ZIKETAN, Qinghai – In the medieval town of Ziketan in northwestern China, a corrupt Satanist Boss Wang Shitou invited several dozen of the local elite to his villa Tuesday for protection against the oncoming plague, the Red Death.

The local peasantry, or anyone that the Boss suspected of being infected by the plague, were killed by crossbow fire outside the villa walls, or their villages are burned to the ground.

Boss Wang arranged for his guests to attend a masked ball, with the stipulation that no one is to wear red. At the ball, amidst a general atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, he noticed the entry of a mysterious hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be an ambassador from his master, Satan, Boss Wang addressed him as “your Excellency”.

Before long, the ball was transformed into a danse macabre, and the red-masked figure was heard asking why Boss Wang repeatedly called him “your Excellency”, declaring “I have no title”.

Realizing his error, Boss Wang tore off the red mask, revealing his own face.

As events later proved, the figure was not an emissary of Satan, but the Red Death himself. “When you look into the face of Death, you see yourself,” said the figure, adding that “each man makes God for himself — his own heaven, his own hell.”

Boss Wang was later observed attempting to flee through the now-infected crowd, but his red-cloaked self was always in front of him.

He was finally cornered by The Red Death finally and asked, “Why are you afraid to die, Boss Wang? Your soul died a long time ago”. The Red Death then struck him down.

Following Boss Wang’s death, local authorities from the provincial health department killed rats and fleas today, and later disinfected the town.

Authorities urged anyone who had visited the town – about than 480 kilometers west of Beijing – since mid-July and has developed a cough or fever to seek hospital treatment.

“A lot of people ran off last night when they heard that Boss Wang died of the plague. They are mostly from other provinces,” said a hawker surnamed Zhou, adding that they headed back home with food, water and their donkeys.”

Pneumonic plague is spread through the air and can be passed from person to person through coughing. The lung infection is highly contagious can kill a person in as few as 24 hours if left untreated.

The disease is caused by the same bacteria that causes bubonic plague – the Black Death that killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe in the Middle Ages. However, bubonic plague is usually transmitted by flea bites and can be easily treated with antibiotics.

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