"Is it a big difference whether you are a slave or not?"

Medical Officer Luo looked at Lin Suisui with some confusion. Regardless of whether he was a slave or not, weren't he a living person of flesh and blood?

"It's different." Lin Suisui shook her head. She crouched down and continued to look at the man with dull eyes. Except for the slightly undulating chest, which proved that the man was still alive, there was almost no living person visible on his pale and shrunken cheeks.

traces.

"I just said that making human skin drums is very complicated, and the conditions for success are also quite harsh. Therefore, in order to increase the success rate of production, shamans will raise slaves who specialize in making magical instruments.

Starting from a young age, these slaves will be given special medicinal materials. Over the years, the bones in their bodies will become relatively more flexible.

When making a human skin drum, it will not be too stiff, break, and collapse in the end, causing failure. Therefore, generally, for extremely difficult magic weapons like this, shamans will choose more suitable slaves as raw materials.

It is absolutely impossible to just grab a few businessmen passing by to make up the number.

It seems that these people are just businessmen in the caravan, how could they be planted with such cruel and terrifying voodoo?"

Lin Suisui stood up, turned around and asked Medical Officer Luo: "Did the officer who sent them here tell you where the companions of these patients are now?"

"There are eight of them who escaped alive together. Six of them have already developed similar symptoms. The remaining two are also in our hospital now. Just to prevent unnecessary trouble, I arranged for them to first

Stay and rest in the guest room on the side. If you want to see me, I will take you there now?"

Medical officer Luo also saw that six people had such symptoms and was afraid of some contagious disease, so just as a precaution, he directly left the people behind.

Now that Lin Suisui asked, he quickly answered and said that he could lead the way there at any time.

Lin Suisui went outside and took off her bib and mask. After taking a short rest, she stood up and asked Medical Officer Luo to lead the way. She followed him to the room where the last two businessmen were housed.

"Can you tell me what exactly you experienced in the Northern Barbarians?"

Lin Suisui didn't talk nonsense. After a brief greeting as soon as she entered the door, she directly stated the purpose of her visit: "You also know that among the eight people you came back with, the six of your companions over there are either light or serious.

They have already started to become poisonous.

In your current situation, no one is sure whether you have been tricked or not!

Therefore, in order for your companions to save their lives, and for your own survival, I suggest you not to hide anything and tell everything you know."

The state of these two people is actually not good right now.

The symptoms of their companions really frightened them. Even though they were used to traveling around and seeing a lot, they were still so frightened that they couldn't bear it when they saw such a weird and terrifying disease.

Of course, what they are more afraid of is whether they, like their companions who have discovered symptoms one after another, will not escape this bad luck.

Therefore, they have been quite honest in this medical clinic for the past two days. They are also very grateful to Medical Officer Luo and others who have devoted themselves to treating their companions.

So when they heard Lin Suisui's reminder and inquiry, the two people who were still sitting on the bed dumbly, after looking at each other for a long time, both jumped out of bed like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw.

He crawled down and knelt in front of Lin Suisui, wailing for help.

"You guys help help the person up first, it's hard to talk like this." Lin Suisui was startled by the sudden movement of the two people in front of her. She hurriedly asked Su Le, who was about to take action, to stop, and told him to be patient.

Pull the person up first.

Medical Officer Luo next to him also very wisely asked the waiter guarding the door to prepare toiletries. The two of them freshened up and calmed down for a while before they came to Lin Suisui together again. The one who looked older

The man named Du began to talk about their experiences on this trip.

"We are engaged in the silk and satin cloth business in the south of the Yangtze River. Business has been difficult in the past two years, so we followed others, brought goods, and followed the caravan out of the customs to the west to do business with people from the Western Regions outside the customs.

This is not the first time our caravan has taken this road. We go back and forth at least once every two years, and sometimes twice a year.

This time, it was fine when we went there, but when we came back, we met two merchants from another caravan in Jianghuai.

They said that there was a storm on the road and they got separated from the original caravan. Seeing that we were also from Daxia, they asked if they could follow our caravan. As long as they could have a companion to take them through the grassland and enter the customs.

If we agree, they are willing to pay us one hundred taels of silver each.

We didn't think much about it at the time. After all, it was just something we did casually, and we could still get some money, so why not do it.

Later, the journey was uneventful. The two men were quite talkative, and they were also very generous. Therefore, along the way, we gradually put down our guard against them, and later entered the grassland and reached the Northern Barbarians.

When they entered the territory, there was almost no barrier between us and them, and we were all brothers."

Probably recalling the source of all these disasters again, Mr. Du raised his hands to cover his cheeks and burst into tears uncontrollably: "But, who would have thought that these were two huge disasters!

"

Seeing that Mr. Du was losing control and could not continue speaking, the merchant surnamed Zhou who was sitting next to him and looking at him continued what Mr. Du said and continued to tell Lin Suisui and the others: "Those two people are fine in other respects.

But there is one thing we didn't expect, that is, the hands and feet are not very clean.

In our caravan, they did not attack us. Firstly, they were afraid that if we were discovered, we would leave them alone. Secondly, it was also because there was nothing in our caravan that caught their eyes.

Later, we entered the northern barbarian territory. Because we were hit by wind and snow, we went to a small tribe to seek accommodation.

This kind of behavior is not uncommon for caravans like ours. Moreover, those small tribes nomadic on the grasslands are also very happy to receive caravans passing by like us.

They can exchange for the things they need from us, such as salt, cloth, tea, etc.

But the small tribe we stayed in this time was a little unusual. We didn’t know it at first, but we only figured it out after something happened. This tribe is actually a place for shamans to support themselves.”
Chapter completed!