Yang Rongji is almost certain that this catastrophe of massacring the city must be inextricably linked to the fight between monsters and dogs.

After a while, you will arrive at the gate of Heyang City.The door was pitch-black, and there were officers and soldiers guarding the gate on both sides. They looked foolish, and when they saw the two from afar, they waved and scolded: "Hurry up, hurry up, you won't be able to enter the city, don't you know?"

Pan Yue said loudly: "We are..."

Yang Rongji covered his mouth quickly with his eyes and hands, and said to the two officers and soldiers: "We are here to visit relatives, but we don't know what happened, why are we not allowed to enter the city?" He whispered in Pan Yue's ear: " I am in the open, the enemy is in the dark, don't reveal your identity."

Pan Yue nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

The officers and soldiers said unhappily: "There is a plague in the city, and the death order from the superiors, no one is allowed to go out!"

Yang Rongji said warmly: "The official said that people are not allowed to leave the city, but they didn't say that people were not allowed to enter the city. The two of us came to look for relatives, and now we know that there is a plague, which is about human life. There is absolutely no reason to leave."

"This..." The officers and soldiers were very hesitant. The superiors only said that they could not go out, but they did not say that they could not enter.But no matter whether they were travelers or merchants, no one who knew that there was a plague in there still couldn't help but burrow into it. I don't know whether these two people are stupid or bold, and they still want to go to the city at this time.

He thought for a moment and asked, "What do you two do for a living?"

Pan Yue said without hesitation, "I'm a cook."

Yang Rongji said: "I am a doctor."

The officer and soldier glanced at Pan Yue suspiciously, presumably doubting the possibility that this very handsome son was a cook.But he is not unaware of the situation in the city recently. There are many disabled people, and the labor force that can work is extremely rare. What's more, there are two kinds of people that are most lacking now, one is a doctor, and the other is a cook.Needless to say, the doctor, the cook is because of the special situation now, the food is supplied in a unified way, and everyone eats a big pot of rice, so the logistics staff have also become vacancies.

The officers and soldiers said: "I have told you that unless the plague is lifted, you will not be able to come out after entering. I think you two are spoiled and spoiled, and you don't seem to be able to endure hardship. You can think about it."

Yang Rongji said: "Thank you, sir, we are also worried about our relatives, no matter how muddy the water is, we have to wade through it."

The officer and soldier sighed unceasingly, and said: "It's touching." Then he shouted to the top of the city, and the other end gave him a response signal, and then he slowly opened the city gate.

As soon as he opened it, both Pan Yue and Yang Rongji held their breaths at the same time. They saw that behind this heavy door were countless pairs of pitiful eyes, withered and haggard faces, rotten and festering wounds, and people desperately trying to reach the fence. hands outside.

The refugees were hissing, "Let us out, let us out!"

But they were strictly blocked outside the iron fence several meters high, even if they wanted to get to the gate, they couldn't move an inch.Pan Yue saw a haggard old woman, holding a red-faced child in her arms, kneeling inside the fence. She was so thin that she was almost squeezed into a meatloaf by the crowd behind her, but she still firmly protected the child in her arms. .What made Pan Yue even more shocking was that the old woman's face, neck, arms, and every inch of exposed skin on her body were covered with festering wounds that were so red and black. These wounds were large and small, but Without exception, the bones are deeply visible and emit a strong stench.

The officers and soldiers behind urged: "Go in quickly, I'm going to close the gate!" After that, without waiting for them, they quickly closed the gate, as if they were afraid that these refugees would fly out of the fence with their wings inserted, and then run out of the city gate.

When the refugees saw someone entering the city, they all speculated. After a while, someone shouted: "Did the emperor send us to save us? Did he come to treat us?"

Yang Rongji thought to himself that he was indeed sent by the emperor, but he was not here to treat your illnesses.He said: "No, no, we are just looking for relatives. I am a doctor and he is a cook."

The refugees fell silent, and after a while, someone said: "What's the use of a doctor? How many doctors have I seen? How many doctors have suffered from this strange disease like me. It is a terminal disease and cannot be cured, haha. We all have to die, hahaha!" As he spoke, he appeared to be insane, tearing his hair, laughing wildly and running away from the crowd.

As soon as these words came out, the crowd began to tremble, and many people said in despair: "The emperor abandoned us! We have to die! The emperor abandoned us at the most critical time!"

Some people even started to throw bricks and stones at the city gate, cursing: "Why don't you let us run for your life? Why! We are also human! We collect so much taxes on weekdays, why are we allowed to fend for ourselves when we are in trouble? What about the money! Where did the money go?!"

The screams were so stern that Pan Yue's heart was sour when he heard it, and he couldn't bear to watch it any more.He turned his eyes and turned to the old woman. She had been squeezed by the manic crowd and had difficulty breathing, and the child in her arms began to cry loudly, and she was about to die!

The city gate was closed, and the officers and soldiers inside immediately opened a small gate in the fence and pushed Pan Yue and Yang Rongju in.Pan Yue wanted to squeeze to the woman's side, but the crowd couldn't move at all.Pan Yue had an idea, took out a bag of dry food from his arms, and shouted: "Grab the dry food!" He said and threw it aside vigorously.When the crowd saw that there was food, they immediately went to fight for it.The woman was finally free and fell to the ground in pain. Pan Yue hurried to the woman and helped her up.

The child in her arms cried loudly, and Pan Yue took out another bag of dry food and stuffed it into the woman's hand. The woman gasped and said, "Thank you, thank you, sir."

Yang Rongji asked: "What happened here? How did you get your injuries?"

The old woman shed tears and said in a trembling voice, "It's him, he's here for revenge!"

"who is it?"

The old woman said humanely: "Both young masters, hurry up, this place is no longer a place for people to stay! That monster is spreading poisonous gas everywhere, if it touches it, it will fester like me, and die soon! You hurry up, Don't be discovered by that monster!"

Yang Rongji said: "Don't worry, tell me clearly, isn't there any resistance? Didn't the officers and soldiers protect you?"

The woman said: "No one can protect us. Anyone who resists will be sprayed to death by a big fire-breathing dog!"

Demon dogs fight together!Both Pan Yue and Yang Rongji were stunned. It seemed that the situation in this city was much more dangerous than they had imagined.

Pan Yue asked cautiously: "Then what about the revenge you just mentioned?"

The woman's dull eyes widened slightly, but she remained silent. Just as Pan Yue was about to ask again, a young man who had been watching them for a long time said, "I know about this, you two, please do me a favor. Give me something to eat too."

Pan Yue didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he took out another dry ration from his pocket and handed it to him.After getting the food, the young man gulped it down on the spot. While eating, he sprayed scum and said, "I also heard it from people. It all started with the Tao family, the largest household in Heyang, 12 years ago."

"At that time, there were two big families in Heyang, one surnamed Tao and the other surnamed Li. The Tao family was engaged in water transport and commerce. This water transport was the lifeblood of Heyang's economy. At that time, the Tao family had a lot of money and two channels Eating can be said to cover the sky with one hand. It is extremely majestic. Under the halo of their family, the small medicinal material business run by the Li family is simply not worth mentioning."

"But just 12 years ago, the young grandmother of the Tao family gave birth to a child, which brought disaster to the Tao family. On the night the child was born, there were cloudy clouds, lightning and thunder, and the wind blew almost to the roof. Throw it away, this is because even God doesn't want him to be born."

"The child was extremely ugly when he was born, and half of his face was covered with pustules. Everyone who saw it said that it was as terrifying as if the skin had been sewn on the face. Since he was born, there have been accidents in the water transportation under the jurisdiction of the Tao family. Several cargo ships suddenly went into the water and were stolen, even a big hole was broken directly, and all the things were lost. The Patriarch of the Tao family invited an expert to do the fortune-telling, but after finishing the calculation, the expert took a look and turned his head before leaving. Before leaving, he said said a word."

Pan Yue asked, "What are you talking about?"

The young man said: "The old bird burns the nest, and the youngest son ruins his career. Only by getting rid of the son and offering sacrifices to the heavens can we have a chance to survive."

Pan Yue burst out laughing: "Does anyone believe this?"

The young man said sternly: "Young master, don't laugh, just listen to me, the head of the Tao family also thought the same as you, and kept the newborn grandson under pressure. But later..."

Pan Yue: "Later?"

"Later, the whole family was infected with a strange disease, and they all died suddenly almost overnight. There were hundreds of people in Tao's family, and only the child survived. Do you think this life is hard enough? "

Pan Yue said: "It's hard enough. What happened to the kid?"

The boy said: "I'm ashamed to say it. Everyone is afraid of the tragedy of the Tao family's destruction. They really dare not approach the child. Occasionally, they bully him arrogantly. The child has grown up by himself. There is a Jia family selling sesame seed cakes. The couple, surnamed, never had a child, so they took him in to work and took care of him like their own child. They lived in peace at first, but one day the child suddenly took advantage of the opportunity of delivery to harm the master of the Song family and was discovered Called out."

Yang Rongji said: "After the fall of the Tao family, could it be that the Song family became the overlord of Heyang?"

The guy nodded: "Exactly, during the time when the Tao family had an accident, the water transport in Heyang was left unattended, and chaos arose. The Song family took over the water transport business on their behalf, and now they are doing very well, and they are even more popular than the Tao family back then. .”

Pan Yue was more interested in the child, and asked, "Why did the child harm Master Song?"

The boy said: "Who knows, maybe it's for revenge. After all, the Song family's current management of water transportation is not justified, it is equivalent to occupying the old Tao's family business."

He continued: "The more terrifying thing is later. After the child was beaten out, his body was found lying on the riverside in the suburbs the next day. The body was dry, and all the blood had been sucked dry. After that, the Song family broke into a monster in the middle of the night, emitting black mist all over the body. Anyone who was stained by the black mist soon festered and died soon. Then the people in the town, one family after another, were all killed. The terrible black mist was contaminated, and then he got this strange disease. The old people in the town said that the boy came to take revenge."

Pan Yue wondered: "Didn't the sick people go to the doctor?"

The young man sighed and said, "Among the first group of people who died was the doctor in the town. It's useless, even the doctor himself can't save his own life. Now, we have also looked away, who knows when this disease will attack Well, if you can live one more day, you earn it, so be happy."

Pan Yue smiled and said, "You can take it easy."

The young man said seriously: "Sir, don't think I don't know a lot of Chinese characters, but I can see more clearly than those officials and gentlemen. They stay at home all day long, begging gods and gods in fear, wishing to step left or right first. Divination is needed on the feet. Since there are not many days left to live, it is better to do all the things that have not been done before, which is called comfort. To die in fear is also to die, to die happily is also to die , Young Master, do you think this is the case?"

Pan Yue laughed loudly, and said: "It makes sense, as a human being, the most important thing is to be happy."

The young man said curiously: "You two young masters, I don't think you act like ordinary people. Did you practice that and become immortals?"

Pan Yue grinned: "You young man has good eyesight, but to tell you the truth, we are cultivators from Luoyang Taixue."

The boy's eyes were full of admiration: "Wow, people who practice Taoism are the kind that fly around in the sky. Is it difficult to cultivate Taoism? How can ordinary people learn it?"

This guy is really a chatterbox. After Pan Yue chatted with him, Yang Rongji said in a deep voice, "It seems that we have to visit the Tao family."

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