"Are these the patients?"
Asked Fangzheng as he carefully observed the moaning villagers lying on the sickbeds. The nurse next to him nodded in response to Fangzheng's question.
"Yes, Sir Hero. Many people here have fallen ill recently. At first, they all had headaches and fever. We thought it was a cold, so we gave them potions to treat it. But these potions aren't very effective, and with each passing day, the villagers' condition gets worse …. "
The nurse paused for a moment, then looked at Fangzheng's head in confusion.
"Sir Hero, what's that?"
Fangzheng's face darkened when he heard the nurse's question, while Lavtalia and Lifana giggled behind him. Even Xiao Meiyan stood at the side and smiled without saying a word.
"Don't worry about it. Continue."
Fangzheng, of course, knew what the nurse was talking about. In fact, almost everyone who greeted him along the way would say the same thing.
And the culprit was the fat bird that was lying on his head!
In fact, at first, Fangzheng didn't pay much attention to it. After all, when it hatched, the Phelo bird looked just like a chubby chick, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
But what Fangzheng didn't expect was that the little guy could eat, sleep, and grow. It only took them two days to arrive at the mission location from King City, but the fat bird had already grown to the size of half his head. Now that it was sitting on his head, it looked like a tall hat worn by the Siberians.
Not to mention that the fat bird's feathers were pink ….
Fangzheng tried to chase it off a few times, but the fat bird was fixated on its head. It refused to leave, so Fangzheng had no choice but to let it stay for a few more days.
Anyway, at its current growth rate, he wouldn't be able to hold on for another two days.
"Ah …. Okay."
The nurse quickly retracted her gaze and continued her report.
"Not only that, even the livestock in the village fell ill and died. Some of them even mutated into monsters. It was only then that we realised there was something wrong with the plague...."
"So you know the source of the problem, right?"
Fangzheng looked at the nurse's hesitation and knew that there was something fishy going on. At this moment, the village chief stood up and said to Fangzheng helplessly.
"It's like this … Lord Hero …"
According to the village chief, there was a giant dragon entrenched in the mountains near their village. Not long ago, the Hero of the Sword and his companions suddenly appeared and attacked the Dragon. Then, the Hero of Swords left with his companions, leaving the dragon's carcass behind.
As a result, the dragon's corpse rotted and formed a miasma. The forest where the dragon was now was about to become a death zone.
So …..
"You haven't dealt with it yourselves?"
Upon hearing Fangzheng's question, the nurse hurriedly answered.
"Because after that, many adventurers came, so we …"
"Ahem."
However, before the nurse could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by the village chief's cough. Upon hearing this, Fangzheng chuckled.
"They thought they could make a profit, so they wanted to stay for a few more days, right?"
"… Master, what do you mean by that?"
Laftalia couldn't help but ask curiously. Fangzheng shrugged.
"It's simple. The Hero of the Sword killed the dragon and left it alone. But that's normal. He's not a local. But how could the villagers not think of that? At the very least, they could just burn the carcass with a fire, right? But you also heard from them that many adventurers came here to collect materials from the dragon's carcass, right? After all, dragon blood, dragon skin, and dragon bones are all good stuff. Even if they don't use them, they can sell them for money. "
"But what does that have to do with the villagers?"
Hearing until here, Li Fana raised her doubts. Even if adventurers came here to collect materials from the dragon's carcass, it had nothing to do with the villagers, right?
"Haha, look around. There's only this village here. Those adventurers come and go. Don't they live here? Don't they eat here? Don't they buy things? "
Fangzheng chuckled and pointed outside the window. At this moment, the village chief's expression turned even uglier.
"That's why they intend to use the dragon's carcass as a money tree. But … Haha."
Having said that, Fangzheng chuckled again and did not continue. As for the village chief, he lowered his head, unsure of what to say.
Laftalia and Lifana exchanged glances with each other. They felt that the villagers here were quite pitiful at first, but after hearing Fangzheng's words, why did they feel that the villagers were reaping what they sowed?
"I-I didn't know that this would happen!"
The nurse in charge of taking care of the patients hurriedly retorted.
"Who knew that those adventurers would be so stupid. They couldn't even handle the dragon's carcass properly and even implicated us! It's not our fault! "
"I'm not interested in whose fault it is. I'm just saying."
Fangzheng wasn't interested in this at all. But he only pointed it out for Laftalia and Lifana to see. Xiao Meiyan was experienced in life, but Laftalia and Lifana were still children. If they didn't point it out, they would be easily deceived.
This was the wisdom of ordinary people. For such a matter, they would only push the responsibility to others and put on an "I'm an innocent commoner" look to gain sympathy from others.
But whether they were really innocent, that was hard to say.
After that, Fangzheng didn't say a word. Instead, he casually cast Holy Light and cured all the people who were infected with the plague. But this only treated the symptoms and not the root cause. If they couldn't get rid of the dragon's carcass, the plague would break out again sooner or later.
Of course, Fangzheng wouldn't just leave like that. Ridicule was one thing. These people were indeed blinded by greed, but they didn't deserve to die. After all, they only wanted to take advantage of the dragon's carcass. If these people deliberately sent the heroes here to destroy the dragon because they wanted the dragon's wealth, then Fangzheng would have to say that they deserved it. But since they were only relying on the dragon's carcass to make a small profit, there was no need to be so strict with them.
But for Laftalia and Lifana, it wasn't the same.
"I didn't expect these people to lie to us …."
Until she entered the forest, Laftalia had a conflicted expression on her face. She had a strong sense of justice to begin with, and she used to be a slave, so she was more inclined to help the people at the bottom. When she heard that there was a disaster here, she was quite sympathetic to them. But she didn't expect that this group of people would turn around and lie to her. They even put on an "I didn't do anything wrong" look. This made Laftalia more or less feel betrayed and angry.
"That's normal, so use your brains when you hear other people's words in the future. Don't get betrayed."
Fangzheng walked in front and looked at the forest shrouded in poisonous fog while replying casually. At this moment, the forest was already filled with poisonous fog. Corpses could be seen everywhere. Most of them were animals, but some were adventurers who could not escape in time. Even the trees here had completely withered.
But Fangzheng and the others naturally didn't have to worry. Before entering the forest, Fangzheng had already applied poison immunity on them, so no matter how powerful the poisonous fog was, it could not affect the four of them.
"When everyone speaks, they will unconsciously say things that are beneficial to them and conceal things that are disadvantageous to them. So not only do you have to listen to others, but you also have to learn to think and judge for yourself. Otherwise, it's easy for you to be led into a ditch. "
"I only believe in Master. I will never doubt anything that Master asks me to do!"
As soon as Fangzheng's voice faded, Lifana hurriedly jumped out to express her loyalty. Fangzheng stretched out his hand and patted her little head.
"Maybe I'll lie to you too."
"It doesn't matter. I've already decided!"
Decided what?
Hearing Lifana's answer that came out of nowhere, Fangzheng was taken aback. But before he could ask more, they had already reached the corpse of the dragon halfway up the mountain.
"This is really tragic …."
Looking at the corpse in front of him, Fangzheng couldn't help but sigh. The corpse of the dragon looked a bit like a whale stranded on the beach and eaten by wild beasts. Most of the flesh and blood had been hollowed out, and bones could be seen everywhere. One could imagine how this dragon was treated by the adventurers after its death.
"What should we do now?"
"Burn it."
Facing Laftalia's question, Fangzheng shrugged, reached out his hand, and picked up his shield axe.
However, just as Fangzheng was about to make his move, perhaps because he sensed the existence of a threat, the dragon suddenly trembled. Suddenly, everyone saw the dragon's corpse tremble, and then with a roar, the dragon actually stood up!
"What's going on? Did it resurrect? "
Looking at this scene, Laftalia was taken aback, while Xiao Meiyan immediately nocked his arrow and got ready for battle. Although she could directly use TNT to blow this thing up, just like how Fangzheng didn't use his shield axe, if Xiao Meiyan didn't use her holy bow, she wouldn't get any EXP either.
"No, it probably turned into an undead creature …."
Raising his shield and axe, Fangzheng could not help but sigh as he looked at the undead zombie dragon in front of him.
"That's understandable. After all, if I was beaten to death by a group of people for no reason, and then skinned by a group of strangers, I wouldn't be able to rest in peace …."
"But Master, you're not a dragon, right …."
"Haha, how do you know I'm not? Besides, aren't you two the same? "
Laftalia and Lifana were speechless after hearing Fangzheng's retort. Their experience was actually similar to the dragon's. They were originally living happily in the village, but the tide came and destroyed their village. In the end, the tide came and destroyed their village. When they finally wanted to rebuild the village, the human soldiers appeared again, plundered the wealth of the village, and kidnapped them and sold them to slave traders ….
From this point of view, their encounter with the dragon could be considered as "kindred spirits".
"So, Master, should we let it go?"
As she nocked an arrow, Xiao Meiyan blinked her eyes, making Fangzheng shrug his shoulders and raise the shield ax in his hand.
"No way. Let's burn it."
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