Angel turned around for nearly half the night, and finally saw the clue of "snake around the scepter" in a book "The Oath of the Healer". In this book, there are several scenes of ancient physicians saving people. Perhaps for the status of deified physicians, they all wear a scepter surrounded by snakes when treating patients, and their whole body glows.
One of the most amazing pictures is a four-panel comic strip, which tells about an event that happened in ancient times: a man with a snake stick has a luminous cloud in front of him. Under the reminder of "Guangyun", the man rescued the disease that spread throughout the city.
If it wasn't for the author's deliberate "deification", Angel could only think of wizards who possess such extraordinary power. And that "cloud of light" may be some kind of large-scale healing technique.
At the end of the book, there is a picture of "snake around the scepter" in the book.
However, in this picture, there is no doctor holding a snake staff, but in a square, the "snake around the scepter" has become a statue, and countless doctors in white robes squeeze their fists and put their chests, bowing their heads to the statue.
The whole picture looks full of solemnity and sacredness.
Below it is written the name of the picture: the oath of employment picture.
All physicians take an oath upon entry. This oath contains "due diligence to the patient, self-discipline, and respect for medicine". This picture is an oath of entry.
After flipping through the book, Angel's mind became even more puzzled.
In the previous picture, the "snake around the scepter" is a tool in the hands of the doctor. In the end, it turned into the belief of the doctor when he took the oath, which is very strange.
Angel thought for a while, maybe the pictures at the beginning actually refer to a wizard who specializes in healing. His story of saving people has been praised by people, so there is the previous picture. Later, the wizard left, and his deeds were slowly praised, and under this long-term praise, he became more and more deified. In the end, even his snake rod became the object of his oath of employment.
This is the complete logic that Angel can think of.
But... what does this have to do with Akso? What does this have to do with Pocrates? !
After searching for a long time, the "snake around the scepter" found is just an ancient legend? ! The snake's name is not mentioned at all, let alone what it means. There is also no record of the "Pocrates" that Ingres most wanted to know.
Angel, who felt that he was a white worker, reluctantly restored the books in the secret library, and then left silently.
Returning along the original road, he quietly left the central library. When he appeared on the square again, Angel unexpectedly found that there was a little white frost drifting in the air.
-Snowing? With hindsight, Angel remembered that the falling hoarfrost was actually snowflakes.
Living in the temperate seaside area since childhood, when you come to the wizarding world, you are also in the mirror world where the four seasons are warm. Angel had seen the frozen ground on the Pamiji Plateau, but he seldom saw snowflakes. He only remembered when he was very young, when he went to the capital of the Goldfinch Empire, he saw a goose feather heavy snow. Now that I have reunited with Piao Xue, I don't know why I was feeling a lot better all of a sudden.
In the fluttering snow, Angel was inexplicably quiet and walked step by step towards where he came from.
Every season has its symbolic signs. Snow is the default "gift of winter" in Angel's heart. The windbreaker that Angel wears has the effect of not being easy in the cold and heat, so he usually can't feel the winter. When he saw the fluttering snowflakes, he was shocked that winter really came.
Perhaps Xueluo's voice was too soft, scratching the sensibility in Angel's heart that had not appeared for a long time.
He thought of his relatives far away, of Lyon, and of Jon.
It was also during the Frozen Earth Moon that he left Gru Town and followed Moro to a mysterious world. Time flies, it is two years.
Two years in the wizard's long life were not long. But for Angel, it was still too fast. He had not grown enough to shelter the family, nor had he found a way to save Jon.
Now, he doesn't even know where he is.
Although he has been doing self-construction in his heart and will be able to go back soon, God knows how long this "soon" is? a month? a year? Or ten years
Moreover, the purification garden will also be opened, can he rush over? This is also an unknown.
Angel shook his head and forcibly suppressed these complicated thoughts. Too many negative emotions would affect his decision.
The night is getting darker and darker, and the snowflakes are more and more drifting.
Angel did not turn on the purification field and let the snowflakes fall on his body. He couldn't feel the coolness of the snow, but seeing the snow falling on him and slowly melting, his mood was much calmer.
Facing the goose down snow, Angel found that at the end of the dark street, the lights of a shop were still on.
It was a small clinic, and Angel noticed it when he came. The scene inside can be seen through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows—
A narrow room, bright oil lamps, simple tables and chairs. A young female doctor in a white robe was sitting on a chair, holding a cup of hot drink in her hand, sipping it while blowing, and the white mist coming out of the cup covered her glasses with steam.
This is what Angel saw from the floor-to-ceiling windows when he passed by the only lit clinic in this snowy night.
Angel just paused slightly, and was discovered by the female doctor who had been bored watching the snowflakes fall. She took off her glasses and smiled at Angel.
Angel was stunned, subconsciously wanting to lower his hat and leave quickly. But his thoughts changed, remembering the "Oath of the Doctor" he saw not long ago, he stopped again, nodded to the female doctor instead, and then pushed open the door of the clinic and walked in.
The female doctor was startled, and immediately put down the cup in her hand and greeted her.
"It's snowing too much outside, let's have a cup of hot tea." The female doctor didn't ask the doctor. She could tell that this strangely dressed man didn't intend to come in at first. Look, there doesn't seem to be any sickness. She guessed that she should have come to avoid the snow.
The female doctor methodically took out the water glass and mixed it with a cup of hot tea.
He thought that the other party would make fermented tea, so Angel originally wanted to refuse, but when the female doctor approached, he smelled a faint fragrance of milk.
"I especially like to drink milk tea, so I only have milk tea here." The female doctor said a little embarrassedly: "Sir, try it, this is Wimbledon milk tea, drink it to warm up on cold days."
Angel was stunned for a while, but he still took it.
However, instead of drinking, he put it on the table first, took off his high hat and put it aside, and smiled at the female doctor.
Only then did the female doctor realize that the "sir" in her mouth was only a half-year-old boy. In addition, she has blonde hair and blue eyes, and her skin is as smooth as first-class white porcelain. She is very handsome, even more handsome than the senior she was thinking of when she was studying. The most important thing is that the other party hasn't grown up yet, so he looks so good-looking. When he matures, how many women will care about him
The female doctor couldn't help shaking her head secretly, hating her marriage too early.
"My name is Shirley, and I'm the attending physician of this Shirley clinic." The female doctor Shirley smiled at Angela: "This snow came so suddenly, why don't you just avoid me here, sir. Snow is small, go back again?"
Angel nodded casually, and then asked, "Doctor Shirley, did you graduate from the Golden Cross Medical School?"
Xue Li was stunned for a moment, then followed by a shy look on her face: "Golden Cross is the best medical school in Fushi Royal Court, and my grades are not up to their admissions standards. I graduated from Flemish Medical College, although My alma mater is not well-known, but there are actually many famous doctors. Ms. Caroline, the national doctor who lives in Waterglass today, was a student of the Flemish Medical School.”
Angel didn't care about the answer, he just took advantage of this thread to ask the question.
"I heard that when medical school graduates, there is an oath. I'm curious about this, Dr. Shirley, can you tell me?"
Shirley was a little puzzled, wondering why the other party asked such a thing. But after all, it's not private, and it's rare for someone to talk during the night shift, and she didn't hide it.
"I didn't expect you to know a lot about it. Do you also want to be admitted to medical school?"
Angel didn't answer, just raised the corners of his lips and smiled.
Shirley scolded secretly, laughing so attractively at a young age...
"You're right. When we graduate, a doctor will take the oath, but in fact, not only will we graduate, we will also take the oath when we first enter the school. And the oath we said has not changed. I still remember it to this day... "
Shirley recited the oath again.
It is basically the same as the oath that Angel read in "The Oath of the Doctor", but there is one more sentence on the theme of "diligent to patients, demanding of self, and respect for medicine":
— "Abandonment of Theology".
Angel narrowed his eyes slightly. This extra one is very interesting. Even the civilization of Earth, which is purely climbing the technology tree, has not spoken to death, leaving a line of leeway for "mystery". Even famous scientists have called out that "the end of science is God", which is a controversial but philosophical saying.
On the contrary, it is the wizarding world that really has "metaphysics", and there is such a statement of "resolute rejection of theology", and it is also written in the oath.
"Dr. Shirley, I understand the patient, the self, and medicine. But why abandon theology?"
Shirley: "Because theology is a way for the powerful to fool the common people. There is no god in this world. Moreover, if a patient is convinced that God can heal him, how can we as physicians save him? My professor once said that theology is a contamination of medicine. ."
Angel nodded. He generally agreed with Shirley's words. Any security measures were thought up by the powerful: such as theology, such as moral standards, such as legal standards.
Even what Shirley said that patients believed in gods and avoided doctors were indeed justified.
However, to say that theology taints medicine is a bit of an overstatement.
In the so-called theology, what Angel understands is not religion, but something unknown to mankind. It may be people's guesses and fantasies, either as good as God or as bad as the devil.
To sum up, these are actually "unknown".
It is already "unknown", how do you know that it will "taint" medicine. Compared with other oaths of physicians' oath, the word sully is used too harshly.
Although Angel thought so, he did not refute Shirley, but instead asked: "Do you think there are extraordinary things in the world?"
Shirley hesitated a little: "Shouldn't it be?"
Angel nodded and did not continue the topic.