122 Chapter 122 - Pharmacology (1/2)

The bacteria could possibly be spread through the air so Gren needed something to prevent him from breathing it in.There was a good chance that the animal would bite him when he grabbed it so a thick material would be needed to prevent its teeth from penetrating his suit.The basic idea was that it needed to be an armored hazmat suit that was still light enough to be worn by him.

Before he died as Thomas, there were lots of reports in the news about carbon being used as a lightweight armor.Those reports mentioned that the greatest problem with the carbon armor was the cost but he didn't have to worry about that.His only issue was that he didn't want to put all of his safety in the hands of a material that he didn't know much about.That left him with a two layer design; high strength carbon fiber over an air-tight polyamide-rubber composite.The air would be provided by an air tank and it would be pumping that into a mask that he'd be wearing.Each piece would need to lock in place and seal him in which made the design complicated and, without the assistance of the system's AI, he wouldn't have been able to figure out how to make it.The finished product was a completely black suit of armor with a mask that would be considered out of place in this world.

The mask was a carbon helmet fitted with an armored breathing tube that led to the air tank on his back so that he didn't have to worry about airborne contaminants.The field of view was fine but he couldn't look up or down due to the helmet being locked in place.Nothing about the outfit looked welcoming which made Gren worried.If he was told to wear this on a movie set then he'd definitely think that he was about to play a villainous character that would most likely have their own orchestrated theme song.

Getting into the suit manually took a while.It was a complicated process of fitting into tight armor and then turning locks to completely seal himself from the outside air.There was a weird smell from the rubber but it was better than catching some deadly disease.

When Gren walked back out from behind the truck, there was a lot of murmuring that Gren could see, but the helmet caused the words to be muffled.Georgia came up to him but her voice was equally as muffled so he couldn't understand her through the suit.Verbal communication currently wasn't possible so Gren brought out his pen and a pad of paper and began to exchange messages with her.

(I can't understand what you're saying.

Write it down for me.)

(Why are you wearing that strange armor?)

(It should protect me from the disease.)

(You're not sure?)

(I'm almost sure.)

(So you're not sure.)

(There's a good chance that it will work.

No disease that I know of would get through it.)

(What do you need to me to do?)

(Tell the people that they need to allow me to check them for the disease.

Let them know that an animal in their wagon has it but try to say it in a nice way.

I don't want them to panic.)

Gren watched as Georgia followed his instructions after reading the note.Her words were as muffled as ever but they seemed to have worked since the people rushed over to him, nodding and saying something.Although Gren couldn't hear what they were saying, the system began inspecting them.Out of the five people from the fifth wagon, only one was infected.That suggested that the infection wasn't airborne but Gren couldn't come to any conclusions yet.