"Yes, nightmare..."

Ashes rubbed his forehead hard... That nightmare, whenever he fell into it, the terrifying sense of reality seemed to be immersed in it, but when he woke up, everything in the dream would become extremely blurred. No matter how he recalled it, he could not remember any details.

"Do you need medicine?" Soya suddenly took out a small white pill from her pocket.

"What's this?"

"Sleeping pills."

"... Then forget it." Ashes waved his hand and stood up from the ground.

It's strange that every time I have this dream, although my head feels a little dizzy, my mental state can quickly return to my best state... It took only a dozen minutes of nap, but in his subconscious, he felt like he had been sleeping for more than ten years.

"Prepare, we are going to enter the black fog area." Soya said, her eyes looking out from the gap between the wooden strips that sealed the window. During this period, the black fog in the distance spread out a small circle.

"Yeah." Ash nodded and changed the respiratory system of the protective clothing from filtration to the oxygen supply mode of the gas tank.

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Soya's main task this time is to go to the center of the black fog and collect the "original samples" of the plague fog.

The so-called "original" refers to the plague fog that is dense and close to substance in the core area. In the core area, the fog of the plague fog is like a flowing liquid substance. Not only is the highest concentration in the entire plague fog, but the virus contained in it is also the strongest.

As long as the "original samples" can be obtained, people can only create the most effective plague vaccine, and the success rate of this vaccine can almost reach 100%... No matter what degree of plague virus changes in the late stage of the epidemic, vaccines made with "original samples" can perfectly restrain all new branch plagues after the mutated.

However, the work of collecting "original samples" is extremely dangerous. When there was no effective protection method, this thing was basically piled up with a large number of lives...

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The visibility in the black fog area is extremely low. Even if Ash and Soya carry military gas lamps with high brightness, the visibility is only about ten meters. Soya and Ashes maintain a standing position one by one, and the two are five meters apart, so that they will not lose their vision. When one of them is attacked, the other can provide timely support.

"How much do you know about the palace area?" Soya asked in a low voice to the ashes while walking into the black fog.

Although she had seen a lot of information related to the second quarantine area before coming, the information was timely and the empire could not send people to stay in the quarantine area. At this time, the value of aboriginal people like Ash was naturally reflected.

"The Palace District...that place may be the place with the most dead people in the entire quarantine area..." said Ash.

After the day of arrival, the imperial team quickly entered the ruins of Reinhardt, put out several fires in the ruins, and took away most of the surviving nobles. The army naturally searched and cleaned the palace area many times... But due to limited time, before the isolation area was closed, they had only had time to transport away the most valuable things, and many of the money and treasures originally stored in the palace were left behind.

For the royal family and nobles, losing these things may cause pain, but they will not cause any damage to their muscles... But for the civilians, even an enamel plate that flows out of the palace is enough for them to snatch their heads, let alone those gold, silver and jade.

Moreover, the abandoned by the army in the ruins of the palace was not only valuable, but also a large number of female survivors... These people were once maids or female officials in the imperial palace. Although they were only considered "rouge powder" compared with His Majesty the Emperor's wives and concubines, in the eyes of those civilians, any of these women can be regarded as the appearance of falling fish and falling geese.

After the army left, the first wave of thugs poured into the ruins of the palace were a large number of thugs carrying weapons and sacks. They robbed the ruins of the palace and took the ownerless property and the women hiding in the ruins of the palace for themselves... At the same time, the thugs were constantly killing each other, and many people lost their lives for a gem or a beautiful woman... During that time, the ruins of the palace could be said to be blood flowing in the river, and the corpses of men and women were everywhere, killing, robbery, and other atrocities were being staged all the time. People seemed to have lost their minds and become dominated by beasts...

And what ended all this was the first dark season in the quarantine area after the day of arrival passed.

The wild beasts washed away the entire palace area blood. No one would have thought that those skinny stray dogs would turn into creatures that were even more terrifying than wild wolves in the dark season, and the large beasts that were originally kept in the Royal Hunting Garden became monster-like existences.

In the first dark season, less than half of the survivors in the quarantine survived.

Ashes had good luck, so he found a hidden cellar, which contained some food. Although for adults, that little food might not last for three months, fortunately, Ashes was only six years old. For him, only half a piece of bread and some water a day was enough.

This little food is not enough to satisfy his hunger, but at least it can guarantee that he will not starve to death.

It was during that dark season that the survivors in the quarantine realized that in this place, gold, silver and jewelry were far less valuable than food and weapons. The swords made of precious metals and decorated with various rare gems could not even be torn apart from the fur of the wild beasts.

People's fanaticism about property suddenly decreased a lot. Compared with the shiny gold coins and crystal clear gems, more people would choose muskets and spears left by the dead guard soldiers.

The imperial palace area is still the place that survivors yearn for the most, because it not only contains gold and art, but also has a large amount of food, weapons and ammunition stored in underground warehouses as emergency reserves - the imperial royal family no longer uses these things, but for the survivors, this is an extremely attractive "wealth".

It took the survivors several years to emptiate the entire palace, whether it was weapons, food, gold, art or women... The imperial palace, which was originally extremely luxurious, was left with only empty ruins - even the statue of the lion standing in front of the main hall, symbolizing the imperial royal family, was broken and transported away by the people of the Lion Heart Gang.
Chapter completed!