The town of Wendell is just a three-hour drive from Zion.
After getting some information from the housekeeper, Yi Chen originally planned to wait for Edmund to come back. Now that his arm has recovered, the only thing left is to repay the money.
This kind of event mission recognized by the organization should not cause any major problems.
However,
When Jin heard that the incident was suspected to be related to modern products such as firearms, he smelled the danger and interest in it, and took the initiative to request to go as a supporter of "Gethsemane".
Since I kept saying "surely next time" recently, and considering that the incident happened not far away, I agreed.
The two rented a high-speed carriage and quickly rushed to their destination.
When he arrived in the town and saw the patients whose bodies had mutated into gun-like structures, Jin's excitement reached the maximum.
Using clothing to conceal his scent, he quietly approached the weapons factory in the night.
Then, extending through the plants, carrying Little Grape, he observed each room and soon found the location of Edmund and the other person.
…
Staff Lounge-03
The iron door was sealed and no sound came from outside.
Dagobert is now able to walk normally and is currently trying to move his arms to swing his sword.
current,
Jin leaned leisurely against the door, rubbing some meat grains that came from nowhere in her hands and feeding them to Xiao Pei on her shoulder.
Yi Chen was helping Edmund repair the injuries on his waist and abdomen. A large amount of new flesh had already grown and was suppressing the pain.
"Edmund, what kind of patient is hiding in this factory that could hurt you so badly? But it's strange that there's no pursuit or search for your movements."
"It has been confirmed that this is a very special and rare severe patient, or what we call an ill-substance."
"What!?"
Yi Chen's eyes widened when he heard this word, and even Jin at the door stopped feeding.
Ill-substance, this word Yi Chen has learned before in books. Its literal meaning is sick substance, which refers to unconscious substances infected by disease.
The unconscious matter here needs to be divided into two categories.
1. Unconscious organic matter such as plants, fungi, etc.
2. Inorganic substances such as stones, steel, water, etc.
According to a large number of surveys, the closer something is to humans, the greater the chance of being infected and affected by pathogens, and vice versa.
Therefore, especially inorganic substances, are less likely to be affected by pathogens, and even if they are invaded by pathogens, they themselves often do not undergo major changes.
However, in some extreme, special or accidental cases, inorganic substances have a small probability of becoming fully diseased.
When it passes the infection period, it becomes a being equivalent to a patient, and this is a pathogen.
Unlike patients, inorganic matter itself has no consciousness. Only when they become diseased objects will consciousness be born for the first time, and they will begin to understand and adapt to the world in front of them.
Therefore, the nature of the pathogens themselves determines whether they are dangerous and harmful to the world.
For example, a diseased object transformed from a stone may always be in a neutral state. You may walk past it or even sit on its head without it reacting at all.
Unless you use a miner's pick to chisel its flesh, it will cause emotional fluctuations and attack you out of danger instinct.
However,
Modern industrial products like guns, which are defined as war and killing, once transformed into pathogens, the consciousness that is born is also associated with war and killing.
They will kill other creatures indiscriminately, whether they are sick or not, and gain satisfaction, understanding of the world, and self-improvement from killing.
Another point that needs to be emphasized is:
There is an essential difference between abnormal patients and diseased objects.
The former requires a severely grayed environment or gray area with human activities and corpse remains, and even requires the subjective creation of open source patients to be fully formed.
Although their bodies contain inorganic matter, they have human body shape, a larger proportion of the human body, and sound human consciousness and thinking patterns.
For example, the doctors and nurses in the Twilight Clinic were mostly designed by Yuehen himself, with the help of moonlight bathing and the effect of ashification.
Therefore, they are classified as sick.
Pathogens are much more difficult to form and have a much higher substance content. They can be said to be "pure natural" pathogenic products, which are extremely rare and difficult to deal with.
Their value is far higher than that of the sick, and they are even called "dangerous treasures" among gentlemen.
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"A diseased creature with guns as its essence has actually been born here, and the degree of disease has reached a serious level~ Fortunately, I listened to Jin's persuasion and came to support you, otherwise it would be really dangerous.
What is the opponent's form, attack mode, and infection method? Have you found out?"
Edmund lit a cigarette and said helplessly:
"So far, we and another team have not been able to confirm the 'true form' of the disease. We only know that it is hiding in the factory and can quickly transfer to any ordinary firearm and shoot 'bullets' at us.
I was forced to throw away the pistol I was carrying."
The classic pistol that should have been mounted on Edmund's waist was long gone.
"The main body can be transferred to any firearm at will... This is too much for you. No wonder it puts both of your teams in danger.
By the way, is there anything I should be careful about with the bullets it fires?"
“It’s extremely accurate and will change trajectory mid-flight.
The bullet that Dagobert could have blocked with his giant sword changed its trajectory just before it hit the sword, bypassing it in an arc and hitting the flesh.
As long as you are within its range, it is almost impossible to dodge.
Once the bullet hits the target, it will embed itself into the flesh, rapidly absorbing the iron in the blood and causing the individual to die from lack of oxygen.
When an individual dies, the bullet will turn into a "pathogen" that enslaves the corpse and becomes infected. The corpse will actively eat metal to increase the iron content in the body and form a gun barrel structure.
As you have seen on the way here, they are all zombies of the residents who were transformed by bullets.
This thing inherits the murderous nature of firearms and can be strengthened by killing human bodies again and again... If it is allowed to leave here, I am afraid that a town or even a city will be massacred soon.
It can also be open source by the very nature of the firearm.”
"Hmm... automatic aiming, body transfer, and bullet infection~ And being in a gun factory like this, with a complete geographical advantage, it's really troublesome.
Any ideas, Kim?"
“I’m not very good at dealing with ‘non-blood and flesh’ things, but for this kind of sick creature that has its own gunpowder, perhaps my red lotus can be effective.
Wait for me a moment, I'll go out and try out how accurate the so-called automatic aiming is."
Jin simply tore off the sealing paper on the iron door and walked out of the room with a swagger.
"Hey! It's dangerous..."
Edmund wanted to stop it, but was interrupted by Yi Chen.
"It's okay, let her go."
About ten seconds later, three consecutive gunshots were heard outside, accompanied by the sound of chickens crowing.
Jin quickly returned to the room,
Xiao Pei, who was standing on her shoulder, was in a frightened state.
“Whew! It was really dangerous. One of the bullets almost grazed my trouser leg and I was almost hit… I tried to catch the bullet but failed.
Just like this guy said, guns from different positions will shoot at me.
But they didn't shoot at the same time, but there was a certain time interval ~ otherwise I really wouldn't be able to dodge it.
William, I can't handle this incident alone, let's do it together? It will be much easier for me if I have someone to help attract fire. "
"Okay, got it."
After a conversation,
Edmund and Dagobert looked at the gentleman wearing the colorful mask with an incredulous look in their eyes. They vaguely remembered that he was a candidate in the same batch of examinees as them, but they had not seen him again afterwards.
"William, who is this..."
"Jin Almeida, my teammate on the last mission, is from Gethsemane. Also, I have thought of a way to break the impasse."