After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1846

Chapter 1846: The Fire Extinguished (Part 2)

When the news came out, it was a typical fire plague day for everyone.

At the time, Garan was reinforcing the cryogenic shell he placed on several people.

One had to know that this process was still theoretical even in Terran. There were still so many biological and engineering problems before anyone could safely do it under Terran technology.

Somehow, Garan managed to do it, though he had to renew it every day.

It was not perfect, and they all knew some of these people would succumb, but they felt that— at least for a small portion of them—what Garan did gave them a real chance to survive by delaying their deaths until they find a cure.

It was difficult. He had to keep them in a cryostable phase, between solid and liquid, as it would prevent diffusion and decay, while not lethally damaging the tissues.

They reckoned that whenever this might succeed, it would be on the strong people. As for how they would be after they get thawed, it wouldn’t be worse than inevitable death from fire plague.

When the cure was developed, these people were the first ones to be tested for it. The doctors arrived with the cure, and Garan could finally thaw the men, albeit one by one. The plan was to administer the cure one by one, to whoever survived this state.

Sadly, when Garan thawed them, half of them died immediately. It was a sad time, but they knew these people would’ve died earlier—and much more painfully— if they hadn’t done what they had.

When it was Mauru’s turn, they heaved a breath of relief to see that he was alive, even if barely so.

Mauru was one of the people who, fortunately, still had a beating heart, and for now, it seemed like his limbs didn’t have to be cut yet. Without further ado, the cure was injected into the survivors’ bloodstreams.

The healers were also on standby and then healed him as soon as the cure was administered. It was supposed to recover his body’s health while the cure worked against the illness itself.

There was medical equipment around, and although Mauru didn’t recover his consciousness quite yet, the healer confirmed that it was, indeed, working.

Volohov smiled. "The man’s family had been waiting for a long time," he said. "Time to finally give them some good news."

...

"The cure has been found!!"

The announcement resounded across the territory and, very quickly, throughout the region and the allied territories.

People started to celebrate, but more grounded ones immediately saw the challenges: How many cures could there be at this time?

Immediately, thousands of people started to mobilize, heading straight to Alterra in hopes of getting ahead of others in obtaining the cure!

Speaking of the cure, it was another joint effort between the alchemists with an interesting serendipitous moment.

One part of this was the realization that the water that water users condensed themselves was the best base they could have. The rationale was that the aether worked differently and was much more concentrated in water condensed by elementalists.

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