Gaulish plagues

19

When Saulina and Lolina arrived at the magazine they went looking for Tinus. They found nobody! They went into the hidden room. They still found the skeletons and the remainder of gold in there. The other two women, who came with them, felt uncomfortable. 

''What's going on?'' Lolina asked them ''Why are you shaking like this?''

''This building has a lot of negative energy. You are not aware of it because you are not psychic. Me and my mother and grandmother have the gift to sense energies. And this place has a lot of negative energy. A lot of bad stuff happened over here. There might be some spirits still hanging around here..''

Saulina, Lolina and the Officer spoke in Latin. Because of that the two Gaulish women didn't capture anything of the conversation. When the two Carbonian-Savarian women heard about negative energy and the potential of spirits haunting the place they decided to leave immediately. They went to a small hostel near the Provincial road. There they lodged into a single room. Lolina already hired a chariot to transport them to Tolosa as soon as possible. The riders later come to the hotel and informed her that they couldn't bring her to Tolosa. The roads within the province were blocked by the government, due to the civil war going at the shore districts. All civil and economic traffic from and to Narbo were blocked. Also, the civilians in Tolosa were forbidden to leave the city walls. The riders also received information about a group of Carbonian settlers that were expelled to the Aquitanian shores near Aquitania's capital Burdigala. Their only option was to leave Narbonensis. The capital of the neighbour province Lugdunensis was only 10 hours away. Lugdunum was both the Capital of Lugdunensis and the Capital of Gaul as a whole. 

Two days later they left to Lugudunum. There they could lodge for free at a large apartment complex. The apartment complex was abandoned. The next day, after bathing, they went to a library. In the Library they opened some historical books about the accounts of Gaul.

''Lolina, check this one! Historia Gallia Augusta IV''

''What is it about?''

''It's a collection of reports concerning the army..''

''Read it''

''After the death of Emperor Augustus, several troops, 79 looted villages in Greater Germany. Their spoil was brought to the city Genava, in Gallia Narbonensis. The government didn't tax their spoil, as it was earned outside of the jurisdiction of the military. Also, there were 23 local officers who robbed several Roman towns. Five legionary troops were imprisoned with sentences varying between 2 and 9 years. Two legionary troops were executed for endangering their comrades. From the local officers only one was executed. The others were left alone by the Administration of Gaul, due to the attention of Rome given to the civil unrest in Judea and Syria. The looting troops hid their spoil into the military industrial tunnels around the Lemanus Lake, which lieth between Gallia Narbonensis and Gallia Belgica. There were also troops from Rhaetia that looted and hid their spoil in tunnels run by the provincial administration. According to accounts from Germany, the German civilians cursed the Roman troops for looting the shrines of their goddesses. The Rhaetians had a tempel for the Egyptian goddess Isis that was looted by the Rhaetian troops. Within a period of 10 years after the looting, which took place within a year after the death of Emperor Augustus, 31 people died mysteriously by strange bodily infirmities that are unknown to the Roman world. As a result, the generals in Rome, pleaded for closing the military industrial tunnels around Lake Lemanus. This was, after months debating, approved by the Senate.''

''That's an official report?''

''Yes...''

''Keep reading...''

''After the closure of the industrial complex there has been around 102 people going missing in the districts around the Lemanus lake. Most of the missing persons were females of child bearing age. There were around 40 troops that were found dead in the villages that were build near the tunnels. As a result the Provinces Gallia Narbonensis and Gallia Belgica ordered all villages in the Lemanus Lake district to be abandoned. The civilians were given residence in Roman towns and they were compensated financially for the loss of their farms and houses. Only villages and towns that were seven kilometers removed from the Lake district were permitted to be inhabited. The abandoned villages are also forbidden to be places on maps by Cartographers. These towns are considered 'non-existent' by the authorities.''