Now, several people have a relationship with the Ivy Tavern that is not only a customer but also a shopkeeper. They also finally learn the name of the proprietress is Emma Paul, and her father is called Anderson Paul. Interestingly, if Cheese remembers correctly, the lumberjack he met in the afternoon was also named Paul. In terms of appearance, especially hair color, the father and daughter are not similar to Bunyan, and they should not be closely related to each other, so the surname Paul is likely to be one of the more common surnames in the town of Fat. This is not surprising, since the people in the more isolated villages are more or less related to each other.

The proprietress should have called her Emma, the woman had completely lost the calmness she had when she first met them. People always assume a lot of things, they always think they understand the world, and the most frightening thing is that they often don't have such a realization. Emma never thought that lethargy would be fatal, and she was full of the thought that her father was just discouraged by the discouragement of business for several days, so he didn't want to get out of bed. Just like most people in this town, they are just because life is in a doldrum, and as soon as the logging season begins, everything will be as good as ever.

"Later, you should go and check Mr. Anderson's body first. After the meal, Cheese wiped his hands with a handkerchief and said to Kenqi, "As you said, I have very limited knowledge of the disease when I can no longer dissect the patient. But the medical technology you have mastered doesn't seem to be like this, try your method first, and then replace me if it doesn't work. ”

There are two considerations for the sword seeker to check the body first. First, Cheese's medical knowledge was indeed based on case and anatomical experience, as he said, and his usefulness in the face of the first illness was limited, and second, and more importantly, the mage wanted to know how far Kenqi's understanding of the human body had come, and the fire of knowledge in his heart had been ignited.

Of course, Emma didn't know this, although in terms of dress, cheese was more like a doctor in people's impressions, but at this point, she didn't care much, and when she heard that several people were willing to help, she immediately opened the door of the lounge. The small room was quickly filled with several people, and in order not to get in the way, Emma and Atta had to stand outside the door and watch Cheese and Kenqi inspect Anderson's body. Not only the cheese, but also the two ladies and even the well-informed cat goblin were confused by the sword seeker's inspection methods. They've never seen a body check, just a few fingers pinching the wrist.

"In my hometown, people think that the human body is the same, and the qi we breathe drives the operation of the whole body and drives the circulation of blood. Therefore, we believe that we only need to understand qi and blood to find out the physical condition of people to a certain extent. Along the way, I have known that this is not the only way to understand the human body, and it may not be the most brilliant and direct. But it has an irreplaceable side. As if sensing the doubts of several people, Jian Qi took the initiative to explain his behavior. After he let go of the subject's wrist, he rubbed several special parts of the subject's body, as if to confirm something.

"What happened to my father? do you know how he came to be like this?" asked Emma, a little anxious. Kenqi withdrew his hands, reset the patient, and looked at the other person.

"I can know one or two of the physical symptoms, the blood and qi are decaying, the heart pulse is sluggish, and the rest are all manifestations of the loss of essence and qi. The problem is, I don't know what causes these. He looked like he was being drained of some of his blood every day, weakening faster than his body could recover on its own. The circulation in his body is broken, which can lead to various problems. ”

"Can you stabilize him?" asked Cheese, he could tell the confusion about the illness from Kenqi's words, but there was no weakness in the confusion, what could he do.

"Herbs, diet, by adjusting these can prevent the decay of the blood qi from immediately harming the internal organs. It's just that at this rate, the help of external drugs will not last long, and the cause must be found. My initial suspicion is that there's something in this room or this house, I don't know what you call it, vampire? Of course, it may also be an internal cause, but I have just checked the parts where the parasite may proliferate, and there is no clear protrusion, so it stands to reason that after eating so much, those flesh and blood thieves should have been so many as to put people's stomachs up. ”

"There are no vampires or other blood-sucking creatures here, and if there were, our dear Atta would have seen the marks with those eyes of hers. You're right, this man doesn't have parasites in his stomach. But he was parasitized by something, no, I doubt it could be called parasitism. Cheese stood up and walked over to Anderson's head, and as he spoke, a blue haze emanated from the mage's eyes, the glow of magic that made him look less human. Emma almost shoved her palm into her mouth to keep from screaming, and Kenqi, although he looked calm, hid his hand behind his back.

Unoblivious to the two's reactions, Cheese bent his knee and gently pulled a handful of hair from under the patient. Both men and women in the town have long hair, and the older they get, the longer their hair will be. Especially a tavern owner like Anderson, who doesn't need to go into the mountains to cut wood, his hair has gone up to his waist and up to his hips, "Here's the problem. ”

The mage gently held the end of his hair, and with his other hand untied the breath of dawn from his waist and lit the lantern. A soft glow illuminates the room and illuminates something that is not normally seen. That's some, hair. Something like that, to be exact, stretched out from the ends of Anderson's hair, like an invisible extension, which showed a pale blue color in the light, scattered on the bed, on the floor, on the table, and elsewhere in the room, and eventually down the door to the wider space. Atta and Emma, who were standing at the doorway, immediately avoided the hairs, but found that there was no trace of them outside the room where the lights did not illuminate them. They are invisible, and they do not seem to be touchable, at least not directly with the flesh. Regular pale red dots of light poured from the ends of the solid hair into the pale blue hair, like the smart spots of color displayed by an octopus to intimidate its enemies.

"Those red things are your father's life force, qi and blood, things like that. This is the nature of the parasite vampire, and these invisible strands of hair are stealing his life. Probably the lives of everyone in this town, to be precise. ”