The scientific research office in the underground base of the Bureau of Countermeasures.
"After further analysis of the charred remains, it was found that Di Biao did not have the ability to resurrect from the dead, but that someone died on his behalf."
Irina made this judgment.
"Die in his place?"
Gray was a little confused.
"This has to be combined with some of his experiences. The information says that he is a remnant of a historical organization and was once imprisoned in an archipelago in the far north."
"Just like the symbolic world formed by human collective consciousness, if many people hold the same idea and have the same purpose, they can also form a powerful field that is independent of reality."
"I think it is similar to what happened in White Rock Town some time ago."
"There is information about Baishi Town here. You can take a look at it first."
Irina gave the information to Gray for review. The fire burned for three days and three nights, and too many resources were wasted in follow-up work including firefighting and statistics.
In Liszt's description, it was Colin who burned all the people fused by the strange tree to eliminate the realm of this chaotic consciousness cluster, and Jessica and their group were able to escape.
Gray looked at the information carefully, and after a while he discovered the incredible fact that there really was such a coincidence.
The mayor of Los Angeles once assaulted a high school student, causing him to become disabled and suffer a mental breakdown, leaving him with irreversible trauma. As he was in a high position, he naturally found someone to take the blame.
So I found a simple young man in White Rock, a remote town at the junction of Southern California and other states.
This dead man named Clay was actually the person who blamed the mayor about thirty years ago. At first he only thought it was a hit and run, but later he learned that it was such a crime.
In addition, his mother was assaulted and chopped alive by a serial killer in the town. The town also used the serial killer's gimmick as a tourist attraction and sold souvenirs.
So it angered him, and this must be the reason why he wanted to take revenge on so many innocent people.
There were so many deaths in that fire that most of them had to be classified as missing.
"Just like this man named Clay, he used some ancient secret techniques to give birth to that kind of domain-like forest. The power of the forest comes from the residents and travelers who were alienated by the strange trees."
"It's impossible to say exactly what happened to Di Yi."
"But there is no doubt that he has similar powers."
"The thoughts and wills of the brutal thugs who were once imprisoned in the Far North Islands may have condensed into a field and converged on Di Biao."
"Every time he died, a soul took his place."
"Perhaps he was chosen to complete the unfinished business of those others."
Irina explained this.
"You did a good job, Irina. At least now you have an idea to deal with him."
"But the difficulty is... how do you know how many times he can die?"
Gray believes that there must be a number. This kind of resurrection cannot be infinite. Wouldn't it be the same as God? Everything has a price. The price of latent disease is violent death after mental confusion. This must also have a price.
some kind of restriction.
"I have a method."
"Just like the instrument we made before to detect the depth of the agent's dive."
"I can modify it and use the spirit of ordinary people as a unit to detect the number of existences within a specified range."
"Although I can't guarantee it, it might work."
"Di Wei's own combat power is not exaggerated. He is no different from an S-class infected person. It's just that he has the ability to survive from death. It's probably just this that made him become the top cadre. So he must have used it a lot.
Number of chances of death.”
There was a faint smell of sweat on Irina's shirt, her hair was messy, and there were heavy bags under her eyes.
Gray saw that she hadn't had much rest during these days. She wanted Irina to take a good rest, but now was not the time.
"very good."
"Then I'll leave it to you."
"in addition……"
"A token about Liszt."
Gray found that Liszt was very abnormal recently. He was far colder and more inclined to kill than before. Maybe he was on the verge of collapse.
"He is a very strange person, Colonel. He doesn't have anything precious, and he can't make a token to use as an anchor to prevent him from getting lost."
Irina replied calmly.
"I see."
"The secret weapons from the headquarters will arrive tomorrow to be used against the Pope."
"It will be stored with you first. After confirming that there are no problems, it will be activated immediately."
After Gray finished speaking, he left the laboratory.
Irina's eyes became more and more distracted. She took off her glasses and pinched her eyebrows. Is it a secret weapon? The secret weapon developed by the Second Division is one of the Countermeasures Bureau's biggest reliance. It is said that it is a terrifying monster that combines latent disease and genetic engineering.
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A dimly lit interrogation room.
The swaying incandescent lamp, the cold iron chair, the shocking claw marks on the wall, and some solidified red paint all made the young man feel uneasy.
"Would you question the wisdom of those who came before you?"
The expressionless soldier in army uniform questioned the man in front of him.
"No."
"How easy is it for you to see the general principles behind specific events?"
"No."
“Have you made any inappropriate comments on the Internet about the Liberty Alliance?”
The soldier's eyes were extremely cold.
Despair crushed him.
"yes."
The young man replied.
"Your request to leave the city has been temporarily rejected."
Snapped……
The soldier stamped a red stamp of "reject" on the document.
Then it was the turn of a haggard-looking woman in her early thirties.
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The quarantine area has been fully completed.
Sentry towers with machine guns, high walls built with red bricks and stone, and electrified iron nets surrounded the entire Shusk District.
Priority in isolation is for infected people, followed by mentally ill patients and ex-convicts.
Military trucks passed by in an endless stream on the road, raising billowing smoke and dust.
Within these few days.
With the instigation of the SCT and the confidence and support given by the stormtroopers, more and more people came here to protest and march. From time to time, riots occurred and even soldiers were shot dead.
This also aroused the anger of the city government, which adopted tougher countermeasures.
Since another system was introduced yesterday, citizens no longer dare to protest, because now anyone who does not cooperate with the work of functional agencies will be regarded as an accomplice of terrorists and will be punished on the spot.
The place has finally become clean.
Gray came to inspect the work here, and Seka also went with him, as well as Mei, who is also an S-class infected person, and is also a smartly dressed woman with a ponytail.
Since Gray was once a soldier in the Army's Rapid Reaction Force, with the rank of senior colonel, and is now the general manager of Los Angeles, when the camouflage jeep drove by, the soldiers lined up to salute.
After arriving at a spooky repurposed building.
Gray discovered that some citizens were undergoing out-of-town testing, but she knew in her mind that the probability of passing the test was that there must be no stain at all, or even inappropriate remarks made on the Internet, in order to pass.
Suddenly.
She saw a little girl, who seemed to be playing with the sand and gravel on the ground without adult supervision.
The girl was only about five years old and wore glasses to correct amblyopia. The side of the glasses with normal vision was covered with a blue cloth to reduce the diopter of both eyes.
Gray asked the soldier in charge of managing the place, and the soldier replied that the girl's mother was undergoing testing.
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Interrogation room.
"You have been divorced once, and your ex-husband's monthly child pension has not been cut off, right?"
"And the biggest reason why you won the lawsuit is that you destroyed him by hijacking online public opinion on women's rights, right?"
The soldier asked.
"It's not like this……"
"My husband himself has..."
Don't wait for the woman to finish speaking.
"Your request to leave the city has been temporarily rejected."
Snapped!
The red seal was stamped hard, announcing something extremely terrifying.
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The woman left the interrogation room, her eyes dim and dull, as if she had aged many years. She took the little girl away and left here silently.
Gray withdrew her gaze, said nothing, and asked the driver to continue driving into the quarantine area. She wanted to inspect the conditions of the infected people who had been rounded up.