Enforcer's Handbook

The "Emperor" had never seen this virus before.

The infected heart mutated and was eventually replaced by machinery and gears, which made no biological sense to a man who believed in modern science.

This also made him more curious about what kind of future Diego had seen before he would kill Father Gaudel in this way.

He took Diego away from the central square of Silvermoon Port and returned to the ruins of the Eclipse Church, which has now become a home for orphans.

After arriving "home", he asked, "What did you see?"

"Father Gaudel infected everyone and turned everyone into monsters."

"monster?"

"Robots...they look just like you."

This answer made the "Emperor" fall into silence.

First of all, he felt it needed to be clarified that he had not been infected by the virus, but had voluntarily replaced these prosthetics in order to fight dangerous enemies like "Domination".

The weakness of psychics lies in their weak bodies, and prosthetic transformation is a way for them to quickly get rid of these weaknesses.

Researchers at the psionic agency are obviously aware of this, so they created concept weapons as a way to integrate prosthetics and psychic abilities.

But he still doesn't quite understand the future Diego sees.

"You mean, Father Gaudel forced other people on the port to transplant prosthetics?"

"Prosthetic body?"

Diego looked confused.

The "Emperor" thought that the concept of prosthetics was not popular in the "outside world", so he explained, "It is probably to transform parts of the body into machines through surgery."

"no."

Diego shook his head, "People who are infected will become like this soon."

He had no regrets. If he had it to do over again, he would still attack Father Gaudel without hesitation and nip the plague in its cradle.

The messenger of "Father God" said that taking away their hearts is the only way to kill them.

Otherwise, other fatal injuries will only increase the rate at which their bodies mutate.

Although the people in the town wanted to catch them in exchange for a bounty, he still liked this port city and had many beautiful memories here. Diego never wanted this place to be replaced by cold machines.

The "Emperor" fell into silence.

He began to use the built-in engine of the operating system and searched for keywords such as "mechanical virus" based on Diego's description, but in the end he found nothing.

So far, neither the coalition government nor the "outside world" has ever seen a virus that can transform human bodies into machines. The only similar virus is called the "Blood Plague", which happened to also occur in the Third In neutral countries, residents infected with the flesh-and-blood plague will eventually lose their minds and turn into beasts driven by instinct. Their behavior is generally similar to the zombies in the movie.

The foreign dispatch department of the coalition government discovered that the "flesh plague" can not only infect humans, but if exposed to the plague for a long time, even machines and artificial intelligence will be affected by the plague and mutate.

The "mechanical plague" described by Diego is exactly the opposite.

If he hadn't seen Father Gaudel grow the heart of the gear set with his own eyes, he would have regarded this as Diego's nonsense.

A fervent believer, his spirit is often in a rather unstable state.

At this moment, Diego becomes his only way to understand this plague.

"How do we identify who is infected with this...mechanical plague?"

"have no idea."

Diego shook his head blankly, "The messenger of Father God told me that Father Godel was infected, so I got rid of him."

As for when Father Gaudel was infected and how he was infected, he didn't know anything.

The "Emperor" knew that the messenger of "Father God" probably refers to the "Whisper" who appeared in the Emmanuel Theater Company. The last time they met, he asked himself to go to the Misty Islands. With the arrival of high-ranking councilors, on that island There are some major events happening that may affect the future of the coalition government and the entire world.

But now his plan was disrupted.

Father Gaudel, who could take him to the Misty Islands, died.

The Tidal Church in Silvermoon Harbor fell into chaos after losing its backbone. Some of them fell into fear, and some threatened to torture the murderer to death.

He had to find a new way to cross unknown waters.

It is obviously irrational to fight a monster of that size on the sea. His abilities will be restrained - when his abilities are fully activated, his ship will sink to the bottom of the sea first.

His intuition told him that there must be more terrifying monsters under that sea area.

…………………………

When Song Lan woke up from her sleep, it was already noon outside.

Although he slept in, he was not relaxed at all, and his mood became heavier and heavier.

Another mechanical plague that he had never heard of was born in Silvermoon Port, and until the end, he did not figure out how to identify those infected.

The scene Diego saw in his dream was extremely blurry. He only saw that everyone at the port had become machines that had lost their flesh and blood, but he could not tell how their temperaments would change after they became machines.

After talking to Lu Xiang, he heard even worse news.

A similar case occurred in District 17.

The deceased were three homeless people with no fixed abode, and their hearts were also ripped out.

This shows that the mechanical plague has penetrated into District 17.

"You mean, their hearts turned into gears after being infected, and killing their people was actually to prevent the spread of the plague?"

Lu Xiang summarized Song Lan's story on the other end of the phone.

Captain Doug paid great attention to this sudden and vicious case, and now the special operations team is holding an emergency meeting next door.

However, Song Lan, who had never been to the scene and just slept at home, was one step ahead of them and discovered new clues.

This had to remind Lu Xiang of the absurd theory put forward by Song Lan - as long as they are lucky, everyone can be a famous detective.

Slowpoke appears to be proving his theory correct in action.

This may be called the "dream-solving method."

Song Lan asked, "Where did those three people go last?"

"Bars, they hang out in bars every day."

Although he had a premonition, Lu Xiang still confirmed the result, "They may have infected other people in the bar, or the person who infected them is still spreading the virus in the bar."

Thanks to Rodrigo Borgia for the 4,000 starting coins!