episode_0348

“They die before they even try the medicine.”

“My body couldn’t handle it because my nutrition was poor.”

You must have the stamina to withstand illness, but how long can you endure with a body that is already in the worst nutritional condition?

People who can’t hold on and fall over and die.

The medical center could not find a proper way to treat their illness.

“Cluck cluck!”

And, as expected from an infectious disease, the disease quickly spread to the medical staff treating them.

“W-was this an epidemic?”

“Hi!”

“Quarantine all those with symptoms!!”

The medical staff treating them also vomited blood and collapsed.

The epidemic began in earnest.

Of course, I didn’t stay still until the situation turned out like this.

I also went around asking around to find the cause.

And I was finally able to find the suspected cause.

“under. “You really ate that?”

“… I had no choice. “Isn’t it the same whether you starve to death or eat and die?”

It was a cause that I had guessed, but at the same time, it was a cause of invention that I could not have imagined at all.

To be honest, I was at a loss for words and couldn’t say anything for a while.

“No matter what, even if there is nothing to eat, you still eat roasted monsters… .”

“There are people who eat and don’t die… .”

The man spoke cautiously, blinking his innocent eyes like a cow.

“But now no one eats it. “Because we have combat rations.”

The man who escaped starvation by eating combat rations had only sunken cheeks and rough skin as proof of his past hardships.

“How much did you eat?”

“I haven’t eaten much! “I had money saved up so I could survive with that, but I tried it a few times when I had nothing to eat, and after that, I started selling combat rations.”

“Is your stomach okay?”

“Whew! I’m strong. But did you get in big trouble because you ate the monster?”

We tried to move as quickly as possible, but moving and selling goods in a place where there was no early morning delivery was not easy.

In the end, it took several days, and the starving commoners could not endure it for more than a few days.

Because even those few days could be a time of life and death.

Now, with combat rations available at low prices, it is possible to avoid starvation, but some people who were between life and death created the cause of the epidemic by roasting locust monsters and eating them.

‘Is this really something that only people here do? Even in other places, if you were hungry, you would have no choice but to turn to the monster.’

From these people’s perspective, it would have been much better to die with a full stomach than to die from hunger.

‘If you’re ignorant, you’re brave, or something like that.’

The problem is that this infectious disease is not something that can be contracted just by eating a locust monster.

If that were the case, the man who answered my question would also have collapsed from stomach pain and vomited blood.

‘I think people who have a good physique but consume a small amount of food tend to suffer from mild abdominal pain?’

However, it was necessary to be careful because the disease was contagious even to people who had not eaten locust monsters.

‘What is the route of infection?’

I am already certain that it is transmitted through saliva or blood.

However, if the infection occurs through breathing, the treatment process becomes very difficult.

‘It’s probably not an infection through breathing.’

The information I have been researching will soon be passed on to Princess Mona through Chechnya.

When Princess Mona’s people start coming forward, they will have to be quarantined just because they have a history of consuming locust monsters.

Even a man with gentle eyes and a bright smile will be taken away and quarantined, and may unfortunately contract an infectious disease in the process.

“If you have abdominal pain, go to the medical center right away. “If you leave it unattended, something serious can happen to your family.”

“!!”

All I could say to this simple man was to stop hiding his illness.

Instead of focusing on each and every person affected by an infectious disease, I realized that moving for the sake of the whole would save more people.

‘It’s fortunate that we were able to prevent the spread of the infectious disease just by providing combat rations. Even if we knew the cause, we almost couldn’t solve it.’

I didn’t want to point fingers at them for causing problems by eating monsters.

If you were so hungry, would you have eaten a monster?

‘I ate it while preparing to die.’

In the meantime, if an order was given not to eat monsters without a countermeasure, would the commoners actually listen to the order?

In many ways, I was very fortunate to have combat rations.

Even though there is combat food, there will be no crazy person who wants to eat monsters.

“We must go as quickly as possible.”

-okay.

I relayed my findings to Chechnya through Damon.

The reason I relayed this to Chechnya, who had nothing to do with this matter, was because I knew that if I told the nobles here about the investigation, they would clean their mouths.

I thought that Chechnya would handle the outbreak of the epidemic in a way that would be helpful to Princess Mona.

* * *

A few days after reports of an infectious disease were reported.

The Chechens moved quickly, as if they had not misread the report I gave them.

The most urgent thing was to create a proper quarantine facility.

The most important thing to prevent an infectious disease was to ensure isolation and prevent the infection from spreading further.

‘Once the royal family started getting directly involved in matters, all the confusion disappeared.’

It was an instant for the quarantine facility at the medical center, which had been sluggish, to become neat and tidy.

Now I can’t go to the medical center carelessly.

This is because it is not clear what infection route the infectious disease has.

“How is the treatment going? “Damon, you go and check.”

Are commoners who are sick from infectious diseases being properly treated at medical centers?

When Damon went there after hearing my order to check the medical center, he said that the place was overflowing with corpses.

-It’s not treatment, it’s neglect. Wait until it dies and dispose of the body when it stops breathing.

“I guess that’s true too.”

I thought it was strange that no one went into the isolation room and came back alive.

Since commoners were of no help to the world, there would have been no reason to work hard to treat each and every infectious disease.

The only medical professionals that existed were those who initially came into contact with patients without knowing it was an infectious disease.

These are medical workers who cannot escape their isolation rooms even if they want to.

‘I can’t feel good about being forced into an isolation room because of a patient.’

If I had any intention of fixing it, I would have brought in an awakened therapist.

However, the only people entering the medical center were patients vomiting blood.

The only ones coming out were soldiers escorting the sick into the isolation room.

It’s such a pity.

Even though we were able to control the epidemic faster than expected thanks to my early research, there was no way to save the people who were already sick.

‘There was a cure for infectious diseases.’

However, that was developed much later.

It was only after the epidemic broke out and tens of thousands of commoners died that alchemists began working to create a cure for the epidemic, so it was natural.

‘They said there was data containing clues to a cure in the village that was quarantined when the epidemic first broke out.’

But no one wanted to enter the plague village.

Who would want to go?

This is the town where the epidemic that has already killed tens of thousands of people began.

So in the end, the main scenario was that the player unit decided to step forward and enter the isolated village.

‘It was Dog Field.’

If you go inside, you will receive a debuff that gradually reduces your stamina.

In addition, monster eggs hatched from corpses that died from infectious diseases, causing monsters to emerge, and the surrounding area turned into a contaminated zone.

‘It was an episode where a cure for an infectious disease was created and solved by dealing with a monster and retrieving data from the medical center.’

However, even if you go to a medical center right now, there is no way that there will be any data containing clues to a cure.

‘It’s too early to ask Yul for a favor.’

No, it’s early right?

Yul is a genius alchemist.

Ordinary alchemists have skills that cannot even be imagined.

‘Is it more accurate to say that I don’t want to put Yul in danger?’

Epidemic.

Anyone who sees it can’t help but feel uncomfortable.

If you call Yul here and ask him to make a cure, you will end up having to send him into that isolation room.

Unless someone inside cooperates and brings the necessary research materials to Yul.

“… … .”

After gathering my thoughts for a moment, I called Damon.

“I think we need to go back in there.”

-why? There’s nothing to see.

“I have to deliver this note this time.”

-Who should I give it to? Did you know anyone?

“no. I don’t know their faces, and I’m not sure if they exist or not. But he would be a therapist.”

-???

The fact that there was a clue to a cure for infectious diseases here means that someone made an effort to cure the infectious disease there.

“Someone of the therapists is probably working there to treat people. Find that person and deliver this to them. And if that person gives you something, just bring it to me.”

-If there was a guy like that, he would probably stand out. Everyone is doing nothing, as if they are only given a deadline to die.

“Just one person who didn’t give up. “If only that one person was available, the sick who had not yet died might be able to survive.”

Just because the damage was much less than before did not mean that the lives of people dying from infectious diseases were not pitiful.

If that person cooperates well.

So, if Yul could procure the ingredients needed to make the cure, things would be a lot different.

All that was needed was to be able to conduct research while ensuring Yul’s safety.

She was confident that creating a cure wouldn’t be that difficult.

‘Besides, if you ask me to research a cure for infectious diseases, I will accept it. Unlike other alchemists who don’t care about the deaths of commoners.’