Chapter 117 Red Cross (6)
When Danica walked slowly to the tent with her cane, she unexpectedly found that Elizabeth was also there. She put the cane aside, moved to the bed and sat down and said, "What? Why are you so idle today? Don't you have a lot of work to be busy every day?" Although this natural disaster is not large, the scope of impact is mainly concentrated in Cass Town, the disaster relief work is also very heavy. Danica remembers that Elizabeth has to be busy outside every day, and sometimes even until late at night.
Elizabeth sat on a cushion, with a low table in front of it, with many documents placed on it. She didn't raise her head, looked at the documents on the table and said, "Am I just busy now?"
Danica lay down, stretched her achesy limbs comfortably, and asked casually: "What are you busy with?"
Elizabeth sighed and said, "What else can it be? Food!"
Of course, Elizabeth knew that there was a problem with the food supply in the disaster area. Half a piece of black bread every day could not maintain the normal life of the victims, but she had no choice. Food, such as precious materials, cannot be transformed into her casually.
Danica was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you have a way to get food?"
Elizabeth put down the documents on her hand, rubbed her eyebrows tiredly, and said, "To be precise, I know where there is food, but it's very troublesome to get it out."
Danica became nervous. Did Elizabeth also aimed at Ernst City? She carefully tentatively said: "The victims are already dissatisfied with the daily supply of food. Even if they have negotiated, it will take a long time to transport the food. You have to hurry up."
Elizabeth nodded and said, "Yes, but what's the use of being anxious alone? They have to cooperate!" Thinking of this Elizabeth, I felt a little headache. As a huge force that has existed for 8,000 years, the factional disputes within the Holy See are too complicated. As long as there is a link that makes people feel embarrassed, the matter of seconding food will be stuck.
Danica breathed a sigh of relief. Since she needed to arrange time for the transportation of grain, it means that the food Elizabeth wanted to second it was not in Ernst, but it might be the reserves in other places.
It is not uncommon for such a large force in the Vatican to have a reserve granary, but it is probably not easy to replenish this kind of food. Although it seems cold-blooded, the fact is that in the Vatican, these 5,000 victims are not that important. In this world, rulers do not need to care too much about the feelings of the people. Their dominance depends on strong force and noble blood, not on the election of the people. As long as they maintain a relatively stable living environment, they are already a qualified leader.
Danica had just breathed a sigh of relief, and Elizabeth's words made her nervous again: "But there is one thing I want to ask, you only had an hour out and found out that the victims were not satisfied with the food supply?"
Danica pretended to be relaxed and said, "I just asked casually, don't be so nervous!"
"You still ask?" Elizabeth's question made Danica speechless. She was a serious ill who had difficulty walking. She just went out and asked about the food supply. What was she hiding?
"No!" Danica was still thinking about how to explain, but when she saw Elizabeth say solemnly: "I warn you not to cause trouble for me anymore, do you know? Don't think I dare not kill you!"
Danica nodded repeatedly, looking very well-behaved. However, her obedience did not win Elizabeth's trust. She had never let go of her vigilance for this guy, but she didn't know what to do with this guy. Did she really kill Danica? She is not a demon, and she can't do anything like killing people casually.
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Danica became much more honest in the next few days, and I don’t know if she was really reforming or was planning a bigger conspiracy. This made Elizabeth feel both relieved and worried.
These days, Danica has been mingling with a volunteer team of doctors who came to the disaster area. Elizabeth, the leader of the volunteer team, still had a little impression. She seemed to be named Jenny. She had visited Saint Cathedral for worship and volunteered there for a while.
Elizabeth asked for a little bit and learned that Danica and Jenny were busy preventing the epidemic after the disaster. She specifically told her to report to her no matter what their volunteer team wanted to do. Elizabeth ignored it. She now spent all her thoughts on seconding food.
"How is it? The water purification potion I gave you is effective, right?" Danica came to Jennie early in the morning and asked her to ask her about the use of the potion. Four days ago, Danica gave Jennie a water purification potion and asked her to see how the effect was. If possible, Danica would find medicinal materials to be prepared on a large scale.
"Very good! The potion is really effective!" Hearing Danica's voice, Jennie welcomed her happily, and helped Danica, who was still a little difficult to walk, walked in. This was a small tent for their volunteer team to rest. The conditions were a bit simple, but it was also a place to live.
Danica found a stool and sat down, and said with a smile: "That's good. This potion is also what I saw from an ancient note. I really don't know what the specific effect is." For professionals, even ordinary pharmacists, eating enough and clean food is not a problem, so this cheap and convenient water purification potion is of no use for pharmacists, so naturally no one specializes in research.
"This is the use report of the water purification potion." Jennie handed it to Danica with a stack of bound sauna, saying, "From the use report, the water purification potion has a good effect on the settlement of floating debris, and it also has a certain disinfection effect."
Danica took the report and looked through it briefly, and said in surprise: "Is this your experimental report for water purification potion?" This can indeed be called an experimental report, with detailed steps, experimental comparison and data analysis. This is the first time Danica has seen such a scientifically planned report in this world.
"Yes, this is what we all think of ourselves." Jenny said shyly, "We think this way can lead to more credible and intuitive conclusions and make people understand more easily."
The reason why Jenny is shy is that "more credible" and "more intuitive" are not something to show off. In this world, knowledge can bring power, status, and a comfortable life that is different from that of the common people. In other words, knowledge is valuable and can be acquired. Because of this, knowledge learners are not qualified to require knowledge to be "trusted" and "intuitive" and "easy to make people understand". If you don't want to learn, or you don't have this ability to understand, please get out.
This is the atmosphere in this world. Everyone recognizes the praise of knowledge from the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, Jenny's simplification and popularization of knowledge will be considered a kind of "disrespect" of knowledge, so she feels a little embarrassed.
But Danica was disdainful of this kind of social inherent thinking. She said, "It's really easy to understand." Danica has read many notes, and all the notes are so confused. She has seen such clear and clear words for a long time.
ps: Someone asked about the values of the saint, so here is an explanation.
First of all, it is clear that this is a world of magic and swords, with supernatural abilities, and professionals have strong lethality. For example, a powerful magician can destroy a city without interference from other professionals.
This brings inequality, the essential inequality of life. Ordinary civilians have no checks and balances against professionals. They either surrender or escape, and have no resistance at all. We often say that "water can carry boats, but can also overturn the boats", but if water can only carry boats and cannot overturn the boats, will the ruling class still care about "water"? There is no "will there be a king, prince, general and minister" again and again, who cares so much about the people? There is really no such thing in this world.
Therefore, the so-called saint does not actually require too high moral requirements. She does not need to treat civilians equally. She only needs to maintain mercy and care. A too low figure will even make civilians feel panic. Another point, Danica once mentioned that Elizabeth is essentially a political creature that pursues power and status, and the saint is just her position. The saint's selection does not even put "morality" first, but what is more important is her status in the Holy See.
Chapter completed!