[Hobbit+HP] The truth of elves

After the cynical neighbor finished speaking, he slammed his window shut with a bang.The knocking sound of windows and window frames echoed in the desolate street, highlighting the desolate situation in front of you.

Lucius glanced at his "home" that he hadn't returned to for ten days, only to find that the door of the confinement was scratched messily, and the simple signboard representing the pharmacist was knocked down to the ground at some point. , the whole wooden sign happened to be shattered.And this kind of situation, compared to the appearance of the old York family, has not suffered much.

An atmosphere of panic permeated the street, which made Lucius and Annis' mounts instinctively vigilant and made anxious sounds.It was this voice that caught the attention of the people in the dilapidated house.He only heard a few knocking sounds of furniture, and before Lucius got off his horse, he saw Old York stumbling out.

"You are finally back! Sir! Please save my son!" Old York's face was full of embarrassment and he didn't take care of it. When he first saw Lucius, he seemed to see a straw and cried. Pounce on him.

Because he was worried that Old York would startle the horse and was unwilling to be directly touched by him, Lucius controlled the horse and backed up a few steps before getting down from the other side of the horse.Seeing that Old York was about to speak again, Lucius then used the wand hidden in the sleeve to slap him silently.

Old York found that he had suddenly lost his voice, and his face turned pale with fright.

At this time, Annis, who was quick to respond, also got off the horse, helped Old York up, and led him to his yard.

Lucius led the two horses into the small courtyard of Old York, and took advantage of this gap to look around.I only found that there seemed to be unkind prying eyes in the gaps of the originally lifeless houses.

In just ten days, such a change seems too abnormal for fickle human beings.

Lucius was careful, and after entering the courtyard of Old York, he did not close the door, but added a warning and sound-blocking spell.

When he heard the words of the messenger from the City Lord's Mansion, Lucius secretly guessed that there was an inevitable connection between the situations that suddenly happened in three different places.However, it wasn't until he saw Little York that he realized that the events between the three places might have the same cause.

Annis's reaction was even more straightforward. After seeing Little York, his eyes widened in surprise.

"Please, save him, save my son!" Old York was released from the spell after he entered the room. As soon as the ban was lifted, he forgot the panic in his heart just now, and begged Lucius repeatedly.

The sick little York was lying on the bed, his face dead, and his breathing was so weak that he could hardly detect it.It was so different from the last time Lucius saw him before.

From just the first glance, Annis could already detect the similarities between Little York's condition and the sick soldiers, let alone Lucius.

However, it may be because of his younger age that the situation of Little York seems to be more serious than that of soldiers.The two eye sockets were sunken, making him look haggard as if his vitality had been drained.Old York wrapped Little York in a heavy quilt indiscriminately, and there were many fragments of herbal medicines scattered on the bedside.

Seeing a wooden bowl containing medicinal residues fall by the bed, Lucius bent down to check it.

"This is the medicine that the pharmacist in the city prescribed for us at the beginning, but it didn't work at all!" Seeing this, Old York suddenly became sad and angry, and howled sadly, "But that bastard refused to come again !asshole!"

"The pharmacist thought he had caught a cold at first? Did Little York feel hot?" The human pharmacist's dispensing principle is very simple, and there are few ingredients.Lucius easily figured out what those medicinal residues were originally.However, this discovery made his worry a little deeper.

"Yes! My son fainted suddenly while picking herbs in the yard. It just rained the day before, and he just went out in the rain." Old York cried with snot and tears, "I At that time, I boiled the medicine for him to eat. But after he took the medicine, he still didn’t get better. He only took a bite last night, and said that he was rolling on the bed in pain, and after a while... just..."

There were some herbs beside Little York's bed that obviously did not belong to this potion. Lucius guessed that it was something that Old York had searched for himself.It's just that seeing his son was sick, he went to the doctor in a hurry, which also interfered with Lucius' judgment: "How long has he been sick?"

"It was the day after you left." Old York replied without any delay, hoping that Lucius would give the reaction he expected in this way.However, all he got was an even uglier face from Lucius.

The way Little York looks now is a deeply poisoned and irreparable look.Although very similar to the soldiers, it was fundamentally different from his own initial symptoms.This clearly shows that the initial symptoms were not at all valid clues for this type of illness.What's more, if Little York had just gradually weakened from an ordinary and sick appearance to what he is now, the neighbors outside would not treat Old York in the same repulsive, indifferent, or even faintly resentful manner as they are now.Something else must have happened in the time between Little York's illness and the present.

Why is there such a case in Little York in the dock area so far from the fortress, and why the situation of soldiers and Little York is the same as before?If Little York behaves like those soldiers, the Old York family should not be suspected of being the source of the disease and be isolated and excluded.

The messy situation left Lucius with a lingering premonition of danger, but he couldn't figure out why.

The heat of detecting the spell flickered in the palm of his hand again, and after the light fell on Little York, Lucius was not as disappointed as he was when he checked the soldiers, but his face changed drastically when the magic power returned.

After detecting the spell, it is completely out of the wand's control.

However, the light green light fell on Little York's body, and after turning around his torso, it converged on Little York's hand again.Lucius thought that the spell would lead him to a small undiscovered wound on Little York's body, but in the end, the light came to the closest position to him, and it seemed to dissipate directly into the air.

It is not uncommon for detection results to disappear directly, and it is usually just that the desired result was not found.However, at the moment when the spell disappeared, Little York, who had lost consciousness, let out a soft snort of pain, followed by a renewed warmth in the palm of Lucius's unretracted hand.

The magic power flowed back into Lucius' body when it was out of Lucius' control.

Lucius was so startled that he lost his composure for a moment, and took three steps back.However, at this time, Little York unexpectedly let out another soft hum, which seemed to convey the meaning that the pressure of the illness had eased slightly.

Old York immediately rushed forward, calling repeatedly, trying to get a response from Little York.

Annis looked at Lucius in surprise, and asked, "Is there a healing effect?"

Without getting a response from Lucius, Annis took another look at Little York, who seemed to have lost his life, and couldn't help saying an elf: "Didn't you say that this is just a spell for inspection?" ?”

Lucius' mind was completely confused, and he couldn't give Annis an answer at all.

However, just as the room seemed to have a turning point and quieted down, a loud noise suddenly erupted from the deserted and dead street outside.

An extremely miserable cry sounded, accompanied by dull footsteps after a commotion.I don't know where it came from, but suddenly there was a vicious yelling and beating sound.Immediately afterwards, the sound of gold and iron was full of voices.

The voices of wailing and iron ge approached Old York at the same time, and immediately filled the room with a sense of panic of imminent disaster.The two horses in the yard neighed immediately.

Old York hugged his son who was still awake, and looked out the door in panic.

Lucius didn't have time to ask Old York what he was hiding before, and he raised his wand with full vigilance, guarding the door.

That is, at the moment when the atmosphere was so terrifying that it froze to the point where the air condensed, another voice came from far and near very quickly.

The noisy sound that was originally full of attack was instantly swept by this dense and powerful group of horseshoes.The sound of the weapon being unsheathed immediately suppressed all the drumming outside the yard.

As soon as Lucius put away his wand, the figure of Frann and two soldiers appeared at the door of Old York.The captain of the leading guard team was already downcast.

Frann quickly glanced at the huddled old York, and said to Lucius: "The situation is very bad, we must hurry back to the fort now."

"What happened?" Lucius glanced at the direction behind the other party, and could still faintly feel the commotion suppressed by force.

"A whole family died in the city, and they died in exactly the same way." Flann said, his eyes turned in the direction of Little York.He paused, and immediately added, "It's the plague, it's broken out."

Just as Lucius opened his eyes wide in surprise at Fran's firm tone, he heard the long-silent voice in his mind sound again: "I have a way to cure it."