Middle-Earth
It was evening time.
The moon tore open a gap in the clouds, casting rays of moonlight down onto the gray-covered Central Continent.
As the first infected person of the New Moon, William was granted authority by Lorian to use the moonlight to get a general view of the basic situation of the Central Continent.
Basically consistent with the conjecture, the middle domain as a whole has been deeply covered by the gray domain, and even the weakest area has at least reached the shallow and medium levels.
The outbreak of the diversity disease caused the death of about 70% of the species, and all the surviving individuals were transformed into patients.
A more unified situation can be seen in the once prosperous human cities.
Some cities only have one disease, such as the absolute dead city attacked by the deadly plague. The "dead plague mist bacteria" is generally incompatible with any bacteria.
However, most of them showed cross-infection, especially some coastal cities, where people contracted other diseases while being infected with deep-sea diseases (Vibrio, barnacle parasites).
William even saw a small city controlled by the Black Ascaris Corporation, which continued to develop technology while preserving the original human remains. The entire city was even cleaner than before. There were a large number of sanitation workers working on the streets. In addition, various large-scale logistics factories were being built in the city center, and the railroad tracks left by the original humans were used for advance logistics arrangements.
When the two worlds merge, most of these cities will be taken over by the source epidemic areas and major organizations of the old world.
However, it is less clear how some cities with cross-infections will divide power.
Everything is in sight wherever the moonlight reaches. In most infected cities, there are only a few open-source patients at most, and there are no path completers like William.
Looking at this infection scene, William even felt a little emotional and began to be grateful to the leather factory.
"If it weren't for the completely free-range, even 'humane' training provided by the Deep Leather Factory, Zion would never have been built and the organization would not have been able to develop.
It is simply impossible to develop "cross-infection" talents like Zed, the principal, Garlon, and Asimov.
The gentleman's skin delivered from the leather factory has almost wiped out most of the impact of the epidemic, and it is completely compatible with the human body. It guides individual development step by step and reasonably accepts the diseases of the old world.
Judging from this incident alone, we really have to thank the leather factory."
When William was feeling emotional, he immediately received the message from Huangpi.
≮There’s no need to think like that, William.
A small place like yours is just used by the leather factory as a "testing ground" that deliberately suits the development of your human race. They pretend to respect your autonomy. Once the world is infected, the guys from the leather factory will come and use the clothes on you to enslave you all, or force you to sign a contract to sell yourself.
The previous invasion of the blood people showed that the leather factory could sell you out in a matter of minutes. ≯
"Um."
William didn't respond much, he naturally knew Huangpi's prejudice against the leather factory. When he really went to the leather factory, William would naturally consider the problem.
During the communication between the two, the moon, which was moving at a constant speed, suddenly slowed down and stopped.
"Lorian, what's going on?"
"William, were you communicating with Mr. Yi just now? You don't even know what happened. Why don't you take a look at the situation below?"
The Moon is currently located in a mountainous area.
However, the moonlight could not break through the thick fog that permeated the mountains. In addition to the gray matter representing the epidemic, there were other things in the fog that could block the moonlight.
William then turned his attention to the surrounding mountainous areas.
It was found that many rivers converge here, and there are even several man-made roads leading here.
And, the most important point is that "infected humans" can be seen in rivers and on roads. Although there are not many of them, they seem to be heading to this strange mountain range with a purpose.
"It can actually block your moonlight, Lorian, didn't you notice this place when you came here a few years ago?"
“I’ve already said that my main focus at the time was on finding a way, and I didn’t carefully explore the Central Region, let alone observe every piece of land as carefully as I do now.
Alternatively, I can increase the power of the moon to force a perspective of what is going on inside."
"Don't... If there really is something in there, it would be bad to alert the enemy.
It can naturally attract patients from all over the world, and most of them are elites, all of whom have reached the open source level. This shows that there must be something special about these mountains. If possible, we may be able to open a theater in it.
Leave the moon in the sky and let us go down to take a look?"
"Can."
Lorian was actually very curious. This area that could block the moonlight was either guarded by a path completer or was specially colonized by a source epidemic area in the Old World.
It seemed that there might even be some secrets hidden in it that he didn't know about.
“It would be great if the principal was here, she might be able to divine what’s going on inside~ My intuition tells me that these mountains are not simple.
Lorian, let's not go down directly, let's use the surrounding urban areas as the entrance for investigation."
"Aren't you in a rush for your theater performance? How come you have time to play house here?"
"Anyway, we have already reached a long-term cooperation agreement. All I have to do is hand in enough Essence of Fear within two months.
We will start our investigation from the surrounding cities and it will only take 1-2 days at most. Not only can we experience the disease culture of the Central Region, but we can also hone our acting skills.
We will try to investigate this matter as an 'exiled patient', and we may find something interesting."
"William, you are not afraid that my acting skills are not up to standard, so you deliberately use this kind of thing to test me?"
"It's natural that we need to get used to each other before we go on stage. Since it will take time, why not do it here in advance..."
William looked along the road around the mountains and soon saw a comprehensive town not too far away.
It is filled with various types of infected people, which is equivalent to the neutral city in the old world.
Rather than being a small town, it is more like a transit station connecting the mysterious mountains. Patients coming from far away will choose to rest in this town, which will naturally bring a lot of "business".
As outsiders, it was easy for William and his friends to blend in.
"Let's choose this town as the starting point. Lorian, why don't you call some people to join us, such as Dr. Fana?"
"No, the Crimson Cross has just been established, and she can help me keep an eye on the moon if she stays here. After all, there are still many disobedient things locked up in the Chaos Building."
"Okay, then I'll ask Miss Jessica if she wants to go."
…
Welcome to Rakavik
A huge billboard covered with diseased vegetation stands on the roadside. It was obviously there before the world became sick.
However, the local patients chose to keep it and made some changes to the billboard.
The original image of fields and cows on the billboard was painted over and replaced with a text description written with a foul-smelling green fluorescent liquid.
≮The town provides accommodation, food and itinerary guide to Ill Mountain≯
The letters about Bingshan were emphasized and even several green figures resembling mountain peaks were drawn.
Four young people are standing under the billboard.
"It seems that the place where the moonlight cannot penetrate is the so-called sick mountain. The nearest town has indeed started doing related business. Let's go.
Suppress the aura of the disease in you, maintain the "early stage of open source", and never expose yourself. Just treat it as a simulation performance."
"Yes, Boss!"
Nash was the most excited among the crowd, considering this his first collaboration with William. He still had his eyes half-closed, wore a white shirt and beach pants that didn't fit him well, and walked barefoot.
In addition, dentist Jessica also came, with the same appearance as before, white hair, mask, turtleneck sweater and long boots.
Lorian deliberately made a huge image transformation.
He was wearing a mental health costume that bound his hands, his silver hair hung down to his ears, and his eyes were closed, like a blind mental patient.
William looked like a scholar, with a pocket watch hanging around his waist, a white shirt, a gray vest and a black suit, and a pair of more gentle rimless glasses. He walked at the front of the team.