Twenty minutes later, the office door was pushed open, but it was not just Priest Carter who came in, but a group of priests in robes. The leader had an unforgettable white beard.
"Your Excellency Julius." Lawrence immediately pulled Fatina to stand up after seeing the old man, then placed his right hand on his left chest and bowed deeply, because at this time he recognized the leading priest.
identity of.
As the High Priest of the Wand of the Northeast Diocese of the Church of Knowledge, this old man rarely appeared in public. Lawrence had lived in St. Gutenberg's Cathedral for such a long time, and the number of times he had seen the High Priest of the Wand was only a handful.
countable.
The appearance of the High Priest of Wands is not a good sign, because it means that things have reached a very troublesome stage, so much so that more than half of the entire parish of the Church of Knowledge needs to be mobilized.
"Sit down, kid." High Priest Julius Scepter walked behind the desk and sat on a chair, then motioned for everyone present to sit down. "Okay, tell me what you discovered and analyzed again.
Bar."
"As you wish, Your Excellency." Lawrence lowered his head slightly, and then tried to describe all the facts that he and Fatina knew without any subjective thoughts, but at the end he expressed his suspicion.
.
"Everything the two of us found pointed to the outbreak being caused by typhoid bacilli spread through contaminated water. But what I find strange is that the incubation period of typhoid fever is very long, but this time it happened in
A sudden outbreak in less than a week is completely inconsistent with the characteristics of this disease."
"Are you sure?" Julius, the high priest of the scepter, opened his eyes suddenly after hearing Lawrence's words. As the high priest of the scepter of the Church of Knowledge, Julius' mastery of knowledge can be said to exceed that of most.
However, it does not mean that he is omniscient, so he really does not know the characteristics of typhoid fever.
"I'm sure." Lawrence nodded. "As an epidemic disease that often breaks out, the characteristics of this disease have been studied by everyone, and the research results can even be found in university libraries."
"Sure enough, you still need to ask professionals about this kind of thing." High Priest Julius smiled after hearing Lawrence's words. For believers and clergy of the Church of Knowledge, finding that they do not understand a certain aspect of knowledge is not a problem.
What is a shame, it is actually a matter of joy, because it means that there is new knowledge to learn.
"Brother Arthur, tell this child the results of our investigation just now. Maybe he can see something different." After thinking for a few seconds, Julius, the high priest of the scepter, said to Arthur from the Department of Doctrine of the Faith.
High Priest Arthur signaled, and High Priest Arthur immediately took out a map of Eagle Castle and placed it on the table in the office.
"We have asked staff at various charity schools in Eagle Fort before, and it is true that the number of people asking for leave in many schools has soared in the past two days. Some students themselves are sick, and some have relatives at home who are sick, and they have to go home.
Take care of loved ones. The two worst schools are in the gear zone, with 1/3 of people taking leave, including several teachers.”
As he spoke, he pointed to the map on the table. On this map, the location of each school was marked in red. And next to these red dots were some numbers that looked like they had just been written in pencil.
"The number before the slash is the number of people who have asked for leave in the past two days, and the number after the slash is the theoretical number of people this school should have." High Priest Arthur explained to everyone present. "The situation is not optimistic now.
"
"Why didn't we discover this situation before Lawrence reminded us?" Priest Carter asked with some confusion. "As long as they see this data, I think anyone will feel that something is wrong."
"You are right, but for grassroots charity schools, many people often ask for leave for various reasons, and there is very little communication between schools. So this large-scale request for leave did not cause any problems.
Any attention."
"What's more important is that in normal times, no one pays attention to this situation at all. So under normal circumstances, if something goes wrong and no one discovers and informs it in advance like Lawrence, it may take us a week to know that something happened in those areas. And this
An infectious disease broke out so fast that the situation deteriorated to this point before everyone could react." High Priest Arthur explained to everyone present.
Having said this, High Priest Arthur turned to look at High Priest Julius Scepter sitting on the main seat: "If it is true that the spread of typhoid fever has a long incubation period as Lawrence said, then this outbreak of typhoid fever
It’s obviously not normal.”
"So we are now going to find out the possible troublemakers behind the scenes." Julius, the high priest of the scepter, said. After learning from Lawrence about the normal transmission speed of typhoid fever, everyone present became aware of this typhoid fever.
The sudden outbreak is not a normal infectious disease outbreak, and there is most likely a supernatural person behind it.
"The first thing that should be done is to find the source of the infection." Lawrence suggested. "Whether it is to stop the problem from getting worse or to find the person who is behind the scenes, the prerequisite is to find the place where the disease first broke out."
"Do you have any idea?" High Priest Julius Scepter raised his head and looked at Lawrence. "If there is no better way, we can only choose to notify other churches and the city hall of Eagle Castle, through a comprehensive and large-scale campaign
We have conducted a wide-range search to lock this location. Of course, this can easily lead to the troublemaker behind the scenes knowing the news of our intervention in advance and making corresponding preparations and countermeasures."
"I have a way." After getting permission, Lawrence came to the table and looked at the map and analyzed, "The overall situation is very bad now, but the only thing to be thankful for is that this time we found out when the typhoid fever just started to break out.
The situation is not right, so based on the proportion of sick people in different places and the characteristics of the disease spreading through water sources, we can greatly narrow down the possible scope of the source of infection."
On this map of Eagle Castle, Lawrence first used a pencil to draw the locations of six rat lairs where the disease broke out, and then asked Fatina while drawing the direction of the sewers on the map. Soon, those representing the sewers
The line stretches into a network.
"Huh?" Looking at the sewer pipe network gradually formed on the map, many priests present discovered some clues. Because these sewer pipes connected many epidemic outbreak points, it can also be seen from this that the rats
The several nests where human diseases have broken out are all downstream of the diseased areas on the ground.
"That is to say, this outbreak started in our human settlement area, and there were three outbreak points." After simple statistics and connecting the outbreak points with a pencil, one fact clearly appeared in front of everyone.
"Yes." Lawrence nodded. "If I guess correctly, the water supply in these three places is likely to be unified through some kind of pipeline system. For example, I have been to this epidemic outbreak point in the Gear District, and there are several pipelines.
Most of the water sources in the neighborhood come from several centralized water supply points, and the water from these water supply points comes from a water tower."
"Call Hans and Lisa over here." After listening to Lawrence's words, High Priest Arthur turned to look at a priest standing at the door, "If I remember correctly, their home was in the middle of two other epidemic outbreaks.
Point nearby.”
Soon, two young priests, a man and a woman, walked into the room. After a brief inquiry, everyone learned that the other two possible epidemic outbreak spots, Hudson Street and the Shuttle District, also had their own water towers.
The clean water treated by the water plant will be pumped to the water tower by a steam engine and then supplied to the surrounding neighborhoods.
"Then what we should do now is to go take a look at those water towers." High Priest Julius Scepter concluded, then he looked at Lawrence and said, "But in order to avoid arousing the enemy's vigilance, next we will