Chapter 248 Blood and Poison
In fact, not only will Lisa Dilan not get lost, but even his horse will not get lost...
It is true that what kind of person you are, what kind of horse you raise.
The Pinaudhorse took Anson back to Bretwen a few hours later, where Anson met the lord again.
However, Anson was also stunned when he saw the corpse in the temple, because there was no corpse in the temple just a day ago.
Anson had come to Breitwyn a day before.
He came here because the people of Boshi City told him that there was a nest of snake worshipers in Bretwin a year ago.
Since the Red Death was spread by the Snake Cult, Anson naturally wanted to go to the Snake Cult's lair to see if he could find clues to cure the Red Death.
After all, things like the Snake Heart Stone were first discovered from the Snake Cult. Many things that look evil can be criminal tools in the hands of people with malicious intentions, but in the hands of doctors they may be able to cure diseases and save lives.
Moreover, Anson has always believed that the Snake Cult may indeed be using the Red Death to select warriors, but they must also have methods to suppress the Red Death.
Of course, Anson knew that he was not good at fighting and was not suitable to go out alone. However, Leon's troops were not in Boshi City for the time being, and before becoming a true Glorious Cross Knight, Anson was unwilling to order the plague expellers to do things, so he recruited some people in Boshi City.
Anyway, they were just going to nearby Bretwen to check out the former territory of the Snake Cult and look for clues, not for fighting. There was really no need to take away the already understaffed plague-repellents.
Julia, who was looking for a job at the time, became Anson's temporary employee. Before that, the city of Boshi was besieged by the rebels and she was trapped in the city for several months. She was eager to find a job to make a living.
In addition, Anson did not check the identity of the people he hired, so Julia, a wanted criminal who was hiding, only dared to look for this kind of job...
Anson was lucky. As soon as he arrived in Bretwin, he met a priest of the Snake Cult. In fact, Anson was not sure whether the priest was a Snake Cultist, because the priest was a man, wearing a green hooded cloak and a mask on his face.
The mask on his face did look like something from the Snake Cult - it looked like a winged snake, roughly the same as the image of Aziz Dahaka as depicted in the seminary.
At that time, the priest was opening a sealed temple and brought out an unconscious patient who obviously looked infected with the Red Death.
The patient looked rather horrible. His entire body was soaked in blood and he appeared to be in the advanced stage of the Red Death. There were even snake-like scales on his face.
In this situation, everyone was afraid of being infected with the Red Death, and as a result, most of the guards Anson temporarily recruited ran away, except Julia.
In fact, the reason why Julia did not run away was simply because she had an abnormal hatred for the Snake Cult - she planned to kill the Snake Cult priest.
The priest wasn't very skilled, but Julia's ability to fight alone wasn't much better either...
During the fight, Julia's body was stained with the blood of the unconscious patient, but after struggling for a long time, she was unable to kill the priest.
Anson discovered that Julia wiped off the blood on her body and face, but there was nothing abnormal on her face.
If a normal person comes into contact with the pus and blood of a Red Death patient, red spots will appear on their skin within a minute or two. However, Julia is obviously just a normal human being, but she is fine - this means that the blood of that patient is not contagious!
A patient who obviously looked like he was in the advanced stage of the Red Death, his body covered in pus and blood, but he was not contagious... and the priest had just touched the patient directly.
For a doctor like Anson, finding a way to suppress the spread of the Red Death was more important than anything else. Even if the person could not be cured after being infected, if a way could be found to prevent it from being contagious, it would be equivalent to finding the best medicine.
So he took advantage of the priest struggling with Julia and sneaked towards the patient.
The snake cult priest seemed anxious when he saw Anson running towards the patient. He then summoned a devoured being covered in snake skin, probably intending to kill Anson and run away with the patient.
But at this time, Anson rushed forward like the bravest knight. The doctor, who originally had no fighting ability, kicked the priest to the ground with one kick, and also knocked over the devoured person who was walking unsteadily. Then he and Julia dragged the patient to the lake.
The doctor was indeed lucky, for he found a small boat at the small pier behind the temple - it was obviously the priest's boat.
I don’t know why Anson had such strong explosive power at that time. Perhaps human belief is indeed the most powerful weapon.
The people were robbed, and even the boat was stolen. The priest was probably angry, and he blew a strange flute.
Then Anson and Julia saw a large group of Devoured Beings coming from all directions, so they quickly rowed away across the lake.
However, in their panic, they went in the wrong direction.
"So... this is probably the Antonius who was supposed to be lying in the temple?... It seems that the body in the temple was resealed by the priest... It's really strange, why did the priest have to do these things in this temple?"
Leon keenly noticed the abnormality - if this was a ritual, could it not be performed in other places?
What exactly is this ritual for?
"Sir, I remember that mysterious man said that these were nine hundred and ninety-nine corpses and one chosen warrior... Evil rituals with this number should not be common. Miss Luciana, the daughter of Governor Justus, may know about it. It is said that Miss Luciana has read all the books that can be found in the entire City of Knowledge."
The speaker was Sigismund, and it seemed that he had heard rumors about Luciana during the time when Bacchus was involved in the gladiator uprising, but he obviously still didn't know that Arina was Luciana.
"The problem is... Luciana is not in Boshi City. Her current name is Alina, and she is in Imperial Port with Justus... How about you and Cloze go together to bring Alina back? Cloze, by the way, take care of the ironclad ship you left in Imperial Port. You can go to Imperial Port and rent a dock in the name of the Silver Hand."
Leon really intended to find out the meaning of this ritual, which might help him find the truth about the Red Death.
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Anson was treating patients on the spot in Breitwyn Village at this time.
This patient must be Antonius, since he looks quite similar to Governor .
He was not dead, nor did he become something like a devourer - he was still breathing and his heart was beating, but it was very weak.
But think about what he's been through... He's been alive and well after all this, so he's really lucky.
"Anson, are you sure his Red Death is not contagious?"
Since the Noldor elves and the female soldiers were sent out to search for Anson and have not returned yet, Leon is now surrounded by either rude gladiators or tough men who know nothing about medical knowledge. As a result, the only person who can assist Anson is Leon himself...
Although the lord never thought that he would work part-time as a nurse one day, he was willing to do some hard work in order to find a way to control the Red Death.
Perhaps, this is the reason why a kind-hearted and soft-hearted person like Anson has always been loyal to the cruel and merciless lord.
"I am sure, sir, otherwise I would have been infected by now. He should be anesthetized by the snake heart stone now, but it may be difficult to wake him up, he is too weak... I can confirm that he was poisoned at the same time as he was infected with the Red Death, and this poison may be able to suppress the spread of the Red Death... It can even suppress the Red Death and prevent its body from rotting. I don't know what this poison is now, but now that I know the reason, I can always test it out..."
Anson had never rested, but he still looked full of energy. He kept walking around the patients, using various medical tools to extract blood and broken skin fragments from the patients, refusing to stop for a moment.
"This place is not suitable for research. Perhaps we should take him to Boshi City or Karen Deer Castle..."
Li Ang said this with some hesitation, but he felt that the patient probably couldn't stand it anymore and might die at any time.
"Then he will most likely die on the road... Sir, we have to keep him alive until we find out what poison he was poisoned with..."
Anson raised his eyes and shook his head seriously.
"Okay, you're the doctor, you have the final say... But if he can't be revived, you can't be sure what kind of poison he was poisoned with, right? We have to find a way to get him some water and wake him up... Otherwise, I think he may never 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 should be a long hollow needle used to balance chest pressure. It is two millimeters thick, but one and a half feet long. This is a common situation after severe trauma to the chest and abdomen. When necessary, this hollow needle must be used to relieve chest pressure.
This hollow silver needle is very valuable, and only doctors of higher skill like Anson have this equipment.
Anson maintained the instruments well. In his day, he was one of the most hygienic people and kept the needles very clean.
"Sir... you are right... but if you want to feed him water, you should insert a gastric tube, which is a needle for treating pneumothorax..."
Anson looked up and agreed with Leon's decision. He also felt that the patient really needed to be rehydrated. If the patient could be woken up, at least the composition of the poison could be determined through questioning.
"No, I think we should try this... Pouring water may not be of any use to him in his current state."
Li Ang took out two round...fruits from his saddle bag.
That is coconut, the most reassuring fruit in this era, no doubt about it.
Most of the southern part of the Bacchus Empire is a low-altitude, humid and hot area with plenty of sunshine and coconut trees growing everywhere. Leon's troops had obtained a lot of coconuts in the village of Fidena before.
Any army would pay great attention to obtaining reliable food and water along the way, and as the supreme leader of the troops, naturally someone would prepare the most reliable backup supplies for the lord.
"He had been bled and hadn't been hydrated, so he had to be given an IV... which was coconut water put into his bloodstream."
Li Ang gestured twice with the needle, and then began to repeatedly burn the long hollow needle over the fire.
"You mean to pump coconut water into his veins?"
Anson looked at Li Ang's actions hesitantly: "Can fruit also replenish blood?"
"Of course other fruits won't work, but coconuts can... Of course, it can only be used in an emergency, after all, coconuts are not blood plasma."
Li Ang said with certainty.
Although Anson's medical skills were considered to be among the most advanced in the continent of Pande, he could understand that weak people needed to replenish nutrition quickly, and that getting it directly into the blood vessels was indeed the fastest way, but he obviously could not understand how something like coconut water could be injected into the blood vessels.
But unopened fresh coconut water can indeed be used as a substitute for sterile plasma and glucose solution in emergency situations.
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 relatively stable, and he pierced the vein in the patient's arm after only three attempts. He then asked Anson to take a net bag and hang the patient's arm and the coconut above his head.
Although Anson didn't quite understand, he knew that the lord would not act recklessly at a time like this.
Just like when Eric was being rescued, he was almost dead, but the lord told him not to give up, and he was really saved.
Of course, this time is different from the time when Eric was rescued.
This time, Leon and Anson did not expect to fully restore Antonius's health. They just wanted him to be awake for a while.
"Sir, do you think... can people also donate blood to each other in this way? In the past, my teacher also tried to give a patient who had lost too much blood a transfusion of blood from another death row prisoner, but the patient still died in the end..."
Anson said, looking at the coconut.
"Of course people can donate blood to each other, but everyone's blood is different. Transfusing incompatible blood is like transfusing poison, which can kill people. We currently cannot distinguish blood types... If they are brothers from the same mother, they should be able to donate blood to each other."
Leon taught Anson some common sense that could not be discovered in this age without microscopes.
"Blood transfusion... Red Death... Transfusing incompatible blood is equivalent to transfusing poison... My lord, do you think the blood of the Noldor is poisonous to humans? By the way... I remember you said before that King Ulric once tried to find the blood of a Noldor noble girl?"
Anson muttered to himself for a while, and then suddenly brought up what happened half a year ago.
Li Ang was stunned for a moment.
"That's right... the Noldor elves won't be infected with the Red Death... He wants to find a Noldor noble girl, probably for more magic power? Noldor noble girls like Wendy have purple eyes, which obviously means magic power... and Lisadiran also said that magic power may be life force..."
Anson looked at Leon and spoke more and more smoothly: "My lord, do you think the king wants to transfuse the blood of the Noldor girl into his own body? The madness inherited from their family... is it really madness?"
"Anson...you are a genius."
Li Ang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Antonius who was still unconscious: "Maybe... he was not poisoned... but was injected with the blood of the elves."
