"Doctor! How is Wendy? What's wrong with her?" Rebecca asked anxiously as the ship's doctor examined Wendy. Vic and Barnett, Wendy's closest friends, also waited nervously for the results.
The ship's doctor, Ethan, looked rather grim. Seeing the eager looks in their eyes, he didn't know where to begin, and several times he tried to speak but swallowed his words back.
Seeing this, Vic and his friends knew that Wendy's illness was not simple. As the saying goes, "It's not the smiling doctor you should fear, but the doctor with a downcast look." At this moment, the doctor not only looked terrible, but he couldn't even speak. How serious must it be!
"Doctor! Say something! What's wrong with Wendy? You're not so incompetent as to not be able to figure it out, are you?" Rebecca stepped forward and grabbed the ship's doctor by the collar, questioning him loudly, her eyes already brimming with tears that seemed ready to spill over at any moment.
" Rebecca, put the doctor down! What happened to the manners I taught you? Listen to what the doctor has to say first!"
Vic's face was also a little pale, but as the leader, he couldn't afford to panic at this moment.
Rebecca, unwilling to accept Vic's words, gave up, turned around, and ran to a corner of the room, crouching down with her head down, her body still trembling slightly.
Ain didn't quite understand what the adults' behavior meant, but she felt that the atmosphere was very strange. Wendy seemed to be very sick. Ain grabbed Vic's clothes and leaned against Vic.
Barnett stared blankly at Wendy on the bed. The figure that used to seem to be always in front of him now felt so distant and blurry, as if it were getting further and further away!
Barnett felt a sudden, inexplicable pang of heartache, and it was hard to breathe. He realized he was about to lose something important, a feeling he had never experienced before.
Frodeku was an honest man, but not a fool. He couldn't possibly miss such an obvious abnormality from the doctor. Vic, Rebecca, Barnett, Wendy, Ain were the only people in his life, besides his own mother, who had treated him with genuine sincerity!
The time he spent on the warship was also the most relaxed, comfortable, and happiest period of his life. He didn't want to see any accident happen to any of these people, but now that one of them had an accident, he felt very bad.
"Doctor, just say what's on your mind. If you tell us, we can all work together to find a solution. If you keep saying this, we'll feel even more uncertain!" Vic said to the doctor again. This world is indeed a magical world where anything is possible, and Vic hadn't given up yet.
"Yes, Ethan, tell me what happened! He was fine yesterday, how did he become like this today?" Zephyr had rushed over after finishing his phone call, heard Vic's question as he entered the room and asked the same question. His student wasn't supposed to die on the battlefield, but instead, he was dying from illness? He found it hard to accept.
"Sir, gentlemen, after my detailed examination and testing, I have discovered that the patient is suffering from the Black Death, a highly virulent disease caused by Yersinia Bacterium, with a very short mortality period of only a few days!"
Moreover, that kind of bacteria hasn't appeared for hundreds of years, and there's no medicine to cure it anymore; even the prescription is nowhere to be found.
At first, I didn't believe it could be this disease, but after repeated testing, I had to give up. In this day and age, this is a terminal illness. I really don't know where this germ came from!
Ethan was truly helpless. He knew what the illness was, but he didn't know how to treat it. This was the greatest helplessness a doctor could feel. Ethan's face was full of bitterness and regret. Such a young life was about to end before his very eyes.
This result shattered their illusions. There was still a glimmer of hope when the doctor hadn't spoken, but now that the doctor had delivered the verdict, their last hope had been extinguished!
Rebecca's suppressed sobs were no longer suppressed, and her cries became louder. Whether Ain was infected by Rebecca's cries or heard that her sister Wendy was going to die, she also started to wail loudly. As she cried, she rushed toward Wendy on the bed, but Ethan stopped her.
"The Black Death can be transmitted through blood. The patient had many wounds on her body, and you have all been in contact with her, so you are also at risk of infection. I need to test you all first, so please don't go near her!"
All Ethan can do now is help a few people with their tests. He really has no ability to treat the Black Death. That pathogen had been extinct for hundreds of years. Who would have thought it would reappear now? There are no records of any treatment methods left.
" Ethan, what are you waiting for? Hurry up and investigate! This is no small matter!"
Zephyr was even more nervous now. He had just been feeling sorry for Wendy, but now all of Vic and the others were at risk of getting sick. If they were all wiped out, he would really regret it to death, and he probably wouldn't even want to be an instructor anymore.
"It must be that Lao Si, Fourth Brother. Wendy only fought him once in a short period of time and was injured. Killing him like this is too easy for him!" After hearing the doctor's words, Barnett immediately realized that the germs were spread by Lao Si Brother.
" Frodeku, have the doctor check the knife too, see if there's Yersinia Bacterium on the blade."
Vic thought of the Lao Si's weapon; if it really was the Lao Si who did it, then the germs were most likely on the blade.
Ethan then drew some blood from each of them and took Lunar Eclipse to the infirmary.
"Teacher, it seems we need to leave immediately. Wendy's illness must be treated right away, or she will surely die!" Zephyr Vic after Ethan left.
"Do you know where I can find a doctor who can treat this disease?" Zephyr's eyes held a glimmer of hope. Ethan's medical skills were decent, but not top-notch. The ocean was so vast; perhaps there really were people who could treat this disease.
"Right now, our only option is to go to the Drum Kingdom. It's a holy land for doctors, home to many highly skilled physicians, and it's not too far from here. We could definitely give it a try!"
What Vic really wants to go to is the island where Chopper trained for two years. It has maintained its pristine state and its history is definitely over several hundred years old. It's the place with the greatest potential for healing!
However, Vic doesn't know the exact location of the Bird Kingdom, and it's definitely much farther away than the Drum Kingdom. Wendy might not be able to hold out until then, and the Drum Kingdom has a long history as a medical superpower, so there's a high chance she can be cured.
" The Drum Kingdom? It certainly has many famous doctors; we could give it a try. But the warships can't leave here right now!"
Zephyr looked troubled and felt incredibly guilty. He was trying to save his own students, who might be some of the top students in the class!
"Is it because of the phone call just now?" Vic believed that Zephyr would never stand idly by in someone's life, especially since the person in question was his student. So it must be because of that phone call.
" Fleet Admiral Kong just called me and said that people from the World Government will be here in the next few days. As the middleman, I need to stay and witness this."
There are still matters on the island that haven't been resolved and need to be finished. Fleet Admiral Kong also gave me another order.
After things are settled here, we'll meet the Red Hair Pirates at Twin Cape. Everything's piled up, so we can't use a warship to send Wendy to the Drum Kingdom!
Zephyr was also in a real bind. If the call had come a little later, he could have tried to find a way to postpone it.