On the eve of the pandemic.

The Survival Assurance Agency has received a bizarre report.

A report that a disease is spreading widely in the current transcendent society.

Elizabeth was wearing an airtight protective suit, standing under the shadowless lamp with unprecedented seriousness, dissecting a dried corpse on the morgue that looked like it had been dead for decades through protective glasses.

"Is the news of the resurrection of the fungus master true?"

The gray-haired puppet girl pushed open the door and asked as she put on dozens of extraordinary protections that were not the same.

"Nine times out of ten......

Elizabeth's tone was solemn, her hands did not tremble, her eyes remained fixed on the dried corpse, and the process of dissection continued.

At this moment, the dried corpse was covered with slender plants that pierced the skin from the inside out, lush and green like weeds.

It all goes back to the strange enemy who attacked them during the trip, the other party was obviously a transcendent but did not use any supernatural powers, and she kicked her away for repeated attacks like a zombie, and the puppet found that something was wrong after investigating it out of the professional habits of the risk-breaker, and sent it to the research room of the agency for further research.

Sure enough, the problem was found.

The strange enemy who attacked them had long since been hollowed out, and the muscles and internal organs had been eaten away, leaving only the epidermis and bones intact, and something like mold filled his body in place of internal organs and muscle tissue, maintaining the biological functions of the creature itself in a way that defied common sense, and what was even more terrifying was that Elizabeth had been connected to the other party's mind that had fallen into madness and despair after the previous encounters......

Even if the body has become such a ghost, the other party is still alive, and even retains a fairly complete mind.

Not zombies, not corpses, and no traces of necromancy.

This terrifying and strange state of the creature prompted the researchers of the agency to conduct an in-depth study of it, and Elizabeth, who is proficient in biological research, also stayed to participate in the research, and the puppet girl also had a new mission - to start investigating the disease.

Elizabeth carefully opened the cranial cavity and plucked a grave grass from the corpse, pulling out a large pile of mycelium: "It's still the same, the inside of the body is emptied, the mycelium completely replaces the nervous system, and the brain is eaten at the end...... Look here."

As she said this, she turned the humanoid corpse over, peeling open the shrunken skin on her back to reveal her spine.

It was a severely deformed vertebrae, and the vertebrae were no longer closely connected, like the white hyphae with fine villi growing out of the vertebrae and forcibly opening the gap between the bone joints, especially from the thoracic vertebrae to the cervical vertebrae, and the thick mycelium were stacked layer upon layer to completely cover that section of the vertebrae, which looked like the furry tail of an animal, which made people shudder.

"This is where the nerves first invaded, so there is a lot of hyphae left; Looking at the chest cavity again, fungal spores are caused by respiratory tract infection of the lungs, causing primary pulmonary fungal infection, and then the fungus will erode the original biological tissue and divide and replicate here in large quantities, and then invade the central nervous system of the spinal cord through the circulatory system throughout the body, Cordyceps fungus will gradually deprive the host of body control, and when the parasitism develops to the final stage, it will break through the blood-brain barrier and attack the brain......"....

"In other words, the host's mind is equivalent to gradually losing control of the body in a waking state, and the mind gives instructions but the hands and feet do not obey, and can only watch like a prisoner in despair as the Cordyceps fungus takes over the body, leading him step by step into the abyss of death......

"Other patients are not much better, this fungus obviously has the characteristics of 'intelligence', it shows the ability to mutate unstable like the fungus at all, and can even mutate countermeasures against me in the process of fighting, if it is at the beginning of the course of the disease, I can still think of a way to interfere with the cycle of mycelial growth and replication to prolong the time to enter the next stage, but once it enters the middle and late stages, it is very difficult to be cured......

"If it was just a guess before, it's almost certain now."

The girl turned her head, her green eyes looking through the goggles

Counterpart.

"Vibble, the fungus master who once lived in the time of the gods, has been resurrected in this era."

"The most important thing is ......," she glanced at the dried corpse, her expression more serious than ever, "this time the owner of this corpse is not an extraordinary creature, but an ordinary person......

To be precise, the owner of this corpse was one of the many blood slaves who were raised by the Bloodline Company during his lifetime.

After the establishment of the survival guarantee organization, the hidden transcendent, and the dominance of humans and science on this planet, most of the blood clans took advantage of the unique advantages of longevity and the amazing wealth accumulated in the past to invest in industries, build factories, and set up companies in human society, and the vampires who had not seen the light in the past turned into the elite class of human society.

Usually squeeze the surplus value of employees, use the funds in exchange for squeezing employees to invest in many fields such as medical treatment, scientific research, biology, finance, etc., establish long-term cooperative relations with major hospitals and blood supply stations, and control several legal and illegal blood supply channels into control, mark potential blood donation objects, reuse and squeeze these precious resources......

And this blood slave is a mobile blood bag that sells blood through illegal means and is marked with a blood clan mark.

The parasitic fungus that disappeared at the end of the Divine Era and could only parasitize on the bodies of transcendent creatures is no longer limited to transcendent creatures after its comeback, and even ordinary people who do not have extraordinary strength are now infected, what does it mean?

The puppet's expression was heavy: "It is no longer limited to the transcendental......

Elizabeth's expression was serious: "For the time being, there is no way to rule out whether it is directly transmitted through blood-sucking, and my side can only speed up the research to determine whether this fungus has the characteristics of widespread transmission among the general population......

During the Divine Era, extraordinary power was a necessary factor for the development and growth of the Vibul snake Cordyceps fungus, so it could only spread among the transcendent groups, and now the Cordyceps fungus has successfully conceived and grown in ordinary individuals, indicating that it has at least the ability to grow in ordinary individuals - extraordinary power may no longer be a necessary condition for its growth and development......

The atmosphere in the room fell silent.

After a long time, the puppet asked, "What is the specific transmission route of the fungus?"

"Fungal spores with extraordinary strength are more unreasonable than ordinary pathogenic bacteria, and high temperature and pressure, antifungal drugs, and disinfectants can only temporarily inhibit their activity. Bodily fluids aside, air, water, and food can all be used as vectors of transmission, but the symptoms are different depending on the invasion portal." ….

"After being exposed to polluted air for more than 10 seconds, fungal spores can enter the lungs through the respiratory tract to complete the infection and parasitism, robbing the lungs of oxygen and causing the host to further increase the respiratory rate. If contaminated food or water is eaten, fungal spores will quickly parasitize in the stomach and small intestine within three hours, and the symbiotic fungus will release a special digestive enzyme to speed up digestion and rob nutrients, strengthen host aggression, and keep it hungry for a long time, causing binge eating disorder; As for the bloodstream spreading, it will be faster, and the fungal spores will skip the infection stage and directly try to parasitize the central nervous system through the circulatory system......

"All in all, this mad fungal spores are full of transmissibility."

Elizabeth listed almost everything she knew, and then spread her hands over the puppet, "The only good news is that this thing can't penetrate the skin directly to complete the infection."

The doll listened to her in silence, and the prosthetic eyes made of inorganic matter gradually shimmered.

Data flows through the puppet girl's computing core, and in just a few breaths, a massive model of the transmission chain appears before her eyes, the girl's fingers dotted, and then a 3D map of the city appears in her augmented reality (AR) vision.

Reports of initial cases of infection, number of paranormal infections at this stage, total number of paradoxes in the city, fungal incubation time, calculation of potentially infected persons according to epidemiological transmission models......

Soon, she calculated the course of events in the near future.

There is still room for recovery in the situation, as long as we act as soon as possible, it is very likely that the outbreak of Cordyceps in the transcendent group can be avoided!

The puppet didn't calculate any further, turned and walked out.

"In my experience

Right now...... Ay? Where are you going?" Elizabeth asked as she turned away and raised her voice.

"We must warn now!"

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"The situation is very serious now, the fungus owner Vibl has confirmed that the fungus has mutated into a germ that can spread on ordinary people, as a risk eliminator, I now apply to the survival guarantee agency: dispatch a disposal team to carry out emergency treatment of Cordyceps, cut off the infection path of the transcendent, and control the next possible pandemic in the general population!"

The puppet girl stood in the grandiose hall of the Survival Guarantee Agency, the wonder nebula above her head changing shapes and emitting a faint light, and she had forgotten that this was the first time she had warned the big men sitting high at the round table about the deteriorating state of affairs.

The reply of the high-level warlock projection on the rotation of the survivable guarantee mechanism is always ......

"Not approved, continue to observe."

"Why!"

The puppet girl fearlessly questioned the high-level warlock projection in front of her, which represented the survival guarantee organization.

"You should know very well what the consequences of the Cordyceps fungus spread! During the Divine Era, the transcendents closest to the god species will gradually weaken to death, do you think that if it becomes popular among ordinary people, will you still be able to escape?!"

"You don't have to worry about that, Laplace Demon has already calculated this."

The high-level warlock pushed his glasses and whispered softly, and the clouds and mist containing extraordinary power flew and condensed into a pile of paper reports in his hands. ….

"According to Laplace's near-future calculations, this time the Vibble Cordyceps fungus is much milder than the Divine Era, and the new Vible Cordyceps fungus no longer robs the host's nutrition like the old Cordyceps fungus, but is more inclined to coexist with the host, it is constantly transforming the host's body, and will show a stable trend after several generations, and finally coexist with the host stably."

"The theoretical fatality rate is less than 5 percent, which is much lower than the flu in human society,"

"What......" The puppet argued, "But this is an extraordinary event! It will have an indelible impact on the world! Isn't the purpose of the existence of the existence guarantee organization to protect the normal development of the mundane and transcendent worlds?"

"That's the crux of the matter, Laplace."

The High Warlock Project sighed, snapped his fingers, and the nebula in the dome began to shrink as if commanded by some kind of command, and the stars collapsed and exploded, and the sparkling starlight flickered and then disappeared one after another, and then the nebula began to crumble into a constant stream of mathematical symbols and calculations.

Every now and then, a new equation is generated from within the data stream, and then the answer is immediately eliminated from the equation itself, and in the process of data life and death, the data stream gradually wriggles to form an almost human-like outline.

Concrete things gradually become abstract concepts.

And this ever-changing concept is the Laplace Demon, the supreme treasure of the Survival Guarantee Agency, the supreme masterpiece created by the Church, the Authority, the Warlock Guild, and the Hunting Group, and the guardian and guide of the future.

And Laplace's abilities are just as his name suggests.

Know everything, see everything.

The planet itself is a database that stores a huge amount of information, and the Warlock Guild has created spirits that are good at information processing to connect to the planet's database that stores information from the past, and the agency creates a physical port for it to output information, and the hunters give them dreams and minds to collect information about the present, and the church ...... They quoted scriptures to 'prophesy the future' by simulating miracles, and this miracle was solidified in this spirit being.

The Laplace demon was born.

Record the past, gain insight into the present, and measure the future.

It can be said that as long as there is anything that once existed in this planetary system, any question, Laplace can give an answer.

At this moment, as long as he is on this planet, Laplace can see what is happening through his dreams and mind.

As long as the future remains part of this planetary system, Laplace's prophecy will come true.

"The deduction of the Laplace demon allows us to see a new future.

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"According to the samples you sent, we detected traces of supernatural power in the bodies of ordinary people, originally we thought it was the extraordinary effect of Cordyceps fungus parasitism, but after repeated testing, we found that those traces were left by the infected person himself...... Do you know what that means?"

"With Cordyceps fungus, we will have the opportunity to convert more of our family without loss."

"With Cordyceps fungus, we will have the possibility to go further."

"It's an opportunity." At this time, the bishop of the old man representing the church at the round table in the hall spoke, "Seize this opportunity, we can make the transcendent world great again and let the transcendent return to this land."

"Do you have to sacrifice countless ordinary people for this?"

No one answered the doll girl, or rather, they answered her question with silence.

"I see what you mean."

After a long silence, the puppet girl whispered.

"I hope you understand this decision, it's also for the sake of the bigger picture."

The puppet girl ignored the words of the high-ranking warlock, and after nodding slightly, she unilaterally cut off contact with the survival guarantee agency.

In an instant, the hall, the round table, and the projection collapsed, disintegrating into fluttering particles of light that dissipated into the wind.

When all the projections dissipated as transcendent particles, the glint in the puppet girl's eyes became firm.

"If you don't save it, I'll save it."

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