Li Tianrui asked: "Where have all the people around here gone? Why are so many rooms empty?"
The butler said, "Most of them left a few days ago. Some went to seek refuge, but most were sent out by the Duke to do something."
"What are they going to do?" Li Tianrui asked.
"I don't know about that. After all, if it was arranged by the Duke, no one would ask too many questions." The butler said, "Our master is also a knight. He knows that he shouldn't ask too many questions about orders that don't belong to him."
Li Tianrui asked again: "Then why are their families not here?"
Anar said: "This is not surprising. Most of them have their own fiefdoms outside the city. Many of them should have sent their families back to their fiefdoms or hometowns before the war, and stayed in the city to await deployment."
Li Tianrui asked: "What about your family?"
“That’s right, right now only our patriarch, Lord Astra, a few servants, and personal guards are at home.
Li Tianrui breathed a sigh of relief. The fewer people there were, the smaller the scale of the plague would be. “I need to see your family head.”
"This..." The housekeeper was a little embarrassed, "Sir, our master has been feeling unwell since last night, and I am preparing to go outside the city to seek help from the Temple of Nature."
When Li Tianrui and his companions heard that the head of this family was ill and needed help from the Temple of Nature, they felt a tightness in their hearts.
The Natural Temple near Green Forest City is a large temple. The temple is not located in the city, but on a mountain two kilometers away from Green Forest City.
This is not uncommon in natural temples. Ancient cities like Green Forest City often do not have much space to rebuild temples. Therefore, the builders of natural temples will arrange the temples in the suburbs, so that the temples are more in line with the meaning of nature.
However, no one would seek help from the Temple of Nature for minor illnesses, because asking the priests of the Temple of Nature for help would be very costly. In addition to the necessary money, sometimes the Temple would also ask for various human and material donations. Since the butler said so, it meant that the knight named Astra was seriously ill.
Li Tianrui would certainly not let him go out of the city at this time. He said, "The city has been sealed off because of the arrest of spies. You can't go out now, but I have a mid-level rain and dew priest from the elves here. Her experience in healing is no worse than that of the chief priest of the Temple of Nature."
Seeing that the butler was still hesitating, he said again: "Let us go to see your master. The sooner any disease is treated, the better."
The housekeeper did not dare to offend Li Tianrui and obediently led them into the yard.
Li Tianrui asked: "Is your master the most powerful person in this house?"
"Of course." The butler nodded, "Lord Astra is a mid-level knight."
"Isn't anyone else here sick?"
The butler was stunned and said, "Others? No, only him. Master Astra is in good health and has never been sick before. I don't know what happened this time, but he suddenly fell ill."
"Strange, fighting spirit should be able to fight these diseases. The stronger people are, the more they should be able to resist the virus and kill them with the magic power in their fighting spirit. How come the strongest person falls first?" Anar said softly.
Li Tianrui observed the structure of the two-story house and found that some of the room windows faced the yard where the body was hidden, and they were open.
He pointed to a window on the second floor and asked, "Whose room is that?"
"The several windows in that direction are the rooms where our master and his family live. The one with the open window is Lord Astra's own bedroom, and next to it are his children's rooms, but they have all gone back to their hometown with the lady. The master has been living here alone for the past two days, and he is in there now." said the butler.
"No wonder, it turns out that their master was exposed to bacteria for the longest time." Anar said.
Everyone walked into the house and followed the housekeeper to the living room. The housekeeper wanted to ask everyone to sit down for a while before informing the host. But Li Tianrui said, "It's unreasonable to ask a patient to come downstairs to greet guests. Just lead the way and let's go to the patient's room to take a look."
"Sir, this..."
"Just consider this as the new lord's request." Anar said on the side.
When everyone saw Astra lying on the bed, they knew that the epidemic had really begun. Astra's face was covered with small black spots, large and small, spreading from his head and neck to his face, and there were also many spots on his exposed arms.
Magna said: "That's them. I feel that power. This is not an ordinary black spot disease, but a disease caused by demonic bacteria."
In order to get Arsenal's cooperation, Li Tianrui did not conceal the situation of the disease, but told the other party a part of what they had discovered so far and some more confident guesses.
"My lord, are you saying that I might have contracted a very dangerous plague?" Astra was obviously very frightened, and his voice was even trembling.
Li Tianrui said: "Yes, I want you to cooperate with Her Excellency Magna's treatment. I said before that this disease is a new demonic mutation. We must conduct some experiments to determine what method is effective."
"But sir, according to what you said, will other people in my room also be infected with the disease? Including my butler Neymar?" Astra looked at the butler and a maid next to them. After hearing what Li Tianrui said, they both looked very scared.
"That's right. According to my plan, all families who have had patients in their houses must be quarantined. You can leave behind people who are willing to take care of you, but everyone else must go to the isolation camp we have set up in the city to be observed for one to two days to see if they will also become ill. For those who stay, we will guide them in making protective tools such as masks. But they will run a greater risk of being infected and getting sick." Li Tianrui had just finished speaking when the maid next to him softened and fell down.
Magna came closer to take a look and said, "She has developed that infection. It's still relatively weak, but I could feel it once I got close. It seems that the first symptom is weakness. She just fainted when she was frightened. It seems that she will have to stay in bed and rest."
"Sir, this... do you want us to take care of her?" asked the housekeeper.
Li Tianrui looked at the girl lying on the ground, hardened his heart and said to the housekeeper: "We currently don't have the staff to take care of sick patients, so even if new patients appear among you, you can only solve it by yourselves. But please remember that the new government treats everyone equally. I hope you don't do stupid things because of your different status."