Great time travel

Chapter 18, Purgatory of Cats
"...Wow! There are only five people left in the whole city? This is really terrible. It is worthy of being a real city of death! There is no exaggeration from an artistic point of view!" Wang Qiu blew his eyes wide. Whistling, "...but, what exactly do you want to convey, Professor?"

"...What I mean is, Comrade Xiao Wang, the severity of the epidemic in the Marseille port area may far exceed your imagination."

Professor Guo sighed and said, "...According to your original thinking, it is estimated that one-third of the people in this place will die in the Black Death, and the remaining two-thirds of the people will be scared out of their wits and would rather go bankrupt. Want to come to seek medical advice, and even bow your head and ears in front of you saviors... But the problem is, if you continue to follow the steps slowly, the citizens of Marseille may not only be frightened, but may die directly There are not many people left! At that time, who should you sell the medicine to? Who will you get the money from? Could it be that you still have to make money from people?"

He pointed to a line of narrative on the screen about the situation of the Black Death in Marseilles, "...You must know that even in terms of the entire European Catholic world, southern France has one of the highest death rates. As high as 75%, second only to Sicily in southern Europe.

And the Provence region centered on Marseille is the most severely affected place in southern France, and the death rate is estimated to be as high as 85% or more!Just like Sicily!According to the historical data listed above, in the spring of 1348, within one month of the introduction of the Black Death, 7000 of the [-] citizens of Marseille died, and there was no record after that, because the person responsible for the record also died.How far the city of Marseilles died in the end, I guess only God can know... Maybe it is worse than Smolensk in Russia, the whole city may die in one breath!
In this case, when the people in the cities and villages are almost dead, who should you sell the medicine to?And that Mr. Li Wei worked so hard to manage his contacts, power and reputation, what's the point in the deserted ruins?At that time, don't you have to go elsewhere and start from scratch? "

After listening to Professor Guo's reminder, I imagined myself stupidly pulling a cart of antibiotics, vaccines and syringes, standing in a daze on the ruins of a ghost town where only carrion and skeletons remained. Wang Qiu and Doraemon A Meng and the others were all horrified for a moment!

Well, although it is not impossible to unearth treasures from an uninhabited ghost town - just like adventurers in RPG games team up to explore ancient ruins, but the efficiency of this fundraising may be greatly reduced: The speed of rummaging through boxes and cabinets to search for money is definitely slower than others taking the initiative to send money.And the more terrible point is that the seemingly omnipotent and omnipotent comrade Doraemon, what he lacks the most right now is time!
——There is only more than one week left until the next payment of monthly interest on the loan! ! (Based on the time flow rate of Doraemon World)
"...Well, what you said is very reasonable, professor! It seems that we should indeed speed up the progress, otherwise with such a high death rate, the market in the Marseille area will be over, and we will have to play a cameo Back to Tomb Raider, looking for riches among skeletons and rotting corpses..."

Wang Qiu stroked his chin, and sighed with palpitations, "...it's not too late, let's go to Li Wei to discuss it!"

However, what they never expected was that when they set foot on Li Wei's manor again, they would see such a shocking scene!
——The outskirts of the Jihadist Manor have suddenly turned into a purgatory execution ground for cats...

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"...clang—clang—clang—clang—"

Under the warm sunshine in the early spring, the alarm bells rang in the Jihadist Manor located on the seaside promontory, and the smoke of the wolf was ignited.The drawbridge entering the manor has been pulled up high, and on every crenel of the wall, the metal cold light of swords, arrows and armor is shining.

The eight-pointed and white crusade flag of the Knights Hospitaller is fluttering in the wind on the tower of the manor, as if it is waiting for the fire of war to come.

On the other side of this small battlefield, outside the moat of the Jihadist Manor, there is an invading team of about [-] people scattered.This host of enemies could hardly be called an army, for there were knights in mail, priests in robes, and armed citizens mobilized from nowhere.In the afternoon sun, they carried all kinds of flags and surrounded the outside of the manor in a mess, constantly yelling and cursing, threatening the people guarding the Jihad Manor with all kinds of obscenities, making them suspect of witches The guy pleaded guilty and surrendered quickly.

It's a pity that the people in the manor were completely unmoved by such pediatric talk.Without any siege equipment, the invaders had nothing to do with this manor, which was equivalent to a small castle. Although its walls were not high and its trenches were not wide, at least it was not a horse that could jump. past.Even if it is the legendary "ant-attached siege", there must be at least a few strong long ladders!

The problem is, the thugs who besieged the manor didn't seem to have prepared anything, they could only go around in circles in front of the gate of the manor like fools, shouting and cursing in different ways, and then they were shot by arrows from the defenders To be so frightened that you crawled and fled... What a shame!
Seeing this frustrating scene, the red-haired Mr. Pomeroy, vice president of the Marseille Pharmacists' Guild, couldn't help raising his forehead with his hand, and let out a long sigh of helplessness: the overconfident and ignorant gang of the Inquisition Reckless, messed up everything!

——The great reputation of the Inquisition is indeed enough to stop children from crying at night and make strong men silent in the Catholic world of Western Europe.But the problem is that that kind of deterrence is for ordinary people, and it is not very effective when applied to the ruling class: believing in God and fearing the church are two different things!
The members of the Rhode Island Hospital Knights are not country fools who blindly believe in priests, nor are they nerds who read the scriptures and read stupidly, but the real power inside the church. And he has been fighting hard and fighting on the front line against heretics all year round.Although this military order has always been known as the sharp sword of God in the East, there are also a lot of black knives stabbed by church insiders in history, and the lessons are very profound.It is a bit too whimsical to want them to bow their heads in front of a mere local inquisition.

Not to mention, the Knights Hospitaller branch of the Jihad Manor on the outskirts of Marseille has been operating for several years under the leadership of a group of future world travelers who do not believe in God at all.Although these modern people did not deliberately do anything to enlighten their minds or break superstitions, as a pastime in their spare time, they also bragged to everyone about the church's shady stories, scandals and pornographic jokes, which made the whole manor enjoy it music road...

As a result, the people in the manor became less and less in awe of the Catholic Church, at least the local bishop.

In fact, even those ordinary noble lords are mostly guys who talk about piety and faith, and who value land and interests more than their lives.It is extremely difficult for the church to collect their tithes. There are often miserly people who have been in arrears for decades and refuse to pay their taxes. The church has nothing to do with them.There are also quite a few robber barons with crosses hanging on their faces, who actually regard robbery of monasteries and churches as a daily pastime, shouting for God's blessing, while hacking monks to death, throwing nuns down, and looting all kinds of gold and silver sacred objects... If only the bishop The adults want to deprive them of their territories and titles with just a piece of official document, and if there is no army behind them, do you believe that they will teach you how to be a man with a long sword every minute?

However, perhaps because too many old women and poor widows have been burned in these years, or because they were stunned by the black death this time, after setting up an ambush to capture Li Wei, the head of the Marseille Inquisition It seems that they have completely forgotten how rebellious the knight noble with a sharp sword is, and they have not organized a strong enough army-in fact, based on the actual authority of this guy, and the outbreak of the Black Death In the background of the disaster, in fact, they can't organize many soldiers and horses - they also forgot to tie up Knight Li Wei himself as a hostage to call the door, let alone contact and bribe the internal staff, so they brought a knight, two priests and five entourages, Excitedly came to take over and seize the jihadist manor, intending to personally search for evidence of heresy, witchcraft and devil worship, and tie every sinner to the pyre and burn them, without thinking about which side is stronger .

What's even more unfortunate is that the person in charge of the Marseille Inquisition just took advantage of the other party's unpreparedness and broke into the gate of the Jihadist Manor. Can't get up-obviously, this guy has also been plagued!Next, his entourage did not dare to go up to help him out of pity for their lives, but instead turned around and scattered in fright, thus missing the best chance to seize the manor...

As a result, two hours later, Li Wei's cheap cousin in this world, the Knight of Nice, got the news, and excitedly pulled a large number of people to accept the property of his unlucky relative Li Wei, Pomero of the Pharmacists Guild Mr. also hastily brought some people over to search for the elixir that can cure the plague. The Jihad Manor had already reacted, closed the gate, put away the drawbridge, sounded the alarm, and prepared for the battle. Prepare.And those guys from the Inquisition were thrown out of the manor together with the corpse of their leader, wandering outside the trench, not knowing what to do.

Facing the blatant disobedience of the jihadist manor and the embarrassing situation where the "law enforcers" like myself were not allowed to enter, all three groups lost their minds for a while.

A strong attack is obviously impossible. Although they have more than 300 people, and the armed force in the manor does not exceed [-] people, the battle is not a head-counting contest-the defenders are either professional infantry hired by the Hospital Knights for a long time, or they are subordinate to the The vassal warriors of the Bacon family can be called the professional soldiers of this era, and they also have stone walls and trenches as their defensive locations.As for the guys outside the manor, except for the Knights of Nice, the other three genuine knights, and the retinues of these knights, they are all just random mobs brought in temporarily, and they don't have any siege equipment, so they can't win no matter what. .

Therefore, they could only send envoys to report to the Bishop of Marseilles in the city and ask for reinforcements, while wandering around outside the manor in boredom, trying to break into the workshops and hospitals outside the walls—unfortunately, taking advantage of In the brief gap before, the craftsmen in the workshop had already hid in the manor, and the nuns and patients in the hospital were also evacuated. The intruders only found some abandoned cats.

Therefore, under the instigation of the members of the Inquisition, these thugs who had nothing to do for a while turned into cat sadists one after another, and began to use all kinds of terrible tortures, torturing these poor people from the future world extremely cruelly. cat...