Page 90
With the light behind him, he vaguely saw a slender figure kneeling on the ground with his upper body straight. He wondered what he was doing.
Moving closer, almost to the door, he could finally see everything clearly.
This scene, more horrific than the disaster brought by the Black Death, was enough to shatter his faith in God.
Hell is empty, and the devil is on earth!
With the snapping sound like the beat of hell in his ears, he began to scream uncontrollably.
"Ah!!! God!!! What the hell!!!"
The scream attracted the attention of the cart driver, who ran over anxiously.
"What happened?"
However, the person pushing the cart just said nothing, and was stunned in place.
So the rickshaw driver followed his gaze and looked over.
He was clearly more knowledgeable than his apprentice, and his screams had more depth.
"Oh my God! I can actually see the scenes of hell! Am I going to die too?!"
Chapter 98: The Florence Special
The cart-pulling doctor, Bird-beak, prayed to the gods, but the only response he received was his future blind self.
If possible, he would like to ask for a pair of eyes that have not seen what is happening before his eyes.
"What are you doing?!"
He yelled at Kang Yool.
Jiang Lu originally wanted to do good deeds without leaving his name, but he didn't expect to be caught.
"Haha... have you been discovered? If that's the case, then it seems there's no need to hide it..."
He stood up and pulled up his trousers.
The two bird-beak doctors were frightened by his actions and took two steps back.
Jiang Lu's words were so ambiguous that they immediately thought he was going to kill people to silence them.
However, Jiang Lu turned around and simply placed his right hand on his chest, his eyes piercing as he said, "It is our duty to restore the glory of the Red Cross!"
"Red Cross?"
The two bird-beak doctors looked at each other, both confused.
This is of course because the Red Cross had not yet been established in this era.
But Jiang Lu, who has no knowledge of history, does not think so.
"Huh, you country bumpkin, you don't even know that."
He said proudly.
Perhaps it was because he spoke too confidently, or perhaps it was because of his unquestionable attitude, or perhaps it was because of his non-European face, but in any case, he really frightened the two of them.
They began to think seriously about whether they had heard of the Red Cross somewhere, but after thinking for a long time, they realized that they didn't even know what the Red Cross did.
Doctor Birdbeak, who had reacted, stared at him warily and asked:
"We don't care who you are, what were you doing with the body?"
"Corpse?" Jiang Lu sighed in disappointment. "Doctor Birdbeak, I've heard of you. You can't even tell whether a person is alive or dead. How dare you call yourselves doctors?"
"You don't mean to say that it was a living person?"
The other party pointed at the pile of corpses in the house and said: "It was confirmed three days ago that there were no survivors in this area, so it was blocked off. There is no way there are any living people. Also, where are you from?"
Jiang Lu did not explain, but laughed mockingly, and moved aside to allow the woman who had been treated to bask in the sunlight outside the house: "Get up, let them see whether you are a corpse or not."
The bird-beak doctors were startled and their whole bodies tensed up.
But the woman didn't move.
Jiang Lu frowned at the threatening actions that the bird-beak doctors began to make.
"Don't think I don't know that you've recovered a long time ago. You responded involuntarily three times. Maybe you didn't notice it, but I could tell based on the frequency of your contractions. Also, you opened your eyes at least three times, and your toes were curled tightly. In addition, your throat has been rolling since the beginning, which means you wanted to scream but were holding back."
Here he paused:
"Am I right? Patients!"
"Please stop talking!"
The woman finally couldn't hold it anymore and struggled with her weak body to get up from the ground.
She had indeed woken up a long time ago. At first she was so frightened that she dared not move, but soon, as her body functions gradually recovered, she felt unprecedented happiness. This kind of interaction, which she had only seen in books about women in the past, made her feel unable to stop, so she pretended not to wake up yet, enjoying the double stimulation she got from endurance.
She avoided Jiang Lu's gaze. Even though her body was covered in blood, she still couldn't hide the blush on her face under the filth.
"Who are you who can see through everything just by looking at a few clues?" There was obvious awe in the woman's words.
Jiang Lu smiled slightly: "My name is Jiang Luoke Holmes."
As for the two bird-beak doctors, they were already stunned.
The person who was lying among the dead bodies just now is really alive now?
The Red Cross, could it be some secret cult that I’ve never heard of?
Just as the woman sat up, the older doctor with the bird's beak recognized her identity from her olive-colored eyes, which also dispelled his suspicion that the two of them might just be outsiders who happened to appear here.
He asked in disbelief: "Are you from the Medici family?"
The woman was thankful that someone recognized her identity, which could save her from a lot of trouble.
"Yes," she admitted openly, "Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici is my brother, and my name is Catherine de' Medici."
The other party thought of something: "Are you the sister that Master Medici mentioned who disappeared a week ago? Why are you here?"
When Catherine mentioned this incident, she was filled with bad memories.
She trembled and said with some shuddering: "My good friend said she caught a cold, and then I wanted to come and see her. I thought I would be back soon, so I didn't tell anyone else and came to the outer city alone. At that time, no one thought that this was such a terrible plague.
After the first mass death outbreak that night, the main roads leading to the inner city were blocked. I was trapped here and witnessed people dying one by one here.
Then I also got sick, about four days ago, and I remember I was on my way to church to pray that this disaster would pass quickly, but I fainted.
When I woke up, I was crammed into this small room along with other people who had died of the disease.
I was very weak, so I couldn't open the sealed door at all, but fortunately I found water and some dry food in the house, which kept me going until now.
During this time, I was in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness. When I woke up, I drank some water and ate something. Most of the time, I was in a coma. "
"This is nothing short of a miracle!"
The young bird-beaked doctor said seriously: "It must be your devotion to God that allowed you to survive."
"God?" Jiang Lu suddenly interrupted: "What do you mean by blowing?"
"How dare you disrespect God!"
The other party was a little angry, but the old bird-beaked doctor stopped him.
Because if what Catherine said was true, then the reason why she, who had contracted a fatal disease, could recover her vitality at this time might be closely related to the young man in front of her.
In terms of piety, can anyone be more pious than a church official?
But countless church staff died in this plague, which is enough to prove that God is not omnipotent.
The human beings abandoned by God survived with the help of the young man in front of them.
Then he is indeed qualified to say such things.
But to be on the safe side, he still planned to do some checks.
After obtaining Catherine's consent, he took her out of the house and washed the dirt off her face with clean water.
Sure enough, the black blood spots, the characteristics of the plague, had long disappeared.
He breathed a sigh of relief, but confusion soon filled his face:
"So you were actually treating a disease just now?"
At this moment, Doctor Bird's Beak also had a sense of awe towards Jiang Lu.
"It's not you, buddy, that's why you just reacted?"
Jiang Lu was stunned: "Didn't I tell you that I'm from the Red Cross?"
"I'm sorry, but we've never heard of the Red Cross."
Jiang Lu slapped his forehead and finally realized the problem.
Yes, when I think about it carefully, it seems that apart from the Red Cross, I never mentioned anything about treating illnesses from beginning to end.
Did they just think they were...
Jiang Lu frowned and found that things were not simple.
Bad! He was a miracle worker, but he almost became a necrophiliac!
He had no choice but to attribute the misunderstanding to his visit to Sun Bar.
Seeing his serious expression, Doctor Birdbeak asked tentatively, "Is the Red Cross... some kind of secret cult?"
"The Order..."
Jiang Lu's eyes rolled, emitting a light of wisdom.
Although he had no knowledge of history, he had played the Assassin's Creed 2 trilogy and knew the importance of religion in Florence during this period.
If a church that could effectively fight the disease had emerged during the Black Death, wouldn't that mean everything we wanted?
Isn't this just stealing from God's house?
God? God is nothing!
Fast forward to——
In Florence, anything our Jiang family sees will sooner or later belong to the Jiang family. Even if a coin falls from the sky, it will have to belong to the Jiang family!
Thinking of this, Jiang Lu rubbed his hands together with excitement.