The Leo Kingdom had seen outbreaks of plague before, but it had not appeared on the mainland for many years. Most cases had been in places like the Great Barrier Reef.
At the mention of plague, the people around them erupted and hurriedly backed away. "You're not mistaken, are you? The Black Death?"
"Not necessarily the Black Death," said the short medical student, though he took another two steps back. "There's a high chance it's bubonic plague... but if it's secondary, that's harder to say."
Everyone on the scene retreated. Even the person who had first gone over to care for the patient had been abandoned by the crowd, left standing there alone, lost and helpless.
"Call the police," someone said. "This isn't just a matter of finding a doctor. This place may need to be quarantined."
"Maybe we should go find the Daoist Temple," someone suggested. "They say that temple is incredibly miraculous."
"My advice is to find the vehicle owners," someone called from farther away. "Damn it, people from the same hostel as us were drinking with this guy earlier... God, this is a disaster!"
The patient with swollen lymph nodes was also a student, and he studied in Neil. After arriving here, he had met quite a few schoolmates, as well as students from other schools. He had been happily making the rounds earlier, and more than one of those people was staying at the youth hostel.
At that thought, the faces of those staying at the youth hostel turned pale. I haven't been infected too, have I?
More than one RV owner received a call. Hearing that plague had appeared, they did not dare delay and rushed over in the middle of the night.
"There's a doctor in the Xia Nation engineering team," one vehicle owner