Release that Witch Chapter 218: The pathogen
Roland and witches finished lunch and were going to take a nap in the room. Carter rushed into the castle hall.
"His Highness, eastern region civilians from Kingdom Capital have arrived in dock!"
"So fast?" It seems that Tasa's efficiency is quite high. He is glad to think that he is a person who has worked in the patrol and has a relationship with both black and white. But looking at the sweaty look of Chief Knight and the tight brows, Roland felt something was wrong.
"What's wrong?"
"But the people on board got a strange disease," Carter quickly described the characteristics of the patients. "In the beginning, there were a few people. Now they have spread to two or three ships, and even the soldiers of First Army have been infected. It's up! "
Patients have dark spots, but can they be transmitted to each other? It sounds a lot like plague, the famous black death. However, B. pestis cannot change the blood of people, let alone crack the skin.
Roland's brow frowned.
He thought of Lily for the first time, but he wasn't sure whether the other party's ability could deal with this unheard of infectious disease. It would be troublesome if she could get infected if he could not be cured. He had to make a careful decision. Hearing the description of Carter, these people will not last long.
Anyway, at least you have to block the scene first.
Thinking of this, Roland ordered Carter, "lead First Army, pull up the guard zone outside dock, prohibit anyone from entering or leaving. At the same time, repeatedly tell them: I will be right away, and Miss Nana is already on the road.
"Yes!"
"Very tricky?" Nightingale asked.
"It's not clear, the key depends on the ability of Lily," he whispered, "call all members of Witch Union over, can't sleep at noon today."
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Roland considered all the way and felt that it was necessary to maintain isolation from the patient before verifying the effectiveness of Lily's capabilities.
Fortunately, her fresh-keeping ability belongs to Summon type. It can produce an effect without touching the target. This distance is the same as the control distance of most witchs, which is close to about five meters.
So he hired two carpenters and quickly set up a rectangular box room with the help of Anna. There is a partition in the center of the room, and a small glass window is embedded in the upper end. The opposite view can be seen through the window. A flexible curtain drawn by Soraya is set under the partition, and two small holes are symmetrically opened, allowing Lily to extend both hands. The soft sky-colored curtain will tightly wrap the little girl's hand, thus blocking the air circulation on both sides. As long as you wash your hands with alcohol after you come out, you should be able to prevent infection.
The order of dock is controlled by more than a hundred First Army soldiers on board. It can maintain discipline under the horrible infectious disease. It does not mean how strong they are, but most soldiers believe that it is like an angel. Nana The lady will surely make them as good as ever.
When the box room is ready, a soldier who can move on his own, with black spots on his arms, is selected.
He walked into the room according to the instructions and stood still. Lily stretched his hand across the partition to show his ability. And Roland stood next to her, observing each other's condition through the window.
The impact of magic power is silent. The little girl nodded, and after completing the gesture, he asked, "How are you feeling now?"
"His Highness the Prince?" The soldier heard the voice of Roland, excitedly raised his hand to salute, and then stunned in place. "Well, I feel my strength has recovered again. God, my Highness, I feel much better!"
Roland also noticed that the dark spots on his hands were rapidly disappearing, which was definitely not a symptom of plague. If you remember correctly, the black spots of the latter come from concurrent septicemia and high cyanosis. Even if the plague bacillus is killed, it will take a long time for these black spots to subside, and Lily has no ability to revive the body at all.
But her new ability does have a therapeutic effect on unknown diseases, which makes Roland slightly relieved.
"It's good to recover. Go and call the other soldiers. Enter ten people at a time. Regardless of whether you show symptoms, you should treat come in once."
"Yes! Your Highness," the soldier paused for a moment, then saluted again, "Thank you, Miss Nana."
"It's not Nana, this time it's Miss Lily who saved your life." Roland corrected with a smile, "If the skin is so severe that she has bleeding, you need Miss Nana to heal you."
"Yes ... is it," he touched his head, "thank you, Miss Lily."
After the soldier left, Lily gave the prince a glance, "It doesn't matter to return to Nana, I don't need to be thanked."
Yes, why did you stand so straight just now? Roland looked at the shaking double ponytail of the other party, could not help but reached out and rubbed her head, but the other party unexpectedly did not show protest, but just snorted.
Since it's not a plague, what exactly caused it? He walked out of the box room, and Nightingale leaned over immediately. "My Highness, I just saw a strange phenomenon. The blood flowing from those people ... there are signs of magic power."
"What?" Roland froze.
"In the fog, it is like a little bit of stars in the night," Nightingale said with certainty, "I have never seen such a small magic power glory."
This is an unexpected discovery, but everything related to magic power is either caused by witch or Church. At least now it is certain that the disease was not caused by bacteria or viruses in nature.
"I see," the prince pondered for a moment, "Since this is the case, take some blood to observe."
"No, you may be infected!" she said nervously and stopped.
"Relax," Roland smiled at her, "Lily's new ability has completely restrained the disease."
The blood sample was taken from a civilian who had fallen into a coma. He inserted a glass of blood stained on a stage and adjusted the distance between objects. As the scene in the lens gradually becomes clear, if the thing causing the symptoms is about the same size as the bacteria, then it is likely that nothing will be seen. But when the focus and the target overlap, Roland can hardly believe his eyes.
I saw a few bugs with tentacles and a fat belly swimming slowly in the liquid within a narrow line of sight. From time to time, a tail of slime was sprayed from the tail, like a slender head hair. They are about the same size as unicellular algae, but they are just like the mother body made by Lily. The body is not transparent, and it is difficult to tell whether it belongs to unicellular organisms.
Fortunately, the magic power glow on the bug does not affect the ability of the little girl to function. When the blood mixed with the replica is dropped into the sample, the replica will even preferentially attack these weird bugs and turn them into Own kind.
When all First Army soldiers recovered, in order to avoid accidents, Roland ordered all refugees entering the box room to wear hood, and the soldiers led in. At the same time, another box room was also set up, mainly used for Nana to treat severely ill patients with fleshy skin.
Treatment continued from noon to evening. When more than 500 people in ten boats recovered, a shout of shouting broke out in the crowd. Many people fell to their knees and shouted to His Highness Long live, waves of sound followed waves, unable to calm down for a long time.
"You don't seem very happy?" Nightingale blinked at him.
"It is not me who cures the disease, but Lily and Nana, which are witch," Roland shook his head. "It should be them who accept the cheers of everyone."
be that as it may, but before these people do not fully accept witch, it is not wise to tell the public the truth. He sighed softly, hoping that one day he would let the witch also stand up in front of the stage.
Nightingale seems to understand the thoughts of Roland. She patted his shoulder generously. "Everyone won't care, you've done well enough. Besides, this day will come sooner or later, won't it? "She's paused," Yes, I have forgot to tell you another good news. "
"What's up?"
"Witch Union may be adding a new member," Nightingale grinned. (To be continued., Your support is my greatest motivation.)