I weave my destiny in parallel time and space

"Go to the city and have a look." Alicia said, "The situation in the city should be better, if all cities were like this."

She was silent for a moment, and a cold light flashed in her eyes, "The south is really rotten to the core."

"It's indeed better." Xia Ya whispered in a low voice. With his clairvoyance, he had actually already seen the situation in the entire southern region.

He has been observing for a while and has a relatively detailed understanding of this place.

However, he still brought Alicia here without telling her directly. After all, seeing it with his own eyes was more direct than dictating it.

He raised his hand and snapped his fingers. The magic power spread around, and the surrounding space changed instantly.

In the blink of an eye, they arrived outside the city walls of "Steam City", the largest city in the south.

The city was founded in the 17th century, so it also has some wall structures for defense.

A group of farmers who came from all over to escape the war and plague were blocked at the door by the city wall. The city did not let them in, or it was impossible to let them in.

Allowing these infected people to enter the city is almost equivalent to abandoning the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the city.

They had nowhere to go but to camp here.

However, people inside the Steam City seemed to regularly transport food to the victims outside through the ropeway, so although these victims had sallow faces and blurry eyes, they would not starve to death here.

However, as more and more victims gather at the door, the interior of Steam City will eventually be unable to afford it, and by then, this place may become a purgatory that you can hardly imagine.

In fact, Char has seen many Death Gods around here. In such a small town, there are two Death Gods.

There are even more gods of death in this steam city.

They hang around, waiting to send the dead souls to Hades.

Entering the city, the streets are sparsely populated, with only some patrolling guards and some officials able to move around.

Steam City is also the largest industrial city in the South. There are many military factories nearby because it needs to provide arms for the war in the South.

The air was not much better than that in the Imperial City. The clouds were low and dark, making people breathless. Besides the smell of soot, there was also a faint smell of rotting corpses in the air.

Fortunately, Char and Alicia learned their previous lessons and kept their figures hidden.

"The governor here is quite smart." Xia Ya commented, "They know that the way to isolate the plague is to isolate people, but it is not strict enough.

and"

Xia Ya looked at the two strangely dressed people walking past them carrying a stretcher on the other side.

They were covered from head to toe in jet black oil-soaked leather, wearing black leather gloves, and their faces were wearing beak masks with goggles. They had a very steampunk style, and their bodies exuded an extremely strong smell of spices.

Because their mouths and noses are stuffed with cotton, camphor, mint, and ginger to purify the air they inhale.

One person also wore a wide-brimmed leather hat on his head. Because the person was wearing a face photo, the patient couldn't tell who was who. This was considered a professional badge, and he held a cane in his hand.

"Who are these people?" Alicia asked.

"Those who wear hats are doctors, and those who don't wear hats are poor people who are lured by money. Most of their jobs are responsible for transporting patients, burying the dead, cleaning up filth, and doing many other menial tasks.

Except for you and me, people in this world have not yet discovered the existence of germs and viruses, so their masks are not to resist germs, but to "prevent miasma"

They called it a smelly air that needed spices to purify it.

You see, the crutches they have are used to undress and guide patients without touching them or even getting too close. "

He nodded and commented, "This level of protection can indeed block viruses and bacteria to a certain extent."

"It looks scary," Alicia said, "but it's nice to be able to save people."

"It looks scary in your eyes, but it's even scarier in the eyes of those patients." Xia Ya's eyes flashed.

“Because once these people appear in the community, it means there are already infected people here.

In theory, these people exist to relieve patients' pain and even save lives, but they and their patients don't have many illusions.

Because plagues are almost always fatal.

When these people appear at your doorstep, it means that you are doomed. This is almost a sign of death.

In fact, the most useful thing most people can do is record the number of infections and deaths in their communities.

Sometimes they also serve as witnesses when a patient drafts a will.

They occasionally performed autopsies to try to understand the disease.

And their treatments”

Char sighed.

“Still the most common bloodletting treatment.

Or a poultice was made from onions and butter, to which they often added dried frogs or arsenic, depending on the extent of the patient's illness.

The closer the patient gets to death, the more desperate and bizarre the treatments become.

Other treatments included coating the patient with mercury and then heating it in an oven for a period of time. "

"Isn't this really embalming a corpse?" Alicia couldn't help but said.

"You read a lot of books in the library, some of them were written by me, and some of them were ancient knowledge that had been lost long ago, so you broadened your horizons and had a clearer understanding of the world.

However, this does not mean that people in this world can see it as clearly as you.

This is the fault of the entire medical system, not these doctors. "

Xia Ya quietly looked at the people wearing crow masks and whispered.

“The rising demand has caused doctors’ income to soar fivefold in just a few years. Many charlatans who have never attended medical school have joined the ranks of these doctors under the temptation of high salaries.

Some counterfeiters take advantage of the opportunity of being close to the patient to tamper with the patient's will and obtain other people's property after the patient dies.

Of course, the reason why these doctors can have fake people in their ranks is because the treatment methods are so easy to use.

However, despite this, their existence actually has a certain positive significance.

They are neither angels nor the Grim Reaper.

They were just brave individuals, and they were not the patients they were treating.

But society. "

Alicia fell silent.

But then, a commotion not far away caught their attention.

"I'm not, I'm really not a witch!"

A group of guards were forcing a plainly dressed woman out of her house.

Her hair was messy and her face was frightened, but the men obviously didn't show mercy to her. Their expressions were cold, and they even looked at the woman with a kind of vigilance and disgust in their eyes.

"Every witch says that he is not a witch." The leading soldier said, "You will eventually have your poor disguise ripped apart by the people of the Judgment Hall."

He said coldly to the soldiers around him, "Take them away!"

There is another chapter after twelve o'clock