I seriously doubt there is something wrong with my Chaldea

She is the moon god, the goddess of hunting, and also in charge of the plague.

From the perspective of Greek mythology, it's not surprising that the idle Greek gods would create such a plague, but if it's the goddess in his impression... I always feel that it shouldn't happen.

... At most, it is to let a wild boar down and go around twice, so that they will have no harvest this year.

Cough, it doesn't feel bad...

"........."

Looking at Li Xiang who fell into silence, Mash leaned against Li Xiang's side and asked quietly: "...do you feel something is wrong, senior?"

"……Um."

Li Xiang nodded, and then said to the man: "Then, can you take us into the village? After all, we just came here, and we are not familiar with the place..."

"Why are you staying here? This is an ominous place!"

The man froze for a moment, he didn't expect that the name of the moon god didn't scare the two young people, and he could only attribute this strange situation to the young people's fearless character that day.

"If you stay here for a long time, you will definitely be infected with the plague, and you will not escape bad luck in the end! Let's go!"

"Don't worry, we won't catch the plague."

"you--"

"Jingle jingle—(flicks money bag)"

"I... I said, you..."

The man hesitated, but his eyes could not move away from Lixiang's hand, a little cold sweat left on his forehead, he looked left and right, and then immediately accepted the money bag in Lixiang's hand like lightning, and tied it On the waist, as expected, sometimes this thing is more straightforward.

"Okay, okay, then if you are really infected with the plague, don't blame me."

"of course."

The boy and girl followed behind the man, nodding as they walked.

"Speaking of which, you just kept talking about retribution, God's punishment, and punishment for your village. What's going on?"

As he gradually penetrated into these houses and farmhouses, Li Xiang asked. At the same time, he watched the withered faces appearing from those dark houses. Li Xiang was looking at them, and they were also looking at this strange man. of outsiders.

"This... Well, in fact, this is our own fault."

The man whispered, lamented, and said: "In our place, there used to be a lot of trees, and there was not much plowing. The trees here... are not only the trees now, but also a kind of tree that we call sacred trees. .”

"But we haven't seen any sacred trees..."

Matthew replied subconsciously, Lixiang frowned slightly, why did he seem to have heard such words before...?

It's not where I heard it before, but I've heard similar things.

"Sacred tree, our sacred tree, that is a good thing."

As the man walked, he passed through several sickly-looking villagers. The boy and the girl glanced at those villagers. Other than numbness, there was nothing but hostility and xenophobia towards strangers in the dull eyes of those villagers.

Lixiang and Matthew turned their eyes away immediately, waiting for the villagers to pass by them.

"The sacred tree is a very useful, even magical tree. Its seeds can be used to extract oil and can also be eaten. It is tall and straight. Whether it is used as a foundation or as a temple, the pillars of the palace It is the first choice, its branches are strong and suitable for making weapons, and even its branches and leaves can be made into spices... Oh, the dignitaries of Arcadia like it."

"We discovered the wonderful use of this kind of tree, so we started to develop and utilize the 'divine tree' that originally grew all over the mountains and wild here, yes, develop and utilize, the people in this royal city can speak, develop and utilize... "

As the man walked, he searched for the memory of the sacred tree in his mind, so that a smile appeared on his face.

"It's a pity...it's a pity..."

But his reminiscing smile felt a little greedy in Lixiang's ears.

"........."

"........."

The dreamlike words disappeared in the ears of the young girl behind him, Lixiang and Matthew didn't know what to say for a while, so they could only keep silent.

...' That's not reminiscence, it's just a greedy thirst that remains unsatisfied. '

Such words sounded in his mind, Li Xiang slowly frowned, he suddenly regretted coming here.

"After... what about after?"

Matthew felt a bad premonition, and had already vaguely guessed what the final result would be, but she couldn't help asking in the end.

"After that...? After that... there is no more, the sacred tree is gone, it has completely disappeared from us, it's as simple as that, not even a single seed or leaf is left."

The man said naturally.

"........."

Li Xiang didn't know what to say, or, in his opinion now, all the accusations were in vain.

Matthew lowered his eyes, and there was a little helplessness and regret in those pink and purple eyes.

To hear from someone else about the disappearance or demise of another originally existing thing is not a pleasant thing in any case.

"What about the plague? When did the plague start?"

Li Xiang asked.

"About half a month ago, we saw the trees start to wither, the animals began to decrease, and then, people in the village began to get sick one by one."

His voice was a little deeper. It seemed that it was not a good thing for him that a disease that had never happened suddenly appeared in the village.

"One after another, one after another..."

"The old man fell ill, the children fell ill, and in the end, the adults also fell ill. No one in the whole village was spared, and the whole land became a plague."

"What's the reason? Haven't you investigated the cause of the plague yourself? And since the plague has already happened, why didn't you escape?"

"Investigate? Investigate what? Do we still have to investigate the gods in the sky, the great Artemis can't do it?!"

The man slowly opened his eyes wide, and he couldn't help saying that such thoughts were undoubtedly taken for granted in their impressions.

"As for escaping... We were born here, we live here, where can we escape? We are already plagued by disease, and there are foreign lands everywhere. No one will accept a village of sick people without any effort. No one is willing to accept us, we are in a foreign land, and we are just a dead end..."

The man shook his head, looking a little sad.

"...uh..."

Li Xiang let out a sigh of relief, he didn't know how to answer the man's answer for a while.

"...How can you be so sure that the plague is a divine punishment from Artemis and not caused by other reasons?"

He paused for a while, stroked the thoughts that were already a little chaotic in his brain, and asked.

"Aside from Artemis, who else...can send down such a plague and punish us?"

"........."

Li Xiang frowned subconsciously. It seemed that he couldn't get any particularly valuable information from the villagers. It seemed that he still needed to take a good look here.

And in the unknowing conversation, they have come to the center of the village, seeing strange faces suddenly appearing in the village where no outsiders have been in for a long time, many villagers opened the dusty doors, as if in Faces emerged from the withered yellow in a burst of dust.

Their eyes are full of distortion and numbness struggling in pain.

Among them, Lixiang saw a tall and strong man at a glance, and Lixiang noticed that he was looking at herself, and apart from the same numbness, there was very obvious hatred and hostility in those eyes.

he………

Li Xiang looked at the man, but the man turned around immediately and disappeared into the crowd.

And those villagers just glanced at Lixiang and the others, and then left sparsely. It didn't take long for the village to regain its strange calm.

…………

When they got here, Lixiang and the others no longer needed that person to lead them, so they let him go back.

Just in the end, in order to prevent himself from accidentally missing it, he still asked the man about Asclepius, and the result was as he expected, Asclepius had not been here, after all He and Matthew are the only visitors to this village recently.

Asclepius is a doctor. If he came to this plague-spreading village, perhaps the whole village would cause a sensation.

So, they still say that they are in the wrong place.

"Mash, don't worry too much, we will find Asclepius soon."

Lixiang patted Matthew's shoulder lightly, trying to comfort her.

Matthew was taken aback, with a slightly embarrassed smile on her face, she said: "Senior, I'm not sad, but why are you so disappointed..."

"Ah?! Cough...! Is it..."

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Chapter 39: One Arrow, Exploding Mountains

Boys and girls walked through the place where the plague spread, but they were not afraid of it. On the contrary, they kept shuttling through the sparse withered woods, trying to find some clues among these trees.

"........."

Li Xiang put his hand on the trunk of a big tree, and a little magical power penetrated the branches and the bark that seemed to have not changed, and flowed into the trunk.

After a while, Li Xiang gently moved his hand away, a little puzzled.

"Senior, do you feel anything?"

Mash looked at Lixiang and couldn't help asking, Lixiang shook his head slightly.

"Why do I feel like this tree is simply dead?"

Li Xiang touched the rough bark on the trunk of the big tree and muttered to himself.

"However, what the villagers told us just now is... first the trees start to wither, and then people...?"

Matthew thought for a while, and then asked: "Could it be that the villagers made a mistake, after all, they don't seem to understand what kind of plague will be infected together with animals and plants."

Li Xiang nodded: "There is this possibility... No, it is very likely that this is the possibility."

"and……"

Li Xiang bent down slowly, and his palm touched the soil at the root of the tree.

"I can't feel too much real ether here, can you feel it, Matthew?"

Matthew closed her eyes and felt it for a while: "It does seem to be different from other places."

"...Actually, I always feel that the spiritual veins here are not normal, and the reaction of the true ether is very weak, as if the entire spiritual veins have failed."

Lixiang frowned deeply, he had never seen this kind of situation before... no, in fact, he had seen it... in Fuyuki.

The magic power in the spirit veins there was sucked dry by the Great Holy Grail located in the big cave of Liudong Temple, and the spirit veins in the entire city were dried up, leaving only a few rare "springs" with some magic power remaining.

"Senior...Senior, there is no way to observe..."

Matthew felt a little sorry.

And the current situation seems to be the same as before.

But Lixiang couldn't observe the entire map area as precisely as Chaldea. After all, he was only one person, and it was impossible for him to observe the source of magic power flow through a little bit of exhausted spiritual veins. Huge job done.

"Well... It would be great if the doctor was there. It would be too easy for him to observe the surrounding environment. We just need to follow his guidance and run around."

Li Xiang sighed softly, as if he suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness that made it difficult to move an inch.

"……but……"

Matthew heard the words and looked up at the sky above his head. The sun moved westward, but the temperature did not decrease.

"Calculating the time, we only need to wait a little longer before we can contact the doctor, senior."

"Well, then we'll just wait—"

Li Xiang nodded.

"Ah? Lixiang, are you calling me?"

Suddenly, the communication bracelet on Lixiang's wrist lit up with blue light again, and a blue light curtain hit in midair, forming the doctor's upper body. something.

"Oh--"

Li Xiang paused, Mashu shook her head, and the pinch of pink hair on top of her head shook.

"Hey, what's your reaction—?"

"Senior, this is the one!"