Giant of Light: I am the Old Ones

Chapter 395 Research on Green Letters
"All the patients were temporarily gathered here. The spell machine did not detect pollution in the air, but some strange things were found in the blood of these patients."

The speaker was a man in his 30s wearing a priest's robe, with short blond hair, and holding a church book in his hand at all times.Compared with the church's godly temperament, this man's style is more like that of a scholar.

"So, this -" He glanced at Amanda's uniform and continued: "Mr. Anduin, as the youngest person sent by the academy, you are really the youngest one, do you have any insights on these things? Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I am Hopes Warren, a mid-level priest."

Amanda nodded and said, "I can't talk about insights, but I need to know the ins and outs of things first."

Hopps glanced at Sherlock next to Amanda with a playful look and said, "Let our great detective explain."

The two of them obviously knew each other, and they seemed to be somewhat acquainted with each other.

"The warning sign on the floor means there is danger above the fourth floor. The numbers on the clothes of the patients here cover all the first to seventh floors. The number of people also matches the number of people registered in the lobby on the first floor, so no original patient died last night." Sherlock As he began to speak, he walked around Hopps and came to the opened cordon. He stretched his head curiously and took a few glances, "There are obvious traces of rodent bites on the body, which are transmitted by blood. You guys before It is advertised that there is no danger in high places, and this is indeed true outside of hospitals. So the only soldiers who were sent to high floors with a certain risk of infection are those soldiers who were injured in previous battles. Some of those soldiers have changed, right? . First, the doctor who treated the wound discovered the abnormality, and then reported it to the priest. I need to see the soldier before I can make the next step of reasoning. Speaking of which, it is not polite to say that I am still looking forward to seeing something. Mutated features like one hand, body covered with hair, or spikes. I’ve only heard of it in the legends of drunkards before.”

"Perhaps the wound developed honeycomb-like features that attracted rodents to colonize it."

He finally added, looking at Pastor Hopps as if he still had some doubts, and asked:
"So, what about the corpses of those bugs? It's clean here. Even the patient's cuffs and collars don't have any traces of those little bugs. Your nurses can't clean it so meticulously."

Hopps was very satisfied with Sherlock's account and said: "It's basically correct. Some early patients did react to being bitten by bugs. Their bodies evaporated after leaving the human body. Yes, they evaporated like smoke. Just As recorded in the classics, some kind of demon turns his blood into mosquitoes and corrodes the earth. After sucking enough human blood, it will return to hell on its own."

Amanda listened to the conversation between the two and roughly understood what happened.

Some of the soldiers involved in the battle were contaminated, which then led to infections in the mission hospitals treating them.Although it is affiliated with the church, St. John's Hospital still belongs to the apparently secular class and does not have a deep understanding of those monsters and monsters.

When doctors examined the wound and came into contact with the blood, they just followed normal medical methods and were completely unaware of what kind of disease they were dealing with.

"Then what are you waiting for? Come and take a look. After finishing your business, I still have my own business to deal with."

Sherlock Holmes had taken over the conversation and arranged the course of events.This may be why some people hate him and some people like him.

Hopps shrugged and signaled: "You are disturbing Miss Aniya again. She is in good health. She did not live above the fourth floor yesterday and there are no wounds on her body. You have disturbed her five times this month, even though The lockdown in London started the day before yesterday, and you were also moving around with your detective certificate. It was the certificate issued by the academy."

People in the church always like to talk about the academy, as if they will feel unhappy if they don't prove that the academy has brought them trouble.

"Is that Miss Aniya the third person on the list who is going to die tonight?"

Amanda asked, and Sherlock nodded. He pointed to the gray-haired woman with an amputated lower limb who was being cared for on the hospital bed in the corner. She is in her 20s, with a thin face and some freckles on her face. She is a beauty, but her overall temperament is too melancholy, making people reluctant to get close to her.

"Her father was a Frenchman who came to do business, and she grew up in London. After automobiles were widely used, there was a car accident. Miss Aniya was amputated, and her parents failed to save her, and she sank to the bottom of the river. What a misfortune that this poor lady was on that death list.”

"So, what do these dead people have in common?"

"No, I didn't find anything in common except that they were both alive before they died."

The two communicated all the way, and under the leadership of Hopps, they passed the tightly guarded staircase and were handed to a room on the sixth floor.

The sheets and bedding on the wards inside have been collected away, and all the rooms on this floor are using dehumidifiers to absorb the moisture in the air, making it uncomfortable to breathe here, and the nose is itchy, and even a little tingling .

"Bed No. [-], our people have put in a lot of effort, but we haven't been able to clean up this trace."

Hopps knew this place well, showing a trace of blood on the board of bed No. [-], a green blood stain.

"This is something that can be observed with the naked eye. The most unusual thing about the blood in the wounded soldiers' wounds is that their color is green."

At this time, a man wearing a low-level priest's robe was also brought in.

"Danvi, the youngest student of my teacher Father Raziel. He was also the first to discover the problem of the blood of the injured. Father Raziel has other things to be busy with, let Danvi tell you."

Hopps introduced, letting the shy junior brother move forward.

Danwei took a few deep breaths and began to talk:

"We found an obvious rejection reaction when we gave a blood transfusion to a soldier who was seriously injured and had massive bleeding. The identity plate of the academy's combat troops will indicate the blood type for the convenience of treatment procedures after injury. Therefore, this rejection reaction It has nothing to do with the blood type we transfused, it comes from the wounded themselves. Out of caution, I conducted blood samples on other soldiers who were not so seriously injured and found that they could no longer accept the normal blood type transfusion. After reporting to Lazi After Father Er, the nurse told me that the blood of the soldier who was bleeding began to flow back and infected our blood bag. Then, the bag of blood turned green and exploded. Green-gold bugs flew away in dense numbers. He drove around the building, biting anyone he saw. We took some preventive measures and sealed off the building. The unfortunate soldier fell into a coma and is still being treated in the intensive care unit. Only the blood of similarly injured soldiers could be transfused to him and save his life."

(End of this chapter)