The Last Alchemist

Around noon, Rosen used a wooden boat found by the river to send more than 500 people to the other side of the Bishui River, and gave each person ten kilograms of magic potatoes.

After sending the last group of people away, Rosen returned to the academy alone by boat. Looking at the crowd on the other side of the Bishui River getting farther and farther away, he silently said in his heart: "The road ahead is bumpy, I wish you good luck."

After that, he turned and walked back to the ruins of the academy.

In the ruins around the stone house, people have already started to get busy.

With Rosen here, there is no need to worry about safety and food issues for the time being, but the problem of accommodation must be solved immediately. If there is another freezing rain on this winter night, it will be really unbearable.

Under the command of Lilith and others, people used wood, fur, leaves and other materials found on the ruins to build simple cabins with the stone house as the center.

In one morning, more than a dozen cabins around the stone house have been completed. Although the structure is very simple, it is enough to keep out the cold.

Seeing that everyone was busy and sweating, Rosen didn't bother them. He waved to Lilith from a distance and walked into the hall of the stone house.

The hall was also crowded with people, about 70 or so, all of whom were sick, a small number of whom were injured, and most of whom had caught a cold. Some of the serious ones had a high fever.

Among these patients, the injured were fine, and their wounds were basically treated. Those adults who caught a cold were not in big trouble. As long as they had enough rest, enough food and water, they would recover soon. What Rosen was most worried about was the group of orphans.

There were more than 40 orphans, and 35 of them fell ill at once. When Rosen found them in the morning, several children were already confused by the fever, their bodies were incredibly hot, and they were talking nonsense.

At present, these sick orphans were arranged in a corner of the stone house, and they slept on simple wooden boards that were temporarily built. The wooden board was padded with stone bricks, which separated it from the cold ground by more than ten centimeters. A quilt found in the ruins was laid on the wooden bed. A circle of makeshift wooden screens was erected around the wooden beds to prevent the cold wind from flowing in.

When Rosen arrived, Annie and several young women were busy taking care of the children.

"How is the situation?" Rosen walked over quickly.

Annie was wiping the whole body of a little boy who was probably only four or five years old with a wet cloth. Seeing Rosen coming back, she raised her hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead, and said with a look of relief: "The situation is not bad. We used the method you said to cool down the whole body of the children with high fever. Most of the children's body temperatures have been controlled, and several have already woken up."

"That's good, that's good." Rosen felt relieved.

He walked quickly to the wooden bed and began to check the children's conditions. They all had colds and fevers, but the conditions were of different severity, and the children's constitutions were also different. Luo first checked the little ones with the most serious conditions.

This is a little girl, about six or seven years old, with thick wine-red hair, but the hair is dry like grass. Her skin is very white, and her facial features are very delicate. At first glance, she looks like a doll, but if you look closely, you will find that her face is pale and her body is quite thin, not much better than the little Alice that Rosen first saw. She is wearing a thick cotton skirt, the style and material are very ordinary. When Rosen first saw her, the cotton skirt was covered with a thick layer of mud.

Earlier, Rosen asked other people about the origin of this little girl, but no one knew her name. Only a middle-aged woman told him that this little girl might be a "kitten" raised by Mrs. Yas.

At first, Rosen didn't understand what this meant, but Vincent quietly told him that Mrs. Yas was the owner of the "Jasmine House", the largest brothel in the west of the city. And a kitten is a beautiful little girl bought from a human trafficker at a high price. These little girls are usually orphans from war-torn areas. The kittens will be carefully nurtured and become a tool for Mrs. Yas to make money when they grow up.

The little girl's life experience is extremely tragic.

Rosen walked to the little girl and felt the temperature of her forehead with the back of his hand. It was still very high, but compared with the burning degree in the morning, it had dropped a lot.

'Cough~cough~'

The little girl in her sleep made a hoarse cough, and a 'humming' sound came from her lungs, like a leaky bellows.

Hearing this sound, the young woman who was taking care of the child sighed and said to Rosen: "Master, she has rotten lungs. Judging from the situation, this disease has been there for some time. At this point, there is no cure."

"Hmm~How did you see that?" Rosen asked. He turned his head and glanced at the young woman who was talking next to him. The other party was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with ordinary looks, a ruddy complexion, and some freckles on her nose. She looked like a very ordinary woman.

The young woman said timidly, "Master, I know some medical skills. I used to run a herbal medicine shop and cured many diseases. You see, this little girl has a strange sound in her chest when she coughs, and the thick sputum she spits out is stained with blood. She is so thin that she is just a skeleton. In a case like this, her lungs must be rotten. There is no cure at all. She can only wait to die."

"That makes sense. What's your name?" Rosen became interested. He couldn't handle it alone. Even if Lilith, Annie and others helped, he was still far from enough. He needed more helpers, preferably people with special skills.

"My name is Beyonce." The young woman whispered.

"Very good. From now on, you will just take care of these children here. You don't have to do anything else. Also, do you know how to read?" Rosen asked again.

"I know you." Beyoncé nodded repeatedly.

Rosen was very happy and said: "Very good. I will take the time to teach you some more powerful medical skills and give you some medical manuscripts. You must memorize and study carefully, and don't let me down."

"Yes, Master!" Beyoncé was very surprised.

Rosen turned to look at the little girl again and said, "You are right, this little girl does have rotten lung disease. This kind of disease cannot be cured by ordinary herbal medicine, but with the help of some alchemical potions, there is still hope of curing it. "

"Alchemy potion?" Beyoncé looked at Rosen with awe.

"Don't ask yet, look carefully and listen to me carefully."

As he spoke, Rosen took out penicillin, mixed it with sterile water to a specific concentration, inserted it into the syringe, then took the back of the little girl's hand, injected a small amount on the skin, and then used magic to detect it to confirm that there was no allergic reaction. Sen inserted the needle into the vein on the back of his hand, imitating an intravenous drip, and pushed the medicine in little by little.

While operating, he explained: "There are countless blood vessels in the human body. These blood vessels are a network. It not only connects the heart, but also connects the lungs, liver, intestines, stomach, kidneys and other organs. Inject the drug into the blood Then, the flowing blood will carry these drugs into the diseased organs and kill the diseases hidden deep in the organs.”

Beyoncé looked at Rosen's series of actions. At first, she was a little scared, but she was also a doctor before, her mind was more open than ordinary people, and she had seen more. After hearing Rosen's explanation, she combined her own Based on my previous medical experience, the more I listen to it, the more reasonable it becomes.

The fear in her heart slowly disappeared and turned into admiration.

In the past, when she was practicing medicine, she was extremely curious about the human body and had many doubts, but no one could answer these doubts for her. Now that Rosen admitted that he was willing to teach her, she hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Master, why does your heart keep beating?"

"In my opinion, this is because the heart must push the blood to flow throughout the body. When the heart hears, the blood flow stops and the person dies."

"Then why does blood flow?" Beyoncé immediately asked.

This is a very complex issue, and it would be impossible for non-professionals to explain it clearly. Of course Rosen can't do it either, he only knows some basic principles. Of course, it is enough to solve the puzzles of a pure novice from another world.

He thought for a while and said: "In my opinion, the human body is like a burning furnace, and the flame in the furnace is life. Let me ask you, what do you need to do to keep the flame alive?"

Beyoncé thought about it seriously and said, "We need enough firewood."

"Well, this is a very important condition, but is there anything else?" Rosen asked.

Beyoncé thought for a while and then said: "Well~~~We also need to keep the air passage of the fire open and not block the wind."

"That's right. The wind must flow all the time so that the flame can be immortal. For life, blood is another form of wind, and the bread you eat every day is equivalent to the firewood in the furnace. So, if you want to let The fire of life keeps burning, the wind cannot stop, and the firewood must keep adding.”

"Ah!" Beyoncé exclaimed and was stunned.

She couldn't help but that the various signs she encountered during her medical practice corroborated with Rosen's words. The more they were confirmed, the more she felt that Rosen was right, and she felt a sense of enlightenment and enlightenment all over her body.

When she came back to her senses, Beyoncé was already convinced: "Thanks for the advice."

Rosen shook his head and smiled: "I just said a common truth, but real medicine is profound and meticulous, and there can't be any ambiguity. Okay, I've almost used the medicine here. When I'm not here, you have to Pay attention to this little girl and tell me immediately if there is anything unusual, do you understand?"

"Yes, Master." Beyoncé nodded.

After treating the 'kitten', Rosen went to the next little boy who was in a daze due to fever and began to check his symptoms. Beyoncé followed him step by step, with a focused look on her face, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

Just like this, they checked and treated one by one. When Rosen finished treating the last orphan, the kitten made a soft sound of "Hmm~" and woke up unexpectedly. Not only did she wake up, she also sat up from the wooden bed.

She hugged her knees with both hands and curled up in the corner. Her crimson eyes looked at Rosen and the others cautiously. When Rosen looked over, she seemed to be frightened and immediately lowered her head, not daring to Make eye contact with people.

This look is like an abandoned stray kitten.

Anne on the side was so heartbroken that she hurriedly walked up, gently covered her with a piece of cotton cloth, and asked softly: "Little one, what do you think?"

The little girl was trembling slightly and didn't speak.

Rosen also walked over, sat next to the little girl, patted his chest first, made an inhaling motion, and then asked, "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

The little girl hesitated for a while, but still did it. After finishing, she nodded and shook her head.

"What does this mean?" Annie couldn't understand.

Rosen understood and asked, "It's uncomfortable, but it's a little more comfortable than before, right?"

The little girl nodded slightly.

"The potion must have taken effect!" Beyoncé said in surprise.

Rosen was also relieved. He thought for a moment and took out a magic potato and handed it to her: "Are you hungry?"

The little girl nodded again and wanted to reach out for the magic potato, but when she reached out a little, she shrank back as if she had been electrocuted, and she didn't dare to take it.

Beyonce saw the little girl's hand and whispered: "After she got lung rot, she will definitely be abandoned by Mrs. Yas. When she was wandering on the street, many people must have cheated her with food."

"Oh~ What a poor little thing."

Annie's eyes were red. She took the magic potato, broke off a small piece, and handed it to the little girl's mouth.

This time, the little girl hesitated to open her mouth and eat it. After eating, she stared at the magic potato with desire in her eyes.

Rosen smiled with relief: "She is starving. Annie, let her eat slowly, don't choke."

"Don't worry." Annie nodded.

The treatment of the orphans came to an end for the time being. Everything was in a state of disrepair. Rosen still had a lot of things to do. After a short rest, he was ready to leave the small compartment.

As soon as he walked to the door, Rosen suddenly felt something unusual behind him, and then he heard Annie's exclamation: "It's so hot!"

Rosen was startled and immediately looked back.

He saw that Annie, who was holding the little girl, had jumped to the side, and the small quilt she had covered the little girl with before, turned into ashes in less than half a second.

The little girl huddled against the wall, already scared silly.