Chapter 249 Section 102 The Plague in the South

Chapter 249 Section 102. Plague in the South

The Annan holding the ulcerated person was mottled, faded, and solidified on the magic newspaper.

"Remember, this is Xingyue Bay. Apart from the law, you don't need to fear anything-" Annan's words that day were also narrated by Evelin.

"You even published this?"

Annan was soaked in a bucket filled with potion, holding a magic newspaper and talking to Ingrid.

“Don’t you like that it helps increase resident cohesion and bring in more residents?”

"It's nothing, it's just that I didn't notice that the reporter was right next to me."

Feeling that the soaking time was about the same, Annan climbed out of the bucket, took the towel handed by Abby and wiped his black hair, using a cleaning technique to dry the mage's robe.

"You shouldn't touch them directly," Ingrid said.

Because he contracted the disease not long after coming into contact with the new residents in Annan. Invite a mage who is good at healing to help eliminate the disease, and take medicinal baths on time every day.

"Any thing else?"

Annan asked Ingrid who hadn't left yet.

"A personal question." Ingrid asked hesitantly: "Why do you want to accept these poor people who can't do anything?"

Annan fell into silence, recalling the tragic scenes he saw in Louis City: dying people exposed to the scorching sun, seagulls biting the bellies of pregnant women in wet alleys, dozens of rats dragging children into the sewers, homeless people almost lying on their backs The blood-sucking worms on his body ate him into mummy, and the boy without hearing was sold to pagans for sacrifice...

"I can't accept their death..."

Even for this world, death is normal.

Annan could accept their existence, but he could not accept ignoring them after seeing them.

As for why these people can't be seen in the north...it's not because Breeze City is well managed and the environment in the north is comfortable. On the contrary, the environment in the north is harsh, and if they cannot survive the cold winter, they will not suffer so much. All deaths here will turn into ice sculptures on the roadside.

If Xingyue Bay cannot make ends meet, Ingrid will say that Annan is a good person but not a qualified lord. But today, when Xingyue Bay is prosperous, she will say: Annan is a good lord.

The New Initial headed south at full speed, and the Skaven clan heading north brought tension back to Xingyue Bay, which had just been relaxed for a long time.

A few months later, Annan contacted the Centurion again, whom she had almost forgotten. She replied with an ambiguous "Be prepared"...should it mean "The Rat Men may come, they may not come"?

Under the new crisis, the 100 guards in Xingyue Bay are not enough. So Annan asked the guard captain to expand the number of soldiers to 500, and specially hired a group of four scavengers as instructors.

After all, their next enemy is likely to be the Skaven.

Annan participated once and easily got full marks, and then had zero points deducted.

The title is for Violet Eudora to arrange several straw ratmen: reckless rat, elite ratman, champion ratman and a little girl. The newcomers chose the Rang Rat and the Champion Rat Man who seemed to be the toughest to offend, but Annan stabbed the girl Straw to the core with a spear.

Villitus Eudora praised Annan and said that three wererats were guarding the girl, so the girl was actually a special wererat being protected.

Zero points were deducted because Annan attacked other ratmen instead after knowing what happened.

In the following time, the Seahawks did not come, the Louis City Merchant Ship did not come, and May was coming to an end. Good news finally came from Michael - he had made gunpowder through alchemy.

…

"What's this?"

"gunpowder."

Michael put a flame close to the "gunpowder", and the "gunpowder" burned violently. Then the sealed jar containing the "gunpowder" was ignited and thrown into the corner, where it exploded with burning debris flying everywhere.

There was no alarm outside the alchemy room, as if they were used to it.

"Burn and explode, all in line with your requirements."

"But the gunpowder I proposed was...powder."

Michael seriously pointed out Annan's mistake: "You shouldn't solidify your thinking. There are many paths for mages, and it doesn't matter which method you use to achieve it!"

"Anyway, it shouldn't be called gunpowder..."

"What's that called?"

"oil."

Annan looked at the black viscous liquid next to Michael and said.

"Oil? Doesn't sound as good as gunpowder."

"How did you find out?"

Annan asked, and the result he got was astonishing: Michael had alchemized it using a complicated set of steps.

Oil is of great use, but it does not include Xingyue Bay, where industry has not yet sprouted. Only the by-product asphalt is of some use, and it is difficult to find a substance that burns more violently than petroleum.

Oil-roasted mouse sounds delicious.

But the thing is, this is alchemy and not from the ground. A rough estimate is that the cost of refining one pound of oil is about one gold coin.

"Sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal. The gunpowder I need must use these three as the main raw materials..."

Annan again gave Michael 100 gold coins and took away a few pounds of oil that he had refined.

“Stop taking months!”

He ran to the blacksmith's shop with the oil and showed it to Bronzebeard. The dwarves had never seen anything like this before, so Annan had to store it temporarily.

May passed and warm June came.

The second rainy season experienced by Annan is approaching.

The big ship named Xingyue Bay sailed forward. Merchant ships from Louis City arrived full of goods and left full of goods. Sea Eagle disappeared without a trace.

Louis City is just a small city, but Olmedo is quite satisfied because Louis City is still connected to surrounding city-states. She has ordered that Breeze City be prohibited from selling demonic iron at low prices, and that all demonic iron be supplied to Xingyue Bay. Businessman wants to buy? It's okay, but you have to buy it at twice the official selling price.

A sunflower field opened outside the Lord's Mansion and was even published in the next issue of "Xingyue Bay News". The crew also changed batch after batch.

West, who ran to the City of Plenty, sent the first letter. He was not very lucky. "The Fall of the Mage Tower" and "Betal's Redemption" were already popular there - of course without copyright.

West's letter stated that he had only sold a few magic stones by virtue of his status as "Annan's subordinate".

In his reply, Annan asked West to find creatures more than three meters tall. As long as the portal is formed, Xingyue Bay can seize the market with magic newspapers.

Dream-seeking humans and aliens come to Xingyue Bay every moment. The population of Xingyue Bay has exceeded 10,000 and has been shortened from next year to this cold winter.

The finances that have been decreasing have finally achieved a surplus - so there is no news about the third Magic Image.

When Xingyue Bay was prosperous, bad news came from the New Initial Ship...

More than a month of sailing made New Initial go through a lot. Pirates, pagans, traps disguised as harbors, but this time it's nothing like before.

"Plague," Francois said.

"A terrible plague is spreading through animals and food..."