CHAPTER 558: CHAPTER 524: INFECTED BODY

What a pity.

Although there were three chances to receive reminders, Dragon Country couldn’t inform Jiang Xiao, the chosen one of the Nika Tribe, about his performance.

Because even if they told Jiang Xiao about the person’s abnormal behavior, it seemed it wouldn’t solve the pressing predicament.

Because there was a very fatal problem now.

No objective.

Because there were no rules, everyone including Jiang Xiao didn’t know what to do next.

After Shi Shi went to other places to look for clues, Jiang Xiao focused all his thoughts on why the diary owner had drawn strange symbols in the diary.

"Let’s confirm again, these strange symbols are the information he didn’t want others to see."

"But, the symbols don’t seem to disclose any information."

"Hiss? So, is there a possibility..."

Jiang Xiao talked to himself, voicing a very bold conjecture.

"These symbols, in the eyes of the diary owner, are very important information, but! To ordinary people, they are just a bunch of meaningless doodles?"

"It’s not impossible, right? If the diary owner’s Spirit is higher than mine, it totally makes sense!"

Still, something was not quite right.

These doodles were frantic and disordered.

There was no apparent pattern...

"Dad! I found a corpse!"

A corpse?!

Jiang Xiao suddenly stood up, this was big news!

Whose body was it?

Could it possibly be the diary owner?

"Where?"

"In a big glass jar. It made me feel very uneasy, so I didn’t take it out."

Glass figurines?

Jiang Xiao thought of a picture book about little people he had read when he was young.

But when he saw the actual object, he understood what Shi Shi meant.

It wasn’t glass figurines.

It was a very high-end laboratory vessel.

About the size of a freezer, it contained blue liquid and some very precise robotic arms.

Besides that, there was a disturbing corpse soaked inside.

Disturbing enough to revolt Jiang Xiao.

You could imagine how gruesome the corpse was.

Many viewers of the live stream vomited the moment they saw the body.

[Holy shit!]

[It’s grosser than the freak show section!]

[I can’t take it; I’ve vomited up my bile.]

Of course, some were tough and claimed that such a scene was child’s play, so easy.

They called it a corpse, but from a distance, it looked like a clump of seaweed.

The entire surface of the corpse was covered with dense yellow pustules.

The pustules were a deep yellow, and upon closer inspection, it seemed like there was something wriggling inside.

Some of the pustules had already burst.

At the broken pustules, clusters of floating yellow fluff would grow.

What kind of disease was this?

Jiang Xiao felt sick only for a moment, his strong heart was enough to support him to calmly observe the corpse.

"Help... help me... it, hurts, it hurts so much..."

A faint voice, but clear enough for both Jiang Xiao and Shi Shi to hear, came from an unknown corner.

"Who’s talking!"

Shi Shi instantly bristled, and the animal ears on her head popped out.

She had already carefully checked here earlier, there was clearly no living person!

"It hurts.. it hurts so much...."

Hmm?

Jiang Xiao stopped Shi Shi, who was ready to "go on a killing spree."

"It’s him, the body in the medical bay, no, not a body, he seems not to be dead yet."

"&%?" Shi Shi couldn’t help but utter a classic swear word of Dragon Country.

Not dead?

"Impossible!"

Shi Shi pulled Jiang Xiao to the top of the medical bay, where they could clearly see the person’s head inside.

How to put it...

I don’t know if everyone has eaten those large bones that have been stewed in a pressure cooker.

The meat separates from the bone with just a gentle slurp.

It was the same with this person’s head.

His thin scalp had already sagged halfway down.

Even the hardest skull had softened, with one section caved in and flattened.

The flesh on his face was the same, falling off in chunks, now just barely "hanging" onto his face without completely detaching.

Through that soft skull, the attentive Jiang Xiao noticed that his brain was still moving...

So, this guy, although in such a state, was still not dead?

"Is this... the zombie virus?!"

"Definitely not."

Jiang Xiao directly denied Shi Shi’s bold speculation.

Zombie virus?

What a joke~

In a world that could handle the supernatural, what good would zombies do?

"This is a disease, and a highly contagious one at that."

Confident as Jiang Xiao was, he didn’t have the courage to open the medical bay in the face of such an infection.

"Dad, then, then we won’t be infected, will we?"

Jiang Xiao shook his head, his intuition telling him that this medical bay must have cost a fortune to ensure containment of the virus inside.

"Dad, the equipment here seems to be controlling the mechanical arms inside the medical bay!"

Shi Shi ran over to the control panel and yelled at Jiang Xiao.

Hmm?

Jiang Xiao walked over and discovered an apparatus that could establish a mental connection between the medical bay and the operator.

He didn’t dare let Shi Shi wear it, fearing that the virus could even infect Shi Shi through the brain-computer interface.

Although he didn’t know whether this virus would be effective against Shi Shi’s supernatural constitution.

Fortunately, other than the brain-computer interface, there were also standard mechanical arms that could manipulate the mechanical hands inside.

"It hurts...so much..."

The infected person’s moans never ceased from beginning to end.

Frowning, Jiang Xiao delicately maneuvered the mechanical hands within the medical bay, accurately targeting a blister.

He then used the mechanical hand’s scalpel to remove the blister.

He wanted to see what kind of contagious disease it was that could scare the higher-ups into avoiding direct confrontation.

After the blister was removed, a yellowish-brown fluid leaked from the wound.

It looked quite normal.

But wherever the fluid flowed, more densely packed yellow blisters quickly appeared.

If there were already blisters where the fluid flowed, then smaller blisters would grow on top of the larger ones.

"Yuck!"

Shi Shi scrunched up her little face, looking at the proliferation of blisters inside with disgust.

She thought death by such a manner would be even less comfortable than blowing her own head off.

Of course, the reality is indeed so; nobody would wish to be tormented by such a virus.

How is this virus somehow similar to genital warts?

Only that the blisters produced by this virus are larger, spread faster, and have a shorter incubation period?

"Shi Shi, open that computer over there, let’s see if there’s any information inside."

This room should be a temporary lab; apart from the control panel they were currently at, there was only the medical bay and a computer in the corner.

Beyond that, everything was in plain sight, and it was not likely that any other items or documents were present.

But since it was for research purposes, there should be at least some diagnostic records on the computer, right?

At this moment, Jiang Xiao had a vague premonition that the difficulty of this Kaidan would surpass the one in Pennywise...