In recent days, the city of Bedis has been shrouded in a dignified atmosphere. The dwarf laborers who daily extended the dungeon and expanded its subsidiary structures were nowhere to be seen. The head of the priest, Meslet, has issued a ban, requiring ordinary citizens in the city to stay in their houses. The only ones still active in the city today are the patrolling soldiers and the busy nobles at the bottom of the dungeon.
Most of the dwarven peons don't know what's going on, except that it seems that many of the tribe have been stricken with serious diseases lately. For three consecutive days, the corpses of clan members were thrown into the well of the abyss every day, so rumors of the plague gradually spread in the upper floors of the city.
Plague, this is a taboo word. Most of the underground people have strong bodies from birth to old age. Not to mention those snake women and scorpion men who have warrior potential since birth, they are dwarves who work hard and rarely get sick in their lives. But in the city of Bidis, there is such a legend. According to legend, a plague broke out when the city of Bedes was just started to be built.
In that plague, most of the strong soldiers and hard laborers were killed or injured. Those were the darkest days in Bides City. Every day, people from the tribe died in extremely painful ways. The god of death seemed to reside in the dungeon forever. No matter how much the chief priest prayed to the abyss, he could not stop the continuation of the disaster.
No one knows when the plague will end, just as it happened quietly, it disappeared quietly. Since then, there has been no major outbreak, and the underground race has had the opportunity to recuperate. From the miserable number of people who were almost extinct after the plague, it has multiplied to a huge scale of three to five thousand people. The chief priest attributed this to the abyss, and believed that it was protected by the king of the underground tribe, Naga.
So from then on, the saying that Naga will one day wake up from the abyss spread in the city.
But now, it seems that the city of Bidis can't wait for the Naga to wake up, but instead waited for the second outbreak of the plague.
As the bottom dwarves of the subterranean race, since they were born because of their short stature, they could not become warriors but could only serve as coolies, so they could not share information with the nobles. The important resources and information of Bidis City are in the hands of the nobles at the bottom of the dungeon. Under such circumstances, suspicion and rumors abound, making the dwarves living above the dungeon uneasy.
It wasn't just the dwarves who felt uneasy, Mesrit was also uneasy recently. As the chief priest of the underground tribe, it has several times the life of the tribe. Compared with other races, the lives of the Underworld races are very short. The lifespan of a strong warrior is only ten years, the average lifespan of a dwarf peonie is only five to eight years, and the lifespan of an elite warrior can reach as long as fifteen years because of the completion of initial transformation.
And only a life like Maesrit who has completed three transformations can have a lifespan of nearly forty years. Huo Xian, the Chief Guardian, and Mo Sen, the Chief Enlightenment, lived as long as Maesrit. These two elders came from the warrior class and the hard working class respectively, but they were also the best among them. Especially Mo Sen, who came from a humble background, but possessed the talent to touch the elemental world, and became the only alien among the underground race that could communicate with the elements.
Meslet, Huo Xian, and Mo Sen were all people who experienced the plague when the dungeon was first built. Mesrit did not forget that dark memory, but unexpectedly, history repeated itself.
In fact, after the plague disappeared, the disease was not far away from the underground people. Every year, only a few hundred people are infected with strange viruses. Although the subterranean race is comparable to those who are at the forefront of the times in terms of technology, as a new intelligent race, they lack the thousands of years of civilization inheritance like humans. Therefore, the coronaviruses that appeared in the old era, for the underground people living in the new era, do not know their composition and the cause of their generation, so they cannot be eradicated, let alone eradicated.
This situation did not improve until after the first transaction with Pavalic. At that time, the underground race found black earth blood in the abyss, and through various attempts, they discovered that they were flammable energy sources. This accelerated the development of Bydes City, and at the same time it became an important currency for the dungeon's trade with the outside world. When conducting the first transaction with Pavarich, Mosen accidentally discovered that among some drugs provided by humans, a drug called aspirin played a very obvious role in delaying the suffering of the infected people.
Therefore, in future transactions, Bides City will specify some convenient medicines. Although all they need is aspirin, in order to prevent humans from discovering their secrets, the wise Mosen pointed out that they cannot only trade and fix one drug to humans. With the supply of Pavarich, the use of aspirin has made the number of people infected with diseases decrease year by year.
Maesrit felt very relieved by this, and believed that his people would one day get rid of this terrible disease. But three days ago, since the first newly infected clansman appeared, patients appeared one after another. This time the plague broke out concentrated among the warriors and nobles, and today, some of the upper echelons of the dwarves have begun to be infected with the disease one after another.
This made the city at the bottom of the city of Bedes almost a mess. People died every day. The number of deaths was so shocking that it was the highest average number of deaths per day since the city of Bedes was founded.
"My king Naga, what is going on here? Could it be that the abyss has abandoned us?"
During the prayer, Meisrit's beautiful face was full of worry. It stared at the portrait of King Naga on the wall, and sighed with great sadness. At this moment, the sound of a cane being tapped came from behind him, and the chief priest turned around, but it was the old dwarf Mo Sen who came behind his back.
"The situation is out of control." Mo Sen sighed: "Meslit, our drug reserves are already insufficient. If this continues, we will soon have no medicine available. Moreover, this plague is very terrible. Even if the right medicine is given, Controllable intensity is far from enough. We have to figure out a way, or...
The old dwarf didn't continue talking, but why didn't Meisrit know the result. The head priest closed her eyes, as if after some consideration, she made an important decision: "At this point, we can only ask Pavalich for help. By this time, we can no longer take care of our family's interests." Whether the weakness will be exposed under the nose of humans. Doctors, we need human doctors, and there are a lot of drugs."
"Your decision is right, there is no way around it. If you keep worrying about these things, when the plague spreads to the whole city, we will be finished." Mo Sen nodded heavily on his crutches, and said, "I'm going to Pavari now strange."
"No, I'll go!"
A rough voice came from outside the door, and Huo Xian, the tower-like guardian chief, came in through the door with his body lowered. It looked at Maesrit and Mo Sen and said, "In terms of footsteps, I'm afraid there is no one in our clan who is faster than me."
Meisrit nodded and said: "Then I will trouble you, Chief Guardian. You can convey my meaning, as long as we can prevent this disaster, we will pay the human beings accordingly."
"It's cheap for those greedy guys!" Huo Xian said bitterly: "This time, they will definitely take more blood from the earth veins."
"Even if the blood of the earth veins is good, it is not as precious as the lives of our people. Go, chief guardian, I hope you will return soon." Meslit said lightly.
Huo Xian nodded, said goodbye and left.
The caravan needs to walk a day's journey, and under Huo Xian's feet, it can be reached in half a day. It was noon when it left the city of Bedes, and it was only evening when it arrived at Pavarich. When the soldiers on duty saw Huo Xian's big lobster coming straight from the other side of the snowfield, pointing at Pavalich, they thought it was a monster invasion and immediately sounded the alarm. So the next moment, more than a dozen rifles greeted Huo Xian at the same time.
It's a pity that the rifle's power is limited, not to mention the biological armor on Huo Xian's body, even it can't pierce the skin without any armor stomach protection in the cold wind. Normally, the chief guardian would have smashed it with a hammer, but now he has something to ask for, but he dare not act recklessly. It stopped outside the shooting range of the rifle, touched back with its big hand, and raised a dwarf from behind itself.
This dwarf was the supervisor who handed over the goods to old Rob that day, and he was one of the few people in the city of Bedis who were proficient in human language. Huo Xian yelled at it: "Tell them, we want to make a deal with them."
The dwarf supervisor had never been out of Bides City in his life, and Huo Xian led him to run wildly on the snow field for half a day. The dwarves' bodies are also much stronger than ordinary humans, but they can't stand such a toss. Now his face was blue from the cold, and he was yelled at by Huo Xian, the notoriously tempered guardian leader, and immediately trembled with fright. As soon as Huo Xian threw it on the ground, the dwarf supervisor immediately yelled intermittently in the direction of Pavalic with a trembling voice: "Stop...human, this is our respected...the chief guardian, but put Call out your patriarch and tell him that we want to make a deal with him in Bides City."
Hearing the word Bides City, the soldiers in the sentry tower finally came to their senses. They stopped shooting and called a soldier to report the situation to the current mayor, Sharon. So after a while, Sharon went out of the city in person to welcome the brave Chief Guardian and Dwarf Supervisor into Pavarich.
Huo Xian had to admit that although human beings were fragile, their food was delicious. Especially that kind of strange drink, after drinking it into the stomach, it is like a fire burning. Huo Xian liked this feeling very much, so he kept asking the dwarf supervisor to ask the humans to bring this drink.
In the assembly square, Sharon arranged a simple but lively dinner for Huo Xian's arrival. The people who attended the banquet were all prominent figures in the town, to show the respect of Bedes City, a friendly neighbor and long-term trading partner. Huo Xianben didn't like Sharon, a fat man, but as Sharon's wonderful flattery entered the ears of the chief guardian after the translation by the dwarf supervisor, coupled with delicious food and drinks that pleasing to his appetite, he continued to appear. After getting on, even Huo Xian began to like this ball-like human being.
On the other side of the square, in a small three-story house. Zero lowered the curtain of the window and looked at Beyoncé who was sitting by the fireplace flipping through a hardcover book: "The fish has already taken the bait."
Beyoncé closed the book, lifted her glasses on the bridge of her nose and smiled, "Thanks to your reminder."
Ever since she found out that the virus that caused the genetic collapse of the underground people turned out to be a common coronavirus in the old days, Beyonce had a preliminary plan. The plan is divided into three parts. The first is to send the man-made virus into the city of Bedes, so that the underground tribes can be infected with the virus; Come to the small town and become the hostage and trump card of the human side; in the end, use the hostage as bait to anger the side of Bidis City and make it attack with troops. In this way, the battlefield of the two sides will change from a complex dungeon to a flat snow field, so that the human side can grasp more initiative.
In this whole plan, how to send the virus into Bedes City without anyone noticing is the most critical and most difficult part.
Originally, in Beyonce's plan, she considered the way of air transmission, and asked people to secretly observe the geographical environment near Bides City, hoping to find natural vents to spread the virus in. But such a vent is extremely difficult to find, and in terms of efficiency, it is far from reaching the speed of the plague. If it weren't for the sudden outbreak of a serious illness, it would be difficult to psychologically exert enormous pressure on the aliens in Bedes City, forcing them to seek help from humans.
For this reason, at the battle meeting, the officers of the three major families pondered over this issue. Finally, Zero thought about the source of water. When he was secretly exploring the dungeon, he found buildings like reservoirs. Obviously, the underground people also needed clean water to drink. The city of Bidis is located in the hinterland, and what it uses is nothing more than a mountainside tributary of ground water, so Beyoncé changed her goal from the original natural vent to a source of ground vein water.
With the support of advanced survey equipment, Beyoncé's team soon found several water sources. Then, work becomes easier. Beyoncé asked the biochemists accompanying the army to manufacture a large number of coronaviruses, and even in order to achieve better results, these biochemical lunatics artificially cultivated an upgraded version of the coronavirus. And when these viruses, which were even more terrifying to the underground people, were thrown into the water source, a plague naturally broke out in Bides City.
Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner according to the plan, and the city of Bedis has sent envoys to Pavalich for help. Judging from the current situation, the envoy who was eating and drinking in the small square still has a pivotal position in the dungeon. The requirements of Bides City are simple and clear, they need doctors and medicines. Medication was something Beyoncé had expected, but as for the doctor, she hadn't thought of it.
And when it comes to doctors, Beyonce or the other two families have military doctors. But in order to avoid arousing the suspicion of Bedes City, Beyonce dared not use military doctors, after all, they were not native town residents. As for Pavalic himself, there are several doctors, and now their list is in the hands of Beyonce.
Beyoncé flicked the screen of the brain, and finally her finger landed on one of the doctors.
"It's just you."