Magus Tech

In the dark dungeon, it was wet and cold, and the air was filled with rotten odor and human body odor, which smelled sickening.

Moss and moss-covered walls of the dungeon are plugged with oil torches every few meters.The torch burned "crackly", because the air lacked circulation and the oxygen content was too low. It was emitting black smoke due to incomplete combustion. It shot a figure on the ground and looked distorted and frightened.

"Tick Tick", the water droplets condensed on the top of the dungeon continued to fall, dripping onto the head of a soldier in the dungeon guard, wet the hair a little, wet the cheeks, and finally flowed into the neck, very cold.But the standing guard soldier dared not move, and the muscles of his body were tightly stretched into a piece, just like a javelin dragged on the ground.Trying to maintain a steady breath, the afterglow of the eyes floated involuntarily towards the entrance of the dungeon.

At the entrance, a teenager, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, wearing a little too simple aristocratic clothing, walked in without expression.Behind the boy, the dungeon guard captain was accompanied by Wei Nuo Nuo, his face was full of laughter, his eyes were uneasy and terrified.

Can't help guarding the captain, the boy is the king's youngest son, and he is the second heir to the next king except the grand prince.As long as the other party is a little unhappy, he may be in a different place at any time.

Thinking of this, the captain of the guard was tighter, and the expression on his face was a little stiff.

Richard did not pay much attention to the look of the captain.It has been fifteen years in the current medieval-like world. His extraordinary psychology allows him to fully adapt to his identity and know how to do it in order to accomplish his goals more efficiently, and then solve one of his ultimate doubts.

"Da Da Da", Richard stepped into the dungeon and said to the captain of the guard: "Before I let you lead a team to catch the wizard, or someone related to spells and abnormal supernatural phenomena to study for me , You have executed it twice, without success, just grabbed a group of ugly-looking farmers to make up the count. Now, for the third time, are you sure you really caught it? My patience is limited."

"His Royal Prince, this time...this time..." The guard captain's head instantly sweated, his throat jittered a few times, and a harsh voice came from his throat, "This time... this time I promise to be true I got it."

"How is the soldier's pension?" Richard asked again.

"Huh?" The captain of the caretaker froze for a while, "Passion? What kind of compassion?"

Richard frowned, "Don't tell me that the casualty soldier's money was swallowed by you alone. If you do this, I would appreciate your courage."

"No!" The captain of the caretaker's eyes widened and reacted, stuttering, "King... Your prince, there are no casualties."

"Huh? No casualties? Arresting people involved in supernatural phenomena, your soldiers have no casualties?"

"Yes, none of them." The captain of the guard said seriously.

"Well, okay." Richard said aloud, he already had some kind of speculation in his heart, exhaled, "So, what did you catch this time?"

"Yes, His Royal Highness." The captain of the guard calmed down, and answered seriously, "This time there were four arrests, a white-faced demon, a halfling, a vampire, and one..."

...

"Da da da!"

Halfway through, Richard stopped in front of a cell deep in the dungeon, squinting at a figure in the cell.The skin color on the other person's face showed an abnormal snow-white, without any blood color, and appeared extremely horrible.Sitting on the floor of the cell, his eyes looked frightened.

The voice of the captain of the guard sounded, lest Richard fail to see it and said, "His prince, this is the white-faced demon caught, you see..."

Richard just glanced at it, and stepped forward.

The captain of the guard was stunned, not knowing why Richard was not interested, but he shrank his neck and followed.

Soon, Richard stopped for the second time. In a cell next to him, a weird figure was curled up in the corner.The other person's face was covered with wrinkles, and it looked like he was fifty years old, but he was less than one meter tall. Like a child, it seemed strange to him.

The captain explained: "His Royal Highness, this is a halfling..."

Before finishing the speech, Richard shook his head, strode forward, and then stopped.

In the third cell was a monster-like human with pale appearance. His exposed skin on the face, neck and back of the hand was covered with erythema, and some places had even rotted away.Mouth slightly opened, you can see the other party's teeth seem to grow strangely, showing a strange blood red, it is chilling.

"King...His Prince." The captain of the caretaker pointed to the man in the third cell, obviously nervous, and said, "This is a vampire. Be careful, don't get hurt by him."

"Huh." Li Cha said with a cold tone.

"His Prince, you..."

Richard said: "An albino patient, a dwarf, and a porphyria patient, are you the bastard, halfling, and vampire you caught?"

"This one……"

"Do you have any biological knowledge?! Well, I forgot, there was no biological knowledge at all in the Middle Ages, but this is not a reason at all! It should be clear to you if you think about it, if they are really white-faced devil, halfling And vampires, can you catch them so easily? When the soldiers caught them without any casualties, you should count them? Didn’t you fail to learn any lesson in the previous two defeats?"

"Uh, this..."

"If you don't say anything else, just say vampire. Did you see him like a legendary avatar? Or could it fly?"

The captain of the guard shivered, but the next moment was the courage to fight: "His prince, I did not see that this evil vampire would become a bat and fly, but his skin really could not see the sun. It will rot, you see what he looks like because of the sunlight on the road.

He was drinking blood when I led him to grab him, and he hated garlic especially.This is not a vampire?His Royal Highness, he is undoubtedly a vampire!"

"However, he is just porphyria." Li Cha said blankly.

"Ah?" The guard captain froze.

"In other words, he is just a patient. All the performance you see is because of the symptoms caused by the disease. Although it is very similar to the legendary vampire, it is not..."

"For... why?" The captain of the guard looked puzzled.

"Are you sure you want to listen to the reason?" Li Cha asked.

"This……"

"Well, I'll explain it to you." Richard said. "Porphyria, also known as hemochromatosis, is caused by the lack of certain enzymes or decreased enzyme activity in the heme synthesis pathway. Group porphyrin metabolic disorders. It can be congenital and acquired. And once it appears, according to the level of the current era, um, there is no way to cure it completely, it can only barely sustain life, it becomes this ghost."

"Ah?" The captain of the guard was still very confused.

"Let's put it this way." Li Cha explained in more detail, "The blood in the human body is composed of many parts, one part of which is called heme. Generally speaking, the human body uses'iron element' and'porphyrin' in specific enzymes Under the catalysis, heme can be produced.

However, due to the lack of this specific enzyme, some people will have obstacles in the production of heme, resulting in a very high content of the substance "porphyrin" in the body.The substance "porphyrin" is very sensitive to light and is harmless in the dark. Once it is exposed to light and activated by ultraviolet rays, it will be converted into a "meat addictive" toxin, resulting in large areas of erythema, herpes and even on the surface of the human body. fester.

The oral cavity is also affected, leading to gum ulceration and exposed roots, which make the teeth appear particularly long, and gradually become purple-brown due to the deposition of porphyrin.

At the same time, because heme cannot be synthesized and normal blood cannot be produced, patients with porphyria will have severe anemia and must supplement the blood from the outside to survive.Intravenous delivery is a good method, but considering the current technological level of this world, they simply cannot operate, they can only choose another one-drinking-heme is extremely tenacious and can resist various digestive juices and enter the digestive system Absorbed through the small intestine.

The reason they hate garlic is also simple, because garlic contains allicin, which has a strong bactericidal effect.Due to the special conditions of their bodies, eating garlic can induce and greatly aggravate their symptoms.In fact, if you pierce them with silver items, they will also hate them-silver also has a strong bactericidal effect.

In short, you need to understand one thing, that is-vampires are vampires, and porphyrias are porphyrias.Perhaps the performance of the two is somewhat the same, but it is not the same thing at all!I'm asking you to look for real vampires and things related to wizards and spells, not patients one by one, okay?

When you were arresting them, what you received was not resistance and killing, but pleading and crying. Is there really no doubt in your heart?Oh, still feel that as long as the task is completed on the surface, it will be fine?This was the case twice before, and this is the third time. My patience is really limited..."

"His prince I..." The captain of the guard was speechless, and his heart was filled with great fear.He had heard a lot of ruthless means by His Royal Highness, if the Prince was really angry...

Richard did not continue to struggle with the captain of the guard, striding to the deepest part of the dungeon, and said: "You said that this time I caught a total of four, and the last one is a real wizard. Well, let me see if it is true or false. "