Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 703: Dilemma
"Damn it..." the assistant instructor cursed in a low voice, "Damn Alphas, damn it..."
——Damn "Great God".
He cursed in his heart the second half of the sentence.
It’s not like he had never seen so-called “miracles” before… but he was much more sober than those blind and foolish believers. He knew very well what fate those who had obtained the power from the gods through “rituals” had ended up with…
He was lucky. After retiring from the field force, he worked as a mercenary for another six years until he was attacked and captured by a group of heretical forces in the wilderness during a mission. According to the heretical sect's method of treating prisoners, those who were unwilling to pledge loyalty to "Him" and the prophet would be killed on the spot or used as food for flesh-eating worms. Those who were willing to join the heretical sect, after passing a physical examination, would most likely be sent to serve as parasitic containers for the seeds of erosion.
However, he was able to avoid being parasitized because of his ability to command small teams... Although a fatal curse was planted in his body, the curse would never take effect as long as he did not betray.
As for the fate of those who serve as containers... the parasitic period of the Seed of Erosion is only a little over a year at most. If the person is strong enough and provides enough nutrients to the Seed of Erosion, then the Seed of Erosion will break out of the "container" after it is fully mature; if the person cannot provide enough nutrients to the Seed of Erosion, then after the "container" is completely drained, the person will die along with the Seed of Erosion in the body.
These guards inside the Nova Chamber of Commerce have all been recently inoculated with the Seed of Erosion cells, and they have at most one year left... Of course, in the eyes of the BOSS, these people are just consumables, and half a year or a year doesn't really make much difference.
As for why they attacked the material escort convoy in the disaster area, it was completely to interfere with the Ark officials' vision.
The main purpose of the Nova Chamber of Commerce is to cultivate "seeds", but the process of cultivating "seeds" requires a large number of living people as "seedbeds" and "feed"... If more people disappear inexplicably, it will naturally attract the attention of the Security Bureau and even the Undead Crew... In order to ensure the secrecy of this plan, they can only find a way to divert the attention of the Security Bureau and the Undead Crew to other things. If they can keep those agents and soldiers busy, then the Nova Chamber of Commerce will become much safer.
If you want to put out a fire, there is a way to start a bigger fire next to it... or even better, a big explosion to burn all the oxygen in the air in an instant...
The mobile forces of the Security Bureau and the military are equivalent to the oxygen that can support combustion.
It’s just that they did a great job in the previous attacks, but this time, unfortunately, they failed.
Perhaps the successes in the past few times had made . Not only did they fail this time, but they also left behind a large number of clues... so that the Nova Chamber of Commerce was instantly in danger.
The man who planned the attack had been thrown into the basement by the boss to feed the "pet", and the two of them, as his deputies, were lucky enough to escape with their lives.
"Speaking of which..." The deputy instructor suddenly stopped, "If someone really invades..."
He had only said half of his words, but his companion had already understood what he meant.
The real strength of both of them is just that of a level three enhanced human. To put it bluntly, if they really come to a fight, they may not be able to defeat those subordinates who are "containers"... If someone really invaded the Chamber of Commerce headquarters and killed Seed No. 4 and the nearby guards, it means that the invader is very powerful. Without that potion, the two of them are definitely not each other's match.
"Okay, go get the two syringes, I'll wait for you here." The instructor thought for a moment and nodded.
At this point, there is no way back for the two of them. Even if Fang Zhou is willing to let them go, the curse buried in their bodies will not let them go.
This curse will not kill people immediately, but will first give the cursed extremely strong vitality and recovery ability... This recovery ability is so strong that even if the heart is blown up, a second heart can grow in just a few seconds. Even using a gun to make a hole in the forehead cannot kill it...
This step is to prevent the cursed from committing suicide because they cannot bear the torture that follows... The next step is extreme pain that is enough to cause a mental breakdown...
The assistant instructor went back, and soon came back with the metal box and put a syringe into his companion's hand.
"I hope I will never need to use this thing..." The instructor wearing a watch took a look at the syringe in his hand and stuffed it into the medical bag he carried with him, together with the stimulants and hemostatics.
At the same time, in a dusty utility room on the seventh floor of the Chamber of Commerce headquarters, Ke Lan and the other two squatted behind the door, listening to the creepy eating sounds of the fusion larva in the corridor, while talking quietly with an external personnel of the Security Bureau to discuss the follow-up plan.
According to Ke Lan's original idea, he was going to dispatch a medium-sized battleship directly - at that time, he would let the Ark open the top plate, and the battleship in the sky would directly bombard the headquarters of the Nova Chamber of Commerce with plasma weapons, blowing up the entire headquarters along with the fusion body... But there is a problem that cannot be avoided by doing so.
Although plasma weapons can strike with surgical precision, the spread of heat cannot be controlled . Even if the bombardment lasts only a short 0.1 second, the ground around the Nova Chamber of Commerce will be heated to a temperature of over 100 degrees Celsius...
Based on the average population density of this economic development zone, there are at least tens of thousands of people in this danger zone.
If we include the participants of the traditional ethnic costumes exhibition, the number will be even larger.
They did not have any protective equipment and were not enhanced or modified humans. They were instantly thrown into an environment of several hundred degrees Celsius. Even if they were not burned to death, they would suffer extremely serious burns.
The only way to avoid this situation is to send people to evacuate the residents of the nearby blocks in advance...but doing so would undoubtedly provide the remnants of the heretical sect within the Chamber of Commerce with time to destroy the evidence.
Is it worth sacrificing tens of thousands of people for a piece of evidence that may not even exist?
Ke Lan knew that if anyone else in the Undead Crew made this decision, they would most likely not hesitate...but he just couldn't treat tens of thousands of people as insignificant.
He was once an "ordinary person" and he knew very well what this felt like.
