Chapter 1: Dungeons, princes, prisoners and science

　　Dark dungeons are damp and cold, and the air is filled with rotten odors and human body odors, and it smells disgusting.
　　 Dungeons are covered with moss and mossy walls, and every few meters there is an oiled torch. The torch burned
crackly
because the air lacked circulation and the oxygen content was too low. It was emitting black gas due to incomplete combustion. It shot a figure on the ground and looked distorted and frightened.
　　 "Tick Tick", the water droplets condensed on the top of the dungeon continued to fall, dripping on the head of a dungeon guard soldier, wet a little hair, wet the cheeks, and finally flowed into the neck, very cold. But the standing guard soldier dared not move, and the muscles of his body were tightly stretched into a piece, just like a javelin dragged on the ground. Trying to maintain a steady breath, the afterglow of the eyes floated involuntarily towards the entrance of the dungeon.
　　 At the entrance, a teenager, a 15- to 16-year-old boy, dressed in a little too simple aristocratic costume, walked in without expression. Behind the boy, the dungeon guard captain was accompanied by Wei Nuo Nuo, his face was full of laughter, his eyes were uneasy and terrified.
　　 could not help but guard the captain. The boy was the youngest son of the king, and he was the second heir to the next generation king except the grand prince. As long as the other party is a little unhappy, he may be in a different place at any time.
　　Thinking of this, the captain of the captain's heart became tighter, and the expression on his face was a little stiff.
　　 Richard did not pay much attention to the look of the captain. It has been fifteen years in the current medieval-like world. His extraordinary psychology allows him to fully adapt to his identity, and knows how to do it in order to accomplish his goals more efficiently, and then solve one of his ultimate doubts.
"Da da da", Richard stepped on the ground and walked into the dungeon, and said to the captain of the guard: "Before I let you lead a team to catch the wizard, or people related to spells and abnormal supernatural phenomena. I have researched, you have executed it twice, but none of them succeeded, they all caught a group of ugly-looking farmers. Now, this is the third time, are you sure you really caught it? My patience is limited ."
"His Royal Prince, this time...this time..." The guard captain's head instantly sweated, his throat jittered a few times, and a stiff voice came out of his throat, "This time... this time I must promise to catch Really."
　　 "So, what did you catch this time?" Richard said.
　　 "Yes, His Royal Highness." The captain of the caretaker took a deep breath and replied, "This time there were a total of four arrests, a white-faced demon, a halfling, a vampire, and one..."
　　……
"Da da da!"
　　 Half a noise, Richard stopped in front of a cell deep in the dungeon, squinting at a figure in the cell. The skin color on the other person's face showed an abnormal snow-white, without any blood color, and appeared extremely horrible. Sitting on the floor of the cell, his eyes looked frightened.
　　 The voice of the captain of the guard sounded, lest Richard did not see it and said, "His Royal Highness, this is the white-faced demon caught, you see..."
　　 Richard just glanced at it, and walked forward.
　　 The captain of the guard was stunned, not knowing why Richard was not interested, but he still shrank his neck and followed.
　　 Soon, Richard stopped for the second time. In a cell next to him, a weird figure was curled up in the corner. The other party's face was covered with wrinkles, and it looked like he was fifty years old, but he was less than one meter tall. Like a child, it seemed strange to him.
　　 The captain of the guard explained: "His Royal Highness, this is a halfling..."
　　Not finished, Richard shook his head, strode forward, and then stopped.
　　 The third cell is a monster-like human with pale appearance and exposed skin such as face, neck and back of the hand covered with red spots, and some places have even rotted away. Mouth slightly open, you can see the other party's teeth seem to be surprisingly long, showing a strange blood red, it makes people shudder.
　　 "King...His Prince." The captain of the guard pointed to the man in the third cell, obviously nervous, and said, "This is a vampire, you need to be careful not to be hurt by him."
　　 "Oh." Li Cha said with a cold tone.
　　 "His Royal Highness, you..."
　　Richard said: "A white person, a dwarf, and a porphyria, are you the white-faced demon, halfling, and vampire?"
"This one……"
"Do you have any biological knowledge?! Well, I forgot, there was no biological knowledge at all in the Middle Ages, but this is not a reason at all! It should be clear to you if you think about it, if they are really white-faced monsters, halflings And vampires, can you catch it so easily?"
　　 "Ah, this..."
　　 "Don't say anything else, just say vampire. Did you see him as a legendary avatar? Or could it fly?"
The captain of the guard shivered, but the next moment was the courage to fight: "His prince, I did not see this evil vampire turn into a bat and fly, but the skin on his body really can't see the sun. It will rot, you see how he is now because of the sunlight on the road. When I took him to grab him, he was drinking blood, and he also hated garlic..."
　　 "Have you heard of porphyria?"
　　 "Ah?" The captain of the guard looked stunned, "Por...porphyrin..."
"Porphyria." Li Cha repeated, expressionless, "the blood in the human body is composed of many parts, one of which is called heme. Generally speaking, the human body uses'iron element' and'porphyrin ', hemoglobin can be produced under the catalysis of specific enzymes.
　　 However, due to the lack of this specific enzyme, some people will have an obstacle in heme production, resulting in a very high content of porphyrin in the body. The substance "porphyrin" is very sensitive to light and is harmless in the dark. Once it is exposed to light and activated by ultraviolet rays, it will be converted into a "meat addictive" toxin, resulting in large areas of erythema, herpes and even on the surface of the human body. fester. UU reading www.uukanshu. Com and oral cavity will also be affected, gums ulceration, exposed roots, so that the teeth appear particularly long, and gradually become purple-brown due to the deposition of porphyrin.
　　At the same time, because heme cannot be synthesized and normal blood cannot be produced, patients with porphyria will have severe anemia and must supplement the blood from the outside to survive. Intravenous delivery is a good method, but considering the current technological level of this world, they simply can not operate, they can only choose another-drinking-blood red vitality is extremely tenacious, can resist various digestive juices, and can enter digestion The system is absorbed through the small intestine.
　　The reason why they hate garlic is also very simple, because garlic will contain allicin, which has a strong bactericidal effect. Because of the special conditions of their bodies, eating garlic can induce and aggravate their symptoms. In fact, if you pierce them with silver items, they will also hate them, because silver also has a strong bactericidal effect.
　　You need to understand that vampires are vampires and porphyrias are porphyrias. Perhaps the performance of the two is somewhat the same, but they are not completely equivalent! I'm asking you to look for things that are really like vampires, wizards and spells, not patients, okay?
　　When you are arresting them, you are not resisting and killing, but begging and crying, should you be a bit counted? This was the case twice before, and this is the third time. My patience is really limited..."
　　 "Your Highness Prince..." The captain of the guard was speechless, and his heart was occupied by great fear. He had heard a lot of ruthless means by His Royal Highness, if the Prince was really angry...
Richard did not continue to struggle with the captain of the guard, and walked to the deepest part of the dungeon, saying: "You said that this time I caught a total of four, the last one is the real wizard? Well, let me see, it is true or false. ."