Chapter 1265: Chapter 557: Heaven-descended Gang Wave Chapter 1265: Chapter 557: Heaven-descended Gang Wave Watching the overjoyed woman lifted Lu Liangliang’s despondent spirits sowhat; at least, thanks to the efforts of Yulin Pavilion, there were still a significant number of Chaochang’s citizens who could survive, weren’t there?
While comforting himself, he asked the few people who had co to the central city, “You must have been directed by Physician Jing Zhong to co here, right?”
“Exactly,” Yun Xiu nodded and said, “Mr. Jing Zhong ntioned that there was dicinal herbs prepared by Yulin Pavilion for the refugees in the central city. May I ask, young master, is it true?”
“Of course, it’s true,” Lu Liangliang pointed to several warehouses behind him and the huge beasts guarding all the entrances and exits, saying, “The right herbs have already been sent to Chaochang, and you can have your companions co here to collect them.”
“That’s wonderful!”
Yun Xiu was overjoyed, and the people behind her couldn’t help but cheer, “Young master, we have established quite a few quarantine zones in the Lower City District to prevent the epidemic, but there’s a shortage of dicinal herbs. Could you please help us by delivering so to the Lower City District?”
“Oh?”
Thinking it was just a scattered few refugees, Lu Liangliang hadn’t expected to encounter refugee leaders. He seriously asked, “How many herbs do you need?”
“We could squeeze in another hundred and fifty thousand at East Market, and there could be eighty thousand at the north gate. If we manage to establish quarantine zones including the marketplaces and Drum Tower, we would roughly need about three hundred thousand herbs!”
After a quick calculation, Yun Xiu provided a precise figure, which didn’t include the citizens who had been quarantined and cured but only those patients still kept out of the quarantine zones.
These were the limits of what the water sources could contain and her capacity. Chaochang was simply too large, and even with the aid of Charming Eyes for managent, she couldn’t be everywhere at once to care for every single person. With all her might, she could only ensure that the patients before her were securely settled.
These numbers reported in urgency signified the race against ti to fight the epidemic, but to Lu Liangliang, they were a sign of the guilty conscience of soone trying to swindle dicine.
Still angry at being deceived by the Chaochang noble families, a surge of fury shot through Lu Liangliang, and his gaze turned fierce.
Just by virtue of this woman who had only achieved unity of spirit and intent and a few warriors at the initial stage of Transcendence, they wanted to deceive him out of three hundred thousand herbs. Did they really think Yulin Pavilion had no knives for killing!?
“Do you really think I’m young and inexperienced, and therefore weak and easily bullied, that anyone can co and take a bite!?” he said, laughter tinged with extre rage in his tone.
Lu Liangliang’s voice turned frosty as he said mockingly, “You didn’t even rehearse your lies before telling them. It seems you are courting death!”
Pushing aside the warriors who had instinctively stepped forward to protect her, Yun Xiu advanced and said with a frown, “If the young master doesn’t trust us, he can personally escort the herbs to the Lower City District to see for himself. If there is even a half-truth, it’s not too late to draw your sword then. Such deanor is rather unbecoming of Yulin Pavilion’s grace.”
“Still defiant when death is at your doorstep,” said Lu Liangliang, his voice filled with indignation.
“They say the female heart is the most poisonous, and today I’ve truly co to see that! These are the herbs Yulin Pavilion uses to save lives, and you even covet these supplies. In a while, I will open your heart to see if it’s black!”
This was the fifth day since the epidemic had run rampant. Based on calculations by physicians within his sect, the Pavilion had found out about the situation in Chaochang’s Lower City District far too late; at least seventy percent of the citizens had died or been injured.
The more densely populated an area, the higher the death toll, and places like East Market, already known for their high population density, had unsurprisingly beco a hellish ghoul den.
So when Yun Xiu called out the figure of three hundred thousand, Lu Liangliang instinctively judged that the other party was a swindler.
Dantian Spirit Power boiled, Fierce Realm’s imposing aura erupted; facing these swindlers eyeing the disaster relief herbs, Lu Liangliang had no desire to waste any more words.
The few martial artists who had co with her had already been overwheld by the aura of the Fierce Realm, lying on the ground unable to move, while Yun Xiu herself was sowhat desperate, heaven knows why the negotiation that had been going well suddenly took a turn as this young master’s face changed, adopting an air as though he intended to execute them on the spot.
Unwilling to sit still and wait for death, Yun Xiu struck back with her Cloud Hand, and imdiately the sound of the Gang Wave tearing through the air filled her ears; the wild beasts in the courtyard looked up and roared as if facing a formidable enemy, and Lu Liangliang’s expression changed as well.
Without a mont’s hesitation, Lu Liangliang waved her hands repeatedly, casting a shadow after shadow; she threw out several Spiritual Talismans forming a formation above her head, barely blocking the Thunderous Gang Wind that ca crashing down from the sky.
“Do you really lack brains, if you were truly a swindler, swindling for eight hundred to a thousand stocks might be feasible. But opening your mouth to ask for three hundred thousand, even if it’s a gamble, if you won, you’d be able to save three hundred thousand lives.”
The burly giant who had swung the Gang Wave now shouldered the Great Dao Thunder Chanting Staff on his back again and casually landed on the ground of the Lower City District, trolling Lu Liangliang with a dark face.
“The noble families in the Upper City District who control the water sources have together saved only five hundred thousand people, yet this woman asks for three hundred thousand right away!”
Ripping open the Spiritual Formation above his head, Lu Liangliang scornfully said to the burly man on the ground, “Just how many refugees has the Tang Clan of Nangang gathered? Do you think this woman’s words can be trusted!?”
“Thud~”
Sticking the Great Dao Thunder Chanting Staff into the ground, Tang Luo turned his head with a smile and winked at Yun Xiu, “I think it’s possible! This girl has the innocent and kind look of a fairy; the matter of saving lives should be genuine.”
“As for the noble families gathering refugees, you’re just watching the excitent.”
After making a suggestive look and turning back, Tang Luo continued, “How difficult can saving lives be, really? If the Chaochang noble family truly had the heart, how many people could this plague kill? Just look at the several strongholds in the Inner City; not even the chefs and servants of the noble families have died. The failure to save the refugees is simply because the noble families can only see themselves, constantly scheming, penny-pinching, and the fussy way they choose to save people; it would be odd if they could actually save lives.”
“That doesn’t sound like sothing a noble clan’s son should say.”
Lu Liangliang snorted, “According to you, as long as there’s a will, this woman without clean water, without herbs, and without strength could actually save more people than the noble families?”
“Well, on my way here from the Wilderness, I did see several sizeable quarantine areas. If they were all established by her, she may actually have saved more civilians than all the noble families currently in Chaochang combined,” Tang Luo said, using his index finger and thumb to gesture a sizable scope in a teasing manner. “But the situation of the refugees doesn’t seem too good. If young master Lu were to delay a bit longer, you might just be able to let those refugees die of exhaustion.”
Words carry weight, and the sa words spoken by different people can have vastly different effects.
Lu Liangliang, who had just been treating Yun Xiu and her people as swindlers, underwent a one hundred eighty-degree change in attitude after hearing Tang Luo’s words, “My apologies for any offense caused just now! I will imdiately arrange for the herb support!”
“Being able to admit and correct your mistakes is indeed more of a gentleman’s deanor than any so-called ‘Saint Child’,”
Without any particular enthusiasm, Tang Luo complinted Lu Liangliang and then, recalling sothing, asked curiously, “Speaking of which, Chaochang is terribly short of water right now, isn’t your Yulin Pavilion best at water-elent techniques? Why not create a formation to bring about a rain of sweet dew from the heavens?”
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