Chapter 450: 450: Deep Red

Chapter 450: Deep Red

“The three of you … head to the Quarantine East Area and report to Knight Priscilla. The knight will guide you deeper into the quarantine area for plague elimination.

This red plague incident poses an extremely potential danger. No one is allowed to leave the team on their own or engage in any unnecessary behavior.

Once you are infected with the ‘red plague’, you will also be quarantined.

Although it’s called a ‘plague’, the actual infection incident surpasses the common plague category.

So far, three apprentice knights have been infected and died. Be careful and follow all the arrangments of the knight.”

“Yes!”

Han Dong, Mia, and a mysterious apprentice of only over 1.4 meters high and quite adorable-looking were grouped together.

Obviously, this apprentice was frightened by the teacher’s serious warning, her eyes’ pupils were flickered with not-so-determined light.

The three shared a carriage provided by the cemetery’s caretaker to the quarantine area.

“Senior brother and sister, I am Flora Shelley! A junior specializing in stitching, I will do my best to help! Are you Mia, senior sister?”

“Yes… what’s up?”

Mia looked quite displeased at this younger school sibling who might not be able to help much and definitely might steal her man.

“Wow! You really are Mia, the chief witch apprentice!”

“Hmm? Mia, are you so famous now?” Han Dong teased on purpose.

Mia’s one hand was making circles on Han Dong’s chest, while whispered:

“Ah… the witch always likes to hold some competitions of little significance in the Witch Academy, and I accidentally won first place in the recent witchcraft competition.

But what’s the use, it’s still not as good as you.”

This sentence made Flora, the apprentice sitting opposite, a little confused.

She had never heard of any remarkable senior student, and for this ‘frail and sick’ senior student, she had no impression at all, let alone seen him in the Mysterious Department.

But this chief witch apprentice strongly ‘depends’ on this senior student.

“Senior, who are you?”

“Just call me Nicholas.”

“Oh …”

Flora had indeed never heard this name, but she became increasingly curious about this mysterious senior student.

After a while.

The carriage arrived at the designated area.

Those responsible for leading Han Dong and the others were the formal knights who also graduated from Mysterious Department.

Knight Priscilla Cecil of the Doomsday Knight Brigade.

Two years ago, Priscilla was selected into the Doomsday Knight Brigade with a normal status. She wasn’t particularly outstanding, but she was a formal knight after undergoing Breaking the Breed, standing above Han Dong and others.

Perhaps it is because knights born from mysticism always seem more ‘strange’.

At least in terms of dress and appearance, it is completely different from the impression of knights in metallic armors.

Knight Priscilla was wearing a grey robe with occasional dark colored streaks flowing past,

wrapped in a strange white headscarf,

her deep brown hair seeped out from the gap of the headscarf like seaweeds, scattered on her shoulders,

Her face had quite a few freckles, but she had a pair of unique green eyes,

One could feel a strong cursed aura from this graduate senior sister, it seemed that she specialized in a type of curse that is highly damaging but also would backlash against oneself.

“Here is some data about the ‘red plague’ that you need to finish reading in ten minutes… We will go deep into the infected area in fifteen minutes.

If it wasn’t for the high number of infections that the regiment couldn’t handle, newbies like you wouldn’t be dealing with such a dangerous event.

Don’t die… you guys still have unachieved great ambitions.”

But looking at this sentence, it shows that this female knight is quite kindhearted.

Han Dong immediately focused on reading as soon as he took the document.

‘Red Plague’

Route-of-transmission:

● Bodily fluid transmission (mainly through blood)

When more than 10ml of the infected person’s blood enters another person’s body, the infection rate is as high as 100%.

● Arthropod-borne (The Deep Red Bloodworm Species born inside the infected person’s body such as insects like mosquitoes, flies, fleas, lice, and spiders like ticks and mites serve as transmission media)

The bug’s body will reproduce quickly by sucking blood. Once it enters the human body, the infection rate is as high as 100%.

It can’t be transmitted through the air (droplets, dust, etc. are ineffective) and water (diluted blood is not infectious).

Early infection symptoms (divided into three phases):

①. Early infection (first phase), the infected person’s myocardial ability strengthens, blood cells’ oxygen storage ability increases, self-recovery ability increases.

Not only does the patient have no discomfort, but they also show unprecedented vitality and energy, even some existing diseases and old injuries will be recovered during this process.

This state will likely last for about 12 hours.

Until the ‘red plague’ is fully transported to the brain area through blood circulation, it will enter the second phase.

②. The ‘red plague’ that spread all over the body starts to consume normal blood.

While not affecting cognitive abilities, it induces the brain to produce a strong blood demand (forced tolerance will cause conscious collapse, thus leading to indiscriminate eating).

Infected individuals in this phase will show strong aggression, attempting to attack others, sucking their blood.

At the same time, they will inject their own blood into the prey, fostering new infected individuals.

Special note (recognition method): In the process of inducing the brain, it will inevitably affect the motor auxiliary area of the hypothalamus, thus stimulating the individual to exhibit ‘manic laughter’. Individuals in the second phase will laugh uncontrollably.

③. When the ‘red plague’ concentration in the body reaches 30%, it will enter the third phase.

Inducing the hypothalamus to secrete growth hormone-releasing hormone, making the secretion of growth hormones reach 20 times that of a normal person.

The red plague in the body will regulate the activating effect of growth hormone on cells, leading to ‘hyperplasia’.

Due to different infection conditions, the hyperplasia of this phase differs.

[Pure Blood Infection Hyperplasia]: The individual will generate more limbs to ‘respond’ to the increase of growth hormone.

It usually manifests as the growth of hands and feet, very few will sprout wings, or form strange keratinized structures.

Individuals in this state show stronger ‘manic laughter’ symptoms, even tearing the corners of their mouths due to manic laughter.

[Arthropod Infection Hyperplasia]: The growth hormone will act as ‘nutrient’ to catalyze the growth of ‘deep red bloodworms’ in the body.

Once the bugs mature, individuals will completely lose their ability to move, and due to hyperplasia of skin and mucous membrane tissues, they will adhere and fix to the surrounding environment, turning into a living bug nest.

After the deep red bloodworms feed on the blood of other living entities, they will feed the remaining blood to the individual to ensure the activity of the bug nest.

Similarly, the symptom of ‘manic laughter’ will not be relieved by becoming a bug nest, and laughter still exists even if they completely lose their human form.