Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 105: Blood Plague

This matter was very serious.

Li Wei did not dare to watch the commotion anymore. In the dark, he immediately retrieved a pot of clear water from the nearby stream, ignited the charcoal he had deliberately buried in the marching stove, and boiled another pot of hot water. He divided the last of his food into two portions, cooked a pot of porridge, and ate it all entirely while bathed in the firelight from the south and accompanied by those terrifying, ferocious screams.

Afterward, he smothered the ignition source. Unable to hold on any longer, he crawled back into the tent and fell into a deep sleep, hugging his Iron Spear.

When he woke up again, the sun was already high in the sky, and he still had a high fever. The wound on his left arm had started to become infected and purulent. His body was weak and floaty, and his vision was blurry with double images. Yes, it had still affected his eyes.

However, Li Wei was still considered very calm. First, he summoned his three cards to check his current attributes. Sure enough, this time there was a message.

[You are infected with the Blood Plague. Currently in the first stage. Simultaneously, your wound is infected and purulent, and the surrounding flesh and blood is festering. This is not good news.]

[Life: 80/150]

[Stamina: 80/200]

[Strength: 5/15]

[Agility: 2/10][Defense: 0/3]

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Eh, it surprisingly wasn't terrible!

Li Wei began to laugh, then crawled out of the tent and looked around. It was very quiet.

It was as if nothing had happened. Only a few wisps of green smoke were silently drifting from that Farmstead to the south, resembling the unyielding, vengeful spirits of female ghosts.

Li Wei continued to hold on, starting a fire to cook. He boiled the last of his food into porridge and ate it all. He then boiled another pot of water, waited for it to cool completely, and filled his waterskin. He waited a little while longer until his Stamina recovered to 100 points. Only then did he take out his dagger, burn it with fire for a moment, bite down on a wooden stick, and personally dig out the festering flesh and blood around the several wounds on his left arm.

Naturally, this process was agonizingly painful, but since it hadn't harmed the bone, it couldn't be called scraping bone to treat poison.

Yes, it hadn't bitten to the bone. The defensive power of the two-star Leather Armor was still very formidable.

Yet even so, Li Wei was in so much pain that he was covered in sweat, and his Stamina was completely depleted.

Then, there was no other way. He could only lie in the tent, relying entirely on the cold boiled water in that waterskin to cling to life.

From day to night, and then back to daybreak. This was already the eleventh day of this month, and the fourth day since he had come out.

He didn't even know how he pulled through. Sometimes clear-headed, sometimes drowsy, his entire world turned upside down. His entire body lacked strength. The high fever would break and then return, spike and spike again, fluctuating up and down, tormenting him back and forth.

During this period, the only thing he could do was boil water. In a word: drink!

And weirdly enough, the wolf head of that mutated blood wolf had not attracted a single wild beast; not even flies dared to get close.

No crows flew over either, let alone that Witch's accomplices.

In any case, Li Wei risked everything. He even kept his dagger ready by his side; at worst, he would sever his own meridians!

After all, there wouldn't be any losses anyway.

Consequently, in the end, he pulled through just like this.

At this moment, he felt like he had lost five kilograms. His stomach was completely famished.

But his mental state was much better. The wound on his left arm had already scabbed over, and his eyes had basically returned to normal.

Looking at the attribute panel again, his maximum Life had dropped by 10 points, becoming 140 points.

There were no other changes, except for an extra line of information added below the attribute panel.

[You have endured the Blood Plague's assault on you, and you survived, just like the survivors in Kakh City. However, your maximum Life has been depleted by 10 points. From now on, you are immune to the first-stage infection of the Blood Plague.]

Good heavens!

Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't consider this a loss; surviving was good enough. Furthermore, he was now immune to the first stage of the Plague, which would be extremely beneficial for him as he continued toward Kakh City.

Immediately, he packed up his tent and hit the road. He was very hungry right now and couldn't hunt. If he ran into the black-robed Witch again in the wilderness, he would really be in for it.

At this point, he once more inspected that blood wolf head he had impaled on the Wooden Spear. Tsk tsk, it was still incomparably foul-smelling. Strangely, however, it hadn't rotted; instead, it was somewhat air-dried. In weather with maximum temperatures over twenty degrees Celsius like now, this was truly very bizarre.

After thinking about it, Li Wei threw all the excess Wooden Spears into the tall grass. He unstrung the Two-Star Composite Bow, placed it in the bow bag, and slung it over his back. Then, he pulled out the Wooden Spear and took down that nearly half-air-dried blood wolf head.

This thing was the key to him entering Kakh City.

"Eh?"

Li Wei suddenly froze. He looked down at the ring of ground surrounding the Wooden Spear. A lot of black blood had dripped here previously. As a result, in just a short span of less than two days, a massive patch of green grass nearby had completely wilted.

Weeds stained with black blood were especially dried up and withered.

"This—is a bit sinister!"

Muttering to himself, Li Wei was pondering. For an unknown reason, he thought of the forest he had seen a few days ago. Although it clearly looked normal and had green leaves blooming, looking lush at a glance, it just possessed an indescribable aura of withering and death.

Could it be because of this black blood?

"So, what kind of background does this Black Blood Witch actually have?"

Li Wei felt this matter was truly far from simple, but he didn't dare to stay long. Exiting the mountain pass, he headed straight for Kakh City.

Over half an hour later, he approached that Farmstead where green smoke was still drifting. He then discovered that no battle had actually taken place here. Some crude and dilapidated thatched cottages were perfectly fine, but no residents could be seen. The entire Farmstead was incredibly rundown. The farmlands surrounding the Farmstead were largely barren, with signs of cultivation only visible in areas close to the river.

Relying on his eyesight as a three-star farmer, Li Wei was able to distinguish at a glance that these farmlands had been barren for at least two years.

No one cultivating them. How very interesting.

The rainfall in this place was fairly abundant. Leaving reclaimed farmlands uncultivated—was the Lord's brain not working well, or had the farmers' brains gone missing?

As he was thinking, a white object in the tall grass not far away caught Li Wei's attention. For a split second, he almost didn't react.

It was a human skull.

Next, Li Wei investigated his surroundings, only to discover that there were far too many white bones hidden in the roadside tall grass.

Merely passing by the outside of this Farmstead, he discovered at least no fewer than twenty corpses.

Was it a massacre?

No, it was more likely because they had died from the Plague.

This was because although the thatched cottages in the Farmstead were dilapidated, they hadn't been burned to ashes.

After all, burning, killing, and looting had always come as a standard package.

Just as he was thinking, Li Wei suddenly saw a few gallows erected at the edge of the Farmstead village—namely, where that small bridge was. A flock of exceedingly ordinary, exceedingly common crows were either perched or circling above them. Two already skeletonized corpses hung from the gallows, but there was one that was still fresh. Fresh to the point that he was still a living person yesterday.

But these could only provide Li Wei with a bit of visual shock. What truly made his scalp explode, his whole body uncomfortable, and even his soul tremble, was a clearing located further away from the gallows. There lay a massive pile of ashes. Was this where the blazing fire had ignited the night before last?

And standing crookedly in the center of this pile of ashes was a stone pillar, upon which rested a corpse that had long been burned into charcoal...