153 The First and Final Night at the Settlement - Before Midnigh (1/2)
Day 5 – 6:22 PM – 4th Grade Building, Queens Row Elementary School, Bacoor City, Cavite
As Mark's pervious sentence entered everyone's ears, everyone looking at the innocent girl who knew her story had awful expressions on their faces. Mark had just mentioned about one condition that allow people to become Evolvers and that was ”Limits”. Just how much pain did this girl suffered from to get this kind of ability? None of them could imagine.
”Are you sure about that? Is it not just a case of Cognitive Insensitivity to Pain, Hypoalgesia or Pain Asymbolia?”
Melissa asked as while mentioning several terms that all the others could not help but raise their eyebrows to.
'What in the world does those terms mean?'
As common people, it was not surprising for them to not encounter these terms before.
To Melissa's question, Mark did not get stumped. Rather, Mark nodded to her show of intelligence in her field.
”Actually, I can't deny that.”
Mark admitted.
”There's a lot of examination needed to confirm that after all. Pain Asymbolia can be counted out however as cause since Pain Asymbolia is a condition that can be acquired after suffering a brain injury. However…”
Mark tapped his chin.
”Since she received my regeneration ability, won't that injury also heal if she ever had one? The other two conditions can be the cause but it needed a lot of study to prove. However that it is odd if she had any of those conditions considering she started to show such ability after her Evolution. If you remember, the Mutagen can enhance our bodies and it was even the government that released that fact. It will be strange if she developed negative conditions when her body is supposed to be enhanced.”
Melissa started to contemplate about Mark had just said. Although she had a point in her assumption, Mark also had his own points.
In the end, there was a huge reason to study and observe the girl's current condition.
Seeing that Melissa turned quiet, he swept his head back to the others who seemed to have no idea what he and Melissa were talking about.
”Well, though there is still a need to study it more, I think that using my blood on this girl only helped her accelerate her own enhancement and acquire my ability. I already said it but the Evolution in each individual could vary in speed. Like these two.”Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.
Mark pointed his open palm on Odelina's children.
”Even though they are siblings and also had the same ability, the time they overcame the symptoms of Evolution differed. If I remember correctly, Odette woke up about two hours before Siegfried followed. In that case, we don't know if there really are people who would never evolve or it's just that their Evolution are slower than others.”
He then turned to Carlo.
”Also, even if I have the ability to turn anyone into Evolvers, I needed an item to stimulate the Evolution.”
”What item?”
Carlo asked.
”This.”
Mark took out a soft handkerchief from his bag revealing the marble sized pale violet crystal with a flesh colored glow inside. After he finished eating and before he went out of the vehicle, he took this crystal out from the jar. As the only odd crystal and something that he knew that could help with evolving people, he brought it out in case that he would have the chance to use it.
Seeing that crystal, the newcomers were confused once more but the others looked at the crystal with wide eyes.
”Big Bro, that crystal, it looked like that pale colored one before right? It's just this one had a glowing orb inside it.”
Charmaine who was quiet all this time spoke as she was the closest person to observe the crystal on Mark's hand.
”That's right, this is a new one. The previous crystal without glow, I used it to try on this girl. It was the one used to trigger the Mutagen in her body.”
Mark rolled the crystal in his hand and continued.
”This one is different though since I don't know yet what effect this one could give. The crystal I used on that girl didn't have this glow. I found a way to create crystals like these but I don't think that it will be easy to gather the materials needed.”
”And the materials are?”
Melissa who seemed to be enthusiastic about the topic since the beginning asked once more.
”Some kind of pebbles that can be found inside the brain of mutated infected.”
***
The talk did not take too long after that and the talk about Mutators after the Evolvers did not take any longer than the first topic due to the limited amount of things he could divulge to them. It was not like he could mention about the traits and emotion that were ruling the Mutators' consciousness affecting their habits, behavior and thinking. If he were to mention that, he would need to disclose his ability as an Empath to everyone.
His abilities as an Empath right now was the most crucial secret he had due to the existence of Mutators and he could not allow just anyone to know about it. He would just let the others think that his glowing eyes at times were the effect of an ability he received for being an Evolver. It was the same for his ability to control his emotional impulses and adrenaline.
However, he needed to talk to Mei and Odelina about something later. Something about his other ability and what could happen in the future.
***
It did not take long and they started to eat after the discussion. The menu was some hot rice gruel topped with seasoning, canned meat and canned mushrooms.