Black Badger - Chapter 385



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385. Diffusion (2)

The fever was high.

I didn’t even need to put my forehead on it. I could feel the heat just by touching it with my hand.

I grabbed Jonathan’s body.

“I will carry you.”

Ricardo bent his knees and lowered Jonathan to the floor.

He quickly accepted Jonathan and carried him around the senior with the weighty presence typical of a patient.

It’s strange. Iho Na Asil didn’t seem to be in such a bad condition that she couldn’t come to her senses.

I was suddenly scared when I saw my senior who was unconscious from the fever.

Another Badger passed away yesterday.

This time it was a Badger whose name I knew. Gail Dawson. The Badger who had pushed me into the portal.

It would be a lie to say that I mourned his death.

He was a bad person and I wasn’t a philanthropist enough to love all humans, especially lately.

But no matter how I judged him, it was never pleasant to hear the news of someone I knew passing away.

I looked back at Ricardo.

“Go in and rest.”

Ricardo looked at Jonathan with a furrowed brow.

He spoke with his voice muffled by his mask.

“I want to hear his diagnosis….”

“I will listen and tell you.”

“Let’s go together…?”

“No.”

I said coldly.

Ricardo looked at me blankly, perhaps because it was unexpected.

He spoke firmly, looking into green eyes.

“Go in and rest. I’ll give you the results right away. I promise.”

The green-eyed man opened his mouth to say something, but I silenced him.

“please.”

Ricardo kept his mouth shut.

“Please come in and rest.”

The man stared at me.

But soon I nodded. He probably doesn’t know how relieved I was to see that.

The senior turned around and walked out of the headquarters. I carried Jonathan on my back and ran to the hospital.

The sound of his breathing in the heat was scary.

If you take some fever reducer, you’ll get better soon.

As soon as we rushed into the hospital, the medical staff immediately understood the situation.

They came rushing in with a bed and IVs. I quickly laid Jonathan on the bed and followed the medical staff in.

The positive result was quickly announced.

Jonathan will now be sent to the isolation ward.

I looked down at my senior, who was unconsciously groaning.

A man who can’t even open his eyes.

“Your condition seems worse than the other patients. Is it okay to move you to the isolation ward?”

“There is medical equipment there and a team of highly skilled doctors.”

The doctor reassured me.

“We’ll see. You go on your mission.”

“Does it really happen that your condition gets worse so suddenly?”

“Symptoms vary from person to person.”

If this continues, it won’t be a shock, right?

Even though I knew it wouldn’t help, I couldn’t move easily.

Ricardo will probably be in a lot of trouble too, so we’ll just have to wait and see how things go.

Even here, the emergency dispatch order can be heard… .

As I was following the bed the nurse was pushing, someone ran into the hospital.

“We have two patients.”

It was Kairos.

She was carrying men on her shoulders.

I quickly ran to him and picked up the man who was hanging on my left shoulder.

It’s Chen Koenig.

“They both have high fevers.”

“This way!”

The other one was Jason Tvein.

It was disturbing to see people who seemed to have never had a cold before lying down with a high fever. Chen Koenig, like Jonathan, was completely unconscious. He had no strength in his body and was sweating like a wet towel.

On the other hand, in Tvein’s case, he was conscious.

He frowned deeply and then sat down on the floor.

“Let go.”

The voice cracked as he pushed Kairos away.

“I know how to walk.”

“sorry.”

Kairos apologised politely and placed his hand near Tvein.

Two hospital beds stopped nearby.

I laid Chen on the bed.

Then he ran towards Kairos and pushed him towards the hospital door.

“I’ll be there, so go.”

Kairos nodded and immediately turned around.

I looked at my senior as I heard the sound of footsteps receding. Jason Tvein refused to lie down even though the nurses had lowered the bed rails.

He was sitting there with his head down, not moving at all.

I quickly took off my black windbreaker.

“Ugh.”

Nice timing.

Tvein emptied his stomach over the windbreaker that was placed just below.

Not everyone was that surprised.

Somehow, it seems like Tvein was the most surprised.

But he didn’t have the energy to speak, so he just groaned and rolled over on the bed while the nurses and I worked together to sort out the situation.

I lifted the senior who refused to lie down so that the nurses could be comfortable.

After laying him down on the bed as gently as possible, I looked down at Tvein, who was frowning.

“Take a rest, senior.”

Instead of answering, Tvein rolled his eyes.

The bed quickly disappeared inside. It must be benign. If it wasn’t benign, it wouldn’t hurt this much.

The symptoms are more serious than I thought.

It’s scary that there aren’t any effective antibiotics for something that hurts that much.

The moment I was about to contact the shooter out of fear, the hospital door opened.

Unlike just now, it was unusual for all the hospital staff to flinch and be startled.

For a moment, the sound of voices subsides.

When I turned my head, I saw Ye-Hyeon carrying Assistant Gilbert on her back.

“I went to see him because I didn’t hear from him, and he had collapsed.”

The medical team and I ran towards Gilbert.

“And I think I need to get tested again.”

In that instant, the core power was reduced.

Jonathan Kudo Out, who is considered to be more skilled in patrol work than anyone else and is steadily established in the top 20 of Black Badger skills. Chen Koenig Down, a war hero who survived both the first and second wars. Jason Tvein Down, who is considered to be unrivaled among the Badgers in terms of recklessness.

The leadership was quarantined, except for Scar Owen.

[Hilde. I’ll pay you as much as you call, so can I hire your men for a while?]

“You can discuss it with Yourang.”

He answered in a disturbed Scar voice.

After conveying Scar’s intentions to his subordinates, he disinfected himself and ran to the research building.

To check on Yoon’s status, who is not responding to the messages sent.

As usual, I’m probably late in replying because I’m engrossed in something.

Nothing will happen… .

***

Yoon didn’t even notice that I came.

“Yoon.”

I called his name as I approached, but Yoon didn’t take his eyes off the laptop screen.

I really haven’t heard of it.

There’s a difference between hearing something and ignoring it and being engrossed in something and not hearing it.

I walked briskly to the shooter’s desk.

“Yun!”

[Yun. Hilde is here!]

Thankfully, Martin came sliding down the ceiling and helped me up.

Martin circled around Yoon’s head.

[How about taking a break while you’re at it!]

But the shooter only came out of his immersion after I grabbed his shoulder and chin.

Isn’t that what John Mullen did?

John Mullen, who was ordered to stay home sooner than anyone else as soon as the virus spread, is currently not in the lab. The gray-haired genius scientist is probably conducting some kind of research in his plant-filled home.

However, unlike Mullen, Yoon, who has great physical strength, vitality, and fighting ability, was not imprisoned and remained in the research building… .

“Did you go home?”

When I asked with a frown, Yoon looked up at me indifferently.

He rarely blinked.

“what.”

The man answered in a low voice.

“Why did you come?”

“I just wanted to see how you are doing.”

He replied, placing the back of his hand on his forehead.

It’s ambiguous.

I think we’ll know more clearly if we put our foreheads together.

At that moment of hesitation, Yoon picked up the thermometer on the desk.

Beep. The thermometer shows a number of 36.7.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

“You don’t seem to have a fever. But please go in and rest for a bit. Are you sleeping well?”

“hmm.”

Yoon answered in a muffled voice.

It was a dry answer. The other person was already resting his chin on his hand and looking at the screen on the desk.

I was a little annoyed.

“Yoon. If Yoon falls here too, we’ll be in real trouble.”

“The big problem has already occurred.”

The shooter answered without even looking back at me.

“Yes, that’s right. So go in and rest. Don’t let anything worse happen.”

“Just 3 hours.”

Anya.

“You said that you need to get enough sleep for your brain to function properly.”

“The call is coming.”

Yoon muttered without taking his eyes off the screen.

“Area B.”

The shooter was right.

A call went out to Black Badger headquarters for emergency personnel. It was actually for me. It was the third call since the sun rose today.

I waved my hand at Hiroshi, who was shouting, “Shouldn’t Hilde be resting too?” and ran down the hallway.

As I crossed the door of the research building, I started to complain.

“When I get back, be sure to go home!”

If you say you won’t go, I’ll just drag you home by force.

I ran to the portal zone, shoving the communicator, which was about to fall off, into my ear.

***

[The problem is that the two archmages have recovered.]

After finishing the third call and returning, I had a brief conversation with You.

The clerk who came from the cabin to headquarters every day spoke in a distraught voice on the other end of the receiver.

[It is said that the seeds of space movement scattered without a circle inside the center core can bloom to their heart’s content. There is no way that this opportunity could be missed. No matter how you look at it, it seems like this was an opportunity that they created.]

“Is this why the Badgers were kidnapped and returned safely?”

[I can only hope that this is the case. I hope that there is nothing more hidden.]

I took a deep breath and nodded at the gloomy muttering.

[Ah. As you said, I am watching the elders’ movements closely. This situation is also an opportunity for us.]

“Thank you. I’m sorry for overworking you.”

[No one seems to have gotten sick yet. Since the moment the plague spread, all the elder forces have been confined to their respective premises, so the virus will be slow to reach them.]

It’s both unfortunate and fortunate.

It would have been nice if the people I didn’t like, including Jaeyeon, had been caught.

But if Lee Seung-hyun had been caught, it would have been disheartening. I still hoped that he would reflect and live in regret, and that he would be able to give a sincere apology to Ye-hyun one day.

It means that you don’t want to see Seunghyun Lee die.

It may not be a short lifespan, but… .

[But is the organization running smoothly? Isn’t there only one person in the leadership right now? It’s an emergency situation, so there’s a lot of work to be done, so I don’t think he can handle it alone…]

“Fortunately, Ye-Hyeon’s symptoms are somewhat milder, so they are helping her by bringing a PC to the isolation ward.”

But I don’t know how long I can continue like this.

“But if we give more power here, it’ll really be a big problem….”

When the number of infected exceeds a certain number, Black Badger will request society to defend itself.

A request for civilians to come up with a countermeasure, as there is no manpower to deal with the creatures that appear.

The request to shut down headquarters, which was in the rules but had never been issued before, was now right around the corner.

“I hope things don’t get worse that quickly.”

As I finished the call, I found myself standing back inside the headquarters.

The building is covered in a bluish darkness as the sunset fades.

General workers who are much busier than usual.

I decided that I should wash my hands before going to the research building to check on Yoon’s condition.

But as soon as I entered the bathroom, I stood frozen in place.

The person inside recognizes me.

Yoon looks up at me.

“You feel nauseous.”

The pale, exhausted shooter sighed instead of answering.