264. The Third Demon Tide

The Rangers lay on the ground, blood gushing from the wounds on his hands, but it quickly froze, stopping the bleeding in a sense. However, he was Pale, as if he might go into shock at any moment.

Most surprisingly, even so, his cheeks continued to twitch, and he crawled on the ground like an insect toward the dagger, trying to let it pierce his body.

When he realized he couldn't do it, he started banging his head against the ground, trying to kill himself.

"No! No! Help me! Help me!"

Just as he raised his head, Jonah twisted his fist again, and the Rangers lost all his strength and collapsed to the ground.

"Fortunately, I have a habit of leaving a mage's hand."

Jonah somewhat relieved, but also more worried.

With a wave of his hand, he summoned some straw and felt from a distance, wrapped the injured man up, packed him up along with his body, and lifted him up from a distance.

"Magic is amazing!"

Lu Ban couldn't help but sigh.

If I had this magic, I could stay in bed all day without moving, and food and drinks would come to me by themselves.

"The situation is very serious."

Jonah glanced at Lu Ban, whose eyes were shining, and then pointed to Birmingham.

"You two, come with me."

They followed the Rangers was floating in mid-air, and accompanied Jonah to a room in the fortress.

Jonah put the man down, treated his wounds from a distance, and then bound him with a rope.

After a short while, an older monk arrived.

Are you sure this is a plague?

The monk asked a question.

"Without a doubt, Lord Elie."

Jonah answered.

"We will activate the response measures against the epidemic overnight, and the inspection must be completed by noon tomorrow."

The mage named Eli quickly gave the order and left the room, seemingly to contact the fortress commander.

"And what is a plague?"

Lu Ban, with the mindset that he knew nothing anyway, asked questions as many as he could.

"The plague is the master of the last wave of Demon Tide. Its kin have no physical form but are extremely contagious. Once they come into contact with the source of infection, they will be infected by the plague immediately. Once infected, humans will uncontrollably seek death."

Jonah explained simply.

"If one person is infected with the plague, others who are unaware of it can easily be infected, and eventually an entire army will die without resistance. This is the terrible thing about the plague."

"In that case, isolating infected people and rendering them incapacitated should limit the plague, right?"

Lu Ban thought of the prevention and control of infectious diseases on Earth.

"If that were the case, it would be simple. But in reality, the plague is Demon Tide that keeps evolving and getting stronger. At first, it can only be transmitted through physical contact. Later, it will become a situation where people will be attacked by the plague if they get close to someone. At the same time, people infected with the plague will not commit suicide immediately. Sometimes they will be involuntarily controlled and go to crowded places to spread the plague. In the end, if the number of people controlled by the plague cannot be contained, then even a gust of wind will spread the plague across the entire land."

Jonah's expression was stern.

"The plague fears high temperatures and sunlight, but if eternal night comes, coupled with the current temperature, the plague will be virtually invincible."

"Lord Jonah, do you mean that two Demon Tide have appeared simultaneously?"

Birmingham could hardly believe it.

"Although I'm reluctant to admit it, that's the truth."

Jonah glanced at Lu Ban.

"Moreover, there might really be a third wave of Demon Tide."

"Three Demon Tide"

Birmingham found it unbelievable.

Normal Demon Tide already cause a large number of casualties, and the simultaneous appearance of two Demon Tide is unheard of. Now there are actually three Demon Tide. When the Blood Moon rises and the Demon Tide descend, the Rangers stationed in Blackburg will probably face certain death.

The Eternal Darkness that never sees the sun, coupled with the silently invading plague and the possible presence of frost, all three attacking together, would likely be too much for even the towering Grey Tower to withstand.

"This person and the deceased did not leave Blacksburg today. They were infected with the initial plague that takes effect immediately. This means that intermediate plague infected individuals who can control humans have infiltrated Blacksburg. We must be careful and try to avoid physical contact with other people."

Jonah gave further instructions.

That night, Blackburg was brightly lit, and the soldiers were woken up one by one and tested by mages to ensure that those infected with the plague were identified.

Lu Ban and Birmingham returned to their watch duties after being examined.

The neighboring watchtower stood empty, its flickering firelight like a black fortress in this tranquil Black Forest, teetering on the verge of collapse.

Lu Ban looked at the firelight and suddenly had an idea. He walked towards the watchtower.

"What you do?"

Birmingham couldn't stop Lu Ban.

Looking at the watchtower, Birmingham was a little nervous. After all, he wasn't someone who had received proper education, and he was inevitably afraid that the plague might still linger on the watchtower. If he touched it, he would immediately draw his knife and commit suicide. He could only watch helplessly as Lu Ban walked over and climbed the watchtower.

Lu Ban stood on the watchtower and saw the blood splattered on the ground.

That was the first person's blood when they committed suicide.

"Strange, according to Jonah, touching the body will cause the plague, so the blood of the dead should also be infectious, yet it is just left here without being cleaned up."

He used [True Sight] to look at the blood. After gaining knowledge about the plague, the blood itself changed in Lu Ban's vision. Tiny characters appeared all over the frozen crimson surface.

Lu Ban naturally didn't recognize these characters, and the Silent Land didn't translate them for him either.

Lu Ban touched the blood that had already frozen and congealed.

In an instant, a soft murmur rang in Lu Ban's ears.

He couldn't hear the language clearly, but surprisingly he could understand its meaning.

It's nothing more than spreading despair and inciting death, along with a certain degree of mental pollution. Even a confident ordinary person will become vulnerable under the torment of mental pollution and will soon believe those words and have thoughts of suicide.

At this point, it can control the person's body and complete the final step.

The words flowed into Lu Ban's body through the point of contact, and the murmurs in his ears grew increasingly noisy. However, for Lu Ban, these murmurs were far less significant than the few words spoken by those Great Being.

At the same time, grass grew inside Lu Ban's body and blood vessels.

The green plants devoured, crushed, and wore down the words, and eventually, the murmurs in Lu Ban's ears gradually subsided.

"At least this level of plague doesn't seem to affect me anymore."

Lu Ban felt that the winter wolf was far more terrifying than the plague.

"However, Jonah couldn't possibly be unaware of the danger of leaving this blood here untreated, especially if someone else were to come into contact with it."

He seemed to have thought of something, stood up, and then took the cleaning tools and began to clean the watchtower carefully.