Sherlock murmured and repeated, and immediately understood what Aiwass meant: "I see... If you say so, there is indeed no problem.
"There are only twenty-four registered dependents in the Earl of Orleans' residence, which is the third smallest among the eight Earls. But their blood demand is the first..."
He looked at the "blood supply" item in the data card and was a little confused: "But why is there... so little?"
——This is the number of blood bags they receive from the hospital every month.
Even the Count of Orleans, who collected the most, only had 220 bags. Based on the calculation that one bag of blood is 200 milliliters, this is only 44 liters.
And the quantities collected by other Children of the Moon are even pitifully small...the least one only has more than sixty bags.
For these children of the moon, it seems a bit too low-key...
Sherlock didn't realize this at the first time, just because this part happened to be in his blind spot of knowledge - he really didn't know much about the Son of the Moon. So much so that he didn't even know how much blood the Son of the Moon needed to consume under normal circumstances.
.
Aiwass also knew about this, so he directly explained in detail: "There is actually something counter-intuitive here - that is, the Son of the Moon does not actually need to drink blood every day. The basic blood requirement to maintain the Son of the Moon's rationality is only every ten
200ml for five days.
"That is to say, with sufficient nutrition, theoretically one blood slave is enough to support the survival of three to four children of the moon. And the children of the moon's thirst for blood is actually close to human beings' thirst for food. That's
The embodiment of pure desire."
"...Not as food, but as snacks?" Sherlock's face darkened and he murmured in a low voice.
"To be precise, it's a drink. The Children of the Moon are addicted to blood, just like an alcoholic's thirst for alcohol. Based on this demand, in fact, these blood supplies distributed from the hospital cannot be provided to the Children of the Moon.
.”
With that said, Aiwass explained to Sherlock the operation of the Health Party at Iris.
Since the "Health Party" to which the Moon Children belong has basically controlled half of Iris's votes, the Moon Children can get a stable blood supply.
The so-called "Healthy Party" is also called the "Stabilization Party". Its full name is "The Iris Patriot Alliance for Security and Stability." Their party logo is a red heart, and they believe that all the current problems of Iris are just
Temporary chaos, so we hope to maintain the status quo unconditionally.
They do not want to make excessive policy changes, and they also do not want war or any other accidents that may cause drastic changes in society.
The core competitiveness of this party lies in the magical potions provided by the witches - and themselves. Therefore, this party basically covers 70% of all big businessmen and almost all the old nobles. This is also the month
The reason why the Sons of Counts can openly obtain blood packs and supplies directly from the hospital... Many old nobles are trying to transform themselves into Sons of the Moon, which is a "risky trend" in today's Iris.
"Public opinion within the Healthy Party will even consider those extraordinary people on the path of love who dare not hold transformation rituals to be 'cowards' and 'old antiques'. There will also be many 'successful transformation people' who promote their wonderful experiences today.
In this way, they are subtly tempted to gradually become children of the moon."
"……absurd."
Sherlock frowned: "Those who have successfully transformed are already another person."
"yes."
Aiwass nodded: "Outside, they have many experts making a unified statement - 'regular blood drawing can effectively prevent diseases', but 'if done improperly, it can cause infection'. Based on this
Theoretically, Iris people can only go to the hospital regularly to draw blood - not even donate blood, because this is considered a 'health regimen', and they even need to pay the hospital in return."
"...It's just stupid."
Of course Sherlock knew it was useless.
But Aiwass shook his head: "No, this is really useful.
"——Because after drawing a large amount of blood, in order to quickly heal the wound and regenerate the blood, the hospital will make them take diluted potions, or simply let the trainee priests of the seminary use them to practice lighting techniques."
Illumination can't cure diseases, it can only treat injuries...but if these apprentices are really allowed to treat seriously injured people, the injuries may worsen to the point where they cannot be treated and no light can be emitted.
But for these "blood providers" who are just losing blood, they have enough time to accept this kind of free treatment that will only waste some time, but can effectively accelerate the recovery of the body. And Iris, who lacks orthodox theological inheritance,
Pastors also need a lot of "teaching materials" to increase their proficiency in lighting techniques, and at the same time practice the principles of the path of devotion by not charging money. It can be said that they kill two birds with one stone.
——The truly useful "health maintenance" part is actually in the subsequent lighting techniques and potions.
"So, the hospital got a lot of blood."
Aivas concluded.
Although the refrigerators of this era only have versions based on alchemy and magic, hospitals can have large ice cellars to refrigerate this blood. These ices have been blessed, and the light they emit can slowly dispel diseases and pollution in the blood, thus allowing
They last longer... they can be used to reverse blood transfusions to patients during surgeries, or they can be sold to Moon Children.
Even the blood preservation technology was kindly provided by Moonchild!
"This kind of blood with preservative added has a special strange smell. It will greatly weaken the sweetness of the blood in the mouth of the Moon Child. It can only be used as a kind of dry food that can be stored for a long time. It is probably equivalent to barrels of mountains of blood delivered to the door.
Spring water—it’s definitely fine for quenching thirst or cooking, but if you really entertain guests or drink it daily, you have to at least make tea, coffee, and stew soup.”
But for Yue Zhizi, this "ration" is actually a kind of "prepared dish".
Aiwass explained: "A Moon Son with real status will definitely not drink this kind of blood. Even buying this cheap blood is a shame for the noble Moon Son. It is mainly used to give to those
Wild Moon Children, and Moon Children with little status use it to quench their thirst... It can be regarded as a kind of mutual aid within the race.
"To put it simply, this blood is for servants to drink. Its correct use is actually to make decorations. For example, blood fountains, or bathing with blood... But even these decorations, iris flowers
Noble Moon Children also tend to use living people to make them - this is a symbol of strength for the Moon Children.
"Just like human nobles, they will also make some fakes of their expensive jewelry and wear them on less important occasions to prevent loss and theft. But if they are discovered by other nobles because they cannot afford real jewelry,
That would be a shame.
"Other nobles basically need to buy some blood packs from time to time. This is because the number of blood slaves in their mansions will change. Sometimes they will be consumed, and sometimes they will be sold or given to other nobles. And sometimes they will
They die due to various reasons and cannot be replenished in time. At this time, they will hoard some blood packs just in case.
"But the number of blood packs purchased by the Count of Orleans is very balanced. The number of their blood slaves has also changed, and the number of their dependents has also changed - from a minimum of sixteen to a maximum of twenty-six, but the number of blood packs they purchase has always been
One hundred to one hundred and forty, the floating number is significantly lower than that of all other Moonchild counts.