Chapter 262 Terminal Illness
"Doctor! How is Wendy? Is she sick?" Rebecca asked anxiously as she watched the ship's doctor giving Wendy a thorough examination. Vic and Barnett, the people who were most familiar with Wendy, were also nervously waiting for the results.
The ship's doctor Ethan looked a little grim. Looking at the eager eyes of several people, he didn't know where to start. He wanted to speak several times but swallowed his words back.
When Vic and the others saw this, they knew that Wendy's illness was not simple. As the saying goes: We are not afraid of a smiling doctor, but we are afraid of a doctor who looks down on us. At this moment, the doctor not only had an ugly expression on his face, but he couldn't even speak. How serious was the case!
"Doctor! Say something! What's wrong with Wendy? Aren't you not well-trained enough to see it?" Rebecca stepped forward and grabbed the doctor's collar, questioning loudly, tears already gathering in her eyes and ready to fall at any moment.
"Rebecca, put the doctor down. Where is the manners I taught you? Listen to what the doctor says first!"
Vic's face also turned a little green, but he was the leader and he couldn't panic at this time.
After hearing what Vic said, Rebecca let go unwillingly, turned around and ran to the corner of the room, squatted down and buried her head, her body still shaking slightly.
Ian didn't quite understand what the adults' behavior meant, but he felt that the current atmosphere was very wrong. Sister Wendy seemed to be very ill. Ian grabbed Vic's clothes and leaned on Vic.
Barnett stared blankly at Wendy lying on the bed. The figure that he had always seemed to be hovering before his eyes now seemed so far away and blurry, as if it was getting farther and farther away!
Barnett felt an inexplicable pain in his heart and found it difficult to breathe. He realized that he was about to lose something important, a feeling he had never experienced before.
Fredek is an honest man, but not a fool. It is impossible for him to fail to see such obvious abnormalities from the doctor. Vic, Rebecca, Barnett, Wendy, and Ian, these are the people in his life who treat him sincerely except his mother!
The time on the warship was also the most relaxing, comfortable and happiest time for him. He didn't want to see any of these people have an accident, but now someone has an accident, and he feels very bad.
"Doctor, just tell me whatever you think. We can work together to find a solution. We will be even more uncertain if you continue like this!" Vic said to the doctor again. This world is indeed a magical world where everything is possible. Vic has not given up yet.
"Yeah, Ethan, tell me what happened? How come someone who was fine yesterday became like this today?" Zefa, who had just finished answering the phone, heard Vic's question as he entered the room. His student didn't die on the battlefield but died of illness? He couldn't accept it either.
"Sir, everyone, after my detailed examination and testing, I found that the patient was suffering from the Black Death, a severe disease caused by Yersinia bacteria. The death cycle is very short, only a few days!
Moreover, that kind of bacteria has not appeared for hundreds of years. Now there is no medicine to cure this disease, and even the prescription cannot be found.
At first I didn’t believe it was 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 disease came from!”
Ethan was really helpless. He knew what the disease was but didn't know how to treat it. This was the biggest helplessness for a doctor. Ethan's face was full of bitterness and regret. Such a young life was about to disappear before his eyes.
This result completely shattered the illusions of several people. There was still a glimmer of hope when the doctor didn't speak just now, but now that the doctor has made the verdict, the last hope has been extinguished!
Rebecca's suppressed crying was no longer suppressed, and her crying became louder. Ian, perhaps because he was infected by Rebecca's crying or because he heard that his sister Wendy was going to die, also burst into tears. While crying, he rushed towards Wendy on the bed, but was stopped by Ethan.
"The Black Death can be transmitted through blood. The patient had a lot of wounds on her body. You have all been in contact with her. You are also in danger of infection. I need to test you all. Don't get close to her yet!"
All Ethan could do now was to help a few people get tested. He really had no ability to treat the Black Death. The pathogen had been extinct for hundreds of years. Who would have thought it would appear now? There was no record of the treatment method.
"Ethan, what are you waiting for? Check it out for them right away! This is no small matter!"
Zefa is even more nervous now. He was feeling sorry for Wendy just now. Now Vic and the others are all likely to be sick. If they are all caught in the same trap, he will really regret it. He probably won't even want to be an instructor anymore.
"It must be that bastard Old Four. Wendy only fought with him in a short period of time and got injured. It would be too easy for him to kill him like this!" After hearing the doctor's words, Barnett immediately reacted and realized that the germs were caused by Old Four.
"Fredek, have the doctor check the knife to see if there is any Yersinia bacteria on the blade."
Vic thought of the weapon of the fourth brother. If it was really the fourth brother who did it, the germs were most likely on the blade.
Ethan then drew some blood from several people and took Eclipse to the infirmary.
"Teacher, it seems we have to leave here soon. Wendy's illness must be treated immediately, otherwise she will die!" Vic said to Zefa immediately after Ethan left.
"Do you know where there is a doctor who can treat this disease?" There was a glimmer of hope in Zefa's eyes. Ethan's medical skills were okay, but not top-notch. The sea was so vast, maybe there really was someone who could treat this disease.
"For now, we can only go to the Drum Kingdom. It's a holy land for doctors, gathering many highly skilled doctors. It's not too far from here, so we can definitely go and give it a try!"
What Vic wants to go to most is actually the island where Chopper has been training for two years. It has always remained in its original state and its history is definitely more than several hundred years old. The possibility of curing diseases there is the greatest!
But Vic didn't know the exact location of the Bird Kingdom, and it was definitely much farther away than the Drum Kingdom. Wendy might not be able to hold on until then. The Drum Kingdom had a long history as a major medical power, so there was a high possibility that it could be cured.
"The Magnetic Drum Kingdom? There are indeed many famous doctors there. We can go and give it a try, but the warship cannot leave here now!"
Zefa looked embarrassed and felt extremely guilty. He had to save his own students, perhaps the lives of some of the top students in this class!
"Is it because of the phone call just now?" Vic believed that Zefa would never stand by and watch someone die. The victim was his student, so the reason must be the phone call just now.
"Marshal Kong called me just now and said that people from the World Government will be coming over in the next few days. I am the middleman and must stay as a witness.
There are still things on the island that have not been dealt with yet and need to be concluded. Marshal Kong also gave me another order.
That is, after we finish the things here, we will go to Gemini Cape to meet the Red Hair Pirates. Everything is concentrated, so we can't use the warship to send Wendy to the Drum Kingdom!"
Zefa is also having a headache now. If the call came a little later, he could try to find a way to postpone it.