After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1837

Chapter 1837: Researching the Fire

Internally, they even had the goal—and the confidence—to create a cure. It was just a matter of time.

If anyone could find the cure, it would definitely be Alterra’s Scientists and Experts.

One shouldn’t forget that three of the strongest alchemists still alive were there! This was a major stroke of luck not just for Alterra, but for the world.

Not to mention, they—Hoffen, Zenno, and Cheman—had all experienced a fire plague before!

The moment Flaret sent news, even of the possibility of the disease’s resurgence, all three masters and Althea put aside whatever they were doing and formulated a plan to finally beat this damned disease.

"How did it die out before? How long did it take? How did your previous territories handle it?" Althea asked the three alchemists, who had been briefing everyone about the known information about the disease so far.

They were currently in the Research Center’s large auditorium with every member of the research team there, as well as the more powerful aborigines like the Golds.

"People were helpless for a long time. During the first few years, it was just...chaos," Hoffen said. "We didn’t know what it was, and there were very few records of a fire plague happening before. Even in cities, there were mentions of it, but that was about it."

This was understandable. Communication wasn’t a particularly big thing here, and papyrus and other paper were expensive, and most people would not write things in detail.

The Fire Plague happened once every hundred or so years. Too many things could happen in that period of time. Back then, only the major powerhouses past level 40 might encounter it twice in their long lifetime, and even then, they might be too old and focused on cultivating to feel its presence in the latter stages of their lives.

The historians themselves could’ve been affected by various illnesses and were unable to record properly, and other records might’ve been destroyed in one of the many wars, changes of ownership, disasters, and so on that the territory must’ve gone through in between. It could also just be lost through generations.

So even if the fire plague was a big thing back then, the information was unsurprisingly limited.

Anyway, the previous fire plague had taken everyone by surprise. Because no one knew it was a serious illness at the start, no one really thought much about it.

By the time people realized it was dire, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of afflicteds were already found in a great part of the world. Then, even after people realized it was an actual issue, they did not know how to handle or contain it.

Some did better than others, others just went with the flow and asked for help that never really came.

Some went to the extreme and attempted to cut the losses at the roots, including cutting down living things, even whole families or neighborhoods.

In the end, the previous Fire Plague finished when all the afflicted either died or recovered (once affected, one would no longer be affected again, albeit the side effects could stay). During the final years of the previous fire plague, millions had perished.

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