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After that, Hojo ordered them to burn all the corpses, and at the same time informed them of the fact that the river water had been poisoned.

The people were extremely panicked and fearful at the beginning.

But when Hojo said that he could prepare the antidote, they were relieved for the time being.

At this time, it is most useful to have such a reassuring word.

The truth or falsehood of this statement is of secondary importance.

After Hojo temporarily settled the people in this area, he broke out and hurried along the river to search for the past.

He told them all the villages and small city-states he passed along the way.

Most villages and small city-states are willing to obey his orders, but there are also very few leaders who are unwilling to obey.

Hojo persuaded him by force.

Finally, after more than half a day, the entire villages and city-states of Crete were notified by Hojo.

With Hojo breaking out at full speed, it took only a little over ten minutes to run the entire island of Crete.

Most of the day was spent on persuading the public.

And after running around for a long time, Hojo also saw a scene he had never seen before!

As long as the river flows, every section is full of dead animals.

Animals are what Hojo cannot drive.

Their corpses are like road signs by the river, with one every tens of centimeters.

The river was full of dead fish and birds.

Hojo didn't have a rough number, but at least tens of thousands of animals died as a result.

In human terms, at least a few thousand people died.

In this era of small countries with few people, these thousands of people may have killed dozens of villages or even an entire city-state.

This result was saved by Hojo's best efforts.

As long as he delays a little bit and slows down on the way, the death toll may continue to rise.

In a blink of an eye, it was almost dusk.

Hojo is at the moment in the capital of Crete, which is a starting point of the river on the island of Crete.

After running around for more than half a day, he has already judged that the poison that the black robed man planted was here.

Then he only needs to prepare the antidote and pour it into the river from here.

He locked himself in a small room.

At this time, he had already removed all the bow and sword, and all he was holding were herbs.

The room is filled with all kinds of medicinal herbs.

These he took out of the treasury of the royal palace of Minos.

He is trying his best to configure the antidote.

At this time, he was extremely grateful for Chiron's teaching.

If it wasn't for the other party, Hojo would be powerless in the face of such a situation.

And outside the house.

A good-looking woman is comforting everyone in the city.

"Everyone, please wait patiently. I understand that everyone is very thirsty now, but the river water is poisonous at the moment. Wait a little longer and wait for Hojo-sama to prepare the antidote, then you can drink it!"

This woman is the one that Hojo rescued from Minos after entering the palace.

The lips of the people are extremely dry at this time, and their faces are filled with a kind of confusion about the future.

From the beginning when Hojo said that the antidote could be prepared, their hearts gradually turned to a kind of helplessness.

It has been a long time since Hojo said that the antidote can be formulated.

Many elderly people have actually gone almost a day without drinking water.

They don't know whether Hojo is telling the truth, but it seems that they can only choose to believe it now...

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

Hojo has been continuously preparing the antidote for two days without sleep.

He's almost done.

But outside the house, the crowd who had some vitality before became extremely numb and desperate at this moment.

The human body can only live for three days without water.

It has been two days now, and all the clean water in the capital has been distributed.

Many people have really reached the limit of life.

Adults can still persevere.

However, some old people have died of thirst one after another.

The child was also comatose a lot.

People's eyes are already silent when they are about to face death.

As for the woman who comforted everyone before, she was sitting quietly on the ground at this time, and she could no longer speak a word from her throat.

Lips are also chapped and don't even bleed anymore.

This is the case in the capital city, but the situation in other places is more serious.

After all, Hojo is in the capital, so he can give the people here some spiritual sustenance.

Those in the outer villages or city-states have already collapsed and gone crazy many times.

I don't know how many people were killed, and I don't know how many people died of thirst, and I don't know how many people couldn't help but drink the river water and were poisoned to death...

As for the edge of the river, there were more and more dead animals.

Cows, sheep, horses, rabbits, pheasants, leopards, wolves...

Their corpses were piled one on top of the other, and it took two days for these corpses to become smelly and flies were flying around.

If it is said that the people on Crete are still alive, less than half.

The animals on Crete are really close to extinction.

Inside the hut, Hojo rubbed the herbs in his hands into juice and added them to the medicine basin in front of him.

Gradually, the juice in the medicine basin became clear.

Hojo took a deep breath, he took a sip of the next river water and waited patiently for the onset of the toxin.

For the past two days, he has been testing the poison with himself like this. Although he has been failing all the time, he has the protection of Hestia after all. As long as he is close to the flame, he can recover his health again.

He has done this kind of thing countless times.

After a while, the toxin began to explode in Hojo's body, and the pain came instantly.

Hojo immediately took a sip of the potion in the medicine basin.

After a few seconds, the pain began to slowly decrease and then disappear.

After waiting for another 10 minutes, I still didn't feel anything.

Hojo let out a sigh of relief.

It was finally a success!

He opened the door without saying a word and went out. After seeing the desperate crowd in front of him, he felt extremely complicated. He raised the medicine basin and said:

"The antidote is here!"

At this moment, the many lifeless eyes finally had some light...

...

Interior of Crete.

This is an inexplicable space.

In this space, a figure emitting a soft green light is quietly watching what happened above the island.

Her face is extremely plain, but she has infinite majesty.

And the breath emanating from her body.

It is exactly the extremely primitive divine atmosphere that Hojo felt when he first set foot on Crete...

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Today's fourth update

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Chapter 160 Seven: The Uncrowned King of Crete and His Departure, the Appearance of the Mother Goddess Gaia! (Fifth update, please subscribe)

The disaster on Crete was temporarily resolved after Hojo configured the antidote.

But he didn't leave immediately.

There are still many follow-up troubles caused by this disaster in Crete.

Disposal of dead people and animals; life of the follow-up people

These issues all need to be addressed.

There is no one who can serve as the backbone on Crete now.

The only thing they can count on now is Hojo who saved them.

On the other hand, this river poisoning incident is also related to Hojo to a certain extent.

In terms of emotion and reason, Hojo couldn't do it and just left like this~.

So he temporarily became the leader of Crete. In other words, he was the uncrowned king of Crete at this time.

Hojo ordered that all the corpses that died of poison be gathered and burned.

At the same time, people go to salvage the dead animals in the river.

After completing these two points, he sent someone to count the current number of people on Crete.

After a few days of busy work, a piece of data was placed in front of him.

Cretan people, extant: more than [-] people.

The original Cretans numbered 16.

This time the river incident directly led to the death of nearly 13 people.

Poisoning + no water for two days.

Many old people were the first to die, followed by vulnerable children, and then some weaker young adults.

These people who are still alive now, although it is not good to say this, but they are indeed the group with better physique.

Hojo looked at the number of people and thought about how to arrange them.

Let them live scattered in various city-states or villages like before?

Hojo just had this idea in his mind and then overturned it for a moment.

The original villages or city-states became extremely empty because of the death of a large number of people.

If these people are scattered, there may be only seven or eight people in a village, and only a few hundred people in a city-state.

Not to mention safety issues, it may also be a huge problem in daily life.

Since this doesn't work....

A different thought popped into Hojo's mind.

If you can't disperse, let's all get together!

Let these 3 people live together in the capital!