To Li Tianrui's surprise, the butler Neymar asked a maid, a servant and three guards of Astra to come over and ask questions. Whether it was out of loyalty or distrust of the Chinese, no one was willing to go to the quarantine camp later. All of them said they wanted to stay and take care of the owner. In this case, Li Tianrui left the house after instructing on the use of masks and some hygiene matters, and promised to send someone to treat him later.
They checked all the houses around and found that more than half of the houses were empty. In the remaining houses, more than a dozen people had already started to fall ill, and most of the symptoms had started since last night.
"According to what we say, the incubation period of this disease is very short, about a day or so. I think there will be an outbreak soon." Li Tianrui said.
Magna said: "It seems that the symptoms are indeed milder if you get sick from bacteria in the air. I just don't know how long the sick patients can survive."
Li Tianrui said: "In two days, we will know whether I am sick or not. I hope we are not too unlucky."
Li Tianrui summoned a platoon from the nearby Third Battalion of the Guard Army and asked them to block off the entire block and then look for the next source of infection.
The third source of infection was inside the library. Except for two administrators guarding the library who began to fall ill, no one else was affected for the time being.
The fourth source of infection was under a stall in the market area, but due to the tense situation in the past two days, many stalls were closed and there were few people in the market, so the impact was not great.
Just when Li Tianrui was relieved, the fifth source of infection gave him a blow. The body was in an abandoned house in the slums. Because the environment in the slums was very poor, it was full of various odors, and people often died for various reasons. The body did not attract anyone's attention until it turned black and smelled. The houses in the slums were particularly crowded. Li Tianrui found nearly 40 people who had fallen ill near this place. Among these people were elderly people with limited mobility and hungry children. Moreover, they were crowded in the same area with more than 100 other related people.
"Based on previous experience, it is already difficult for us to prevent the outbreak of the plague." Magna said when she saw this scene.
"All these people must be isolated immediately." Li Tianrui transferred a company from the third battalion, as well as all the mages who had learned the poison isolation shield.
The Third Regiment has three direct mage classes from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, a dozen magic advisers and officers of various levels who can perform magic, and more than 20 dark elf magicians from the 5th Battalion. In total, there are more than 70 people with low-level magic skills or above. To any other army on the mainland, this is an incredible statistic, but among the Guards, it is only slightly above the average level, and this does not include the many magic apprentices among the ordinary soldiers.
The toxin-isolating shield is not a very complicated magic. Intermediate mages like Li Tianrui and Kassa, who have undergone so much systematic training on magic structures, basically learned this magic in less than half an hour. Kassa then taught others, and those mages returned to the Duke's Mansion one after another. They each took the time to learn this magic. Now more than 30 people have learned this magic.
Li Tianrui asked the mages to add shields to the soldiers in charge of quarantine. He arranged for the commander of the third battalion, Mareno, "I just asked you to send these people to a vacant noble residence where the first platoon of the second company is on duty. They will be resettled there together with the sick nobles and merchants. From now on, that area will be our temporary quarantine area."
Mareno took the order and left, but after a while he came back to report: "Captain, these people are not cooperating. We just rushed in, and they thought we were here to rob. Some even thought we were slave traders and refused to go with us no matter what. We said everything we should say and explain. But some people knelt down in front of us, begging us to let them go."
"You said they were sick, so are we providing them with free medical treatment?" Li Tianrui asked.
Mareno said, "Of course. I explained the current situation to them in the most common words. But to be honest, it's normal for them not to believe such a good thing. If it was two years ago, I wouldn't believe that a lord would suddenly come to me and say that he would give me a house to live in and treat my illness when I was sick.
I would have thought this was a conspiracy, that the lord was either trying to get rid of me secretly or sell me as a slave."
Li Tianrui said with a dark face: "Now is not the time to waste time. You must finish this matter within half an hour. Spend money where necessary and put in effort where necessary. Use whatever means you have. I will take care of it for you if anything goes wrong."
"That's not impossible... Captain, then I'll use a simple and rough method?" This is what Mareno was waiting for Li Tianrui to say.
"You know the limits."
"Okay." Mareno said, "Mage class, follow me."
He called the mage class under his camp, arranged a joint spellcasting formation, and aimed at a position in the middle of several rooms. He ordered: "Aim at the house with black walls, and jointly cast a spell - Sleep."
With the burst of magical light, three sleeping spells made all the patients and their families in the room fall asleep.
Marrero gave another order: "Second Company, move on, remove the door panels and use them as stretchers. Carry all the people away."
This time they did not encounter any resistance or nonsense, and the soldiers began to carry people in groups of two.
Facing the trembling slum residents around him, Mareno pointed to a middle-aged man with a calmer look and a young man who was looking around, and said, "You two go with my people to bear witness and come back to tell everyone where I moved these people to and what kind of treatment I gave them."
He waved his hand and two mages came up, put toxin-isolating shields on the two without saying a word, and then forcibly pulled them away.
Half an hour later, the two men returned to the slum. Unlike when they left, when they returned, they seemed much calmer. Others gathered around them and started asking them questions.
"This lord did not lie to us. They really sent those guys to see a doctor." The middle-aged man took the military rations given to him by Mareno and said to the people around him.
"Yes, they really live in those big houses that only nobles can live in. Those places we can never enter in our lifetime, it makes me want to get sick just looking at them." The young man followed.
In this way, it took less than an hour for Mareno to clear out all the people in the area without causing panic among others, which made Li Tianrui look at him with admiration.