In the afternoon, Elaine finished the lunch sent by the monks.
The food has no taste.
No. He can still taste the basic salty and sweet taste, but there is no flavor. All food in his mouth feels like eating sand.
I don’t know whether it’s because of the illness in his body or because he’s not accustomed to the acclimatization in this different world nine hundred years later. Elaine has been unable to taste anything since ten years ago. In other words, he has endured it for ten years.
, eating this kind of food that looks like sand every day.
He knew that he had traveled through time nine hundred years ago, so he probably knew that he was not welcomed by this world. Even the taste of food was not given to him by this world.
(Leo...)
The fat white man chewed the jam bread that was supposed to be exquisitely made without any interest, but what he was thinking about was the breakfast that the lion boy made for him that morning.
He didn't eat the breakfast.
"No appetite? Are you worried?" Goff was eating with relish on the side, as if he hadn't eaten such exquisite food for a long time, but he couldn't help but worry about Elaine.
"No...it's okay." Elaine sighed, swallowed the food casually, and then drank a few sips of lemonade.
There is a sour smell, but there is no lemon fragrance. Elaine's nose is actually fine, and he can smell the fragrance when he smells an uncut lemon. But for some reason, when he realized that it was "food"
” or “drink”, the aroma in the food will completely disappear.
(Every day is suffering. Living is a kind of suffering. How long can we endure this kind of life...)
(It’s almost over and I can’t stand it any longer.)
(Leo...)
After filling her stomach casually, Elaine stood up.
"Let's go and see the Cardinal," he said.
"Now? Waiting for the church's arrangements?"
"There's no point in waiting here." Elaine clenched her fists: "Tell the guards that we are here to see a doctor, and we should be able to enter the tower."
"Okay." Goff did not pursue the question. He could see an impatience between Elaine's eyebrows, but he did not intend to go into details: "No matter what you decide to do, I will find a way to protect you."
Elaine didn't reply, feeling very upset.
The two of them prepared all kinds of medical equipment, put on the protective clothes prepared by the church, and walked towards the Li Pagoda.
"I'm here to see the Cardinal. Can I join the group?" Elaine bravely said to the doorman in front of the tower.
(Bite your teeth and do things you don’t want to do and are not good at doing.)
"You should wait for the arrangements from above." The guard was a little unhappy.
(Even if you do this, there is no guarantee that it will be of any help to the entire plan.)
"Waiting, waiting for a long time," Elaine also deliberately showed an impatient expression: "Do you really have to wait forever? Can the patient's condition be delayed?"
(But why? I just can’t suppress this irritability.)
"Well," the two guards looked confused. They wanted to let Elaine go, but they were afraid that they would be blamed by the people above for making random decisions.
"Let them in." A church member wearing a red robe suddenly said: "It's okay, I will take the responsibility."
"Since Lord Helwen said this------" the two guards breathed a sigh of relief and made way for Elaine.
"Helwen... Sir, sir?" Elaine nodded slightly and saluted the woman in red robe, but she didn't know who she was and was a little confused.
"I am Cardinal Helwen. Nice to meet Dr. Geoffrey." The woman said, "I won't disturb the doctor's visit. See you next time."
"Okay, okay." Elaine never expected that such a beautiful woman to be a cardinal. How did she become a cardinal? Do people in the church think with their lower bodies?
Helwen gave a slight salute and walked away quickly, as if she came here just to help Elaine speak. No, she should have come here specifically to help Elaine. Otherwise, there would be no reason for her to suddenly appear in such a place.
Elaine didn't pay attention to the details. In the past few days, Leo's figure was always in his mind, and other than that, he was always absent-minded. He bravely walked into the tower and walked along the long spiral staircase.
Go to the top of the tower.
This tower is somewhat similar to the tower where he was forced to have a tryst with King Charles VII of France, which brought back very bad memories for Elaine. Fortunately, Goff was following Elaine, and there was just one more person behind him.
It gave Elaine a lot of courage, and he reached the top of the tower smoothly.
"Is this Dr. Geoffrey?" There were already two other guards waiting there. They were wearing heavy protective clothing. Except for their eyes, everything else was well protected, and they were very well prepared for the Black Death.
"Yes, yes. Can I go in for a consultation?" Elaine replied.
"Please come in." The guards stepped aside and even pushed open the heavy iron door of the room at the top of the tower for Elaine.
There are still strict precautions inside the room, and a gauze tent is used to isolate the cardinal's living area from the outside world. This preventive measure against mosquitoes may have been thought up by the church itself, because Elaine knows that mosquitoes do not spread
In the case of the Black Death (strangely!), the extra mosquito nets didn't really make sense.
Regardless, Elaine pushed open the gauze curtain and walked into the room. A dying old man was lying on the bed, seemingly suffering from a low fever. His face was bruised, which was a late-stage symptom of the Black Death.
"Can it be cured?" Gove asked when he saw the seriously ill Cardinal.
"It will probably take a lot of time, but it can be cured." Elaine said, "First draw the cardinal's blood and use it to make a vaccine."
"Okay, I'll do it." Goff said, opening Elaine's medical supply box. There were many strange tools in it that he had never seen before, but he knew which syringe it was--the one Elaine used before
Something came to draw blood for himself, and Gove saw it.
And Elaine prepared another blood in a glass bottle, which was his own blood, of course for vaccines. This blood seemed to be able to stay in the bottle for a long time without going bad, but Elaine didn't.
After delving into the reason, we can only speculate that it is because he has a trace amount of succubus blood in his body.
Goff's eyesight was indeed outstanding. He had only seen Elaine draw blood once before, and he knew how to use a syringe and where to start drawing blood. He easily found the vein on the cardinal's arm and drew a sufficient amount.
He walked up to Elaine and asked, "Is this blood enough?"
"Enough, that's enough." Elaine casually took the syringe, mixed the blood inside with the blood in the glass bottle, and placed the burning utensil on the table nearby.
"Use this to boil the mixed blood... Is it that simple?" Goff asked while lighting the fire.
"Yes, yes." Elaine replied. He didn't understand the principle of inactivation. In short, this is how the vaccine was made. Merlin once taught him this, so he just followed it. He has relied on this since a long time ago.
This vaccine has saved countless patients from the Black Death, and it has never failed.
"After the mixed blood is boiled and inactivated, it is then cooled, and it will be the vaccine." Elaine said, the glass bottle has been placed on the metal shelf, and there is an oil lamp below to heat it. The amount of mixed blood in the glass bottle is not large, and it will soon be
There are bubbles coming out.
"...Is it that simple?" Gove, who saw all this, couldn't help but feel a little confused.
"...Just, it's that simple." Elaine replied. Otherwise, what else could be done?
"When you asked me to drink your blood, was it based on the same principle?" Goff wondered.
"You, you are lucky. It would be useless to do that." Elaine fiddled with the glass bottle a few times. The liquid in the bottle was boiling and the inactivation process was almost completed.
"It turns out that this blood is the most important thing. If you have this blood, you can cure black disease. On the contrary, without this blood, you can't do anything." Gove shrugged, "Actually, you don't have to practice medicine at all. You can just sell blood."
alright......"
"Ha, haha..." Elaine smiled bitterly. This is the truth. But if the whole world knew that Elaine's blood was the antidote to the Black Death, he would probably be exploited by a group of lunatics eager to survive.
.Do it.
"The disease, the focus is actually on the heart." Elaine said again. The liquid in the bottle has been inactivated. Now you only need to wait for it to cool down and then filter the magazine. It will be a vaccine.
"heart?"
"The hearts of people infected by the Black Death will mutate. It seems to stab and stimulate the heart muscles, weakening the heart muscles, and eventually leading to people's heart paralysis and myocardial infarction." Elaine turned off the oil lamp.
Carefully shake the liquid in the bottle. "The face of the patient who died is black because of poor blood circulation in the body."
"So if this vaccine is allowed to flow throughout the body along the bloodstream, it can restore the function of the infected and mutated heart. It is simply a magic water that can cure diseases."
"But one time is not enough," Elaine said: "The Cardinal is so seriously ill, it will probably take several weeks of treatment to make him recover."
"This means that we will stay in the Vatican for a long time." Goff said while touching his chin. Although he was wearing a mask, his face under the mask was also covered with bandages. He was not clear about the original plan of Elaine and others.
, but this Dr. Geoffrey seems to be planning to stay in the Vatican to investigate the whereabouts of Joan of Arc. If the cardinal is cured too quickly, it will be detrimental to their actions. Now they can only let nature take its course.
"Okay, okay." Elaine finally let the vaccine cool down and filtered out the impurities with fine gauze to make a "pure" vaccine. Originally, the vaccine produced by this simple and crude treatment was very primitive.
It would be dangerous to inject it into the human body casually. But in this era of extremely backward medical technology, this is already the best way to treat the Black Death.
Elaine carefully felt for the veins on the Cardinal's arm and injected the vaccine into it. Just after the injection, the heavy blackness on the Cardinal's face, which seemed to be about to pass away, seemed to dissipate a little.
"It takes effect really fast." Gove couldn't help complaining: "Shouldn't it at least wait until the vaccine reaches the heart with the blood before it takes effect?"
People of Gove's era naturally don't understand. It is actually a stress response caused by foreign matter entering the human body's blood vessels. It is a part of the human immune system. The stress response causes the heart to beat faster and breathing to accelerate, but it is relatively "neutralized"
After overcoming the impact of the Black Death, the patient's face, which was originally bruised (sub-hypoxic), improved slightly.
"Haha..." Elaine didn't explain it (he didn't quite understand it himself), he just laughed it off.
He did what he could, and the cardinal's condition stabilized somewhat.
"Then, go and disinfect your whole body." Elaine said, "The burn on your body doesn't matter?"
"It's okay." Gove's skin burns were limited to his face and chest, and his recovery ability is very strong. After so many days, he has almost recovered. He also applies strong alcohol to the wounds every day to disinfect and disinfect his whole body.
It will not further affect the burns on his body.
"Please come here for cleaning and disinfection, Dr. Geoffrey." Outside the other exit of the room, a monk from the church said through the curtain: "After the doctor has finished cleaning, the Pope wants to see you."
What was supposed to come finally came. Elaine raised her eyebrows, knowing that this was an opportunity. (To be continued)