tkworld Chapter 876 - 110: Sweet Aroma
Chapter 876 - 110: Sweet Aroma
"What do you mean the archives couldn’t find any matching data?"
"Could it be because her face is already badly deformed, so facial recognition can’t confirm her identity?"
"It’s terrifying how ignorant you are! The facial recognition tech we use now records skeletal data. As long as her bones haven’t melted, she can definitely still be identified!" one Hunter said. "This bastard... could she be an illegal infected?"
The so‑called "illegal infected" literally refers to those infected who haven’t gone through legal registration—these people, when they were infected by a mysterious meme, didn’t cause enough of a disturbance to attract the Public Security Bureau or the Anomaly Investigation Bureau. They usually quietly turned from a normal person into an infected, and sometimes even they themselves don’t necessarily know they’ve already been infected by a mysterious meme.
Usually it’s a strange high fever, a sudden unexplained coma, or an "accident" that happens in a surveillance blind spot... Within the Federation, illegal infected like this appear almost every single day. Some of them, lacking professional medical care and inhibitors, will enter an acute mutation phase in a short time and then turn into a mysterious creature or a mysterious corpse.
Another portion will be actively or passively discovered by the Anomaly Investigation Bureau and then converted into infected with legal status.
Of course, other than that, there is another kind of illegal infected that gives the Public Security Bureau the biggest headache.
Those are the infected artificially created by Cult Organizations that worship mysterious creatures.
Ordinary illegal infected, as long as they haven’t entered the acute mutation phase, actually don’t pose too much danger to human society. After gaining abilities from mysterious creatures, as long as their cognition and values haven’t been twisted, most of them won’t do anything utterly inhuman—first, because these people still more or less have a human moral baseline; second, because they’re afraid of being hunted down by Mysterious Creature Hunters.
In fact, most people, after finding out they’re infected, once they get past the initial panic, will choose to seek help from the local Mysterious Creature Research Institute at the first opportunity... In an age where meme‑monitoring devices and surveillance cameras are extremely widespread, it’s very hard for an illegal infected to hide their identity, unless they never use any public facilities and never go to any public places—which is almost impossible for someone living in a modern city.
Even total shut‑in homebodies still have to deal with the Public Security Bureau’s population census every six months... During the census, the Sheriff will conveniently scan them with a portable meme‑detection device. If they’re an illegal infected, they’ll be exposed on the spot.
But the infected artificially created by Cult Organizations are different.
From the moment they’re born, they carry extremely dangerous purposes... These illegal infected are like time bombs hidden in the corners of the city, waiting for the "detonation order" from the "person" who created them.
For Mysterious Creature Hunters, even if these illegal infected still retain their sanity, Hunters won’t treat them as human. They’ll directly regard them as mysterious creatures or mysterious corpses.
"No way! If she’s an illegal infected, how the hell did she even get on this train!" a Hunter immediately refuted. "What, are the people in charge of inspections at the station all useless?"
"From the looks of it, that group really are useless." Yu Duo stood up. "If she’s an illegal infected, then there’s a good chance she was deliberately ’dropped’ into this carriage..."
"You’re saying this woman is with a Cult Organization?" The Hunter who’d just spoken froze for a moment. "Then what’s the point? What’s their purpose in doing this?"
"Do Cult Organizations need a reason to cause destruction?" He Dawei said in a low voice. "Every single one of those lunatics is anti‑society and anti‑human scum! For all we know, their target is us!"
"We have to make the train stop! Laozi’s getting off!" One Hunter lashed out with a savage kick at the door between the two carriages. But the moment his foot slammed into it, the polymer cladding on the outside of the door shattered and fell away, revealing a heavy inner door made of alloy.
"Fuck! The doors to our carriage were switched too! Are they planning to let us all die in here?!" That Hunter cursed, both shocked and furious.
"A carriage loaded to the brim with infected is definitely going to get some ’extra safety measures.’" Yu Duo sneered. "Didn’t you notice that the two carriages adjacent to us have already had all their passengers evacuated?"
Once she said that, everyone immediately looked out through the window on the door—and sure enough, the neighboring two carriages were completely empty. The passengers who’d originally been sitting there had all vanished without a trace.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" That hot‑tempered Hunter kicked the door several more times in a row, but in front of the heavy alloy door, his actions were completely pointless.
"Could there be a mole inside Dubhe Tower?" a Hunter suddenly floated a conspiracy theory. "They deliberately gathered us onto this train, then deliberately let the station security wave through an illegal infected like this... Damn, the more you think about it, the scarier it gets!"
"Scary my ass. Who the hell do you think you are, that they’d need to use a method like this just to screw you over?" He Dawei shouted. "Even if there’s a mole inside Dubhe Tower, to have enough authority to pull this off, that mole’s status definitely wouldn’t be low. We might’ve even seen him on TV. Using such a valuable mole just to trade for our lives? That kind of losing deal, if it were me, I sure as hell wouldn’t do it!"