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Chapter 180 Blood Therapy

"How often do they carry out missionary activities?" Chen Xi turned to ask the Mechanical Priest. Chen Xi was very curious about how much treatment the workers could receive.

The treatment provided by the Mechanicus is very expensive, but if there were free and cheap medical services, Chen Xi would not mind providing support to this order.

In response to this question, the heat dissipation vents on the body of the mechanical priest accompanying him spurted out a stream of heat, which also expressed the emotions and attitude of the mechanical priest at the moment.

But the Mechanical Priest still answered Chen Xi's question: "On average, they patrol the entire residential area about twice a week and provide treatment to those in need. The reward they ask for is blood."

However, at this point, the Mechanical Priest seemed to recall something and added, "The medical technology they use is extremely backward, and the results are slow. It's far less appropriate to remove the diseased organs and replace them with mechanical prostheses."

"Your Excellency the Inquisitor, do you want to investigate these believers?" The combat nuns beside Chen Xi had already touched the grenade launchers on their bodies, as if as long as Chen Xi gave the order, they would investigate this religious group which was also a state religion.

Judging from the actions of the Battle Sister, this review can hardly be called friendly.

This is not surprising. Although they are both state religions, the combat nuns are still very resistant to the strange factions of the state religion.

Especially when an Inquisitor shows scrutiny and suspicion towards them, the Sisters of Battle tend to treat them with more fanatical and extreme attitudes.

However, Chen Xi did not give orders immediately. He just looked at the shrine in front of him and the nuns and priests of the Blood Oath Order who were treating the workers in front of the shrine.

Some of the patients who were in poor health have received treatment, while some miners who looked healthy were donating blood.

The members of the Blood Oath Order would prick the blood collection devices directly into the arms of these people, and then collect the blood in the glass test tubes they carried with them.

Chen Xi couldn't help but frown slightly. It wasn't that he found anything wrong, he just felt that the blood might not meet the requirements of "medical treatment".

After all, although these miners look healthy, they live in the lower nest of the hive world. Their bodies have been ravaged by a lot of pollution and harmful environment, so it is difficult to truly call them "healthy".

In fact, not only Chen Xi was frowning, but even the mechanical priest beside him was making a sharp electronic sound.

Well, he cursed very dirty.

But Chen Xi had to admit that the Blood Oath Order's treatment was effective, and they also had legitimate medical supplies and medicines. Blood therapy was just one of the treatment methods they used, although it was the main treatment method.

"Go and invite the head of the Blood Oath Order. I hope to have a detailed discussion with him to learn about their missionary activities and specific doctrines." Although Chen Xi felt that something was wrong, considering the various branches of the state religion, he decided to learn more about it first.
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At this moment in the shed, Old John was guarding the bedside, looking at his youngest daughter lying on the bed. He felt extremely distressed and regretted that he should not have come to this planet.

Their family can actually be said to be lucky, but also unfortunate.

They were lucky because after arriving in Zaporizhia, their family quickly found jobs and settled down.

Old John was appointed foreman because of his previous mining experience.

The eldest son, who was almost an adult, also became a miner.

Although the work was indeed tiring, the income was enough to support their entire family. If John's wife's income was included, they could even send their other children to school instead of hanging out in the streets trying to "add to the family income."

The so-called misfortune is that they are not adapted to the environment here, or the children's fragile bodies born in the nest world are unable to cope with the stimulation brought about by the sudden change of environment.

The older children were fine. Although they felt uncomfortable for a few days, they quickly adapted to the new environment.

Only the youngest daughter came down with a fever, and they lacked access to medical care.

Old John tried to seek help from the Mechanicus priest in the neighborhood, but the priest said that nothing in the Mechanicus was free. In exchange for a shot of healing injection that was enough to cure the little girl, Old John would need to work for the Mechanicus for five years without pay.

For the sake of his daughter, Old John was certainly not unwilling to pay such a price, but what was despairing was that the mechanical priest assessed that Old John's body was not strong enough to support him in serving the Mechanicus intensively for five years.

Even if he was willing to undergo transformation surgery to be turned into a servitor, the Mechanicus saw him as lacking the necessary qualifications and would waste precious resources.

"Dad, I feel so bad..." Natasha's mumbling made old John's eyes sore.

He tried to take out some food from his pocket. Among the Xiachao people in the past, there was a custom that "as long as you are full, you won't feel uncomfortable", or it could be said that it was a kind of self-comfort in the absence of medical conditions.

But Old John searched his whole body and only took out half a protein bar.

Although their lives became relatively comfortable after arriving on this planet, the Mechanicus was obviously unlikely to provide them with any extra supplies or food beyond the necessary needs.

Or to be more precise, the Mechanicus will not provide anything other than what is needed to sustain life for free.

"This child needs bloodletting to reduce his fever." A red-robed nun appeared beside Old John at some point, and behind the nun stood his uneasy second son.

Old John immediately stood in front of his daughter nervously. He had seen the so-called bloodletting treatment in the nest city. He would never let anyone use that so-called "treatment" of cutting people with a knife to bleed on his daughter.

However, the nun did not mind. She just gave Old John a gentle smile, then took out a blood collection device, gestured to Old John to move aside with a firm attitude that would not allow refusal, and then inserted the blood collection device next to the girl's neck.

The dark red blood flowed into the blood collection device through the needle hole, and the little girl's face turned visibly pale.

But the little girl's expression also relaxed a lot, which made Old John finally feel relieved.

The nun took out a red test tube and a silver cup again, poured the red liquid in the test tube into the cup, added the medicine, stirred it, and fed it to the little girl.

After completing all this, the nun pulled out the blood collection device and said to Old John, "Bring the child to the neighborhood square for a follow-up examination tomorrow. Her fever should be gone tonight after taking the medicine."

After saying this, the nun turned and left.

Old John glanced at his son and did not blame him. He just looked at his little daughter, whose complexion was obviously much better, and tucked the blanket covering her.

(End of this chapter)