The red moon returns

Chapter 428 Amulet

It can be cured, but not completely.

It is ineffective to take medicine before being infected, but if an infected person takes the medicine, the plague can be cured and he will not become crazy.

However, it is useless for those who have already become infected to take medicine. The mutation in the body is irreversible, and becoming ill means there is no hope of recovery.

"Isn't this just a rabies vaccine? No, the rabies vaccine has a metabolic period of half a year. It's useless to take this medicine in advance."

Although I said this, but when I think about it carefully, it is surprisingly reasonable.

If you drink it you will be cured immediately. That is not medicine, it is magic beans.

Medicines can only heal, they cannot rebuild the body.

Once the body has been mysteriously contaminated and irreversible damage has occurred, it is reasonable that it will be unable to recover.

"Although I don't know what rabies is, nor do I know what the vaccine is, it's true that taking it in advance is useless." Dr. Swain sighed, "If the plague is only transmitted by being caught or bitten, it would be easy to deal with. No matter who bites you, you can just drink a bottle of medicine first. But the key is that there is another way of transmission."

"Yes, grains." Lynch also said with a wry smile, "No one knows whether the grains they eat are problematic. So unless you take a bottle of medicine after every meal, whether you will get sick or not is up to fate. If this continues, there is a risk of an epidemic breaking out at any time."

"Well, but there's no need to be so pessimistic." Doctor Swain was optimistic. "As long as we can destroy Little Jack's body, we can interrupt the spread and make the bite no longer contagious. Then we can burn all the problematic grains, and the city will be safe. The medicine is not effective, but it just can't save more people. This plague can still be controlled."

I am not pessimistic about you here, I am pessimistic about our era in the Fifth Age.

Lynch sighed softly.

Through Dr. Swain's conclusions, he could already anticipate the effects of the drugs developed by Ms. Nightingale.

It makes sense. It can only be said that everyone before, including professionals like Nightingale, was swayed by emotions and held too high expectations. In fact, those real patients who have already fallen ill in the Fifth Epoch are probably no longer able to be saved, just like the situation here.

Moreover, the plague of the Fifth Age also had another way of spreading, which was random outbreaks through space.

Only when symptoms appear and the disease is confirmed, it is useless to take medicine at this time. In other words, unless the infected target can be accurately predicted, the medicine will not help those patients at all. When the outbreak of theocracy subsides and the remote outbreak stops in more than a month, it will still create hundreds of thousands of infected people around the world as Nightingale predicted before.

What's more terrifying is that here, as long as Little Jack returns, the spread can be interrupted, but in the Fifth Epoch, even if the transmission stops, the infected person's infectiousness remains. Once bitten by these infected people, unless you drink medicine within three or four hours, you will still become a new source of infection and continue to spread the plague.

Perhaps thanks to the widespread availability of medicines, the disease won't develop into a world-destroying disaster, but the death toll will probably be one or two more than expected.

"Maybe it's not that serious." Diana could vaguely guess Lynch's worry. She held his hand and lowered her voice to comfort him, "After all, we have the Supreme Being's blessing."

"And even if it's the same as here, so what?" Officer Natalie knew Lynch's mentality best. She sneered and said, "You just want to mitigate the impact of your actions. You don't owe it to anyone. Just do your best. What's there to worry about? Besides, you've come this far. Do you plan to go back empty-handed? Try to bring the fruits back. The rest will naturally be handled by professionals. Do you still plan to fulfill your duties for the Church of Suffering?"

"That won't do." Miss Diana smiled softly, covering her mouth. "If you do this, you're competing with the church for faith. Are you going to bully our Lord on behalf of Lady Red Moon?"

"I bullied her? She almost died the other day when she looked at me."

Lin Qi curled his lips, but his mood improved instantly. Indeed, as long as there is medicine, it will not develop into a world-destroying disaster. At worst, it can be downgraded from xx crisis to xx siege, which is already very good. Everyone has their own duties and does their best. There are so many big guys, why should I worry about it?

Besides, I don't owe the world anything. The most I want to do is to help my neighbors protect the world. As long as I have tried my best, I can accept the final result no matter what it is.

【Um】

"What's wrong, do you have any problems?" "Nothing, just mourning my eight crazy heads."

No longer worrying about the effects of the medicine, Lynch laid out a pile of diseased fruits and demonstrated to Dr. Swain how the fruit could bite a person.

Doctor Sven's expression turned strange. "Whatever you plan to do with the Human Face Fruit, you can't use these. This thing has been tainted and twisted, and the effect will be very strange."

"Ok?"

"Such materials will bring out the effects you want in the way you least want. For example, when I was traveling before, I saw someone making a wishing monkey's paw, which accidentally used contaminated materials. The man wished for good health and freedom from pain, and then he was killed by falling rocks."

"Never get sick again?"

"Well, so never use this thing, and don't try to take advantage of its counter-effect properties. Rules are rules, and they are not something that living beings can play with casually."

"Well, then we can only pin our hopes on the last batch." Lin Qi sighed and put away the eight fruits. Suddenly realizing something, he asked, "What you meant just now is that this thing has other uses besides disgusting people?"

"Well, for example, making some amulets or something like that. Although it's troublesome, the effects are pretty good. If you're interested and can provide normal fruits, I can make a few for you."

"what's the effect?"

"It's a talisman. It keeps you safe. You'll know its specific function when it takes effect."

It's really insincere, and I don't know if I can take it out. According to the Human Face Fruit that can be taken out, there should be hope, so I shouldn't miss it. Lin Qi asked impolitely: "Is it fast?"

"It's OK. The main problem is the materials. But I just happened to have saved up a few copies, so I can make it in a few hours."

"Then it's settled." Lin Qi finally got something out of this trip. Although he didn't know what the effect was, he was satisfied. He finally remembered the main business. "Now that the medicine has been prepared, we don't have to worry about the contamination of the corpse. Should we..."

"boom."

The door to the pharmacy was thrown open and Knight Terry rushed in.

"Something happened." The knight said hurriedly in the local language, "Someone saw several infected lunatics biting people in different locations in the city. Many people were injured."

Hmm? You can't control it?
The five of them looked at each other and felt a little relieved.

Fortunately, we managed to delay until the medicine was prepared, so we don't have to worry about a city-wide outbreak in the short term.

"Where did the infected come from?"

"It is said that they are several travelers."

"It is said?" Lynch asked, "Didn't your people see the infected people?"

"No." Terry said distressedly, "I don't know where he went."

Ok?
Lynch was stunned and realized something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)