After the proprietress Catherine left, Qin Lun lay quietly on the bed, resting his arms on his pillow, lost in thought.
Stephen Albert is dead! The first alien mission given to him by Broken Starry Sky actually asked him to save a dead man!
In such a small town, the death of a baron heir was considered a major event. Many people saw the funeral of the Albert family at that time, so it should not be a fake.
According to Catherine, although the Albert family is a hereditary baron, the fiefdom is only a small forest and mountains on the outskirts of the small town of Odia. This fiefdom is small in size and low in value, and this family is far away from the ruling center of the Principality of Meize, and has no political opponents. It can be said that he has lived a secluded aristocratic life all year round.
For such a family, naturally, there is no need for the heir to choose to feign death in order to avoid enmity. Of course, Catherine is just the proprietress of a small hotel, and the information she provided can only be used as a reference at most, and Qin Lun needs to find out the real situation.
Thinking of Catherine, Qin Lun smiled. This charming proprietress gave him a new experience in life. However, to Qin Lun, this kind of physical joy was just an experience.
Neither Qin Lun nor Joey actually had a real goal of survival. Entering the Broken Starry Sky may be a test or an opportunity for ordinary people, but for Qin Lun and Joey, it is only curiosity about new things.
Except for a little bit of ease of getting rid of the shackles of the prison wall, the rest is to do whatever you want. Even with this alien mission now, the first element in Qin Lun's mind is still not to complete the mission, but to explore the secret behind the mission.
Another person, with the hint of a mission from another world, would definitely think that Stephen Albert was playing dead. Although Qin Lun was not so sure, it is undeniable that his attitude, which was just perfunctory, has changed a lot. Now he has really developed a strong interest in this alien mission.
To know the so-called salvation, the suffix does not necessarily mean life, there are many things that human beings can contact with "save"...
A strange light flashed in Qin Lun's eyes. He got up from the bed and walked around the guest room naked. He felt the sudden excitement in his heart and muttered to himself somewhat uncontrollably.
To know the life and death of Stephen Albert, one must enter Baron Albert's castle. In normal times, let alone a young doctor without a license to practice medicine, even a well-known doctor in a small town might not be able to get an invitation from the master.
Things are different now, though, with an epidemic spreading across the town. Although under Qin Lun's "seduction", Catherine gave all the information without reservation. But between the words, Qin Lun also felt that there was indeed a "news blockade" that the proprietress said.
This epidemic actually appeared more than a year ago. At that time, there were a few foreigners in the small town of Odia who suddenly fainted on the street. However, the disease these people suffered from was not contagious at that time, and these people struggled for more than a month from getting sick to dying.
The latest epidemic started half a month ago. People in the small town got sick and died one after another, and people around them were also infected. From the edge of the small town at the beginning, it slowly spread to the entire nearby area, covering several small towns. The reason why the accident happened more than a year ago was linked purely because the characteristics of the remains of these patients after death were very similar. They were the first to rot from the inside, and they all had that dark green jelly-like substance.
The situation of the other small towns is not known for the time being, but in the small town of Odia, there is always a mysterious force that will cover up the bodies of those patients, and even their families are silent about it.
There were several versions of Catherine's gossip, and several of them caught Qin Lun's attention.
One theory is that the source of the epidemic lies in the forest more than a hundred miles away from the town, where an evil witch and the evil creatures she drives live. The epidemic is a kind of potion she invented to harm people.
Another said that the disease was brought by those foreigners a year ago, and the source of the disease had long been lurking in those who died now, and it just broke out until now. This theory is quite supported, because some of the people who died in the small town at the beginning happened to be doctors in the small town, and they were also the first to come into contact with the sick foreigners.
However, another piece of information that Catherine accidentally disclosed caught Qin Lun's attention. More than a year ago, those few foreigners came to the small town of Odia and were received by Baron Thomas Albert.
For people in small towns, this is nothing unusual. Those outsiders were well-dressed, whether they were merchants or nobles, they could get an invitation letter from Albert Castle to attend a ball when they first visited the town of Odia, and there was no gossip at all.
However, for Qin Lun, the information contained in it is more intriguing. The guest who had just been received by the host died of a serious illness when he returned home, but the host didn't show any sign after that.
Perhaps these strangers were only temporary guests invited by the baron on a whim, and were forgotten afterwards. Either the Baron was powerless to do anything about their situation, or even murdered the strangers secretly. It would be interesting to get in touch with the heir to the baronet, Stephen Albert, who died, or pretended to be dead, more than a year ago.
Qin Lun's eyes sparkled, he pinched his nose subconsciously, he seemed to smell a strong smell of conspiracy.
"Looks like I'm going to find my dear proprietress tomorrow to discuss the true meaning of life!"
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"Ah..." Accompanied by a woman's high-pitched scream, the rhythmic creaking sound of the wooden bed in the guest room stopped.
The proprietress Catherine collapsed on the bed like a puddle of mud, crystal beads of sweat hung down her blond hair and trickled into the deep ditch between the twin peaks. The woman leaned the young man's head against her tall white tender chest, and gently fiddled with the bangs of black hair on his forehead.
Just seeing the young man's clear and bright eyes, this plump and sexy middle-aged beauty sighed secretly. She knew that she failed to hold the young man's heart, and the relationship between the two was just a dewy love affair. Sometimes, she even felt that she was just a new fruit that the young man was trying to taste.
Young, handsome, funny, with a family background and talent, if I could be ten years younger, I'm afraid I'd be stalking him, so I'm not willing to let go! An inexplicable thought came to Catherine's mind.
"Are you really going to do this?" After some crazy talk, the proprietress finally came to her senses and asked about the business.
"Well, you are the only acquaintance I have in Odia Town. I'm afraid I can only ask you for help. You will help me, right?" Qin Lun squinted his eyes and chuckled, and patted Catherine's fat and tender buttocks.
"Of course, I'm just worried about what will happen after this. I don't want my baby to be infected with that strange disease!" Catherine stretched out a soft finger and poked Qin Lun's forehead with a smile.
"No, in fact, I have cured several patients at home, including myself and my entourage! It's just that I don't have a formal license, and my reputation is small, and the town of Odia has not heard the rumors yet." Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile, "Besides, the medicines needed to treat this disease are very precious, and I won't receive all patients at will!"
"Will you still come to see me when you have a medical license?" Catherine bit her lip, a rare blush appeared on her face.
"Of course, my Catherine is the most wonderful lover!" Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and he pinched the tender flesh on the woman's face with a smile.
Just lovers! Catherine was slightly disappointed, but she soon smiled. A sincere answer is a hundred times better than a false promise. The sophisticated proprietress has already passed the fantasy girlhood.
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Three days later, on the large square in the center of the small town of Odia, a healthy townsman suddenly covered his heart with a painful expression, and slowly collapsed to the ground, with a trace of dark green inexplicable substance flowing out of his mouth.
"Ah..." The women's screams sounded from the main square of the small town, and soon the sick townsman attracted the attention of everyone nearby. The crowd gathered from all directions, but they all gathered around cautiously, no one dared to help the patient.
Although the townspeople had vaguely known that there was an epidemic in the town, in fact, apart from the first one or two cases, no one had ever seen the outbreak of the epidemic in public.
The symptoms of this disease have now spread, and basically all townspeople know about it. Although the mysterious force in the small town temporarily controlled the situation, it could not avoid the panic caused by the epidemic.
In fact, as long as the townspeople have a fever and a cold, the family members will not let him go out, and instead will do everything possible to hide the illness.
Not to mention that the doctors in the town were all dead when the first wave of the epidemic broke out. Even if they were still alive, these people would rather travel dozens of miles to seek medical treatment in secret from a doctor in another town than reveal the truth to their neighbors.
This is a contagious disease. No one knows how much panic will be caused to the neighbors and how they will be treated once the condition of their relatives is disclosed.
To get sick quietly, to heal the disease quietly, to die of illness quietly, and to be buried quietly, everyone has chosen self-hypnosis in a deceptive way. This is also the fundamental reason why Qin Lun saw the weird and desolate situation when he first came to Odia Town, and it is also the root cause of the epidemic that began to spread in several nearby towns.
Of course, it is also the reason why there are patients who come to Wellington, a young man without a medical license, for treatment, and why Wellington was killed by himself.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way!" As the townspeople watched in bewilderment, this man inadvertently broke the peaceful scene pretended by the town residents, there was a commotion around the crowd, and a big hunchback waved With his powerful arms, he pushed the townspeople to this side.
"You idiots, let Master Wellington pass quickly, and the Stan's doctor will treat this poor little fellow!"