Indescribable cyberpunk - #671 - Chapter 650 Unusual Expansion

“What we need now is not speculation or suspicion, but the truth!”

What Virginia came here for was not a specious result. She raised her hand to summon a nearby soldier and said bluntly.

“Prepare a mental protection device for me. I want to enter the blocked area to check the situation.”

“President! I don’t agree with your idea.”

Upon hearing that Virginia was about to go into battle again, the two investigators almost subconsciously stopped her.

“Your body has not recovered yet. If something unexpected happens, the situation in Thousand Sail City will be difficult to maintain. Even if you have to go in for testing, we should do it for you!”

“This is a mental shock and has nothing to do with physical injuries. Also, do you think your souls can withstand more mental pollution than mine?”

This is true. Long before she became the branch president, Virginia underwent some kind of ceremony at the headquarters. Compared with ordinary people, she was not only able to withstand more mental shocks, but her recovery ability was also much higher. In addition, It is safest only for her to do this herself.

He took back the sacred stone from the investigator’s hand, took out a potion from his waist and drank it, then lit another cigarette and was ready to take action when his eyes glowed with a bright golden light.

Virginia didn’t explain much, she just raised her eyebrows and glanced at the two people standing in front of her. Before the latter could react, they had already retreated.

She took the mental protection device handed to her and strode into the blockade. Although she had made up her mind, Virginia did not immediately rush into the depths of the blockade, but wandered around.

As the person with the highest status at the scene, Virginia took the lead in entering the blockade area. Virginia’s every move undoubtedly attracted everyone’s attention. The association’s investigators monitored the changes in mental pollution in the blockade area throughout the process, hoping to Provide advance warning before danger arrives.

However, just three minutes later, they discovered that under the premise that everything in the detection equipment was normal, Virginia, who was still moving in the blockade area, suddenly stopped, and her body relaxed in an instant, as if she had lost her soul.

Facing the commercial street, she should have been looking at the situation there.

“Oops, something happened. Send a drone in immediately to bring the commander out!”

Although the testing equipment showed that everything was normal, the investigators who realized that something was wrong with Virginia’s condition still had to rescue her first. After being notified, the security department did not hesitate to control the drone to prepare for the rescue. people.

What a joke, Virginia is now the immediate boss of everyone here!

But they just started taking action, and Virginia in the blockade actually regained her ability to move. This time she no longer approached the blockade, but chose to withdraw quickly.

Virginia’s face was very ugly when she returned to the safe zone. She frowned and drank a restorative potion before she felt relieved. She paused for a few seconds and then looked at the guard soldier next to her, and asked in a deep voice: ” Where are the soldiers with abnormal hue values ​​before?”

“Report sir, they are being sent to the epidemic prevention center for treatment!”

“I understand, you continue to be stationed here. No one is allowed to enter without my order.”

Re-emphasizing her order just now, Virginia turned around and walked towards where the airship was parked. She gestured to the investigator beside her, who immediately trotted forward to start the airship.

When she was far away from the crowd, Virginia suddenly covered her mouth to hold back the feeling of vomiting. Her face suddenly turned pale, her upper body swayed from side to side, and her steps were inevitably messy.

Gritting his teeth, he took deep breaths and relied on two potions to quickly recover.

He lit another cigarette, and the blurry scene in his field of vision gradually became clearer. In the distance, the intercity rail cars shuttled through the central void, drawing a white line in the dark night.

“FUCK!”

After all, he couldn’t help but whisper.

At this moment, Virginia finally understood why all the infected people mentioned the so-called “another world” when they had hallucinations, and why the souls of those monsters were able to completely ignore the physical collision volume and shuttle freely through the hail of bullets. between.

Just now, she witnessed that world with her own eyes, and saw more clearly the blue-gray bone tree standing in the middle of the intersection!

After getting into the airship, he quickly dialed Bulwer’s number. It only took two rings before he was connected. Obviously, although the Minister of Security “sticks” to his post, he is still very sensitive to information from the outside world.

“Your Excellency Bulwer, the Qianfan City government may have to prepare for the reappearance of polluted areas in the lower city in the coming time!”

No longer referring to “you” or “I”, Virginia came up with a conclusion that shocked Bulwer on the other side.

“Polluted area reappears in Xiacheng District?”

After repeating it unconsciously, Bulwer realized the problem. Due to his excitement, his tone was even a bit sharp,

“Impossible. We are well prepared and will never let the contaminated area reappear in Xiacheng District. I can immediately mobilize the android troops. As long as I know the location of the contaminated area in advance, I can nip the danger in the bud.”

It’s just a polluted area in the lower-level communities. If a similar situation occurs in the middle- and high-rise communities in the Lower City, regardless of whether the Qianfan City government can bear the consequences, there will definitely be a place for Bulwer, the Minister of Security, in the military court!

“What if this contaminated area appeared in another world?”

Virginia’s words choked all of Bulwer’s next plans in her throat.

“I should have thought that the bone tree appeared in Community No. 7, and when the monster brought the human soul to the bone tree, I should have thought that the Ouroboros organization could send the monster’s soul to that world. It is naturally possible. Another form of bone tree was cultivated there. It is not covered by the infection layer, but it can still affect the real world like the souls of those monsters. With the filling of human souls as nutrients, the influence of the bone tree The scope will continue to expand!”

Virginia leaned on the back seat. Even though she had witnessed all kinds of strange events over the years, she still felt that the current situation was absurd and powerless. Before Bulwer could respond, she continued,

“We currently can’t find a way to destroy it, and it continues to expand, covering an increasingly larger area, especially Community No. 7. It expanded to such a large area last night alone, which is extremely unfortunate. Normal. I am rushing to the epidemic prevention center to confirm the current conditions of the affected soldiers. As for the situation in the other two communities, it has not deteriorated yet. This may be because the souls of those monsters have not yet taken away the nutrients for the growth of the bone tree. Next No one can foresee what will happen.”

“Why did it suddenly happen like this? It was obviously fine before, but it was just one night. The polluted areas that appeared in the lower-level communities only developed to that point after swallowing hundreds or even thousands of people. If there were dozens A single soul can allow the pollution zone existing in another world to expand like this.”

Bulwer couldn’t understand and was unwilling to think about the consequences of continuing like this. The terrifying expansion speed of the contaminated area made him uncontrollably have the idea of ​​​​escape.

The conversation ended abruptly.

Virginia was actually thinking the same thing as Bulwer at this time: why was the pollution area expanding so rapidly this time? Is the Ouroboros organization really powerful enough to do whatever it wants in another world with just a few dozen souls? Can the bone tree’s pollution range be increased arbitrarily?

What they don’t know is that the same idea has actually emerged within the Ouroboros organization.