Chapter 576 You Have Been Poisoned (Ling Yeyu Will Be Rewarded with Ten Thousand Yuan More)

If it was just a lead mine, Grete would have no clue based on his shallow knowledge of mineralogy. The tried-and-true "let the patient get a blood test" has no conditions for implementation.

However, the combination of lead and zinc mines immediately triggered his memory - oh oh oh, cadmium pollution!

This one is very famous!

Lead-zinc ores are often associated with silver, copper, sulfur, gold, indium, gallium, cadmium, germanium and other minerals. Among them, the most famous environmental pollution caused during the mining and smelting process is the cadmium poisoning incident——

In a previous life, the famous "Itai-Itai Disease" occurred in the Jintsu River Basin in Toyama Prefecture, Japan in the 20th century. The patient suffered from pain in various joints, severe deformity of the bones a few years later, and the bones were brittle and easily broken. Even a cough can cause fractures.

Itai-Itai disease has been prevalent in the local area for more than 20 years, causing more than 200 deaths. The cause of this strange disease is that cadmium-containing wastewater discharged from zinc and lead smelters on the riverbanks pollutes the water body, causing rice to contain cadmium, which accumulates in the human body.

"Teacher, I understand..." Gretel turned to Elder Erwin, his eyes bright:

"In addition to lead, there is another culprit that causes villagers to get strange diseases..."

Another heavy metal element... Wait, have magicians discovered cadmium in this world?

Grete recalled quickly. Thanks to the Lord of Thunder, he was forced to read new journals every week and was able to catch up with the latest academic developments. Cadmium element...

Silvery white metal, atomic number 48, melting point 321 ℃, boiling point 765 ℃, density 8.65 g/cm...

Got it!

Just this year, a magician named Stroh discovered this metallic element. This paper was published in the "Ordinary Magician Monthly" three months ago!

Thanks to the magicians for their tireless exploration. If he determines that it is this disease and then has to start by refining the elements to verify it, it will really give him a headache and heartache just thinking about it, and it will hurt everywhere.

"Teacher, in addition to lead poisoning, these villagers are also poisoned by cadmium. Well, cadmium is..."

With a wave of his hand, silent phantoms appeared in large swaths, outlining the papers in previous journals. Elder Erwin stroked his beard and narrowed his eyes:

"Um……"

His lips moved silently, and he read silently line by line carefully. The paper not only lists the discovery process and various properties of cadmium element, but also lists the testing methods. In addition to chemical methods, there are also magical methods:

After taking pictures with the identification technique, what signs should be seen to determine the presence of cadmium...

Elder Erwin read it carefully and tried to memorize it silently. Two heads poked out from one side, one left and one right:

The silver dragon girl's eyes shone slightly, looking extremely focused and immersed;

Apa's nose twitched, he chewed in his mouth, his eyes were fixed on the light screen, motionless. Gretel glanced at it, speechless:

Appa, you can’t read! Why are you reading this paper? Do you understand? Wait, you don’t want to eat it!

For the sake of his own thesis, Grete spread his fingers, pressed them on the forehead of Silver Moon Deer, and pushed it down hard. The monster understood, knelt down on all fours, and let Gretel climb onto the deer's back. Grete held the antlers and stretched his neck to look into the distance:

How many people work in this mine?

There is a workshop next to the mine. How many people are there in the workshop?

These people are most likely to be poisoned by lead and cadmium to varying degrees, and they all need [Detoxification Technique] to be washed. Is the number of spells cast in one day enough?

How to remedy the organic damage caused by lead and cadmium poisoning? For example, osteoporosis, etc., how to treat it with treatment?

While I was thinking quickly, I heard footsteps approaching from a distance on the other side of the hillside. Before anyone arrives, the voice comes first:

"who?"

Gretel followed the sound. The visitor had already turned out of the mountain road and came quickly. As soon as he saw the four people in front of him, especially the giant silver deer, his momentum immediately dropped by half:

"Everyone, distinguished guests, what do you call me? Why do you come to this mine?"

As he spoke, he kicked high and low, approaching quickly. Every time he took a step closer, the smile on his face became bigger. When he walked in front of everyone, his face was already full of smiles.

Grete observed calmly, he saw that the man was strong and strong, and his leather armor was bulging from his chest muscles. Even though he was walking on the bumpy mountain road, he still walked briskly. From the looks of it, he should be a level 3 to 4 warrior?

Well, it must not exceed level 5. If the knight takes this path, it will be much smoother and faster...

The person who came had a thick leather whip wrapped around his waist. It was brown and red and shiny. It looked like he had whipped many people with it. Is this the manager of the mine? Grete was suddenly a little unhappy, and added a [Feather Falling Technique] to himself, and it fell lightly:

"I am Gretel Nordmark, a level 6 mage. I was entrusted by Lord Joan to come here to investigate the strange diseases in the villagers. This is my teacher, and these two are my companions."

Appa snorted dissatisfied. Grete laughed and patted the Silver Moon Deer on the side:

"Okay, okay, Appa is also our companion..."

The visitor's whole body was shaken, and his expression became more humble. Grete glanced at him, not wanting to speak, but Elder Erwin looked away from the paper and took advantage of the situation to ask:

"How many people are there in your mine? Are they all villagers below?"

"Master Priest, our mine is small, with only about a hundred people." The visitor glanced at the mage badge on Grete's chest, and then looked at Elder Erwin, with a smile on his face and a fluent response. :

"Most of them are villagers below, and some are hired from outside. These villagers can't make much money from farming all year round. Working here, they can earn two silver coins a month to provide for two meals. They all rob Come on!"

Gretel knew this was true. Farmers grow and eat themselves all year round. If they are lucky, they can fill their stomachs - but they really can't make much money. If there is an opportunity to work, especially if it is right outside their home, they will definitely rush to get it.

Two silver coins per month for two meals is not too little. For reference, Gretel himself, when he first traveled through time, as a new recruit of the city guard, his monthly salary was five silver coins...

"Where is that workshop? Does it belong to you? How many people are there? Are they all villagers?"

"The workshop is not under my control. The master found someone else to build it, and there are only a few dozen people in it... There are not many villagers, and these poor guys can't do the work in the workshop. They are all hired from outside. , especially big work, how can you find it in the mountains!"

“How many people have joint and bone pain?”

After asking this question, the smile on the steward's face immediately froze.

He quickly turned his head and looked at the mine, looked at the miners who climbed out of the hole carrying ore on their backs and stopped nearby, looked at their faces stained with black dust and their stooped backs, and waved his hands in a low voice:

"Well, distinguished guest, let's go down below to talk? This place is dirty and messy. If you let your distinguished guest stand here and talk, the city lord will have to beat me up if he finds out..."

Elder Erwin followed him down without comment. The house the steward lives in is on the edge of a creek, a little away from the site where mineral sand is washed. Everyone took their seats. Elder Erwin looked around at the layout of the room and urged the steward:

"Tell me, how many people here have that weird disease where their joints and bones hurt all the time?"

"It... depends on what you say, sir." The steward said with a smile on his face:

"After doing such hard work, crawling around in the mines, and carrying the ore down the mountain, it's hard not to feel pain. It's all tiring. It's all tiring. Just take a night's rest and you'll be fine."

Gretel has been watching from the side without saying a word. Watching him wagging his lips and bulging his tongue, watching his gestures flying, watching him show humility and respect to himself and his team, while showing contempt for those miners. He suddenly spoke:

"That kind of pain is not tired, it's poisoned. - By the way, you're poisoned too."

"What?"

The steward's expression changed immediately. He raised his hands, wanting to touch his arms and then his chest. He caught a glimpse of a beautiful girl opposite and quickly put them down:

"Well, Master Mage, you can't say this casually...I, I'm poisoned? Where was I poisoned? Who here could poison me?"

Grete silently took out a mirror and handed it to him. The steward's hands trembled, and he subconsciously took a step back, not daring to pick up at all:

Mirror! This is a mirror! Such a bright and clear mirror, palm-sized, he had seen it in a jewelry store in the city, with at least five or six gold coins per side!

It’s worth several months of his salary!

"I'm just taking a picture for you." Gretel frowned slightly, a little impatiently:

"Forget it, I'll put it on the table and you can take a picture yourself - there are yellow rings on your front teeth, do you see them? There are blue-purple lines on the gums against the teeth, do you see them?"

The steward bent tremblingly to look. Look left, right, up and down, the more you look, the paler your face becomes:

"This, this, who gave me the poison? Is it the miners? Or the people in the government? It must be the people in the government! In order to steal my position, they want to kill me!"

"Shut up!" Gretel raised his voice:

"It's not that someone poisoned you! It's you who opened mines, washed the ore, and opened workshops here. The poisonous things in the ore flow into the water. You drink the water here, eat the vegetables that grow here, and eat the vegetables that grow here." Fish and shrimp!”

He waved his hand outward vigorously:

"If you don't believe me, go take a look. The miners and villagers will have the same marks on their teeth!"

Of course, these villagers have poor oral hygiene and their teeth are widely yellowed and blackened. Whether you can see the cadmium rings and lead wires is another matter.

The steward was pale and trembling. He bowed deeply to Gretel and ran out suddenly. Not long after, his shouting voice came from outside:

"You! Open your mouth! Let me see your teeth! You! You! You! - move quickly, why are you so stupid!"

In the room, Grete and the other four looked at each other in silence. Elder Erwin's face was as dark as water, Bernard's face was stern, and Cerela's cheeks were red with anger. Gretel activated the water-making technique, poured a glass of water for each of them, and said slowly:

"Let him gather the people together later. We won't treat the miners until we finish treating them."

Let him oppress the miners! snort!

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