On the Seven Towers

Li Tianrui hurriedly summoned all the battalion and company-level cadres in the Duke's Mansion and asked them to block all entrances to the city. No one was allowed to enter or leave the city. The purpose of the blockade was to capture enemy spies, and anyone who forced to leave or enter the city would be detained.

At the same time, in order to prevent people in the city from running around and contacting the source of infection or spreading the disease, he arranged troops to block the main street entrances in the city, dividing the entire Green Forest City into several pieces, and not allowing residents in the city to cross the blockade at will.

Then he found Anar and asked her to accompany him and the two elves to find those "evil forces", that is, the source of infection with pathogens. Now that the entire city is under the control of the Guards, there is naturally no place that cannot be entered.

Li Tianrui and Anar both cast a toxin-isolating shield on their bodies and wandered around the city with Magna. The first place where the evil forces gathered was a grain warehouse. This warehouse was taken over by the Guards yesterday, but they only had time to seal the warehouse first and had not carefully checked the contents.

Entering the door, this is a two-story warehouse, with sacks of grain piled on the ground. Magna felt it and said, "The other source of infection you mentioned is in this house, but it has begun to permeate the entire warehouse. I can feel the existence of evil power on everything in the warehouse. I can tell that it is not upstairs or downstairs. We must find it ourselves."

"The evil power you are talking about refers to the existence of demonized bacteria, right?" Li Tianrui said.

"Yes. If you like to call it bacteria, it is demonized bacteria, or bacterial monsters." Magna nodded.

"In other words, if a person gets sick due to this demonized bacteria infection, you can also tell it?" Li Tianrui asked.

"I think so, but the demonized bacteria in his body must multiply to a sufficient number." Magna said, "Maybe by the time I can sense it, he is not far from getting sick."

"It would be good to know it a little earlier." Li Tianrui said, "At least we can isolate him earlier and try to prevent him from infecting others."

Magna nodded.

"So all the food in this room can't be eaten." Anar asked.

"Of course. Anyone who eats this food will definitely get sick." Magna said.

Anar looked at the piles of wheat and flour around him and sighed, "What a waste."

The few people walked forward a little, and Li Tianrui said, "I smell that smell."

"Do you hear the sound of water dripping?" Anar said. The few people listened quietly and found that there was indeed a very slight dripping sound.

Suddenly, the elf Anlin, who had dark vision, said, "Look there."

Anar waved his hand and summoned a ball of light that flew into the air. The ball of light illuminated the ceiling of the dark warehouse. Under the light, there was a large piece of ceiling wood that was much darker than the surrounding area, and drops of black water dripped from that position.

"This is the black liquid, we found it." Li Tianrui said. Several people ran up the stairs to the second floor. Following the increasingly strong smell, they moved several piles of food and found a human-shaped object hidden in the middle.

It is called a humanoid thing because, apart from the general shape of the body, hands, feet and head, nothing can be seen specifically. Neither the face nor the fingers are visible. It looks like a pool of black jelly or asphalt, or a melted black snowman.

"That's what it looks like. The black juice I mentioned looks like this." Li Tianrui squatted down and cast a lighting magic. "However, this person's melting is more serious than Bocas. It is obvious that he has been dead for a much longer time."

"I guess he was put here after we found the house where the experiment was conducted. Assuming that they completed the magic of bacteria in the first house and successfully completed the first experiment, then all they have to do is place the infected bodies in various places?" Magna said.

"I don't think it's to place the body, but to feed people something that can cause the disease, right?" Anar said, "All we need to do is capture a prisoner and feed him some bacteria here, right?"

Li Tianrui said, "That's right. When we cleaned the room where the baron locked it, we found a crystal bottle inside. I think he drank the contents of the crystal bottle and became like this. I guess the bacteria that are spread through air contact will develop much slower than drinking the bacteria, so we haven't found a large number of people infected yet."

"Let's purify these first." Magna prepared to release positive energy magic.

"Wait a minute, let me take a sample. It may be useful when we study how to deal with this disease later." Li Tianrui took out a glass bottle, used his mental power to pick up some black juice and put it into the bottle. Then he blocked the bottle mouth with a long wooden cork. Then he wrapped it with several layers of plastic bags.

Then Magna, Anlin and Anar all released positive energy balls. Under the illumination of positive energy, the black liquid on the ground gradually turned grayish white, and finally turned into a gray gelatinous substance. As the warehouse was very large, it took them about half an hour to purify the two floors.

"Thank you for your hard work. We must rush to find the next source of infection. I don't know how many corpses these lunatics have placed. How many people have had the opportunity to come into contact with them in nearly two days..." Li Tianrui couldn't imagine how far this demonized bacteria had spread. He could only hope that they were placed in places where few people came.

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The second source of infection was in a much worse place. It was the backyard of a small noble family. The family had left here for refuge, so the corpse was left in the yard for two days without anyone noticing. And there were a large number of nobles and merchants living densely around this small noble family.

According to this location, many people around may have been infected. Li Tianrui and his party tried to knock on the doors around them. After knocking on three doors in a row, they found that many residents were gone. It was not until the fourth door that a man who looked like a butler finally appeared to open the door.

"Sir, who are you?" The old butler saw that the few people at the door were very imposing, including two elves, and asked carefully.

"I am the commander of the Chinese Tower Army. I have something to ask you." Li Tianrui said.

"Oh, so you are the lord of the Chinese Tower. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask." said the butler.