Chapter 721 - The Meeting in the Principals Office, The Ability to See Mutagen and Differentiate Its Hosts (2/2)

The whole room fell silent. On the topic of measuring an Evolver or Mutator's ability, none of the people here would be reliable besides Doctor Janice.

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Doctor Janice's ability as a Mutator might be useless in direct combat. However, it was an extremely reliable ability not only to detect Mutators, Evolvers, and the Infected. Her ability could also determine the weakness of an Infected, allowing the fighters to end the threat sooner.

When Doctor Janice activates her ability, she was able to see the concentration of Mutagen in the surroundings. It included animals, plants, people, and even some non-living things.

She could see Mutagen as glowing dust of different colors with her eyes.

In her eyes, Mutagen follows a certain pattern inside a subject's body. When she gazed towards an infected, she would see their bodies filled with clumped-up gray-colored dust. These clumps of dust were erratically moving inside the bodies of the infected. These erratic and random movements differentiated the Infected from non-infected creatures, Evolvers, and Mutators.

Unlike the infected, Evolvers had a tamer movement of Mutagen in their bodies. The concentration of Mutagen would be focused on their enhanced body parts. People with faster running speed would have more Mutagen in their legs, while heavy punchers would have more in their arms. Unlike the infected with gray-colored erratic-moving Mutagen, the Mutagen inside an Evolver's body flowed like blood inside their veins and was flesh-colored. When an Evolver activated their abilities, the Mutagen would flow faster.

Mutators, on the other hand, had a thicker concentration of Mutagen in their mutated body parts. It allowed Doctor Janice to speculate the Mutator's ability before even knowing it. Depending on the Mutator and mutation, the Mutagen's pattern in their bodies would be different.

A good example was when Doctor Janice looked at Officer Emilio with her ability. The Mutagen inside the officer's body was concentrated on his skin and had a brownish color. Furthermore, instead of a fluid-like movement, the Mutagen on his skin moved slowly. Once Officer Emilio activated his ability, the Mutagen would stick together and clump up all over his skin. It was a fascinating sight watching the Mutagen forming what seemed to be a solid wall.

Last were non-infected beings. Everyone had Mutagen inside their bodies, and non-infected humans were an example. Non-infected creatures had a sparse amount of Mutagen in their bodies. Furthermore, they moved like colloids in the air, random but not erratic. It seemed to be in something like a dormant state as there was also no glow coming from Mutage in non-infected individuals.

The ability that Doctor Janice had was an interesting and helpful one.

However, her ability also allowed her to see that the Mutators and Evolvers were not exactly perfect. If she was to ask as to how to describe it, it was like transplanting an organ to another person. The transplant might be successful, but rejection could appear and affect the patient. Mutagen was the same.

From what she saw, although the Mutagen formed patterns inside a person's body, it was never perfect. Putting Officer Emilio as an example once more, the Mutagen concentrated on his skin moved slowly as if it experiencing some friction. Furthermore, when a particle collided with each other, both would be thrown in different directions, stopping the pattern temporarily. It was the same with others and was bound to happen from time to time.

In fact, Doctor Janice had never seen anyone that had Mutagen flowing smoothly inside their bodies that it created a perfect pattern.

Well, she never saw one until today.

It was when she saw the leader of the group that arrived earlier, Mark.

Doctor Janice saw that inside Mark's body, there were four concentrations of Mutagen.

So far, Doctor Janice only saw people with two different kinds of Mutagen concentration inside their bodies. After all, there were people that were Evolvers first before becoming Mutators. When they became Mutators, their abilities as Evolvers never disappeared, making them stronger than Mutators, who were just regular humans before getting bitten.

Mark, however, had one concentration of an Evolver ability and three concentrations of Mutagen, indicating three Mutator Abilities.

It was extremely shocking for her.

The Evolver concentration on Mark's body was on his flesh, all over his body. Doctor Janice could not exactly guess what it was since it could be an enhancing ability or it could also be a regenerative one. Strangely, however, was how active the Mutagen in his flesh. Although they did not have a bright glow as a Mutator's concentration, the glowing dust was rapidly flowing inside the fibers of Mark's flesh.

On the other hand, the three Mutator abilities were distributed differently. One was on his blood, while the other was on his bones. The last one was strange as it was actually all over his whole body. What allowed Doctor Janice to differentiate the four concentrations was their color.

The Mutagen in his blood was colored reddish black. On his bones, it was also reddish-black but had a brighter color of red. On the other hand, the last concentration strangely had no color. Furthermore, the last concentration gave the doctor a feeling that it was ready to accept other colors anytime but would not change into it. Instead, it would make the color it absorbed transparent too.

It was strange.

The strangest thing, however, was all those four Mutagen concentrations did not display any sign of collision and were in perfect harmony. And to say, it looked beautiful as the patterns flowed naturally without any disturbance.

As for the beautiful girl and the children, they were different from Mark. The patterns in their bodies had some interruptions.

Nonetheless, she could not ignore the fact that the beautiful girl not only had an Evolver concentration but also two Mutator concentrations in her body.

The two girls, the green-haired one and the second youngest girl, were definitely Mutators. However, their Mutagen concentration was too thick that it made any Mutator in this school pale in comparison.

Next was the second oldest girl. Unexpectedly, she was just an Evolver. However, the concentration on Mutagen in her body was even more than a regular Mutator, making it safe to treat her like one. Furthermore, she shared the same pattern as the Evolver concentration on their leader. It was as if she inherited it from him.

Lastly, among the four girls, the youngest was the strangest. Mutator? It was possible but Doctor Janice could not properly tell. Why? It was because the Mutagen concentration on her body was the thickest among the group. Her whole body was covered with Mutagen. She might as well become an embodiment of Mutagen at this point.

Unfortunately, there was no way for Doctor Janice to tell without asking directly.

***

Doctor Janice explained some points of her observation, leaving unconfirmed details behind. As she told everyone that Mark alone might be able to kill everyone in this place, they felt stifled. There was no way that she would joke about this.

”You all hear me, right?” Doctor Janice continued. ”Do not provoke them if you all wanted to continue living.”

”You all heard her.” Officer Emilio supported the doctor. ”Besides, their group could also be our ticket to continue on our journey to Bantayan.”

”Our ticket?”

Denver asked the question that was in the mind of everyone inside this room.

”Apparently, their goal here was that town that blocked us from continuing on. Those Tamawo bastards that occupied the town and blocked the road.”

Officer Emilio explained.

Hearing that, everyone's expression changed. If they were really their ticket out of this place, they would be glad not to offend them in the slightest.