Chapter 1048: Pre-Made Dishes for the Moon Child

"Blood supply..."

Sherlock murmured and repeated, immediately understanding what Aiwass meant: "I see... That said, it's really no problem.

"There are only twenty-four registered dependents in the Earl of Orleans' residence, which is the third smallest dependent among the eight Earls. But their blood demand is the first..."

He looked at the "blood supply" item in the data card and was a little confused: "But why is there... so little?"

——This is the number of blood bags they receive from the hospital every month.

Even the Count of Orleans, who had the most, only had 220 bags. Based on the calculation that a bag of blood is 200 milliliters, this is only 44 liters.

And the quantities collected by the other Children of the Moon were even pitiful... the least was only over sixty bags.

It seems a little too low-key for these children of the moon...

Sherlock didn't realize this at the first time, just because this part happened to be in his blind spot of knowledge - he really didn't know much about the Son of the Moon. So much so that he had no idea how much blood the Moon Child needed to consume under normal circumstances.

Aiwass also knew about this, so he directly explained in detail: "There is actually something counter-intuitive here - that is, the Son of the Moon does not actually need to drink blood every day. The basic blood requirement to maintain the Son of the Moon's rationality is only every ten 200ml for five days.

"In other words, with sufficient nutrition, theoretically one blood slave is enough to support the survival of three to four children of the moon. And the children of the moon's thirst for blood is actually close to human beings' thirst for food. That's The embodiment of pure desire."

"...Not as food, but as snacks?" Sherlock's expression darkened and he murmured in a low voice.

"To be precise, it's a drink. The Children of the Moon are addicted to blood, just like an alcoholic's thirst for alcohol. Based on this demand, in fact, these blood supplies distributed from the hospital cannot be provided to the Children of the Moon. ”

With that said, Aiwass explained to Sherlock the operation of the Health Party at Iris.

Since the "Health Party" to which the Moon Children belong has basically controlled half of Iris's votes, the Moon Children can get a stable blood supply.

The so-called "healthy party" is also called the "stable party". Its full name is "The Iris Patriot Alliance for Security and Stability." Their party logo is a red heart, and they believe that all current problems in Iris are just temporary chaos, so they hope to maintain the status quo unconditionally.

They do not want to make excessive policy changes, and they also do not want war or any other accidents that may cause drastic changes in society.

The core competitiveness of this party lies in the magical potions provided by the witches—and themselves. Therefore, this party basically covers 70% of all big businessmen and almost all of the old aristocracy. This is also the reason why the Counts of the Children of the Moon can openly obtain blood pack supplies directly from the hospital... Many old nobles are trying to transform themselves into children of the Moon, which is a "risky trend" in today's Iris.

"Public opinion within the Healthy Party will even consider those extraordinary people on the path of love who dare not hold transformation ceremonies to be 'cowards' and 'old antiques'. There will also be many 'successful transformation people' who promote their wonderful experiences today. In this way, they are gradually lured into becoming children of the moon."

"……absurd."

Sherlock frowned: "Those who have successfully transformed are already another person."

"yes."

Aiwass nodded: "Outside, they have many experts making a unified statement - 'regular blood drawing can effectively prevent diseases', but 'if done improperly, it can cause infection'. Based on this In theory, Iris people can only go to the hospital regularly to draw blood - not even donate blood, because this is regarded as a 'health regimen', and they even need to pay the hospital in return."

"...It's just stupid."

Of course Sherlock knew it was useless.

But Aiwass shook his head: "No, this is really useful.

"——Because after drawing a large amount of blood, in order to quickly heal the wounds and regenerate the blood, the hospital will make them take diluted potions, or simply let the trainee priests of the seminary use them to practice lighting techniques."

Illumination can't cure diseases, it can only treat injuries... But if these apprentices are really allowed to treat seriously injured people, the injuries may worsen to the point where they cannot be treated and no light can be emitted.

But for these "blood providers" who only lose blood, they have enough time to receive this kind of free treatment that will only waste some time, but can effectively accelerate the recovery of the body. The Iris pastors, who lack orthodox theological inheritance, also need a large number of "teaching materials" to increase their proficiency in lighting techniques, and at the same time practice the principles of the path of devotion by not charging money. It can be said that they kill two birds with one stone.

——The really useful "health maintenance" part is actually in the subsequent lighting techniques and potions.

"So the hospital got a lot of blood."

Aiwass concluded.

Although the refrigerators of this era only had versions based on alchemy and magic, hospitals could have large ice cellars to keep the blood cold. These ices have been blessed, and the light they emit can slowly dispel diseases and pollution in the blood, allowing them to be preserved for a longer period of time... They can be used to reverse blood transfusions to patients during surgical operations, and can also be sold to Son of the Moon.

Even the blood preservation technology was provided by the Moon Sons!

"This blood with preservatives added has a special strange smell. It will greatly reduce the sweetness of the blood in the mouth of the Moon Sons, and can only be used as a dry food that can be preserved for a long time. It is probably equivalent to a barrel of mountain spring water delivered to the door - it is definitely no problem to quench thirst or cook, but if you really entertain guests or drink it daily, you have to at least make tea, coffee, stew soup, etc."

However, for the Moon Sons, this "ration" is actually equivalent to a "pre-prepared meal".

Aiwas explained: "The Moon Sons with real status will definitely not drink this kind of blood. Even buying this cheap blood is a shame for the noble Moon Sons. It is mainly used to quench the thirst of those wild Moon Sons and those who don't have much status... It can be regarded as a kind of mutual assistance within the race.

"In short, this blood is for servants to drink. Its correct use is actually to make decorations. For example, a fountain of blood, or bathing in blood... But even for these decorations, the nobles of Iris, the Sons of the Moon, tend to use living people to make them - this is a symbol of strength for the Sons of the Moon.

"Just like human nobles, they will also make some fakes for their expensive jewelry and wear them on less important occasions to prevent loss and theft. But if they are discovered by other nobles because they can't afford real jewelry, it will become a shame.

"Other nobles also basically need to buy some blood packs from time to time, because the number of blood slaves in their mansions will change. Sometimes they will be consumed, and sometimes they will be sold or given to other nobles. There are also times when they die for various reasons and cannot be replenished in time. At this time, they will hoard some blood packs just in case.

"But the number of blood packs purchased by the Count of Orleans is very balanced. The number of their blood slaves has also changed, and the number of dependents has also changed - from a minimum of sixteen to a maximum of twenty-six, but the number of blood packs they buy is always one hundred to one hundred and forty, and the floating number is obviously lower than that of all other Counts of the Sons of the Moon.

"- Therefore, this is the most direct evidence. "