nycdaug Chapter 741 - 579: Injecting Ten Times the Dose
Chapter 741 - 579: Injecting Ten Times the Dose
Sariel laughed triumphantly, "The Divine takes top priority. Our operations in the Five Cities revolve around the Mermaid as the core. That’s a cheerful decision made."
Sela chuckled, "Don’t be too smug. The more prominent the Mermaid becomes, the higher the risk of being targeted. The Evil God Commerce Association is the strong backup."
Gabriel suddenly realized, "That’s right, Alpha manipulated the Evil God to escape. Consuming too much power, it’s hiding, and must be finding it inconvenient. Sela, if you can find it and pull it into the association, then there will be an opportunity."
Sela retorted, "The premise is to find it first!"
Michael said, "This approach sounds good. We can prepare in this direction. We can spread information about the Evil God organization on player platforms to lure Alpha out."
Sela got excited, "Let me consolidate the foundation first..."
...
After internal coordination, Sariel could reply to the Mermaid, "Lord of the Divine Throne, the Oak Sage would certainly be very honored to cooperate."
The Mermaid was satisfied, "I always felt during those days at the hospital there seemed to be a low humming sound. I thought it was patients praying, but now it seems it might be related to the Dragon species. Perhaps you could look into that."
Sariel was suddenly stunned, hospital? Dragon species’ low-frequency sound waves? Could it be the hospital has already started secret operations to extract dragon blood?
Sariel thought of the black-robed elder seeking revenge against the hospitalized Remia’s steward, with Remia staying to keep watch. He also went to take a look and had felt some commotion in certain wards back then... Anyway, since that day, the black-robed elder never appeared again, likely a clue!
Sariel became animated, "Understood, I will prioritize the secret investigation!"
The Mermaid remembered something, "What about the two astrologers?"
Sariel immediately called for a janitor, who replied, "Lord of the Divine Throne, the two have gone to the inn."
The Mermaid laughed, "Call them over to play cards..."
Janitor: "Understood."
Sariel was indeed a bit speechless about this treasure, well then, go monitor and investigate the hospital.
...
Oak City.
The first thing Gabriel and City Beauty Liya did upon returning was to disinfect, bathe, and change clothes, then they went to the Church to visit the Guardian God. However, after meeting with the Mermaid, the Guardian God sent them off and went into seclusion, seeing no one. The Tree God was even more strictly guarded and couldn’t be seen.
From the bishops, they learned that one of the discussion topics between the Mermaid and the Guardian God was the Mermaid suggesting a citywide festival to thank her for the rescue!
Though it was straightforwardly expressed, it was quite improper etiquette, making the Guardian God displeased. What truly angered the Guardian God was that a significant part of the Mermaid’s Divine Power was absorbed by the Tree God, causing the Tree God to strongly repel, allowing the Evil God to escape. The meeting ended unpleasantly.
More troubling was, in front of all city citizens, the Evil God escaped, causing the Guardian God to face considerable skepticism and anxiety. For the recovery of the Faith God’s power, this was quite problematic!
Thus, the Guardian God was angry three times over!
However, the festival request from the Mermaid was neither confirmed to be held nor canceled. By default rules, such anger definitely means it shouldn’t happen.
But the NPC Guardian God is uncontrollable. The Mermaid gift that Sariel supported is the ally, it’s necessary to support it. Hence, Gabriel left this festival task to subordinate players to handle.
In short, Liya’s round-trip to Silver Suburbs, flying more than 400 kilometers, was exhausting, and she went back to rest.
Gabriel, however, was just getting started, taking a team of NPC medical staff to the high-security prison cell where Chun was held.
Because Chun inexplicably resurrected in the plaza instead of the prison, he gained a controversial serious crime of "prison break."
Of course, for Gabriel, there’s no need for controversy. Just use privileges to close the case and confirm the prison break.
The subordinate player guarding outside the cell reported, "Miss, he hasn’t logged on yet."
Gabriel nodded and ordered another NPC guard, "Open the cell! Conduct a physical examination on the prisoner."
Then, the medical team entered, with various instruments in use, flipping eyelids, prying mouths...
Even if Gabriel is a privilege holder, he must comply with in-game system rules, meaning he can’t freely inject Chun with various dodgy biochemical drugs in front of the NPCs—that would be blatant murder and would catastrophically harm her Sage profession reputation.
However, causing death via faulty treatment isn’t necessarily a crime. So...
Soon, the results from the instruments showed appallingly low values.
These values puzzled Gabriel, making him suspect whether Chun had an instrument affecting the detection results?
Gabriel had just finished with Dream Angel operations, itching to see inside himself, but the parasitic Sea Demon Enchanting Demon was of unknown strength, and Oak City’s Nightmare density made it inconvenient for him to move after using the Divine Artifact.
Admittedly, when developing Oak City, he hadn’t anticipated the emergence of Nightmare parasites.
But what’s more troublesome is, what if he suddenly logs on and sees her? Her status as the Supreme Princess shouldn’t be infiltrating a trash player’s space, then getting screenshotted and publicized everywhere... It’s terrifying to imagine...
Soon enough, various severe illnesses like muscle dystrophy, blindness, paralysis, etc., appeared in the results.
Then, they could apply appropriate intensive treatments.
Gabriel only needed to give the team a "correct" hint: "The patient died in the Divine War battlefield and has indicators several times weaker than ordinary people. Let’s start with conservative treatment, increasing drug doses tenfold."
The team was cooperative, "The Sage has a point."
Watching as one syringe after another, each more exaggerated than those used by veterinarians on cattle, was injected into Chun, whose body shuddered continuously, Gabriel felt quite pleased while sharing in the chat group, "Come on, everyone, have a look."
Sela laughed heartily, "You’re simply a devil!"
Sariel burst out laughing, "This is so amusing! You should’ve done this earlier."
Michael chimed in with a laugh, "Don’t forget, this is a VIP treatment arranged by City Beauty. How are you planning to explain it to her?"
Gabriel snorted disdainfully, "I’m prepared, it’s due to the Divine War battlefield, all the gods’ fault."
Michael added, "After all, he’s a Domain player. This ordinary cell isn’t suitable, once it’s done, consider moving him to the sanatorium."
Gabriel laughed, "Of course, I also need to check the sanatorium’s surveillance though..."
...
Just then, Chun, who was making up for a sleepless night, was suddenly awakened by an alert in the game.
Chun immediately got up and saw flashing red lights—Warning! You’ve been injected with excessive treatment drugs, causing an unknown reaction. You’ve triggered the Extreme Survival passive effect.
Holy Shit!?
Aileen’s angry voice came through, "Dear, that Bitch outside gave us a tenfold drug dose!"
As expected, it came!
Now Chun absolutely didn’t dare "login," but also couldn’t sit idly by, so he might as well finish building the last part of the dance floor! Create a Divine Artifact to hold up!