Chapter 17, Purgatory of Cats It was dark, damp, and cold, and there seemed to be an indescribable stench.
In the narrow space, the air is humid and stuffy, giving people an especially unpleasant feeling.
The dim light also flickered a bit, making people feel dizzy.
A swarm of buzzing flies fluttered around the dim oil lamp overhead, as if dining around rotten pieces of meat.
In this gloomy tomb-like place, Knight Levi, wearing only a shirt, was leaning against the dirty wall in a daze.
"Um, where am I?"
After barely getting rid of the waves of dizziness and stinging pain in his head, he opened his cloudy eyes.
Knight Levi looked numbly at the walls of this dark and damp dungeon, which were covered with all kinds of sticky and inexplicable objects.
There was also the crack in the door, the only one outside the fence that let light in, and I felt a trace of uneasiness.
Immediately afterwards, he subconsciously tried to straighten his body, but immediately almost tripped.
Wow!
As if a naughty piece of music was playing, there was a series of sounds of chains and shackles hitting each other.
"Ahem, what's going on?
Aren't I here to handle the inheritance and title inheritance procedures?"
Levi looked at the iron chains tightly locked on his wrists and legs in surprise.
His brain seemed to have just reacted and began to think seriously about this serious issue.
At the same time, he finally recalled in his chaotic mind What happened after entering the city yesterday: After holding his nose and walking through the streets strewn with corpses and filled with putrid odor, he had just dismounted and walked into the city hall.
A senior priest whom he knew in the past came over and announced that a royal ceremonial official of noble blood came from Paris to inspect and requested He took off his sword and went in with the others to see him.
Because this senior priest was an acquaintance of Livy who often had contact with Livy in the past, Knight Livy took off his sword and walked in without thinking much.
Unexpectedly, the person waiting for him in the room was not someone from Paris.
Instead of a large noble, they were a large group of crazy men in black with red eyes.
The leading guy among them, Li Wei also happened to know that he was the person in charge of the Inquisition of Marseille City.
Seeing this strange scene, Knight Levi was immediately stunned.
Then, before he could react, these men in black swarmed up and pushed him to the floor while using daggers and axes to mark Levi's body. neck, while forcing him to admit all kinds of unbelievable crimes, such as worshiping cults, worshiping demons, and spreading plagues.
Looking at his posture, he actually wanted to pin the source of the Black Death on his head.
Such a ridiculous charge was full of malice at first glance.
Of course, Levi refused to admit it until death, but he was immediately beaten severely by the men in black, and his eye sockets were swollen with fists.
In line with the idea that a good man will not suffer any immediate losses, he had to reluctantly press his fingerprints on the paper.
God knows if he persisted, the gang of thugs would just cut off his fingers and use them as seals.
Then, before Li Wei could breathe a sigh of relief, , was hit in the back of the head with a stick again, and passed out.
When he woke up, he was already in this dungeon.
“It’s so damned that after it’s come to this, the guys from the Inquisition are still so motivated to work.”
Knight Levi, who was beaten into a panda, grinned and rubbed the bruises and redness on his chest while muttering in confusion, "They thought they had a few more days to live, even in the midst of the Black Death outbreak.
I didn’t forget to plant spies in my manor either, oh my God.”
In fact, Li Wei naturally considered whether the promotion of modern medical technology and raising cats to eliminate rats in ignorant and superstitious medieval Europe would be misunderstood by some foolish men and women as witchcraft and heresy: those who were burned by the church He had read the stories of the dead scientific sages and the fate of Joan of Arc in his enlightenment textbooks.
After traveling to this world, he also saw people from the Inquisition burning "witches" several times.
However, according to Levi's opinion, the problem is not serious yet.
First of all, at least in his own territory of Jihad Manor, he is still confident that he can do it.
The senior reincarnations have already tinkered with many new things here in the past few years before the "gaover".
The people in the manor He gradually got used to it, and said that even if his subordinates really did something strange, he would be able to detect it immediately.
Secondly, although the power of the church was rampant in the Middle Ages, it was now the critical moment of the outbreak of the Black Death.
At least half of the citizens of Marseille had died, the city's operation had been completely paralyzed, and all the dignitaries in power in the city were dead.
If they want to die, they can escape, otherwise they will just stay in their villa and be a homebody.
Their servants and thugs are almost dead, so they can't care about witchcraft and heresy.
Therefore, in Levi's view, at least before he started promoting drugs on a large scale to make profits and gather people's hearts, it was unlikely that either the church or the city hall would be so well-informed about his affairs, and even if they were He will not take any violent action against him, but will only try to win him over.
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At this time when everyone is in danger, who dares to murder the only savior who can cure the disease?
Unfortunately, it turned out not to be what he had imagined.
The church was far more sensitive to cases of heresy and witchcraft than he had imagined.
And the speed at which news leaked out of the manor exceeded his expectations.
What's even more incredible is that these guys who knew the information didn't take their own life or death and that of their family at all.
Instead of trying to please him as a life-saving straw, they acted so rudely.
Alas, I really shouldn't have left the base so rashly and entered the city ignorantly to throw myself into a trap!
Knight Levi sighed with great regret.
After sighing for a moment, Levi finally calmed down and adapted to the tense and oppressive feeling brought by the closed space.
At the same time, he overcame the fear of the unknown darkness in his heart, even those suspicious bones in the corner of the cell, and those who came out to forage.
He could turn a blind eye to the red-eyed mouse because in his opinion, since those guys were just throwing him away Indifference in the dungeon, instead of continuing to inhumane torture and torture like the so-called "witches" and "wizards" in the past, shows that this matter still needs to be discussed.
Maybe, there will be some later.
A lobbyist with his face covered will come over, one is a good person and the other a bad person, threatening and tempting him, trying to trick him out of the source of those life-saving elixirs.
No matter what, as long as there is still something to talk about.
Even if the other party has no sincerity and just wants to kill people and silence them after they get it, they can at least delay it for a while.
Anyway, when Doraemon and his gang of reinforcements arrive, they can teach you guys who don't know how to behave in minutes.
Thinking of this, Knight Levi felt a little more relaxed.
He narrowed his eyes and began to rest with his eyes closed for the time being.
What this Knight of Levi, who felt so good about himself, did not understand was that the reason why he was not tortured and tortured like the so-called "witches" and "wizards" who were arrested before was not because of any negotiations between the masterminds behind the scenes.
In an attempt to take into account that all the famous doctors in Europe were helpless against the Black Death, Ce, the Bishop of Marseille simply did not believe that he had a cure for the plague, and the Marseille Apothecary Guild that reported the report quietly concealed the truth.
This was because the jailers in the Inquisition who were originally responsible for torture and executions had already been killed by the plague.
He died of illness and even the torture chamber was quarantined.
The few remaining guys who have not yet suffered from the plague are busy preparing the stake and pyre for executing the "dark wizard".
This is a big project, especially in the process of collecting firewood, they vomited blood and fell ill.
The two unlucky guys naturally couldn't think of coming over to torture him, a dying man.
As for his fate, the bishop has already made clear instructions: "Tomorrow at noon, he will be executed publicly in the square to calm people's hearts."
Well, I hope the rescuers across time and space that Levi Knight is looking forward to can arrive in time before he is roasted to death.
At the same time, the reinforcements that Knight Levi was hoping for were gathering at Nobita Nobita's house, unaware of his pitiable plight.
Nobita Nobita, who was seriously ill because he refused to take the vaccine because he was afraid of the pain, finally began to improve significantly.
At least his fever was gone and his mind was clearer.
However, his limbs were still weak and his body was crawling limply.
Not getting up made Doraemon very worried.
Professor Guo Jingguo, who was seriously injured due to a fall from a high altitude and suffered multiple comminuted fractures throughout his body, has basically recovered under the treatment of advanced medical technology of the 22nd century.
He just personally participated in a medieval time traveling operation. .
At this time, this energetic old man was using Doraemon's magical prop, the Encyclopedia of the Universe, to consult the historical information about the Black Death in Europe in the Middle Ages, while frowning and discussing the next action plan with Wang Qiu and the others.
"I said Comrade Xiao Wang, according to the salvation plan you and Li Wei discussed before, you will first conduct drug trials in his manor to confirm the efficacy, then publicize it publicly to build a reputation, and finally find a way to obtain recognition from the church. , that’s why we promote drugs on a large scale, right?”
"That's about it," Levi said.
"If there is no actual evidence, if you rashly go out with antibiotics and brag that they can cure the Black Death, you will be regarded as a liar.
Not to mention using a syringe to inject medieval times."
Most Europeans will regard it as evil This technique has been implemented with great difficulty in charity hospitals before, so it needs to be done steadily and step by step, fully considering the acceptance ability of medieval Europeans, and not being too impatient.
Do you think there is any problem with this?"
Wang Qiu blinked.
Blinking, he asked curiously.
"How should I put it?
I feel a little too safe.
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You know those who suffered from the Black Death can't afford to wait.
I'm worried that if I go on slowly like Levi, I will waste time and miss important things.
Hehe, Otherwise, there will be no one left to save by then.”
Professor Guo pointed to a chart displayed on the screen about the death rate of the Black Death in various parts of Europe, and said with some worry: "Look, during this Black Death that lasted for six years, 8,000 people died at the time."
A total of 25 to 35 million Europeans died, and the population dropped sharply by about one-third, but this This is just an average after spreading it across Europe.
It varies greatly in each place.
The Black Death epidemic in some places is not so tragic, but the Black Death epidemic in other places is especially high in population density and sanitation.
In medieval European cities with harsh environments, the death rate was far more than one-third.
On the bright side, Poland was lucky enough to almost completely escape the Black Death, and the Italian city of Milan also defeated the disease because of effective isolation and health measures.
In Norway and Sweden, which are far away from the source of the epidemic, only about 10 to 20 people died, which is far lower than the average death rate in Europe.
As for the death rate among people in England, Scotland and Ireland, it is about 30 to 40, which is basically equivalent to the European average.
On the bad side, during this Black Death frenzy, the mortality rate of citizens in Paris and Vienna reached half.
The mortality rate in various cities on the Italian peninsula, except Milan, was around 60, which is equivalent to that in Europe.
About twice the average.
In Sicily, where the Black Death first broke out, the death rate for the entire population reached an astonishing 90%, and almost all people died in one go, leaving the island uninhabited.
In Eastern Europe, there is another shocking death record from Smolensk, Russia.
Because this place is very close to the Ukrainian grasslands and the Crimean Peninsula, the plague can be transmitted overland.
As a result, the whole city died. five people” oshow7: