Grassy slope path.

Anne immediately asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

Mary also stopped, she didn't hear the conversation between Rosen and Anne, but the other's unusual behavior made her a little nervous, and she looked at Rosen with one of her eyes with a very uneasy expression.

Rosen groaned, a little unsure of what to say about the problem he had discovered. Because in order to explain the problem, it is necessary to explain the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, which involves hundreds of years of medical history, and cannot be explained in a few words.

The irrationality he found was that from the performance of the previous three years, Mary's disease was not very contagious, as long as she did not usually contact her, it would not lead to infection, which showed that the main way of transmission of Mary's disease should be through close contact with bodily fluids, but in the past year and a half, the disease has broken out inexplicably, and it broke out when Mary's family has never been in contact with people in the village.

This is inconsistent with the facts of previous observations.

Rosen thought about it and felt that there could only be two plausible explanations, either that Mary was lying, or that someone was deliberately spreading the disease.

What is the reason, the lack of information, Rosen can't tell.

After thinking about it, he could only say to Annie: "It's not a big problem, it's just that I suddenly thought of the problem of alchemy, and I was a little distracted." ”

After saying that, he looked at Mary again and continued to ask, "Mary, do you know the name of that magician?" ”

The interval between the outbreak of the disease and the appearance of the magician was not a short time, but Lawson still felt that it was a bit too coincidental.

If something is abnormal, it is a demon, and there is probably something wrong with this magician.

"He said his name was Dias, and the village elders called him Lord Romley, and I heard that he had studied magic at a very, very famous academy in the north, as if it were called Ni...... What what academy"

Anne interjected, "You mean the Wisdom Capital of Nilogaard?" ”

Mary said excitedly: "Ah, yes, yes, it's Nilogaard Academy!" ”

Rosen nodded: "Dias of Nilogaard Academy. Romley, I remember. ”

He hadn't heard the name in the game, but judging from the information provided by Sister Mary, this guy should have rushed over to study this impess disease.

As for more speculation, Rosen doesn't make many assumptions because of the lack of evidence.

Mary was right, as the three of them climbed the grassy slope, and there was a large and gentle slope in front of them, with more than 20 simple wooden houses built on both sides of the mountain stream, surrounded by a fence, and then a large terraced field.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon, and most of the men were busy in the fields, and some of the women were spinning in front of their homes, some were taking care of their children, and some were washing their clothes by the mountain stream that flowed through the village.

But this peace was soon shattered by Mary.

When Mary appeared near the village, the village immediately rang with the bell of 'Dang Dang', and when the busy men and women turned their heads to see Mary, they immediately put down their work and hurried back to the village. Soon after, five men came out of the village, covered in thick linen cloth and wrapped around their heads, revealing only a pair of eyes.

The five men, all with wooden spears in their hands, ran about 20 meters away and stopped.

They all raised their wooden guns, their crude iron tips pointed at Mary, and one of them stepped forward and cried out in an old voice, "Mary, why are you coming back?" Didn't you say yes? You'll never come back after you get rid of the robbers, and we'll take care of Alice for you! ”

Mary fell to her knees with a puff and pleaded, "Elder, I would not have returned, but I ran into them. This lord said that he was an alchemist, and that he would find a way to cure us. So...... So ......"

The old man who was called an elder immediately turned his head to look at Rosen, and after taking a closer look, he shook his head: "He is too young, so young, he can't be an alchemist, at most he is an alchemy apprentice." This plague is beyond even Lord Romley, what can he do as an apprentice?! ”

Anne couldn't listen to it, and took a step forward and said, "Elder, I am a stalker, and I came here a year ago. We've met, you still know me? ”

The elder looked at Anne carefully and nodded, "Well, I remember your eyes!" ”

Anne was poked in the sore spot in her heart, her face was gloomy, she stepped aside, pointed at Rosen and said: "I can testify that he is indeed an alchemist, although he is not a master, but he is also said to be knowledgeable, and he will definitely be able to help." ”

'Huh~' The elder sneered: "Little girl, don't try to lie to me, I also saw some of the world when I was young, and I also went to Berkeley, the city of freedom. There, an alchemist of this age was just getting qualified to enter the academy. You are now talking nonsense to say that he is very knowledgeable! Lads, let's get this bunch of crooks out! ”

After speaking, the five people raised their spears, pointed the tip of the spear at Lawson and the others, their feet paused one after another, and their throats let out a low roar of 'woo woo'.

"Stupid people!" Anne subconsciously grasped the hilt of the broken sword.

When the elder saw it, he immediately shouted, "Do you still dare to do anything to us, monster?!" ”

Anne hated people calling her a monster the most, and when she heard this, her face immediately became very cold: "Old man, it won't do you much good to be open-mouthed!" ”

The force of the mutant stalkers is quite intimidating, and as soon as Anne said this, the five farmers in the village were immediately frightened and retreated. The elder shouted inwardly, "What, am I still wrong? Do you really dare to do anything to an unarmed ordinary person?! Aren't you a stalker, but a butcher? ”

'Qiang~'

Anne pulled out the half-truncated sword: "Naturally, I will not kill you, but I will teach you a profound lesson!" ”

"Dangchang~"

The elder threw the wooden spear in his hand on the ground, and the other four peasants also threw the wooden spear when they saw it.

Then, the elder took a step forward, ripped off the clothes on his chest, revealing his lean chest full of ribs, and yelled at Anne, "Come on! Here you go! Mary just can't enter the village anyway, unless you kill all of us!" ”

"This ......" Anne suddenly felt that it was difficult to ride a tiger.

She was just talking just now, hoping to force the elder to submit through threats, but she didn't expect this Caopo Village elder to be hard, and this time, she suddenly had no tricks.

Rosen watched from the side, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, the so-called gentleman can be bullied, the elder of Caopo Village is a piece of hob meat, and he has also seen some of the world, in terms of playing kung fu, Annie's new tender will naturally not be his opponent.

Seeing that it couldn't go on like this, Rosen had to speak, and he saluted first: "Elder, my name is Rosen, and I am indeed an alchemist. Since you don't believe in my abilities, I won't force it. However, I admired Lord Romley's reputation and wanted to visit him in person, and for the sake of safety, Mary would not enter the village, I did not know ......."

"No way!" The Elder brutally interrupted Rosen.

"Why?" Rosen asked.

"Because Lord Romley has gone out to collect medicine, it will take at least a week to come back. He said that no one was allowed to come near his house while he was away. ”

After the elder said this, his eyes turned around Anne and Mary again: "Young man, I don't think you are a bad person, so I kindly advise you, stay away from Mary, and stay away from this monster hunter beside you, they are all ominous people who will bring you bad luck!" ”

Anne was very annoyed when she heard this, and she took a step forward: "Old man, you have too many mouths, I must teach you a lesson today!" ”

The elder was not afraid at all, but took a step forward: "Come, come and teach me a lesson, it is better to kill me, and then eat my flesh and drink my blood, so that people can see your monster nature!" ”

"You...... You bastard! Anne's pretty face turned pale.

Rosen reached out and patted Anne on the shoulder, turned to look at the elder, and his face was cold: "Since Lord Romley is not here, we can not enter the village, but I hope you can hand over Sister Mary's daughter to me for treatment." If you still don't want to, then don't blame us for being rude. ”

As he spoke, Lawson raised his hand and unleashed the power of alchemy to push the air in his hand. After an instant, a circle of high-speed rotating air appeared in his hand, and although there was no vision visible to the naked eye, the whistling wind was enough to deter ordinary people.

The elder and the four strong men in the village took a step back in unison, their eyes showing a deep sense of fear.

This time, the elder couldn't hold back either. He dared to squeeze Anne, firstly because of his understanding of mutant stalkers, and secondly, because he had seen Anne before, probably knew Anne's character, and knew that she would not do anything to ordinary people, but he didn't know anything about Lawson, and now that the other party showed a magical power that he couldn't understand, his courage was instantly exhausted.

Licking his lips, the elder beckoned to a farmer beside him: "You go, take little Alice to him." ”

"It's so good~Okay~"

The farmer turned and ran towards a large simple hut on the west side of the village, and after about ten minutes he trotted back from the hut with a small child in his arms.

When he got closer, Rosen saw that he was holding a little girl covered in abscesses, about seven or eight years old, her symptoms looked quite serious, but much better than Mary's, the flesh was not rotten, the bones were not deformed, and there was not much tissue fluid coming out of the wounds on her body. On her body, there are many red spots that have not festered, one by one, just like bright red bayberry.

Seeing these red dots, Rosen's heart moved, and he felt very familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he remembered: 'How can this symptom be so similar to syphilis on earth?' ’

The earth network is really developed, and Rosen, a networm, has been tested by the torrent of information, and has seen all kinds of messy pictures, and occasionally sees someone using pictures of syphilis patients to scare people, and he has also checked some relevant information afterwards, so he has some impressions of this disease.

He only remembered that Anne had already cried out, "Ahhhh ”

"Rosacea?" Rosen looked at Anne.

Anne nodded: "In Berkeley, the city of freedom, there are many idle and idle merry people who have nothing to do have this disease, and after getting the disease, they are covered with red spots, and they look exactly like little Alice. ”

"Merry?"

"It's those guys who love to find prostitutes, there are nobles and rich merchants, and they are not good things anyway!" Anne looked disgusted.

Rosen's mind became more and more clear: 'So it seems that this disease is almost exactly the same as syphilis, by the way, what is the cause of syphilis...... It's like it's called Spirochete pallor, and what I saw in Mary looked like a spiral. In this way, the strange disease in Caopo Village is syphilis nine times out of ten. ’

Syphilis is not easy to mess with, before the discovery of penicillin, it was basically equivalent to a terminal illness, and its status was the same as AIDS. I don't know how many people have died because of it, whether it is a celebrity gentleman or a pariah beggar, as long as they are recruited, they can only wait for death.

For example, Beethoven, the piano saint, is likely to be a patient with congenital syphilis, and the deafness symptoms that he began to appear at the age of 27 are also very consistent with the characteristics of congenital syphilis.

However, if the disease was really syphilis, then he could get rid of it by extracting penicillin.

Thinking so, Rosen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

On the other side, little Alice was in poor spirits, but she was still conscious, and after seeing Mary, she whispered: "Mom, I have a pain in my body~"

One sentence made Mary collapse, she wanted to hug her daughter to comfort, but she was afraid that the pus on her body would aggravate her daughter's condition, she wanted to hug but didn't dare to hug, seeing her daughter go into a desperate situation, but she couldn't do anything, this torment made her cry again.

"My daughter~Alice~My baby, it's all my mother who hurt you~ Woo woo, it's all my mother who hurt you~Woo woo~"

The elders and the village farmers also seemed to be full of desolation, and they sighed in unison.

The elder spoke, "Mary, do you really want this lad to take Alice?" You see, Master Romley is a famous magician, and he must have thought of a cure for Alice. ”

Mary turned to look at Rosen, who nodded to her.

I don't know what Mary thinks in her heart, she actually nodded and agreed: "I believe him." ”

"That's up to you."

Lawson walked over to the farmer, and under the incredible gaze of the other man, he took the abscess-covered Alice directly from his hand.

"Let's go."

Since the other party insisted on not letting them enter the village, it was not a matter of forcibly breaking in, so they could only leave first.

Before leaving, Rosen suddenly pointed to a spacious and tall wooden house halfway up the mountain and asked, "Elder, that should be Lord Romley's residence, right?" ”

The elder did not doubt him, and nodded: "Yes, Lord Romley has been coming to our village for almost a year, and in order to cure our illness, he has worked day and night without resting for a moment. Hey~ It's a pity that this disease ..... It was the punishment of the gods for our Caopo Village, it was really difficult to cure! ”

"Oh~ I see, thank you."

After saying that, Rosen hugged little Alice and walked back along the way he came.

Anne walked a few steps quickly to follow, glanced at Alice, hesitated, gritted her teeth, and still spoke: "Lawson, let me hug it?" ”

Rosen shook his head, "I'll do it anyway, little Alice is very light." Besides, the disease is not contagious, so it is safer for me to hold it. ”

This little girl is really light, think about it and understand, she was born sick, from snacks and clothing, finally lived to be 5 years old, weighed less than 15 pounds, and held it in her arms as if she was hugging a ball of air.

The three of them walked back along the road they came from, and behind them, the elder of Caopo Village waited for them to walk down the grassy slope, and then whispered to the young man beside him, "You go, tell Lord Romley about what happened here." ”

"Yes, Elder."