In a dry and open space in the cave tunnel, several people dressed as fishermen and sailors were lying on the ground, moaning and wailing. Most of them were middle-aged men with distorted and painful expressions. Even though the temperature in the cave was extremely low, they were still sweating profusely.
Among the people lying on the ground, only an old man with a slightly bent waist was relatively calm, but it could also be seen that there was a lot of swelling on the old man's legs, and there were several black and blue dots faintly shuttled between them.
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A young man of about fourteen or fifteen years old held a medicine and a knife in his hand with worry, and he operated and applied medicine on the moaning and screaming ordinary people.
"Everyone."
Occasionally, he would helplessly remind: "Please keep your voice down. This is a cave area. Sound can travel far. If it attracts other monsters, it will be really dangerous."
The blond boy is Isengard.
During the sudden change in the South China Sea, he, Master Gosei, Ian, Shark and the pirate captain were swept into the ruins by the strong wind when the ruins were opened.
Because Master Gesai is weak, he can only be on top, using his sublimation skills and protective accessories to protect everyone.
He succeeded, but in the final analysis it was still the first level and could not be perfect. It still caused everyone to scatter and could only protect the unconscious Master Gesai from falling into the ruins.
Because he was protected by protective jewelry, he woke up quickly. After observing the environment, he began to try to find an exit in the direction of the wind. Although he majored in fire, he also had some attainments in wind.
The tunnels extend in all directions, are deep and dark, and after searching for a long time, before Isengard could find the exit, he encountered a group of ordinary fishermen and merchant ships who were attacked by monsters.
The changes in the South China Sea have affected not only the distant sea.
During the sudden change, large and small eddy gaps appeared around O'Dell Reef, Caotan Cliff, and even in the northeastern sea, dragging many ships and outsiders into them, and involving many ordinary people.
The waves are only rough at the main entrance, while small intersections in other places are quite gentle, and even some fishermen's fishing boats are not broken.
Although Isengard lacks emotional intelligence and is a bit naive, he is not stupid enough to save people without thinking - if they can find those gentler entrances, it will definitely be of great help to their current situation.
He took action to repel the strange-looking lobster without a shell - a kind of giant shrimp without a shell, but with a layer of tough oil on the surface. This kind of giant shrimp is the main course of the top-notch whole shrimp feast for the rich in coastal cities.
The layer of delicious shrimp oil is even more delicacies, but it is difficult to say who is the delicacy at this moment.
After killing the monster one-on-one, Isengard was shocked to find that almost all the ordinary people who had been affected by the water foam sprayed by the lobster, including Master Gosei, began to have a high fever, with extremely obvious symptoms on their bodies.
Bulges and cysts.
"This is a parasite. Ordinary detoxification and insecticides are of no use. On the contrary, they are tranquilizers that slow down the blood flow. An anesthetic that anesthetizes nerve perception can reduce the activity frequency of these unknown parasites."
The young man held a potion and a knife, and nimbly shuttled among the groaning crowds, opening the pustules for them, killing the parasites that had slowed down their activity, then cauterizing the wounds with fire, and then using potion to heal the burns.
He entered a professional state at this moment and regarded everything as a bio-alchemy experiment. Instead, he calmed down and analyzed and dealt with it calmly: "These parasites flow along the blood, but their purpose is not to spread throughout the body, but to Reach the 'brain-blood barrier' and enter the brain."
"This is a parasite that targets the nervous system, so anesthetics are most effective."
After Isengard's treatment, most of the infected patients improved, but they could not be cured. He could not find where the lesions were in a short time, and even if he found them, there would not be enough time to cure them all.
Arriving in front of an old man who was sweating profusely, his breathing was as steady as possible. The young man half-knelt in front of him, opened his robe, and carefully observed his legs that had been swollen to twice their original size.
Master Gosei had been silently observing every move of his student. He watched Isengard analyze the situation, prepare medicines to treat patients on the spot, and conduct pharmacological and biological analyses.
Although he was in pain, he also smiled with relief.
He originally thought that Ethan would be depressed because of his uncle's betrayal, but he didn't expect that at the critical moment, the child could actually stick to his heart, always have compassion, and not lose any basic skills in alchemy.
一一Maybe not a good noble...but a good student.
It wasn't until the young man came to him that the old man returned to his original calm appearance.
"Teacher, mobilize the source of energy and suppress the blood flow in the lower body. I will handle it."
Seriously speaking to Master Gosei, Isengard himself is not afraid of infection - the blood of the inheritors of the Light Eclipse Dragon Refining is a special poisonous alchemical matrix, and they themselves are a kind of alternative possessing parasite. Inherited, it is almost impossible to be parasitized by other organisms.
So he can handle everyone's condition very freely.
"...Not bad, Ethan, you are looking better now."
The old man nodded slightly, then shook his head and said: "My legs are no longer working. During the coma, this monster-level parasite has corroded all the nervous system of my legs. To cure it, it is better to cut it off." , and then use the regeneration potion to grow another one."
"Is this so..." After a stunned pause, Isengard said firmly: "...At the very least, I have to alleviate your pain, teacher."
"This is a blocking drug I prepared. It can probably stop the activity of this parasite for a period of time. Other patients responded very well and there is no risk."
"Um."
Master Gosei glanced at the crowd whose screams had slowed down, but whose limbs were as swollen as his own legs and had cysts.
He frowned at first, wanting to say something, but finally sighed: "If you save them... you may make them suffer even more."
"What?"
Isengard, who had seen too little, was a little confused, but the old man, who had seen too many similar situations, just shook his head: "It's nothing. In the final analysis, it's your kindness... and it's not necessarily hopeless."
Raising his head, while the young man was injecting himself with the blocking medicine, Master Gesai raised his head, looked at the other side of the cave, and sighed softly: "I don't know what is going on in this group of underground ruins, but there are so many terrifying things here. Parasite, I don’t know how it maintains its colony, and what is the situation of other biological communities..."
After a pause, he said again: "Ethan, do you still remember the direction in which Ian fell?"
"No."
Isengard thought for a while and shook his head slightly: "The wind and waves were very strong at that time. I just slowed down to protect everyone and tried my best." "However, seeing that these ordinary people can survive, I believe that Ian will be fine.