The final gentleman

When Captain Edmund confirms the selection,

The supervisor sitting aside showed a pleased expression, as if he had guessed that they would make such a choice.

"The information about the "False Moon Incident" is a confidential document and is stored in the middle-level archives... The information you can see is only the part related to the mission, and has been processed and modified.

Remember two points,

1. Once you have read the document, you cannot give up on the task. If you fail to complete the task as scheduled, you will be severely demerited and your memory will be purged.

2. If you are found to have intentionally leaked information about the False Moon incident, those in serious cases will be expelled from the organization and expelled from Zion.

If you are sure there is no problem, come with me. "

"Um."

Now that the team has reached an agreement, there is nothing to hesitate.

The supervisor led everyone into the empty counter.

After simple identity verification, take the employee-only elevator to the middle area of ​​the [Gentlemen's Hall], which provides relevant tasks for high-end gentlemen who have broken through their limits.

Different from the open counter form on the ground floor,

The middle-level area has a high degree of privacy and has a large number of private rooms for receiving tasks.

Every high-end gentleman who comes here will receive a 'one-to-one' professional reception.

The four members of the team were also taken to a private room by the supervisor.

After a while,

A sealed document bag with a G\u0026D wax seal was sent over, and the supervisor personally removed the seal on the surface.

At the same time, he took out an exquisite small hourglass from his sleeve.

"Ten minutes of reading time, hurry up."

"False Moon Incident*"

On ██, 371, [Vinal City], which is under the indirect jurisdiction of the organization, did not report any abnormalities from local investigators or the Twilight Clinic. A 'False Moon Incident' occurred at ██:██ that night. .

The dark night sky that should have been shrouded in mist became extremely clear,

Two identical full moons hang in the sky,

Such a rare sight immediately attracted the attention of city residents.

Even though the local gentleman investigators sounded the city-wide alarm immediately, they still could not prevent the incident from happening.

According to subsequent simulations, more than 60% of residents witnessed the 'false moon' in just two minutes before and after the moon appeared until the alarm was issued.

Within the next hour,

Urban residents who had looked directly at the false moon had "moon marks" on their necks, and at the same time showed early symptoms of infection, and began to attack non-infected residents in the city indiscriminately.

As soon as the incident occurred, Dr. Mycroft, the head of the Twilight Clinic, immediately led the clinic staff and teamed up with the local investigator Gentleman to carry out a forced suppression.

During the purge process,

With the help of the hidden means* (secret) planted by Dr. Mycroft, we successfully found out the origin and root cause of the 'False Moon Incident', a special patient who was among the residents and had an excellent disguise.

At this time, he had [open source], and his disease name was Moonscar.

Although he successfully lured out the open-source patient, he finally completed his execution.

But we also paid a heavy price. Almost all the local investigators were killed. Dr. Mycroft lost half of his body and was in a deep coma. His life is not out of danger so far.

Subsequent reinforcements arrived to clean up every corner of Vinal City, turning the entire city into rubble.

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When you have finished browsing,

Cold sweat also fell down Edmund's cheeks,

"Open source patient? Dr. Mycroft was seriously injured and fell into coma. Almost all local investigators were wiped out. This..."

Yi Chen also frowned and stared at the keyword [open source] in the file.

It reminded him of two months of pathology classes.

Teacher Zed brought a course that Yi Chen was very interested in - "Overview of the Stages of Living Pathogens", which roughly explained the stages of sexual transformation that living organisms infected by disease go through, as well as the benefits of subsequent growth. dangerous form.

≮Vital disease≯

Here we take [human] as an example, other mammals are not much different. The more different non-mammals are from humans, the greater the difference in lesions.

[Disease stage]:

also known as the early stage of infection

Different pathogens are divided into two categories according to their characteristics and the way they treat the human body:

1. "Psychosis"

2. "Psychosis"

Individuals in the early stages of infection do not have or have very few pathological characteristics, are often not aggressive and are easy to eliminate.

They usually choose to disguise themselves, hide, and spend this stage in the shadows of unknown corners.

When the pathogen has completely taken root in their body and formed a 'pathogen structure' with distinctive characteristics, the individual can be called a "sick person".

patient,

Have sound awareness and see themselves as part of the ‘disease’.

It has threatening disease characteristics and will instinctively invade and infect normal life around it that has not been affected by the disease.

The hotel owner and sister encountered in Green Lake Town are exactly such patients, but they have extremely strong self-control and are close to "Patient Zero".

[Lesion period]

The patient is meeting one or more conditions, such as:

survive long enough,

Infect a certain number of living beings,

Learn from the best of other patients,

etc,

Will officially enter the disease stage.

At this stage, the 'pathogen structure' will be integrated with the patient at a deeper level and completely become a part of the body structure, no longer as conspicuous as a pustule or a rash.

Instead, it will disguise itself as a certain organ or tissue, or melt into the flesh, making it difficult to detect (weakness hidden).

at the same time,

The individual's pathological characteristics will be greatly enhanced,

Fundamental changes in body structure may also occur, such as:

Grow extraordinary giant arms,

differentiate into wings for flight,

Grow an extra second brain that can be used for storing mental energy, collaborative calculations, and more.

Individuals who have passed this stage perfectly are collectively called "severely ill".

It is almost impossible for a gentleman with the status of "human" to kill a severely ill person on his own. Even if the team encounters him, there is still a high risk.

[Open source period*]

Teacher Zed did not intend to continue talking about this disease stage, because the new gentleman will be given tasks of appropriate difficulty under the guidance of the organization and will basically not be exposed to such existences.

Even if it does come into contact, there is only one ending: death.

but,

Due to Yi Chen's arrival, he was in a good mood that day, which satisfied everyone's curiosity and explained some brief concepts.

A very small number of patients can achieve "perfect fusion" with their own pathogenic structures - a fusion that touches the soul level.

Once reached,

The patient will touch the ≮origin disease≯ that originated in the distant old world, and the individual will undergo "qualitative" changes.

Their bodies will have some ‘old world characteristics’ that are far beyond reality,

The strength will be far superior to that of the patient,

Conventional pathogen vulnerabilities no longer exist,

Instead, there is a tubular structure similar to a 'blood bar' suspended above the head, which represents the "origin disease" to which they belong and represents their total life span.

Such beings often hide this feature, and one must be proficient in the ancient living script to peek.

It is uniformly called [open source].

It is necessary to use specific killing methods to consume his 'blood volume'.

Only when all the liquid between the tubular structures is exhausted can real damage be caused to such beings.