5: Chapter 5 removes the kill threshold!

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Zhou Yun's body shook slightly.

Before his Transmigration, he had been an orphan!

Meanwhile, the people around them quickly retreated, fear rising in their eyes once again.

"What? It's actually a cold?"

"Back up further! It'll be bad if we get infected!"

"How could he bring a patient outside!"

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Every refugee regarded the little girl on the boy's back as if she were a tiger.

Although the red lights on their metal collars were currently lit up, as long as Zhou Yun did not order their expulsion, they could still linger.

But if they contracted a disease, especially a contagious one, there would be no room for negotiation!

Even without a city lord, patients would be immediately expelled from the city!

Because keeping them would only harm more people!

However, to their astonished gazes, Zhou Yun did not retreat but instead advanced. Seeming completely unafraid of infection, he personally took the little girl and carried her into the city lord's residence!

Lei Lie and the City Guards immediately followed inside.

Zhou Yun carried the little girl all the way to his room, laid her on his bed, and covered her with a quilt.

Although his contact with it had been short, he had learned relevant knowledge in school.

The little girl had exactly what was a cold!

At this moment, she was coughing incessantly, as if she were about to cough out her lungs.

But even so, she repeated:

"I'm sick... My brother isn't... I'm sick... My brother isn't..."

"I know," Zhou Yun said, patting her back. "Stop talking for now."

Lei Lie reminded him, "City Lord, since she has such an illness, there is no other way. She must be expelled from the city."

"No!" The boy screamed instantly. "Don't drive my sister away! No!"

Lei Lie ignored him, merely sweeping a faint glance at him.

Both of their metal collars had red lights on; both faced the outcome of being expelled, it was only a matter of time.

However, Zhou Yun felt very strange about Lei Lie's words.

It was just a cold!

Although it was indeed a contagious disease, was expelling people from the city because of it not making too much of a fuss?

Looking at the little girl's symptoms, it was highly likely that she already had pneumonia.

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On Earth, such an illness was just a minor problem.

It was nothing more than antiviral treatment, antibiotic treatment, or antifungal treatment.

In this world, treating this kind of illness was even more trivial.

A priest could solve it with a casual healing spell.

Even without a priest, a Healer could equally handle it.

So he asked, "Where are the priests in the city? If there aren't any, a Healer will do too. Go invite them quickly!"

Who knew, Lei Lie just silently shook his head.

"Whether it is a priest or a Healer, how could they appear in a marginal small city like ours?"

None?

Zhou Yun was very surprised.

Flower City was, after all, a city that accommodated over sixty thousand people. How could there not be a single priest or Healer??

"Then how were people who got sick handled before?" He asked. "Surely you didn't expel everyone from the city?"

Lei Lie remained silent upon hearing this.

The 20 City Guards also remained silent.

People living in Flower City, where would they have the qualifications to get sick?

Seeing their reaction, Zhou Yun gasped!

"So..." He pointed at the little girl, "She must be expelled from the city?"

"Yes!" Lei Lie answered seriously. "For the sake of the health of others in the city, and so as not to affect more people, expelling her from the city is the only method!"

"It is also the best method for handling everyone else who falls into the execution line like her!"

Zhou Yun's answer was resonant. Many city residents who had entered the city lord's residence and were watching from afar in the courtyard also heard his words.

But, no one refuted it.

The execution line was one of the basic rules for the operation of every city in this world.

Those who had a negative effect on the city were all expelled without exception.

It was just like removing rotten apples from a crate of apples.

Only in this way could the city develop steadily.

"The best method... huh..." Zhou Yun repeated in a low voice, then took a deep breath and asked, "Who set the execution line?"

"Of course, it was set by the City Lord!" Lei Lie blurted out.

"I am the City Lord now. Does what I say count?" Zhou Yun asked again.

"City Lord..." Lei Lie vaguely felt something was wrong.

"Does it count?" Zhou Yun continued to press.

"It counts!" Lei Lie answered, biting the bullet.

"What about you all?" Zhou Yun's gaze landed on the other City Guards.

"It counts!" The City Guards answered in unison.

"Very well!" Zhou Yun stood up, walked to the door, held the city lord seal high with his right hand, and said loudly:

"I, Zhou Yun, hereby announce!"

"Starting from today!"

"Starting from now!"

"Flower City, cancel the execution line!!"

What?!!!!!

Everyone showed expressions of shock.

Cancel...

The execution line?

They clearly understood every word...

But why, when combined, did it become so difficult to understand?

Could the execution line be canceled??

"City Lord!" Lei Lie reached out to stop him and said loudly:

"Forgive this subordinate's words, but something like canceling the execution line is impossible and unrealistic!"

"If there were no execution line, even higher-level cities, royal cities, or even the imperial capital would gradually decline!"

"Compared to them, our Flower City is just the most marginal small city, and we don't even have room to decline!"

"Although the execution line is cruel, it is the foundation for ensuring the normal operation of the city!"

"If the execution line is canceled, the entire Flower City will collapse!"

The more Lei Lie spoke, the more excited he became, as if canceling the execution line was truly something unacceptable, or even absurd.

However, the city residents who heard these words in the courtyard did not refute this point.

Because, although they had all fallen into the execution line, as members of this world, they equally identified with the existence of the execution line.

Falling into the execution line was their incompetence; it was their problem, not a fault of the execution line itself.

On the contrary, the existence of the execution line itself was just a bottom-line mechanism to ensure that the ecology within the city would not deteriorate.

Zhou Yun looked at their reactions, and his gaze finally landed on Lei Lie.

"I do not agree with what you said."

"With me here, the execution line will not collapse."

"City Lord..." Lei Lie wanted to say something more, but Zhou Yun had already taken action!

He saw him take the city lord seal in front of him, and then said: "Remove everyone's metal collars!"

As soon as the words fell.

"Click! Click! Click!..."

Accompanied by a series of crisp sounds, the metal collars on everyone's necks popped open, and then fell to the ground.

The metal collar on Lei Lie's neck was the same.

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