Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 569
Chapter 569: Chapter 203: Quadruple Infection, Frenzied Golden Legend!
What does it mean by extra people?
Could it be that Dapo Town had other humans hiding before the two groups arrived?
Cheng Ye paused for a moment, first glancing toward the government building nearby, faintly seeing a few silhouettes on the third floor.
Seeing him look over, the leading captain quickly waved, indicating that the two corpses had nothing to do with them.
Though the covert line is responsible for monitoring the normal proceedings of the assessment, they won’t recklessly wander within the town causing trouble, especially since survival in the wild is far more important than clinging to rules.
Even if both inspectors have some irregular operations during the assessment, as long as no one raises objections, they usually turn a blind eye as if they haven’t seen anything.
Not the covert line?
Cheng Ye signaled Luokuke with his eyes to have a private talk on the side, but unexpectedly Luokuke shook his head, indicating to speak right here.
Hmm.
This reaction.
Cheng Ye instantly realized why Luokuke placed the three corpses at the boundary.
It wasn’t about “reconciling” extra people but rather releasing emotional pressure.
Three dead, two missing, and now two more unidentified infected bodies have emerged.
All casualties are laid out clearly; if no means of pressure release is found, the Red Zone might explode tonight!
After all, the refugees who came for infrastructure construction aren’t a military force; it can’t be that fifty out of five hundred dying would start the problems.
In a high-pressure environment, if three to five people died confronting infected bodies head-on, everyone could still grit their teeth and endure.
But now they’re besieged by invisible infection sources, strangers are appearing, and some are missing without a trace, which has exceeded the psychological tolerance of ordinary people.
According to the inspection station’s “ancestral teachings” passed down from the Great Expansion era.
At such times, the inspector must quickly propose a feasible plan, not allow the panic to spread unchecked.
If mistakes occur during the resolution process, at most it’s seen as ineptitude, only resulting in surface-level punishment.
Such as docking salary, fixing terms, requiring execution of a certain number of non-contributory field operations, etc.
But holding back until big problems arise or the infection source’s parasitic outbreak mechanism remains undiscovered in the end.
That’s severe dereliction of duty, requiring adherence to internal inspection station regulations, from confiscating all assets, to demotion back to apprenticeship.
This punishment is unacceptable for both Garcia who climbed up the station team and Luokuke who painstakingly saved contributions while scheming for a higher position.
“Okay, how were these two discovered?”
“No hurry, take a look at what the infection source is first.” Luokuke tapped the Firewood Communication device on his waist.
Hmm?
Cheng Ye slightly squinted, not immediately pulling out his phone as said but squatted down, getting close to the two corpses for careful observation.
Typically, the infected body’s most notable characteristic is markings, but there are too many infected sources with patterns, like the vortex pattern on these two resembling the Vortex Turtle, easily confused without careful inspection.
Examine closely.
The main pattern on the two bodies presents a dark purple color, like congealed blood congestion, spreading across the skin like tattoos circle by circle, very orderly, rotating outward in ellipses.
Cheng Ye circled the corpses twice, quickly pinpointing the starting point of the pattern.
Behind the earlobe where the color is much darker, leaving a noticeable “origin point,” like the first stroke of a brush on paper.
Looking again at the gunshot wounds, the tissue inside has completely turned black, showing a burnt brown color.
The brain matter oozing out looks even more terrifying, resembling caramelized sugar, pitch black and purple, with an eerie viscous feeling.
Recording all these details in mind, Cheng Ye finally took out the Firewood Communication, taking photos of the key characteristic points one by one.
The starting point behind the earlobe, close-ups of the patterns, the overall body pattern form, and the lines spreading to the soles.
Entering four precise pictures at once is much more reliable than taking a blurry photo from afar.
But after several seconds of flickering screen, it only displayed a blank page.
No matching results?
Cheng Ye’s heart sank suddenly, was the search too precise, or…
Unwilling to give up, he tried deleting several detail pictures, leaving only one “general pattern” to search again.
This time it finally showed seven entries, but upon comparison, none matched, at most showing only thirty percent similarity, with mismatched pattern rotation direction, depth of color, and even the “starting point” position different from the entries.
Is it truly an unknown infection source?
Cheng Ye felt a jolt in his heart, raising his eyes to meet Luokuke’s gaze again, also catching a glimpse of Garcia’s pale face, slightly trembling shoulders.
Without changing expression, he put his phone away, yet his whole body was trembling uncontrollably.
Damn, everything is coming together?
The known Ghost Water Cave Crab is mysterious in parasitic methods, but at least infection tracing is possible.
Infected patrol members are most likely infected by touching water while fetching or carrying water, contracting the Poison Water Crystal in the water, parasitized by the infection source.
Moreover, the detection and removal method for Ghost Water Cave Crab are clear and straightforward, as long as it is discovered timely like now without exceeding the parasitic time, it poses less threat than the Green Treasure Worm.
But now an unknown infection source suddenly popped up, mixed up with the Ghost Water Cave Crab…
Cheng Ye dared not ponder deeply, fearing that this unknown infection source could have a destructive chain mechanism like “exploding when encountering water shortage” or “activating with high temperature,” which would be catastrophic to the current situation, potentially leaving most people here trapped in Dapo Town.