796 Human Disaster? Or Natural Disaster?

"Don't need to reason with them, cremate!" The crowd shouted in a surging fervor, immediately shoving aside the two Celestial Medicine Valley disciples, who were wearing unsightly expressions. Several City Lord's Estate's guards cut to the chase and promptly carried Feng Manyun's corpse off to the cremation area.

"Humph! If it's like this, we brothers need not stay here anymore and ask to be humiliated. As for the examination, we'll leave it to your omnipotent crown prince consort." The two Celestial Medicine Valley disciples were so angry that they flicked their sleeves and left, leaving behind a resentful crowd.

Qiao Mu shook her head, still dumbfounded for quite a while.

Two thirty to forty-year-old adult men actually still behaved so immaturely, muddling public affairs with personal matters. Because of private matters, they just abruptly washed their hands of the public affairs they were tasked with. Their behavior was truly disgraceful.

Seeing that there were less than a hundred people remaining in the small plaza, Qiao Mu had them line up before examining them one by one.

After completing their examinations, the civilians were naturally led into the city by the City Lord's Estate's guards.

Because there had been live body mutation incidents, City Lord Lin was on high alert. He ordered his men to divide the inner city into five main districts and have all the common people temporarily assemble there for now. Most of them were the elderly, the infirm, women, infants, and children.

As for the young and grown men, the ones that could fight were practically all deployed to the city gate to help out.

Qiao Mu turned around and walked towards the inside of the city. "Have you managed to get in touch with the crown prince yet?"

Following behind her, Lightning shook his head. "For now, still not yet."

Qiao Mu nodded lightly. Then she'd just take a stroll in the inner city. Even if she didn't encounter the crown prince, she should be able to see him when she returned to the city gate.

On the entire length of the road, other than Qiao Mu and Lightning, no one else could be seen.

While following along the desolate road, they would occasionally hear some rustling noises in a corner. Every now and then, Qiao Mu would halt and raise the crow repeating crossbow in her hand, shooting one or two zombies that were hiding behind a wall.

The speed and precision of her movements caused even Lightning, who was closely following behind, to involuntarily click his tongue.

The crown prince consort basically didn't even need to aim. The proficiency and control she possessed over shooting zombies didn't really seem to be something she achieved overnight.

Meanwhile, the cogs were turning in Qiao Mu's head.

Compared to her past life, the speed at which zombies mutated in this life was obviously much quicker than before.

In her previous lifetime, it was clearly after she turned 18 that people with common injuries underwent live body mutations. Yet in this life, this process occurred more than three years in advance.

If it were like this, and she were to account for the quickening timeline, then she extrapolated that before long, even the water sources would get contaminated.

"Crown Prince Consort, please still be careful. By all means, you must not get hurt, not even a common cut." While following Qiao Mu closely, Lightning reminded her, deeply worried and sick at heart.

"It's fine, Lightning." Qiao Mu shook her head lightly, a cold light flitting past her eyes. "You think that they mutated because they got hurt?"

"That's not the case?!" Lightning was shocked, and he turned to look at Qiao Mu with a swoosh.

Yet Qiao Mu didn't say anything else, only looking up at the dreary sky.

It seemed like there would be another rainstorm tonight!

When she associated this with her past life, from when the corpse mutated to zombies and then escalated rapidly into a total outbreak, Qiao Mu vaguely had a rough sketch of the progression in her mind.

Everyone had thought that this was only a natural disaster.

But at this very moment, Qiao Mu felt increasingly more suspicious that perhaps, this was a long premeditated human disaster.

"Crown Prince Consort!" A hidden guard suddenly appeared beside Lightning and bowed in greeting. "This subordinate has tracked down His Highness the Crown Prince. However, His Highness the Crown Prince and them seem to have encountered a bit of trouble."

Qiao Mu abruptly turned her head around.