Chapter 2621
Raindrops mixed with the scent of blood clung to her face. Grace listened to the cries coming from behind the wooden wall, then suddenly drew the longsword from her waist.
With a flash of cold steel, the iron lock on the wooden wall snapped.
“Open all the doors!” Grace’s voice cut through the rain, full of unshakable authority. “Divide the quarantine area. Move the healthy to the open space on the east side. The infected go into the shacks on the west side. Move quickly!”
A golden light gathered at Logan’s fingertips and shot precisely at the sharpened bamboo pieces at the top of the wooden wall. The bamboo fell away, clearing a safe path for him to climb without getting scratched.
Medical staff charged through the mud and into the crowd, lighting bundles of wormwood they’d brought. Acrid green smoke twisted upward through the rain, slightly masking the foul stench in the air.
“Is this… medicine?!”