Messiah pushed into the panicked crowd and saw a middle-aged woman standing in the middle of the street.
A flax-colored veil covered her hair, but the scarf concealing her face had slipped off. At that moment, Messiah clearly saw the ulcerated marks on the woman's cheeks.
It was not until Messiah saw the ruby pendant hanging down in front of her chest that she immediately recognized her as the little girl's mother!
But the citizens of Rongxiang City around them had also seen the woman's face. The ulcerated marks on her cheeks were as terrifying to them as Death's raised scythe.
"It's Gray Whisper!"
No one knew who had first shouted the name of the plague, but the crowd quickly backed away. The street around the woman was instantly emptied.
She seemed to have accidentally fallen, causing the scarf covering her face to slip off. She was holding a wooden basket in her hands.
The food in the basket had scattered all over the ground when she fell. Even in her terror, the woman still tried to gather up what had fallen.
"I'll help you."
Messiah went against the flow of the crowd and crouched beside the woman. The woman froze briefly when she saw Messiah, but Messiah quickly put the fallen food back into her basket.
Just as the woman was about to thank Messiah, a stone flew in from somewhere and struck her in the head.
Scarlet blood ran down the woman's forehead. Golden light appeared in Messiah's hand as she tried to heal the wound.
But another stone landed beside Messiah's feet. She immediately turned and discovered that the citizens who had retreated some distance away had not left. The stones had been thrown by people within the crowd.
"Frost Country people who brought the plague! Get