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Because she had just regained consciousness from a coma and had been tortured by the elders for several days, the woman was in a very confused state after waking up. In this state, Dorothy used the affinity aura and controlled her former teammates to assist, and quickly gained the woman's trust, so that she no longer had any doubts about being rescued in her confusion.

After initially gaining the woman's trust, Dorothy prepared food for the woman to replenish her nutrition, and asked Ed and Adler to communicate with her. Under the influence of the aura of affinity, the woman had no resistance to this communication at all. Soon after the communication continued for a while, Dorothy finally completed the profile of the woman and completely controlled the spirit of this savior woman in her own hands.

After completing the profile of the woman, Dorothy finally began to get to the point. She asked for various information, especially about Bastis and the recent epidemic.

Through understanding, Dorothy learned that the woman's name was Alima, and she was one of the missionaries sent by the Church of the Savior to the Buscete area. She was a Black Earth level extraordinary person on the path of salvation. She and other Savior missionaries were sent to Bastis several years ago to replace their predecessors in managing the religious affairs of the Savior in Bastis. When she came here, the faith in Bastis was already controlled by the Savior like other Buscete cities. It was the Savior who dominated the world until the plague came.

"So... you were able to deal with this plague in the beginning, but then it gradually became stronger and you could no longer cope with it?" In a hidden forest, Ed looked at Alima who was chewing bread intently not far away and said curiously, while Alima responded while eating.

"Yes, at the beginning this plague was very weak. As long as extraordinary means were used, it could be completely cured quickly. I alone could treat 400 patients in one day. The three of us, Abia, and Jemalhai, could completely deal with the plague in Bastis, and we could also provide treatment for many surrounding villages and towns. During that period of time, many surrounding tribes fled to Bastis, and we also tried our best to treat them in the name of the Lord."

Alima responded like this. The two people she mentioned, Abia and Jemal Hai, were both members of the Redemption Path Savior sect stationed with her in Bastis. Abia was a black soil like her and died in direct resistance against the Elders, while Jemal was a shaman. Hai is a respectful title for noble women in the Northern Ukrainian culture. Jemal was also captured by the Elders after the defeat. Because of her status as a shaman, she was directly sent to a more important base of the Elders in the south after being captured, where she was made into a more advanced hotbed.

"We were able to deal with this plague easily at the beginning, and we wiped it out from Bastis in a few days, but later it gradually became stronger, requiring us to spend more time, energy, and spiritual power to deal with it. At the beginning, it took me ten seconds to cure one person, and then gradually became one minute, ten minutes, and even an hour... The spiritual power consumed to cure this plague also increased. At the beginning, I could cure hundreds of people, but in the end I could only cure three or four people a day at most.

"Because of the increasingly strong nature of this plague, we began to change our strategy from treatment-oriented to prevention-oriented, isolating patients to cut off infection like ordinary mortals, but we didn't expect that the plague's ability to spread was also constantly increasing. At first, it was only spread through water, and people would only get sick after drinking problematic water, but then the smell could also become an accomplice in the spread, making it increasingly difficult for us to implement isolation.

"Finally, Jemalhayi also discovered that the plague was originally spread by a kind of mosquito, a kind of mosquito that seems to have its own will and can penetrate any hole and is impossible to guard against. Under the infiltration of this mosquito, all our isolation is meaningless. Facing the mountains of suffering in the later stage of the plague, we can't defeat it even if we try our best. Bastis also quickly turned into purgatory like many other places in Busais, until those wild cultists came with their evil god beliefs."

Alima spoke while chewing on the bread. There was an obvious sense of dejection and sadness in her words. After seeing this, the corpse Ed paused for a moment, then began to ask again.

"So... do you have any idea why this plague is getting stronger?"

"The reason why this plague has become stronger... I don't know much about this. I just heard Jemalhai talk about it. During the days when the plague was raging, she had been conducting research on this plague and trying to communicate with the healers of the Holy Church in other places.

"During the period when the plague was getting stronger and stronger, I heard her say that these plagues seemed to be constantly changing themselves. The more we continued to cure it, the stronger it would become. The more patients we cured, the more severe the plague as a whole would become, and it gradually became more and more difficult for us to deal with.

"By the way, during the time when the cultists attacked, Jemalhai once said, 'It is our healing that is helping it to continue to evolve. It will eventually grow into a state that none of us can cope with...'"

Alima said as she recalled. Dorothy was startled when she heard her words, and immediately she had some understanding of this phenomenon.

Mutation... This plague carrier virus is constantly mutating at an extremely high speed! The principle of the Path of Redemption to cure infectious diseases is to strengthen the human body's own immune system to kill the infectious bacteria, but this plague virus is constantly evolving through mutation to fight against the killing of the immune system.

The original version of this virus seems to have made it difficult for the normal human immune system to cope with it. The immune system can only be strengthened by the Path of Redemption to eliminate this virus. However, the virus mutates very quickly. When fighting with the enhanced version of the immune system, it can quickly adapt and strengthen itself to fight it. The extraordinary people of the Path of Redemption can only devote more spirituality and energy to further strengthen the patient's immunity to resist the virus. As the immune system strengthens again, the virus also completes its mutation and evolution again through continuous confrontation with the immune system.

In this way, the enhanced immunity of the Path of Redemption and the exhaustion virus began to compete back and forth. The harder the doctors of the Path of Redemption tried to treat the disease, the more the virus would be strengthened, and eventually the virus would become difficult for the virus to cope with. In a sense, these Path of Redemption special people sent by the Savior were actually training the virus...

'No wonder... when Vanya Vanya was treating the patients who had fled from Addus, the virus in the patients was so tenacious... It turned out that this virus had already been dealt with many times by Busai's and the Savior's Redemption Extraordinary People a long time ago. In the hands of the Savior's Redemption Extraordinary People, this virus has evolved to a very high level...'

Dorothy thought so in her heart, and while she was thinking about this problem, suddenly another possibility came to her mind.

'By the way... those guys from the Elder Sect chose Buscetta as a remote place to spread the plague. Their purpose was not to train the virus, was it?

'Busay has the influence of the Savior Sect. In this world, the only extraordinary organizations that widely inherit the Way of Redemption are the various heretical forces in the church, and the Savior Sect is the largest one. They deliberately spread the plague in Bussay. Is it because they want to use the Savior Sect's Way of Redemption extraordinary people here to train themselves with a new type of plague virus?

'For the elders, the Saviour Sect is much harder to deal with than the Church. Moreover, Busaimit is far away from the Church's regular sphere of influence, and they are not very concerned about the outbreak here. Once they have trained the virus in Busaimit, and then go to the densely populated cities on the Main Continent... Will the Church's ability to fight the virus be greatly reduced?'