Chapter 153.
Chapter 153 – The Guardian School
“Aigoo~ Gently, gently!”
Alan frowned and kept yelling.
“Really, you can’t even endure this much pain, and you’re bragging all day long that you’re going to go on a long voyage in the ocean.”
A girl pinched a cotton cloth dipped in medicinal wine and applied it on Alan’s swollen ankle while taunting the boy who was shouting in pain.
This girl was none other than the granddaughter of the former town mayor, Old Peter, Susan, who was currently learning the art of healing at Healer Ward’s clinic and had made becoming a healer her future life goal.
The young boy in front of her, as well as the group of companions who claimed to be Navy Candidates just like him, often came to patronize the clinic, either to get beaten up for violating discipline or to have accidents during training.
The reason for the boy named Allen’s visit this time was that when he was coming down the rope ladder from the mast on the warship, he accidentally stepped on the ground and fell above the deck, twisting his ankle and swelling his arm.
Hearing Susan deride him like that, Alan’s face flushed red and retorted defiantly, “I’m just giving honest feedback on my physical state, screaming a few times in pain doesn’t mean that I’m timid, I’m not going to refuse to train just because I’m injured.”
“Hehe – so talkative at such a young age!”
Susan instantly increased the strength of her hand, causing the boy to grimace for a moment.
She was already well acquainted with this group of Navy Candidates, and there was no need to be polite at all. As for the youngest Alan, he was even treated like a younger brother.
After learning from the other alternates that the boy’s only relative was killed by pirates, Susan was full of sympathy for him, and thought that underneath, her own grandfather – also the only relative – was almost killed by pirates, but after all, saved, compared to Allen is very lucky.
“This Lord Lord of ours is also really, even put you little kids into the army, can top what role.”
Susan couldn’t figure it out, isn’t the navy a liability with this bunch of kids who haven’t grown up yet?
Alan once again said unconvincingly, “Lord Lord said that we are the seeds of the Navy’s future, carrying the hope of opening up a 10,000-mile sea border for Arda. Any decision made by Lord Lord is right.”
Susan shook her head helplessly, what do these kids know, what is “open up” ah, what is “sea border” ah, the moment you hear it, it’s a matter of war and death.
But she can’t say anything, remembering that she was hot-headed at that time to speak out against Earl Greiman, but was not pursued by the Earl, she was secretly grateful and thankful.
Let’s hope that the decision made by His Lordship was the right one.
Susan suddenly thought of something and said, “I have to remind you, the town hall came to notify that Healer Varde and I are going to attend some kind of ‘training’ in Lakeheart Town, the time may last for several days, if you and your companions are so careless again or get physically punished for violating the discipline, in those days There may be no one left to heal you.”
Alan shrugged, “Yeah? Well, we’ll be back in a few days anyway ……”
He suddenly shut up and Susan asked curiously, “What are you guys doing in a few days?”
Alan tried to recall in his head, confirming that the departure of the Southern ship was not a classified matter, before continuing, “In a few days we’ll be traveling south along the coast on the Southern ship, going to open up the Great Voyage according to Lord Lord, so even if you and Healer Vard don’t leave, we won’t be able to find you.”
“Ah, I know about this, the town is already abuzz with rumors, especially those merchants, mentioning the South ship is like playing chicken blood, opening their mouths about the new voyage, closing their mouths about oceanic trade. It’s also true that I haven’t heard of a ship being able to sail to the southernmost tip of the kingdom’s coastline before.”
“Not just the southernmost tip of the kingdom oh!”
Ellen added excitedly, “If there’s any room left, we’ll probably sail to the area around Horn Bay.”
Allen, who hadn’t been enlisted for a long time, actually had little idea of how far Horned Bay was, only that it was further south of the kingdom, but looking at the excitement of the officers as they discussed this matter, he also regarded sailing to Horned Bay as a great event of no small importance.
Alas, at such a young age, he had to drift on the sea, following the adults to go so far away to venture into the world. Susan’s heart once again welled up with deep sympathy for the boy who had lost his mother.
“Stretch over your arm.” Susan re-dipped the cotton cloth in the medicinal wine and rubbed it over the bruise at the boy’s arm.
As she wiped, she admonished, “You must take good care of yourself on the ship, oh, and listen well to your officers, so you don’t get punished for indiscipline.”
Alan was a bit touched and smiled as he responded, “Well, thank you, Sister Susan.”
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“Gentlemen, this is the microscope, which is capable of magnifying the object it is observing several hundred times ……”
“This part is the objective lens, which is aimed at the object to be observed, and this part is the eyepiece, through which the human eye observes ……”
In one of the classrooms of Vis Academy, “Ms. Diaz” was introducing a group of students to the new things that had just been distributed to the academy.
However, the students in this classroom were not children, they were significantly older than the children, and there were even women who looked to be in their thirties.
These people are the health team that is being trained by the Council of State. The two counselors have compiled the first edition of the “Basic Medical and Health Handbook”, and in view of the imminent arrival of a large number of refugees who have been taken in by Hansel and Gretel, Paul has asked them to start the construction of the health system at once.
The students here came from all parts of Arda and Bairdine, and most of them were women, and some of them could not even read, so they could only be taught basic health knowledge through illustrations and words at the same time.
“Next, you will take turns coming up to the podium and using this microscope to observe for yourselves the microorganisms described in the Manual.”
Starting from the front row, one by one, the students walked up to the podium and operated the microscope following the steps that Ms. Diaz had just explained.
“Oh – this is amazing!”
“Yikes – that’s gross.”
From time to time exclamations came from the podium.
Taking advantage of the trainees experiencing the microscope, Erin came to the outside of the classroom, and just now, during the lecture, she saw someone looking into the classroom through the window.
“Earl Greiman, why do you have time to come here?”
Paul clapped his hands vigorously, “Very good, Ms. Diaz, you explained it very well. I had something to come over to Morrison and stopped by.”
Strange, why did he have to make the trip himself when he could have sent someone to summon Dean Morrison to the lord’s mansion? But Irene didn’t intend to look deeper into it, maybe this lord wanted to move his muscles.
“How many batches of people who were originally healers in there have come?”
“It’s only the second batch, and even then, they were only taught some microbial knowledge, simple sterilizing original means and principles. But the good thing is that those healers all recognize words and learn quickly against the manuals, and there are some disinfection measures they were already using, they just don’t know the principles.”
“As for those pure newcomers with a blank sheet of paper, they were a bit slower to learn.”
Paul reassured her, “You can’t learn as fast as you want to, just take your time! A lot of things we are also in the exploratory stage, we find a little to popularize a little, and to mobilize everyone to explore together.”
Paul looked inside and realized that there was a special group of women who were obviously a bit “cliquey” and didn’t seem to fit in with the people around them, nor did they interact with the others.
He nudged toward the classroom and asked the counselor, “How are they doing?”
(End of chapter)