Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

The chef wailed and claimed that they checked the ingredients every night and he was sure that they were normal last night.

He then provided Coyote Twelve with the test certificates and the origins of each item of food. Each item had undergone layer-by-layer inspection and was confirmed to be reasonable and compliant. Only after being confirmed to be foolproof were they airlifted to the Gear Hotel.

And to take a step back, even if someone was lazy in the food testing process, these top chefs in the universe, no matter how stupid they are, would not put metal products into the pot to cook without knowing it.

The restaurant adopts a buffet model, and the dishes at each counter are cooked on the spot to avoid mistakes as much as possible.

"Are you trying to tell me that the director replaced the lamb chops with metal after picking up the food, and thus caused his front teeth to fall off?"

Coyote Twelve shouted.

"Yes...oh, no, I mean there's something strange about this batch of food."

The chef answered timidly. In fact, he had also ruled out the possibility that the directors were playing tricks - these metalized foods appeared in the restaurant's food area, which was strictly controlled by the hotel staff and outsiders could not enter at all.

Just as the two were staring at each other, another security guard came running over in a hurry.

"Fuck, you better not tell me there's another complaint."

Coyote Twelve cursed.

The security guard said nothing and could only nod innocently.

"Tell them I'm already dealing with the restaurant's problems."

"Not a restaurant."

"What's that?"

This wasn't the first time that Coyote Twelve had been in charge of security for a large conference, but the summit on Jiqiao Star was full of events, both big and small, which made it impossible for him to just drink and pick up girls at night and catch up on sleep during the day like he had done in the past.

"It's the director's pet dog..."

The security guard hesitated to speak.

"Pet dog, what's wrong with a pet dog?"

"It turned into a statue."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 259 Curse of Flesh and Blood

No one may believe it, but Coyote Twelve was attacked by a dog.

The dog that had turned into a statue was still alive. When he approached the statue, the dog suddenly pounced on him and bit his thigh viciously with its steel teeth.

He could have shot the dog in the head in an instant, but considering that it was the pet dog of a summit director and too many bad things had happened today, Coyote Twelve did not draw his gun. Instead, he pressed the vicious dog that had bitten several holes in his thigh to the ground. However, the dog's strength was incredibly great, causing Coyote Twelve to wonder whether it was a pet dog or a large beast from the "Cocoon" planet.

You have to know that his entire body has been mechanized, and even the metal that bullets cannot penetrate was easily bitten by the pet dog, leaving a row of teeth marks. He had to use all his strength to barely contain the counterattack of the mechanical dog.

This made Coyote Twelve feel frightened.

Fortunately, the congressman realized that something was wrong in the room and informed the security personnel in time. Otherwise, if it was the director himself who was attacked, they would probably have received a corpse that had been bitten beyond recognition.

That would also be a serious dereliction of duty on his part. So far, there has never been a case of a director dying at any summit.

At this point, Coyote Twelve realized the seriousness of the matter and had to believe the restaurant chef's seemingly absurd excuse - the stored ingredients had turned themselves into metal.

Just like this dog.

Coyote Twelve had some impression of the vicious dog that kept barking at him. After all, there were not many directors who brought their pet dogs to attend the summit. At the Gear Hotel, dogs needed to undergo much stricter security checks than humans. The last time he saw this pet dog was in the lobby on the first floor.

At that time, he was communicating with the bionic waitress, and the director passed by him from behind holding a docile golden retriever.

Coyote Twelve and the dog stared at each other for a moment, and the dog stuck out its tongue at him and wagged its tail happily.

On the other side, Owl, a reporter from the Peace Dove Newspaper, was also attacked.

He was waiting in the room provided by the townspeople, humming a little tune and inputting everything he had learned about the Mechanical Planet into the tablet computer he carried with him. These were all extremely valuable news materials, revealing that this was a planet full of disasters and worthy of being "liberated".

The Queen of the Mechanical Planet inhumanely launched a weapon called the "Golden Hourglass", destroying the surface of the planet. Every year, a large number of Mechanical Planet people die from drought and famine.

Just like the planets covered by the United Front, the Mechanical Planet is in urgent need of someone to bring about change.

Coincidentally, Duan Mingyuan, who was regarded as the spiritual leader of the United Front, arrived on this planet with the Blue Star delegation.

It's just like... fate.

Yes, destiny.

Owl's eyes lit up. He liked this feeling of being destined, as if there was some higher-level will that bestowed the mission on a certain group of people.

This word is often associated with heroes or tyrants, and he knows that readers of the Peace Dove Newspaper also like this kind of narrative.

Owl had a feeling that what he saw and heard on the Planet Mechanical would become the hottest news in the universe for a long time to come.

Just as he was immersed in a strong sense of accomplishment, someone knocked on his door.

When he came to his senses, there seemed to be some commotion outside the room.

Could it be that the pirates from Oasis are attacking again?

With such doubts, the owl opened the door.

Seeing the woman at the door, he felt much more at ease. Not long ago, he had shared food and drinking water on the spacecraft with these people and spent a wonderful afternoon with them. The woman had a ten-year-old child at home who was very interested in learning about the universe, so he also gave the child a few postcards from the newspaper.

Seeing the child's delighted look, the owl was also encouraged.

"anything?"

he asked.

What responded to him was a cold, mechanical synthesized voice.

——"If you find someone abnormal, start treatment measures."

But from the woman's ferocious appearance, it was not obvious that she was trying to cure the disease and save people. Her body, which was too thin due to years of malnutrition, became extremely agile. When the owl reacted, the woman's hands had already clamped his arm tightly.

The people outside the room heard the noise and gathered around.

The target was naturally him, the outsider.

Owl also saw a ten-year-old child in the crowd. Not long ago, the child looked at him with admiration, but now there was only coldness and hostility in his eyes.

He also observed the woman's nails, which did not appear to be made of human structure but of some kind of metal.

And her palms, without the warmth of human body, were cold and hard.

Owl struggled to break free from the woman's grip. He could only be thankful that he was an interstellar mercenary before becoming a reporter. Even so, the woman's nails still cut a gash on his arm.

He ran to the desk, grabbed the laptop, broke the window, and jumped from the second floor of the earthwork.

The shock of landing startled him - the ground under his feet was not soft sand, but metal, and his knees hit the ground so painfully that he almost cried.

But the owl had no time to hesitate and limped towards the aircraft parked near the town.

He heard footsteps behind him. The townspeople didn't want to let him go, so they all chased after him.

Something has definitely happened to this town!

Escape to the aircraft desperately and close the hatch.

When the aircraft catapulted into the air, leaving the entire town far behind, Owl's tense nerves finally relaxed. After the adrenaline subsided, the pain and itchiness in the places torn by the woman's nails were particularly obvious.

Owl immediately took out the first aid kit from the aircraft. However, when he was about to give emergency treatment to the wound, he found that the wound had "scabbed" in the less than five minutes of his escape - the bleeding had stopped and a thin metal film came into view.

The strange feeling continued, his right hand became heavy and stiff, and the five fingers of his injured right hand gradually became uncontrollable.

This is……

infectious disease?

Owl had a bad feeling in his heart, but this was the only explanation for the changes in the town.

Only an infectious disease could turn everyone in the town into what they are now in such a short period of time. It is even very likely that the residents of the town have been sick for a long time without knowing it, and the disease suddenly broke out under some opportunity.

The owl couldn't help but think of a planet he had visited before. The residents of the planet believed in the Beast God and regarded themselves as the Beast God's people. Those people usually looked no different from ordinary humans, but under a local condition called "solar radiation", their bodies would mutate and turn into humanoid monsters.

The bodies of the people on the Mechanical Planet turned into metal creations.

Must go to the Gear Hotel for help as soon as possible.

The ominous feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger. Owl knew that if he did not receive treatment quickly, he would most likely become a monster like the residents of the town.

The journey seemed particularly long. He looked outside the aircraft, trying to distract himself, but the discovery he made made Owl shudder.

——It’s not just the residents of the town that are changing, the surface of the planet is also changing.

The endless desert is being replaced by metal, and the beasts hiding under the desert are also in civil strife.

The owl witnessed the fighting among the sand-eating beasts. Those that died in the battle stood up soon after. They had harder metal shells that reflected dazzling light in the afterglow of the setting sun. Not long after, this tribe reached unity.

Before dark, the owl arrived at the location marked on the map.

He landed the aircraft and crashed straight into the desert, which had not yet been completely metalized.

The aircraft crashed into the desert and created a hole. The broken part was quickly refilled and metal finally filled all the gaps.

And the other side of the planet also seems to be in turmoil.

The whole city was filled with smoke and the wreckage of crashed aircraft could be seen everywhere. The ruined city looked like it had just experienced a war.

When Owl's aircraft landed on the roof of the Gear Hotel, the injured arm had completely healed.

That was no longer his original body, but a metal arm that looked no different from those people who had lost their limbs on the battlefield and had to use prosthetic limbs instead.

What frightened Owl even more was that when he stared at his metal arm, the thought suddenly came to his mind: "Maybe this is not a bad thing."

Something had invaded his brain, trying to implant thoughts into it that did not belong to him.

The inside of the Gear Hotel had long been in chaos, and the security personnel were trying their best to maintain order. From the staff, Owl learned the name of the disease - Curse of Flesh and Blood.

The cause is unknown. People who suffer from this disease will gradually turn their bodies into machines and their human consciousness will disappear.

They will be extremely aggressive towards other groups, calling them "abnormals". Once they are injured by the sick, they will be injected with the virus and the injured parts will quickly turn into metal and machinery.

Many summit directors and their entourages have already been infected.

They were attacked by mutants of mosquitoes, insects that had become more aggressive after being transformed by the curse of flesh and blood.

And in the lobby of the Gear Hotel, Owl saw one of the most seriously injured people.

Except for the head, all other parts of the man's body were turned into metal. Even so, he did not retreat at all. The security chief of the Gear Hotel was still on the front line.

This encouraged Owl.

"I'm a reporter for the Peace Dove Newspaper. I used to be an interstellar mercenary. Is there anything I can do to help you?"

He took the initiative to walk towards the security chief. In the eyes of Owl, the other party was an example of a person with a strong will despite being disabled.

"Coyote Twelve."

The security chief said, "Your hand is injured, go to quarantine first."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 260 The Night Before

In the Gear Hotel, patients and injured people can be seen everywhere.

People were speechless, as if the end of the world was approaching.

The planet is becoming "cocooned". This is the news that the summit directors learned from the injured Mechanical Star nobles. According to the prophecy, Mechanical Star will be destroyed by the plague of the curse of flesh and blood, and all living things on the planet will be transformed into machines, and no human will survive.

The owl also learned that the queen had passed away and no one could stop the spread of the plague.

The worse news is that the road leading outside the Mechanical Throne was blocked due to the "cocooning" process, which was also the reason for the large-scale crash of flying equipment. Only a few nobles rushed out of the royal court before the road was blocked.

Despair spread quietly, and the owl picked up the camera and recorded everything he saw.

This is undoubtedly quite valuable news material.

The premise is that they can leave this planet alive.

But before that, every "cocooning" process was accompanied by countless deaths and injuries, and no one had ever been able to stop the "cocooning" process.

The Church of Embers is not good enough, the Universal Company is not good enough, and the Flash Flag Chamber of Commerce is not good enough either.

All struggles ended in failure, and being able to leave the planet on a spaceship is the best outcome.

However, the situation of the Mechanical Royal Court is special. They are located in a "mirage". The energy of the "mirage" has protected them from the invasion of space pirates and adventurers, but now it has become an obstacle for them to escape to the outside world.

Everything that came into view looked like the planet's revenge on humanity.