Zhendong, the easternmost city in Dong Hai, the current headquarters of Dong Hai army...
A row of wooden platforms about half the height of a man was placed in the spacious council hall, on which were laid dozens of burly men who only wore trousers. They all had strange injuries; blood and pus were dripping all over the floor, and the stench was so bad that it stung the eyes of the people in the hall.
Princess Zhang Le was standing next to a soldier who had been stung by Daoist Bees's hornets, along with several young women in Oracle black robes. The man was barely conscious, and he had a high fever. His body was so hot that if an egg was put on his skin, it would be fully cooked in just seconds. He was densely covered with fist-sized boils, where blood and pus kept dripping out.
