"Oh! Of course, thank you, Mr. Mackay."
Hitzfeld then remembered that he was still hanging out on the side, so he walked over apologetically and took the heavy package and the note.
"what is this?"
Sixus tiptoed closer to take a look. Hitzfeld didn't intend to hide it from anyone at this time. She saw the task regulations written on the note at a glance:
[Visit every black market bookstore possible and buy up all the records of the epidemics of Tarignan that can be found.]
"You asked him to buy books?"
Sixus was stunned, watching the girl squat down, ignoring the faint smell of the newspaper, opening it and taking out three thick leather books from it.
Just buy a book, especially one about this subject matter.
To be honest, she didn't quite understand what Hitzfeld was trying to do.
"Actually, I didn't think about anything at the time." Hitzfeld opened the first book and explained briefly.
"I asked him to buy it just in case."
In fact, another purpose is to confuse the audience.
It would make sense to confuse the Undead Party or the Count. She couldn't let those people guess what she was thinking easily, so there was no better candidate than Ma Kai.
But she wouldn't say that.
It's a bit hurtful, Mr. Mackay will be very sad.
"It was just in case...what about now?"
Sixus glared, she understood the meaning behind it.
"Now..." Hitzfeld flipped the pages quickly.
Sixus had been watching from behind, and she could see clearly that they were all maps of urban areas where the epidemic had broken out.
These books not only record the detailed time and place, but also analyze the reasons, which can be concluded that today there is no adequate sewage system.
"After listening to Miranda's analysis, I have been thinking about one thing. Graycastle's defense is so strict. How did they manage to bypass the layers of defense and affect them?"
"Another thing is why they are still indifferent even though we, the key players, have arrived."
"I didn't understand it, and I couldn't figure it out, until I remembered that there was this information to look up."
"Does this have anything to do with what you said...?"
Sixus was stunned.
"Yes." Hitzfeld narrowed his eyes and handed the book to her.
"look by youself."
"There are three points in history when the outbreak of epidemics did not conform to objective laws."
"The three cities with sewers have the highest number of deaths and missing persons."
"Why do you think that is?"
"Where did they take this opportunity to hide?"
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This is very suspicious indeed.
Sixus simply half-knelt down, put the big book on the ground and read it, flipping through the pages quickly.
More than one-third are textual descriptions, and a little more than one-third are hand-drawn maps... These maps are all about places where epidemics broke out, including villages and county towns, with the latter occupying a larger amount of hand-drawn space.
Sixus knew how backward Talignan was. Lacking the means of flight, they could only measure most of the data on the ground on foot. Occasionally, some maps used hot air balloons during surveying, and the sponsoring companies had to be specially marked.
So the effort they put into this material deserves recognition. The people who produced these books really hope that the country can pay attention to and solve this problem.
Thinking of this, Sixus simply picked up one side and turned back to the cover, and found that the book was called "The Origin of Plague", the author was Tenson Corey, and there was a line of small words below indicating that he was a professor of medicine at Hot Springs University.
"The Origin of the Plague" is divided into three volumes: upper, middle and lower. The one in her hand is the upper volume. The upper volume alone is so big and thick. One can imagine how many places Teng Sen and his team have surveyed and investigated, and how many risks they have taken for it.
But it was all worth it - the first volume of "The Origin of the Plague" caused a sensation throughout Talignan. For the first time, people realized that various large-scale infectious diseases could be prevented in such a simple way - yes, it was very simple, just repairing sewers and drinking boiled water as much as possible.
"It's not that easy actually..." Hitzfeld shook his head. "Remember when we first entered the city, I mean when we escaped from the station in the Count's car... those strange shops we saw along the way?"
"You mean, it looks like a teahouse, but it's actually just a shop selling water?" Sixus recalled.
"That's them." The girl confirmed. "In Talignan, drinking boiled water is not something that can be easily popularized. In order to solve this problem, the royal family at that time decided to invest money to open water bars all over the country. Water bars are the kind of shops that sell boiled water."
"Sarah had it before." Sixus curled his lips, "Strictly speaking, it still exists now. Some families really... can't light a fire anytime and anywhere."
"Mr. Mackay." Hitzfeld had almost finished reading the second book. She suddenly asked Mackay, "You should know more about Talignan than we do. I want to ask, is this book published together with the first volume?"
"You mean the middle volume? Definitely not." Ma Kai shook his head. "I don't know as much about Talignan as you think, but I do remember this incident. Who can blame it for causing such a big response at the time? I do remember a little bit..."
"Then I want to know more about it." Hitzfeld closed the second book, picked up the third, and said lightly.
"Let me think about it..." Ma Kai scratched his head. "When Tenson Corey started this investigation, not many people supported him. He had to pay for it himself. It took him 12 years to complete the first half of this volume. If he hadn't received sponsorship in the middle..."
"Sponsored? Someone sponsored him before the first volume was published?"
"Yes, otherwise he would probably die of exhaustion and still not be able to complete it, because as you know, many county towns in this country are very remote and not much better than Senling City."
"who is it."
"Uh..." Makai paused, "I'm not sure if I remember it wrong, but it seems to be the Necromancer."
Except for Russell, everyone present was shocked by the news.
"This book was published more than 30 years ago." Sixus said incredulously, "The Deathly Hallows Party has existed for so long? Didn't they only emerge in recent years?"
"Calm down, Connie." Hitzfeld grabbed her wrist, "Think about the essence of the Death Party..."
The corner of Sixus' mouth twitched, knowing that he had made a fool of himself.
It now seems that the essence of the Undead Party is just a minion controlled and supported by that monster.
That monster has existed for a long time, so it is not surprising that the Necromancer appeared so early. It has only risen in recent years.
"I'm sure he was a member of the Death Party." Ma Kai continued, "Because this party was not well-known at the time, I have a deep impression of things related to it, and it is impossible for me to remember it wrongly... I remember that a leather merchant named Peter Zhan sponsored Tengsen. He publicly announced a few months ago that he had joined a grassroots organization called the Death Party. At that time, the Death Party was not even a gang, and most of its believers were businessmen who were afraid of death."
"And then?" Hitzfeld continued to ask, "A leather merchant, no matter how big his business is, can't support such a thing, right?"
Clearing the way is always the hardest.
Before the release of "A Plague", the people of Talignan really had no concept of hygiene. The sewage system built in the city was just to make it less smelly. In essence, it was for the rulers to live more comfortably, not that they really understood this.
Therefore, the resistance that Teng Sen encountered was enormous. He was actually singing a different tune from his compatriots across the country. She guessed that his situation was not just difficult at the time. Even if he got sponsorship, he might not have a good life.
"That's how it started." Ma Kai nodded. "He worked with his students... At first, the mapping equipment was always destroyed by the locals... Those stupid guys heard that he was here to study the plague and thought that this behavior would bring curses and bad luck. Anyway... You can imagine, these are all barbaric and backward ideas."
"And Pete Zhan alone is not enough to change the situation, but he is not alone. He joined a party with his accomplices. Soon, members of the Death Party all over the country began to show their support for Teng Sen. This incident shocked many people because it had never happened before - a profit-seeking businessman would actually work for something that seemed to have no profit. It was hard for me to imagine at the time."
"So you doubted them?"
"……what?"
"I suspect those merchants, the merchants who joined the Death Party, have other purposes in doing this."
"Oh, I dare not think so!" Ma Kai widened his eyes.
"why."
"Because it was too late - with so many people's strong support, the first volume of the book was published very quickly. At this time, more people finally realized its significance. Many well-known scholars began to openly support Teng Sen. His influence soon became so great that even the royal family could no longer play dead and was forced to announce that it would invest a large sum of money to support Teng Sen's subsequent work... Who would dare to oppose him at this time?"
"Follow-up work? Including building sewers in some major cities?" Sixus suddenly showed a horrified expression.
"Of course." Ma Kai looked at her, somewhat confused. "The first to be affected was Kerge... Kerge already had a sewage system, but it was incomplete... They spent a lot of money to expand it three times on the original basis, which basically covered the main urban areas at that time."
"Oh, and there are also several territories of the Dragon Guard families. I don't know much about the most mysterious Time Dragon, but the other two, Hot Spring Territory and Winter Frost Territory, have also invested a lot of money to build a lot of sewer systems."
"But this doesn't match what I heard from the Count," said Hitzfeld.
"The Earl said that this aspect is very difficult to implement, and the Deathly Hallows Party is even one of the main obstacles."
"Did he say that?" Ma Kai was surprised.
"Yes, and he also said that one of his goals is to completely solve the sanitation problems in all parts of the country."
"This is not impossible." Ma Kai thought for a while and looked up at her: "After all, the Hot Spring Territory only occupies a small part of the southern territory, and there are still a large number of county cities that are difficult to implement - this is also a fact."
"What about the double-dealers of the Death Party?"
"...Maybe the original Necromancer party was actually better?"
Sixus sneered.
Ma Kai had several forehead wrinkles, not knowing where he had analyzed it wrong.
"That's enough, Mr. Mackay... You've been a great help."
Hitzfeld calmed him down and continued to focus on the book.
The timeline is now clear.
More than 30 years ago, Tenson began to write "The Origin of the Plague". The Necromancers helped him for unknown reasons. Since then, Tarignan has begun to promote the construction of sewers in major cities, at least in wealthy areas, and more and more county towns have sewage systems.
Therefore, in "The Origin of the Plague: Volume 1", there were only three cities marked with sewage systems, but in "The Origin of the Plague: Volume 2" and "The Origin of the Plague: Volume 3", the number suddenly increased several times or even ten times.
But as she mentioned at the beginning, there is one detail that cannot stand up to scrutiny, which is the number of deaths and missing persons.
Tenson-Corey is a professor of medicine who did his further studies at Sarah and holds a double doctorate in medicine and sociology.
Therefore, he is definitely an expert in this area. At the end of some chapters in his book, he compared the performance of "areas with sewage systems" and "areas without sewage systems" during the high-incidence season of the plague. The results are undoubtedly that the areas with sewage systems have higher numbers of deaths and
The number of missing persons is relatively low.
This was important evidence to convince most people to accept his theory, but that was compared to Talignan himself.
He also listed a doubtful point, that is - this death-injury ratio, this data, is different from the proportion data he obtained from years of research in Sara.
Not only are they different, but they are also quite different. Because according to his original prediction, the performance of "areas with sewage systems" during the high-incidence season of the plague should be better, or even much better - this is in line with objective laws.
But the fact is, people are still dying and going missing in those areas, and while it is obvious that they are performing better than the dirtier areas, the gap is not as big as it could be.
[I can't understand why this is happening.]
At the end, Hitzfeld noticed a complaint hidden in a long paragraph by the author in the penultimate chapter.
[I observed the living habits of the locals and taught them to drink boiled water and eat cooked food as much as possible. They also had sewage pipes... But this still couldn't stop some people from dying of leprosy, hemorrhagic fever and endless diarrhea. It was as if an invisible hand was controlling everything, and it was a demon in the fog demanding tribute from us.]
"You suspect they're hiding in the sewers?"
Xia Yibing asked her directly.
Unlike Sixus who could still lean over to read a book, she had to hold the gun against Russell, and she was already getting impatient.
"I don't have any evidence, but it's very likely." Hitzfeld nodded and continued to analyze: "This is the only way to explain why people still frequently die and go missing in areas where the sewage systems have been repaired..."
"And Graycastle. Think about the supernatural events Queen Milanka mentioned. Do you think they sneaked in through the sewage pipe?"
The King of Frost Dragons, Heinsmorv, went insane under heavy guard.
They all thought that only the Mimicry Virus could cause a person's temperament to change drastically in an instant, but the problem was that the climate in the Northern Wilderness was cold, and it was not easy for the Mimicry Virus to sneak in.
But if it is a sewage pipe, it is different.
People would be cautious about the night and would nail fences around doors and windows, but basically no one would be wary of sewer outlets or pool seepage outlets.
It is true that no nightmare can come in from there - nightmares are monsters in the form of human pupae. The nightmare larva that Hitzfeld first encountered was quite large in size. That kind of narrow space... excluding some extremely rare snakes and mollusks, most nightmares cannot squeeze in.
But it would be different if it was that monster.
Xia Yibing knew the most about this. After all, she and Hitzfeld watched the projection together. She saw with her own eyes how the "Fei Che Holy Spring" condensed and took shape from a pool of foul-smelling pus and blood, and she also saw with her own eyes how it escaped from the dragon's tomb with its body like a stream of water.
Go down the drain, it definitely does.
It’s not about whether you can, but whether you want to.
Thinking of this, she narrowed her eyes: "You mean it hasn't moved yet not because it doesn't want to move, but because it's stalling for time..."
It takes time to get back to Kerge from the Northern Wilderness.
Although that happened several months ago, didn’t Heinsmorf, who was possessed by it, disappear with a large group of people?
God knows where it is now. Maybe it is rushing back, eager to eat them.
"Hey……"
Just then, a chuckle was heard in the corridor.
