Chapter 360

The wizarding world has evaded the world war, and it still exists and develops step by step, but the outside world is different. Even if Zhao Mai and Tolkien had only been away for three months, the changes outside made them feel strange.

The disease has enveloped the UK. People wearing masks can be seen everywhere. People are coughing and sneezing everywhere. There are always long lines of shops and pharmacies selling cough water on the roadside. The door of every hospital is full of patients. Everyone was in a hurry, and even developed a new conditioned reflex: as long as you hear a cough, you will unconsciously stay away, just as you start to avoid when you hear an air raid alarm.

Europe is sick again. Zhao Mai looks at the scene outside the window and thinks of it. Everything in front of him aroused his vigilance, and then he asked dogian to check the information of the auxiliary nervous system, and then he understood what it was. In 1918, the Spanish flu caused more than one billion people in the global population of 1.7 billion to be infected and 20 million to 50 million people died.

The whole world war I lasted 52 months, that is, more than four years. The total number of civilian and military deaths was more than 10 million, less than one third of the total number taken away by the flu which lasted more than one year.

The greatest enemy of mankind will always be disease, which is especially obvious in Europe. The Anthony plague, the Justinian plague, the black death, and this time the Spanish flu. Again and again, diseases reap human lives and take away the civilization created by human beings. Antony's plague brought down Rome, smallpox killed the living power of the North American Indians, while Justin's plague ravaged the Mediterranean, it also took away the hope of the final revival of Byzantine Empire and ancient Egypt, the Black Death exposed the incompetence of the Vatican, and the Spanish flu

There are also demons like malaria, plague and tuberculosis, which always invade all civilizations. The denser the population is and the less attention is paid to health, the easier it will break out. It's very important to have effective prevention and medical treatment. The Chinese nation can continue to rely on the importance of education and culture, hard-working hands and traditional Chinese medicine.

Along the way, Tolkien was silent. He was obviously frightened by the outside scene. When Zhao Mai stopped the car, he basically rushed in like flying. Zhao Mai followed, holding a large bag of materials for making potions. There was a smell of liquid medicine and a faint smell of blood in the small building.

In the bedroom on the second floor, they saw Edith. The original happy and healthy hostess was pale, suffering from high fever and repeated vomiting, and her mind was not clear. Tolkien grabbed her hand and called Edith's name, which made her slowly open her eyes.

"You're back." Edith forced out a smile: "it's OK. I feel better already. Yesterday Cough... " A violent cough interrupted her.

"Let me treat her a little bit." As soon as Zhao Mai entered the room, he was stopped.

"Who are you and why did you come into my house and claim to treat Edith?" It seems that this woman with a tight frown is the writer. Her eyes were covered with blood, dark circles were very obvious, it was obvious that she had not had a good rest for a long time. She also has phlegm in her throat, which is estimated to have been infected with the disease. Zhao Mai asked Tolkien and knew that Edith was also an orphan like him. Mrs. Lorraine Warren was Edith's godmother. She had taken care of her for a long time. She said that it was her mother.

"Believe me, I can get rid of disease." Zhao Mai pushed her aside and put her on the chair at the corner of the bed. "Tolkien, I remember putting a lot of wine in your storeroom. You go and put up the crucible and get ready to make medicine. "

"Can I stay, I think..."

"No problem." Zhao Mai patted his head, obviously forgetting human nature. "Ah duo, take the flowers with you to do it." He then came to the bedside and began to cast the "dispel disease" spell.

The soft green light covered Edith's whole body. It didn't last long, but the effect was very obvious. Edith frowned, looked at herself in surprise, and tried to straighten up. "I feel better, especially breathing."

"Most of the symptoms have been removed, but you are still weak and need to rest." Zhao Mai said to Edith, "give me your hand and I'll review it for you."

Zhao Mai doesn't know how to use this technique. He just takes this opportunity to check with the natural force. Just now, when he was driving away the disease, Zhao Mai felt that something was wrong: the disease in Edith's body was quite stubborn in the face of natural force magic, and the difficulty of treating cold was even more than that of treating uremia for her father. This is obviously unreasonable. Zhao Mai suspects that there are other forces at work. From the point of view of her resistance to magic, Edith seems to have been cursed.

It is easy to find out the unnatural energy of non living body by using the affinity of natural force to organism. In Edith's lungs, there was a curse force, constantly absorbing her vitality to speed up the spread and intensity of the disease. After Zhao Mai determined this point, he spent a lot of time to remove the curse, and then pulled this energy out of her body.

A stream of black smoke slowly dissipates in the air, and the energy contained in it is much like a wizard's curse. One observation is not enough to make a definite conclusion, so he said to Edith's mother quietly: "madam, Edith's illness is basically OK, but we should also avoid catching a cold again. I found that you also have some symptoms. Can I have a check? ""Ah, thank you." Seeing that Edith's complexion was greatly improved, Mrs. Warren's attitude quickly improved: "I'm so sorry just now. I didn't know you were a doctor Is Oriental medicine so magical? "

"It's not medicine. It's mysticism. Please keep it secret." Zhao Mai didn't want to explain the problem in detail, so he had to take it with him.

This time, instead of expelling the disease as soon as he came up, he checked with the natural force. In Edith's mother, the condition is mild, which may be related to her relative strength. There was the same curse in her lungs, constantly sucking life, catalyzing the lesions, and then letting the bacteria carrying the same curse spread through the air. Curse itself does not cause disease, its all purpose is to copy itself, speed up the spread, so that the spread of bacteria farther, faster, affect more people.

The germs may be natural, but the curse must be man-made. Zhao Mai checked again and again, and basically determined that the curse was a wizard's magic technique, at least its energy fluctuation and magic composition had a similar style. With this kind of thing, to cure a person, you need to dispel the disease and remove the curse, and then you have to be careful to isolate to avoid reinfection.

Zhao Mai's magic power is not weak, but he can only treat single digit patients, so he can only take care of Tolkien's family first. If you want to treat more people, at least clear out a block and form a buffer zone on a small scale, you have to rely on the distribution of magic drugs. Although there is no panacea for all diseases, it is not difficult to use Druid medicine only for one specific disease. Besides, there is also the help of the medicine refining knowledge of the scholars from the continent of Westeros. The wizarding world also has the elixir to dispel the curse. This is also a recipe that students must learn in the potion class. Now the key is how to combine them. Ah duo and duo Jian clean up Edith's living room. Under the guidance of Xiao Hua, they put the materials in different categories and wait for Zhao Mai to do it.