Durin's Diary

Chapter 767 Difficulties
The Weston neighborhood was in ruins.

Durin came in the form of a lich, and with him came the Bishop of the Church of Suffering. Although the people in the church did not know Durin, they knew the old bishop. After they knew that the lich in front of them with pure white soul fire in his eye sockets, a golden laurel crown of the Twin Mother Goddesses on his head, and a dagger of the same style as the one worn by the Nameless One at his waist was Durin Elsh, these people immediately threw away their vigilance against Durin.

Du Lin shook his head as he looked at the corpse being cremated in the small garden by the roadside.

The Industrial Revolution led to a surge in urban populations, and the slums were plagued by poor sanitary conditions. Add to that the possibility of an evil spirit at work, and things were bound to go wrong.

Daju sighed as he looked at everything in front of him - burning the corpses in time was a very common thing in this world. Perhaps because of this, the situation in the Weston district was not as bad as Dulin thought.

Moreover, in this era, medical knowledge has made breakthroughs, and the Church of the True God will not act as recklessly as in the world mentioned by Eleven. It’s just that the source of the epidemic is not as single as in the timeline where Eleven is.

Mr. Bull, I am not very old, and such a terrible thing has never happened in Lublin. I would like to know, apart from the flu, is there any other epidemic that can cause such a large number of deaths and injuries?

"There were many. Before Your Excellency the Anonymous spread health knowledge, cholera, plague, smallpox, and tuberculosis were all common epidemics." Bishop Bull said as he watched a family being carried out of a room in the distance. "We reacted too late, but fortunately, we've confirmed that all the infected people who left Lille three days ago didn't have such severe illnesses. For example, Romil of the Clegane family took the miracle drug you created, and his condition is much better now, and his pneumonia is under control."

"I came here just because I felt something was wrong with his condition." Du Lin thought that the biggest cause of death from the common flu was secondary bacterial pneumonia. Penicillin did have a certain effect, but in Lille, the flu was so severe that it was enough to kill people without even a secondary pneumonia infection.

There must be something wrong. A common flu cannot possibly cause such a horrific death rate.

As a professional medical AI, Daju expressed his doubts.

Influenza virus infection can cause secondary pneumonia. Romil's injection can suppress pneumonia. At the same time, he left Lille, which reduced the lethality of the virus. It seems that it is really as we thought, there must be followers of the evil god who are poisoning.

"There's a problem, Mr. Bull. This flu is extremely severe. Have the wells been disinfected? Have the rivers and underground streams been inspected?"

"...No, I'll arrange for someone to check immediately."

After everything was arranged here, Du Lin thought for a moment and said, "I want to perform an on-site autopsy on the patients' bodies to examine their lungs."

"But no one can help you. We have done a case where the fellow church member who had the operation was already infected," the old man said with a frown.

"It's okay, someone rang the doorbell." Du Lin said as a portal rose from the ground.

Then, Negan Loval and an old man in a cloak walked out on the left and right.

"Sir Durin, I'm here." When Negan saw Durin, he immediately touched his chest and saluted.

The other old man's face was ashen, clearly not a living being. Bishop Bull instinctively wanted to draw his gun, but Durin held down the hands of both men with his mage hand. "Don't be impulsive. I'm Durin Elsh, old sir. Who are you?"

"Theodore Greco, many people have probably forgotten my name, but that's fine. If someone as powerful as you can truly grant me amnesty, it would be a truly unique new life." The old man then looked around. "It looks like this is the neighborhood where the outbreak first occurred. Many have died, and the streets are filled with the stench of burning. It's truly awful. Lord Turin, is there anything I can do for you?"

The old man looked very confident.

Du Lin was also clear: "You have come at the right time, Your Excellency Bishop Bull. We need a secluded house without any living people, and a few bodies of the sick and dead." "There are a lot here." The old man said this and pointed to the side of the road - as far as Du Lin could see, a full seven small buildings in this row of houses had been sealed.

"Let's go." Du Lin said as he asked the wizard's hand to carry the family that was about to be burned.

The old man walked to the front and snapped his fingers. The nails on both sides of the wooden board that sealed the door and the door frame automatically drilled out. Then he pulled down the wooden board and pushed open the door.

Negan put the medical kit in his hand on the sink: "Should I go upstairs to get a sheet."

"If you have any, take a few more, poor child." The old man who called himself Theodore Greco said and sighed, "Sir Durin, I am very curious why a being like you would voluntarily come to such a purgatory."

"There's a saying in Changtang: If the sky falls, tall people will hold it up. Although I'm not tall, I'm strong enough, so I can fly up and hold up the sky."

Negan came down at this time, with only a few blankets in his hands: "This family is very poor, and the blankets are all pieced together."

Du Lin took the blanket and stroked it gently with his hand, and the threads of the pieces of blanket became entangled and combined with each other.

Du Lin spread the blanket on the table and placed the man of the family on it.

Negan didn't hesitate and transformed himself into a zombie, then took out the instrument box from the opened medical box.

The old man smiled and nodded: "Yes, you are not even a hundred years old yet, but you have already transformed into a zombie. If you can live three hundred years earlier, with a little more luck, you can also become a legend like me."

After saying this, the old man transformed himself into a bone lich similar to Du Lin: "What a pity, Lord Du Lin, you are not one of us, otherwise you would be the youngest bone lich."

"Yes, I am not you after all, but you, me, and him are all a way of explanation for living beings."

As Du Lin spoke, he took the scalpel and cut the man's chest in half as if it were butter.

The scalpel was not sharp, but as soon as it came into Durin's hands, it was recast by Durin and turned into a magical weapon that could cut iron like mud.

Negan and Theodore went straight to work and broke the ribs apart.

Looking at his liquefied lungs, Du Lin sighed.

"It's really not an ordinary virus. We are in big trouble. But Lord Durin, your judgment is correct. This is indeed the best place for us to show our skills." Having said that, Theo and Negan let go and began to wrap the body with a blanket.

"We're launching a comprehensive investigation, turning even the sewers inside out," Du Lin said. "We can't leave any corner untouched."

(End of this chapter)