Chapter 90 (2/2)

He sees the force members armed with bizarre gear, and does not react. He is half out of his mind. It is unsure whether he has gone crazy or has become stupid.

“The para- parasites are inside the bodies of the frozen survivors.”

The lieutenant’s words are shocking. Survivors reaching over 20,000 are hosts? Then even the 1200 people in room 1?

“Is it everyone?”

“That’s not it. About….. 0.1% will be uninfected. Keuk keuk!”

The lieutenant is genuinely happy. Is he also a host? Should they kill him?

“I have not been infected.”

“Phew!”

It was like the lieutenant read his mind, and revealed that he is not a host. The force members let out a sigh of relief, but this is not enough.

Cha Jun Sung left Lim Si Hyun to speak with the lieutenant, but went among the force members. The lieutenant said that he is not a host, but those are just words.

“Scan him without his noticing. If he’s infected, set him on fire.”

Zing!

Hercules is linked to the PDA, and its eyes scan the lieutenant. His muscles, bones, and organs come up clearly on the hologram.

A few force members saw what they were doing and thought that it was an obvious step. A host is a ticking time bomb. They need to know for sure.

Hercules did not speak, and sent the information as text. The lieutenant’s information comes up on the PDA, including his estimated age, height, weight, and health condition.

-[Not infected.]

To get to the point, he really is not an infected host. There was just one problem in the information. His body is fine, but his mental state is off.

-[He shows erratic behavior and symptoms of insanity as though he is looking at a ghost. After analyzing his behavior, there is a 99.9% that he is suffering from PTSD. Potential instability.]

Post traumatic stress disorder. When Cha Jun Sung had first gone into the reality version, he also thought he had gone insane with this dream-like reality.

The number of Lifers with PTSD is increasing all over the world. Even if they are mutants, they are living beings. Destruction leads to a lack of emotion.

When they also witness their colleagues being ripped apart, people of weak mentalities cannot help but collapse.

The lieutenant experienced America’s destruction, the infected city, and the ark’s hell consecutively. He has been eaten up by the terror that was imprinted on his mind then.

‘But he hasn’t been infected.’

He does not have weapons, and is significantly inferior to the Lifers in physical ability. It does not seem like it will be a big deal to have 1 crazy person make a fuss.

-[According to the scan, he really hasn’t been infected but it has been confirmed that he is suffering from PTSD. Looks like we should ask him as much as we can.]

Cha Jun Sung relayed the lieutenant’s condition over the general radio. They did not ignore it completely, but the force members thought that it was not a big deal.

“The captain and 7 lieutenants including me took charge of each of the rooms 1 through 8, and froze the people. We were the last.”

“How many people were originally on board the ark? What happened?”

“200,000? Or was it 250,000? Over half died in the infected city and more died on the ark….. Anyone we couldn’t freeze died too! Hee hee!”

Tonga. It is the name of the island they can see about 20km away outside. It is slightly larger than Korea with an area of 747 square km. This is the infected city that the lieutenant is referring to.

“An- another ark anchored at a nearby island, but we lost contact. They’re all dead! Are we going to die too? No! Korea dispatched its troops!”

His words twist, but he does give them the information that they want. This is really useful. The more they knew about the ark and infected city, the better.

“Are hosts mixed in sleeping room? Can you tell them apart?”

“There are a lot of them mixed in. He he! Under circumstances, it was difficult to distinguish the host, so I can’t distinguish between them.”

The lieutenant chirped like a bird. He says that when the parasites were introduced to the ark, tens of thousands of people got on the lifeboats to get away.

The remaining people chose to be frozen indefinitely. This was because they had come to find out that parasites do not like the cold.

Freezing an infected host also slowed down the infection rate. They could not tell who was infected and who was not, so they could not kill everyone either.

This was all possible because the soldiers protected the sleeping rooms with their lives so that their families could go through the process. If not, they would have been annihilated.

The sleeping room was created to extend the lives of anyone who came down with a disease or serious wound. They would hang on to their lives until the practices necessary for treatment were discovered.

There were not enough spots because they had not created it while expecting the parasites.