CHAPTER 238: CHAPTER 229 I FEEL SCARED_1

The Beastmen of White Eagle City immediately took to the city walls, driving away those who attempted to enter the city. The scene was extremely chaotic, and Si Yan couldn’t help but be frightened by what she saw.

She asked She Wang to put down the meat pies she had made and said to the Beastmen of White Eagle City, "They have nothing to eat. Give these meat pies to them to fill their stomachs first."

"Miss Si Yan, why would you give them food? We don’t have enough for ourselves."

After the cold-blooded Snake Beastman placed the food down, he gave a cold look at the White Eagle male who was shouting at Si Yan.

The White Eagle male was taken aback and suddenly became subdued.

The Snake Beastman looked at Si Yan, only to see her striding towards Bai Feng’s tree hollow.

So many people outside wanted to see the High Priest, and she was going to find Bai Feng.

...

When Si Yan arrived at Bai Feng’s location, she saw Bai Shou coming out just in time.

Bai Shou looked exhausted, with an anxious expression in his eyes.

Si Yan felt that the situation inside White Eagle City was not as good as she had imagined.

When Bai Shou saw Si Yan, he bowed to her respectfully and said, "Miss Si Yan, thank you for letting me surround the city with a wall. You saved White Eagle City. Thank you for bringing the baked pies, allowing everyone to have a full meal."

Looking at Bai Shou’s weary face, Si Yan said, "I didn’t do much..."

She felt that the wooden walls would not hold back the Beastmen outside, and it was only a matter of time before White Eagle City would be breached.

After Bai Shou left, Si Yan entered Bai Feng’s cave.

Bai Feng seemed to have anticipated her arrival and was waiting for her inside the cave.

"Si Yan, take a seat."

Si Yan found a place to sit on the ground.

Bai Feng poured her a cup of water and then gave her some of the fruits she liked to eat.

He smiled gently and asked, "Now that you’re here, are you perhaps troubled by something?"

Si Yan sat up straight and said, "Bai Feng, I just went to the city gate, and the White Eagle Beastmen inside were cursing the Beastmen outside to die. The infected Beastmen outside are desperately trying to come in to see you. It’s terrifying."

Si Yan looked up and asked Bai Feng, "Do you have a way to cure their illness?"

Bai Feng sat opposite Si Yan and said, "The miasma from the plague is different every time. Even for me, finding a cure for the miasma requires time."

Si Yan said, "What can we do, then? The situation outside is terrifying. Why does the world have to have earthquakes? Seriously, this world is too cruel. Why can’t there be a world without disasters, without diseases?!"

"Si Yan."

Bai Feng looked at her with warm eyes, and Si Yan lifted her head to look back at him.

Bai Feng said, "I am a High Priest. Do you know what I must protect as a High Priest?"

Si Yan asked, "You must protect the Beastmen."

"Yes, but not only that."

Si Yan was a bit puzzled.

"The world we live in is a living world. Since it is alive, it needs to breathe, hiccup, or even turn over."

Bai Feng patiently explained, "Earthquakes are like its breathing. Can you say that the world breathing is bad, is wrong?"

Si Yan kind of understood, but also didn’t.

"I am a High Priest. I love this world. I must protect the Beastmen, and also protect this world."

Bai Feng reached out and gently stroked her fuzzy hair again.

Si Yan felt the warmth of his palm, like that of a father’s.

"Then what about the Beastmen? Every earthquake brings calamity to so many Beastmen."

"It is precisely to avoid disasters and to survive them that there are the likes of the Beast God and Priests like me."

Si Yan mulled over what Bai Feng had said.

She felt that there was a lot to unpack in his words.

She seemed to understand a bit more now.

She lifted her head and looked at the High Priest of White Eagle City with bright eyes, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Bai Feng said, "It’s only a matter of time before White Eagle City is breached and infected."

"Bai Shou has already led a group of White Eagle Beastmen to begin constructing a second line of defense, but it’s also only a matter of time before this line falls."

"To get through this disaster, the most important thing is to find a cure for this epidemic."

"If you want to help, join me and the Witch Doctor in researching the medicine."

...

Si Yan summoned Bai Shou and suggested he gather the Beastmen from outside in a designated area.

Then she summoned Tai Seng and Yin Hong. After teaching the two Silver Wolf Beastmen how to make fresh meat patties, she arranged for them to make a certain number each day and distribute them to those in need.

She called She Wang over and told him she might have to go into seclusion to research the medicine for the epidemic.

After this, she wouldn’t be able to manage affairs outside.

She went back and forth between Bai Feng and the Witch Doctor.

Researching one detoxifying and heat-clearing medicine after another, she had them distributed to the infected Beastmen outside and observed their conditions.

In the end, Bai Feng, the Witch Doctor, and Si Yan simply stayed together. Seeing Si Yan’s new ideas and concocted medicine formulations one after another, the Witch Doctor praised Bai Feng, "Lord High Priest, no wonder you chose to teach her. She is really smart and talented, and she has resilience."

The Witch Doctor even felt that in finding a cure for this epidemic, he could at most play a supporting role, and that the one to truly develop the medicine would be either Bai Feng or Si Yan.

Without realizing it, his expectations for Si Yan had risen to the same level as those for Bai Feng.

Once Si Yan immersed herself in research, she forgot about day and night.

She had no idea how many days had passed when Bai Shou suddenly rushed in.

He looked even worse.

"Lord High Priest, this is bad! Infections have appeared within White Eagle City."

"It’s not just White Eagle City! Messengers have come from White Tiger City, Myriad Beasts City, and the other Four Main Cities reporting that all the major cities have fallen."

Si Yan stood up abruptly.

"I’ll go take a look."

The Witch Doctor anxiously said, "Si Yan, you are still young and a female; don’t go! High Priest, talk some sense into her!"

However, High Priest Bai Feng merely watched Si Yan in silence, tacitly permitting her to act as she wished.

The Witch Doctor was beside himself with worry, wanting to scold the High Priest, but ultimately, he didn’t dare and held himself back.

After Si Yan left the tree hollow, she realized that the situation in White Eagle City was even more severe than she had thought.

She saw the White Eagle Beastmen who had cursed and shouted at the gate, wishing death upon those outside.

Being so close to the epidemic, they had all gotten infected.

Now they cried to Si Yan, "Miss Si Yan, we don’t want to die, we really don’t want to die. Please ask the High Priest to come to see us. We truly don’t want to die."

"Who will help us, who will save us?"

Behind Si Yan, She Wang pushed a huge stone urn full of medicinal soup.

He distributed the soup to the sick Beastmen.

While the soup’s effect might have been minimal, having it gave the Beastmen here a little more confidence in surviving.

"Miss Si Yan!"

The White Eagle Beastman, who had cursed the outside Beastmen most fiercely, suddenly grabbed Si Yan’s ankle.

His hands were full of pustules, and as he lifted his face, it too was covered with them.

"Si Yan!!!" The slender Snake Beastman’s expression turned murderous!

With a surge of lethal intent, he reacted and was about to kick the Beastman away!

But it was too late. The pustules on his hand had burst, and he had scratched Si Yan’s foot with his nails!

The slender Snake Beastman felt a chill run through his entire body, as murderous intent overwhelmed him!

The White Eagle Beastman, who bore some resemblance to Bai Kui, burst into laughter, "Si Yan, only if you get infected will the High Priest do everything in his power to save you! As long as the High Priest can save you, then we all have hope of being saved!!"

In a life-and-death crisis, the selfishness and malice of the Beastmen were infinitely amplified at this moment.