Inside The Black Mist Chapter 916: Desperation
Two days later, they arrived at a settlement.
When he knew that the next stop on the road would be the settlement, Tianyang felt curious that the Ruby Chamber of Commerce was still doing business with the settlement. Before Zhang Rui's caravan had contacts with the settlement, it was fine. After all, Zhang Rui's caravan was not on the table at that time, and it was reasonable to do business with the settlement.
But now it is the Ruby Chamber of Commerce, a chamber of commerce with strong financial resources, what exactly is it looking for in the settlement.
As if seeing Tian Yang's question, Zhang Rui answered it on the spot.
It turned out that the settlement they were going to had an ancient city sunk into the ground behind their settlement. People in settlements often touch into the ancient city and take risks to bring back some items. These items that have been deposited in time for a long time are usually of collection value.
Not to mention that collectors in the Eastern Continent are interested, even if they are sold in other continents, there is a very good market.
Therefore, Tu Moshan's caravan often trades with this settlement. The Songyue caravan will transport food and weapons. The former can ensure the survival of the people in the settlement, and the latter will increase their survival rate in the ancient city. .
Even, there are some gold diggers in the settlement. They were injured in the Negative Realm and could no longer enter the Negative Realm, so they simply lived in this settlement and ventured into the ancient city with the men in the settlement.
Before evening, the caravan arrived near the settlement. They were hidden in a forest, and they had to go deep along a path to be able to see them.
Tu Moshan personally led the way, each of the three caravans picked a few people, and followed the chairman of the Ruby Chamber of Commerce to the settlement.
Based on the principle of gaining insight, Tianyang took Xingluo along and followed him on the grounds of protecting Zhang Rui.
Zhang Rui was protected by them. Although it was his first visit to this settlement, he didn't panic at all. There was a smile on his face the whole time, as if there was a sea of swords and fire in front of him, and he was not afraid.
After walking for a while, suddenly there was a sound of '咻' in the forest, and a loud arrow pierced in front of the team, in front of Tu Moshan.
Ma Liangji, who was in charge of protecting Tu Moshan, immediately stepped forward, but the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce laughed, pulled Ma Liangji aside, and then stepped forward: "I am Tu Moshan from the Ruby Chamber of Commerce. Is dad there?"
Leaves fell from the trees in front, and soon two figures slid down from the tree trunks and fell to the ground.
Tianyang saw that they were two thin and dark men. They wore dark brown coats with white undershirts, wide-leg trousers, and brown and dark green cloth belts.
They wore no shoes, and one had a turban on his head, the other did not. They all carried bows and arrows, quiveres, and daggers hanging from their waists, with wary eyes.
One of them said: "Papa Huang Sheng is sick."
"Sick?"
Tu Moshan hurriedly said: "Take me to see, I have medicine and a doctor."
He immediately asked people to leave the forest, but he found a team doctor outside and ordered him to bring commonly used medicines.
Seeing that Tu Moshan was so friendly, the two men in the settlement exchanged glances, and one of them rushed back to the settlement to report. A moment later, the team doctor from the chamber of commerce arrived with a nurse and two medical kits. A group of people also came out of the settlement. The leader was a middle-aged man with short gray hair and bronze complexion. His facial features were soft and nothing special, but his eyes were very sharp.
When he saw Tu Moshan, he laughed: "Sure enough, it's Mr. Tu. I thought they heard it wrong. I thought Mr. Tu's caravan usually came at this time."
Tu Moshan also recognized him, nodded and said: "Aliwang, long time no see, you look good."
The middle-aged man named Aliwang waved his hand: "How can you look good? You have to rush around for three meals a day. It's good to be alive."
"Come, come, this way." Aliwang led the way.
Tu Moshan walked beside him: "Papa Huang Sheng is sick? He has always been in good health. Is it a cold or some other sudden illness?"
Aliwang's face darkened, and he shook his head and said, "It's a long story, but in fact, not only Dad is sick, there are more than a dozen people in the settlement who are sick now. And their symptoms are all the same, let's go Harvest Fort asked for help and invited a doctor to come over, but there was nothing to do."
Tu Moshan was taken aback: "Even the doctors in Harvest Fort can't help?"
The doctors in his team are not famous doctors. The doctors who come to Harvest Fort should not be worse than his own. If even the doctors in Harvest Fort can't help, then he, a random doctor, probably can't do anything. .
I thought it was just a common disease, but now it seems that what happened in the settlement is not simple.
The team doctor heard that the symptoms were the same, and immediately reminded: "Mr. Tu, if the symptoms are the same, it may be an infectious disease. Look, do you want me to go and see first, if it is not an infectious disease, you can go in again ?”
Aliwang immediately said: "It's not an infectious disease. The doctors in Harvest Fort also suspected it, but they have ruled it out. The disease started to appear more than half a year ago, and this symptom will appear every once in a while. patients."
"If it is an infectious disease, the doctor said that it is impossible for us to survive until now, and there are only a dozen people who get sick, which does not meet the characteristics of an infectious disease."
"It's true to say so. However, safety comes first." The team doctor insisted.
Tu Moshan nodded, and said to the middle-aged man: "Ali Wang, it's not that I can't trust you, but we are going to the Western Continent this time. The journey is far away, and I need to be responsible for my own people."
"Therefore, if you agree, then let me, a doctor, go to your settlements to see. If you don't agree, it doesn't matter. I will leave you food and guns and give them to you for free. I hope you can leave Overcome this difficulty."
Hearing this, Tian Yang secretly praised Tu Moshan's words, which were very decent and would not be offensive.
Sure enough, Aliwang shook his head and smiled and said, "Mr. Tu, you are too outrageous to say that. In the early years, if we hadn't had your support, how could we have survived to this day."
"Okay, please ask your doctor to check with us. That's fine, I hope you, a doctor, can find a cure."
With Aliwang's consent, the doctor and nurse went in with the two men from the settlement. Tian Yang and others waited in the nearby woods. About an hour later, the sun started to set, and the nurse came back.
"Mr. Tu, Dr. Liao said that it is indeed not an infectious disease, we can go in."
Aliwang immediately said: "Mr. Tu, please."
After walking for a while, the woods gradually receded, and Tianyang saw a clearing, which was surrounded by wooden piles as a simple fortification.
Behind the wooden piles, there are small buildings made of wood. There are thin men with bronze skin walking around on the buildings. Tianyang saw that there were machine guns and bows and arrows in the buildings. Entering through the gate is a row of wooden buildings. These houses are all supported by wooden piles, and the distance between the first floor and the ground is at least one or two meters. There are children playing in and out of these wooden buildings.
The roads in the settlements are very narrow, there is no plan, and no hard ground is laid. They are all roads piled with sand. It seemed that there had been a rain before, which made the road a bit muddy.
Tianyang also discovered that on the doors and pillars of the buildings on both sides, there were brightly colored decorations made of various stones and animal bones.
And above their heads, there are ropes hanging between the buildings on both sides, and the clothes of the people in the settlement are hung on these ropes to dry.
After walking through a small path, a small square appeared. There was a well in the middle of the square. Dark-skinned and short women in the settlement were queuing up by the well with buckets or basins.
There are two men at the mouth of the well, and one of them draws water from the well and distributes it to the women. The other was holding a rifle in the air, and his eyes kept sweeping around, maintaining order.
On the opposite side of the square, there is a tall wooden building with a large area but only two floors. A field magnetic energy car was parked downstairs, and there were two thin men standing at the entrance of the small building, like guards.
Aliwang took Tu Moshan, Tianyang and others straight to the tall wooden building.
You need to take off your shoes to enter the door. The space inside the building is very spacious, and the open windows ensure sufficient lighting and air circulation in the building.
The ground is covered with a 'carpet' made of hay. Stepping on it is like stepping on a lawn. It is soft, not sticky, and exudes a faint fragrance of grass and trees.
When Tian Yang and others came in, the doctor from the chamber of commerce just came out of a small room, shook his head, frowning, and knew at a glance that it couldn't be solved.
Tu Moshan knew that there might not be any turning point, but he still asked: "How is the situation of Huang Sheng's father?"
The doctor smiled wryly: "Mr. Tu, it's too strange. I even suspect that this is not a disease, but that the patient is parasitized by something."
Hearing the word parasitic, Tian Yang immediately frowned. Ever since he entered the tomb, he was extremely sensitive to these two words.
"Parasite?"
Tu Moshan said: "Be more careful."
The doctor disinfected his hands first, then wiped them clean, and then said: "I have checked the patient, and his body functions are normal. But his nutrition has been inexplicably lost. This situation is very similar to parasitic diseases. Similar. But I checked with instruments, and there are no parasites in the patient's body."
"I've checked people with the same disease, and they're all in the same situation. They're constantly losing nutrients in their bodies. Over time, their organs will gradually fail and eventually die."
Tu Moshan frowned and said, "What kind of disease is this?"
The doctor shook his head: "I don't know, and the conditions here are not allowed. If you want to find out, you have to go to a fortress like Harvest Fort. Their medical center has the conditions to conduct a comprehensive and careful diagnosis of patients. "
At this time, Aliwang smiled wryly and said: "The doctor in Harvest Fort told me that there are actually patients with similar symptoms in their fortress, and they don't know what's going on."
"They call it 'Qiyuan Syndrome', which means the gradual loss of vitality. It is said that this strange disease appeared after the Lord of Harvest Castle changed his faith. Therefore, they are also secretly guessing that it will It’s not that the city lord believes in something evil.”