1059 The Riot of the Plague (1/2)
Translated by XephiZ
Edited from Aelryinth
The little Red Demon's body did not stop regenerating, but whenever Mo Fan's Essence Orb took a piece away, its aura would weaken slightly. Meanwhile, the little Red Demon started to panic when it realized the Essence Orb was what not it supposed to be. It started fleeing through the hole that Mo Fan had blasted.
Clearly, Mo Fan would not let it escape. He set up the Nyx Regime and trapped the pieces of energy with Giant Shadow Spikes.
Even though he could only absorb the pieces slowly, he was relieved that he had found the solution to the problem.
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After breaking the little Red Demon into pieces and absorbing them with the Essence Orb continuously, Mo Fan finally absorbed the final piece of the little Red Demon.
Mo Fan checked the energy inside the Essence Orb and learned it had indeed risen by a significant amount. It was definitely a piece of good news for Mo Fan!
”Brother Fan, what happened?” Zhang Xiaohou finally returned after running a whole circle to regroup with Mo Fan and the others. He was utterly clueless about the situation.
”We've dealt with the source of the plague. It turned out to be some evil energy body with its own consciousness. It's a long story; how did it go at your end?” Mo Fan asked.
”The people at the camp are rioting. It turns out that the patients are losing control of themselves,” Zhang Xiaohou said.
”That's not good to hear, were they able to keep the situation under control?”
”I doubt so, there were too many infected.”
Mo Fan's heart sank. They had found the source of the plague, and eliminated it, yet the disease had already spread rapidly. The harmful substances were still inside the bodies of the patients, and the reason they were losing their minds was because the disease was not just destroying the cells in their body, but enhancing their negative emotions too. It was why the Red Demon was such a terrifying existence!
”Lingling, have you found anything that can cure the disease?” Mo Fan asked.
In the past, they had resolved the Drowning Curse by obtaining the antibody from the Drowning Curse Maggot and created vaccines to be distributed to the cities along the shoreline, so the people would not fall victim to the Drowning Curse again.
Therefore, they should be able to find the antibody from the source of the plague, too. Mo Fan was hoping that Lingling was able to discover something.
”The maggot is a living organism, so it's reasonable to find an antibody to it. You realize that magic wasn't able to inflict any damage to the monster. It was an energy body, there was no way it would have an antibody for the disease,” Lingling said.
”If the source of the disease isn't a living organism, but an energy body, how could it turn into a plague?” Fiona was a probationary servant of the Hall of the Goddess. She would know some basics about a plague.
”I was curious before too. Why aren't the normal methods of stopping a disease useful against this one? Not only that, the disease actually spreads a lot faster than it did at the start. I believe the disease doesn't come from their bodies, but from their hearts. Strictly speaking, it's like an infection conducted by the Psychic Element. Every person will have negative emotions just like the prisoners here, and these negative emotions will surface and be enhanced by the monster's power. It explains why the symptoms that the patients first showed resembled common flu, but it has now turned into a huge riot… it was a kind of mental disorder, one that spread through emotions shared between people instead of the air, or food!” Lingling said.
”Is there really a disease like that in this world?” Zhang Xiaohou dropped his jaw in disbelief.
”An existence like that shouldn't be invulnerable to magic. It could be grouped into the Psychic Element, but once the evil presence grows to a certain degree, even the power of the Psychic Element would be useless, since the Psychic Element doesn't really have any strong offensive spells naturally,” Lingling said.
”Enough talk, there's a riot happening in the quarantine zone, we've basically failed our mission. The Great Muse is surely going to scold the crap out of us,” Fiona said.
”Humph, if the situation escalates further, even they would have to take responsibility for it, since they didn't send someone that was higher-ranked in the first place, and purposely sent you two here to set you up!” Mo Fan harrumphed coldly. The Parthenon Temple was far from being as sacred and holy as everyone thought!
”If it's related to the Psychic Element, I can try pacifying the people,” Xinxia said.
Lingling shook her head and said, ”The negative energy has been spread to too many people. Even if you're a Super Psychic Mage, with such strong negative energy surging in, your mind will simply crumble, too. The best option isn't pacifying them, but transferring the energy to somewhere else. We'll need a reasonable place to store the energy, or else, the little Red Demon will be resurrected soon, and it will surely turn into something even more terrifying!”