Main Text Volume Chapter 357 Encounter on a Snowy Night

Angel flipped through the pages for nearly half the night, and finally found the clue of "snake around the staff" in a book called "The Oath of the Physician". In this book, there are several scenes of ancient doctors saving people. Perhaps in order to deify the status of doctors, they all carry a staff with a snake around it when treating patients, and their whole bodies are glowing.

The most magical picture is a four-frame comic strip, which tells an incident that happened in ancient times: a man holding a snake staff has a glowing cloud in front of him. With the reminder of the "light cloud", the man saved the disease that spread throughout the city.

If the author had not deliberately "deified", the only person that Angel could think of who had such extraordinary power was a wizard. And that "light cloud" might be some kind of large-scale healing technique.

At the end of the book, there was another picture with a "snake around the staff".

However, this picture did not show a doctor holding a snake staff, but a statue in a square, where the "snake around the staff" became a statue, and countless doctors in white robes clenched their fists and put their chests down, bowing their heads to the statue.

The whole picture looks solemn and sacred.

Below it is the name of this picture: Oath of Entry Picture.

All doctors take an oath when they take the job. This oath includes "dutiful service to patients, strict demands on oneself, and respect for medicine". This picture is an oath of entry picture.

After reading this book, Angell's mind was even more confused.

The previous picture, "snake around the staff" is a tool in the hands of the doctor. In the end, it turned out to be the belief of the doctor when taking the oath. This is very strange.

Angell thought about it. Maybe the pictures at the beginning actually refer to a wizard who specializes in treatment. His deeds of saving people were praised by people, so there were the previous pictures. Later, the wizard left, and his deeds were slowly praised. Under this long-term praise, he became more and more deified. In the end, even his snake staff became the object of the oath of entry.

This is the complete logic that Angell can think of.

But...what does this have to do with Axl? What does this have to do with Pocrates? !

After searching for a long time, the "snake around the scepter" I found was just an ancient legend?! There was no mention of the name of the snake, let alone its meaning. There was no record of the "Pocrates" that Angel wanted to know the most.

Feeling that he had done his work in vain, Angel reluctantly restored the books in the secret library and left silently.

Returning along the original route, he left the central library quietly. When he appeared in the square again, Angel unexpectedly found that there were a few white frosts floating in the air.

——It's snowing? Later, Angel remembered that the falling white frost was actually snowflakes.

Living in a temperate coastal area since childhood, coming to the wizard world is also in a mirror world with warm seasons. Angel has seen frozen land on the Pamiji Plateau, but he rarely sees snowflakes. He only remembers seeing heavy snow when he was very young when he went to the capital of the Golden Sparrow Empire. Now that he suddenly meets the falling snow, his originally depressed mood suddenly gets better for some reason.

In the drifting snow, Angel felt inexplicably quiet, and walked towards the place he came from step by step.

Every season has its symbolic sign. Snow is the "gift of winter" that Angel defaults to in his heart. The windbreaker that Angel wore had the effect of being able to withstand cold and heat, so he basically couldn't feel the winter. When he saw the fluttering snowflakes, he was shocked to realize that winter had really come.

Perhaps the sound of the falling snow was too gentle, which aroused the long-lost sensibility in Angel's heart.

He thought of his relatives far away, thought of Lyon, and thought of Jon.

Also in the frozen earth month, he left Gru Town and set foot on a mysterious world with Moro. Time passed in a flash, and it was two years.

Two years is not long in the long life of a wizard. But for Angel, it was too fast. He had not grown up to the point where he could protect his family, nor had he found a way to save Jon.

Now, he didn't even know where he was.

Although he has been doing self-construction in his heart and will be able to go back soon, who knows how long this "soon" will be? A month? A year? Or ten years?

Moreover, the purification garden is about to open. Can he make it there? This is also an unknown.

Angel shook his head and forced down these complicated thoughts. Too many negative emotions will affect his decision.

The night is getting darker and darker, and the snowflakes are floating more and more.

Angel did not open the purification force field and let the snowflakes fall on him. He could not feel the coolness of the snow, but watching the snow fall on him and slowly melt, his mood became much calmer.

Facing the goose-down-like heavy snow, Angel found that at the end of the dark street, there was a shop with lights on.

It was a small clinic. Angel noticed it when he came. Through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, he could see the scene inside-

Narrow room, bright oil lamp, simple tables and chairs. A young female doctor in a white robe sat on a chair, holding a cup of hot drink in her hand, blowing and sipping, and the white mist coming out of the cup covered her glasses with a layer of steam.

This is what Angel saw from the French window when he passed by the only clinic with lights on in the snowy night.

Angel paused for a moment and was discovered by the female doctor who had been bored watching the snowflakes falling. She took off her glasses and smiled at Angel.

Angel was stunned and subconsciously wanted to lower his hat and leave quickly. But when his thoughts changed, he remembered the "Doctor's Oath" he had seen not long ago, and stopped again. Instead, he nodded to the female doctor, then opened the clinic door and walked in.

The female doctor was startled, then immediately put down the cup in her hand and came over.

"It's snowing too much outside, let's have a cup of hot tea." The female doctor did not ask any questions. She could tell that this strangely dressed man had no intention of coming in, and judging from his straight back and the pace of his movements, Look, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him. She guessed that they were here to avoid the snow.

The female doctor methodically took out the water glass and mixed it with a cup of hot tea.

He thought the other party would make fermented tea, so Angel originally wanted to refuse, but when the female doctor approached, he smelled a faint milky fragrance.

"I particularly like to drink milk tea, so I only have milk tea here." The female doctor said a little embarrassedly: "Sir, you can try it. This is Wimton milk tea. It is very warm to drink on cold days."

Angel was stunned for a moment, but took it anyway.

However, he did not drink it. Instead, he put it on the table, took off his tall hat and put it aside, and smiled at the female doctor.

Only then did the female doctor realize that the "sir" she was talking about was just a half-grown boy. He was blond and blue-eyed, with skin as smooth as fine white porcelain. He was very handsome, even more handsome than the senior she had been obsessed with when she was studying. The most important thing is that the other person is so good-looking before he has grown up. When he matures, how many women will miss him?

The female doctor couldn't help but shook her head secretly, hating that she was getting married too early.

"My name is Shirley, and I am the attending physician of this Shirley Clinic." The female doctor Shirley smiled warmly at Angel and said, "The snow came too suddenly, sir, why don't you stay here for a while. Wait until The snow has subsided, will you go back?”

Angel nodded casually, and then asked: "Dr. Shirley, did you graduate from Golden Cross Medical College?"

Shirley was stunned, and then there was a hint of embarrassment on her face: "Golden Cross is the best medical school in Fuxu Royal Court, and my grades are not up to their admissions standards. I graduated from Folan Medical College, although My alma mater is not famous, but it actually produced many famous doctors. Ms. Caroline, a Chinese doctor who lives in Waterglass, was a student of Folan Medical College.”

Angel didn't care about the answer. He just used this conversation to continue asking.

"I heard that when graduating from medical school, there will be an oath. I am very curious about this, Dr. Shirley, can you tell me about it?"

Shirley was a little confused, wondering why the other party would ask such a thing. But after all, it wasn't anything private. It was rare for someone to talk to her during the night shift, and she didn't hide it.

"I didn't expect you to understand it quite well. Do you also want to be admitted to medical school?"

Angel didn't answer, just raised the corners of his lips and smiled.

Shirley secretly cursed that her smile was so attractive at such a young age...

"You are right, we will take an oath of office as a doctor when we graduate, but in fact it is not just graduation, we will also take an oath when we first enter school. And the oath has not changed, I still remember it to this day..."

Shirley recited the oath.

It is basically the same as the oath that Angel read in "The Physician's Oath", but there is an additional tenet on the theme of "being responsible for patients, being demanding on oneself, and respecting medicine":

——"The abandonment of theology."

Angel narrowed his eyes slightly. This extra point is very interesting. Even a civilization like the Earth that purely climbs the technological tree does not say it to death, leaving a little room for "mystery". Even famous scientists have called out that "the end of science is God." Although this is controversial, it is quite philosophical.

On the contrary, the wizarding world, which truly possesses "metaphysics", actually has such words as "resolutely abandoning theology", which is even written in the oath.

"Dr. Shirley, I understand the treatment of patients, self, and medicine. But why should we abandon theology?"

Shirley: "Because theology is a way for the powerful to fool the common people. There is no God in this world. Moreover, if the patient is convinced that God can cure him, how can we as doctors save him? My professor once said that theology is a stain on medicine. ”

Angel nodded. He generally agreed with Shirley's words. Any security measures were thought up by powerful people: such as theology, moral standards, and legal standards.

Even what Shirley said about patients believing in God but hiding their illnesses and avoiding medical treatment does make sense.

However, it would be too much to say that theology contaminates medicine.

The so-called theology, Angel’s understanding is not religion, but something unknown to human beings. It may be people's guesses and conjectures, either as good as God or as bad as the devil.

To sum up, these are actually “unknown”.

It is already "unknown", how do you know it will "tarnish" medicine. Compared with other parts of the physician's oath of employment, this word "slander" is used too harshly.

Although Angel thought so, he did not refute Shirley, but asked: "Do you think there are extraordinary things in the world?"

Shirley hesitated slightly: "Probably not?"

Angel nodded and did not continue the topic.