Plague Doctor

[The poisonous snake dies and the scripture comes out. Spread hope and leave fire. 】

"This legend is about Gu Jun, the hero of Tianji. It happened in the last era of the earth. At that time, the world changed drastically and many terrible plagues ravaged the home world. In order to find the elixir to cure the disease, the hero of Tianji entered the world with the goddess of hope. Dreamland.”

"They arrived at the 'Juwu Island' and teamed up to defeat a basilisk on the island that was as huge as a house. Hero Tianji cut open its abdomen with a knife. The elixir and the "Seven Secrets of the Earth" were in its stomach! It turned out that it was When I knew they were coming, I swallowed them all.”

The more Peacock spoke, the more excited she became, but she tried to stay calm, but Mo Qing was already excited.

The mysterious hero and the goddess of hope fight against the giant snake! This is a legend they never tire of hearing.

But on the other side, Gu Jun's brows wrinkled slightly...

"But the cunning basilisk was not completely dead. It took a bite out of Hero Tianji while he was checking the elixir." Peacock sighed softly, "The venom was concentrated on Hero Tianji. He could use the elixir to cure himself, but Then there will be no medicine available in the home world.”

"Hero Tianji didn't use the elixir. He used his last strength to open the space channel, allowing the goddess of hope to go back with the elixir and the spell book. He himself stayed in the dreamland forever... and was buried on the giant house island. "

The peacock spoke vividly, and in a loud voice he said the famous saying that the hero of heaven said to the goddess of hope: "'If there is a scripture, there is hope, and if there is hope, there is fire. And fire will one day light up the whole world.' From then on. This sentence has been inspiring our tribe since the beginning.”

Gu Jun listened and thought, the problem is... I never said this at all.

"Hero Tianji also has many famous sayings." Peacock added, "Those are our spiritual sources."

"A true warrior dares to face all fear and dare to look directly at any blood." Mo Qing said solemnly, with fire in his eyes.

Gu Jun felt a little sick in his stomach and took a breath, but his heart felt a little suffocated. "Are you sure this is true?"

"This is a legend that everyone in our clan is familiar with." Peacock said, "That's what we know." She didn't dare to say that this was all the facts.

"It must be like this." Mo Qing was much more fanatical and persistent than her, "It must be like this."

legend. Gu Jun understood that this was a kind of myth and legend. Even if he was asked to talk about history books three hundred years ago, it might not be true, and word of mouth would continue to deform in the process. Some exaggerated, some modified, and finally It represents the mythical archetypes in the collective unconscious of mankind.

This legend about the mysterious hero going to the dreamland to find the elixir is not much different from Gilgamesh going to the underworld to find the elixir of immortality...

If what Peacock said is true, then in their generation, aren't the heroes of heaven and earth heroes such as Gilgamesh, Dayu, and Prometheus?

Legends are not 100% true, but they express part of the truth:

Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu did come to Dreamland and defeated the enemy. Gu Jun did stay, and Wu Shiyu did bring things back.

"Then what?" he asked, "What happened to the home world?"

"The Seven Secret Codex of the Earth opened the last golden age of the old world." Peacock said with yearning, "It was a peaceful and progressive time. The 'World Supernatural Alliance' was established, and the elite forces of various countries came together. He also walked in front of the people, who are said to number tens of billions of people."

There are not tens of billions, but there are billions. Gu Jun thought, "World Supernatural Alliance"?

He has heard from Tong Ye and others that the Tianji Bureau will promote international cooperation and establish a new global organization, but is it so easy for human countries to unite?

Especially united in quiet times? He doesn't really believe that this should be another kind of beautification, or a reversal of the time of the event.

"In that era, heroes emerged in large numbers! These elites from all over the world inherited the spirit of Tianji heroes. They obtained power from the "Seven Secrets of the Earth" and led their people to defeat supernatural evils and knock down all evil ones."

Peacock said proudly, but just like all roses that withered after blooming, her expression was the same: "After the end of the golden age, it will be the era of great mutations... First there was an outbreak of 'blood lung disease'. Legend has it that this disease can It spreads through the air and can kill people in just a few days once infected."

Gu Jun's heart suddenly tightened. It was spread through the air, the onset was fast, and the disease progressed rapidly... He knew exactly what this meant...

"Hemoptysis? Why is it called this?" he asked, and a strange phantom flashed across, destroying the hemoptysis of the foreign civilization.

"It is said that the patient's disease starts from the lungs and then spreads throughout the body." Peacock couldn't tell more symptoms. "In the end, he will cough up blood and die."

Hemoptysis... Gu Jun couldn't help but lean on the back of his chair and closed his eyes weakly, but hemoptysis is not airborne...

It's just that it is said that it can transform... He feels that this blood lung disease is hemoptysis.

Why does hemoptysis still break out on Earth in Peacock’s future story? Will it happen in the next life?

"In the era of great mutation, there were two other plagues." Peacock's voice also deepened, "One is the 'petrification disease' that turns people into stone, and the other is the 'petrification disease' that causes people's skin to become scaled and then rupture." Heterosquamia'."

Gu Jun felt a heavy blow. Multiple plagues broke out at the same time?

Fish scales? If fish scales are just a metaphor for appearance, humans already have the skin disease "ichthyosis", and heterosquamia is possible...

But how to turn into stone

? Is that the effect of a spell? It just doesn't seem biologically possible.

Or is "stone" just a metaphor? Motionless...like locked-in syndrome?

"What's petrification?" he asked. "Is it the kind of stone that turns into stone?"

"Well..." Both Peacock and Mo Qing were surprised by this question. Mo Qing couldn't help but said slightly annoyed: "A stone is a stone, a stone like a statue."

"The power of a mortal." Atal sighed on the podium over there, "It is too insignificant."

"It took very long for these plagues to spread across the world from their outbreak." Seeing the Nightmare Man's silence, Peacock started talking again: "Within a year, cities around the world collapsed, and the entire world fell into death and chaos. Alliance The heroes took the survivors and established the last human settlement in the old world, the City of Fire, in Antarctica. But the plague was still approaching with the monsoon, and they finally... ten thousand fires moved into the Leng Plain."

Mo Qing's face was sullen, without sighing or making a sound, feeling lost for the fading human glory.

"Oh." Gu Jun's mind was a little messy. He stared at the two people and observed and looked at them carefully, but he felt more and more strange...

No, these two are not Asian faces.

Some subtle differences emerged that he had not noticed in the past few days. They were faces of mixed race, mainly of Asian descent, and they must have been mixed for many generations, so it was not particularly obvious. Global migration, this is bound to happen...

Gu Jun could tell that they didn't seem to be lying, but he couldn't figure out what the situation was.

Peacock was about to start telling the story of Ten Thousand Fire Seeds after they arrived in the dreamland. He stopped the other party, frowned and asked, "What happened to the goddess of hope you mentioned?"

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