Quadruple split.

Chapter 121 Blockade Line

January 2049, 1 AD

Three days after Jimo Tan took the final exam
Game time, AM7:03
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Innocence Continent, south of Misha County, suburb of Ina Town
Mo Tan's figure appeared behind a crooked-neck tree. He was a little surprised at the completely different position from when he was offline, but when the surrounding noise suddenly sounded, he had already guessed the answer immediately.
【Looks like it's just in time for the inspection. 】

Mo Tan, who came out from behind the tree, gave a wry smile, and walked cautiously among the large number of ragged refugees, and walked slowly against the crowd to Ina Town not far away.

He knew that the thousands of haggard-faced people in his field of vision were the lucky ones...

The lucky ones who can get out of the blockade.

Although they have lost their homes, although they are emaciated, homeless, displaced, these people are still lucky.

At least it was enough for them to leave the temporary blockade established on the south side of Ina Town smoothly.

Away = Safe = Uninfected by Plague

Therefore, these people are lucky because they still have hope of living.

At least they won't die miserably like those severely infected...

The body begins to rot from the inside, and any wounds will inevitably deteriorate. The skin and muscles will continue to fall off after being dead, and a large number of deformed and useless tissues will gradually appear on the body. The only function of those sarcoids and abscesses is to make their owners die faster.

And... the speed of transmission is extremely fast!

All this information was told to Mo Tan by Yu Chen, who arrived in the epidemic area two days ago. The former has now entered Hove City in the central area of ​​Misha County, which was once one of the most severely affected areas by the plague. After Saintess Xia Lian used some kind of large-scale high-level magic, she has been temporarily safe. In the past two days, more than [-] refugees and infected people have been accepted.

[Do you check every morning and evening... No wonder there was no one around when I came here yesterday...]

Mo Tan, who had already seen the Zhennan blockade from afar, secretly thought that he had seen many refugees fleeing to the southeast continent along the way, and had also inquired about some news. A large-scale blockade line was established on the edge.

As for the use, it goes without saying...

Block the plague, block the infected.

Each node has a number of priests of the Holy Church Union and a small number of combat professionals, whose duty is to prevent the infected from leaving the epidemic area.

Because neutral organizations such as the Holy Church Union, Mage Guild, Adventurer's Guild, Mercenary Guild, Thieves Guild, and even some large and small nearby forces have sent a large number of people, the blockade covering the entire Misha County was completed in a short time. The inside has already started to work.

A [-]/[-] lockdown with two one-hour checks a day prohibiting anyone infected from leaving.

That's all the job of a blockade node.

Because of this, Mo Tan, who arrived outside Ina Town yesterday afternoon during the game time, did not see any refugees. After all, those who successfully left would never stay near here, and more people would not be able to leave the blockade at all.

"The people who work there..." Mo Tan looked at the checkpoint not far away, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Maybe they will have nightmares for the rest of their lives."

He sighed rather disappointedly, and walked forward quickly.

……

The golden light flashed away, and the pale old priest closed his eyes in pain, shook his head at an elf girl in front of him, and whispered: "I'm sorry, little girl..."

"How could it be!" The girl with long emerald green hair fell to her knees powerlessly, her eyes were filled with crystal tears, and she murmured as if she lost her soul: "Impossible, I... infected...?"

The dwarf thief in brown leather armor gave the girl a complicated look, and said to the old priest beside him, "Old man Owen, why don't you take a look again? This girl is probably not yet a hundred years old. At most, he can only be regarded as a child."

"Dice!" The orc shaman squatting on the wooden box behind glared at the dwarf thief, and said in a deep voice, "Don't let Your Excellency Owen waste any more magic power! When did his judgment go wrong?"

The dwarf known as Dice also stared back viciously, and screamed: "Asshole! There is no sign of infection on this girl, and her complexion is more normal than yours. What's wrong with checking again? She still has hundreds of years to live." Live! Calculated proportionally, she is not a few years older than your daughter!"

"You..." The orc shaman stood up suddenly, walked up to the other party with the huge totem pole in his hand, and said angrily: "Don't be arrogant, if our only priest runs out of mana ahead of time, other healthy people may have to wait The next batch, in case someone is infected during this process, are you responsible?"

Dice opened his mouth, and finally fell silent with a grim expression on his face.

then……

The golden light once again bloomed from the cross in the hands of priest Owen, covering the lost elf girl.

"Your Excellency Owen!" The orc shaman smiled wryly and sighed to the old man who performed the magic again: "Didn't you hear what I just said..."

"But what the dice said is right." The old pastor straightened his somewhat rickety body, tightly clenched the somewhat faded cross in his hand, turned his head and smiled, "Of course, what you said is right, so I I will persist until the end of the inspection time, if the magic power is not enough, I still have faith..."

The orc was also silent.

Insufficient magic power and faith... The content contained in this sentence is very simple, that is, after exhausting the magic power, relying on willpower, overdrawing, and taking life.

[I hope a miracle will happen. 】

The orc's eyes were fixed on the elf girl in front of him, and he clenched his fists vigorously. If possible, why didn't he hope that this child, who was about the same age as his daughter, could leave this dangerous situation safely.

If you can……

His eyes widened.

Unfortunately, the miracle did not come.

Under the pale golden divine light, a group of black shadows appeared on the girl's left shoulder...

"I'm really sorry." Owen turned his eyes away and said in a low voice: "I not only used the Eye of Dawn just now, but also tried to use healing magic for you...but..."

The elf girl raised her head and looked blankly at the old man in front of her, and said in a trembling voice, "But...how?"

"Let me see your shoulder." The orc shaman stepped forward and said to her in a deep voice, "Maybe you have been attacked by some dark magic before."

Even now, he didn't want to give up so easily, so he said such words.

But in fact, the few people present knew very well that if an ordinary commoner elf girl had been attacked by some evil magic, she might have died long ago, so...

"Don't!" The girl suddenly yelled, then raised her legs and ran out of the blockade. The elf's unique agility made her walk fast, and she ran a distance of more than ten meters almost in the blink of an eye.

"Earth Spirit, please..." The orc shaman sighed and raised the totem in his hand.

then……

A dagger stuck abruptly on his totem pole.

The dwarf thief named Dice interrupted the spellcasting in an instant, and then shot out as an afterimage.

After only delaying for less than a second, the elf girl had already escaped from the casting range of a mid-level shaman.

"Dice!" The orc roared angrily, and threw the totem in his hand to the ground to chase it out, but was grabbed by the priest beside him.

Owen shook his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "It's okay, Dice... is actually much calmer than you, let's continue working."

"but!"

"Wait for him to come back, you still have to help maintain order."

……

There were fewer and fewer people in front of Mo Tan, and the refugees behind him were running even faster. He calculated silently, and estimated that in half an hour, the neighborhood would be empty again, but before that, he should be able to...

Ok?
At this moment, a petite and slender elf girl suddenly appeared not far away.

"Help!" The girl shouted immediately after seeing Mo Tan: "Help me...I, I'm not infected!"

Mo Tan stopped in his tracks, but did nothing.

A short black shadow suddenly appeared beside the girl, and the piercing cold light flashed away...

The sleeve of the elf girl's right arm turned into countless fragments.

"It seems that you are indeed infected, little girl." The dwarf thief put the dagger back into its sheath with a wry smile, looked at the girl's shoulders exposed to the air, and said softly, "Come back with me."

Mo Tan noticed that on the girl's fair and smooth shoulders, there was a not-so-big bulge.

It's off-white... There are also small dark red bulges faintly inside...

"I don't want it!" The elf girl sobbed in a low voice: "I won't go back...uh...I don't want to die...please...please..."

Dice shook his head: "You have to go back."

"Don't!" The girl yelled like a collapse, and then rushed to Mo Tan, holding his shoulder firmly: "Save me! Save me!"

Mo Tan sighed, and patted the other party's little hand that was shaking slightly because of fear: "If you want, I can take you to Hoover City, there should be someone who can cure you..."

"No, I won't go, I want to leave this place!" The girl shook Mo Tan vigorously, and said in a trembling voice, "I want to live, I don't want to die!"

Then she ran, at the fastest speed in her life, and ran.

then……

puff!
"Why?" The girl who stood there stared wide-eyed, murmured in a low voice, and staggered forward.

A sharp dagger was stuck in the back of her heart.

"I'm sorry." The owner of the dagger said softly, "Go to sleep...after you wake up, you'll be fine..."

thump……

"Hmm~" The girl who fell to the ground showed a smile, and whispered to the dwarf who was half kneeling in front of her in a trance: "Sorry, I have caused trouble for everyone..."

Then he closed his eyes and slowly stopped breathing.

"Are you a priest?" Dice, with his back to Motan, gently pulled out the dagger from the girl's back, retracted the dark red blood-stained weapon into its sheath, and said hoarsely, "You can pray for her." Shall we take a moment?"

Mo Tan, who had been silent since just now, nodded, walked to the girl's body and half-knelt down, clenched the cross in his hand.

"What are you praying for?" He asked the thief beside him with his head bowed.

"Aren't you a pastor?" The latter muttered tremblingly, "Why do you ask me?"

"Then pray that she will be happy when she wakes up, is that okay?"

"Too vulgar..."

"Is it?"

"Forget it, that's it."

"Ah."

Holding the cross in his hand, Mo Tan didn't use any skills, but just repeated a sentence in his heart.

After a while, an ethereal voice rang in his ears.

[Got it, I will protect her. 】

……

five minutes later
"Okay?" Seeing Mo Tan standing up, Dice couldn't help asking in a low voice: "So fast?"

"The goddess has promised me to take care of her." Mo Tan smiled at the red-eyed dwarf in front of him, "So it's fine."

The other party took out a dirty handkerchief, blew his nose, curled his lips and said, "Okay, stay away."

Mo Tan nodded, and took two steps back.

Then I saw the dwarf thief in front of me take out a small bottle, carefully sprinkle the liquid inside on the girl, and then sprinkle some on the previous dagger...

"Holy water?" Mo Tan asked in a low voice, "Is it okay to deal with it like this?"

Dice shook his head, put the dagger with its sheath beside the girl, and said in a low voice, "Holy water is useless, and the corpses infected with the plague must be burned."

After finishing speaking, he took out a small black stick from his waist pocket, rubbed it on the ground twice, and then gently placed it beside the girl.

The fire is soaring...

two minutes later
"My name is Bruce Dice Shadow, you can call me Dice." The dwarf whispered to Mo Tan who was walking beside him: "You want to enter the epidemic area?"

"Hei Fan, the pastor of the Dawn Sect." Mo Tan also introduced himself, then nodded and said: "Yes, Your Highness wants me to come here to help."

There was nothing wrong with what he said, after all, Yuchen was indeed the saint of the Dawn Sect, and she did welcome his arrival.

Dice shrugged: "Well, I hope you can save a few more people without dying..."

Mo Tan nodded silently.

"Are you human?"

"Ah."

"The girl just now, if converted to your human age, is probably only in her teens."

"is that so……"

"You just ignored her."

"you can say it this way……"

"And I ended her life with my own hands."

"Yes……"

"Am I a heartless bastard, a worthless piece of shit?"

"I don't think so."

"why?"

"Because you have no choice."

Dice was stunned for a moment, but finally gave a dry laugh with a bit of bitterness...

"Yeah, I don't have a choice."

Chapter [-]: The End

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