Chapter 1018 Necromancers, Aren’t You Doing a Disservice?

"It is tentatively confirmed that there is a causative agent - let's call it a 'pathogen' - that causes this disease named 'yellow fever'."

Grete stood on the podium, with his hands behind his back, speaking to the 20 necromancers who came from afar. O'Neal is holding a pen, and Skeleton No. 1 is holding materials, standing upright on both sides of the podium, which makes him...

Well, that's quite a bit like a necromancer.

Except for the dark green hand-washing clothes and the white coat, there was a little bit of drama.

However, none of the Necromancers at the scene felt that the clothes were funny. Everyone, including the 18th-level Archmage Heins, spread out their notebooks and engrossed themselves in copying:

"This pathogenic factor may be bacteria, or it may not be. We have not observed the presence of bacteria for the time being. Of course, it may also be because it is too small, or there is no suitable staining method - this awaits everyone's future efforts. "

Lecture!

The Lord of Plague is giving lectures in person!

As we all know, what you absorb from lectures is completely incomparable to papers! Researchers who care about feathers will only publish research results that are verified and repeatable. From the moment it was released, it was already behind the times!

Moreover, the paper will only tell you the correct path, but will never tell you how many detours the explorer took, how many dead-end roads he retreated from, and how many pitfalls he jumped over or fell into when exploring this path;

Those thoughts, inferences, and guesses rarely appear in papers. They occasionally appear in academic conferences of big guys - or discussions or letters, but often they appear in lectures and when arranging research by subordinates. !

This is the most important reward for working with a research-oriented boss——

"Now, we can be sure of two things: First, the causative factor of yellow fever can multiply in the blood of patients and spread through mosquito bites. Therefore, as long as we thoroughly prevent mosquitoes, we can ensure that there is no yellow fever Fever;”

"Second, the pathogenicity of this pathogenic factor is not stable. We use it to infect animals from generation to generation, and we can observe that its toxicity sometimes increases and sometimes decreases."

"I have found some fairly weak pathogenic factors. The next step is to weaken them to the point where it is impossible for people to have symptoms but can give the body resistance. Let them stabilize and proliferate in large numbers, and then find the appropriate The dose is injected into the human body.”

"This is the direction of work in the next period of time. Everyone, work hard!"

With a bang, the necromancers put away their notebooks and followed Gretel to work. Take a shower, change work clothes, put on protective clothing, enter the clean area, and start listening to Grete's instructions on operating procedures:

"Wear your clean work clothes! Wear masks, shoe covers, gloves and hats! Before operation, disinfect gloves, wrists, forearms, and chest with 75% alcohol! Disinfect every 15 minutes!"

"Before opening the reagent bottle, disinfect the surface of the reagent bottle with 75% alcohol! - Don't pick it up! Don't pick it up if it falls on the ground! Your hands are no higher than your shoulders, no lower than your waist, and the sides are no more than the mid-axillary line! Go out, put on your clothes again, and wash your hands. Come in!"

"Sterilization! Sterility! You must abide by the sterile operating procedures! - Whoever can't do it, just don't go in and send your golden skeletons in to do the work!"

The necromancers trembled. The Lord of the Plague, who was amiable just now, suddenly transformed into a tyrant when he arrived in the laboratory, scolding everyone until they were bitten.

In addition to not hitting anyone or frothing in the sterile area and pointing at people, they are more vicious than their instructors... At least, their instructors will not pick out details like this, scold them when they are wrong at all, or even use that translucent The pliers hit your wrist...

Woohoo, is it too late to go back to Nevis...

It was obviously too late. Not to mention signing a five-year service contract, being chased and scolded by the teacher over the details is something that can only be met but cannot be sought. If you are not your own disciple, who will scold you when you are full?

If every detail is wrong, the success rate will drop, or even drop significantly. Ordinary magicians can't produce results after a few times, so you should pay for your own research next time. No money?

Work a part-time job, or take risks, and try to save money!

Gretel taught once, then watched each of them do it twice - the first time he did it himself, the second time the golden skeleton did it - and then left to do his own work. A group of necromancers were left behind, working diligently and hard:

Feed the mice, inject the mice, observe the mice, cut the mice... While waiting for the mice to get sick, the pathological specimens are dehydrated, embedded, sectioned, stained, mounted, and observed...

If I still have extra time, I try to practice various spells so that they can be used in research... It is said that the group raising animals next door even took out the "Pink Book" to learn!

Wendell Demetri was not assigned to torment mice. He and four companions were assigned a more difficult task:

Nourish disease-causing factors.

Cultivate pathogenic factors that can be passed down stably, without becoming more toxic or less toxic, and can proliferate in large quantities...

What does the causative agent look like?

have no idea.

What conditions are needed to survive?

have no idea.

How can we make its toxicity stable?

Still don’t know…

The Plague Lord threw an experimental guide to them and wandered away. Wendell Demetri picked up the booklet, and the four heads next to him came together and tried to read:

Path 1. Cultivate in culture medium.

(Attached are agar culture medium, sucrose culture medium, beef extract culture medium, corn starch culture medium... various culture medium production methods, temperature, pH, and other precautions;)

Path 2. Cultivate in blood.

(Mouse blood, rabbit blood, chicken blood. Whole blood, serum, blood cells, different dilution ratios)

Path 3. Cultivate among living animals.

(mice, rabbits, chickens, unhatched eggs)

Path 4. Culture in animal tissue.

(Mouse brain cells, liver cells, kidney cells, rabbit brain cells, with possible preparation directions of the culture medium)

Path 5, magic cultivation

(Each of the above paths uses disease techniques to induce disease and test its pathogenic efficacy)

The five magicians looked pale. There may seem to be five paths, but in fact each path has more than one branch. You can't just try each branch once, right?

Turning another page, the second page after the table of contents read:

It is recommended to repeat each culture method at least 5-10 times to avoid failure in culture due to operational errors and failure to try the correct technical path...

"It seems there are only five of us..." Beside him, a young mage with freckles on his face said tremblingly.

Five people, plus a golden skeleton each person, oh, it is borrowed, not owned, and can be purchased at a low price in five years... After all, there are only 10 people!

These 5 paths are made by 5 of us + 5 skeletons. When will we go there?

"I feel like I can't do it in a year or two..."

"Don't say one or two years, three to five years is enough..."

"How much time does this take a day? Just making culture media, it takes five or six hours a day, right?"

"No wonder they have to bring us here from Nevis... Hey, if we write back now and get another group of people here, is it still too late?"

Wendell Demetri took a deep breath. Among these five people, he is the oldest and has the highest rank, so he naturally assumes the responsibility of command. He closed the experiment book and looked around:

"Daly, you are in charge of the culture route."

"Shakas, you are in charge of the blood route."

"Hoover, you're in charge of the live animal routes."

"Lansley, you are in charge of the animal organization route."

"Everyone, give me a share of the culture media, blood, animal tissues, or live animals you prepare. I will be responsible for the magic route. Daily experimental reports are also summarized by me. I will sort them out and send them to No. Master Demark—"

"This is too much trouble for you..."

"Can your magic power hold up..."

"Would you like to share some for everyone to do?"

The companions were cautiously skeptical. Demetri's face darkened:

"Don't be in a daze, go quickly!"

A jumble of footsteps. The four mages, carrying their own skeletons, entered separate laboratories.

Soon, the sound of clinking glassware, squeaking animal sounds, and the sound of heating bubbling sounded in every room.

"Ah ah ah, the sea stone flower is overcooked! It's overcooked!"

"Don't throw it away if it's overcooked, add extra food!"

"No...not only was it overcooked, but I also forgot to wash it before cooking..."

"Ahhhhhhh! Nothing can be cultivated in this blood!"

"It's said in the brochure! Don't use common blood preservation methods! Many of the necromancy preservation methods have negative energy, and the cultured pathogenic factors can easily go wrong! The designated preservation methods are on the fifth page of the experiment book!"

"Ahhhh! The mouse cage has overturned! Help me catch the mouse!"

"Idiot! As a fifth-level necromancer, you can't even catch mice!"

"I can only kill T_T"

"Who brought that flute to attract mice? Play it quickly..."

"Damn it! The egg is broken again! Cleansing Technique!"

"Why is it so difficult to inject pathogenic factors into eggs... If the force is too small, it cannot penetrate, but if the force is strong, the eggshell will be broken directly..."

"Can't you use magic to peel off a little bit of the eggshell? - What, the egg explodes as soon as you peel it? Your spell control ability is so rough? - Practice! Watch what I do!"

Wendell Demetrius ran, inspected, and roared. After roaring for a round, he found an empty seat and sat down, sighing deeply:

I always feel that this group of people is not here to help, but to cause trouble... All sorts of problems will arise, and they are trying their best to delay... With this group of people here, the vaccine that the Lord of Plague wants may be delayed by a year and a half. do it……

By the way, what exactly is this causative factor?

With such a question in mind, Master Demetri held the experimental records of the day and ran to ask Gretel for advice. To his surprise, the plague lord was not annoyed at all, but answered him happily:

"This? I haven't found it yet! Here is a way for you. You can use gauze, thick paper, or ceramic sheets - ceramic sheets with holes ranging from coarse to fine, to repeatedly filter the poisonous blood. Filter once, infect once, and filter again Once, infected again..."

"Every time it is used to infect normal animals. If it can be infected, it means there are pathogenic factors in it. Filter it until it can no longer be filtered. You put it under a microscope and look at it, use magic to look at it, use any method to look at it - —Maybe we can see it?”

"What if you can't see it?"

"If you can't see it, it can at least prove it," Grete spread his hands and replied shamelessly:

"Is there a pathogenic agent that is smaller than bacteria and cannot be seen with a microscope?"

let's go!

Brave young man!

I'm optimistic about you!

Maybe you can become the discoverer and namer of viruses! Although there is no Nobel Prize in this world, and no one has developed a microscope yet... Tsk, I will write a letter to my senior sister later and try my best to hint...

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