Su'nan City.
Jiang Ning walked silently through the empty streets.
What blew toward him was a dense aura of deathly stillness.
There was already some movement within the city, but they were not people of Su'nan City. They were officers and soldiers who had come from outside.
The city's entire population had died suddenly overnight.
And now the season had turned to summer, with sweltering temperatures.
In such weather, if those corpses were not dealt with promptly, they would rot and stink within days, then evolve into a great epidemic.
After walking through two streets, he found no corpses along either side of the road, since the calamity had occurred deep in the night.
Only when he stopped before an alley did he fall silent.
Ahead of him, a woman held an infant girl not even a year old and breastfed her.
Yet now, neither had any breath left. Their souls had already been extinguished.
The sight stirred something within him.
Then he closed his eyes.
His thoughts spread out like a surging tide.
In an instant, they precisely covered the entirety of Su'nan City—every street and alley, every building.
He saw officers and soldiers dragging corpses out of buildings and laying them along both sides of the streets, so densely packed that there was scarcely room to set foot.
He saw cart after cart hauling corpses from the streets and alleys, then pulling them toward the north of the city.
He saw two vast pits, each capable of holding ten thousand people, already dug to the north and west of the city. Corpses were being thrown into them one after another, while firewood, kerosene, and all manner of flammable kindling had been piled around their edges.
The pits were crammed with corpses, layer upon layer, filling every corner.
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