What's going on with the 'characteristic disease' you just mentioned? "Klaft asked in a somewhat hoarse voice. Ryan leaned over the kettle to let him have another drink, but he avoided it with a tilt of his head." What do you mean by your village's characteristic disease? I'm quite common here for sudden high fever like this

He vaguely realized something, but last night's memories were only fragmented fragments, with more content lost in depths he couldn't uncover. Now he needs some clues.

Perhaps it's because this symptom is too distinctive, and amateur doctors have shown good memory in this regard: "According to my father, of course he also listened to my grandfather's words. I'm not sure if it's been long ago. There have been such strange diseases here for a long time, mostly young people, every eight or nine years. They all suddenly have a fever on their heads, burning like they've been roasted in a fire, talking nonsense like snakes, and in the end..." He paused and observed Ryan and Kraft's faces, feeling that they wouldn't blame him for the current situation. "In the end, they didn't even survive for two days, and my father encountered the same thing

Seeing Ryan and Kraft's skeptical expression, the doctor pulled out his bloodletting tool and said, "My grandfather was a legitimate doctor outside before he came here, and this set of things was left by him. He said he had never seen such a disease anywhere else. Even if it's a fever and nonsense, it's not all related to snakes, right?" His voice grew quieter as he spoke. "Of course, this is also what my father said. He guessed there was a snake's evil spirit here. After eating fresh and strong souls, he went back and came out again when he was hungry

Kraft habitually filtered out his words on his own: acute onset, more likely to occur in young adults, with fever and delirium as the main symptoms, with obvious regional characteristics. The mortality rate is extremely high, and it cannot be ruled out that local medical measures may have a counterproductive effect.

Of course, there is also the 'snake'. This inexplicable element still lingers in my mind, unable to shake off. His current state is like waking up from a dream, being pulled back to reality from a distant dream. I don't know anything else except for the most impressive content. The only difference was a vague feeling that couldn't be dispelled, making him feel like something had been completely changed in a place he didn't know.

This hazy feeling is like during a drifting trip in the past, when he was on a kayak overlooking the murky surface of the algae overgrowth. Suddenly, a black shadow underwater flashed through the afterglow, but upon closer inspection, there was nothing. In self doubt, it may be an illusion caused by the rippling water waves, or the mottled shadows cast by the rugged rocks and old trees above, unable to imagine or dare not imagine what living creatures are moving in the bottomless deep pool.