Chapter 559 - Something Fishy about the Disease (1/2)

Lin Mengya fingered through the documents and realized that apart from letters that contained descriptions of the symptoms, there were some written prescriptions from the doctors in the areas affected by the pandemic.

The prescriptions might not be useful, but from the drugs the physicians prescribed, she was able to make some educated guesses.

The first few components of the prescription contain herbs that help detox and cool down the body.

However, the components that came after included a drug called the Bone Transplant Flower.

The name of this drug could be found in the music score for the green stringed instrument. Although it was not frequently used, it was one of the components of a prescription called “Marrow Cleansing Powder”, which was commonly used to stimulate blood circulation and relax muscles and joints.

The prescription was obviously meant to treat the pandemic, why should its efficacy be to stimulate blood circulation and relax muscles and joints?

Apart from the Bond Transplant Flower, there were many other medicinal drugs listed that were meant to help the healing of wounds after a bone injury.

Based on the information from the letters, the pandemic was aggressive and the fatality rate among the infected was very high.

Could the disease cause harm to the human bones?

This seemed to be too bizarre!

Seeing that Lin Mengya had gone into deep thoughts, Long Tianyu could tell that she must have gathered some details of the situation.

Not wanting to disturb her, he sat silently beside her and waited.

After a long time, Lin Mengya finally exhaled and began tidying up the letters and pieces of paper containing the physician’s prescriptions to hand them back to Long Tianyu.

“Did you manage to figure anything out?”

Long Tianyu took over the letters and flipped through them. He had no idea what these were, so naturally, there was nothing much he could do to help Lin Mengya.

“Something is very strange about the outbreak of this disease. Just look at this prescription. Although there is nothing special about the first few components in it, the following herbs appear very strange. I need to ask your opinion about something.

Lin Mengya sat up and freed herself from Long Tianyu’s embrace as she spoke with a serious tone of voice.

At her serious attitude, Long Tianyu nodded. He knew that the situation was far more difficult to handle than he had imagined.

“How long would it take to break every bone in a person for people like you, who practice martial arts?”

The question caught Long Tianyu by surprise. He did not know what this was leading to.

However, since Lin Mengya raised the question, he thought about it for a while before giving her an answer.

“I’ve heard of a kind of martial arts called Powerful Diamond Strike. Once a person masters this, he would be able to break every bone in another person’s body using just one strike of it. However, not even I have witnessed it. As for me, I would probably take at least fifteen minutes.”

Lin Mengya naturally believed Long Tianyu’s words.

Although Lin Mengya had no idea about things regarding martial arts, she knew that he was very skillful. Qinghu had once told her that he would only be able to take a dozen of Long Tianyu’s strikes if he were to get into a serious fight with him.

And Qinghu was once the master of the Peach Blossom Dock, who struck fear in people even at the mention of his name. His skill far transcended that of the limit of commoners.

If even a person like him took fifteen minutes to break all the bones of a person’s body, it would take much longer for a commoner to break even one bone.

However, from the letter that Lin Mengya read, almost all the infected people would die in a bizarre manner after the effects of the disease came on.

It seemed that every part of the body would fold in the opposite way from its normal position simultaneously.

He would also vomit out the broken pieces of his internal organs from his mouth.

Normally, a person’s internal organs would be protected by the ribs as well as multiple layers of muscles.

Now, it seemed that the rib bones had moved out of place and caused them to throw up pieces of their internal organs.

In that case, the bones and muscles meant to protect the internal organs of a person had on the contrary become the prime culprit that constricted the organs.

Moreover, there was a large amount of a herb similar to the Bone Transplant Flower written in the prescription.

Therefore, the prescription seemed to be used for treating bone fractures rather than treating the disease of the pandemic.

Could it be because the infected person already exhibited such frightening symptoms during the first stage after catching the disease?

After organizing her thoughts, Lin Mengya looped her hair behind her ear and began explaining her suspicion to Long Tianyu, speaking with a low voice.

“Based on the description in the letter as well as the physician’s prescription, I suspect that the disease of the pandemic attacks man’s bones. Nevertheless, the bones are hard and strong, no one would take much notice of it at the beginning. It’s normal for people to suffer pain and soreness around the body. Perhaps it does not cross the mind of the people that these were symptoms of the disease.

Lin Mengya gave the situation much thought and decided that she would only pick some information which she was certain of to tell to Long Tianyu.

“However, by the time the infected enters the later stage of the disease, it’s late. Because the infected did not receive effective treatment, by the time he realized that he had been infected, the disease had spread to the bones. Within a short period of a few days, the bones of the infected would have grown in the opposite direction. Finally, the infected would become like what was described in the letter. He would curl his body into a ball, but the limbs would be bend in the opposite directions, making him look abnormal. This is my preliminary analysis. Nevertheless, I would want to personally dissect the corpses for a closer examination when I get to the areas affected by the pandemic.”

Long Tianyu knitted his dark brows when he saw how Lin Mengya was able to make such a detailed analysis of the things he had missed, just by going through the letter and prescriptions.

She would be of great benefit when they arrived at the affected areas.