Goddess Wanhua Mirror

Lu De once wanted to eliminate the barrier, but two vicious incidents happened one after another, forcing him to give up his original plan.One is that someone in the village actually poisoned the food of the demi-humans, and the other is that someone intentionally mutilated the demi-humans and cut off their ears to exchange for money.

On the official level, these demihumans who have a bad relationship with humans are regarded as "pests" equivalent to monsters. Therefore, there are long-term rewards, which can be exchanged for money with the severed left ear.The price of the bounty is not high. The bounty is usually 1 to 2 copper coins for weak individuals like gray goblins and goblins.

Less is less, but some people still use this as meat!

So in desperation, Lude gave up the multi-racial cohabitation, and found an opportunity to let these demi-humans who had been bullied on the human land leave the village.

However, Lude just transferred these demihumans to other places, and did not really release them, allowing them to return to their past living conditions. Instead, they found a secluded valley and asked Ned Hogg to come. Half a ton of Baba, rich in dragon flavor, was piled up at the downwind of the valley, creating a place for these demihumans to live in peace and accept Lude's civilized education.

This group of Asians has six races and more than 200 people. They are currently living in the "Xanadu" created by Lude for them. They are learning to live like humans, and they are already doing well in farming and animal husbandry.

Among them, the kobolds headed by Ah Qin, because they have certain combat effectiveness and are very good at tracking, they will help Lu De to do things from time to time.

In order to find out what happened in the woods, Lude tried to summon the kobold rangers who might be patrolling here with the dog whistle that he carried with him, but it turned out that it was the captain Ah Qin who never expected to come.

Among all the kobolds, Ah Qin is the smartest one. The breed of the dog head looks a bit like a border shepherd, and the side face looks like the head of a fishing anchor. Therefore, Lu De named him "Ah Qin" and gave him a red scarf. , as the captain of the Kobold Rangers.

Ah Qin, who was summoned by Lu De, jumped off his mount as soon as he came, and knelt down in front of Lu De. The sub-human residents in "Taoyuan" currently respect Lu De as the "Father of God", and collectively believe in the God of Medicine. In terms of piety alone, they are not inferior to the villagers of Pine Tree Village.

But they worship Lud more than their so-called gods.

Their obedience to the strong and their gradual understanding of gratitude made them respect Lud who gave them a new life.They believed in the God of Medicine, largely because Lu De believed in it, so they also believed in it.

"Sir, what are your orders?"

"Get up and talk, and ask you something."

The kobolds are old residents of the Void Forest, and they are wandering people who migrate around, so they may not be well-informed, but at least they know more than humans from the south.

Lu De told Ah Qin what happened to the dwarf construction team, and also mentioned the strange fragrance in the blood of the infected.

After Ah Qin finished listening, he showed a thoughtful expression.

"My lord, I seem to have heard a legend similar to this from an old dog in the clan."

"What kind of legend?"

"I heard it a long time ago. Now I only remember a general idea. It is said that there is a mushroom with a blue cover and a green bottom in the forest. It smells very fragrant and tastes super delicious, but the spores it scatter are deadly. Many Animals will be attracted by the aroma of this mushroom, and once they accidentally inhale the spores, they will be parasitized by the mushroom, be horribly cursed, and besieged by other living creatures crazily. This story feels very similar to what you just said, my lord. "

After listening to Ah Qin's story, Lu De gradually got some clues.

Assuming that this story is not fictional, and that there is such a mushroom whose spores can parasitize living bodies, many things would indeed make sense.

So Lu De ordered Ah Qin to immediately recall all the kobold rangers outside and return to Taoyuan, but not to enter the village after returning, but to isolate for a period of time at the stronghold outside the village, waiting for his next instructions.

Lude then gave him some medicine. Although the magical medicine could not completely remove the spores in the blood, it could have a certain containment effect, and he should be able to persist until he found a way to detoxify.

After sending Ah Qin away, Lu De returned to a messy construction site. According to the distinctive feature of "blue cover and green bottom", he soon found a large basket of poisonous mushrooms in a storage tent at the campsite.

Lude complained in his heart, these dwarves are also big-hearted, they dare to eat mushrooms that grow like this, they just don't know how to write dead words.

In fact, on this point, Lude misunderstood the dwarves. They did not collect this mushroom for eating, but collected samples of unknown animals and plants for analysis.It's just that they underestimated the characteristics of this mushroom, which led to the current tragedy.

Lude speculates that the spores of this blue-capped mushroom will infect the creatures that come into contact with it, causing it to emit a hallucinogenic poisonous gas. Other creatures around are affected by the poisonous gas, and will attack the infected creature, and finally kill it. become a breeding ground for spores.

Judging from Nidhogg's previous infection experience, if the infected creature is eaten by other predators, the spores in the blood will also have a high probability of entering the predator's body.

Thanks to the superior physique of the Dragon Clan, the poisonous gas emitted by the spores is ineffective against the Dragon Clan. Otherwise, when Ned Hogg returns home, what awaits him will be a ruthless "domestic violence" from his beloved wife.

Lu De carefully collected a few mushrooms and some scattered green spores with a sealed jar, and then returned to the wounded to continue looking after them.

At this time, the dragon's chant came from the sky, and Ned Hogg came back with Charlotte. They had already notified everything they could find according to Lude's instructions.

"My lord, we have already notified you that something happened to a total of seven construction teams. The situation is similar, and the survivors have all gone to the dungeon. My lord, what are you doing with a poisonous mushroom?"

Noticing the blue-capped mushroom in Luther's hand, Charlotte looked a little puzzled.Lu De hurriedly reminded him to keep his distance, then pointed to the mushroom and said.

"This thing is the chief culprit that lures the dwarves to kill each other. Its spores are poisonous and will cause people to have terrible hallucinations!"

"What! Wasn't it done by a monster?"

Lude shook his head, and told Ned Hogg and Charlotte the conclusion he had deduced, but what made him feel a little puzzled was that the timing of the appearance of these poisonous mushrooms was too coincidental, and the seven construction teams involved in the accident , the farthest two teams are nearly [-] miles apart in a straight line. Even if the rains have been frequent in the past two days and the air humidity is very suitable for the growth of fungi, there is no reason to be poisoned together at such a close time on the same day.

Unless...these mushrooms were placed on purpose!

At Lude's request, Ned Hogg will be responsible for transferring the fifteen infected people from the camp to the underground city for isolation.

With so many dwarves, it is not enough to use all the claws on their limbs, and it is even more impossible for Ned Hogg to allow them to ride on his back, so everyone used local materials to transform two man-carrying pods from the caravan compartment. The dwarves sat in the gondola, and Nid Hogg carried them away.

Carrying two pods, the giant dragon flew into the sky and headed towards the location of the underground city in the north.Lu De looked at the distant figure of the other party, and couldn't help but think of the takeaway boy on the other side of the earth in his mind.

"In the future, maybe we can consider recruiting the couple to join us and start a logistics company together. We will definitely make a lot of money!"

"My lord, what did you just say?"

"Some talk to themselves, nothing. It's getting dark, let's go back to the village."

After Nid Hogg left, Lude and Charlotte, who stayed at the camp, left directly on the goat mounts that failed to evacuate with the team, and finally returned to the village before dark.

Lude told Jon what he had learned from a distance of more than 20 meters, and then returned to the temple with the mushroom samples he had collected. He locked himself in the basement and studied the mushrooms while self-isolating.

Back in the basement, Lu De first called the three sisters, took out a sketch of the microscope he had drawn before, and after carefully explaining the working principle of this equipment, asked them to find a way to make one for themselves.

Then he took out the Book of Ashes, summoned Hydera again, and asked her if she knew this blue-capped mushroom, and whether the lizardmen of the Grayscale clan had ever owned this mushroom, and got a positive answer.

"I know this one. The lizard people call it the Devil's Umbrella. Priests use this as medicine. I used to grow this in my lair."

"Won't you be affected?"

"I won't, it seems that lizardmen won't either, and creatures with scales are not affected. Oh yes! Dragons are the exception, they don't have hallucinations, but they keep sneezing."

According to Hydera, the spores of this mushroom called the Devil's Umbrella will pick and infect the target. The main victims seem to be warm-blooded animals, while cold-blooded reptiles are fine.Although the dragons are reptiles, their body temperature is also hot, so they will also be infected. Relying on their strong resistance, they will only show a reaction similar to hay fever.

To deal with this kind of fungal infection, the "Old Dragon Recipe" that Nidhogg asked for from an old man was soaking in magma, using the high temperature of the magma to raise the temperature in the body, thus having a bactericidal effect.

But the problem now is that with such an awesome treatment method, apart from the dragon race with rough skin and thick flesh, it may be difficult to find a second race that can be used.After all, with the high temperature of thousands of degrees in the magma, not only the fungus died, but also the dwarves went down, and there was no ash left.

"I have to think of a feasible way..."

According to the current known situation, the effect of magical potions with healing and detoxification effects on this type of fungal infection is not obvious. Lude needs to develop a targeted new drug to restrain this spore.

Soon, the three sisters built the world's first microscope according to Luther's request.The thing is very useful, the only problem is that the three sisters have inherited the aesthetic preferences of the dwarves, and the microscope they made is astonishingly large, nearly 1.5 meters in height, and Luther needs to stand up to operate it.

Fortunately, the magnification is really powerful, and the definition is also very high. Considering that the three sisters are real goddesses, this giant microscope is definitely a magic weapon!

With the help of a microscope, Lu De finally saw the true appearance of the mushroom spores.He had to admit that the names of those lizard people were very accurate, the word devil was used just right, and the growth of these spores was really ghostly.

Those infected people inhaled these tiny spore particles completely without realizing it, and then invaded the blood, causing the infected people to emit a very fragrant body odor.It's a pity that this pleasant smell has a strong hallucinogenic effect, otherwise this stuff would definitely be a boon for body odor sufferers.

With the help of a microscope, Ludd next began to prepare the potion, dripping some extracts with the effect of curbing the growth of the fungus on the spores, and then watched the spores react after exposure.

As long as you find something that can restrain the spores, the next step is to mix Aina's tear diluent into it, trying to strengthen the antiseptic effect.

Lu De did not study medicine in his previous life, but this did not prevent him from creating a unique set of "Lu's Medicine" based on his own experience.

Lude is doing a comparative experiment. At the same time, in the dwarven dungeon, the isolation point has been established. With the help of the dragon, thousands of people from more than a dozen construction teams, according to the "infected" and "Contacts" were isolated to two special areas for observation.

The dwarf chief priest, Wenig, had just read the letter sent by Ludtony De Hogg, and his brows were already frowning together.

In this forest, it seems that there are some hostile forces that do not want the dwarves to take back their homeland, and they are waiting for an opportunity to attack them!

End of this chapter

Here in the dungeon, with the arrival of the last dwarf construction team, among the eleven teams gathered, there are 570 seven infected people who have been confirmed, accounting for one-third of the total number, and another 170 People are missing, and the remaining nearly [-] people are all contacts who also need to be quarantined.

Half of the infected people died due to being attacked by their companions, and the rest were also seriously injured, and only survived by the medicine provided by Lude.Many contacts later learned that the "monster" they attacked was actually a fellow worker of the same race, and their guilt made them fall into deep self-blame.

The chief priest, Wenig, is currently the highest person in charge of the dungeon. He would have arrived in a few days, but he never thought that such an emergency would happen today. Ned Hogg, who was giving it away, took the "Shunfeng Dragon" to come first.

According to Lu De's letter, this is obviously an organized and premeditated "terrorist attack", and the biggest suspects are undoubtedly the lizardmen who once occupied this dwarf dungeon.

About this lizardman clan named Grayscale, Winig had heard a little bit about it in Pine Tree Village.A few months ago, under the leadership of the God of War Cult, pioneers and adventurers in the border area formed a motley coalition to launch a crusade against the Greyscale Clan. There are still thousands of lizard people who escaped.

So from the current point of view, this incident is very likely to be the revenge of these lizardmen.

Fortunately, the situation is not completely out of control, and the dwarves are not alone.

The night was peaceful, but many people are destined to have no sleep.The dwarves on the side of the dungeon are hurrying to consolidate the fortifications to prevent a possible second attack.

On the side of the temple, Lude also worked an all-night shift, which finally allowed him to find several types that could significantly inhibit the spores.

Contrary to Lude's initial expectations, he thought that the spores that could parasitize dragons would be difficult to deal with. Nid Hogg had to soak in the magma for half a month before he succeeded in killing all the remaining spores in his body.

But after actual research, Lu De found that the spores reacted differently with temperature changes. The most stable temperature range is between 25 and 35 degrees, which is the most suitable temperature range for growth.When the temperature exceeds 35 degrees, it will gradually enter an active state. Many tentacles protrude from the surface of the spores, and they can swim freely in the culture solution and actively go to places with lower temperatures.

And when the temperature exceeds 60 or lower than 25, the spores will stop growing and reacting, and enter a "defensive posture". It will disintegrate and collapse because it cannot withstand the high temperature.

Based on these changes, Lu De figured out the law of spore infection.Temperature-changing creatures like lizardmen whose body temperature is below 25 degrees are naturally immune because their body temperature is not suitable for spore growth. Humans and dwarves and other warm-blooded animals with a constant temperature are the best culture tanks.

The giant dragons are more interesting. They belong to high-temperature animals. When Lude treated Tawawa's wounds, he discovered that the body temperature of the dragons is frighteningly high, and the blood can even reach the level of scalding.

Lu De speculates that the normal body temperature of the dragons may be around 70 degrees, so as soon as the spores enter their bodies, they will immediately fall into a state of autism, but the spores in this mode are still tenaciously maintaining their survival, so the super dragon The powerful immune system will remind the brain with "continuous sneezing" that "dirty things" have entered the body, and quickly find a way to deal with them.

So an experienced giant dragon will find a crater, drill into the hot magma and take a bath, temporarily raising the body temperature to above 90 degrees, so as to achieve a kind of "in vivo sterilization" effect.

According to Nidhogg's own introduction, except for the Frost Dragon, all of their dragon clan are experts in high temperature resistance, especially the red dragon of the fire department. It reached an ultra-high temperature three times that of magma within seconds, and then exploded on the spot.

However, humans and dwarves are not giant dragons after all, and they cannot casually raise their body temperature above 90 degrees, so after thinking about it, Lude believes that the "active state" of the temperature range of 35 to 60 degrees should be used as much as possible to prevent the spores from infecting The victim's body is forced out!

In addition, in the previous series of tests, Lude also found that many spices with strong flavors, such as chili and garlic, and their solutions can also produce a rejection reaction to the spores, so a special set of "detoxification therapy" gradually developed in Lude's mind. forming……

Pine Tree Village is currently in a state of closure. Four construction teams and some adventurers have been forcibly quarantined. Among them, 55 infected people who have been confirmed to have been exposed to blue mushrooms are fewer than those in the dungeon. The teams withdrew in a timely manner, so before the impact began, the infected people were isolated separately.

These infected dwarves were held alone in separate huts, guarded by dwarf guards wearing "sacred masks" outside the door, saying that they were isolated, but many people felt that this was like going to jail.

Fortunately, the average level of education of dwarves is relatively high, so the corresponding proportion of troublemakers is also lower. The infected dwarves have been clearly informed of the harm they may cause to the people around them, so they consciously accepted the isolation and did not shout Saying "freedom" and doing some really stupid things.

However, self-consciousness is self-consciousness, and the emotion of fear is still spreading rapidly among these infected people.Because the spores that are constantly growing in their blood are themselves a "time bomb", they will burst out sooner or later, and this feeling of slowly waiting to die is not at all pleasant.

One of the 55 infected, Barry the Dwarf, was previously part of the Second Logging Squad.On the day of the incident, Barry and another worker found a decayed tree trunk near the construction site, with many blue mushrooms that smelled very fragrant growing on it.

Barry likes to drink mushroom soup very much. He saw that there were squirrels eating this kind of mushrooms at that time, and there was nothing wrong with them, so he concluded that these brightly colored mushrooms should not be poisonous, so he picked some and prepared to keep them for the night Stew soup to drink.

As a result, the construction team received a signal and retreated to the rear before the mushrooms were picked.Barry didn't know until he was investigated that there was something wrong with that mushroom.But the matter has come to this point, it is too late to regret, and Barry and other dwarf friends who have been in contact with this mushroom are all quarantined.

Before entering the "single room", Barry handed in most of his personal belongings, only some small items that could not be used for escape and suicide could be brought with him, including a small and delicate wooden sculpture.

Barry is a believer. He was baptized by the chief priest Wenig himself five days ago and became a believer who believes in the Three Goddesses of Craftsmanship.Although according to the teachings preached by Winig, the three sisters of the goddess are a trinity, believers who join the religion should believe in these three at the same time, and at the same time receive the blessings of the three goddesses.

However, in Barry's heart, he actually prefers the youngest of the three sisters and the third sister, Lachesis, to the more mature and beautiful elder sister Atropos and the vigorous second sister Croto, and he feels this The little goddess is very cute, far more to my appetite than her two older sisters.

So he carved a statue of Lachesis by himself, placed the statue on the window sill on the sunny side, prayed devoutly every day, and wiped it carefully with cotton cloth from time to time. Relying on his belief in the gods, Barry's two The day was fairly peaceful, and he did not suffer physically and mentally like other inmates.

On the third day after being locked in the single room, Barry, who was cleaning the idol, suddenly heard footsteps coming from the door, and an old human man wearing a mask walked in.

Barry knew this person. He was a priest of the local Medicine God Sect, and he was very famous among human beings. When Barry and his friends went to watch the drama "Romeo and Juliet" together, he had seen this man from afar. Big people sitting together.

Under normal circumstances, Barry, who believed in crafting the three goddesses, did not need to salute the pagan priests, but the chief priest Wenig said when he baptized them that the three goddesses and the gods of medicine and love believed by local humans It is an ally relationship. Several goddesses belong to a god organization called Pantheon, so Lude is their ally sect, and the believers are all a family.

So after a little hesitation, Barry saluted obediently.

"Good evening, my lord priest."

"Good evening, child. How are you feeling these two days? Do you feel uncomfortable in your body?"

"No, your medicine is very effective."

According to previous findings, although Evelina's tears cannot remove the spores in the infected person's body, they can curb its spread. Therefore, the infected person who is quarantined must drink a cup of diluted liquid medicine for three meals a day, otherwise they will die. After three days, even if these infected people were not beaten to death by the people around them because of the "taunting effect" given by the spores, mushrooms should grow by now.

After Lude entered the room, he first asked Barry a few simple questions. At this moment, he noticed the wooden statue on the window sill, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at this delicate statue.

"The craftsmanship is very good, and it can be seen that you have poured a lot of faith into it, and the goddess will bless those pious people."

Hearing Lude's praise, Barry scratched his head in embarrassment. At this moment, Lude looked him up and down, and continued.

"Barry, I think you should know that those infected people who have been exposed to the devil cap mushroom have a large number of spores parasitized in their bodies. This is not a poison in the traditional sense, so conventional antidotes are basically ineffective against it. You must use some Special therapy can cure. I just went around the quarantine area looking for the first batch of volunteers to receive treatment, you are a man of faith, so I hope you can participate, but I will not force you, Do you want to?"

As soon as Lude said "special treatment" and "volunteer", many scary pictures flashed in Barry's mind.

He remembered that a few years ago, he went to see a dentist who was said to be experienced. He thought it would not hurt him too much, but he was coaxed by the other party into a reclining chair with a restraint device, and then looked at him in horror. Then the old dwarf took out such a big hammer.

After that, he never believed the doctor's nonsense anymore.

However, Barry also knew that since he was infected with a strange disease, it was impossible to procrastinate like this forever. If he wanted to survive, he had to receive treatment, and the sooner the better.

So after hesitating again and again, Barry gritted his teeth and decided to give it a go!

"I, I am a volunteer."

"Very well, you are brave, boy. Come with me."

Under the leadership of Lu De, Barry left the single room of the custody and came to the middle of the isolation area.It was originally a well-organized open space, but now there are some buildings. Barry saw someone burning a fire, and also smelled a food aroma that he had never smelled before, which seemed to be some kind of barbecue.

"Is it necessary to eat before starting the treatment?"