After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 1103: Spies are nurturing pathogens.

Blue Tiger and the mountain people were all taken aback when they heard this.

Soon, Lan Hu stood up and shouted to the surroundings, "Brothers, if you want to join the army and take down those beasts from the Eastern Desert on the front lines, come and sign up with Deputy General Lang!"

"The villagers of our tenth village have signed up to join the army to fight the enemy!" The young men, women, and girls from the tenth village, where Aunt Wen lived, all flocked to Deputy General Lang, vying to sign up.

“We, the villagers of the Eighth Village, also want to sign up!”

“Ahei from the First Village is leading the villagers of the First Village to sign up!” Ahei had previously been very resistant to outsiders, especially disliking Jiang Dalang.

After witnessing the tragic fate of Min Xiaogu and the others during the battle on February 2nd, and learning that the "cured meat rations" were made by the mountain people, Ahei was furious. He abandoned his personal likes and dislikes and vowed to join the army: "I will kill those beasts from the Eastern Desert face to face until they kneel down and admit their mistakes!"

"Join the army, kill the beasts of the Eastern Desert face to face, and avenge the mountain people!" Many mountain people shouted in unison, their voices filled with heavy sobs.

They always believed that the old village was sacred and the ancestors were benevolent, so they would offer all the good things to the people of the old village first; and they regarded the words of the ancestors as divine decrees.

Unexpectedly...

“We have supported them so much and trusted them so much, yet they have committed all sorts of evil deeds in the old village. They do not deserve our support. We have been blind!”

Thump, thump, thump! A group of villagers knelt down before Aunt Alan: "Eighth Chieftain, we were misled by the old village. If we had listened to you earlier, we could have broken through the old village and discovered the truth sooner!"

Aunt Alan hurriedly said, "Remember this, everyone: the one at fault is not the old village, nor the real ancestors, but the spies from the Eastern Desert!"

"It was the spies from the Eastern Desert who turned our sacred land into hell!"

"Make this clear to everyone, and don't let the evil deeds committed by the Eastern Desert spies cloud your judgment."

"If your mind is confused, you won't be able to distinguish between friend and foe, so how can you kill the enemy and avenge yourself!"

Aunt Alan's words were repeated nine times by a messenger sent by Deputy General Lang.

When he finished speaking, the mountain people, who had been on the verge of losing control, finally calmed down.

Boom boom boom!
As the war drums sounded, Deputy General Lang addressed the mountain people: "Fellow villagers, there's no rush to enlist. We'll split into several groups now..."

"The first route: the chieftain and chieftain Wen will lead their men to stay behind at the old village, raid its base, and hold it to prevent the enemy forces from the Eastern Desert from attacking again!"

"The second group, consisting of the Eighth, Third, Fourth, and Twelfth Chieftains, will lead the mountain people familiar with the terrain to search for and pursue the fleeing spies from the Eastern Desert. We must not allow them to cause trouble in the mountains!"

"The Eastern Desert is also skilled in using poison. We cannot allow the escaped Eastern Desert spies to spread deadly poison in the mountains and harm the people inside!"

"The third route, led by the three village chiefs, will ensure the safety and well-being of the mountain people's families. We must prevent spies from returning to harm or kidnap their families and using them as hostages to threaten us!"

As Deputy General Lang issued his military orders, the mountain villagers nodded in agreement: "Deputy General Lang's words are all important; we will listen to Deputy General Lang!"

In such situations, obeying the orders of a single leader is more effective than obeying the orders of individual village chiefs.

Deputy General Lang was very satisfied. He left half of his trusted personal guards behind as messengers and called to Uncle He: "Old He, take the medicine bag and come with me to Cave No. 1. Da Lang said there's something strange there, we have to go and take a look."

"Yes," Uncle He responded, then said to Aunt Lan, "Mengzi's mother, take care of yourself, be more aware of your age, and don't just rush ahead!"

Aunt Alan was furious: "I'm in the prime of my life, the age to fight hard! And with something this big happening now, if I don't fight to the death, do I even deserve to be a mountain dweller?!"

Uncle Ahe: "..."

I was just concerned about you, and you don't even appreciate it. "Mengzi, keep an eye on your mother." Uncle Ahe, fed up with this woman, had no choice but to instruct Mengzi and follow Deputy General Lang to the No. 1 cave.

The fire set by the spies has been extinguished, but wisps of smoke are still drifting out of the cave in the mountain.

The smell of the smoke was very strong and strange. Uncle He quickly held his breath, took out the antidote, and sprayed it on the masks of his followers.

Jiang Dalang led his troops over and asked Uncle Ahe, "How is it? Can you smell what this smell is? Is it poisonous?"

Uncle Ahe is an excellent doctor and a mountain dweller, so he is more sensitive to animal smells. After smelling the animals and checking the area near and inside the cave, he said, "The smell is indeed very strange, but after being burned, even if it is poisonous or harmful, it has been almost burned away by the fire, so we can stand here safely."

"As for the taste, it is a mixture of the smells of animals, people, medicinal herbs, moldy soil, and mushrooms after they are burned."

"Needless to say, there are definitely corpses inside; it smells like burning corpses."

"As for animals, such as rodents... the smell of rodent fur and urine is very distinctive, and the deeper you go into the cave, the stronger the smell of rodent urine becomes, which shows that this place used to be a den of many rodents, otherwise there wouldn't be such a strong smell."

"Old Crane, are you saying that the spies are raising a lot of rats in this mountain cave?" Deputy General Lang frowned, let out a "Huh?" and said with disdain, "The people of Dongmo wouldn't have a taste for eating rat meat, would they? Otherwise, why would they raise so many rats?"

"Withdraw! Withdraw everyone!" Jiang Dalang suddenly shouted, grabbed Deputy General Lang, turned around and strode out of the No. 1 cave.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Deputy General Lang asked Jiang Dalang.

To prevent poisoning, Jiang Dalang was still wearing a mask, but Deputy General Lang knew that the boy's face was extremely grim at that moment.

After exiting the No. 1 cave and reaching the open space where the air became clear, Jiang Dalang said, "Rats are very dirty animals, carrying many germs. The spies in the Eastern Desert probably raise rats not to eat meat, but to produce pathogens."

In their past lives, Su Su and Yunfu Kundao both said that there was a disease in the world called plague, and its host was rats.

Although he had only heard about it, the Great Sheng Dynasty had never experienced a plague.

But he believed Su Su. Su Su said that if there was such a disease that originated in rats, then it must exist.

To make him take the epidemic seriously, Su Su explained in detail the symptoms and lethality of the plague.

In Su Su's account, the plague, for which there is no cure, is a deadly force, more deadly than an army of millions!

"Rodent disease? Pathogen? What is that? Where did you read about it in some random book?" Deputy General Lang asked with a smile. Neither he nor anyone else present had ever heard of such a disease. "I was forced to study, but this disease is not mentioned in any history books or medical books."

Uncle Ahe nodded in agreement, adding, "Rats are indeed edible. When we went into the mountains to collect herbs, we would catch rats and roast them to eat. It's just that we're not as perverted as the spies from the Eastern Desert, who specifically raise rats in a mountain cave to eat."

"Big Brother, do you have any evidence of this pathogen? What is a bacterium?" Uncle He pressed.

Jiang Dalang/Sheng Ting: "..."

No wonder Su Su sometimes doesn't want to talk to him.

No wonder Yunfu withdrew from the world in her later years and stopped answering anyone's questions. It's true that no matter how much they talked, they couldn't make a third party truly understand what they were talking about, even if they talked until their saliva dried up.

Now, he's facing the same situation.

To explain the plague clearly, he had to start with the most basic things: what is a bacterium and what is the plague bacterium?

I can talk him to death!

What's even more despairing is that he's only a half-baked expert; he only knows about the plague from Su Su and Yun Fu.