A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 356: The town is full of corpses, Mu Liang is critically ill and fortunately meets Si Yao

Lianzhou in the southern border is not small, so when the governor of Lianzhou dispatched people to deliver Mr. Zisang's prescription to the county magistrates of various cities, it would take a day or two to reach the distant places, and then the county magistrates would send people to the towns and villages. Unfortunately, the people in the cities, especially some small towns that even the government could not take care of, had died of illness before they could get the prescription, and there were even dead towns with corpses everywhere.

Si Yao and Xiao Lu rode into Lianzhou half an hour later and stopped outside a small town. The dead silent town was suddenly filled with whimpering winds, and a stench like that of a rotting corpse immediately hit their noses. The two who had dismounted immediately put on cloth towels that had been soaked in medicinal herbs beforehand, and Si Yao handed a black pill to Xiao Lu.

"Sister Si Yao, it's so quiet here, I'm afraid there are no living people left." Xiao Lu naturally knew that this pill was used to prevent the plague, so he swallowed it without hesitation, then looked at the town in front of him that was shrouded in the breath of death, and sighed with regret.

"Tie the horse outside." Si Yao said to Xiaolu, then quickly walked into the town carrying the medicine box.

Just as Xiaolu expected, this was a dead town with no people and only the occasional sad cries of old crows. On both sides of the messy streets lay many corpses of people tortured to death by plague, most of which had long since rotted away, and some even had their bones exposed. From their hunched and struggling bodies, one could tell how helpless and desperate they were in life.

The tragic scene came into view, Si Yao stopped in grief and dared not move forward. A group of crows standing on the corpses pecking at the rotten flesh saw the human figure and flapped their black wings to fly to the roof and continued to make shrill cries. The rotten corpses eaten by the crows were even more horrible to look at, and the stench was unbearable, but Si Yao had studied medicine after all, so he no longer had a stomach churning like before when he saw the wreckage on the battlefield.

"These are all corpses infected with the disease, and the government didn't come to burn them. If the plague spreads, won't it be troublesome?" At this time, Xiaolu had rushed to Si Yao, covering his nose. Looking at the tragic scene of corpses everywhere in the town, his eyes were filled with fear, and he couldn't help complaining.

"This town is located in a remote area. The plague is raging in the cities of Lianzhou right now. I'm afraid the government has no time to take care of it." Si Yao regained his composure, sighed helplessly, and looked around again, and continued: "Let's see if there are any survivors first."

"Sister Si Yao, look!" When the two were about to separate and check different places, Xiaolu suddenly saw thick smoke billowing in the distance and hurriedly pulled Si Yao.

“The general direction should be behind the town. Could it be that government officials are already burning corpses?” Si Yao also looked up and said to himself.

"Hmph, almost everyone in this town is dead, so where is the government? Even the village chief fled with his family several days ago." Just as Si Yao finished speaking, a sneer came from above their heads.

"Who are you?"

Xiaolu, who reacted quickly, just looked up and asked alertly, when he saw the black shadow falling directly from the roof. A tall man covered with a dark blue cloth and a cloak appeared in front of Si Yao and asked anxiously, "Miss, are you a doctor?"

Si Yao just nodded, but she didn't expect that the mysterious man would pull her to the back of the town without saying a word.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Si Yao was unable to react, but Xiaolu rushed forward to stop him. The mysterious man calmly stretched out his other hand to fight with him, and the pushing and shoving naturally brought out Xiaolu's invisible palm wind.

Seeing the knowing smile in the mysterious man's eyes, Xiaolu couldn't help but secretly said: Oh no, I accidentally revealed a few palms in a hurry. Sister Si Yao couldn't see it, but I was afraid that this guy, who I didn't know whether he was a good guy or a bad guy, would be exposed.

"How's your health, little brother..."

"Hey, what on earth are you going to do?"

The mysterious man wanted to say something polite, but he didn't expect that the other person's body suddenly leaned forward and hit his palm. Then he pretended to be knocked to the ground by the palm force. When the mysterious man was surprised and confused, he accused with an innocent and painful look on his face.

This was naturally a self-torture performance that Xiaolu performed on the spot when he saw that the other party was about to expose him in front of Si Yao.

"Xiaolu, are you okay?" Seeing this, Si Yao hurriedly broke free from the mysterious man's hand, squatted down to help Xiaolu, who was lying on the ground and still holding his chest and coughing lightly.

"Sister Siyao, I'm fine." Xiaolu slowly stood up with Siyao's help, and whispered in her ear: "This person is mysterious and has martial arts skills. We have to be careful."

"Boy, you acted well!" After the mysterious man realized what was happening, he couldn't help but laugh or cry.

"What do you want to do?" Xiaolu ignored the other party's words, but Si Yao stepped forward and protected him behind him, looking at the mysterious man in front of him with cold eyes and asked.

"You're a doctor, so I'm here to ask you to treat illnesses and save lives!" Talking about business, the mysterious man anxiously pulled Si Yao to the back of the town again, saying, "I will apologize to you for my rudeness to you in the future, but right now, human lives are at stake, so I can't care about that. Let's save lives first."

After hearing what the other party said, Si Yao and Xiao Lu finally let down their guard. Knowing that there were still people alive in the town, they did not say anything more and hurriedly followed the mysterious man. Not long after, the three of them arrived at a dilapidated Taoist temple at the back of the town. Before entering the temple, they heard bursts of coughing and wheezing.

Arriving at the main hall, Si Yao saw more than ten patients lying in a mess. She was about to go forward to treat them but was stopped by the mysterious man: "These people outside can still hold on for a while, girl, please go to the side hall and save my friend first. He has been suffering for more than ten days and I am afraid he will not make it anymore!"

Si Yao naturally did not hesitate after hearing this, and quickly followed the mysterious man through the left path of the main hall to a side hall, where a man was lying on a haystack. He was upright but his face was red, and he was dying and delirious.

He was Mu Liang, who came to Liunan State to purchase dyes but encountered a plague and was forced to stay in Lianzhou, where he unfortunately contracted the plague.

"Yun Ye... cough cough wait for me... I will be fine cough cough... I promised you cough cough that I would return safely... cough cough I will never break my promise cough cough cough..."

Only when Si Yao approached could she roughly hear Mu Liang's intermittent delirium, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart: I guess he survived because of this solemn promise.

The mysterious man covered tightly at the side is naturally Lao Zhou who came out with Mu Liang. I don't know if it is because he has been drinking for many years and has high martial arts skills, but Lao Zhou is the only one in their group who has not been persecuted by the plague. Although the two guards are skilled, they were also infected and are still lying in the main hall, but fortunately their illness is not as serious as Mu Liang's.