Father Damien's church is located next to the Kalaupapa Peninsula, a little further on the penal colony of lepers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It sounds dangerous, but in fact, there are not many leprosy patients, only about 100 people.

Considering the total population of the Hawaiian Islands, this percentage is not too low.

It is said that it is a church, but in fact it is not very tall, the spire arch is not to be considered, and the three ordinary wooden houses have a cross nailed to the roof, which clearly shows the attributes of the house.

To Li Mu's surprise, the church did not have a hall for religious activities, one of the three rooms was Father Damien's bedroom, the other was a study, and the largest room was full of display shelves, which were filled with all kinds of altars and jars, and there was a workbench against the wall with a rough microscope on it.

Although this microscope looks not quite the same as the microscope in Li Mu's concept, Li Mu can still be sure that this is an early microscope.

It's not so much a church as some kind of biological laboratory.

Although it looks a little shabby.

"Father Damien, are you doing leprosy research?" Li Mu casually glanced at it, and roughly guessed Father Damien's purpose.

"Yes, I'm working on leprosy, and although I don't have a clue yet, I believe that as long as we keep researching, we will find a solution to the problem." Father Damien really had an idea.

Li Mu looked at the simple furnishings in the research institute - let's call it so for the time being - and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "Leprosy is an infectious disease, so don't you worry about being infected?" ”

There are no vaccines these days, and getting infected is not a joke.

"Of course we worry, but we always have to do it, we can't always live in the shadow of leprosy all the time, so I try to take precautions." Father Damien was still cautious.

"Okay, I'll just take precautions for you." Li Mu was speechless, if a simple bath could be regarded as prevention.

"There is only so much I can do." Father Damien is not very demanding, and it is indeed not an ordinary person to be able to do such a very dangerous thing in such a remote place.

"If you really want to make some achievements, then you should have better conditions, the conditions here are too basic, there are no electric lights, no telephones, and you don't have an assistant, so you have to survive until the year of the monkey." Li Mu does not approve of doing this, scientific research should be a bit of a scientific research, the seller of missiles is not as good as the sale of tea eggs is only a historical product of a certain special period, most of the time the seller of missiles should be far stronger than the sale of tea eggs, whether it is social status or economic income.

"I beg your pardon, the light--the telephone-what's that?" Father Damien was embarrassed.

This is what it is like to stay in an isolated place, not to mention not knowing about the progress of science and technology, and even language skills will deteriorate over time.

"The latest scientific and technological achievements make it possible to light a special light bulb with electricity, which illuminates much better than a candle, and as for the telephone, it is to transmit sound with two wires, ignoring space and distance." Li Mu briefly introduced that the telephone is of little use to Father Damien, and the electric light can be of great help.

Of course, Li Mu will not go all the way to get a set of electric lighting equipment for Father Damien, unless Father Damien can prove his worth, Li Mu is a businessman, and he will not do anything to lose his capital.

"That's amazing - Mr. Reem, can you tell me more about the virus you mentioned?" Father Damien made a posture that he wanted to sit down with Li Mu and discuss.

"I have a lab in Boston, and the latest results show that humans get sick because of a virus, so my lab wants to develop a special drug to deal with these viruses." Li Mu put the set down first.

Regarding the laboratory, Li Mu does have this plan, but because there is no suitable host to choose, this laboratory is still on paper.

As a businessman, Li Mu will definitely not forget the huge profits of the medical industry, aspirin, sulfonamides, and even penicillin, as long as these drugs are developed, any one of them is a profitable business.

"Lab—" Father Damien's face was full of disappointment.

Although Damien's profession is a priest, it does not mean that Father Damien does not eat fireworks in the world, Father Damien certainly knows what a "laboratory" is, and Father Damien knows that a businessman will definitely not invest in a laboratory for no reason, it can only be a commercial behavior, which has been out of the realm of pure scientific research.

Of course, Fr. Damien did not know how the Kufner Group Institute operated, and if he did, then Fr. Damien would have understood that research is really just a part of business.

"Yes, I have a school in Springfield that is dedicated to training medical talents, so it's normal to build another laboratory, maybe Father Priest, you don't know how my laboratory works, please allow me to introduce it to you—" Li Mu Balabala explained the operation of his laboratory to Father Damien.

"Rights-sharing – a very new way of working." Fr. Damien had to admit that Li Mu worked in a very effective way to motivate researchers to the greatest extent.

If the famous Edison, after he set up the laboratory, as long as it is the results developed by the Edison laboratory, it belongs to Edison himself, whether it is the right of authorship or patent ownership, it belongs to Edison himself, and the only person who can get it is the salary paid by Edison's laboratory.

When Nikola Tesla was working in Edison's laboratory, Edison commissioned Nikola Tesla to improve the generator for Edison and promised a reward of $50,000.

This humor is so expensive, a full fifty thousand dollars!

So relatively speaking, Li Mu is already a "conscientious capitalist" in this era.

"I have no intention of offending your great ideals, but I must say that there is a gap between ideals and reality, Mr. Father, you must have realized that if you continue to study like this, perhaps by the day you die, you will still be so obscure, unable to achieve anything, and unable to study a way to combat leprosy, so why not change to a better way of research?" Li Muhongguo's solicitation.

Father Damien was patient, of course, it is more likely that Father Damien also realized that his way was wrong, so when Li Mu hand-painted, Father Damien listened very carefully, and when Li Mu finished speaking, Father Damien's face was gloomy.

Everyone longs for their worth to be recognized by society, just like Li Mu said, Father Damien may not care about the humble research room, does not care about the difficult working environment, but Father Damien also wants to make achievements, maybe in another way, Father Damien really wants to solve the big problem of leprosy.

"So what do you want to say?" There was no joy on Father Damien's face.

"Come and work in my institute, I will provide you with more sophisticated equipment, a safer environment, more valuable research projects, more research assistants, so that you can really show your value, instead of staying here all day studying your lepers." Li Mu said clearly.

"I'm not going to give up on them." Father Damien is still struggling.

"I didn't ask you to give up on them, in fact, what these lepers need is not treatment, but good care, you should know that even if the lepers will be cured, their bodies will leave eternal sequelae, which will clearly indicate their identity, so they will be rejected by human society, so even if you cure these lepers, they still can't return to human society, since that's the case, then why not let more professional people do it, purely from the perspective of materials, You don't take good care of them. Li Mu told the truth, and was not optimistic about Father Damien's efforts.

In the 21st century, there are research data showing that if one of the husband and wife is infected with leprosy, then the probability of the other person being infected is less than five percent, and at the same time, the phenomenon of leprosy infection among the general population is relatively common, but because of the certain resistance to leprosy bacilli, the vast majority of people will not get sick, and only about one in a thousand or one in 10,000 people may suffer from leprosy.

Li Mu knew about these circumstances, but Father Damien didn't know, the reason why Li Mu didn't explain it was that he didn't want Father Damien to spend his life here, Father Damien was unknown in history, but no one knew what kind of achievements Father Damien would make if he gave Father Damien a better environment.

Although Li Mu did not know the living conditions of the lepers on the Kalaupapa Peninsula, it must not be too good, after all, Father Damien had limited financial resources, and his own life could be described as "down", so don't think about what kind of help he can provide to those leprosy patients.

"Can you take care of them?" Father Damien had hope in his eyes.

"Of course you can, I can provide them with basic survival guarantees, at least let them have no worries about food and clothing, and their lives can be easier, which is also the biggest help I can provide, you have to know, I am a businessman, I can do charity, but I can't be a bad person." Li Mu was right, and Li Mu didn't finish speaking, Li Mu had a better plan, didn't Benjamin come with Li Mu, this matter is a good thing for fame and fortune, and it can't be cheapened by others.