(47) Withered Bologna

In fact, three days before she fell ill, this strange contagion had already begun to spread quietly in the port and trade areas, and the initial symptoms of this illness were only weakness, and only a small number of patients would enter the second stage of the symptoms like Ye Jianxue - the body began to weaken rapidly, for unknown reasons, and the second stage patients would fall into a coma.

By the time the Bologna Doctors' Association urgently asked Dior for help, there were more than 4,500 patients with similar symptoms in Bologna, and more than 200 patients had entered a coma, and the situation was already serious and uncontrollable.

The doctors of Bologna and the priests of the monastery studied the medical records together and came to the same conclusion as Dong Dong, that this disease, whose initial symptoms were very difficult to diagnose and whose subsequent threats were unknown, was not an ordinary infectious disease, but a new plague.

At first, Dio took the reminder as a joke, that the health system and hygiene of Bologna had almost transcended the shackles of the times, and that he had learned from his British father that the city's management and planning methods were enough to nip most of the most harmful infectious diseases in the bud, and that his father-in-law called this system 'universal health care', and that people living in Bologna always proudly proclaimed 'we have health insurance' when they boasted about their homeland to outsiders! You don't! Our benefits are better than yours! ’

Now, however, Dio had to face the harsh reality that his vaunted Bologna medical system had failed to stop this strange and unknown plague, and that the healers of his two factions had not even come to conclusions in time.

In fact, the young lord did not need to be so presumptuous, the first symptoms of which were simply drowsy and weak could be caught in less than a week of spreading, which in itself showed how well the Bologna medical system had a good grasp of the health of the inhabitants, and under normal circumstances, who would have noticed such a large-scale drowsiness and fatigue?

Faced with this dire situation, Dio immediately set about setting up a quarantine area and sending the sick inside, and at the same time he began to organize doctors and priests to study how to cure this strange plague.

The plague seemed to have some kind of will, and when it found out that its whereabouts had been discovered by the doctors, and the humans were still actively developing countermeasures, it immediately tore off its harmless mask, and all the infected people immediately began to deteriorate, they began to have headaches, tinnitus, auditory hallucinations, difficulty breathing, severe and even coughing up blood, and the number of patients suddenly doubled.

When a tenth of the population became infected, the bustling city of Bologna came to a halt, and some people began to flee the plague-ridden city in a panic, but many more chose to stay because of their trust in the Hearn family.

"It can be said! How could it be like this? How the hell did this damn plague come about? ”

Dio walked around angrily, he was an out-and-out layman on how to fight this natural disaster, and the only thing he could do was to manage it.

He does have a doctor with a systematic review, but this doctor is too young to be at ease.

As a lord, he could only watch his people go into a state of panic, and he could do nothing.

"However, the only thing to be thankful for is that Dong Dong left a prescription for prevention before entering the quarantine area, and now it seems that this prescription is still effective."

By the window where Dio came, he could clearly see the walls of the quarantine area, and his face was even more worried.

"This damn girl! entered the quarantine area quietly, didn't she know that she couldn't get out if she went in? ”

There is no room for personal feelings in controlling the epidemic, although he and Ice Hunt have an agreement to protect Dong Dong, but this is not a reason to let Dong Dong enter and leave the quarantine area at will, although the prescription she left behind inhibits the spread of the plague, but she herself may also become a source of infection, everyone who enters the quarantine area is a noble person, these people include doctors, missionaries, soldiers and some ordinary people whose family members are sick, once this kind of place is entered, it is absolutely impossible to be released before the plague is eliminated.

"Fortunately, the materials used in the preventive medicine left by Dongdong are very cheap, and the main ingredients are woad root and vinegar ......, which are easy to buy."

On the sixth day after Dio established the quarantine zone, the first death of the plague appeared, he was an officer in charge of guarding the grain depot, and his martial arts were among the best in the garrison of Bologna, but such a strong warrior was tossed by the plague for a few days like a skeleton, and according to the doctor in charge of treatment, he seemed to "wither" in the last few days.

After exchanging information between the doctors inside and outside the quarantine area through the walls, they soon discovered a strange situation, the plague seemed to be actively 'protecting' the soldiers and samurai who were physically better than ordinary people, and the most severe patients were often the previous masters.

It's just that this discovery seems to be a step too late, and the two hundred soldiers who entered the quarantine area to maintain order have already fallen ill, and the two non-commissioned officers who led the team have even begun to fall into a coma.

With all that can be done pretty much done, it's a race against time and life to see whether the inhabitants of Bologna will collapse first under the plague or the doctors will find a cure and eradicate the plague first.

Dongdong is estimated to be too weak, so although she was one of the first to enter the quarantine area, and she was in contact with the sick every day, she still did not contract this strange disease, blight.

The situation in the quarantine area is very bad, because the soldiers who maintain order have fallen ill, the less ill people have begun to be a little emotionally unstable, there has been a gradual competition for supplies in the quarantine area, and there are some regretful people who wander around the wall every day, these walls are wooden walls in functional buildings, and the defense is very limited, but fortunately they are still sane.

However, there is one group of people that the temporary residents of the quarantine area do not want to offend, and that is the doctors and priests who enter the quarantine area, and these are the key personnel who decide whether or not the plague can be cured......

But the healers themselves know very well that if they are unable to cure the plague in time and the death toll skyrockets, the infected who are forced to collapse by death will treat them as the first type of vent.

Doctors are trembling, patients are restless, people who are still healthy are worried about their daily lives, and all kinds of emotions that make Dong Dong feel uncomfortable envelop the quarantine area.

Dongdong didn't know how to deal with this plague, and the knowledge inherited from Kikyo didn't have a way to deal with this disease, and Dongdong's ability to leave a preventive medicine was already her super long play.

Although the inherited knowledge and skills are perfect, they also have their flaws...... This flaw is Dong Dong himself.

The lack of a large number of instinctive reactions leads to Dongdong's inability to make correct judgments about himself, for example, Dongdong does not know how to bandage himself after being injured, and even rarely remembers to save himself, but his ability to perceive the emotions of others can make Dongdong bandage and rescue others well.

Therefore, when an unfamiliar disease appears, Dongdong can't grasp it with his own feelings, and most of the symptoms of human illness are reactions under self-protection, and Dongdong lacks this kind of self-protection.

The little guy really wants to change the atmosphere of the quarantine area, but she doesn't know what to do, she tries hard to laugh every day,

They tried hard to keep their enthusiasm alive, but the patients were indifferent to the little girl's vitality.

In the face of despair, both expressions and actions can have a very limited effect, and the physical action method that Uncle Makarov once taught Dongdong seems to have lost its effect.

Faced with an atmosphere that was still dull and even becoming more and more dangerous, Dongdong's heart began to be at a loss.

'I'...... What should I do? ’