After traveling through time, I rely on force to survive

The tribal soldiers quickly picked up the curved tube, which Linana immediately took, raising it and shouting urgently.

"Soldiers on the city wall, you've misunderstood! We're not here to attack the city! Our leader is just suffering from a cold. Lives are at stake, please let us into the city!"

With the amplification effect of the curved tube, the people on the city wall could hear clearly now.

Upon hearing this, the physician trembled, his face turning serious. He then spoke to Deputy General He beside him.

"Look at this woman, she's still trying to fool us! I saw it clearly at the city gate earlier; if it really was just a cold, how come those two people were sick in exactly the same way?"

He frowned, afraid that Deputy General He wouldn't believe him, and pulled out a slightly worn old book from his person. Pointing to a line of text on it, he earnestly instructed:

"Look, it says here that if many people get sick at the same time, with persistent high fever and coughing and wheezing, it is definitely an epidemic! I am absolutely not mistaken! Back then, the epidemic in Weizhou spread because of misdiagnosis. We must not take it lightly!"

Suddenly, he remembered something, slapped Deputy General He on the shoulder, and exclaimed in surprise.

"Oh no! They were just at the city gate! Quick, have someone spread lime at the city gate to disinfect it! And mugwort leaves, quickly burn them!"

Lieutenant General He was already filled with apprehension, but after being suddenly slapped on the shoulder, he immediately became respectful. "You're right, it's better to kill the innocent than to let the guilty go free!"

Upon hearing the physician's words, he immediately ordered the city guards to take action.

After all, the physician held an authoritative medical book on the etiology of diseases compiled by the Imperial Physician. If he said it was an epidemic, then it must be an epidemic, there was no doubt about it!

When Li Qingqing arrived with Li Feng and Deputy General Chi, they found the city gates tightly closed, and loudspeakers blaring from the city towers, creating quite a scene.

Two soldiers with their mouths and noses covered by cloth strips were carrying a bucket and carefully spreading lime along the ground near the city gate.

Li Qingqing quickly stepped forward, "What are you doing?"

Two soldiers were busy spreading lime when they heard the question. They looked up and saw that the city lord and the general had arrived.

"Reporting to Lord Qingcheng and General Li, the physician says there is an epidemic outside, and we are disinfecting!"

"Open the city gate, I'm going out to take a look." Li Qingqing immediately ordered one of the soldiers to open the city gate.

"Lord, it's not safe outside!" The soldier's face turned pale, and he quickly tried to dissuade him.

“Yes, Lord, there’s a plague outside! Don’t worry, we’ll guard this place, they won’t be able to get in!” another soldier chimed in.

The two guards exchanged a glance and instinctively stepped in front of Li Qingqing.

Deputy General Chi quickly stopped him, "No, it's too dangerous outside!"

Hearing the commotion, the physician hurriedly ran down from one side of the city wall, panting and shouting.

"Don't open the city gates, Lord! Those barbarians don't look like good people at all. We have no dealings with them. They've come all this way to ask us for help; they must have ulterior motives!"

No sooner had the physician finished speaking than anxious shouts came from outside the city.

"Open the city gates! We are truly neighbors, neighbors separated only by a mountain ridge! We have heard that your city lord is wise, brave, and learned, so we have prepared generous gifts to pay our respects. We hope you will open the gates!"

"Even if it's a neighbor..." The physician stopped mid-sentence, his face stiffening, and he jumped up and cursed.

"Look at her, speaking so sweetly and cleverly, she's clearly trying to harm you! City Lord, you must not believe this poison disguised as sugar!"

The physician felt a great responsibility, as he was the only one in the entire border town who knew medicine.

If he doesn't strictly control the process, and something goes wrong, it will be his fault.

"Yes, Li Qing, we absolutely cannot let them in!" Deputy General Chi nudged Li Feng. "General, don't you agree?"

Li Feng ignored Deputy General Chi. He was very pleased to hear the praise from outside the city. He looked at the physician and asked, "Have you personally treated him?"

He had visited the Ying tribe not long ago; the people there were healthy and strong, and they had even tried to kill him.

Upon hearing Li Feng's question, the physician immediately regained his confidence, holding up the medical book in his hand, and answered decisively.

“The symptoms of people suffering from the plague are exactly the same! Although I did not treat them personally, those two people clearly had similar symptoms, and I am certain that it is most likely the plague!”

Upon hearing this, Li Feng immediately retorted, "Nonsense! How can you make such a hasty judgment without careful verification!"

Li Qingqing glared at the physician, feeling rather speechless. "If it really is an epidemic, even if we turn them away, do you think it won't endanger us?"

After Li Qingqing finished speaking, she coldly ordered the soldiers, "Open the city gates!"

This physician was always a mediocre doctor, and now he made a rash judgment based on just a glance from afar, which was no less than the blind diagnosis of a witch doctor.

The two soldiers looked troubled, but dared not disobey the city lord's orders.

The city gate slowly opened, and Li Qingqing lifted her foot to step towards the gate.

The physician was extremely anxious and rushed to Li Qingqing, his voice filled with a desperate resolve. "City Lord, you mustn't! You don't understand medicine, let me go! I'll go and check if they really have the plague!"

Li Qingqing looked at the physician blocking her way and smiled, "It's good that you're doing your job, but regardless of whether it's an epidemic or not, we have to find out the truth to prevent future problems."

Seeing this, Li Feng pulled the physician aside, saying, "Move aside, who said your city lord doesn't know medicine?"

His younger sister was a very skilled doctor, and he had been keeping it to himself, wanting to speak up for her for a long time!

"What? The city lord knows medicine?"

The physician and Deputy General Chi exchanged a glance, watching helplessly as Li Qingqing and Li Feng walked out of the city.

Outside the city, Lin Ana shouted for a while, then handed the curved tube to a soldier beside her, "Keep shouting!"

She walked up to the sedan chair, looked at Yingxiao and the witch doctor coughing uncontrollably, and couldn't help but say, "Just bear with it a little longer, we will definitely shout to open the city gates."

Yingxiao coughed for a while, then, after catching his breath, weakly waved his hand. "Ana, are you sure this is... a cold? Can the city lord of the border city really cure my illness?"

“Of course!” Lin Ana replied quickly.

"The Divine Envoy said that if we need anything, we can seek help from this city lord! You know, when my father and the others were so sick, it was precisely because they took the herbs left by the Divine Envoy that they recovered?"

The shaman coughed a few times and asked, "Did the divine messenger really go to your house?"

"Of course it's true! It's just a pity that he left before I even had a chance to talk to him." Lin Ana concealed some details.

Just then, a commotion broke out among the tribal soldiers, with one soldier shouting, "The city gates are open! The city gates are open!"

Before long, Lin Ana saw Li Qingqing leading a group of people toward the sedan chair.

"Lord of the city, please save our chief and the witch doctor! Our tribe has no healers, they really just have a cold."

As Ana spoke, she quickly went to the side of the sedan chair and lifted the curtain.

Li Qingqing glanced at Ana seemingly unintentionally, a half-smile playing on her lips. "Let me take a look first."

After saying that, she walked straight into the sedan chair.

Huh? Lin Ana looked at Li Qingqing in confusion. This person seemed familiar.

After thinking about it carefully, her eyes suddenly lit up.

It turns out that the divine messenger who saved his father and woke up the chief was actually the city lord of the neighboring city!

This is a huge secret.

However, she would never tell anyone!

The physician following behind couldn't help but glance into the sedan chair and muttered under his breath, "Lord, be careful, a persistent high fever is a sign of an epidemic!"

Li Qingqing turned around and glared at him, but her tone was very calm, "Examine him first before drawing any conclusions!"

The physician shrugged and muttered to himself, "This shouldn't be the case. The book clearly states that those with high fever should be wary of an epidemic. Why doesn't the city lord believe me?"

Lieutenant General Chi was standing next to the physician. Upon hearing the physician's words, he became alarmed and quickly leaned close to the physician's ear to whisper, "Think carefully again, is there a cure?"