【Mariano Family】

In addition to the family mansion in Zion, most of the medium and large cities in the Fourth Continent have their family's buildings or factories, and the gun industry under their command is the main pillar of the family.

The firearms produced by Mariano are recognized by the organization, and each one is a fine product that can be sold for a very high price.

The family is also required to surrender a certain number of guns of good quality to the organization each year in exchange for the family's private residence in Zion and the privilege of running errands.

In order to ensure that the firearms industry can function properly in a sick world, each firearms factory is supervised by a gentleman within the family, and there are also many would-be gentlemen who have learned the art of firearms to patrol around the clock.

Three days ago,

An old factory that was built in Wendell and was about to be decommissioned had major problems.

Wendell was once a small town that relied on mines, and the Mariano family opened an early factory here in the early days of its development due to various problems with materials.

At present, some classic firearms are still being produced, which are collected by some gun lovers at high prices, and most of the workshop assembly lines have been discontinued.

With the ore being mined a year ago and the town rapidly declining, the family decided to close the old factory, which had long since fulfilled its self-worth.

Just a week before the closure, something unusual happened inside the factory, and a group of ordinary family members who remained in the town, and even a gentleman who was temporarily stationed in Wendell Town, were killed.

Unfortunately, a groom happened to pass by the town and immediately brought the situation back to Zion.

Soon, the investigation team of the [Gentleman's Hall] came here to investigate and characterize the general situation of the incident, and quickly sorted it out into the form of a task event and brought it back to the hall for the newcomer gentleman to deal with.

Since the incident was directly related to Mariano's factory, the staff of the Gentlemen's Hall also came to the family mansion to inform him of the incident.

Edmund, who had realized something during the broken arm, offered to deal with the matter because his body had recovered, and also called his former partner, the giant of the North, Dagebert.

Juliana did not participate due to health problems.

At that time, Yi Chen was in the task evaluation period, and Edmund didn't call him.

In addition to Edmund's two-person squad, there is another gentleman's squad, which is a cooperative mission.

According to the investigation team, the number of patients in Wendell has exceeded double digits, and the source of death, injury and infection in the town is suspected to have reached the level of severe patients.

……

【Wendell Town】

Before you fully enter the town, you can smell a strong smell of crude oil, industrial waste, heavy metals and other by-products, and you can even taste it if you open your mouth.

The entire town was shrouded in a thick fog with black material that appeared to be soot.

Seventy per cent of the buildings are factories, and chimneys of various sizes are scattered throughout the town, all of which are products of the last era, most of them have been abandoned.

Currently, the town is empty.

The streets are littered with some strangely shaped corpses,

Both humanoid but not entirely human, they share a uniform characteristic, with a large amount of metal mixed between their stiff flesh covered in corpse spots, and even deriving a barrel structure capable of firing.

The barrel may be found in the fingers, in the eyes, in the mouth or even in some special parts.

This condition associated with contemporary firearms craft does not have a separate category, but is a subcategory of "iron disease".

Also known as "iron disease-firearm variant".

In the early stages of infection, individuals are extremely affinity for substances containing iron (or other metallic elements), will privately swallow metallic substances to satisfy their desire to eat, and will also wear various metal products with them, the more the better.

In the middle and late stages of infection, the individual's skin becomes significantly ironized, and the structure of the gun body begins to appear.

When a patient becomes sick, the basic form is formed, and the fire can be poured out at will, and the bullets can be replenished by swallowing and absorbing metal.

This type of patient is quite dangerous, and the iron body is super defensive, and it is necessary to break through the surface of their iron skin to damage the core of the body.

In addition to the threat of fire, they can also drain the iron from the human blood through physical contact, resulting in rapid death.

……

But

The two gentlemen's teams that have come here have killed all the infected and sick people in the streets of the town.

Only Mariano's factory, where the firearm infection originated, remains to be dealt with last.

Although it is very old and belongs to the first batch of factories to be established, the scale is not small at all. Due to the growing firearms business, the factory has undergone several expansions.

It's nighttime.

The two squads had been in it for more than three hours,

More than ten minutes have passed since the last shot, and there has been no movement during this time, and no one has left the factory.

The internal situation was even worse than expected.

The two teams were forced to separate for some reason, hiding in different rooms, and did not dare to act rashly until they could come up with a way to break the game, and both teams suffered varying degrees of casualties.

【Staff Lounge-03】

Blonde Edmund and Dagbert are hiding here,

The gate is sealed with a kind of time-sensitive sealing rune paper,

Dagbert lay flat on his desk, his muscular, huge body, still wounded by bullets under the protection of a gentleman's attire.

To make matters worse, the bullets that remained in his body were eating away at his flesh over time, leading him to death.

There are only bullet holes on the surface of the body that are less than the size of a little finger.

The bullets fired into the body are precisely stored between the organs and the main blood vessels, constantly absorbing the iron components in the body.

Seven minutes have passed since the bullet was hit, and the bullet that grew by absorbing iron was even 1.5 times its original size.

If it were an ordinary person, I would have died a long time ago, but Dagbert relied on his special physique and injection drugs to forcibly hold on.

Now surgery must be carried out to remove these bullets from the body at all costs.

As for Edmund, although he was only shot once, he was still not in good shape.

He leaned against the corner of the wall and sliced directly through the abdomen with the red-hot blade of his sword, cutting out the bullet embedded in the flesh and blood.

Immediately after a simple bandage, he came to D'Agobert's side.

The two looked at each other, nodded slightly, and did not exchange any words.

Edmund immediately pressed the blade of his sword to the lower part of Dagbert's chest, preparing to disembowel and force the bullet from it.

Syllable! There was a loud noise in the window.

Edmund looked over his head and saw a thick branch attached, followed by something crawling along the branch until a familiar face was pressed against the window.

Quack Ratch ~ Destroy the corners of the window by means of small, soft branches, and remove the window frame without making any sound.

Yi Chen followed the plants and easily climbed into the room, and at the same time, a flower-colored figure also jumped into it.

"William!"

Just when Edmund was surprised why Yi Chen was here,

The latter had quickly moved to Dagbert's side,

Two warm, vibrant palms were attached to the bullet holes, and the deformed, swollen bullets were removed one after another by the roots of the plants.

Not only that,

Dagbert could also feel a different kind of vitality injected into his body through the plant, as if new water was flowing in his body, and new blood was born from it, quickly replacing the waste blood that had been stripped of iron and expelling from his body.

It's only been more than two months,

Lying on the table, Dagbert felt that the former teammate in front of him seemed to have reached a higher level, and even looked a little strange.

(End of chapter)