In fact, Risa Dilan not only does not get lost, but even his horse does not get lost......

What kind of people really raise what kind of horses.

The Pinodor horse took Anson back to Brethon a few hours later, where Anson met the lord again.

However, Anson was also dumbfounded when he saw the corpses in the temple, because there was not a single corpse in the temple just a day ago.

A day earlier, Anson had come to Breitbon for a trip.

He had come here because the people of the city of Knowledgeable had told him that there had been a snake worship den in Breitbon a year ago.

Since the Red Death was spread by the Snake Worshippers, Anson naturally wanted to visit the Snake Worshippers' lair, and perhaps find clues to cure the Red Death.

After all, things like snake heart stones were also first discovered from the snake worship cult, and many things that seem to be more evil are criminal tools in the hands of malicious people, and in the hands of doctors, they may be able to cure diseases and save people.

Moreover, Anson has always believed that the people of the Serpent Cult may indeed be using the Red Death to select warriors, but they must also have a way to suppress the Red Death.

Of course, Anson also knew that he was not good enough to go out alone. It's just that Leon's troops are temporarily not in Bozhi City, and before becoming a true Radiant Cross Knight, Anson is not willing to instruct the epidemic exorcists to do things, so he recruited some people on the spot in Bozhi City.

Anyway, it was just to go to nearby Bretbon to check the former territory of the Snake Worship Sect and look for clues, and it was not for the sake of fighting, and there was really no need to take away the already understaffed plague repellents.

Julia, who was looking for a job at the time, became a temporary employee of Anson, who had been locked up for months after the siege of the rebels, desperate to find a job to eat.

Coupled with the fact that Anson recruits people without identity verification, Julia, a wanted criminal who is hiding and hiding, only dares to find this kind of work......

Anson was lucky enough to meet a serpent priest as soon as he arrived in Breitbon - Anson wasn't sure if the priest was a serpent or not, because the priest was a male, just wearing a green hooded cloak and a mask on his face.

The mask on his face did indeed resemble a snake cult - it looked like a winged serpent, roughly the same as the Az Dahaka depicted in the seminary.

The priest was opening a sealed temple and bringing out of the temple an unconscious patient who appeared to be visibly infected with the Red Death.

The patient's appearance was quite terrifying, his whole body was soaked in blood, he looked like he was in the advanced stage of the Red Death, and he even had snakeskin-like scales on his face.

In this case, everyone was afraid of contracting the Red Death, and as a result, most of the guards that Anson had temporarily recruited ran away, except for Julia.

In fact, Julia didn't run away only because she had an unusual hatred for the Serpent Cult - she planned to kill the Serpent Worshipper.

The priest wasn't very skilled, but Julia wasn't much better on her own......

During the fight, Julia was stained with the blood of the unconscious patient, but after a long time, she could not kill the priest.

Anson found that Julia wiped the blood off her body and face, but there was nothing unusual on her face.

A normal person will develop erythema on their skin within a minute or two after being contaminated with the pus and blood of a red dead patient, but Julia is obviously just a normal human being, but nothing happens - which means that the blood on that patient is not contagious!

A patient who appeared to be clearly in the late stages of the Red Death, covered in pus and blood, but was not contagious...... And the priest had just touched the sick man directly.

For a doctor like Anson, finding a way to stop the spread of the Red Death is more important than anything else, and even if you can't save it, if you can find a way to keep it from being contagious, it's like finding the best cure.

So he took advantage of the priest's entanglement with Julia, and sneaked towards the patient.

The serpent priest seemed anxious when he saw Anson running towards the patient, and then the priest summoned a devoured man covered in snake skin, presumably preparing to kill Anson and then run away with the patient.

But at this time, Anson rushed forward like the most valiant knight, and the doctor, who had no combat power, actually kicked the priest with one kick, and also overturned the devoured man who was not walking steadily, and then dragged the patient with Julia to the lake.

The doctor's luck was indeed good, and he found a small boat in the small dock behind the temple—it was clear that this was the priest's boat.

I don't know why Anson had such a strong explosive power at that time, probably people's faith is indeed the most powerful weapon.

The people were robbed, even the boats, and the priest was probably enraged, and he blew a strange flute.

Anson and Julia then saw a large crowd of devoured people coming from all sides, so they quickly rowed their boats out of the lake.

It's just that, in a panic, they got the wrong direction.

"So...... This is probably Antonius, who was supposed to lie in the temple? …… It seems that the body in the temple was resealed by the priest...... It was strange why the priest had to do such things in this temple. ”

Leon was keenly aware of the anomaly - if this was a ritual, couldn't it be done elsewhere?

What exactly is this ritual for?

"My lord, I remember that the mysterious man said that these are nine hundred and ninety-nine corpses and one Chosen Warrior...... Evil rituals of this magnitude should be rare, and Miss Luciana, the daughter of Governor Justes, probably knew of it—Miss Luciana is said to have read all the books she could find in the entire city of Knowledge. ”

It was Sigismund who spoke, and it seems that he had heard rumors about Luciana during the time Bacchus was engaged in the gladiator uprising, but apparently he still did not know that Alina was Luciana.

"The question is...... Luciana is no longer in Erudida, her current name is Alina, and she is now in Dilin Harbor with Justens...... Why don't you go with Klose and bring Alina back? By the way, Klose, dispose of the ironclad ship you left in the Imperial Harbor, and you can go to the Imperial Harbor and rent a dock in the name of the Silver Hand. ”

Leon really intends to find out the meaning of this ritual, which may be able to find the truth about the Red Death.

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Anson was treating a patient on the spot in the village of Breitbun.

This patient must indeed be Antonius, who looks a little similar to Governor Kairos anyway.

He wasn't dead, he wasn't devoured or anything like that—he still breathed and his heart was beating, just very faint.

But think about what happened to him...... Being able to be tossed and not dead yet, it's already a very hard fate.

"Anson, are you sure his Red Death is really not contagious?"

Since the Noldor elves and female soldiers were sent out to search for Anson, and they haven't come back yet, at the moment, Leon is surrounded by either rude gladiators or Mengmen who know nothing about medical and health knowledge, and the only person who can be Anson's assistant is actually Leon himself......

Although the lord never thought that he would one day work part-time as a nurse, he was willing to bend over and do some hard work in order to find a way to control the Red Death.

Perhaps, this is the reason why a kind-hearted person like Anson has always been dead to the ruthless lord.

"I'm sure, sir, or I'd be sick by now. He should have been anesthetized by the Serpentine by now, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to wake him up, he is too weak...... I can confirm that he was poisoned at the same time as he contracted the Red Death, and that poison may have been able to inhibit the spread of the Red Death...... It can even suppress the Red Death and prevent its body from festering. I don't know exactly what this poison is, but now that I know why, I can always try it......"

Anson has never rested, but now he is still in good spirits, constantly circling around the patient, using various medical tools to extract the blood and broken skin fragments from the patient's body, and refuses to stop for a moment.

"This place is not suitable for research, maybe we should take him to Erudite City or Karen Deer Castle......"

Li Ang said with some hesitation, but he felt that this patient probably couldn't stand the toss, and maybe he would die at any time.

"Then he will most likely die on the road...... My lord, we have to keep him alive before we find any poison in him......"

Anson raised his eyes and shook his head solemnly.

"Well, you're a doctor, you have the final say...... However, if he never wakes up, you can't be sure what kind of poison he has been poisoned, right? We're going to have to find a way to get him hydrated and wake him up...... Otherwise, I don't think he'll ever wake up again. ”

Leon took out a long hollow needle from Anson's medicine box, looked at it carefully, and then began to clean it.

This is supposed to be a long, hollow needle used to equalize chest pressure, two millimeters thick but a foot and a half long – a common condition after severe traumatic injuries to the chest and abdomen, which should be used to relieve pressure on the chest cavity when necessary.

This kind of hollow silver needle is very valuable, and only a doctor with a relatively high level like Anson has this kind of equipment.

Anson maintained the instruments well, and in this day and age he was one of the most hygienic people, and the needles were kept clean.

"Your Excellency...... You're right...... But if you want to give him water, you should intubate a gastric tube, which is a needle for the treatment of pneumothorax......"

Anson looked up and agreed with Leon's decision, he also felt that it was really necessary to let the patient rehydrate, and if he could wake the person up, at least he could judge the poison composition by asking for a doctor.

"No, I think I should try this...... The way he is now, watering may not be of much use. ”

Leon pulled out two round ...... from his saddle bag Fruit.

It was coconut, the most reassuring fruit of this era, and there was no one.

Much of the southern part of the Bacchus Empire was a low-altitude hot and humid region, with plenty of sunshine and coconut trees growing everywhere, and Leon's troops had previously obtained many of them in the village of Fidnne.

Any army will pay attention to obtaining reliable food and water along the way, and as the supreme leader of the army, it is only natural that someone will prepare this most reliable backup material for the lord.

"He had been bled before, and he had not been hydrated, so he had to be given an infusion...... It is to channel coconut water into his blood. ”

Leon gestured twice with the needle, and then began to burn the long hollow needle over the fire repeatedly.

"You mean to pour coconut water into his veins?"

Anson looked at Leon's movements hesitantly: "Can fruit also replenish blood?" ”

"Of course, other fruits can't, but coconuts can...... Of course, it can only be an emergency, and coconut is not plasma after all. ”

Leon said with certainty.

Although Anson's medical skills are already quite clever in the Pande Continent, he can understand that weak people need to replenish nutrients quickly, and he can also understand that it is indeed the fastest way to directly enter the blood vessels, but he obviously can't understand that something like coconut water can be infused into the blood vessels.

However, fresh coconut water, which has not been opened, can indeed be used as a substitute for sterile plasma and glucose solutions in an emergency.

Since there was no reliable catheter, Leon directly used the long needle to complete the connection between the coconut and the patient - his hand was still steady, and it only took three punctures to penetrate the vein in the crook of the patient's arm, and then asked Anson to take a net bag and hang the patient's arm and coconut above his head.

Anson didn't understand much, but he knew that the lord wouldn't mess around at such a time.

Just like when he treated Eric, Eric was out of breath, but the lord said not to give up, and the person was really saved.

Of course, this time is not the same as saving Eric in the first place.

This time, neither Leon nor Anson had the luxury of recovering Antonius completely, they just needed to keep Antonius awake for a while.

"What do you think, sir...... Can people transfuse blood to each other like this? My teacher had tried to transfuse the blood of another death row prisoner on a wounded person who had lost too much blood, but the wounded person eventually died......"

Anson said, looking at the coconut.

"Of course, blood transfusions can be given to people, but everyone's blood is different, and if you don't have the right blood, you will die if you don't have the same amount of poison, and we can't tell the type of blood at the moment...... If they are siblings of the same mother, they should be able to transfuse blood from each other. ”

Leon popularized Anson's common sense that could not be discovered in this era without microscopes.

"Blood transfusion...... Red Death...... Entering unmatched blood is equivalent to entering poison...... My lord, do you think that Noldor's blood is poisonous to humans? That's right...... I remember you said before that King Ulrik once tried to find the blood of the noble maiden of the Noldor? ”

Anson muttered to himself for a while, and then suddenly brought up the incident of half a year ago.

Leon froze for a moment.

"That's right...... Noldor Elves do not suffer from the Red Death...... He wants to find the Noldor noble girl, presumably for stronger magic? A noble girl like Wendy has purple eyes, which obviously means magic...... And Risa Dilan also said that magic may be life force......"

Anson looked at Leon, and the more he spoke, the smoother he became: "My lord, do you think the king is trying to transfuse the blood of the Noldor girl into his own body?" Madness in their families...... Is it really madness? ”

Anson...... You're a genius. ”

Leon's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Antonius, who was still unconscious: "Maybe...... Didn't he have poison on him...... Instead, it was infused with the blood of the elves. ”