In front of the captain's cabin door, Schliemann stared at the shoe prints on the ground and frowned.
"Are these your footprints? Ampton?"
Ampton nodded, and the two squatted there to study it carefully.
"Did you step on anything on the boat?"
Upton recalled carefully, from the moment he stepped onto the ghost ship, to entering the cabin, then to the bottom cabin, and finally returning to the captain's cabin.
"I stepped in a puddle of water when I was in the hold."
Schliemann was stunned for a moment, then slowly turned his head to look at Ampton: "Water? Are you sure it's water?"
"I am sure."
"Then I know...you were the one who brought this damn thing on board."
Seeing Apton's puzzled look, Schliemann sighed and continued: "The temperature on the ghost ship is below freezing, and even the steel spears they fired are covered in ice. Can there be water on their ship?"
"Then what did I step on?"
"Colloidal insect eggs! Transparent, slightly more sticky than water, and the freezing point is lower than water."
Ampton had nothing to say, because the puddle was indeed different from water. On the tilting ghost ship, they did not flow, but hung in the bilge.
"Judging from the time it took for Vivian to become ill, it only takes one day for this kind of thing to enter the human body and become ill. From this perspective, if we analyze Wang Chuan who is lagging behind, it means that someone has poisoned her."
"Poison?"
"It looks like water. If you throw it into the water, the crew will drink it...
This is why those crew members who are in the advanced stages of illness need to drink water all the time. The parasite will control the behavior of the host to some extent. "
"This is not a parasite, this is witchcraft!"
"That's okay if you think so, brush your boots quickly! Be careful when brushing, don't let the water flow into the lower water storage compartment!"
After Schliemann finished speaking, he stepped overtime and Hilpeter appeared in front of Schliemann with a piece of black bread in his mouth.
"Boss, you finally came out..."
"Why are you the boss? Hurry up and organize people to clean the Crescent..."
Schliemann said, and whispered something into Hilpeter's ear.
"Huh? Are there really wizards?"
"Yes, hurry up and let everyone be careful."
After Hilpeter left, Ampton asked Schliemann what he had just said to Hilpeter. Schliemann sighed.
"I told him that the Crescent Moon was cursed by the wizard on the big ghost ship. The Crescent Moon must be thoroughly cleaned to remove the curse, and the water used to cleanse the curse cannot be directly touched, otherwise the water that has been touched must not be touched directly. People will be cursed to death.”
It took a whole day to clean the whole ship. During this day, Vivian's condition continued to worsen.
She was curled up in the hammock, her face covered with sweat, and she was breathing rapidly with two dark circles under her eyes.
Mersin came to pick up her personal belongings, and Schliemann arranged for her to temporarily stay with Selu.
As soon as she left the house, Schliemann rushed out and stopped her.
"You didn't eat the half plate of bacon on the corner table, did you?"
"That's venison, right? How dare I eat it..."
"ah?"
Schliemann thought that the gluttonous Mersin had eaten the plate of venison without getting sick, and wanted to use her as a breakthrough to find a way to fight the parasite.
"In the days just after setting sail from the Twin Islands, I secretly ate the smoked venison that Vivian had hidden in the barrel, but she discovered it and she beat me up... Hey, how could I dare to do it again? Eat."
Will Mersin, who can even beat Gada, be held down and beaten by Vivian? This is simply one thing reducing another thing.
Schliemann scratched his cheek in embarrassment and said, "Go ahead and let Selu come to me."
Ten minutes later, Selu slowly arrived at Vivian's cabin. The moment she saw Vivian, she immediately knew why Schlieman was looking for her.
"No, you treat me as a doctor again..."
Apton glanced at Vivian who was breathing steadily, gently touched her shoulder, and after making sure she fell asleep, he briefly told the story in the voyage diary.
"We have found the transmission route and the spread should be under control. All we have to do now is save her life.
Is there a way you can get rid of the parasites. "
Selu hadn't recovered from the shock until Walter anxiously called her name several times.
"No, my experience in dealing with parasites is limited to removing ticks from Ram's cattle... But that's the outside, and hers is the inside... How do you get rid of the ticks on the inside?"
"Think of a way. We, the few of us, have no knowledge of pharmacy. We really have nothing to do about this kind of thing."
Sailu scratched her ears and cheeks, the sweat on her face was no less than that on Vivian's face.
"Could she just have a fever..."
"I'm pretty sure this isn't it, Selu, don't take any chances, she will be dead if this continues."
Schliemann's words made Selu and Walter tremble together. Selu frowned and Walter showed bitterness.
"Since she's dead...how about we poison her?"
"ah?"
The three of them asked in disbelief at the same time, and Selu quickly waved her two dark hands to try to explain.
"Look, I poisoned her, and all she has to do is wait until those bugs die first. Then I'll give her the antidote right away..."
There was silence in the cabin, and even Vivian's weak breathing seemed deafening.
"Uh...she is yours, you make up your mind..."
Schliemann kicked the ball to Ampton, who glanced at Walter.
Everyone knew the degree of danger involved. If one of them was not sure about the amount of poison used, Vivian would not even be able to survive the remaining few days.
But several people also knew that this seemed to be the only feasible way.
Seeing the persistence in Walter's eyes, Apton slapped his thigh.
"Just do it."
It took most of the day to prepare the materials.
When Selu set up the familiar little teapot in Vivian's cabin, the three people present took a deep breath.
They never imagined that the yellow flower tea they first drank came from this poisonous pot.
As various materials were added, the liquid in the teapot changed from light emerald green to purple in the blink of an eye. Even Schliemann, who had turned on the "useless" ability, could not see this process clearly.
Moreover, the originally light green liquid felt stagnant at the moment of change, and its state became much more viscous in an instant.
Bubbles emerged from the purple paste one by one, and when they burst, they made a popping sound. As the heat evaporated from the bubbles, a fragrance that was completely inconsistent with the appearance filled the whole room.
Selu took a wooden spoon, scooped out a little from the pot, and put it into a bowl. She glanced at Vivian's weak and sweaty face, as if she was estimating the amount.
Then, she began to add water, dilute it, and stir it evenly.
Vivian was also shaken awake by Walter. She opened her eyes and opened her chapped lips.
"Is there water? I'm so thirsty..."
