In the third year of Jinghe Period of the Great Zhao Dynasty, corpse plague broke out in Qingzhou. If a person is bitten, he will turn into a corpse in seven days; if the corpse bites another person, the epidemic will spread throughout the city. On the night when the city was destroyed, Shen Yan, an apprentice in the medical clinic, carried two volumes of medical books left by his master before his death - "Corpse Plague" and "Corpse Language" - and stepped on the corpses on the ground to escape north.
He has no martial arts, no superpowers, and no golden fingers. He only has a medicine box, a medical skill, and a stupid idea: Master said that doctors can save every living person.
He picked up three people on the way: Gu Changying, a white-clothed swordsman from Broken Moon Villa, who was quick with his sword, cold-hearted, and deeply grudged; Yan Xiaoqi, a swordsman born in the city, who had quick hands, a poor tongue, and was afraid of death; and a monk from White Horse Temple who knew how to chant sutras, unlock locks, and save a living corpse before killing it.
Four people, a box of medicine, walking all the way, saving all the way. They have seen the skinning and deboning of living people in cult villages, and let the flesh and bones come to the church for marriage; they have seen the hypocrites in the charity hall who buy and sell "living seeds" by weighing the meat price; they have also seen countless hands crawling out of the dry wells under the Ten Thousand Bones Pit and grabbing the ankles of strangers.
Corpse plague is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. Some people refine "corpse seeds" and raise "ten thousand corpse arrays" to seek immortality and treat the whole world as his medicine.
Shen Yan didn't know if he could win. All he knew was that where corpses were everywhere, someone would have to walk there carrying a medicine box.
Healer, the art of living people. Live for one person, live for a family; live for a village, live for a city; live for a city, live for the world.
——When he left, he had traveled three thousand miles.
