After several days of peace, several bloated corpses were dredged from the upper reaches of the city moat.
Soon after, some of the city's residents began to show symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, and unceasing abdominal pain.
Physicians declared that if a proper cure wasn't found in time, these people would die from exhaustion.
Worse still, the illness was contagious.
A rumor began to spread that the corpses were highly toxic and that the people suffering from vomiting and diarrhea might have contracted a plague.
Everyone grew pale at the mere mention of a plague, knowing full well how terrifying it could be.
For a time, panic gripped the city.
The Useless Crown Prince had planned to poison the wells, but with the city under lockdown and extra patrols of government soldiers, his men couldn't find an opportunity to act.
Pei Yu was furious and threw a tantrum.
He hadn't expected something like this to happen so suddenly. It felt as if the heavens themselves were helping him.
