"Is your child sick? What's the disease?"

"It seems..." The hunter's hesitation was filled with hesitation, and a hint of worry, "It seems... a plague."

"plague?!"

Ashes and Lily looked at each other and immediately said to Hunter: "Can you show us?"

"You, aren't you afraid of being infected?" The hunter was a little shocked.

"If it was really a plague, you two would have been infected in this closed environment, but you see that you didn't have any trouble... so I think you should have made a mistake." Ashes analyzed.

"Really? But..." The Hunter wanted to say something, but at this time his wife suddenly pulled the corner of his clothes and threw a look at him with a hint of prayer, which made the Hunter's attitude soften.

"Well...if...I mean if...you can save my child...please save her..."

"If possible, I will do my best." Ashes nodded.

Hunter gave in, and Ashes and Lily walked slowly into the inner room.

On the bed in the inner room was a little girl about five or six years old. She was wrapped in a thin bedding. She was in a coma at the moment. Her slender little hands tightly held the corners of the quilt, and her whole body was curled up. From time to time, there were low and vague moans coming from the depths of her throat.

The girl was having a fever. In addition, her skin was very dry, covered with crimson and purple ecchymns. There were large areas of bruises on the inner side of her arms and calf... Ashes gently pushed the girl's lips with her fingers, and saw that the girl's gums were retracted very much, and the roots of her teeth were exposed outside, and there was also severe bleeding.

This symptom is very similar to a plague, but it is not a plague.

Ashes and Lily couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, turned to the couple waiting on one side and said, "It's not a plague, it's a scurvy, and some complications of scurvy."

Scurvy is a condition caused by unreasonable dietary structure and malnutrition, which often occurs on sailors on long-distance sailors... As for why this little girl suffers from scurvy... Ashes glanced at the foods on the table: dry and hard black bread, oatmeal mixed with a lot of bran, jerky smoked with charcoal fire, and a small amount of nuts. Due to the special environment on the Linfeng Plain, the land here can only plant some hardy varieties of food, and food such as fruits and vegetables can only be brought from the south by caravans. Now a war breaks out, and the family probably has maintained such a recipe for a long time.

If it were a while, it would probably be more than this little girl, but even her parents would probably suffer from scurvy.

"Scurvy? What disease is that? Can it be cured?" The hunter came over carefully and asked.

“How long has it been since you had fresh vegetables and fruits?”

"Maybe... it's two or three months, maybe a little longer... In the past, some wild vegetables could be dug in the valley to the west, but after the war broke out, the caravans stopped coming here earlier, and the prices in Floating Ice Harbor City rose several times... We can't afford those things at all."

"This disease can be cured, but it cannot be done here." Ash continued, scurvy is not a terminal illness. As long as you consume enough fresh fruits and vegetables, especially fruits such as citrus and lemons, which taste sour, the patient will recover on his own. However, the problem is that they can't come up with this kind of thing at all now.

I won’t talk about the Hunter’s family. If there are fresh fruits and vegetables, the little girl will not suffer from scurvy. Among the supplies carried by Ash and Lily, there is only compressed dry food for emergency response, which is more than enough to replenish calories and fill hunger. However, in addition to energy, other nutrients in this compressed dry food are extremely lacking. This is the food for emergency response and is not suitable for long-term consumption.

"You have to go to Fort Togras." Ashes added.

The Hunter's couple's face suddenly became dark.

From here to Togras Fortress, it takes at least two to three days to walk without transportation, which is calculated at normal marching speed. If women and children are added, the journey will probably have to be extended to about a week.

Judging from the little girl's current situation, she obviously can't hold on for so long.

"But no matter what, you still have to leave here... The group of barbarians are probably coming soon. Although they did not massacre the city in Floating Ice Harbor, a team of ten people died here. You should also know what they would do." Ashes said.

"Is there no other way..." After Hunter said that, he was silent for a moment, suddenly knelt down, took out a small box from under the bed, and held his hands in front of the ashes.

There are several yellow gold coins lying on the upper layer of the box. The size, shape and carvings of these gold coins are different. There are the official "Golden Lion Head" of the Rhine Empire, gold coins issued by some small countries in the south, and even the "roubles" minted by the Northern Federation decades ago.

Including the silver coins and copper plates placed under the gold coins, this money may not be anything to Ashes, but it is likely to be all the savings in the Hunter's family.

"I'll give you all the money... I'll give you all the money. Please save my child, and... and all the furs." The Hunter's voice was a little trembling, but his hand holding the box was very stable.

"Hu..." Ashe took a deep breath, his eyes swept over the box in the earrings, and stayed on the little girl's body... The girl was constantly enduring the torture of illness. Her eyebrows were furrowed, her pale cheeks were slightly sunken. She was very thin, and it was not an exaggeration to say that she was skinny.

According to Hunter, due to his serious illness, the girl hadn't eaten anything except water for several days.

Many such children have seen them... not only did they see them, but they probably looked like this when he was still young.

There are many malnourished children in the isolation area. Their thin bodies are like skeletons, and they die of illness and starvation...number of them.

Hunger is a topic that no survivor can avoid. Ashes are lucky. Relying on the materials picked up from the ruins, he barely lived to the age of being able to hunt, while more peers could only die in extreme hunger.

Ashes felt the feeling of the chest tightly against the back countless times. The empty stomach kept wriggling, and the stomach acid was secreted, but there was no food for digestion, so they could only surge from the throat. The feeling of burning fire in the esophagus and the bitter taste that filled the entire mouth once occupied most of his childhood memories.

"I have a way, maybe I can try it." Lily said suddenly.

"What method?" Ashes were stunned for a moment. He couldn't think of any way to save the little girl in this situation.

"There is a base nearby...a single-person specification. My senior sister lived there for a while before, but was abandoned. There should be some supplies in the base. Maybe there are drugs for curing scurvy, but I can't guarantee..."

Yuri, Lily and Soya, the three of them used to be a group that had been together for a long time, so it was completely reasonable for Lily to know that several such strongholds were completely different.

“How far is the distance?”
Chapter completed!