The midday sun cast its warm radiance, and tender green sprouts pushed their way through the soil, adding a touch of spring to the city. The long winter had finally passed.
On this day of blooming flowers, it was time for school to begin. However, all schools in the entire Tongling City had postponed their opening, and the streets were somewhat deserted, with only a scattering of pedestrians.
To ensure the maximum safety of the public without causing widespread panic, the Association had, a few days prior, disseminated through the health department of the Tongling City government news of a difficult-to-cure novel disease discovered in Tongling City, which was prone to spreading in densely populated areas. In a way, this news was true, merely downplaying the severity by several notches.
Due to this announcement, most residents of Tongling City stayed indoors, which was the effect the Hunter Association aimed to achieve. Without crowded places, the plant virus could not spread rapidly, allowing the Association to control the situation more quickly.
At this moment, the happiest group in the entire Tongling City were likely the children whose schools had been delayed due to the epidemic…
Above the city center, a wisp of thin white mist floated. Wen Wen stood within the faint mist, looking down at the city.
According to the conversation Wen Wen had overheard through the chain, within another hour or two, the sixteen hidden locations of the plant virus would fully erupt, casting a bloody hue over this city whose air quality was already substandard due to mining.
Wen Wen could not prevent this from happening, only do his best to mitigate it.
There were nearly twenty hunters who had arrived based on Wen Wen’s intelligence, over a hundred demon hunters of various ranks, and an emergency force of ten thousand troops on standby, ready to reach any corner of the city at the fastest speed. This was the greatest effort Wen Wen could achieve.
Wen Wen’s expression was complex. His mood was quite delicate, filled with excitement for the impending hunt of a True Sequence powerhouse, hatred for Dr. Feng’s actions, and pity for the people who were about to suffer.
All he could do now was prepare himself to be in the best state to complete the hunt for Eisvakhaz and then make Dr. Feng pay the price he deserved, not just imprisonment in the containment facility, but eternal torture.
Many of the monsters Wen Wen had confined to the containment facility were actually heinous criminals. Whether driven by instinct, satisfying their perverted desires, or simply by their inherently evil nature, Wen Wen merely imprisoned them and occasionally tormented them.
But Dr. Feng was different. He constantly sought to overthrow human society and was willing to create one plague after another to achieve this goal. He was not just anti-human; he was anti-animal as well. No matter the perspective, Wen Wen wanted Dr. Feng to pay.
Suddenly, Wen Wen received something from within the containment facility. It was a small crystal card transmitted by Isvet, the 'Living Water Elemental', inscribed with a holographic map of the entire Tongling City.
“Sending this now means the disaster has already begun… but it hasn’t been ten hours yet, at least another hour and a half… As expected, Dr. Feng didn’t tell Eisvakhaz the truth, but I was prepared for this.”
Wen Wen opened the crystal chip and saw sixteen marked red dots. These red dots were all sources of infection created by Dr. Feng to spread the plant virus.
They had been in a dormant state before, with a minimal presence. Thus, even with Wen Wen’s best efforts in searching and setting up monitoring points, he could not find them.
Near those red dots, small white dots or yellow dots gradually appeared, indicating the virus had begun to spread. Wen Wen immediately transmitted these sixteen signals to the demon hunters who were on standby. They would choose the most suitable response plan based on the situation.
As for the infection point closest to Wen Wen, he intended to resolve it personally.
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In the underground parking lot of the residential complex, the sound of footsteps could be heard. A middle-aged man in his forties, with a happy expression, ran out of the garage.
His name was Zhang Chunmao, an ordinary resident of this complex. In the morning, he wanted to go to his car to retrieve something and unexpectedly found a previously unseen room with a door ajar at the very back of the garage.
Driven by curiosity, Zhang Chunmao approached the room. Through the inch-wide gap in the door, Zhang Chunmao saw no one inside, and the floor was covered with dense stacks of money. Thus, in a moment of infatuation, he walked in.
But he never expected that this would be the beginning of his nightmare. When he picked up the money, he was shocked to find that the banknotes had all turned into rotten leaves, and he was not in some mysterious room, but inside a bizarre plant.
The door he had entered through had vanished!
In boundless fear, Zhang Chunmao sat in that room for several hours. Although nothing happened in the end, he felt as if a disaster was about to befall him.
Finally, after a few hours, the door reappeared. He seized the opportunity and rushed out of the plant in time, then quickly ran out of the garage. As long as he could reach the sunlight, he would be safe.
However, the moment he stepped out of the garage entrance, Zhang Chunmao found his movements becoming slower and slower, while the fear in his heart gradually disappeared. The sunlight on his face and hands made him feel immensely pleased.
Gradually, he began to hear sounds like popping pimples on his face, as something grew out of his broken skin. Yet, he did not feel anything abnormal; instead, the sensation felt very comfortable. As long as he could stand in the sunlight, he was willing to do anything. Su Dan Novel Network.
But he soon discovered that his vision was being blocked by something, preventing him from enjoying the sunlight. That thing seemed to be a four-leaf clover… it was growing from his face!
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In the security room at the entrance of the complex outside the garage, the security guard Hu Yanbing's eyes widened; his worldview had been shattered.
First, he saw his acquaintance, Old Brother Zhang, emerge from the garage in ecstatic joy, then his movements gradually slowed. He spread his arms wide, gazing at the sun as if in worship.
Subsequently, four-leaf clover-like plants began to grow on Old Brother Zhang’s body. Every inch of his skin was covered with dense four-leaf clovers, making him look like a human-shaped potted plant.
Hu Yanbing hurriedly dialed the emergency number, briefly narrating the situation. He thought the police would dismiss him as lying, but to his surprise, they were even more serious than he was.
After hanging up the phone, Hu Yanbing took out a steel pipe and cautiously approached Zhang Chunmao. Although the police officer on the phone had told him to leave the scene immediately and wait in a safe place, Hu Yanbing still wanted to check on Zhang Chunmao's condition.
Unexpectedly, after taking just two steps, Hu Yanbing saw the four-leaf clovers on Zhang Chunmao’s face begin to fall off, revealing green skin!