The Witch's Taste

"The nuclear balance has been broken." Chen Ziang replied, "The side that loses nuclear weapons is equivalent to losing its ability to protect itself, which will inevitably lead to an unscrupulous nuclear strike from the other side."

"Suzuna, actually I have noticed that in the Aegelaos sector, the Baht Group and other elven chaebols seem to maintain a fragile balance. Once this balance is broken, it will inevitably bring extremely serious consequences. Serious conflict consequences.”

"But the real problem is that now the balance has been tipped... you understand?"

Tsukimiya Suzuna was dumbfounded for a moment, then suddenly realized, she smiled and said:

"Yes, senior reminded me. No matter how worried I am, there will be no way to restore the balance after Bakht activates the gospel."

"No matter what the 'nuclear weapons' of other elf chaebols are, it was Bakht who activated the 'nuclear weapons' first, so it is only natural to stop them, right?"

"Yes." Chen Zi'ang sighed and said, "And one more thing, Gao Tianyuan was destroyed because of this."

"The operation of the equipment here seems to require a large amount of blood ore as energy, and the artificial mining output of Gao Tianyuan cannot meet the requirements of the Bakht Group, so..."

"A common man is not guilty, he only possesses a treasure." Suzuna Tsukimiya was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "Even if we consider revenge, we still have reasonable and legitimate motives."

"In this case, it should be left to us."

She said in a relieved tone, and the shadow under her body suddenly lengthened, extending rapidly in all directions.

In only about five or six seconds, these shadows extended to nearly a hundred meters, and then began to turn and penetrate underground.

There was a dull whimpering sound under his feet, as if being eroded, and accompanied by constant shuddering like the prelude to an earthquake, Chen Ziang also noticed something was wrong and asked:

"What power did you use?"

This kind of power that is elicited but does not reveal itself, but implies a terrifying power, can only be said to be a witch.If she faced the so-called "templar warrior" from before, she should be able to make him disappear with one big move, right?

"It's a girl's secret." Tsukimiya Suzuna said with a smile, "However, if senior must ask, I can't explain it to you in detail~"

"Forget it, I'm just asking casually." Chen Ziang waved his hand and said.

As soon as he finished speaking, the shadow beneath his feet suddenly collapsed.

To be precise, after these shadows completely covered nearly a thousand cubic spaces underground, they suddenly produced huge pressure like a black hole.

Concrete, steel bars, metal shells and components of instruments, various pipelines, furniture, tables and chairs, as well as technicians, soldiers, automated weapons, military bunkers and micro-fortresses stationed inside, all materials with physical form and quality are all here. Under astronomical pressure like a black hole, it was forcibly collapsed into a point.

Chen Ziang, who lost support under his feet, fell unexpectedly, but Tsukimiya Suzuna just dodged through and caught his body from below, with a little devil-like smile that succeeded in mischief:

"It's done, senior. Let's go back!"

The figures of the two disappeared into the underground space, leaving only the compressed mass point, spinning crazily at an astonishing high speed that could not be captured by the naked eye.

Then, as if it lost control, a large amount of atomic clouds were thrown out again.

325. Chapter 324 Barr Group’s Counterattack

With the destruction of the underground outpost, the signal tracking the target was completely silenced, and cheers rang out in the network engineering station.

For network hackers, it is quite satisfying to finally catch the enemy target that they have worked overtime and track down.

As for the armed forces following the clues they found and physically destroying the opponent along the network cable, that would be a cool story at a higher level - this gives hackers the illusion and pleasure of "I can also control life and death." .

The confirmation results from the hackers were quickly reported to the Barr Group's board of directors.

"Bakht's 'studio' has been destroyed and the gospel plans will be put on hold for a short time."

"However, the Bakht family must have backup means, and the time for restarting the gospel is still unknown. They must race against time to complete early counterattacks."

"Where are the starship humans? Do you want to inform me in advance?"

"Let Abraham communicate and avoid quarrels for the time being."

"As long as we can be the first, Aegelaos...will be ours."

Back at the concert, as the studio was completely destroyed by Suzuna Tsukinomiya's "Black Hole" move, Xia Zili was finally able to sing on stage.

"Actually, I feel that her singing skills are obviously better than those of other singers." Looking at Xia Zili singing heartily on the stage, Chen Ziang sighed, "But the popularity on the spot is completely different."

"Of course, she has never gained popularity in the Federation after all." Tsukimiya Suzuna said matter-of-factly, "Modern entertainment industry relies on three-thirds of popularity and seven-tenths of publicity. A star without publicity is nothing."

"When we were in Gao Tianyuan, there was that bitch... Xia Qingyu who paved the way for her. The Federation doesn't care whether she sings well or not. A singer without commercial value is nothing."

"That's right." Abraham suddenly came over from nowhere and agreed seriously, "In the federal entertainment circle, there are talented singers with singing skills everywhere, but those who really have a chance to become popular are those who stand behind them. Those who hold capital."

"However, Miss Kiritani Maki's treble skills are indeed amazing, even in today's federal music scene, she can be ranked high. I guess the Hurley brothers will soon be attracted by her talent, offer a big price and sign a contract. I’ll send it to you.”

"Hurley Brothers Entertainment Media." Tsukimiya Suzuna explained from the side, "The federal media industry monopoly giant is also one of the eight major chaebols."

"If there is a chance to sign a contract, it still depends on her own wishes." Chen Ziang said with a smile, "We will not interfere with her wishes."

"Haha." In fact, Abraham had already obtained the information and knew about the "close relationship" between Xia Zili and Mr. Chen, but he wisely did not say more, but brought up the topic and said, "By the way, recently The Japanese encephalitis virus is on the trend again, and this is our Baal Group’s special drug. Taking it regularly can have a good preventive effect.”

"Oh, thank you." Chen Ziang was a little confused, but he still took the medicine box provided by Abraham and thanked him sincerely.

After Abraham left, he silently took out his mobile phone and started searching for "Japanese encephalitis":

Japanese encephalitis is a virus transmitted through mosquito bites. Infected persons may have obvious neurological symptoms after the incubation period (mostly adolescents under 10 years old), including but not limited to obvious disturbance of consciousness, lethargy, and lethargy. Even coma.

"Suzuna." Chen Ziang asked slowly, "I remember you mentioned before that the Barr Group...has done any experiments related to mosquitoes?"

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The charity concert ended successfully, and there was no large-scale conversion of believers. It seems that the conspiracy of the Bakht Group was indeed foiled.

On the Forever starship, 60% of the energy replenishment has been completed, and the remaining material supplies are also more than [-]% complete. In about half a month, it will be fully loaded and the voyage to the sea of ​​​​stars can be restarted.

At the same time, there is also an uneasy trend among the starship humans - more and more people hope that the starship can open up access to Aegelaos.

Not all of these people want to immigrate to the Federation, but mainly because they can't stand the boring and boring starship living environment.

At present, the preliminary economic structure within the starship has been established. Many cabins have been converted into various stores. Warehousing materials are distributed and sold through these stores, but the daily sales quota is still limited... plus It has been some time since the destruction of Takamagahara. After the pain deep in the hearts of the people has initially healed, they will naturally miss the carefree days of the past when "as long as you have money, you can buy anything."

Instead of the hard life now where even toilet paper has a daily purchase limit.

Yuki Izumo has been maintaining order, driving radical and troublesome guys out of the ship and exiled to the Aegelaos star port.This matter seems to have spread among certain small groups in the ship recently, so much so that many people have started to deliberately cause trouble in order to leave the starship and go to the Federation as soon as possible.

"So there is something wrong with your policy." Suzuna Tsukimiya sneered. "Instead of killing the troublemakers, we sent them to the Federation. Isn't this encouraging the people to rebel?"

"I never expected you to understand the intention of this, but even if you know nothing about this, can you shut up to hide your weakness?" Xia Qingyu, who left the starship and returned home, sat on the sofa and drank slowly. Taking a sip of tea, he said sarcastically, "Can you please check your poor cerebral cortex for a moment before making an evaluation?"

"If these people are killed, the news will definitely not be sealed." Chen Ziang thought, "It will also cause greater public resentment."

"In comparison, exile is indeed a solution with less negative effects in the short term... But the premise is that it must be short-term, right, Qingyu?"

"Tsk, tsk." Xia Qingyu looked at Suzuna Tsukinomiya, her eyes full of teasing and ridicule, "Do you understand? If you still don't understand at this level, I suggest you go to the hospital to check whether you have encephalitis."

"Speaking of encephalitis," Chen Ziang said seriously, "On the day of the concert, Abraham from the Barr Group gave me a box of medicine, saying it could prevent Japanese encephalitis, which has recently become popular."

"But we collected intelligence later." Xia Zili took out the dishes from the kitchen, "There are indeed records of Japanese encephalitis in the Aegelaos sector, but there has never been a large-scale epidemic history, and this This pathogen is not very pathogenic to adults, and is mostly an asymptomatic latent infection. Only teenagers under 10 years old are susceptible to the disease. There are also corresponding vaccines for infants and young children to solve this problem."

"Have you checked the recent population trends of mosquitoes in urban areas?" Xia Qingyu said suddenly.

"Can this be checked?" Tsukimiya Suzuna raised an eyebrow and asked, "Who would be so bored as to count the number of mosquitoes in the city?"

"Aegelaos Urban Community Mosquito Control Project." Xia Qingyu said leisurely.

Chen Ziang immediately used this as a keyword and quickly searched on the Internet.

In the end, I really found the corresponding information in the private forum: It turned out to be an urban improvement plan that has been implemented for nearly 150 years. The name seems to cost a lot. In fact, it only builds ultraviolet mosquito killer lamps at designated points in the community, and then arranges for regular cleaning. Just maintenance.

The post was made by a community property manager, complaining that the number of mosquitoes has increased dramatically recently, and now the mosquito killer lamp needs to be cleaned three times a night, otherwise the entire lampshade will be blocked.

The time was three days ago.

"There are so many mosquitoes that they would block the lampshade..." Chen Ziang pondered.

Thinking of Japanese encephalitis, which is transmitted through mosquitoes, and the drugs Abraham provided in advance, he had an extremely bad premonition.

326. Chapter 325 Plague Walker

Chen Ziang was sitting on the sofa watching TV, and the window next to him had been screened.

A mosquito is crawling outside the screen window, slowly combing its mouthparts with its two front legs, like a murderer slowly wiping the blade of the murderer.

Recently, mutant Japanese encephalitis has begun to spread in major urban areas. Patients with the disease will develop fever, drowsiness, and even coma within 5-7 days.The mortality rate of severe patients is as high as 70%, and even if they are cured, they will leave lifelong sequelae of epilepsy.

There are currently no treatment drugs, only preventive drugs - the "oral monoclonal antibody" developed by the Barr Group, which can immunize against variant Japanese encephalitis infection after taking it, but it must be taken every half a month.

The original price of the drug is quite expensive, but the Barr Group "takes into account the health needs of the public" and is willing to cooperate with many companies on the market to sell drugs in bulk at more favorable prices.

At this point, the entire conspiracy has completely surfaced:

Mosquitoes flying all over the sky have turned into micro-killers that take human lives. The only one who has the means to save lives is the Barr Group.All forces in the Aegelaos sector must maintain friendly relations with the Baal Group, otherwise they will not be able to get medicines and will only die miserably from repeated infections and pain.

No one dares to trace the origin of the mutant Japanese encephalitis, and no one dares to ask "why the Barr Group came up with preventive drugs so quickly." Even if it is figured out, what can it do?You don't take medicine anymore?

The local branches of the chaebols have reached an agreement with the Barr Group and received a stable supply of drugs in batches; as for small and medium-sized enterprises and civilians, they can only rely on rush buying and "relationships" to do their own thing... So some people began to try to escape Aijiraou However, the surrounding star areas that received the news have already closed the routes to Aegelaos in advance, for fear that the Baal Group would take the opportunity to transport these mosquitoes.

Under such circumstances, Ms. Jiang Ying, the president of the local Human Mutual Aid Association, finally couldn't sit still and chose to pay a visit.

"Now the general trend of Japanese encephalitis epidemic is irreversible, and there are still more than three months until winter. Before then, the medicines of the Barr Group are our only means of life-saving." After sitting down on the sofa, Jiang Ying did not waste time. He spoke quickly, "But the price of the medicine is too expensive, and even if we survive this year, the disease may come back next year."

"Ms. Jiang Ying, there are no outsiders here, you might as well speak more clearly." Chen Ziang said calmly, "Is there anyone who wants to immigrate to our starship?"

With external shipping routes completely cut off and no way to escape, the human residents of Aegelaos naturally turned to the starship humans for help.

"Yes." Jiang Ying lowered her head in embarrassment.

Some time ago, when Chen Ziang told her that "Starship humans allow Aegelaos humans to immigrate," she and her group members publicly solicited immigration wishes, but the result was rejection and ridicule without exception.

The well-educated members politely declined on the grounds of "I don't plan to give up my career here," while the uneducated members simply said bluntly, "According to the refugees who came for exchange, the starship has difficulty supplying even basic vegetables and meat. , who would abandon the wealthy life in Aegelaos and go to a starship to hang out with a group of poor ghosts?"

Unexpectedly, in less than a month, the situation immediately took a turn for the worse.

The developed and wealthy Aegelaos sector immediately became a dangerous place for everyone to escape due to the rampant mosquitoes and the epidemic of Japanese encephalitis; and the starship humans who were once despised have now become the only refuge. …

So Ms. Jiang Ying was quickly found again.The guys who were originally condescending and making comments about the humans on the starship were now all groveling, and some even wanted to give her money. They just asked her to help talk to the starship to get a precious quota of immigrants.

Although these guys were arrogant and respectful, Jiang Ying felt a sense of reversal, but when she thought of bringing up this matter with Chen Ziang again, she subconsciously felt a little scared. After all, she had personally told Chen Ziang before, "Unless it's in Ai People who can’t survive on Geraos will generally not leave the planet and choose space.”

"The current situation is that there is an extra expense for purchasing drugs every month, which makes many people's financial situation worse." Jiang Ying had no choice but to choose to be honest and describe the current difficult situation, "And the Barr Group's requirements will definitely be met. It’s becoming more and more harsh. If the other party changes its policy in the future, such as reducing drug rationing for human races, what can we do then? Kneel down in front of their headquarters and beg for mercy?”

"No one wants to control their life and death in the hands of others. In comparison, starship humans are a better choice. I can apologize for the previous rudeness and offense, but..."

"Ms. Jiang Ying does not need to apologize." Chen Ziang interrupted her gently. "In the absence of Japanese encephalitis epidemic, starship humans are indeed not the best choice for immigration. We can give you a generous understanding in this regard."

"However, if you want to immigrate to a starship, you still need to go through political review. Our starship is not a passenger ship, and it is not used to transport you to other star regions, and we do not welcome those duplicitous hypocrites..."

He calmly stated a lot of restrictions, but Jiang Ying couldn't reply at all, so she could only accept them all, with an extremely humble attitude.

After Jiang Ying left silently, Tsukimiya Suzuna said with a smile:

"Senior is so proud this time. I originally thought that it would take a lot of time and energy to poach the human residents here, but I didn't expect that now they are begging us!"

"Yes." Xia Zili also breathed a sigh of relief, "In this way, Agilaos's scheduled tasks will be completed."

But she soon became sad again:

"It's just that we can successfully achieve our goal, but the price is based on the fact that Aegelaos is ravaged by disease..."

"Don't be stupid, what does this have to do with us!" Suzuna Tsukimiya said coldly, "In the end, aren't it all the elf chaebols who are causing disasters? In order to seize wealth, resources and power, these guys will do anything. Come out, you have time to sympathize with these residents, why not find a way to deal with the chaebols."

"Plague Walker." Xia Qingyu, who was playing with her mobile phone next to her, suddenly said coldly.

"What?" Chen Ziang turned around and asked.

"It's not the mosquitoes that are wreaking havoc outside." Xia Qingyu threw the phone to him, "It's the lower race of a certain god. You guys can see for yourselves."

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The Plague Walker is an abyssal god that resembles an insect.

Few people can successfully see this god, because he lives in the extremely deep abyss plane, which is full of plague, disease and death. Flesh and flesh life cannot set foot in it. Only the most senior occult scholars dare to pray to him. .

However, through forbidden séance rituals, lower races of this god can be summoned—they are also in insect form and carry a variety of pathogens.

Shortly after the concert, Xia Qingyu asked several mosquitoes to be made into samples and sent to the starship for research and confirmation. Now they have been confirmed by Rio Hokaze.

These insects are not real mosquitoes, but a lower race of Plague Walkers.They don't need blood like mosquitoes, and their bites are simply to spread diseases.

After reading the analysis conclusion given by Honokaze Rio, he also realized that the current situation was critical, which could be described as dangerous.

The Baal Group may not know the dangers of dealing with gods, but Chen Ziang knows it all too well... The mission of these lower-level races is to spread the plague. While you cooperate with them to spread the disease, you secretly distribute the antidote without telling them. , if this continues, you will definitely lose it!

We have to quickly transport the humans who want to immigrate to the starship, and then run away as soon as possible before the gods get angry!