Chapter 157

Chapter 157

In fact, Garrett Nordmark completely understood the feelings of Priest Matthew. If he were in charge, he wouldn’t want to measure the body temperature of so many animals either; one at a time was more than enough.

After all, it was too much trouble. Wearing a black bird beak suit, a large black hat, and round glasses, every measurement required removing gloves, washing hands, and disinfecting the thermometer—

Luckily, it was winter. If it were summer, wearing such an outfit and working hard, Garrett could only imagine succumbing to heatstroke on the spot.

Garrett did want to help, but firstly, his combat power was insufficient, and secondly, there was only one thermometer in total. Garrett could only watch nervously from the side, repeatedly cautioning:

"Be careful! Don’t break it!"

"Be careful! Don’t let the mercury spill! It could poison the animals!"

"I know, I haven’t finished disinfecting yet... It has to be done slowly; directly heating the glass tube will cause it to explode. You go wash your hands first..."

"Do I really have to wash my hands every time?"

After being asked to wash his hands for the 35th time, Priest Matthew finally couldn’t bear it:

"Measure once, wash once! Look at my hands, the skin is all wrinkled; another wash, and it’ll crack!"

Garrett sadly looked at him, pointing to the nearby box. Priest Matthew’s anger immediately subsided a bit:

In the box were the sausage skin gloves Garrett had prepared in advance—12345 pairs in total, all messy and thrown in there.

All for him to use; measure one animal, discard one pair, then measure another, and discard another pair. Garrett’s preparation could be described as extremely thorough; looking at this quantity, it seemed like he had scavenged every sausage skin he could find...

"Can’t they be reused?"

"No. Unless you want to experiment with cross-infection between animals, the test results won’t be accurate."

Garrett heartlessly rejected Priest Matthew. Changing gloves and washing hands were nothing; after all, in their emergency surgery, they had to wash their hands once for each patient, then wash again for the next patient...

Mage Harvey sneezed and casually picked up a red pen, ticking off that conclusion, and couldn’t be bothered to write any comments. The third one, the fourth one...

After reading about thirteen or fourteen papers in one go, Mage Harvey’s eyes were blurred, feeling like he didn’t recognize the words "bat" anymore. He casually threw away one more and grabbed the next paper:

"Research on a Disease Caused by Close Contact with Bats"

What... what?

Researching a disease?

Treating diseases is the work of healers, so why did you come to the magical council’s training class? Or is it that there’s a necromancer among this term’s students? I don’t remember there being one?

Mage Harvey’s instinct was to throw the paper away. However, with a glance, he happened to see the abstract below:

Recently, among adventurers capturing bats, some patients with similar symptoms have appeared. We conducted a comprehensive investigation of people in contact with bats and simultaneously performed animal experiments, confirming that bats may carry some unknown toxin, causing diseases in both animals and humans. The characteristics of this disease include: fever, headache, muscle pain, vomiting, and sore throat, followed by dizziness, drowsiness, and confusion...

Mage Harvey shuddered. He suddenly remembered that he had a slight fever and a bit of a sore throat a few days ago. At that time, he thought it was just a cold... If it was related to researching bats, then how many mages were affected? And how many mages would suffer serious consequences?

He carefully read on. Many of the research methods in this paper were unfamiliar to him, including a bunch of specifications for animal experiments. However, Mage Harvey could at least tell:

The person who wrote this paper put a lot of thought into designing this experiment, making it as detailed and accurate as possible, eliminating all possible interferences.

"In conclusion, we

can draw a preliminary conclusion: saliva, excrement, inhalation through the nasal cavity, or contamination during the eating process of bats in close contact may pose a pathogenic risk.

Therefore, it is recommended to wear masks when researching bats, and after the experiment, be sure to wash hands and face... Don’t let bat products come into contact with food..."

The more Mage Harvey read, the more serious his expression became. Finally, with Garrett’s thesis in hand, he knocked on the teacher’s door.

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