rose nursery rhyme

The town is well designed.

The stone road converges from several directions on the edge of the city to the center. The junction is the three-way intersection where the ghost appeared yesterday. It was originally the most prosperous place in the whole city.

From here, just pick a direction at random, no matter how you go, you will eventually pass through the town and come to the edge.

When the two of them came yesterday, there were still birds all over the city, but today there was not a single one in sight.

Those big black birds seem to finally understand that spying openly will only bring disaster to themselves.However, they still did not want to repent, so they sneaked around and hid collectively in the dark corners of the town.

When Xi Di and Brice passed by, there would be rustling of feathers in some gaps, and occasionally the sound of bird claws scratching wood.

Sheedy didn't pay much attention to them, though. He'd killed enough birds yesterday to lose interest in the activity.

Just watch it, as long as it doesn't come out to be annoying.

The child is very reasonable today.

He jumped into the drainage ditch and walked slowly along the dry waterway, occasionally touching the walls of the nearby houses, or picking two flowers from the decorative plants and tearing off their petals one by one.

There are no people in the city, but the flowers are blooming well.Plague or ghosts do not affect the plants anyway, and no one disturbs them, and small white flowers pop up one by one, swaying gently in the wind.

The scene looks a little warmer.

Bryce followed Sidi in his cloak.

The surrounding landscape was unattractive to him.

He just stared at the boy's wobbly back.

The sunlight caused the hood to cast a shadow on Bryce's face, completely concealing those beautiful silver-gray eyes in the darkness, covering him with an almost paranoid obsession...

That was the source of all his desires, and his greed never ceased.

The hem of the cloak swept across the street corner, and where it passed, purple light flashed one after another in the dark gaps, and then there was the sound of something falling to the ground.

A few black feathers fluttered out of it, oozing a little sticky blood.

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The town, which had been ordinary when it was inhabited, did not immediately become particularly bizarre when it was about to become a dead city.

Xi Di also walked around casually, without a clear goal.

Along the way, you can see patterns painted with black paint on the exterior walls of many houses, the most conspicuous places.

The pattern is very simple, with black spots in black circles, painted very hastily, and the paint dripped down the wall before it was dry, staining the entire wall not very clean.

The house was strangely empty, without even the most basic furniture. Occasionally, the doors and windows were open, and the wind blew through, and it would whine.

Xi Di touched the pattern on a stone wall in front of him, and turned to Brace, "Do you know what this means?"

Brace: "That's the sign of the plague."

Sidi: "Plague?"

Brace: "Well, it means that someone in this family has been sick."

The plague is highly contagious, even if you only come into contact with the items used by the sick, you may be infected.

People have nothing to do with it, so they have to mark it outside the home of a sick person. If they see it, it means that there needs to be a detour.

They walked along the way, and the marked houses exceeded half of the city. It appeared so commonly in every corner of the town that it almost became a unique landscape.

This is really a great war.

The two had almost reached the edge of town.

This is just a small city without city walls, and the city gates are only for decoration, as long as you walk along the stone road, you can walk out of the city directly.

In this direction in front of them, there is a dense forest outside the city.

The stone road turned a corner in front of the forest, leading to the distance along the edge of the forest. If you continue from here, you should be able to reach the next place where there are people.

There is also a path leading to the depths of the forest. It can only accommodate two people at most. There are no weeds on the path. It seems that it is not artificially constructed, but has been stepped on by people passing by for many years.

Sidi stood in front of the forest and glanced in.

There are already many trees on the mainland, and with the addition of one after another nearby forests, most of them can be connected.

Sidi: "Is there a fairy knight here?"

Bryce: "Not necessarily."

Fairy knights will not appear during the day, and even if it is really the same forest, what they will see in the end should only be Flora.

Of course Xidi knew this too.

But he didn't care.

Without hesitation at all, the young man embarked on the road to the depths of the forest.

……

The path is surprisingly long.

There were basically no turns on the dirt road stepped on, and only a few obstructive trees were bypassed when necessary. Even so, it took the two of them quite a while to reach the end.

the end is...

A piece of grave.

Dozens of tombstones of different shapes and sizes were interlaced and inserted into the soil. Some were engraved with large paragraphs of text, and some were only a few sentences, which were also covered by dust and could not be seen clearly.

Sidi: "There are no dead bodies down here."

Because the tombstones are arranged too densely.

This is more like a form of commemoration, bringing these dead people together to pay tribute to them.

He walked to the tombstone without any scruples, bent down, wiped off a little dust with his hands, and read the words on it: "They all died... Well, ten years ago."

The dates of birth and death are on the tombstones. People buried here were born in any year, but they all died in the same year.

Ten years ago.

What happened here ten years ago?

Xidi was very curious, walked around the group of tombstones, picked a few more tombstones and knocked on them twice, and finally came to a conclusion with regret.

It's just an ordinary tombstone, and there are no other institutions.

It seems that not everyone is like Lord Astro, who likes to hide some inexplicable things in inexplicable places.

However, the two came in, and it was not without gain.

In the middle of the tombstones, there is a small tomb, which is particularly conspicuous.

The snow-white stone has been carved out of exquisite shapes, only it has been wiped clean, there is no dust, and a simple wreath is hung on it.

The wreaths were made with poor craftsmanship, and the flower branches were simply twisted together. The wildflowers that can be seen everywhere on the roadside were used, and the freshness was better than the weak petals that had not yet withered.

It should have just been hung up this morning.

It's just that the name on the tombstone was randomly scratched several times with a sharp weapon for some reason, and the characters are somewhat blurred.

Xidi touched it with her fingers and recognized it little by little for a long time before she barely recognized the name.

"Jo...Shua." He read out softly, and then counted the days in his mind, "He only lived seven years."

A child who died young.

Bryce lowered his eyes, staring at the carvings on the white tombstone.

The ferocious thorns twine around the rose, and a delicately carved 'God's Eye' hangs below.

The soul buried here was once a believer in the rose of thorns.

Seeing him standing still in front of the tombstone, Xidi thought he had taken a fancy to the wreath made of wild flowers, so she enthusiastically suggested, "Do you want it too? I'll make one for you."

He is the best at making wreaths, and he will surely do better than the one on the tombstone.

"Ten years ago..." Brice said slowly, "The plague doctor said that there was a plague here ten years ago."

The scale was not as large as this time, but many people died, and his younger brother was also taken away.

Xi Di: "So what is commemorated here are those who died of illness in that plague?"

The corpses will aggravate the spread of the plague, and those who died of the plague will be gathered and burned, so there is nothing under these tombstones.

seems reasonable.

"Do you know how ordinary humans fight against the plague?" Bryce asked suddenly.

Sheedy didn't know.

The place where he lives is peaceful and quiet, and the most unstable factor is Xidi herself.Let alone this kind of plague that hurts people on a large scale, children never get sick at all.

It may also be because of his mixed race, he is naturally healthier than ordinary people.

In addition, the Rose Cultists who raised him were afraid of him and didn't want to get too close to him...

In some senses, Sheedy's common sense was terribly lacking.

"How to fight?" The boy was a little tired from walking, and wanted to sit on the ground, but thought the ground was too hard. After thinking for a long time, he simply pulled Bryce over to sit down, and he nestled in his arms smoothly.

In this way, it is much more comfortable.

"Herbal medicine, incense, bloodletting." Brace hugged Sidi, leaning his back against the tombstone, and slowly told him a story, "Stay away from the epidemic area, and...execution."

Sidi: "Execution?"

Brace: "Execution."

"Burn those they consider 'guilty,'" he explained bit by bit, "and whom they believe ... caused the plague to arise."

The continent is vast, very vast.

What has long been discovered and taken for granted in one region may never be understood in another.

Just like the plague, there are not many occurrences. Only those places that have suffered from it will study them carefully, and it is possible to know exactly how the disease spreads.

As for towns that have not been prepared for such a disaster, the first thing that will happen is a lot of panic.

Acquainted people fell one by one, and before they died, their bodies would begin to fester. People could do nothing but watch themselves die.

No one knows exactly what brought the plague.

But one has to have something to blame.

Enemies, aliens, people who are different, people who are infected with diseases.

They must have made a deal with something evil.

To curb the raging plague, they must all be executed.

Other than that...it's a good time to get rid of the burdens at home.

"Guess." Brice's voice was soft, but the content was very sinister, "How many people have been accused on this continent and executed as the source of the plague... How many dead patients could have died? Healed?"

"Guess." Brace wrapped his arms around Xidi's waist, and his voice was as low as a whisper, "The plague doctor said that half of the city's population died, how many people are there in this half? , were they killed by themselves?"

It was very quiet in the cemetery.

Sidi moved and struggled out of his arms: "I don't like this story."

"Yeah." Brice also stood up, using magic to remove the dust from the two of them, "Me too."

Unfortunately... this is not just a story.

The author says:

"Nursery Rhymes" enters v at 7.1, and reverses v from this chapter.

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