Chapter 54, Honkai Impact History In Bordeaux at the end of August 1348, the ground was covered with scorched earth, rubble, and mutilated corpses.
Of course, even such a horrific situation was not uncommon in the Middle Ages where wars were frequent.
But the really terrible problem is that what caused all this It's not a war From the time the Black Death was introduced to Bordeaux to this moment, less than a hundred days have passed, but it has completely destroyed this wine country.
This is a crazy, fast, cruel, and terrifying disease.
It is God's grace that evades its clutches, not mortal strength.
Since the outbreak of the plague in early summer, despite the measures taken by the municipal authorities, the terrible disease has continued to spread from block to block until there is no longer a safe place in the city. .
Although prominent figures such as church priests and local nobles repeatedly called on people to calm down, and there was no shortage of necessities such as food, no cure could be found.
Almost every street and alley is filled with the putrid smell that symbolizes death.
People often suddenly vomit blood and fall to the ground while walking.
The haze of death silently covered the entire city, but humble mortals were unable to do anything.
There were only a few crazy priests, wearing tattered clothes, shouting in the streets: "This is all God's judgment.
Look, God will bring disaster to all fallen people.
They are in prison because they don't believe in God.
They are not mine."
Lord, I refused and left this world when I woke up.
Death will walk among the living and take away their souls."
Such incoherent and unreasonable crazy words, in this context of being overwhelmed by death, actually gained many supporters.
Because Europe in the Middle Ages was so full of ignorance and barbarism, religion always firmly controlled people's daily lives.
People must abide by a lot of various religious rules and are not allowed to say anything that does not believe in God, otherwise the hellish Inquisition will be your destination.
In this way, many people in Bordeaux who are lucky enough not to be sick are suffering from these crazy things.
Under the leadership of the priest, they swayed through the streets singing hymns until they were infected with the plague, vomited blood and fell to death.
Such a ridiculous doomsday spectacle can only be described as "a chaotic dance of demons".
What's even more unfortunate is that when the Venetian merchants used random doors to roam around the world, threatening and inducing cities under the haze of the Black Death to pay tribute, cede land and sign unequal treaties in exchange for the salvation of "angels", they were basically familiar with it.
In the Italian peninsula and around the Mediterranean, there are Unintentionally, he ended up in Bordeaux on the Atlantic Ocean.
When Wang Qiu, the "pseudo angel", got the news, he finally cared about it and opened the door from Avignon to Bordeaux.
This world-famous wine land The hometown has been reduced to a crazy city of death.
Just like what happened before in Marseille, Avignon, Naples, Rome, Florence and Venice.
Then, classmate Wang Qiu, with angel wings on his back, passed through the random door and slowly landed in the royal castle in Bordeaux.
He stepped into the blood-stained and rotten courtyard and met each one of them who looked haggard and like a walking corpse.
Demented guys passed by, and rotting corpses and garbage were everywhere along the way.
It was a messy scene everywhere.
The turbid air is filled with a suffocating stench.
Even if the fresh and strong sea breeze blows from the Atlantic Ocean and sweeps away from time to time, it is difficult to completely dispel the disgusting smell.
Fortunately, when Wang Qiu finally stepped into the most luxurious royal bedroom in the entire castle under the prostrations and kowtows of a group of Christians, the English Princess Joan Plantagenet, who was scheduled to marry in Spain, had already She was so ill that she had a high fever and was delirious.
Her body was covered with abscesses and ulcers, her face was covered with black spots, and she had tumors as big as eggs under her arms.
Her former beauty was gone, but she still managed to breathe.
There is no need to say what is to be done next.
With a string of meowing "Doraemon's Ordinary Spell", the holy white light of healing magic falls from the sky, curing the little princess's illness at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The warm energy penetrated into the blood of everyone present, making them feel relaxed and at ease from the inside out, as if they had thrown away all the worries and burdens in life and returned to the embrace of their mother.
In particular, several maids who also showed signs of being infected were overjoyed to find that the dark spots on their bodies seemed to be disappearing rapidly.
Then, after another moment, amid the choking sounds of surprise from a large group of people, Princess Joan Plantagenet, who had been unconscious for many days, finally fluttered her eyelashes a few times, slowly opened her eyes, and then blinked again Blinking, it seems that the light in front of me is a bit dazzling.
"Is this the kingdom of heaven?"
The little princess asked in French in confusion, looking at Wang Qiu who was standing in front of him in an angel suit and casting spells.
In this era when Britain and France have not yet officially separated, the Plantagenet royal family of England still seems to use French as their first mother tongue.
"No, you are still in the world, Miss Qiong, at least for the time being."
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Wang Qiu answered her doubts with a faint smile.
Although the life of the Princess of England was saved by the angel's miracle, more people had turned into rotten corpses and withered bones.
Not even the magic spells recorded in the Encyclopedia of Magic can bring the souls of the dead back from hell or heaven.
It had only been less than ten days since the first deceased appeared in the castle, but this cursed castle was already filled with corpses that had no time to bury them.
Fortunately among the misfortunes, thanks to the random door directly connected to the Papal Palace, the deceased in the royal castle of Bordeaux could at least receive a requiem mass presided over by the Pope himself.
For Christians in medieval Europe, this may have been incredible. of honor.
"Rest in peace, devout people who have been taken away from the world by this plague, God is already calling your pure souls.
All flesh is like fading grass, and all his withered glory is like the flower of the grass; the grass will Wither, the flowers will fall, you must be patient until the Lord comes and you There will be sorrow when you go, but God will see you now, and your heart will be filled with joy that no one can take away from you.
Look at me, I have toiled and suffered, but in the end I found comfort; I will Come to comfort you on behalf of the Lord, as a mother comforts her child.”
In the woods on the mountain behind the Wang Family Castle, a large pit was recently dug, filled with corpses.
Standing next to this horrible corpse pit filled with putrid smell, Pope Clement VI, who has been accustomed to seeing countless shocking deaths in recent months and has become somewhat enlightened in his thinking, sighed with a dejected look on his face, as if he had lost his mind.
He lost his aloof dignity and lost his ambition to pursue power.
But out of the duties of a priest, he still held up the cross and rosary beads in his hands, and said silently the requiem mass for the deceased.
Around Pope Clement VI, the surviving Englishmen were half-kneeling on the ground with their heads bowed.
The grief of losing their companions made them sob.
However, the devout faith in their hearts made them eager to witness the Pope preside over.
Requiem mass and great honor Finally, the clergy brought by the Pope from Avignon worked together to dig the soil and bury the dead.
At the same time, they erected a cross in front of the grave and carved a few lines of Latin text on it, recording this horrific summer in the Royal Castle of Bordeaux. .
The deceased is dead and can rest in peace forever, but the living will continue to be busy and troubled by mundane things in the world.
For Wang Qiu, a time traveler, he first needed to collect a batch of wine to take back.
After hearing this request, the British mission was very cooperative and opened the wine cellar of the Royal Chateau of Bordeaux, allowing His Excellency Angel to move it in as he pleased.
Unfortunately, he went in After taking a look, I discovered with embarrassment that a while ago, most of the people in the castle were living in the dark because of the fear of death.
They drank all night long and drank all the best Bordeaux wine in the cellar, leaving very little even the second-rate wine.
Of course, this problem was not difficult to solve: several English knights grabbed their swords and went to the city.
After driving around for a few times, he came back with a cart full of Bordeaux wine, followed by a group of wine merchants who came to seek healing from the angel.
And Princess Joan Plantagenet, who has just escaped death, must face an even more terrifying problem: Can this marriage continue?
Although the Black Death did not kill her, it severely damaged her beauty and health: most of her once thick and beautiful hair fell off during the disease, and now she is almost bald; it was once as smooth and smooth as a boiled egg. , as white as milk curd The flawless skin is now covered with all kinds of scars, like a wrinkled orange peel; the voice that was once as elegant and charming as a lark has become as hoarse and unpleasant as rubbing sand skin.
No one knows the future.
Can you recover?
In fact, after looking at the glass mirror provided by Wang Qiu and seeing her current haggard appearance, the little English princess immediately blacked out and fainted.
After that, she shed tears all day long and was in pain several times.
They were almost on the verge of death and survival.
Fortunately, for the "angels" with great supernatural powers, this is not a big problem.
Wang Qiu went back and called Doraemon, and then Comrade Doraemon took out a time baggage from the fourth-dimensional pocket and put the quilt on it.
The disfigured little princess was wrapped up completely, and the time of the little princess's body was returned to one year ago.
Thus, the problem of Princess Qiong's disfigurement was solved.
However, in many cases, the solution of an old problem often means the arrival of another new problem.
In medieval Europe, although political marriages between nobles often did not take into account age, and there were many combinations of old husbands and young wives or old wives and young husbands, there was a minimum rule that usually had to be followed: both parties to the marriage were at least Must be an adult.
As far as women are concerned, a girl must have her first menstrual period at menarche and become fertile before she is considered a woman.
It was very rare in medieval Europe for a woman to get married before her menarche.
Moreover, consummating a marriage with a young girl who has not yet had menarche is generally considered a very evil and depraved act.
The solution for European aristocrats in the Middle Ages was to get engaged first and wait until the bride matured before officially getting married.
But the problem is that before getting married this time, Princess Joan Plantagenet was only thirteen years old, and the food these days did not contain hormones, so her development was relatively slow, and she did not have menarche until she sailed from England.
Fortunately, like this The preparation for a grand royal wedding takes almost a year or two.
According to experience, if you take advantage of this period to give the princess more nourishing food, she will probably have her period before the wedding.
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However, due to Doraemon's time baggage, the princess's age has become one year younger.
Although it is always a good thing for a woman to get younger, the princess's menarche has become even more elusive because of this.
But Doraemon A Meng did not dare to use time to make the princess older again: after all, this princess only lived thirteen years old in history.
Who knows whether a corpse will be found by then?
Regarding this embarrassing issue, the remaining nobles of the English mission discussed for a long time, but found that none of them were qualified to make a decision.
In the end, they had to beg the "angel" to borrow a random door and go to the Kingdom of Castile in Spain to find the groom's family.
Let’s discuss and see if we can postpone the wedding for about a year, or simply don’t rush to get married and get engaged first.
Then, after arriving in the Kingdom of Castile, they discovered that they no longer had to worry about anything about this marriage.
The father of the future groom, Prince Pedro, the King of Castile, wrote a letter The handwritten letter serves as a desolate footnote to this royal marriage: "It is with the deepest sadness that I inform you that an unfathomable death has just taken away my dear son Pedro.
We loved him so deeply and he was truly worthy of this love.
We can only believe that God, our lives are in His hands.
I want to thank God for taking my relatives away from all the filth in the world, my relatives who I have loved with my whole life."
When France and Italy were engulfed by death one after another, the horrific Black Death also ran rampant in the Iberian Peninsula south of the Pyrenees, at the end of Genoa's "death fleet."
From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, Spanish lands are full of empty houses.
No matter whether they are Christians or Moors, they are not immune to the disease.
So, when Princess Joan Plantagenet struggled in the hospital bed in Bordeaux, she was worried that she would never wear clothes again.
Before she could put on the 150-meter-long wedding dress, her fiancé, Prince Pedro, had actually been called by the Lord before her.
The bad news reached Bordeaux, and the princess, who learned that she had become a widow, fainted again.
When she woke up, she cried and wanted to go home.
Doraemon thoughtfully opened the door leading to the Tower of London, but the moment he opened the door, a familiar rancid smell hit his face.
As history collapsed under the storm of traveler butterflies, the palace of the Kingdom of England had already been captured by the Black Death in advance.
So, poor Princess Joan Plantagenet not only lost her husband, but also her parents and brother oshow7: