Chapter 1907 Epidemic Prevention

The magic steamer "Diamond Princess" blew its whistle, braved the wind and waves, and sailed north in the golden morning glow.

Ms. Kate provided first-class tickets for Joan and his party, but Joan was the only one among the four young people who was willing to shut himself up in a well-equipped luxury cabin, using the free time during the journey to revise his thesis and delve into magic.

At noon, Joan rang the bell.

Not long after, waiters in neat uniforms and white gloves pushed a trolley to deliver food to the door.

Joan picked a few seasonal seafood and macaroni bolognese, declined the table wine recommended by the waiter, picked up a large watermelon from the dining car and cut it in half, squeezed half into juice, and used the other half as dessert after the meal.

He dares to say that his love for watermelon will never change!

After a good meal, Joan continued to immerse himself in his work until it was nearly dusk when Holden knocked on the door and half-forced him to take a walk on the deck to enjoy the beautiful sunset over the sea.

Joan stepped onto the deck and looked west against the sea breeze. Flocks of petrels hovered over a blue ocean, and the horizon dyed red by the setting sun was like a classical oil painting, which made him feel a kind of eternal beauty beyond time and space. A portrayal of the destiny of all things and all beings.

It's a pity that Joan doesn't have much literary talent, and couldn't find the right words to describe his complicated feelings facing the beautiful sunset on the sea at this moment. He was planning to ask Mr. Poet for a professional aesthetic explanation, and accidentally saw Audrey and Hylar walking across the deck , and a well-dressed old couple followed the girls, thanking Miss Paladin gratefully.

"Old man, this is just a little effort, you really don't have to be polite." Audrey smiled and waved her hands, said goodbye to the elderly couple, turned and walked towards Joan and Holden.

"Sister, are you treating people again?" Holden asked without surprise.

Audrey nodded, and said softly: "While taking a walk just now, I overheard two elderly people coughing violently, so I went over to chat with them and found that they still had high fever and chest tightness, most likely due to some infection. This type of viral pneumonia, if left alone, not only will the condition of the two patients themselves get worse, but it may also be transmitted to other passengers on board."

Joan nodded in agreement: "In a relatively closed environment like a ship, as long as there are one or two free-moving virus carriers, it will lead to explosive infections in a short period of time, which is even more dangerous than the rough seas at sea. Get treatment as soon as possible to eliminate infectious diseases from the source."

"Hairal said the same thing. After all, she comes from a sailing family and is very sensitive to the epidemic prevention on board. She asked me to treat the old couple immediately, and took me to the restaurant to see if there were any similar people. For patients with symptoms, I thought she was making a big fuss just now, but now it seems that it is really necessary." Audrey thought deeply.

"That's why, you don't take my words seriously, but Joan said the same thing before you admit that it's reasonable, what a partiality!" Hailaer curled up his ponytail hair with his fingertips, complaining angrily to his best friend, "It makes me even more angry You are the one who refuses to accept fees for medical treatment! It’s understandable that you don’t accept money from the poor, and you don’t accept money from first-class rich people, it’s too pedantic!”

Audrey gave her a helpless look, with resentment on the corners of her eyes and brows: "Honey, how dare you accept money for doing so little? Do my best, don't expect anything in return, but please feel at ease—this is the principle of our paladins."

"A paladin is the dumbest fool in the world!"

Having said that, a smile appeared on the corner of Hailar's lips.

Joan could see that Hailar did not emotionally reject Audrey's charity of treating patients for free, but insisted that it was more rational to charge money for treatment.

Looking at it from another angle, with Audrey on board as a paladin who treats patients for free, the situation of the ship doctor who pays for outpatient visits is in an embarrassing situation.

By extension, the same reasoning applies to all industries. Hailar's concept is indeed not noble, but it has its own rationality, and it is even more conducive to social progress than Audrey's doctor's benevolence to a certain extent.

Four young people walked and chatted on the deck, time passed quietly, and night fell in a blink of an eye, the sky full of stars and sparkling waves complement each other, and the soothing waves are like the snoring of the sea, deepening the silence of the night.

"Look! That's the lighthouse on the headland that Sister Kate mentioned, and the place where we planned to connect with the sailboat 'Coral'!"

Hailar pointed to the left side of the ship, his eyes couldn't hide his excitement.

Joan looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, she saw a towering lighthouse erected at the corner of the coastline in the distance. The top of the tower gave off the unique orange-red light of "Immortal Flame", guiding the ships passing by here.

He took out his pocket watch and glanced at it. The hour hand had just crossed ten o'clock at night, and it was less than two hours before the time of meeting.

"Shall we teleport directly, or say hello to the captain first?" Holden asked.

"Just say hello!" Hailaer shook his head cautiously, "If the news of our sneaking away reaches Dad's ears, it will be troublesome. One more thing is worse than one less thing."

Now that she had made up her mind, Joan stopped talking and chanted the incantation, holding the hands of Hylar and Holden respectively, while Hylar and Holden each held Audrey's hand.

The four held hands and formed a circle, together with Dolly the parrot who was dozing in the hood of Joan's cloak, turned into a beam of light that soared into the sky, and was teleported to the headland lighthouse dozens of miles away in an instant. Waiting for the "Coral" expedition ship to come to pick up.

When the appointed time came, there was no sail on the sea. Qiao An and the others waited patiently for another half an hour, but the expedition ship "Coral" still disappeared, and everyone couldn't help feeling anxious.

"It's already passed the appointed time, why the boat hasn't come yet, maybe something happened?" Holden asked in a murmur.

Hailaer also had the same concerns, and he didn't complain about the poet's "crow's mouth". He frowned and said to himself: "The weather is fine, the sea is calm, and there are no hidden reefs nearby, so there will be no shipwreck. Even if there is a temporary delay, Captain Odysseus should also send me a letter to inform me, I am not sure what the situation is now."

"Hairal, if you recognize the captain, send him a 'short message' right now to find out where the ship is, so that you know exactly where the ship is, so that we don't have to think about it." Audrey suggested.

Hailar nodded, took out a crystal-shaped "communication stone" from the storage bag, and sent a letter to the captain of the "Coral" Odysseus.

Everyone waited for another ten minutes. When they were anxious and impatient, there was a sudden wave of magic power in front of Hailar, and a small golden whirlwind emerged out of thin air.

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