Hello Chang’an

These concluding words fell in Arlan's ears, and they were like a heavy hammer, smashing a crack into the ice wall solidified by hatred in her heart.

For a long time, her heart has been covered by this ice wall, making it almost impossible for her to see anything outside the wall.

The moment this crack appeared, the first thing she felt was panic.

She lowered her head and shook her head: "Impossible, I saw with my own eyes that Xuance's army surrounded my tribe..."

Seeing her expression, Chang Sui Ning had no intention of saying anything more about the matter. He just said, "If you insist on deceiving yourself and others now, that's fine."

These words made Arlan, who was in panic, suddenly angry and seemed to have hit the outlet called catharsis: "...Why do you look so superior!"

She struggled to stand up, tears flashing in her red eyes, and asked uncontrollably: "Do you know what it feels like to see your family and clan members slaughtered with your own eyes!"

"I am not an unreasonable person. There are certainly people in my tribe who participated in the war, and it is understandable that they died in the battle! But those women, children, old and weak... what fault did they have? My mother-in-law and brother, what on earth did they do wrong!"

Chang Suijing looked at her quietly and suddenly asked: "What about the people in Yuezhou who were infected with the epidemic? What did they do wrong?"

Arlan's body, trembling with excitement, suddenly stopped.

Chang Suining asked again: "You hope that the lives of the innocent tribesmen are lives, but the lives of the people of Yuezhou are not lives?"

Arlan was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth again and said, "You Shengren... all deserve to die!"

"Okay." Chang Suining said, "Then you go and take a closer look to see if these people you say deserve to die are really all disgusting in appearance—"

Seeing someone walking in, Arlan backed away subconsciously: "What are you going to do?"

Chang Suining's eyes were filled with coldness: "Why, you dare to kill them, but don't dare to see them?"

Arlan fell to the ground. Shepherd's Purse stepped forward and untied the rope from her feet, but she struggled to shrink back to the corner. She tried to resist, but all the hidden weapons and poisons on her body were searched and she was dragged up. For a moment, she began to scream uncontrollably: "No...I won't go! Let me go!"

Chang Suining looked at Arlan who was full of fear and said, "Let her take a good look."

There are many ways to torture people, one is to make them bleed, and another is to make them fear. There is no difference between the two, it just depends on which one is more appropriate.

Arlan was quickly put into the carriage by Shepherd's Purse. After arriving at the place where people affected by the epidemic were resettled several miles away, Arlan was forcefully dragged out of the carriage by Shepherd's Purse.

Arlan struggled and screamed, unwilling to move even half a step forward, but she couldn't hold on to the strength of Shepherd's Purse. She shouted frantically: "I don't want to look at them...Why should I look at these **** people!"

The news she brought quickly attracted the attention of many people.

Shepherd's Purse led her forward. The more she struggled, the slower she walked. The shacks on both sides were crowded with people, and people looked at them, most of them with confusion.

Most of those puzzled eyes showed signs of suffering from illness. Some people were lying in the shack and moaning in pain, some were holding the crying children in their arms and coaxing them softly, and some were holding their knees and sobbing softly, not knowing whether it was for themselves. Or someone else.

After hearing Al Lan's voice, these people all raised their heads and looked over.

Facing those eyes, Arlan's frantic shouting got stuck in his throat uncontrollably, and he suddenly lost his voice.

She didn't want to attract more attention like this, but as she quieted down, everything around her became too clear, making it inevitable for her to avoid it.

Arlan's body was trembling slightly, but he still sneered disdainfully, trying to keep himself calm and numb, and kept telling himself - they are just a group of Sheng people, and all Sheng people deserve to die!

Before she met these people, she had always persuaded herself in this way.

But when we meet face to face, the feeling when our eyes touch each other is different after all... Human eyes are too good at conveying suffering and being aware of suffering.

Those tortured eyes made them no longer just a general number of people, no longer just the cold word "Shengren".

They are human beings, living beings who are being forced to die.

Arlan has been unable to face the awareness of being a "human" for too long -

Since following Li Xian, she has never established a close and deep relationship with anyone. She has no relatives or friends, no one to talk to, and no room to think about right and wrong. She is only accompanied by hatred day and night, and her heart is filled with hatred. The sea is also firmly frozen by hatred.

Occasionally, she would suddenly wake up from her nightmare. That brief moment of trance was one of the few moments of "self-examination" for her. At that time, she would realize that when her great revenge was avenged, it might also be the day of her destruction. .

But at this time, the great revenge has not yet been avenged, but even the truth she has always believed in has suddenly become blurred...

What was clear at this moment was the suffering of all the sentient beings in front of him.

Behind a shack, there was a young woman in plain clothes covered with a veil, squatting in the corner and hugging her knees, crying softly. Her cry was low and trembling, with helpless frustration.

Beside her, a young man squatted down and comforted her with a low and hoarse voice.

Both of them are students at the Wuer Hospital Medical Center. They are both very young. They came here to save people, but they saw different people dying in front of their eyes every day.

But there wasn't much time left for them to feel sad. Soon someone shouted "doctor" in a hurry, and the two of them left the place quickly.

Walking further, she was finally far away from those shacks. Just when Arlan felt she could breathe for a moment, she staggered as she was pushed forward by shepherd's purse. When she raised her head again, she saw the dazzling fire in front of her. , there was a weird burning smell in the air.

At this time, two more people came over carrying a corpse. Arlan glanced subconsciously and saw that it was a pretty young face. He was wearing a shabby gown. The only bright color on his body was The bunch of brightly colored beads in his right hand that he was holding tightly... I don't know if they came from his family or the girl he admired.

Arlan suddenly remembered that he had given the silver bell on his wrist to a young man who was in love with him, and that young man also died on that day.

The fire burning the corpses was extremely hot in the summer night. Seeing another body that had not yet grown in size was thrown into the fire, Arlan turned his head suddenly, raised his legs with a pale face and ran away to avoid it.

Shepherd's purse no longer escorted her, but just followed her and let her move forward.

Al Lan, who only had his feet untied and his hands still tied behind his back, took dozens of steps before his way forward was blocked.

This path was carved out of the original tangled grass. At the end of the path were neatly arranged clay pots. Most of the pots had names on them. At a glance, there were hundreds of them.

A girl about six or seven years old with two pigtails came over holding a clay pot and placed it carefully.

The woman who accompanied her here wiped her tears and reminded the girl: "Kowtow to your mother again."

The girl kowtowed three times slowly in front of the clay pot. I wonder if she still couldn't understand the difference between life and death, but she didn't cry from the beginning to the end.

When the woman was about to take her back, she still knelt there, looked up at the woman, and said, "Auntie, I miss my mother-in-law. I want to stay a little longer."

The woman's eyes were sore and she glanced in the direction of the shack. There were obviously people there who needed her care. She nodded, bent down and touched the girl's head, told the girl to go back early, and left. The girl was kneeling there, looking at the small jar, as if she didn't understand why her mother, who was protecting her from the wind and rain and holding her on her back, had become smaller than her.

After looking at that little back for a long time, Arlan seemed to be extremely tired, and sat down with his head hanging down.

The girl turned around when she heard the noise, saw Arlan, and asked in a low voice: "Are you coming to see me too?"

Arlan looked up in confusion. In the dimness, the girl's dark eyes were filled with tears at some point. When she turned back, her childish voice also sounded like she was crying: "The plague is so bad!"

So bad…

The child's shallow two-word words were like a sharp knife, suddenly piercing Arlan's heart.

Yeah, that's really bad.

When she was so old, she never imagined that she would become such a bad person in the future, right?

As a genius in the clan, Arlan was pampered and grew up. She has never left Nanzhao since she was a child, and has never experienced any hardships worth mentioning, so she is more naive than her peers. It is this innocence that often prevents her from having the ability to think independently.

The girl finally started to cry. Arlan didn't dare to look at it. He looked away hastily, but his eyes were stung by the fire not far away.

The distance seemed unable to block the scorching heat wave, and she was scorched like this, until the ice wall in her heart, which was full of cracks, began to melt and collapse quickly, revealing the appearance of the sea in her heart, where blood flowed like a river, including tribesmen and innocent people. or's.

She felt in a daze that the blood was flowing out, dyeing her whole body a purgatory-like scarlet.

At this time, someone learned of Arlan's identity and came here: "...She was the one who helped Mr. Han create the Yuezhou Plague!"

Questions and curses suddenly came in. Arlan's eyes were empty and he was pulled up from the ground by shepherd's purse.

"Bad guy!"

A ball of mud suddenly hit Arlan. She turned around and saw the girl standing up, staring at her with hatred on her face: "Monster!"

Arlan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he turned back. Shepherd's Purse was dragged away from here and stuffed back into the carriage.

Unlike when he came, Arlan was very quiet this time, without making any noise.

"Have you thought clearly?"

It was still the same shack. Chang Suining looked at the person who was brought back and asked aloud.

Arlan sat on the ground blankly, saying nothing.

Chang Suining glanced at her and said to shepherd's purse: "Give her an hour to think about it."

Just when shepherd's purse felt that her master was particularly good-tempered today, Chang Suining, who turned to leave, added: "Ask her every quarter of an hour. If she doesn't answer, I will cut off one of her fingers."

After an hour, I still have **** out of ten, which is enough.

Shepherd's Purse shivered, responded, and called a female soldier to come in.

They are not people who like to kill and torture, but they have no choice at this moment. Too many people died due to the plague, and their tenderness and sympathy could not be shared even slightly with the initiators.

Chang Sui Ning has never gone far.

The moonlight was silent, and Arlan's voice of crying and laughing was particularly clear.

It wasn't until the third finger was severed that a painful scream came from the shack, but the huge pain seemed not only due to physical pain, but even the physical pain seemed to compensate for something more difficult. The soul pain endured.

Chang Sui Ning gradually heard that the man seemed to be asking for physical pain.

More than half an hour passed, and the screams gradually became weaker.

Arlan was twitching slightly and lying on the ground. There was no trace of blood on his face. His whole body was wet with sweat. All five fingers on his left hand were chopped off and the bones and flesh were blurred.

Just when she was about to lose consciousness from the pain, Chang Suining walked in, lowered his eyes and said, "Can you tell me?"

Arlan was unable to raise his head again and said in a trembling voice: "I have a condition..."

Chang Suining did not laugh at her for not overestimating her abilities, but said: "Let's talk about it. If I feel better in the future, I will consider agreeing to you."

The meaning behind her words was very clear. As long as the plague could be extinguished, her mood would naturally get better.

A ray of moonlight fell from the gap in the roof of the shed. Facing this ray of moonlight, Arlan tried hard to raise her face, opened her bitten and bleeding lips, and stated her conditions.

Chang Suining gave a noncommittal "hmm", turned around and left, and asked Qiao Yumian, Doctor Sun, and several senior medical doctors to come over.

For the next two days, Dr. Sun locked himself in the pharmacy to prepare medicines. The only person he saw every day was Qiao Yumian. The opinions of other doctors are also conveyed here through Qiao Yumian.

Dr. Sun once dealt with a plague, and before Arlan told him how to make the poison, the doctors had accumulated a lot of valuable experience after many days of treatment - it was like being in a forest of thorns, repeating in the fog. I searched for a way out, tried and made mistakes despite being bruised and bruised, and moved forward more than half of the way without retreating. Then when the fog cleared, I could clearly see the correct path, and I just had to run forward.

In the early morning of the third day, Dr. Sun, who had been restless, pushed open the door of the pharmacy, with a rare joyful expression on his face. When he was about to speak, he saw nearly a hundred doctors outside the pharmacy, waiting for him to come out.

"..." Dr. Sun calmed down, took a step back, handed the Chinese medicine packet to his apprentice, and whispered: "...Take two doses a day, give it a try."

This medicine is relatively strong and needs someone to try it first.

Qiao Yumian and others selected ten people with serious illnesses, and after obtaining their consent, they began to test the medicine, including Zuo Yuanwai.

Two days later, Qiao Yumian came to Suining in tears. The girl from the Qiao family, who was always quiet, even lost one of her shoes.

"Ning Ning!" Qiao Yumian, who was barefoot and thin, had tears all over her face, but she burst into a big smile and her words couldn't be more concise: "Okay!"

Chang Suining turned around and looked over, and saw behind Sister Qiao's family, the summer sun was particularly hot but no longer scorching, and the chirping of cicadas suddenly became no longer harsh, but sweet.

I'm in a good mood, that's it.

Chang Sui Ning smiled back, his eyes bright, but he said first: "I'll have someone buy my sister new shoes!"

Qiao Yumian looked down at her bare feet and hurriedly hid them under her skirt. She smiled and nodded heavily to Chang Suining. (End of chapter)