Gao Yeyun snorted coldly and winked at a guard. He saw a flash of light and a sharp knife was placed on the man's neck.

"How dare you... Oh, no, no, I said, I said!"

The guard exerted a slight force on his hand, and a scar appeared on the man's neck. He was so frightened that his legs shook like chaff.

"The younger ones are hard to sell and cannot be fed. The six or seven-year-old ones are the best to sell. They are all raised by officials as slaves.

If a girl is of good appearance, she will be sent to a brothel.

Some nobles, I also sold my two sons and went to the quarry to cut stones to build the tomb.

I can't help it, so just be noble and let me go! I'm not a thing!"

The more the man talked, the sadder he became. He slapped himself in the face, and even his wife couldn't stand it anymore. She held his hand, and they cried in each other's arms.

In the tent camp.

Gao Yeyun looked bad, worried about the people who might riot outside the city.

The deputy general thought that Gao Yeyun was sad because he saw people selling their sons and daughters outside the city.

The deputy general said: "King Yun, this is good. Over there in Xunguang City, many people kill and eat the elderly and children alive. They not only eat them but also sell them..."

The deputy general couldn't tell what happened next.

When Gao Yeyun heard these words, he didn't even move his eyebrows: "Xunguang City is suffering from drought and locust plague, and the people have no way to survive.

Those who want to survive can only do such evil things."

To be precise, they no longer think it is evil. If they had this idea, they would not sell human flesh.

It's so cruel to eat human flesh but sell human flesh.

Due to a severe drought in the city, locusts passed through the city, and the crops in Xunguang City either dried up and died, or were gnawed clean by locusts.

When the lieutenant general saw the bare crops in Xunguang City, he felt a little clogged in his heart.

It was almost impossible to see a living person in the mountains and plains, and even the villages were deserted.

Although I didn't see a complete body in the open air.

However, occasionally you will see cleanly chewed bones beside the remaining campfires.

Among these bones, although many are the bones of wild beasts, many more are human bones.

There are also some young human bones mixed in. There are arm bones, leg bones, and ribs.

The lieutenant general could imagine that the hungry and jealous people were searching for the bodies of long-dead people all over the mountains and plains.

They even directly attack the remaining living people and kill them to satisfy their hunger.

In the past, when the lieutenant general heard the words "white bones exposed in the wild, and no rooster crows for a thousand miles", he didn't feel much.

However, now that he had seen it with his own eyes, he felt extremely heavy in his heart.

He has seen too much of the panic caused by this disaster.

The leader of Yi invites rewards; the sons of Yi eat each other.

What a heavy amount of blood and tears was revealed in this.

After thinking too much, even the usually resolute lieutenant general became a little depressed.

At this time, Nancheng.

After the flood came the plague.

Bodies were floating in the flood.

They were the bodies of dead refugees. Some had been dead for several days, emitting a stench. Their clothes had been stripped off by someone, leaving them naked.

Many corpses were soaked and washed to high ground by the water.

Some people even piled up corpses to serve as flood barriers.

Behind the corpse stood a group of victims, most of whom were hungry.

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Skin and bones. These people were in a state of desolation. Their eyes were staring at the soaked corpses, but they were all green, and their greedy eyes made people feel panicked.

The rain has been falling intermittently these past few days, with no relief at all.

Most of these people have lost their loved ones and family members in the disaster and are left alone with nothing to worry about.

The sky was gray, and there was a strange smell floating in the air over Nancheng, which was a bit pungent.

The smell wafting in the air makes people feel sick.

This unpleasant smell comes from burning corpses outside the city.

Life is passing away every day, and now that it's summer, trying to bury the bodies is a hassle and there aren't enough manpower.

The government could only send people to move the dead people outside the city and burn them every day to prevent the epidemic from spreading.

There were scantily clad refugees everywhere. They were as skinny as firewood, clinging to each other, hiding under the eaves or in sheltered places to take shelter from the rain.

From time to time, you can see dying people on the roadside. Women hold their young children in their arms and use their thin bodies to protect them from the rain.

The old man was leaning against the wall, leaning on a wooden stick, his face was ashen, his eyes were sunken and hollow, and he was coughing constantly, as if he was just waiting for the moment of death to come.

Lonely, helpless, miserable...

Hundreds of gestures in the world are infinitely magnified in disasters.

Under the cover of the rain curtain, you can still vaguely see two couples with a child who is only three or four years old.

The child looked at his parents with a pair of big, confused and desperate eyes...

I can't imagine what these couples will do after they change their children.

Cries, shouts, and weird smells filled the ears and the tip of the nose. Nancheng used this state to express the sorrow of the disaster.

The weather is already gloomy and rainy, and even though the days are longer in summer, the sky is gradually getting gray at this time.

The streets were deserted and seemed even more desolate.

The magistrate of Nancheng casually wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hands, and then looked forward.

The dim peripheral light reflected on his face, and a strange blush could be seen on his cheeks.

After passing a few streets quickly, the voices of people suddenly came like a violent storm. At the end of the north gate, various voices rushed into my ears.

The cries of children, the suppressed cries of women and children, and the uncontrollable moans of injured people were all a miserable sight everywhere.

This was a place approved by the Nancheng prefect, allowing soldiers to set up many tents for the refugees.

It was okay at first, but then as the number of people increased, it became quite difficult to control. Now the troops and force are limited, so it became even more chaotic.

Many refugees occupied tents and even sold them.

The prefect of Nancheng sent people to rectify it several times, but to no avail, so it became a very chaotic refugee base.

People who live here undoubtedly feel like they are in a sea of ​​​​knives and fire every day.

Because of this, more people would rather wait at the city gate for the daily porridge to maintain their lives.

The prefect of Nancheng saw that many refugees were ill, and even many corpses of those who died of illness were dumped at the north gate...

Seeing this, the Nancheng prefect couldn't bear to look any further.

If he hadn't taken care of this place, people wouldn't have died. Now it seems like it's infected with an epidemic.

The air was filled with an unpleasant sour smell, which made people extremely uncomfortable.

There is garbage all around the refugee camp. Because of the rain for many days, the ground is full of potholes. These victims cannot maintain food and clothing, let alone hygiene.

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The clothes of these victims are worse than beggars.

Some victims did not have tents to live in at all. They huddled under the eaves of some houses and looked at the Nancheng prefect with longing eyes.

If it weren't for the guards outside, children of victims would have come up to him and asked for food.

Due to lack of food, these victims who were temporarily resettled in Nancheng ate everything, even rats, cockroaches and other animals.

It rained continuously for days, and in such a humid environment where germs thrived, the plague broke out in an instant and became out of control.

The fatality rate and spread of the plague are quite fast. If you are not careful, it will spread to the entire Nancheng.

Nancheng is a place with a large population. If the infection spreads on a large scale, the consequences will be disastrous.

Seeing this, the prefect of Nancheng ordered that Nancheng be closed to the county. All the refugees who gathered at the gate of the city were uniformly moved into the city, and the porridge tent stopped giving out porridge.

This once plunged these victims into despair.

With such a big epidemic and such a big move, someone quickly spread the news.

People's hearts, which were already frightened, instantly became turbulent.

However, as the news was spread to ten and hundreds, it had already lost its truth, and the consequences were infinitely exaggerated, making people even more frightened.

Originally everything was going in an orderly manner, but as a protest broke out, the entire Nancheng suddenly seemed to be immersed in anger.

Captain Liu hurried in to report that thousands of refugees at the city gate were clamoring to open the city gate and let them out.

The refugee camp had just been cleared just now, and all the manpower had been removed and temporarily arranged in the refugee camp.

But at this time something happened at the city gate.

The magistrate of Nancheng suddenly stood up in shock. He was not feeling well today and had not slept well for many days.

I have been working hard since I got up in the morning, and it has been raining for half a day during the day. It woke up so hard that I suddenly felt dizzy and had stars in my eyes.

As soon as his vision went dark, he was about to be carried down. Fortunately, Capt. Liu reacted quickly and held him up, so that no accident occurred to the Nancheng magistrate.

"Sir! You have a fever!"

Under the dim light, Liu Captou finally noticed the abnormal blush on the cheeks of the Nancheng magistrate.

He reached out and touched his forehead. It was frighteningly hot! He felt anxious and shouted out!

The Nancheng magistrate also regained his consciousness because of his sudden shouting.

He resisted his physical discomfort and hurriedly ordered Mr. Liu:

"I'm fine, I just have a headache. Recruit all the officers and soldiers quickly and send them to the city gate to maintain order. Don't let those victims leave the city!"

Because the plague broke out in the refugee camp, some victims who were staying in the refugee camp were in a hurry to escape and came into contact with many people. They were afraid that they had already been infected.

The most important thing at this time is isolation. People in the city cannot be asked to leave the city no matter what.

"Sir, please wait, I'll call you a doctor!" Liu Captou didn't care about anything. He helped the Nancheng magistrate sit down and hurriedly went to call the doctor.

It is the critical moment when the entire Nancheng City must rely on the Nancheng Magistrate. At this time, nothing can happen to him!

Liu Captou was very worried.

The Nancheng magistrate's mind was in a daze and his whole body was weak. He couldn't stop him at all. He could only sit on the chair and breathe uncomfortably.

There were two plagues in the previous dynasty, each time causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries. Not only that, until now there is no effective way to control this disease that spreads wantonly!

Now we must send people to suppress the victims in the southern city. If they run out, the plague will definitely spread to other cities, and by then it may be out of control!
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