In fact, Risadiran not only won't get lost himself, but also his horse won't get lost...
It really depends on what kind of people raise what kind of horses.
The Nordoma took Ansen back to Brettwen a few hours later, and Ansen also met the lord here again.
However, Ansen was stunned when he saw the corpse in the temple, because there was not a single corpse in this temple just one day ago.
One day ago, Ansen came to Brettwen.
He came here because someone from Erudition City told him that Brettwen had a lair of Snake Worship Cult a year ago.
Since Red Death is spread by Snake Worship Cult's people, then Ansen naturally wants to visit Snake Worship Cult's lair and maybe find clues to cure Red Death.
After all, things like Snake Heart Stone were first discovered from Snake Worship Cult. Many things that look evil can be used as criminal tools in the hands of people with malicious intentions, and when used in the hands of doctors, they may be able to cure diseases and save lives.
And Ansen has always believed that Snake Worship Cult's people may indeed be using Red Death to select fighters, but they must also have methods to suppress Red Death.
Of course, Ansen also knew that he was not good at going out alone. But Li Ang's troops were not in Erudition City for the time being, and before he became the real Radiant Cross Knight, Ansen was not willing to instruct the exterminators to do things, so he recruited some people on the spot at Erudition City.
Anyway, it was just to go to the nearby Brettwen to check out the former territory of Snake Worship Cult and look for clues. It was not for combat, and there was indeed no need to take away the despawning people who were already short of manpower.
Julia, who was looking for work at the time, became Ansen's temporary employee - Erudition City had been besieged by the rebel army before. She was sealed in the city for several months and was eager to find a job to earn a living.
In addition, Ansen recruits people without checking their identity, and Julia, a hidden and wanted criminal, only dares to find this kind of job...
Ansen was lucky. As soon as he arrived at Brettwen, he met a priest from Snake Worship Cult - in fact, Ansen was not sure whether the priest was from Snake Worship Cult, because the priest was a male, only wearing a green hooded cloak and a mask on his face.
The mask on his face does indeed look like something from Snake Worship Cult - the mask looks like a snake with wings, which is roughly what Aziz Dahaka looks like as depicted in Theological Seminary.
At that time, the priest was opening a sealed temple and brought out an unconscious patient from the temple who looked obviously infected with Red Death.
The patient looked quite scary, his whole body was soaked in blood, he looked like he was in the advanced stage of Red Death, and he even had snakeskin-like scales on his face.
In this situation, everyone was afraid of being infected by Red Death. As a result, most of the guards Ansen temporarily recruited ran away, except Julia.
In fact, the reason why Julia did not run away was just because she had an abnormal hatred for Snake Worship Cult - she planned to kill the Snake Worship Cult priest.
The priest is not very skilled, but Julia's level of fighting alone is not much higher...
During the fight, Julia's body was stained with the blood of the comatose patient, but he struggled for a long time but failed to kill the priest.
Ansen discovered that Julia wiped off the blood on his body and face, but there was no abnormality on his face.
After a normal person is exposed to the pus and blood from person Red Death, erythema will appear on the skin within a minute or two, but Julia is obviously just a normal human being, but nothing happens at all - this means that the blood from that patient is not contagious!
A patient who clearly looked like he was in the late stage of Red Death was covered in pus and blood, but he was not contagious... and the priest had directly touched this patient just now.
For doctors like Ansen, finding a way to suppress the spread of Red Death is more important than anything else. Even if there is still no way to save the disease after contracting the disease, if you can find a way to prevent it from being contagious, it is equivalent to finding the best medicine.
So he took advantage of the priest to be entangled with Julia and sneakily rushed towards the patient.
When the Snake Worship Cult priest saw Ansen running toward the patient, he seemed to become anxious. Then the priest summoned a devoured person covered in snake skin, probably planning to kill Ansen, and then ran away with the patient.
But at this time, Ansen rushed forward like the most heroic knight. The doctor, who had no fighting ability, actually kicked over the priest and the devoured person who was not walking steadily. Then he and Julia dragged the patient and ran towards the lake.
The doctor was indeed very lucky. He found a small boat at the small dock behind the temple - obviously this was the priest's boat.
I don't know why Ansen had such strong explosive power at that time. Maybe people's belief is indeed the most powerful weapon.
People were robbed, and even the boat was robbed. The priest was probably angered, and he played a strange flute.
Then Ansen and Julia saw a large group of devoured people coming from all directions, so they quickly rowed their boats and ran away from the lake.
However, in their panic, they took the wrong direction.
"So... this is probably Antonius who was originally supposed to be lying in the temple?... It seems that the corpse in the temple was re-sealed by the priest... It's really strange, why did the priest have to do these things in this temple?"
Li Ang was keenly aware of the anomaly - if this was a ritual, wouldn't it be possible to perform it somewhere else?
What exactly is this ritual for?
"Sir, I remember that the mysterious man said that these are nine hundred and ninety-nine corpses and one divinely chosen warrior... Evil rituals with this number should be rare. Governor Justus's daughter, Miss Luciana, may know - it is said that Miss Luciana has read all the books that Erudition City can find."
The speaker is Sigismund. It seems that he heard the rumors about Luciana during the time when Bax was engaged in the gladiator uprising, but obviously he still does not know that Alina is Luciana.
"The problem is... Luciana is not in Erudition City, her current name is Alina, and now she is with Justus in Imperial Port... How about you and Kloze, let's go together and bring Alina back? Kloze, by the way, I'll leave you in Imperial Port's armored ship to deal with it. You guys go to Imperial Port to rent a dock in the name of Silver Hand."
Li Ang really intends to find out the meaning of this ceremony, which may lead to the truth about Red Death.
Ansen is currently treating patients on the spot in Brettwen village.
This patient must indeed be Antonius. Anyway, he looks very similar to Governor Kairos.
He didn't die, nor did he become something like a devoured person - he still had breathing and heartbeat, but it was very weak.
But thinking about what he has been through... to be able to survive being tortured to this point is considered to be a very tough life.
"Ansen, are you sure his Red Death is really not contagious?"
Since Noldo Elves and the female soldiers were sent out to search for Ansen and have not returned yet, Li Ang is currently surrounded by either rude gladiators or macho men who have no knowledge of medical and health knowledge. As a result, the only person who can serve as an assistant to Ansen is actually Li Ang himself...
Although the lord never thought that one day he would be a part-time nurse, but in order to find a way to control Red Death, he was willing to do some hard work.
Perhaps, this is the reason why a kind-hearted and soft-hearted person like Ansen has always been devoted to the cruel lord.
"I'm sure, sir, otherwise I would have been infected by now. He should be anesthetized by Snake Heart Stone now, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to wake him up, he is too weak... I can confirm that he was poisoned at the same time as he was infected with Red Death, And this poison may be able to inhibit the infection of Red Death... and even suppress Red Death from letting its body fester. I don't know what this poison is now, but now that I know the cause, I can always try it..."
Ansen has never rested, but he is still full of energy. He keeps walking around the patient, using various medical tools to extract blood and broken skin fragments from the patient, and refuses to stop for a moment.
"This place is not suitable for research. Maybe we should take him to Erudition City or Calundru Castle..."
Li Ang said hesitantly, but he felt that this patient probably couldn't stand the torture anymore and might die at any time.
"Then he will probably die on the road... Sir, we have to keep him alive until we find out what kind of poison he was poisoned..."
Ansen raised his eyes and shook his head seriously.
"Okay, you are a doctor, and you have the final say... However, if he can't be saved, you can't be sure what kind of poison he was poisoned, right? We have to find a way to add some water to him, and then let him wake up... Otherwise, I think he may never wake up again."
Li Ang took out a long hollow needle from Ansen's medicine box, looked at it carefully, and then began to clean it.
This should be a long hollow needle used to balance chest pressure. It is two millimeters thick but one and a half feet long - this is a common situation after serious trauma to the chest and abdomen. This hollow needle must be used to relieve pressure in the chest cavity when necessary.
This kind of hollow silver needle is valuable, and only doctors with a relatively high level like Ansen have this kind of equipment.
Ansen maintains these instruments very well. In this era, Ansen is one of the most hygienic people, and the needles are kept very clean.
"Sir... you are right... but if you want to give him water, you should insert a gastric tube, which is a needle to treat pneumothorax..."
Ansen looked up and agreed with Li Ang's decision. He also felt that the patient really needed to be hydrated. If he could wake the person up, he could at least determine the composition of the poison through consultation.
"No, I think we should try this... The way he looks now, watering him may not be of any use."
Li Ang took out two round... fruits from his saddle bag.
That's coconut, one of the most reassuring fruits in this era.
Most of the southern part of the Bacchus Empire is a low-altitude hot and humid area with plenty of sunshine. Coconut trees grow everywhere. Li Ang's troops previously obtained a lot of coconuts in Fidne village.
Any army will pay great attention to obtaining reliable food and water along the way, and as the supreme leader of the army, there will naturally be someone who prepares this most reliable backup material for the lord.
"He had been bled before and had not been rehydrated, so he had to be given an infusion... which was to introduce coconut water into his blood."
Li Ang gestured twice with the needle, and then began to repeatedly burn the long hollow needle on the fire.
"You mean to pour coconut water into his veins?"
Ansen looked at Li Ang's movements hesitantly. "Can fruits also replenish blood?"
"Of course other fruits can't do it, but coconut can... Of course, it can only be used in emergencies. Coconut is not plasma after all."
Li Ang said with certainty.
Although Ansen's medical skills are already considered to be quite advanced by the Pande Continent, he can understand that weak people need to quickly replenish nutrients, and he can also understand that directly injecting blood vessels is the fastest way, but he obviously cannot understand that coconut water can actually be injected into blood vessels.
However, fresh coconut water that has not been opened can indeed be used as a substitute for sterile plasma and glucose solutions in emergencies.
Since there was no reliable catheter, Li Ang directly used the long needle to complete the connection between the coconut and the patient - his hand was relatively stable, and he only inserted it three times into the vein in the patient's arm. Then he asked Ansen to take a net bag and hang the patient's arm and the coconut above his head.
Ansen Although he didn't understand it very well, he knew that the lord would not act recklessly at such a time.
Just like when he first treated Eric, Eric was no longer angry, but the lord told him not to give up, and he was really saved.
Of course, this time is different from the original rescue of Eric.
This time Li Ang and Ansen do not expect to completely restore Antonius to health. They only need to let Antonius wake up for a period of time.
"Sir, do you think... that blood transfusion can be done between people? In the past, my teacher also tried to transfuse the blood of another death row prisoner into an injured person who had lost too much blood, but the injured person still died in the end..."
Ansen looked at the coconut and said.
"Of course blood can be transfused between people, but each person's blood is different. Injecting mismatched blood is equivalent to injecting poison, which will lead to death, and we currently cannot distinguish the type of blood... If they are brothers from the same mother, they should be able to transfuse each other's blood."
Li Ang popularized common sense to Ansen that could not be discovered in this age without microscopes.
"Blood transfusion... Red Death... Injecting mismatched blood is equivalent to injecting poison... Sir, do you think Noldo blood is poison to humans? By the way... I remember you said before that King Ulrich once tried to find the blood of a Noldor noble girl?"
Ansen murmured to himself for a while, and then suddenly mentioned what happened half a year ago.
Li Ang was stunned for a moment.
"Yes... Noldo Elves will not be infected with Red Death... He is looking for a Noldor noble girl, probably for stronger magic power? A Noldor noble girl like Wendy has purple eyes, which obviously means magic power... And Risadiran also said that magic power may be vitality..."
Ansen looked at Li Ang, and his words became smoother and smoother. "Sir, do you think the king wanted to transfuse Noldo maidens's blood into his own body? Is the madness inherited in their family... really a madness?"
"Ansen... You are a genius."
Li Ang's eyes suddenly lit up and he looked at Antonius, who was still unconscious. "Maybe... he was not poisoned... but was injected with the blood of elves."