Chapter 200 Acute Infectious Fever in the Giant Dragon Bamboo Building
"Your Highness! There are so many commoners waiting outside the white walls! They've all caught a fever!" Qiqi Ke rushed in from outside, his face flushed, panting heavily, and his words were somewhat broken.
Shu Xin was having a meeting in the conference room on the second floor. Because the first Giant Dragon Bamboo Building was about to be completed, Nana Jia called two other elf affairs officers to discuss the current occupancy issues and the manpower issues for the subsequent construction with the Flower Fairy.
A single giant bamboo stalk has over a hundred sections, but since only one house can be built from a single bamboo tube, a bamboo tube mansion would only have a little over a hundred rooms. However, the number of flower fairy commoners in the Land of Sin has already exceeded ten thousand. Once the bamboo tube mansion is completed, it will naturally be up to the flower fairy to decide which of these ten thousand flower fairy commoners will move in first.
If the drought continues, even more flower fairy civilians will continue to move here. Even just to accommodate all the newly arrived flower fairy civilians, at least one hundred giant dragon bamboos would need to be used to build a bamboo tube building—that would require a lot of manpower!
Before they could reach a conclusion, Qiqi Ke flew in in a panic. Nana Jia was about to greet him when the Flower Fairy stopped her with a gesture—
"Nanaja, step back."
Shu Xin frowned, drew her magic wand, and cast a series of spells on Qiqi Ke while he looked on in a daze.
After the healing and repair spells took effect, a purification spell followed immediately. However, when the gentle magical light faded, the flower fairy in the officer's uniform was still flushed and panting. At this moment, he realized something: "Am I also sick with a fever?!"
Shu Xin's expression was more serious than ever before.
This fever is not only contagious, but it also cannot be cured with magic!
After realizing something was wrong, she immediately consulted the Tree of Life, but the result was not optimistic. Among the various fevers recorded by the Tree of Life, there was never a type that was so obviously highly contagious.
The only saving grace is that, according to the Tree of Life's statistics, no elf has been infected with this inexplicable outbreak of fever so far.
But the Kingdom of Garnar can be said to be a country made up of flower fairies. Even in the land of sin, Shu Xin has been trying to restore the flower fairies to elves, but the number of elves is still less than five hundred!
Was the sudden fever caused by this unprecedented drought? Shu Xin didn't know. She could only ask the Tree of Life to investigate. Taking a deep breath, she asked, "Qiqi Ke, did you come into contact with any other flower fairies on your way to the conference room?"
Kikik had already realized the situation. He took a deep breath: "Huff—No! Your Highness! It's urgent, huff—I teleported here directly!"
Very good, the situation is still under control. The only patient in the Land of Sin should be Qiqi Ke. Shu Xin turned her head and looked at the three officials behind her. Whether it was the flower fairy construction official Nana Jia, or the elf affairs officials Dodo Lin and Pu Pu Li, they all had tense expressions.
Shu Xin twitched the corner of her mouth: "Our meeting can be declared over. It looks like the newly built Giant Dragon Bamboo Building will be used to house patients first."
Kiki became the first flower fairy to move into the Dragon Bamboo Villa—while unconscious.
This new type of fever has a rapid onset!
The patient initially presents with only a flushed face and elevated body temperature, symptoms seemingly no different from a typical fever. However, instead of subsiding after taking medication or receiving treatment, the fever rises abnormally again, accompanied by violent fluctuations in internal magical energy. Following this, under the influence of the chaotic magical energy, the patient's face becomes flushed, breathing becomes rapid, and eventually, the patient faints due to respiratory distress.
Qiqi Ke fainted right under Shu Xin's nose. While they were talking, he suddenly gasped for breath in pain, and the next second his eyes closed and he fell straight down from the sky.
Before Nana could rush over, Shu Xin caught the falling flower fairy, and then she put some distance between herself and Nana: "We still don't know how this fever spreads... Nana, you are the only apothecary in the Land of Sin, you can't let anything happen to you!"
Nana looked at her unconscious husband, gritted her teeth, and quickly calmed down: "I understand, Your Highness."
After falling into a coma, Qiqi Ke's breathing became steady, which made his complexion look better. However, the magical fluctuations around him were still very chaotic, and Shu Xin could not tell whether his condition had improved or worsened.
Shu Xin already had a very general understanding of the flower fairies' fever, so she naturally couldn't figure out the mechanism of this new type of fever. However, she wasn't so helpless as to completely panic. After all, even plagues have ways to be cured, not to mention that the river elves have living guardians behind them. In this magical world, she might not trust her own scientific knowledge, but she couldn't distrust the Tree of Life, which was at the level of a creator god!
Having summoned all the servants of the Flower Castle, Shu Xin calmly and decisively began to give orders—
Elf Affairs Officer Dodolin took over Kikik's work and immediately led the fastest flying elf servants to the outside of the city. The process of the disaster victims entering the city was temporarily suspended. Only elves remained outside the white walls to be responsible for the follow-up work of appeasing the victims. All the flower fairies were withdrawn.
Elf Affairs Officer Popuri was in charge of coordinating the evacuation of personnel. She immediately led her elven servants, whose innate magic was mainly in the form of miniature garden magic, to the Dragon Bamboo Forest. The evacuation personnel had to be separated from the flower fairies in the territory. Before the transmission route and the vector of the fever were determined, no evacuation personnel were allowed to leave the bamboo forest.
Nanaja, the Flower Fairy Construction Officer and High-Ranking Pharmacist, has suspended her construction work to focus all her efforts on overcoming the acute infectious fever.
Watching the elven affairs officer and his elven servants disappear outside the conference room door, Shu Xin slowly exhaled and looked up at Nanaja: "Before you start your work as an apothecary, Nanaja, I think it's safer to restore your elven identity. Let's go, let's go find the Tree of Life."
The blonde, red-eyed flower fairy was stunned: "...Restore? Your elven identity?"
Shu Xin nodded and said briefly, "Yes, just like Dodolin and Pupuli, at least for now, this fever won't spread to the elves."
Surprisingly, Nanaja refused:
"Then let's not, Your Highness. The magical fluctuations of Dodoline and the others are very different from those of the flower fairies. As you know, my innate magic is only luck magic. I don't have any magical talent related to potions. There isn't much time left for me to relearn my magic. I've already lost Bebezhen, and I don't want to lose Qiqike too."
In reality, Shu Xin didn't know that luck magic wasn't a type of talent magic related to potions; the magical talents possessed by the flower fairy were far too diverse for her... But did Nana Jia become a high-level alchemist without any relevant magical talent? That's truly amazing!
Shu Xin chose to respect the professional judgment of the experts, but after Nana Jia expressed her own ideas, she still had some doubts about life:
"You mean you want to contract this fever first, and then research medicine to treat it?"
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Author's note: Happy New Year, belatedly!
I am truly, truly, truly sorry for the long hiatus. [Apologizes prostrate]
I've been painfully revising the outline, and after the website introduced its policy on long novels, I even considered cutting the outline outright, because this book is already 500,000 words long, and it feels like I've been given a suspended death sentence...
But I ultimately decided to continue the story according to the original outline, which means I will have to write at least another 300,000 to 500,000 words. After making this decision, I felt a long-lost sense of lightness. Just keep writing!
I will work hard to write more and make sure to update!
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