the last gentleman

Chapter 128 Iron Disease

【Mariano Family Mariano】

In addition to the family main house in Zion, the medium and large cities on the fourth continent basically have their family buildings or factories, and the firearms industry under their command is the main pillar of the family.

The firearms produced by Mariano are recognized by the organization, each one is a high-quality product, and can be sold at a very high price.

The family also needs to hand over a certain amount of guns that meet the quality standards to the organization every year in exchange for the family's private residence in Zion and the privilege of doing business.

In order to ensure that the gun industry can operate normally in a sick world, each gun factory is supervised by gentlemen within the family, and there are also many quasi-gentlemen who have learned gun skills to conduct round-the-clock patrols.

three days ago,
An old factory that was built in Wendell Township in the early days and is about to be shut down has a major problem.

The town of Wendell used to be a small town dependent on mines. In the early stages of development, the Mariano family opened an early factory here due to consideration of various issues of materials.

At present, some classic firearms are still being produced, which are collected by some gun lovers at high prices, and most of the workshop assembly lines have been disabled.

As the ore was mined out a year ago, the town quickly declined, and the family decided to close the old factory that had already realized its self-worth.

Just a week before the shutdown, something went wrong inside the factory. A group of ordinary family members who stayed in the town, and even a gentleman temporarily stationed in Wendell Town were killed.

Unfortunately, a groom happened to pass by the town by chance and immediately brought the situation back to Zion.

Soon, the investigation team from [Gentleman's Hall] came here to investigate and characterize the general situation of the incident, quickly organize it into a task event and bring it back to the hall, and hand it over to the newcomer gentleman to handle.

Because the incident was directly related to Mariano's factory, the staff of the Gentleman's Hall also came to the family mansion to inform the incident in person.

Edmund, who had some insights during the process of breaking his arm, took the initiative to ask to deal with the matter because his body had recovered, and at the same time called his former partner, the northern giant Dagbert.

Juliana did not participate due to physical problems.

At that time, Yi Chen was in the task evaluation period, so Edmund didn't call him.

In addition to Edmund's two-person team, there is another gentleman team participating together, which is a cooperative mission.

According to the investigation team's tests, the number of sick people in Wendell Town has exceeded double digits, and the source of death, injury and infection in the town is suspected to have reached severe sickness.

……

【Wendell Town】

Before fully entering the town, you can smell a strong smell, the smell of crude oil, industrial waste liquid, heavy metals and other by-products, and you can even taste it if you open your mouth.

The whole town was shrouded in dense fog, and black substances suspected of soot were floating around.

Factory buildings accounted for 70% of the total, and chimneys of various sizes were scattered throughout the town, all of which were products of the previous era, and most of them had been abandoned.

Currently, the entire town is deserted.

There are some strange corpses scattered on the street,
They are all humanoid but not entirely human, they have a unified feature, a large amount of metal components are mixed in the stiff flesh full of corpse spots, and even a gun barrel structure that can fire is derived.

The barrel may exist in the fingers, may exist in the eyes, may also be hidden in the mouth or even some special parts.

This kind of disease related to contemporary firearms technology does not form a large category alone, but belongs to a subcategory of "iron disease".

Also known as "iron disease - gun variant".

In the early stage of infection, individuals are extremely fond of substances containing iron (or other metal elements), and will swallow metal substances in private to satisfy their own desire to eat, and will also wear various metal products with them, the more the better.

In the middle and late stages of infection, the individual's skin will appear obvious ironization, and the gun body structure will begin to appear.

When it becomes a sick person, the basic form has already been formed, and it can pour firepower at will, and replenish bullets by swallowing and absorbing metal.

This type of sick person is quite dangerous. The iron body represents a super high defense. It is necessary to break through their iron surface to injure the core of the body.

In addition to the threat of firepower, they can also use physical contact to drain the iron element from the blood of the human body, thereby killing them quickly.

……

but,

The two gentleman squads who came here have killed all the infected and sick people in the streets of the town.

Only Mariano's factory, the source of the gun infection, remains to be finalized.

Although it is very old and belongs to the first batch of established factories, its scale is not small at all.As the firearms business continued to grow, the factory underwent several expansions.

The time came to night.

It has been more than three hours since the two teams entered it,
More than ten minutes have passed since the last shooting. During this time, there was no movement, and no one left the factory.

The internal situation was worse than expected.

The two teams were forced to separate for some reason and hid in different rooms. They did not dare to act rashly until they could think of a way to "break the game", and both teams suffered injuries to varying degrees.

【Employee Lounge-03】

Blonde Edmund and Dagbert are hiding here,
The gate was sealed with a time-sensitive seal paper,
Dagbert lay flat on the employee's table, his strong and huge body, protected by a gentleman's attire, was still wounded by bullets.

To make matters worse, the bullets left in his body were eating away at the flesh over time, leading him to death.

There are only bullet holes less than the size of a little finger on the body surface,

The bullets injected into the body are precisely placed between the organs and the main blood vessels, continuously absorbing the iron element in the body.

Seven minutes had passed since being hit by the bullet, and the bullet that grew by absorbing the iron element even reached 7 times its original size.

If it were an ordinary person, he would have died long ago, but Dagbert relied on his special physique and injections to hold on forcefully,

Surgery must now be done to remove these bullets at all costs.

As for Edmund, although he was only shot once, his condition was still not good.

He leaned against the corner of the wall, directly cut open the abdomen with a red-hot sword, and forcibly cut out the bullet embedded in the flesh and blood.

After a simple bandage, he immediately came to Dagbert's side.

The two looked at each other, nodded slightly, without any verbal communication.

Edmund immediately pressed the blade to the lower part of Dagbert's chest, preparing to open it and extract the bullets.

Snapped!There was a rattling from the window.

Edmund turned his head and found a thick branch connected to the outside, followed by something crawling along the branch, until an all-too-familiar face was attached to the window.

Creak creak~ Destroy the corners of the window through small and soft branches, and remove the window frame without making any sound.

Yi Chen followed the plants and easily climbed into the room, and at the same time, a colorful figure also jumped into it.

"William!"

Just when Edmund was surprised why Yi Chen appeared here,
The latter has quickly stuck to Dagbert's side,

Two warm and vibrant palms were stuck near the bullet holes, and the deformed and bulging bullets were removed one by one by the roots of the plants.

Not only that,

Dagbert can also feel a different kind of vitality injected into his body through the plants, like a new stream of water flowing in his body, a stream of new blood is born as a result, quickly replacing those that have been stripped of iron. Waste blood, excreted from the body.

I haven't seen you for two months.

Dagbert, who was lying on the table, felt that the former teammate in front of him seemed to have reached a higher level, and even looked a little strange.

(End of this chapter)