Chapter 257: The situation is serious
After more than ten days, Shijia Village has completely changed.
After Tang Tian returned from Liangshui County, his army expanded in a general trend, conquering the forces of all sizes and large in Tianshui City, and migrating most of the population of those conquered forces here. After several days of hard work, there was no such depression as monsters attacking here.
When Tang Tian upgraded his military camp, after the monsters attacked the city, it was ruined, with blood and corpses everywhere, almost all the buildings were broken, and there were not many people surviving, just like a dead city after the war.
But looking at Shijia Village at this time, it is completely different. There are now a large population here, at least 100,000 people busy here. These people were first captured by Tang Tian’s army and moved here from all over the world. Silently, if the entire Tianshui City had the largest population under its jurisdiction, Tang Tian could be ranked in the top three.
Shijia Village is located on a three-sided mountainous area with a flat terrain and a river in front of it. It is unique. Even Tang Tian established a huge foundation in Tianshui City and focused on it.
In Tianshui City, there were originally hundreds of thousands of people living there on Tang Tian’s territory, but those were just means to confuse others. All those who lived there were low-level or elderly, weak, women and children. Those young and middle-aged people with outstanding ranks moved here and quietly developed Shijia Village.
Many of the people who came to Shijia Village were recruited by Tang Tian and became alternate troops. They usually develop Shijia Village here except to go out to level up.
At this time, the entire Shijia Village was in full swing, and countless people were busy.
Shijia Village is still divided into three areas, with a huge military camp in the center, standing in the middle like an ancient castle. Looking at the military camp, there is a strong smell of iron blood, and people dare not approach it easily.
Now, there is only the military camp in the entire Shijia Village. Others, such as taverns and blacksmith shops, have been moved to Tianshui City. Everything here has been flattened and rebuilt, and more than 100,000 people are busy. Even if it is just relying on manpower, this place is changing day by day.
It won't take long to come here as Tang Tian imagined before. The outermost part is where ordinary people live, the middle area is the commercial area, and the central area becomes the residence of the "nobles".
The entire Shijia Village is like a high-speed machine. Countless people have clear division of labor and know what they should do. All of this was arranged by Tan Fei. His coordination and organizational ability is too strong, and everything is arranged in an orderly manner. There is no major chaos.
The ground was not flattened, and the survivors who were engaged in the design did not gather together to plan Shijia Village. Then others built according to the drawings they planned. The ground was full of foundations of buildings. If this continues, I believe that it will not take long before the entire Shijia Village will become a brand new city.
In Shijia Village, everyone knows what they want to do. They are willing to do. This is not only because of the deterrence of Tang Tian's powerful army and the coordination of Tan Fei, but most importantly, Tang Tian has a large amount of food in his hands. With food in hand, these people have to work willingly for Tang Tian.
Working here for Tang Tian, I can eat enough, but I don’t worry about my life’s danger. In this cruel end of the world, who else is unwilling to do so?
However, today's situation is different, and the air is filled with a tense atmosphere. Although everyone is busy doing their own things, the entire Shijia Village seems dead, as if there is a layer of dark clouds above.
Such a depressing atmosphere makes people feel breathless.
"There are people who died again. I only died ten times yesterday, but more than a hundred times today. Will there be a thousand deaths tomorrow?"
"It's so weird and terrible. Those dead people are ulcerated and covered with abscesses. They die as if they have rotten pork for a month. What's going on?"
"I heard that there seemed to be a large-scale plague. In this end of the world where there are not many medicines, it is really terrible to have a plague. I wonder if this is the case outside."
"Who knows, if we want to go out here, we must report it. We don't know the changes outside at all. If it is like this outside, then will this world really no longer be the era of human rule? Is human beings really going to perish and move towards history?"
"Shh, stop talking. If the soldiers find out that we are discussing this issue, and we are going to spread rumors, we will be slaughtered..."
There were such whispering sounds everywhere in the entire Shijia Village, and no one spoke loudly. Everyone's eyes were filled with panic. The entire Shijia Village was highly nervous, and patrol people were everywhere. Once they found the voice of such discussion, they would be taken away. As for how to deal with it, they didn't know. All of this was arranged by Tan Fei.
When Tang Tian received General Huang's report, he had no time to rest and immediately arrived at Shijia Village through the teleportation array in Tianshui City. As soon as he arrived here, he felt that the atmosphere here was wrong.
"How could a plague occur?" Tang Tian was observing silently in Shijia Village, thinking in his heart.
Tang Tian, who couldn't get the answer, immediately found the old monster Zhongshan in the military camp.
"Mr. Zhong, you have never left here. Do you know how this plague was sent?" Tang Tian asked Zhong Shan. Zhong Shan has always been here. I believe that with his eyes, everything here cannot escape his keen intuition.
Regarding Tang Tian’s question, Zhong Shan directly replied: “The incident happened three days ago, someone suddenly died at night. The next day his body almost completely turned into a pile of rotten meat. No one was alert at first, but the three people died again that afternoon, and the matter at night became like that. The next day it became even worse. More than a hundred people had such a situation. Until more than three hundred people died yesterday, it was the same situation, and today’s one has not been counted yet.”
Speaking of this, Zhong Shan paused and continued: "Tan Fei has been suppressing this matter, and the news released has been compressed. Those people don't know the truth at all, but you need to deal with it as soon as possible. If this continues, big things will happen sooner or later. But it depends entirely on yourself. I can't help much. Haha, go find Tan Fei, he has always been responsible for this matter."
There was no substantial news here in Zhongshan. Tang Tian stood up and prepared to find Tan Fei.
"Wait...", at this moment, Zhong Shan spoke behind Tang Tian.
Tang Tian turned around and wondered: "What suggestions do Mr. Zhong have?"
"Haha, there is no suggestion, but I suggest you go to that direction and you may find that nothing is certain," Zhong Shan said, pointing to the north.
Looking at that direction, Tang Tian was shocked and thoughtful.
When Tang Tian found Tan Fei, Tan Fei was busy with this matter. Tang Tian handed him all the trivial matters. He was busy all day long.
"Secretary Tan, is there any solution?" After finding Tan Fei, Tang Tian asked directly, "The outbreak of the plague is a big matter and must be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise it may cause the entire Shijia Village to become a dead city again in just a few days.
"Mr. Tang Tian, this matter has no clue and he doesn't know where the source is. He can only quarantine and observe those suspicious people, but there is no effect at all. If this continues, the situation will be out of control." Tan Fei said haggardly. It seems that he has not been worried about this matter these days.
Tang Tian had already expected this result, and was not disappointed, and asked: "I heard that you gathered all the experts and scholars among the survivors to form a research group. They didn't get any results"?
Tan Fei shook his head and said, "There are no corresponding tools and equipment at all. Although they have extremely rich knowledge and theories, they are completely guessing like a blind man without equipment. If there were those equipment before the end of the world, they would have come to the conclusion long ago."
After thinking about it, Tang Tian had no choice. Before the end of the world, people relied too much on various high-tech equipment, and until now they could not do anything without those things.
"Take me to see those who died from the plague," Tang Tian said at the end.
Tan Fei immediately agreed, but said, "It's okay to go, but you must do a good job of protection, otherwise it will be not fun to get infected with the virus."
"No, I have a sense of responsibility." Tang Tian didn't need those.
"Okay, since I don't insist on it and don't need protection, I won't force it, but if I'm really caught in the plague virus, don't blame me for not reminding you," Tan Fei kindly reminded.
Follow Tan Fei to the edge of the mountain behind Shijia Village. There is a big pit filled with dead bodies. No one can get close to this place within a radius of hundreds of meters. There are troops stationed hundreds of meters away, and someone is coming here.
The only ones that appear here are the troops who transport bodies here from time to time.
There were no less than a thousand corpses in this big pit. Without exception, these corpses were rotting quickly and turning into pools of pus, which was extremely smelly.
Tang Tian observed the corpses that had not died for a long time. Without exception, the corpses were covered with large and nauseous abscesses, and yellow and colored liquid flowed out.
After seeing these corpses, there was no gain. Tang Tian even saw them with the Evolution of Real Eye, but he still got nothing.
However, just as Tang Tian was about to leave, his pet mutant demon vine jumped out and took root at the edge of the big pit.
Tang Tian did not stop him because he knew that the mutant demon vine was preparing to absorb the corpses to evolve himself.
Finally, when Tang Tian left here, it was already dark, and today's results also came out. As many people expected, thousands of people died during this day. Of course, the data reported to the outside world were reduced by ten times.
"It seems that it's time to go there tomorrow to see it. I guess it should be the source...", under the night sky, Tang Tian murmured to himself...
(Shitou sincerely said sorry to everyone. I have been too busy these days. I work overtime until 11 or 12 o'clock every day. After I come back, I am so tired that I have no intention of typing. I am really sorry. Moreover, please rest assured that those brothers and sisters who support Shitou will definitely not be eunuchs in this book. Well, there is only this chapter today...)
Chapter completed!