So Lu Yuan decided to devote himself entirely to the Plague Water.
Lu Yuan turned the Master Ledger to its section on the Plague Water. After reading it, he had to admit that some people really were geniuses. Judging by the proposals they had already ruled out, though, their research had hit a bottleneck.
For one thing, they had no one infected with the plague to study. They could only judge what the potion might do from small-scale experiments with tiny amounts of it.
They had left the following note:
"This potion has a clear incubation period. Before it takes effect, there are no signs of transmission. The exact length of that period remains unknown. To prevent accidents, we administered the potion to a captured Heretic. Four days have passed with no apparent complications. Since we cannot determine whether complications or transmission will occur, we recommend continued isolation and additional testing methods. Tests using the following medicinal ingredients have all failed."
Below that was a long list of ingredients. It saved Lu Yuan a great deal of time. Oden even spotted several he had intended to use, and the records made it clear they had failed.
"They even proposed an Ore Testing Theory." Lu Yuan turned another page. "But it's still under consideration. They haven't agreed on it yet."
That gave Lu Yuan another idea. There was no reason they had to use medicinal ingredients. They could try the ores mentioned here instead. Many ores reacted noticeably to Contamination; perhaps one would yield an unexpected result.
Someone had even suggested borrowing a statue from the Church, but the proposal had been rejected. The reason was simple: why would the Church lend them one of its Angel Statues? Besides, with so much territory and so many people in the Northern Territory,