Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 523: Purification Plague

Although everyone understood that the settlement was in danger as soon as they saw the plague giant corpse appear, when the White Wolf Knight, Fulvio and others arrived, they were still shocked by the tragic situation of the settlement.

This is a small village. Most of the residents are indigenous people from a nearby tribe and some immigrants. There are about three to five hundred people in the village.

Because the village is small, they don't have an energy tower, but the lord's mansion still built an underground shelter for them and planned to set up a small heating stove for them.

There are not many extraordinary people in the village, and the only extraordinary fighting force is a few ancestral warriors from the indigenous tribe.

But because they are a small tribe, their fighting power is not much stronger than that of an apprentice knight.

So when the plague giant appeared in this village, the outcome was already doomed.

Although the village chief organized everyone to hide in the underground shelter at the first time, he himself, together with several ancestral warriors and the village security team, bravely tried to destroy the plague giant corpse, but what they got in return was only a pile of corpses in the central open space of the settlement.

Lacking powerful equipment, they were brutally torn to pieces by the giant plague corpse.

The settlement was also severely damaged. The warehouse for storing grain was completely destroyed, and the grain stored inside was contaminated. The village walls were also destroyed by the plague giant zombies. The settlement was basically ruined.

As for the villagers hiding underground...

The White Wolf Knights knocked on the door of the severely deformed underground shelter with trepidation. After a while, a faint voice asked, "Who is it?"

Hearing someone's response, the White Wolf Knights breathed a sigh of relief and quickly announced their identities: "We are the White Wolf Knights. We have already destroyed the giant corpse. Now please open the door."

"Great!" A cry of joy came from behind the door, and soon someone tried to open the door.

However, because the door had been deformed by the plague giant zombie, it was difficult to open, and several White Wolf Knights had to lend a hand. They then used the powerful force of the Steam Knight to force the door open.

However, Fulvio, who was standing aside, felt very heavy-hearted, because when the White Wolf Knight was talking to the villagers just now, he heard coughing and groaning coming from behind the door.

And when the door opened, what he saw confirmed his judgment.

"These people have been infected by the plague zombies and must be dealt with, otherwise they will all become plague zombies." Fulvio found the female knight and explained the situation to her in a low voice.

As a referee knight, he has encountered too many things like this. While he will not be lenient, his emotional intelligence is not so low as to tell other knights in front of everyone that these villagers need to be "dealt with".

The female knight's movements were visibly stiff, and she asked in disbelief: "They should be able to be cured, right? As long as we isolate them and send doctors to treat them, they should be able to be cured, right? We don't need to really get rid of them, right?" "I'm afraid not. I just checked the granary, and the food was contaminated first, then the plague zombies appeared." Fulvio would not make mistakes in such matters. Although he was reluctant to do so, he still explained: "They first ate the contaminated food, and the plague virus accumulated in their bodies. Later, some of them mutated into plague zombies because of possible evil god cult rituals.

As for the remaining villagers, their bodies have been severely eroded by the plague toxins. If there were no plague giant zombies, they might still have a chance of recovery, but the toxins spread by the plague giant zombies reacted with the plague toxins in their bodies, and they... are no longer saveable."

Hearing this, the female knight hesitated for a moment, but then gave orders to others to temporarily isolate and guard all the villagers. The reason she gave was that they had close contact with the plague giant corpse and might have been infected with the disease and needed to wait for further treatment.

Some of the villagers were obviously panicked, but when faced with the White Wolf Knight, they still obediently followed his orders and stayed in the underground shelter. No one tried to leave or break through.

The female knight asked two White Wolf Knights to guard the door of the underground shelter, and then discussed with Fulvio how to deal with these people.

It was only then that Fulvio learned the female knight's name, Griffith, and realized that she was the flag captain of the White Wolf Knights.

"We can't just kill them like this. They are all people from the North. It's too cruel to do so, and it doesn't conform to the Earl's teachings." Griffith opposed killing everyone directly, but she also understood that these people could not be let go like this: "I will report this to the Lord's Mansion and ask the Lord's Mansion to send people for support! We can identify everyone and pick out those who can still be saved, so that at least some lives can be saved!"

"No, it's too late, they are beyond saving." However, Fulvio shook his head and denied it: "I checked their food. This batch of food has been contaminated for more than half a month. They have already been poisoned. Sending people to identify it is just a waste of time and resources.

Even if some of them have good physical constitutions and can be saved, treating them would be a costly undertaking.

I can understand your feelings and thoughts, but give up, it's meaningless, you can't save them."

Fulvio knew it was cruel, but that was the choice the Knights of Judgment faced: sacrificing a few people in exchange for protecting more people from threats.

Griffith was obviously unwilling to give up. She wanted to try to persuade Fulvio, but her eloquence was obviously not enough to impress a judge knight with a heart of stone, not to mention that these people were already hopeless in Fulvio's eyes. Getting rid of them earlier would mean they would suffer less.

In the end, neither Griffith nor Fulvio could convince the other, but they each took a step back and reached an agreement.

Fulvio no longer advocates getting rid of these villagers immediately, and Griffith must report the matter to the Lord's Palace and explain Fulvio's suggestions and judgments clearly, and let the Lord's Palace make the decision.

Both parties had no objection to this result. After all, in Fulvio's opinion, it would take some time for the Lord's Mansion to receive the report and make a decision, and this time was enough for obvious mutations to appear in the villagers under custody.

At this point, even if he didn't say it, these White Wolf Knights should understand what they need to do.

(End of this chapter)