Great time travel

Chapter 25, The Coming of the Magic Age

When Doraemon played a cameo role as a robber cat in the pier warehouse, and Ju Chuan Shizuka played the role of a saint in the church to save all living beings, Wang Qiu and Ma Tong also wore wings and cat ears, and temporarily acted as urban management members He and the mobile medical team inspected the sparsely populated abandoned neighborhoods of Marseille Port from the air.

——It’s not that they don’t want to be down-to-earth and close to the people, it’s really because it’s hard to find a place in this city where people can settle down!

Although the medieval European cities of the Renaissance era in the [-]th century have made some progress compared with the previous dark ages, in terms of city appearance, they still cannot escape the category of "dirty and messy"—absolutely Most of the houses are covered with thatched roofs, and only the most prosperous neighborhoods can see wooden tiles and terracotta tiles. The only thing better than thatched cottages in the country is that the walls are painted with snow-white lime.As for the ancient Roman-style marble luxury villas, I searched the whole city and didn't see many.Religious places such as monasteries and churches are the cleanest and most luxurious places in the city.

What makes modern people even more unaccustomed is that there is almost no greenery in this city, few trees, and no lawns at all. Even the rich may not have the leisure to build gardens. They just planted some flowers on the windowsills of some houses. , but very rarely.The whole city is more like a jungle of buildings, or the slums of modern India, with a frighteningly high population density.Apart from the cathedral, there is little to see in the city.

If only the houses are simple and simple, then it is nothing more than a folk village equivalent to the modern world.But the problem is that the horrors of medieval European cities are far more than that. Even the top wealthy families can live in luxurious marble villas, but if you want to open the window to look at the street view, you must cover your nose in advance. To prevent the smell - even in the blocks inside the city wall, most people are used to living under the same roof with livestock, and pigs and geese can often be seen walking in the streets in a big way, and the ground is full of cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks feces; pedestrians on the street will become legs full of mud when they walk, and the excrement and fresh garbage dumped randomly from the upper floors of each house make the mud on the streets of the whole city never dry, Those who love cleanliness are forced to walk on stilts lest their trousers and skirts be soiled with dung.

Due to the sewers left over from the ancient Roman Empire, they have long been in disrepair after thousands of years of wind and rain, and the residential areas of Marseille are generally surrounded by feces and various wastes; the buzzing mosquitoes and flies will only temporarily disappear in the coldest winter. When it rains, the air is always filled with all kinds of rotten stench; the narrow and winding streets are often clogged with various debris including horse manure, and when the weather is sunny, they will become new again. fire hazard.Right now, there are even more rotting corpses lying all over the place... Although there are church gravediggers trying their best to collect the corpses, some are still left behind.

Therefore, after leaving the vicinity of the cathedral, the only cobblestone paved road, Wang Qiu and Ma Tong quickly lost interest in wandering in this disgusting garbage dump, especially the rotten road where only a few steps are bound to be covered with mud and shit. He hated it so much that he simply flew back and forth all the way and never landed again.

In fact, today's Marseille port has not yet entered its dirtiest years.At this time, the Black Death had just broken out, and the quack doctors in Europe had not yet pushed the cause of the disease to bathing, and Marseille was one of the most famous soap producing areas in Western Europe at that time, and the cost of bathing was relatively low. Small public bathrooms—although they have been closed down one after another recently due to too many dead people, all wealthy families with conditions will take a bath and wipe their bodies at home every once in a while.Although the bodies of the poor are still quite dirty, at least the smell of the wealthy citizens is not too heavy, so that the traversers will not be fainted as soon as they approach.However, just those few dirty streets full of human and animal excrement are really enough for Wang Qiu and the others to suffer.

——Before the Black Death, the bodies of Europeans were at least cleaner than their houses; after the Black Death, Europeans who did not take a bath were dirtier than their houses.

It is conceivable that in such a dirty and unsanitary environment, regular outbreaks of plague are a very normal thing.What's even more frightening is that even if they escaped from this purgatory and went to the seemingly beautiful countryside outside, the Black Death would still spread wantonly there.Desperate people suffering from the Black Death could only huddle in their dirty homes, silently waiting for death or salvation to come... According to the original history, most of them will die in obscurity.Fortunately, in this time and space changed by the traversers, what they are waiting for is salvation—the salvation of "angels"!

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"...Dear angels, all the sick citizens in this block who can still breathe have been gathered here according to your instructions. There are about 200 people in total. There may be some patients left behind We are at home, but we are not familiar with the roads, so we can't search one by one."

A handyman servant who rode a horse on the ground to guide them, reined in in front of a simple hotel that had been requisitioned as a temporary hospital, stopped, then raised his head respectfully, and said to Wang Qiu and Ma Tong in midair , "... I don't know what instructions to follow?"

"...Hey, are there only so few living people left? This place looks like it can accommodate at least tens of thousands of people! Forget it, let's save those who can be saved first!"

Ma Tong could not help sighing as he looked down at a large stretch of crowded thatched huts and shacks, as well as a handful of dotted brick houses.Then, she took out a small notebook from her bosom, and recited a Japanese spell that could be called malicious and flirtatious, transcribed from the Encyclopedia of Magic.

"...Meow! Something more dazzling than the sun, something cuter than a holy cat, appear in the stream of time, in your great name, I swear in this light, to these Lambs who believe in the Lord, give equal salvation meow! Group healing meow! (Japanese)”

Thus, a warm white light fell from the sky like a waterfall, pouring into the hotel that accommodated a large number of sick patients, bringing light, warmth and vitality, instantly eliminating the germs on everyone's body, and healing their rotting internal organs and skin , Supplementing their energy and physical strength...

Bathed in this brilliant holy white light, the family members and volunteers who take care of the patients day and night suddenly feel energetic and full of inexhaustible vitality in their bodies; the dying patients with ulcers all over their bodies are surprised to find that their bodies are full of vitality. All the large and small abscesses and tumors are healing rapidly at a speed that can be clearly seen by the naked eye... Even the servant on horseback who led the way for the "angel" felt a burst of warm current pouring directly into the internal organs, making him feel comfortable I almost groaned, and it was as if a beautiful Sanskrit sound from heaven came to my ears...

When the warm white light finally dissipated, most of the survivors in the makeshift hospital felt extremely excited and joyful looking at their own or their loved ones’ cured bodies, and they rushed out of the room or out of the window and looked into the air. The warmest thanks and cheers from the angels.

However, Ma Tong, who was soaring in mid-air, didn't care about the cheers and thanks from the people on the ground. Instead, he looked at his hands and frowned in confusion: "...It's so strange that such a big magic has been cast. , except that the spell is a bit shameful, why is there no sequelae such as weakness, fatigue, or physical exhaustion at all? I feel that it will not be a problem even if I cast a hundred 'group healing techniques'!"

"...Because this 'group healing technique' is entirely due to [Dictionary of Encyclopedia of Magic], and has nothing to do with you."

Wang Qiu, hovering next to her, curled her lips and replied, "...it's like Nobita Nobita, no matter how many times he has gone through the great adventures of going to heaven and earth, fighting gods and demons, and going to the bottom of the sea to enter the universe with Doraemon. , is still just a clumsy poor student who scored zero in the exam..."

"...Uh... I can't refute it...Although it sounds hurtful to self-esteem, but the fact seems to be like this..."

Ma Tong sighed in frustration, and then changed the subject, "... Well, speaking of which, I remember that most of the magicians in Japanese cartoons are Japanese, but they always like to talk about it in a very pretentious way. You can cast spells in German or English. But now we are doing it the other way around, using Japanese to cast spells on the European territory...It really feels a bit weird! Why do you want to do this?"

"...No way! After all, the entry threshold for our set of magic is too low. No qualifications or other prerequisites are required. You can learn it as soon as you get started! As long as you read the spell correctly, no matter if you are a dead old man or a young man Loli, even a parrot can rub fireballs and cast magic!"

Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders, "...if we record incantations in European languages, and then cast spells to save people in public, some European with keen hearing and extraordinary memory learns them, or someone steals them If the little book that records spells is gone, then wouldn’t there be a flood of healing magic? At that time, a large group of people will be proficient in using healing techniques, so how can we raise money by curing the plague? Hmm? Tear off [Magic Encyclopedia The pages of the Dictionary] have been rewritten? How many sheets of paper do you think there are in a [Dictionary of Encyclopedia of Magic], which can withstand such a wasteful toss?!"

"...This argument seems reasonable, but..." Ma Tong nodded and rolled his eyes, "...why not use Chinese?"

"...First, Ju Chuan Shizuka is the most suitable guy to play an angel is Japanese; second, this [Dictionary of Encyclopedia of Magic] is also Japanese, and may not support other language systems; third, in order to prevent mistakes, we I must get a notebook to write down the spell..."

Wang Qiu raised his arm and raised the small book in his hand, "...But in this way, the book that recorded the spells may be lost or stolen. In the European Catholic world these days, a guy who can read Chinese characters Maybe there are some, such as Marco Polo who wrote "Oriental Insights", and those Jewish merchants who took the Silk Road. But the guy who knows Japanese... Hehe, I will never find it..."

——Before the age of great voyages, Europeans who could understand Japanese and Japanese were basically the existence of fantasy novels...

Therefore, the Japanese "magic book" that each "angel" has in hand is indeed one of the best choices for confidentiality in this era.

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Once caught in a situation where there is no life or death, those desperate people will easily do many frenzied and terrible things, but in the same way, as long as people see enough hope, they will change their minds in an instant for a chance of survival .

After performing "miracles" in public and instantly cured them of the Black Death, both family members and patients were grateful to the two omnipotent angels and obeyed everything... Then, under the command of Wang Qiu , These people began to split up and searched the entire block door to door, and finally found all the remaining patients from the house one by one, and concentrated them in the open space.And senior sister Ma Tong used group therapy again.

As a result, all the patients were cured, but in this slum where tens of thousands of people lived, only less than 400 people survived.

Next, considering the terrible sanitation environment in this place, Wang Qiu mobilized these survivors to pack up their poor belongings and move to a wealthy area with better sanitation conditions - too many people have died recently , Even the wealthy districts have vacated a lot of houses.

After the last few hundred survivors had emptied their houses, Wang Qiu looked down from the air on the abandoned slums that were "dirty and messy", filled with the smell of dead bodies, infested with pests and rats, and severely polluted by Yersinia pestis. The two "false angels" and Ma Tong couldn't help scratching their heads for a while.

It is absolutely impossible not to deal with such a pollution source of the Black Death, but how to deal with it specifically?
"...It's very simple. The Black Death is spread by rats. In order to eliminate the rats here, the only way is to introduce cats!"

Senior sister Ma Tong said without thinking, "...so, we have to organize a group of cats to come here as soon as possible from the modern world! Cats, blue cats, hell cats... in short, any breed is fine, but it must be fast!"

...Hey, is there something strange mixed in?Senior sister, you can't act maliciously like this regardless of the occasion!
Wang Qiu couldn't help but rolled his eyes, complained silently in his heart, and then patiently dismissed this unfeasible proposition.

——Although cats are indeed traditional mouse catching experts, and the citizens of Marseilles have also learned a lesson, they will never kill cats stupidly, but the doraemon, which has been deeply taught by the previous cat abuse tragedy, is already "once bitten by a snake" He was afraid of well ropes for ten years”, and he sent back most of his stray cat friends early on, never daring to let these old friends come to this cruel world to take risks, and only a few cats were left to accompany them. Just by his side.

In this way, Wang Qiu can only buy cats from pet shops, but those pet cats in the modern world who have been spoiled since childhood and fed up with milk, canned cat food, and vitamin supplements have already greatly degraded their ability to catch mice. The fighting power of the Eight Banners in the late Qing Dynasty was comparable...

"...Then what did the robot cat do when it searched the dock warehouse? There must be a lot of mice there too!" Ma Tong asked strangely.

——As we all know, due to the psychological shadow left by the ear bitten off by a mouse, Doraemon has always had a serious phobia of any mouse. Once encountering a mouse, it will faint from strength and take out a nuclear bomb. Crying to destroy the world... In short, it is absolutely impossible to keep calm.

"...It's very simple, he took out the [Evolution & Degeneration Light Generator], pointed at a bunch of mousetraps for a while, and turned these mousetraps into dozens of [Automatic Mousetrap] in the 22nd century , under the control of artificial intelligence, these machines quickly burned all the mice in every wharf warehouse to ashes, and then Doraemon can move things." Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders and said to Ma Tong replied.But Ma Tong immediately asked to do the same, and also used the [Evolution & Degeneration Light Generator] to create a bunch of [Automatic Mousetrap] to replace the cats to eliminate the rats.

Therefore, Wang Qiu explained to Ma Tong the second difficulty in cleaning up the polluted neighborhood: After the Black Death had already broken out and spread, it was not enough to just eliminate the rats!Because it really carries the Yersinia pestis bacillus, the direct host of the Black Death to humans is not the rats, but the fleas that live on the rats.But fleas can parasitize on many animals... So in the epidemic area where the Black Death has broken out, all mammals with long hairs, including cats, dogs, donkeys, horses, pigs, sheep, etc., and even humans In itself, it is also a mobile source of black death infection!