anti-epidemic drugs throughout the city.This busy work lasted all night, but when it was dawn, the medicinal herbs had just been purchased, and before they could be decocted and distributed to the generals of the army, more than ten people had already been brought down from the city, all of them were soldiers on duty at night, and their faces were flushed. The body is like burning coals—the northwest wind that night really brought the plague into the city.

At this time, Ding Lancha had forgotten all the joy of the Northern Man's retreat.Wucheng was not big, and it was already very crowded with his 12 troops stationed in the city. Coupled with the people in the city who had not escaped, once the plague spread, it would be unimaginable.While ordering the military doctor to try to cure the epidemic quickly, he sent someone to call Shen Mobai, but the soldiers went out to look for it, and came back to say that Shen Mobai was gone.

Of course Shen Mobai was not missing, he was currently in the small courtyard where Luo Jing was being treated.Both the military doctor and Biquan had already fallen ill with the epidemic, and the sergeants outside panicked to report to Ding Lancha. No one was guarding him, so he naturally came in easily.

Luo Jing was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, his lips were full of small cracks from the high heat, his face was unusually flushed, Shen Mobai reached out to touch his forehead, and it was scorching hot.In the past few days, more than a dozen medicines have been poured down, like water on a rock, completely ineffective, and even breathing has gradually weakened.

Shen Mobai looked at him for a while, then sat down on the footboard of the bed, leaned his back against the bed, and hugged his knees.He sat like this for a while, then raised his head to look at Luo Jing.Luo Jing was still the same, but his breathing was a little messy, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and gradually there was a sound like a blister bursting.Shen Mobai looked at the face in front of him - he was always carrying a bit of evil spirit on weekdays, but when he turned his face, it was really ruthless; his hands were bloody, even his own family's blood, which couldn't be washed clean.However, this face will also bring out a little tenderness, and he will also ask him if he is sore after sleeping for a few days; these hands will gently hug him, and the heat will stick to the skin through the clothes, warm as deep spring .It was this person who forcibly took him away from Changzhou, but it was also this person who didn't care what kind of monster he was; Someone hurt him...

Luo Jing's breathing gradually became short, and the blush caused by the high fever on his face gradually receded, turning into a deathly paleness - Shen Mobai could almost see his three souls and seven souls gradually leaving that body.The bodhi bead is sweating in the palm of my hand—the end has come.Hades wants people to die at the third watch, who can keep them until the fifth watch?

Although the city was in chaos and busy at the moment, the small courtyard was as silent as death.It was so quiet that the sound of chains dragging the floor suddenly sounded outside the door.Shen Mobai shivered suddenly, quickly climbed onto the bed, and hugged Luo Jing without thinking.

Luo Jing's body was still warm, but it was gradually cooling down.Shen Mobai looked down at him, finally raised his hand slowly, and took off the bodhi bead from his neck.The bodhi bead was still an inconspicuous dark purple, lying in the white palm without any movement.Shen Mobai put his finger into his mouth and bit down hard, a drop of bright red liquid dripped on the bodhi bead, fainted as if dripping on paper, and a reddish gleam appeared on the surface of the bodhi bead.

The door seemed to be blown by the wind, and it opened silently, and the sound of the iron chain dragging the floor became more and more clear, almost like a sound.Shen Mobai lowered his head not to look in front of the bed, the Bodhi Pearl in his palm became brighter and brighter as he recited silently.Suddenly there was a sound of the wind, and there seemed to be an extra stick in the sky, which looked vague in the dim light, but it hit Shen Mobai firmly on the shoulder, causing him to fall straight into the bed.But when he fell out, he flipped his palm, and the bright red bodhi bead landed on Luo Jing's heart, suddenly emitting a golden light.The golden light made everything in the room clear. Shen Mobai clearly saw a black iron chain going down Luo Jing's head. He exclaimed in surprise: "No!" Going back, he disappeared into mid-air with a clang, and a startled and angry shout came from the place where he disappeared: "Buddhist mantra!"

The golden light emitted by the bodhi beads seemed to envelop Luo Jing's whole body.Looking closely at the golden light, it turned out to be countless tiny golden Sanskrit characters flowing rapidly through Luo Jing's whole body.Luo Jing's paper-white face gradually turned red, and his breathing became longer.After an unknown amount of time, the golden light suddenly disappeared, Luo Jing's eyelids moved slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.

When Luo Jing opened his eyes, he felt refreshed. Immediately, the events before he fainted came into his mind. He sat up suddenly, and found himself in a strange room, and on the corner of the bed, Shen Mobai curled up Tuan, shaking shoulders.Luo Jing stretched out his hand to him: "What's the matter? Why are you here? What is this—" The second half of the sentence broke in his throat, just as his hand touched Shen Mobai's shoulder, Shen Mobai trembled and cried out in pain out.Luo Jing couldn't help saying, pulled him to the front, and tore off his clothes with both hands, only to see a black mark on the shoulder, not swollen or broken, just like a stroke of ink, but he lightly touched it Touching, Shen Mobai was so painful that tears filled his eyes, he clenched his lips tightly so as not to cry out.

"What's going on here?" Luo Jing avoided the wound, and asked Shen Mobai.

Shen Mobai blinked away the painful tears.Luo Jing's upper body was always naked, because the military doctor had been rubbing his body with strong alcohol to cool him down, and it was inconvenient to wear clothes.Shen Mobai looked at his chest, causing Luo Jing to look down at himself too: "Why——huh?" He wiped his chest involuntarily—a red mole suddenly appeared on his heart, as big as a bean, and like blood. bright.He remembered that he didn't have any birthmarks on his body, at least not here.But he didn't respond after wiping it a few times, so he put it aside: "What's wrong with you?"

Shen Mobai covered his shoulders with his hands, lowered his eyes and did not speak.The pain from the mourning stick is so severe that it will last a long time.Luo Jing didn't get his answer, so he was a little impatient: "Speak up! Also, where is the commander-in-chief? What happened to the northern barbarian army?"

Shen Mobai was silent for a moment, then raised his eyes to look at him: "The general introduced the poison of beasts into the river?"

Luo Jing nodded calmly: "I only brought out a little bit of the water from the valley and poured it into the river."

Shen Mobai lowered his eyes again, and said after a long time: "The plague broke out in the northern barbarian army, and the troops have already retreated. I heard that all the people and horses died along the way, and the road is full of bones."

Luo Jing cheered up: "Really?"

Shen Mobai nodded, and added: "But the wind direction has turned to the northwest, and the epidemic has probably begun to spread within Wucheng." He spoke lifelessly, even a little disheartened - if he hadn't seen the epidemic in the mountains, Luo Jing would have If Luo Jing doesn't use this method, Ding Lancha will be forced to raise troops to fight the northern barbarians, and blood will flow into rivers and corpses will be scattered everywhere... Which is right? No, he couldn't tell the difference.

Luo Jing didn't have so many thoughts, he was just surprised by Shen Mobai's words, and immediately got out of bed: "Where is the commander-in-chief!"

Shen Mobai shook his head: "Master Biquan is in the side room, he and the military doctor were also infected with the disease, and both fell ill."

Luo Jing walked towards the door in three steps at a time, but suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at him with piercing eyes: "You have a way, don't you?"

Shen Mobai shook his head slowly: "The poison of beasts is not an ordinary plague. Ordinary herbs are completely ineffective. I don't know how to solve it."

Luo Jing grabbed him and said, "Nonsense! I'm also infected with the disease. How did you cure me? Of course you can also cure others!"

Shen Mobai lowered his head, feeling exhausted.There is only one bodhi bead, even if other people's condition is not as serious as Luo Jing, he has no place to get another bodhi bead.Since he was a child, there has always been yin around him, and he relied on this bodhi bead to get rid of it. Now that he lost the bodhi bead, he suddenly felt that the room seemed to be cold.

Looking at the indescribably tired look on his face, Luo Jing thought that he might have been watching him for a few days without sleep, and suddenly felt a little pain in his heart, and subconsciously softened his voice: "Tired?"

Before Shen Mobai could answer, the door of the small courtyard had already been knocked open. Ding Lancha covered his mouth and nose with a veil soaked in medicine and came in, followed by a few generals trying to stop him, but when he raised his eyes, he saw that Luo Jing had gone down as if nothing had happened. After getting off the bed, I couldn't help but be surprised first and then happy: "General Luo is all right?"

Ding Lancha was also surprised and delighted.The northwest wind is getting stronger and stronger. He has withdrawn all the soldiers from the city, rummaged through the pharmacies in the city to collect medicines for the epidemic, and then set up a marching cauldron on the street to boil the medicine and distribute it to the whole city. Soldiers and civilians.However, after a busy day, the number of people in the city who came to report the disease was still not much. He was so busy that he didn't remember that the sergeant had come to report that the military doctor who treated Luo Jing had also fallen ill, so he rushed to see it.Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the courtyard, Luo Jing seemed to have recovered. He couldn't help being extremely surprised: "Where is the military doctor? What medicine did he use?" If Luo Jing can be cured, other people can also be cured.

Luo Jing was startled for a moment, unable to answer.Ding Lancha looked around the courtyard suspiciously: "Where did the military doctor go?"

Shen Mobai supported the door frame and whispered: "Sick in the side room."

Ding Lancha was speechless for a while, the clever sergeant had already gone to the side room to see, but he backed out in surprise: "Commander, the military doctor... he, he is dead!"

Luo Jing was startled, and immediately thought of Biquan, and rushed to another side room to have a look, only to see Biquan's complexion was sallow, lying upright on the bed, although he hadn't died yet, his breathing was like a gossamer, and he could breathe at any time broken.There were soft footsteps behind him, Shen Mobai followed in, looked at Biquan and said in a low voice: "They are too close, they are much more dangerous than the people in the city who are infected by the wind."

Luo Jing turned around and grabbed his hand: "How on earth did you cure me? Please save Biquan!" It was the first time that the word "begging" came out of his mouth.Biquan had been with him for eight years, and he picked it up from the side of the road and raised him with his own hands. Although he was only 20 years old at the time, he personally taught this twelve or thirteen-year-old boy to box, kick, and arch. Became his person, and after that, Biquan also went to his bed.Women are not allowed in the army, so Biyan spends far less time with him than Biquan.Biquan, for the past eight years, has followed him almost every step of the way, warming his bed, and going to battle with him, from body to spirit, everything belongs to him.If Biquan died, it would be as if a small piece of his life had been hollowed out.

Shen Mobai looked up at him.He had never heard Luo Jing say the word "beg", and he couldn't even believe his ears.Seeing the undisguised anxious expression on Luo Jing's face, he suddenly envied Biquan who was lying on the bed - if he was the one lying here, would someone else be so anxious?For a moment, he lowered his head and thought.Luo Jing stared at him closely.Now that the military doctor died, it meant that Shen Mobai was not the one who cured him.He knew in his heart that the disease he contracted was due to contact with the water that the beasts drank, so it was not the same as ordinary diseases, and Biquan must have taken care of him personally, so the disease he contracted would naturally be very severe, if not I have been suffering from pain since I was a child, I am afraid that by this time, I will die as cold as a military doctor.Since this kind of disease has no effect, Shen Mobai can only count on it.

There was silence in the room, only Biquan's faint breathing came and went.It was only a moment, but it seemed like a long time in Luo Jing. Shen Mobai finally raised his head: "Perhaps——the general's blood will be effective." The Bodhi Pearl has turned into a red mole on Luo Jing's heart, fused with his flesh and blood, Then Luo Jing's blood may also have the effect of curing the epidemic.