Although there are hotels in the Lanarita slums, and the prices are quite cheap, only a few copper coins a day, most of them are shady establishments. You might sleep there and be robbed by the owner, never to wake up again. The hygiene conditions are also appalling.
A hotel is a place to rest. If you have to be vigilant while resting, it's not appropriate no matter how cheap it is.
In contrast, the central district of Lanarita is much better, at least it has basic order. Chen Hao chose a high-class hotel in the middle district. Although it was a bit expensive, at least the environment was good, it was clean, and it also provided decent food.
After spending one gold coin to select the best room and service, and instructing the staff to prepare food and hot water to be delivered to the room later, Chen Hao led Tsukuyomi and Setsuna to the arranged room.
The shop assistant behind them watched the three of them go upstairs, his eyes filled with envy. He wondered when he would be able to save enough money to buy such a beautiful demi-human slave to play with.
We entered the room.
"Thank you for your hard work. Now put her on the bed and get some rest."
Chen Hao's words stunned Yueyong.
You've worked hard, take a good rest...
It seems this owner isn't a cold-blooded bad person... On the contrary, he seems quite gentle...
With just one sentence, Tsukuyomi's tense emotions relaxed a little. This was the first time she had felt kindness from a human. Even such a small kindness brought a little comfort to her heart, which had been filled with despair about her fate and what she would encounter in the future.
Tsukuyomi gently laid Setsuna flat on the bed. Looking at Setsuna's dying face, she suppressed the tension and fear that had not yet disappeared in her heart and whispered:
“…Master…could you please find a pharmacist to treat her…she’s dying.”
Tsukuyomi pleaded softly with her current nominal master, hoping he would show the same mercy to this ice wolf girl who shared the same fate as her.
"This illness cannot be cured by ordinary pharmacists and healing sorcerers."
But Chen Hao's answer plunged Yueyong's heart into an icy abyss.
Is there really no other way?
If possible, Tsukuyo didn't want this fellow human to die.
"Fortunately, you met me."
Chen Hao took off the glove on his right hand, because he had put on the glove before leaving home, considering that someone might recognize him as a hero by the hero mark on his right hand.
"Master... is he a hero?"
Tsukuyomi's powerful eyesight naturally caught the mark on the back of his right hand immediately.
She had heard rumors about human heroes before, and knew that heroes usually had a mysterious symbol mark on the back of their right hand.
"Yes, I am the Hero of Healing, healing life is my forte."
Chen Hao used his right hand to brush aside the bangs on Shana's forehead, and then placed it on Shana's forehead.
It's very hot; there's a very high fever.
The reason for these symptoms is not actually due to any infectious disease.
What's spreading in this town right now isn't some infectious disease at all. The pharmacists, healers, and alchemists have all gone astray in their research, so they haven't made any progress so far.
The real cause of this illness is trace amounts of toxins in the town's water supply.
The source of these toxins is monsters. Chen Hao, who frequently uses "improvement" to expel miasma and toxins from monster flesh, is very familiar with these toxins.
The town's water source is drawn from an external river. Someone dumped the corpses of monsters into the upstream waters, and the toxins in the corpses polluted the water source, causing the water flowing into the town to carry trace amounts of toxins.
Because the dosage is so small that it is undetectable, the toxicity of the toxin is also diluted to a very low level, requiring continuous accumulation in the body before it gradually begins to take effect.
This level of toxin can be killed simply by high temperatures, but not everyone likes to drink hot water. Most of the people in this town who have been poisoned by this toxin prefer to drink room temperature water directly.
The body is still in the stage of accumulating toxins, which is what these people mistakenly believe to be the incubation period of the virus. When symptoms appear, because a large number of patients with poisoning symptoms begin to appear at the same time, it is also mistaken for some kind of highly contagious infectious disease.
Because the toxicity has been diluted, this poison will not kill a person immediately, but it will still cause a persistent high fever, accompanied by a tingling sensation all over the body, which will last for two months. If you can't get through it, you will die.
As for who poisoned the upper class, Chen Hao, who had an absolute memory of the original story, remembered it very clearly. It was the Ice Wolf Clan from the vicinity who did it, with the aim of retaliating against the humans who attacked their territory and captured their people as slaves.
Chen Hao had nothing to say about this, because in his view, neither side was any good. One side was attacking and capturing demi-humans as slaves, while the other side was poisoning people on a large scale.
"【Heal】".
Chanting a short incantation, green light enveloped Setsuna's entire body. Setsuna's memories and physical data were passively read. With Chen Hao's mental manipulation, the toxins accumulated in Setsuna's body were decomposed and dissolved by the healing light. Her originally weak and pale complexion gradually became rosy under the effect of the healing light.
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