Chapter 7 (1/2)
Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
The hunting party continued their trek with an agitated state of mind. There originally wasn’t too much wild game to hunt, and now that they weren’t quite in their right state of mind and were in no mood to hunt, they weren’t able to catch much.
“Hack, hack!” an uncontrolled cough came out, causing the entire group to stop and glance back at the person who coughed.
“I just felt an itch in my throat, I’m not sick!” the man was a bit panicked and hurriedly declared while trying to look calm, but he was already subconsciously backing off.
“Brad, pull up your shirt and let us see your skin” Dax ordered with a serious tone. In fact, it might just be his imagination, but he was also feeling an itch in his throat and he currently couldn’t muster as much strength as normal.
Brad’s expression froze, but he still lifted his shirt up, only to find that small dark spots had indeed appeared on his body. His breathing became a bit heavy, his expression turned from fear to despair.
“Brad…” Dax muttered the man’s name, went silent for a bit before speaking: “The rest of us still haven’t been confirmed to be infected, for the sake of the others, please leave the party”
“Don’t abandon me” Brad was desperate, his body trembling.
“Brad!” Dax shouted loudly to catch Brad’s attention, then spoke with a solemn expression: “Listen to me, for the sake of the village, you have to leave”
“We will continue onward to Tucker ridge, you can return to Xili river, where we originally cast the net. There should be quite a few that should have been caught in it already, you can have your fill and spend the rest of your life there”
Dax held his breath, gave Brad a hug before slowly backing away and took out his bow and arrow: “Now, follow the order and leave the party, do not get any closer to us, otherwise, for the sake of the party, I will have to kill you”
Brad’s lips trembled, but said nothing in the end and turned to run away. Dax kept his aim on Brad as he left, maintaining an unclear look in his gaze.
Only after Brad had disappeared into the forest did Dax lower his brow and look at his other sorrowful comrades, speaking in a soft voice: “Let’s go, we’re heading to Tucker ridge”
“Quite resilient, aren’t they?” Wang Yuan was standing under the shade of a faraway tree, observing this split-up party.
Yesterday, he had used his interference force to control the germs in the air near those that he wanted to eliminate and infected them. But these people’s constitution was a bit strong, plus there weren’t enough germs in the air, so only now had they started to show clear symptoms of being infected.
“I was a bit careless. Perhaps I should wait until tonight to act, I’m using up a bit too much white mist right now” Wang Yuan looked at the hunting party resuming their journey, calculated his consumption of white mist and formed a plan: “According to their current state, the epidemic should completely break out at around twilight, I will act at that time”
Their journey was heavy and tiring, Dax also wasn’t in the mood to hunt anything, so he only continued to lead the party onward to the place he called Tucker ridge.
Some dry coughs could be heard from other members of the party around noon, but this time Dax only made them stay a bit further away from the party rather than outright exiling them as he did to Brad. Perhaps he had already realized that the epidemic was already with them.
At this point, the only person in the party who didn’t show any symptoms at all was the youngest Comoros, while the other three were dryly coughing. Indeed, Wang Yuan only intended to leave the young man Comoros alive, if he was the only one who made it back to the village alive, Wang Yuan was confident that he would be able to dominate him and make sure he listened to anything he said.