Mariano Family
In addition to the family's main residence in Zion, their family's buildings or factories are basically located in medium and large cities in the Fourth Continent, and their firearms industry is the main pillar of the family.
The firearms produced by Mariano are recognized by the organization. Each one is a fine product and can be sold at a very high price.
The family also needs to hand over a certain number of guns that meet quality standards to the organization every year in exchange for the family's private residence in Zion and privileges to do business.
In order to ensure that the firearms industry can operate normally in this diseased world, each firearms factory is supervised by a gentleman within the family, and there are also many quasi-gentlemen who have learned gun skills and patrol throughout the day.
Three days ago,
An old factory that was built in the town of Wendell and was about to be decommissioned encountered major problems.
The town of Wendell was once a small town that relied on mines. In the early stages of its development, the Mariano family opened an early factory here due to various material issues.
Some classic models of firearms are still being produced and are collected by some gun lovers at high prices, but most of the workshop assembly lines have been discontinued.
As the ore was mined out a year ago, the town quickly declined, and the family decided to close down the old factory that had long since realized its self-worth.
Just one week before the closure, something strange happened inside the factory and a group of ordinary family members who remained in the town, including a gentleman temporarily stationed in Wendell Town, were killed.
Unfortunately, a horseman happened to pass by the town and immediately reported the situation back to Zion.
Soon, an investigation team from the Gentlemen's Hall arrived here, investigated and characterized the general situation of the incident, quickly organized it into a task event and brought it back to the hall, handing it over to the new gentlemen for processing.
Because the incident was directly related to Mariano's factory, the staff of the Gentlemen's Hall also came to the family mansion in person to inform them of the incident.
Edmund, who had gained some insights during the process of losing his arm, took the initiative to ask to deal with the matter because his body had recovered. He also called his former partner, the northern giant Dagbert.
Juliana did not participate due to health problems.
At that time, Yi Chen was in the task evaluation period, so Edmund did not call him.
In addition to Edmund's two-man team, there is another team of gentlemen participating in the mission, which is a cooperative mission.
According to the investigation team's tests, the number of patients in Wendell has exceeded double digits, and the source of the town's deaths, injuries and infections is suspected to have reached the level of seriously ill patients.
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Windle Township
You can smell a strong smell before you even walk into the town: crude oil, industrial waste, heavy metals and other by-products. If you open your mouth you can even taste it.
The whole town was shrouded in thick fog, with black substance resembling coal ash floating around.
Factory-type buildings account for 70% of the total town, and chimneys of various sizes are scattered throughout the town. They are all products of the last era and most of them have been abandoned.
Currently, the entire town is deserted.
There were some strange corpses scattered on the streets.
They are all human-shaped but not completely human. They have common characteristics: a large amount of metal components mixed in between their stiff flesh covered with corpse spots, and even a gun barrel structure that can fire.
The gun barrel may be in the fingers, in the eyes, in the mouth or even in some special parts.
This disease, which is related to contemporary firearms technology, does not constitute a major category in its own right, but is a subcategory of "iron disease."
Also known as "iron disease-gun variant".
In the early stages of infection, individuals have an extreme affinity for substances containing iron (or other metal elements). They will secretly swallow metal substances to satisfy their own eating desires and will also wear all kinds of metal products with them, the more the better.
In the middle and late stages of infection, the individual's skin will show obvious ironization and the gun body structure will begin to appear.
When becoming a sick person, the basic form is formed, and it can unleash firepower at will, replenishing bullets by swallowing and absorbing metal.
This type of patient is extremely dangerous. Their iron body represents extremely high defense, and their iron surface layer needs to be broken in order to damage the core of the body.
In addition to the threat of firepower, they can also use physical contact to extract the iron in the human blood, thus causing rapid death.
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but,
The two teams of gentlemen who came here have killed all the infected and sick people on the streets of the town.
Only the factory in Mariano, the origin of the gun infection, is left awaiting final treatment.
Although it is very old and one of the earliest factories, it is not small at all. As the firearms business continues to grow, the factory has undergone several expansions.
The time came to night time.
The two teams had been inside for more than three hours.
More than ten minutes had passed since the last shooting, and during this time there had been no movement, and no one had left the factory.
The situation inside was worse than expected.
The two teams were forced to separate for some reason and hid in different rooms. They dared not act rashly until they could come up with a way to break the deadlock, and both teams suffered varying degrees of injuries.
Staff Lounge-03
Edmund the Fair and Dagobert are hiding here.
The door was sealed with a time-limited seal.
Dagbert lay flat on the staff table, his strong and huge body, protected by gentleman's clothing, was still wounded by bullets.
What's worse, the bullet left in his body is eating away at his flesh over time, leading to his death.
There was only a bullet hole less than the size of a little finger left on the body.
The bullet shot into the body stays precisely between the organs and major blood vessels, continuously absorbing the iron content in the body.
Seven minutes had passed since the bullet hit it, and the bullet, which had grown by absorbing iron, had even reached 1.5 times its original size.
If it were an ordinary person, he would have died long ago, but Dagbert relied on his special physique and injected drugs to hold on.
Surgery must now be performed to remove these bullets from the body at all costs.
As for Edmund, although he was only shot once, he was still in bad condition.
He leaned against the wall and used the red-hot sword blade to cut open his abdomen, forcibly removing the bullet that was embedded in his flesh.
After a simple bandage, he immediately came to Dagbert's side.
The two looked at each other and nodded slightly without any verbal communication.
Edmund immediately placed the blade of his sword against Dagbert's lower chest, ready to cut open his chest and take out the bullet.
Bang! There was a noise from the window.
Edmund tilted his head and saw a thick branch connected to the outside, followed by something crawling along the branch until a familiar face appeared in front of the window.
Crunchy! Crunchy! Use small and soft branches to destroy the corners of the window and remove the window frame without making any sound.
Yi Chen followed the plants and easily crawled into the room. At the same time, a colorful figure also jumped in.
"William!"
Just when Edmund was surprised at why Yi Chen appeared here,
The latter had quickly come close to Dagobert,
Two warm and vibrant palms were placed near the bullet holes, and the deformed and swollen bullets were removed one by one by the plant roots.
Not only that,
Dagbert could also feel a different kind of vitality being injected into his body through the plants, as if new water was flowing in his body. Streams of new blood were generated, quickly replacing the waste blood that had been stripped of iron and discharged from the body.
It's been just over two months since we last met.
Lying on the table, Dagbert felt that his former teammate seemed to have reached a higher level and even looked a little strange.