THE CADAVER

"They decay immediately?!" Magdalene asked in shock, all her life she's never heard of something as terrible as that .

"Yes" The physician replied.

Magdalene walked towards a Shelf and picked up a book titled the book of herbs.

"There's noticed in there" Phillip said to her and she nodded.

One of the advantages of being by the physician side was that Magdalene had learnt the basic rules in learning, both reading and writing. She was smart as one of those scholars. Not every woman was opportuned to be educated, some didn't find it necessary while some weren't privileged. The physician took it upon himself to train the girl, he could tell that she was a girl of talents.

"Is there nothing we can do about it?" She asked him.

"Hmm. It's a bit tricky but we are still trying our best to solve this mystery " Apollo replied.

"You always said that to find the cure of something we need to find cause. Have you checked the cause of this disease" Magdalene asked him

"Yes, but nothing could be found. we went as far as testing the water and foods consumed, is rather very strange" Apollo replied.

"Let me see the condition of the corpse since the victims die Immediately" Magdalene told him

"The corpse are burnt immediately but I think Robert is doing some research on the cadaver" Apollo replied as he picked up his coat and Phillip helps him wear it .

"Stay in the inn. Magdalene and I will be visiting the archaeologist" Apollo tells him.

The duo left the inn, in a passing carriage, they stopped at the archaeologist place and payed the Coachman. They knocked on the door and a bald hair frail looking man appeared before them.

"Apollo! What a pleasant surprise. Who's the young one?"

" Good day sir, I'm Magdalene. Apollo's apprentice" She told the older man before she curtsied .

He gave a Curt nod to her.

"Why are you here?" He asked The physician.

"We want to take a look at the cadaver" Apollo answered.

He nodded and let them in. He trusted Apollo since the man was one of the finest physicians. He wouldn't just let anyone sully the corpse. He let them in and took them to a large room where different corpse well placed in tubes or substances.

Magdalene as a strong spirited girl could withstand anything, not many could withstand seeing dead bodies.

"We heard you've been working on the recent case, do you mind if we see it" Apollo asked.

"Yes, but don't touch it" Robert replied and led them to a dead body buried in a liquid substance inside a transparent tube.

Half of the body was already decaying and it stinked badly, Magdalene could feel a bile raising In her stomach as she had the urge to puke. It wasn't really a pleasant sight.

"I'm still struggling to maintain the body. It feels like something is eating it inside. You know the victims decay immediately which is quite interesting" Robert says.

Apollo frown with a nod before asking the physician. " Why didn't you cut the flesh to check the internals".

"I thought about that but I didn't want to be careless. I placed a mouse on the body and in the next one hour it began to decay. It infects whatever touches it. It doesn't matter if I wear a glove, I think there's something more to it" The man replied.

Magdalene thought that this case was too complicated.

"Sorry for disrupting your work . Go ahead , we'll leave now" Apollo said sincerely and the man gave an assuring smile.

"You're always welcome here" He replied.

The duo left the place since they couldn't find out much. It was the same thing from what they had known before.

"So if someone touches an infected victim, the person's get infected too" Magdalene asked and he nodded in agreement with her.

"It seems like a really fast killer, how long does it take before the person dies?" She asked.

"It's very complied because the person shows no symptom at all. They'll just keep infecting others, and the person slumps, before he begins to decay" Apollo replied.

"Whatever this is, it's seems like it would destroy the person internal organs before the individual finally dies and then the person begins to decay. Is like saying a person Is dead but living." Magdalene explained.

He didn't say anything but contemplated on her words.

"It's killing people rapidly , we have to do something fast about it" He replied.

The day came to an end, Magdalene parked her stuff in her knitted bag, kisses Apollo goodbye before leaving the inn.

The ever busy town was lonely and dark, only the lights from the houses shun In the streets. Magdalene walked for a distance without seeing any sign of a carriage. It was strange to think that a big town filled all kinds of beautiful carriages and people was suddenly quiet and empty.

She was beginning to get worried, she was far from Apollo's place so she couldn't just turn back and go to his house and on the other hand, she would have to take the woods if she wanted to reach the village faster, but not many people went into the woods late at night and made it back alive, the ones who do lives to tell the stories.

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Sorry for not updating the second chapter yesterday. Male lead is on the way. Please comment and share to friends. Please, Please please.