Chapter 405 – 405. Plague 1
After having a simple breakfast, we all gathered together and started taking pictures of Mina’s skills.
“How many coins do you have now?”
“Uh… 1.7 million.”
“Then take two passives… And 500,000 plagues?”
“Yes.”
“Then that alone is 1.1 million.”
“Yes.”
“Take a picture first.”
“I understand.”
Mina is learning her skills. She moves her hand here and there in the air and speaks to me.
“I guess this is like a thunderstorm. The skill selection window has appeared again. Passive 4 has also appeared.”
“Really? Wow. Then you suddenly became Tier 10. Ah. If you were Tier 10, that would have been possible? Translation?”
“Yes. I came out.”
“Oh…”
Anna understands what I say and looks at Mina.
Mina, feeling Anna’s gaze, also looks at her and smiles.
“But in the end, the problem is the coin.”
“That’s right.”
“Then first… Learn interpretation first.”
“I understand.”
Mina waves her hands in the air again. Then she looks at Anna and says.
“Anna. Can you understand everything I say? Really?”
“Oh! Mina! I can understand!”
Anna talking to Mina with a bright expression.
He seems to like me a lot, even if it’s less than when he first talked to me.
Anna can learn to interpret anyway, but… Well, it’s not a bad thing to learn everything.
“So now there are 100,000 left?”
“Yes.”
Sniff. It’s not enough. Even learning two passive 4s costs 800,000… To learn other skills, you need at least 300,000.
I’ll have to catch the SG center like a mouse for the time being.
“Then. Okay. I’ll just wait a little while for the next skill until I collect coins… I guess I should try using Plague first, right?”
Everyone swallows their saliva at my words.
Although Thunderstorm was quite powerful, it was ultimately a Tier 5 skill.
Plague is a Tier 9 skill. It is the same level as the gate.
Considering the usability and convenience of the gate, I don’t think Plague is a poor skill.
The problem is… How do you test this?
“I can’t even try using it… What should I do?”
“Okay. First… We’ll need some preparation.”
I’ll have to think about it a bit. How should I test this?
Whatever it is, I have to use it. To do that, we need test subjects.
“Wait a minute, Mina, get ready to leave.”
“Huh? What about us?”
Seunghee asked, and I thought for a moment and then said.
“The plague is like an infectious disease, right? Until the effect is confirmed, only me and Mina will test it.”
“Uh… I miss you, but there’s nothing I can do since it’s an epidemic again. But wouldn’t it be okay if we’re having a party?”
“Ah. Party. That’s right. Assuming this is an area attack… It would be okay if there is a party.”
“Right? So…”
“I’ll test that too. I’ll call you when I’m sure, so take a break.”
“Hmph. I understand.”
Leaving the regretful Seunghee behind, we teleported to Wuhan.
After all, the plague experiment was in Wuhan. Cubs. It’s time to take revenge on Corona.
A considerable amount of the water that burst the Three Gorges Dam and flooded the city has drained away.
The city looks even more disorganized as the water recedes. Nothing seems to be okay.
If it were just river water, it wouldn’t have been this mess, but there seems to be quite a bit of an aftereffect from the seawater I poured in.
It would be difficult for humans to come back and live in this city. Maybe… Those who survived will leave this place once they pick up all the coins.
Even though the city is in shambles, many traces of people remain.
I remember seeing this during the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak. The population of this city alone is said to be about 10 million.
Of course, it doesn’t seem to be that much now, perhaps because they are scattered here and there, but the population within the city was still quite large.
That means there are a lot of dead people and a lot of coins scattered around.
How much have you picked up now? Isn’t it time to collect coins while spreading the plague?
First, I looked around the city and looked for people who were busy collecting coins.
No matter how expert the Communist Party is at suppressing and controlling, the bastards who survived here have already tasted the coin.
It’s really not that big of a deal, but they gained freedom and power.
It won’t be easy to catch and kill those guys one by one with a few people. In the end, they will become a nuisance beyond their control and surveillance.
There are too many of them to catch and kill them one by one.
People who can’t control their power over the coins they suddenly acquired.
I caught a few of those guys. Thanks to the passive increase in maximum number, it is now possible to sleep up to seven people at once, which is significantly improved.
Seven would do. After putting the sleepers to sleep, I tape them, gather them up, and save their current location.
Go back to the bunker.
“Are you ready, Mina?”
“Yes.”
“Then I’ll come back.”
I greeted Seunghee, SeAh, and Anna and opened the gate for Mina.
The place where I gathered seven people was a shopping mall in Wuhan.
Seven people are lying tied up with tape in an empty place that has been swept away by the water.
“Okay. Now… Let’s use it on these guys.”
“Yes. But… Can I just use it?”
“I don’t know either. For now… Let’s try to stay as far away as possible. Since you have the disease removed and are part of the party, I don’t think we will get sick, but you never know.”
After widening the distance, Mina looked at the fallen dogs and prepared to use her skills.
How are skills actually used? These damn skills don’t teach you anything, so it’s really frustrating.
“Plague!”
Mina used her skills
And her expression became surprised.
A look of wonder at the empty space. What? What do you see?
“A thing called a plague panel has appeared…”
“Huh? Plague panel? What is that?”
“Wait a minute… It’s like a screen… It says 1 infected person at the top. There’s something written underneath. Waterborne. Contact. Mild cough. Dizziness. And there’s a number at the bottom. Contagiousness. It says 42%. Below it says fatality rate: 3%.”
“Pandemic company X?”
“Yes?”
“No. It’s a game… Anyway. That’s coming out?”
“Yes. But what is waterborne?”
“Waterborne is what it is. It’s spread through water.”
“Ah. So contact means literally touching?”
“I guess so?”
“A light cough and dizziness. I guess these are symptoms, right?”
“I guess so.”
“Nothing is difficult.”
“That’s right. But… Ha. These guys are really evil.”
“Yes? Why?”
“There is a game similar to this plague skill. Well, there’s no need to go into detail about that game. Anyway, it’s just applied to reality. It’s terrible.”
“What kind of game is this and something like that?”
“It’s literally like that. I created an epidemic that would kill all the people in the world.”
“Huh? Are there games like that?”
“Well, it’s a game. There are games about killing zombies and games about fighting aliens. It’s not much different from those.”
“That’s true. But is it possible for a disease to kill everyone? Isn’t even the most serious disease ultimately treatable?”
“That’s the point of the game. To make humans extinct before they can develop a cure.”
“Ah.”
“But the funny thing is, if the fatality rate is high, the infection rate goes down.”
“Why?”
“Because they die before they can be moved.”
“Ah. I understand.”
“So when you play that game, you first increase the infection rate so much that everyone in the world gets it. It just spreads the virus without showing any symptoms. And when all the people get it, you use the points you’ve collected to drastically increase the fatality rate. So, in an instant. I will annihilate you.”
“Hmm? Is that possible?”
“Uh, because it’s a game.”
“Hmm… But I don’t think this plague skill can do that.”
“What did you say earlier? What are the contagiousness and fatality rates?”
“42% contagiousness and 3% fatality rate.”
“So, even if 100 people get caught, only 3 will die.”
“It’s difficult.”
“Yes. Well, I used a game as an example, but it doesn’t matter at all that it is similar to a game. After all, there is already a perfect cure for this plague skill.”
“Ah. Is the disease lifted?”
“That’s right. There’s only one person caught right now?”
“Yes.”
“I guess that’s the guy you bet on. Then, would you like to try removing the disease on him?”
“Yes. Disease is lifted.”
Mina, who used the skill, presses something in the air for a moment, then looks at me and says.
“I can’t unlock it?”
“What? That can’t be possible. Ah. This guy could have a lot of diseases, right? Just like we did?”
“Ah.”
“Even if it’s inconvenient, do you want to keep using it to clear the disease?”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Okay. Here’s the potion.”
Mina began to diligently write a cure for the disease. She had been using the skill for quite some time, and after a while she looked at me and said.
“The number of infected people decreased to 0 and the plague panel disappeared.”
“Oh. Really? That’s right. That means it can be unlocked. Um. Then… Let’s try talking to another guy again.”
“I’ll try. Plague!”
Then Mina looks into space again and speaks.
“This time… It’s a little different. Airborne infection. Long incubation period. High fever. Contagiousness of 84% and fatality rate of 5%.”
“Does it come out randomly every time I use it? It’s an airborne infection. After all, airborne infections are good. Hmm.”
“Huh? The number of infected people has become 2.”
“What? Have you already spread it? It’s highly contagious and is an airborne infection, so it seems like it spreads right away.”
“I guess so. There are three of us.”
“But how does that panel float? Is it always in your field of vision?”
“Uh… It floats as if the skill window is floating.”
“Really? Then you can make it disappear?”
He wriggled back and forth for a moment in response to my question, then looked at me and spoke.
“Yes. It’s gone. We can open it again.”
“Oh. Really? Then it won’t be a big deal if you hang several things.”
It’s a little different from what I expected, but the familiar feeling isn’t bad. It’s also good that you can check it intuitively.
But no matter how you look at it, it feels like you are encouraging mass murder. This skill has too much destructive power.
Although it is said that it can be cured by dispelling a disease, dispelling a disease is probably not a very common skill.
It’s a very important skill, but it’s a skill I don’t want to have.
Moreover, the woman who used the body restoration service for the contingent was not cured of the disease.
That means there aren’t many people who systematically cure diseases.
Since it is a basic skill, do you think many people have it? Anyway, that means 20 times a day is the limit, right?
Since you don’t have coins, you can’t even think about things like potions. Just one recovery potion is enough to kill four people.
The greater the contagiousness, the more limited it is that each person can recover.
Moreover, dispelling diseases does not first dispel the plague. They say that each person needs to use the disease removal dozens to hundreds of times.
This is really… That’s a terrible skill. If there are many people, there is no way to stop this.
“The number of infected people reached 7.”
Mina looks at me and says. And. It takes so fast. It’s scary.
“Really? That’s right.”
I approached the guys.
Mina is surprised to see me like that and stops me.
“It’s okay. There won’t be any problem.”
It doesn’t matter since I confirmed that the disease will be lifted anyway.
I have been consistently receiving disease relief, so even if I catch it, it will be released quickly.
“First… These guys are useless then.”
There may be a way to release these guys again, but I don’t want to do that.
They are killed one by swinging the machete.
Everyone kills with flashy skills, but I’m still a machete. Should I at least learn a skill like the Sword of Light?
Kill seven and get 190,000 coins.
Since it’s a party, the total is 950,000. Coins for 1900 people.
It seems that picking up coins is not as easy as you think. It must be all over the place… Will competition be fierce?
No. You may have already picked up more and learned the next skill.
Anyway, it is not a small coin. Not bad.
“Okay then. Now let’s go out and plague every foot we see.”
So I flew up to the skies of Wuhan with Mina.
The city where Wuhan pneumonia started. This time, an unknown and unidentified plague will spread there again.
I don’t know how far this will expand… Just try it first.
