Chapter 259 Evidence: Edward Jenner
Chen Bin was silent, his eyes turned to the dark night sky.
Mahlat said at the beginning that this incident would not be a world-destroying crisis, but it involved the energy of the global magic community.
But is this prophecy credible?
Seeing that he was silent, Mahlat also drank black tea quietly.
After a long time, Chen Bin rubbed his temples and closed his eyes and asked, "What do you want me to do?"
Mahlat smiled faintly and said, "It's very simple. You just need to notify the magic world in the East. Only you can kill the threat in the bud in advance."
Chen Bin felt that this reason was very reasonable. He could easily solve this problem by following the prompts before the virus broke out.
"This is just your one-sided statement." Chen Bin did not intend to refuse, but was worried that he could not provide evidence.
Mahlat had long expected that he would not believe her words completely, and said confidently, "Evidence? I really have it."
Then, she carefully explained that there was no vaccine invented by Edward Jenner to prevent smallpox in this world. The person who discovered this treatment was the British tax director of Calcutta, named Richmond Thackeray.
The director learned from multinational businessmen that the method of planting flowers was invented in the East more than a thousand years ago. The inoculation site would leave a scar shaped like a flower, so this behavior was also called "planting flowers".
He sent this discovery to his father who settled in the UK, and then it was confirmed by clinical experiments of many doctors and published in medical journals. Then, his son, a writer, wrote a novel called "Dr. Edward Jenner" in memory of his deceased father.
The protagonist of the story is Dr. Jenner. Before the "planting flower method" from the East was introduced to the UK (1796), he found that milkmaids did not seem to be infected with smallpox, so he studied that female workers infected with cowpox could also be immune to cowpox and smallpox for life after recovery.
Chen Bin's face changed drastically when he heard this! "What's the author's name?"
"William Makepeace Thackeray, worked for the East India Company in the last century." Mahlat blinked his big eyes and reminded excitedly: "Have you forgotten? The Vanity Fair that you gave up after reading three pages in your previous life was his work."
Chen Bin pondered for a while after hearing this. He really didn't remember reading Vanity Fair in his previous life.
"Did that author write this novel in this world?" Chen Bin asked curiously.
"No." Mahlat shook his head and explained patiently. "But this world really has Emilia Sedley and Becky Sharp, who also married officers in 1815. Emilia Sedley's husband was in the Battle of Waterloo..."
Chen Bin: ╮(-ω-`)╭?
Maharat saw that Chen Bin had a black question mark on his face, so she had no choice but to carefully explain the reason for controlling Kate - find evidence to convince Chen Bin to provide the prophecy of the magic virus to the monk world.
By the way, she could search all the memories of Chen Bin in his previous life, no matter what he remembered, didn't remember, or only read once, as long as it was Chen Bin's memory, she could search it.
However, since Chen Bin only read three pages of "Vanity Fair" in his previous life and gave up, she couldn't know the ending of the novel.
She had read all the books of that era in the Scottish National Library in Edinburgh, and vaguely remembered that the plot of "Dr. Edward Jenner" was very similar to the cowpox knowledge in Chen Bin's mind.
Therefore, she secretly controlled Catalina's body and wrote a letter to order all the works of Thackeray. In addition to confirming that "Dr. Edward Jenner" was indeed the same as the history of Chen Bin's original world, it was missing a copy of "Vanity Fair".
Then, she wrote to the witch decision-making group to ask for all the information about Amelia Seth and Becky Sharp.
However, she didn't expect that Chen Bin had no impression of this book at all.