Great time travel

Chapter No.17, Purgatory of Cats
Dark... clammy... seems... and an indescribable stench?

In the narrow space, the air is humid and stuffy, giving people a particularly uncomfortable feeling.

The dim lights are also a bit swaying, which makes people feel dizzy.

A swarm of buzzing flies fluttered about the dim oil lamp overhead as if they were circling a rotting mass of meat.

In this gloomy tomb-like place, Knight Levi, who only wore a shirt, was leaning against the dirty wall in a daze.

"...um... ah... where am I..."

Barely expelling the dizziness and stinging pain in his head, and opening his cloudy eyes, Knight Li Wei stared blankly at the walls of this dark and damp dungeon, which were covered with all kinds of sticky and inexplicable objects. There is also the only crack in the door outside the fence that sees light in, and I feel a trace of uneasiness.Immediately afterwards, he subconsciously wanted to straighten his body, but he almost tripped immediately.

- Whoops!

As if playing a naughty piece of music, there was a series of sounds of iron chains and shackles colliding with each other in an instant.

"...Eh? Eh?????? What's going on here? Didn't I come to handle the inheritance and title inheritance procedures?"

Li Wei looked at the iron chains tightly locked on his wrists and legs in surprise. His brain seemed to have just reacted and began to think seriously about this serious question. At the same time, in his chaotic mind, he finally recalled The situation after entering the city yesterday:
No sooner had he dismounted from his horse than he walked into the City Hall, after holding his nose through the streets littered with corpses and rotting, when a prelate from his past came to announce that a royal ceremonial officer of noble blood was visiting from Paris and asked He took off his sword and went in with the others to have an audience.

Because this senior priest was also an acquaintance with Li Wei in the past, so the knight Li Wei took off his sword and walked in without thinking too much. Unexpectedly, it was not Paris who was waiting for him in the room. It’s not the big nobles, but a large group of crazy men in black with red eyes!

Li Wei also happened to know the leader of them—that was the head of the Inquisition in Marseilles! ! !

Seeing this weird scene, Knight Li Wei was stunned immediately, and then, before he could react, these men in black rushed up and pressed him to the floor together, while gesturing at Li Wei's face with daggers and axes. While forcing him to confess all kinds of unimaginable crimes, such as worshiping cults, sacrificing demons, and spreading plagues, judging by his posture, he actually wanted to pin the source of the Black Death on his head!
Such an absurd charge was full of malice at first glance. Of course, Li Wei refused to admit it at first, but he was immediately beaten by those men in black, and his eye sockets were swollen with fists.With the idea of ​​being a good man not to suffer immediate losses, he had no choice but to press his handprint on the pleading paper—God knows if the thugs would cut off his finger and use it as a seal if he insisted on it!Then, before Li Wei could heave a sigh of relief, he was hit on the back of the head with a stick and passed out... When he woke up, he was already in this dungeon.

"...Damn it! It's come to this point, the guy from the Inquisition is still so motivated?"

Knight Li Wei, who was beaten into a panda, grinned and rubbed the bruises and redness on his chest, and muttered wonderingly, "... how many days do they think they can live? Even after the outbreak of the Black Death Among them, did you forget to bury spies in my manor? Oh! God..."

In fact, Li Wei naturally considered whether the promotion of modern medical technology and raising cats and killing rats in the ignorant and superstitious medieval Europe would be misunderstood by some foolish men and women as witchcraft and heresy: those who were burned by the church He had read the stories of dead scientific sages and the fate of Joan of Arc in France in his primer.And after traveling to this world, he also saw the people of the Inquisition burn the "witch" to death several times.

However, according to Li Wei's thinking, the problem is not too serious for the time being.First of all, at least in his own territory of the Jihad Manor, he is still sure to be the master - all the senior reincarnators have already tinkered with a lot of new gadgets here in the years before "GAME-OVER", The people in the manor also gradually got used to the strangeness, and took a step back and said that even if there was any change in the subordinates, he would be able to notice it immediately.

Secondly, although the power of the church in the Middle Ages was rampant, it is at the critical moment of the outbreak of the Black Death. At least half of the citizens of Marseille have died, and the operation of the city has long been completely paralyzed. If they die, they run away, or they just stay in their own villas behind closed doors and become nerds. The guards and thugs under them are almost dead, so how can they care about witchcraft and heresy?

Therefore, in Levy's view, at least before he started to promote medicines on a large scale to make profits and gather people's hearts, it should be unlikely that neither the church nor the city hall would be so well-informed about him, and even if he got News, he will not take any violent actions against him, but will only try to win him over—at a time when everyone is in danger, who would dare to murder the only savior who can cure the disease at the moment?

Regrettably, the facts were obviously not as he had imagined—the church's sensitivity to heresy and witchcraft cases far exceeded his expectations.And the speed at which news leaked from the manor also exceeded his expectations.What's even more incredible is that these guys who knew the information didn't take the life and death of themselves and their family seriously at all. Instead of trying to please him as a life-saving straw, they acted so rudely!
Alas, I really shouldn't have left the base area so recklessly, and entered the city ignorantly to throw myself into the trap!Knight Li Wei sighed regretfully.

After sighing for a while, Li Wei finally calmed down and got used to the tension and oppression brought by the closed space. He can turn a blind eye to the red-eyed mouse—because in his opinion, since those guys just left themselves in the dungeon and ignored them, instead of continuing to treat them like the so-called "witches" and "wizards" in the past, The inhumane torture and torture show that this matter still needs to be discussed... Perhaps, a few masked lobbyists will come over later, one will sing the red face and the other will sing the bad face, threatening and luring, and want to ask He figured out the source of those life-saving elixir?
Anyway, as long as there is still something to talk about.Even if the other party is insincere and only wants to kill people after they succeed, at least it can delay for a while...Anyway, when the rescuers from Doraemon and the others arrive, they will be able to teach you how to behave in minutes!

Thinking of this, Knight Li Wei felt a little more relaxed, narrowed his eyes in peace of mind for the time being, and began to close his eyes to rest his mind...

——What this self-feeling Levy knight didn't figure out is that the reason why he was not tortured and tortured like those so-called "witches" and "wizards" who were arrested before was not because there was something behind the scenes The attempt to negotiate—in view of the fact that famous doctors all over Europe are helpless against the Black Death, the Bishop of Marseilles does not believe that he will have a cure for the plague, and the Marseille Pharmacist’s Guild, which inspected the report, quietly concealed the truth—but because of religious All the jailers who were responsible for torture and execution in the court had already died of illness during the plague, and even the execution room was isolated.

And the few remaining guys who haven't suffered from the plague are busy preparing for the execution of the "black wizard"'s stake and pyre-this is a big project, especially in the process of collecting firewood, and hematemesis Two unlucky ones have fallen, so naturally they can't take care of torturing him, a dying man, for a while.

As for his fate, His Excellency Bishop had already given a clear indication: "...tomorrow at noon, the public execution will be carried out in the square, so as to calm people's hearts!"

Well, I hope that the rescuers across time and space that Knight Li Wei is looking forward to can arrive in time before he is roasted to the brim...

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Meanwhile, the saviors that Knight Levi is looking forward to are gathering at Nobita Nobita's house, unaware of his sad situation.

Nobita Nobita, who was seriously ill and unfortunately contracted the plague because he was afraid of the pain and refused to be vaccinated before, has finally started to improve obviously, at least the fever has subsided, and his mind has become clearer, but his limbs are still weak and he crawls limply. Can't get up, making Doraemon very worried.

However, Professor Guo Jingguo, who was seriously injured with multiple comminuted fractures in his body due to a fall from a high altitude, has basically recovered under the treatment of advanced medical technology in the 22nd century. He also participated in a medieval crossing operation in person just now.

At this time, the spirited old man was using Doraemon's magical props [Universal Encyclopedia] to look up historical materials about the Black Death in medieval Europe, while frowning and discussing the next action plan with Wang Qiu and the others.

"...I said Comrade Xiao Wang, according to the salvation plan that you and Li Wei discussed before, first conduct a drug test in his manor to confirm the curative effect, then publicize it to make a name for yourself, and finally find a way to get the church. After you admit it, you can sell medicines on a large scale, right?"

"...It's almost like this! Li Wei said that if there is no actual evidence, if you rush out with antibiotics and boast that this thing can cure the Black Death, I'm afraid you will be regarded as a liar. Not to mention using a syringe Injection—Most Europeans in the Middle Ages would regard it as a sorcery, and it was carried out with great difficulty in charity hospitals before... So we need to be careful and take it step by step, fully considering the acceptance of Europeans in the Middle Ages, Don't be too impatient... Do you think there is any problem with this?" Wang Qiu blinked and asked curiously.

"...How should I put it? I feel a little too safe! You must know that those who suffer from the Black Death can't afford to wait! I'm worried that it will delay time and delay things like Li Wei. It's a big deal! Hey, if it doesn't work out, there will be no one to save!"

Professor Guo pointed to a graph on the screen showing the death rate of the Black Death in various parts of Europe, and said with some concern: "...Look! During the Black Death that lasted six years, at that time A total of 8000 to 500 million of the 500 million Europeans died, and the population dropped by about one-third, but this is only the average number spread over the whole of Europe. There are thousands of differences-the Black Death epidemic in some places is not so tragic, but the Black Death epidemic in other places, especially in medieval European cities with high population density and poor sanitation, the death rate is far more than one-third one of them.

On the bright side, Poland was lucky to almost completely escape the Black Death, and the city of Milan in Italy also defeated the disease because of effective isolation and hygiene measures.There are also Norway and Sweden, which are far away from the source of the epidemic, and only about 10% to 20% of the population died, which is far lower than the average death rate in Europe.As for the death rate of England, Scotland and Ireland, it is about 30% to 40%, which is basically equivalent to the European average.

On the bad side, during this frenzy of the Black Death, the death rate of the citizens of Paris and Vienna reached half, and the death rate of all cities in the Italian peninsula, except Milan, was about 60%, equivalent to about twice the European average.In Sicily, where the Black Death first broke out, the death rate of the entire population reached an astonishing 90%, and it almost became an uninhabited island!

In Eastern Europe, there is another horrifying death record from Smolensk, Russia. Since this place is very close to the Ukrainian grasslands and the Crimea Peninsula, the plague can be transmitted by land. As a result, only the whole city died. Five people! "