The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

431: Plague Village

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And so Feng Wu learned why the village was abandoned from the mice.

What was the plague? Feng Wu had heard about it before coming to this world.
Sometimes when she went down the mountain, she would catch the villagers talk about it, and whenever they did, their expressions would turn strange.
She was curious and so asked her master.

He said the plague was a kind of extremely contagious disease.
Anyone who caught it would most likely die if they had no effective treatment.

“Where is this place? There isn’t anyone around.
Where’d everyone go?” Kaibu had circled around the area but had only found wildlife like spiders, mice and cockroaches.

“Look around and see if you can find a school badge.” Luo said as he opened a half-broken door.

“No, there’s no way it’s here.
How can we find it so easily?” Anma spoke hopelessly.

Most of the others in the group felt the same way.
It was impossible for level clearing items to be found at the starting point.
But though they agreed, none of them wanted to give up hope.

One by one, they got up to begin searching and see if they could find anything.

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“There was a plague epidemic here.
We should leave.” Feng Wu knew the plague was very contagious.
Even though the village looked like it had been abandoned long ago, they would be in danger if any of the bacteria still survived.

“Epidemic?!”

“How do you know?”

A torrent of surprise and questions came all at once.
Some people couldn’t believe there had been an epidemic.

“It told me.” Feng Wu pointed to the mouse on the ground that was happily nibbling at the steamed bun in its paw.

“That?!”

“You can understand what animals say?” Ober asked in surprise.

Being able to communicate with animals wasn’t that fantastic an ability to have.
Most adult beasts could learn to speak the human language and all holy beasts were born with the ability to speak.
Therefore, the ability to understand animals was a relatively useless skill.

However, even lame abilities were useful in the right time and place, and right now all their magic and qi were sealed, so Feng Wu’s ability to talk to animals would make it much easier for them to complete the group task.

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Wait, understand animal language? Wasn’t that an innate ability? Was this girl actually an innately gifted person?!

Though the people in the group were surprised Feng Wu had an innate ability, they weren’t too jealous because of how useless it was when compared to other innate abilities.

“Yes.” Feng Wu answered honestly and freely.
Her master had told her being able to understand animal language was not a big deal in their current world so she didn’t have to worry about being discovered like she had before.

“Is there really a plague here?” Xinda frowned while looking around at the village.

“Yes.” Feng Wu nodded again.

“Wow! Then we need to get out of here fast.
Even if it is just the virtual world, it’s still very dangerous.
The plague has little effect on people who practice the arts like we do, but currently we’re just ordinary people and we can get sick easily.”

“Yes, true.
Senior Ober, we should leave immediately.”

No one thought Feng Wu would lie about it, after all, what good would the lie do her?

“Feng Wu, ask them how we can get out of here.” Ober said to Feng Wu.

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She asked the little mouse the question and it answered right away but. . . 

The little mouse answered in a worried tone.
“You want to leave here?”

“Yes.” Feng Wu said to the little mouse.

“The way out of here was sealed long ago by the lord.
You’ll have to go through the big woods in the east if you want to leave, but there are a lot of monsters there.
If you go in, you may not come out alive.”

The little mouse thought of all the villagers who wanted to escape through the woods.
All of them probably died because none of them ever came back alive.

Feng Wu relayed everything the mouse said.

The group never expected the village to have a lord or that the lord would lock the place down.

A few people were sent out to check; obviously they weren’t going to blindly believe the words of a mouse.

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The news they shared when they returned was that there was indeed a strong seal around the village.
They wouldn’t be able to leave.

The only way out of the plague infested village was through the dangerous woods the mouse mentioned, so out of desperation, the group decided to go through the woods in the east.

Meanwhile, images of the teams were posted on the screen for the audience to view.
The contestants fell from the sky and landed in different places, some were tangled in tree branches, others were caught in the water, while some landed in the nest of powerful beasts.

The landing point was very important.
Unlucky contestants could conceivably die, being eaten by beasts, before even getting an idea of their surroundings.

Feng Wu and her group landing in a plague village wasn’t fantastic, but they did better than some of the other groups who had also landed in plague villages like they did.
Her group discovered what was wrong with the village and left immediately.

“Vice Principal, I would like to ask, are there any differences between the plague villages? I saw you laugh when you heard one of the teams were going to enter the houses to inspect.
Are there perhaps some kind of trap awaiting these contestants?”

Tamansha, with her acute observation, pointed to a screen and asked her question upon discovering the vice principal’s off expression.

“In fact, the plague villages are a test.
As long as the contestants enter a home and remain in the village for an hour, they will immediately become infected.

This plague is exceptionally contagious.
A team member will automatically infect the other team members as soon as they spend more than half an hour with each other. . . ”