Enforcer Manual
Chapter 1031 - 914 - : Walk After a Meal, Live to 99_2

Chapter 1031: 914 Chapter: Walk After a Meal, Live to 99_2

Afterwards, he went to the Church alone.

Facing this unexpected disaster, all he could do was pray, hoping he could once again hear the guidance from the God of Life.

But this time, the God of Life was busy coordinating medical teams and the use of hover vehicles and had no time to listen to his prayers.

The vast church was then left with him alone.

Most of the members of the Sisterhood had disappeared, leaving behind as many decaying, putrid corpses as there were civilians.

Besides the corpses scattered all over, he made a startling discovery.

Ricochet found a gigantic insect in the deepest part of the church.

It was much taller than an adult, and when he arrived, the insect, with its back toward him, was in front of a completely corrupted corpse, its sharp forelimbs touching the darkened bones through the decaying flesh.

Ricochet drew his gun and slowly approached the insect.

"We are not your enemies," he said.

The insect, upon sensing his presence, responded in a gentle female voice.

Gathering his courage, he asked, "Did you bring this contagion here?"

The sudden outbreak and the presence of a giant insect that understood human language, it was hard for anyone not to connect the two.

"In the eyes of the God of Life, all creatures are equal."

"You know the God of Life?" he asked.

"She ordered us to investigate this epidemic, and if you don’t mind, we hope you can lend a hand," the insect replied.

Ricochet felt dazed, believing himself insane to think this giant insect was sent by the God of Life to help them, and even crazier that he started to turn over highly decayed corpses under the insect’s direction.

The corpse was still dressed in the church’s nun’s habit, but her face had decayed so severely that her original appearance was indistinguishable.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

Watching the insect probe into the skull’s eye sockets with its mouthparts, Ricochet’s eyebrows knotted together.

"Extracting the virus. This is the spot with the highest concentration of the virus, and yet you have not been infected. There must be some reason for this..." the insect explained.

Upon hearing this, Ricochet had to summon all his strength to suppress his nausea and carefully surveyed the ground for a long time.

This corpse was indeed different from any other deceased he had seen before, decayed so thoroughly that not a single piece of intact skin could be found on its body.

However, he knew nothing about medical science, and as for the reason he was not infected, he could only believe it was a blessing from the God of Life.

The people of Lute City believed the same.

They placed all their hopes on him, which increased the pressure on Ricochet immensely.

The situation had deviated far from what he had anticipated. He could lead people to storm the commander’s mansion or give speeches in the bell tower, fiercely opposing the bureaucrats colluding with the Brotherhood, but he racked his brain without finding a way to stop the spread of the epidemic.

Moreover, according to information provided by Oasis experts, this virus was more dreadful than any epidemic known to mankind.

All Ricochet could do was temporarily settle the people down before coming to the church alone.

The believers of the Church of Life believe this place was closest to the God of Life.

"Do you mean, she is the source of the infection?" he asked.

"No, she just happens to be closest to the source of infection."

One of the insect’s forelimbs pointed towards the statue in the Confession Room, whose tear-moistened hands made it seem all the more sinister, "The blood there is the source of the infection."

The Oasis Peace Company had established the Church of Life in every city and built churches sincerely for the believers, but now, each church had become a source of the epidemic.

Guessing Ricochet’s thoughts, it said, "Please do not touch that blood. The concentration of the virus in it is more than ten times stronger than what you have encountered before, and even eliminating it now would be too late. The virus has already spread throughout the city, and every person who dies will become a new source of infection."

"So what do we do now?" he asked.

"Given the current rate of spread of the virus, before finding an antidote, more than eighty percent of the Oasis population will die from the virus," the insect responded.

About this rapidly spreading virus, everyone had different opinions.

Time was running out for them. As Mr. Qi He revealed, the Review Meeting had already convened an emergency meeting to discuss whether to deploy satellite weapons on Oasis, aiming to completely eliminate all sources of infection.

If the meeting voted in favor, even if about twenty percent of the residents survived, they would eventually die from the strike of the satellite weapons.

"Before that, we must figure out why you were not infected," the insect said. "Mr. Ricochet, what exactly is different about you?"

............

In the evening, a fleet of hover vehicles headed to Lira.

Every member of the team wore thick isolation suits, and the atmosphere inside the vehicle was dismal, as everyone knew this was almost certainly a death-bound journey.

Before departure, they had already seen the intelligence sent from Oasis.

The isolation suits could not adequately protect against this unidentified contagion, as the spokesperson for the Oasis medical team had been infected and died despite the stringent protection of his isolation suit.