Chapter 458 A Biological Attack?

Chapter 458 A Biological Attack?

[I’ll keep an eye on things and let you know if anything comes up that requires your presence,] Gaia said, then went back to collating and sorting the brain data in the library. Though it was curated and maintained by the akashic librarians, she still wanted to thoroughly understand it to better perform her duties.

Aron logged out of the simulation, then headed to Rina’s side and watched her through the transparent lid of the pod she was in.

“Nova, increase the mana flow to her pod. The awakening process is a lot like my upgrades, so the more mana in the local environment, the process will be faster and the outcome better.” Aron sat on the edge of her pod and began sorting through the thoughts in his head. He had been through an absolute emotional rollercoaster ever since his impromptu meeting with the so-called ‘system consciousness’, or so he assumed it to be, during his latest upgrade. And he was sure that more shocks were to come as time passes, but he could only deal with one thing at a time. And right now, he wanted to be by his lover’s side.

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The mother of a formerly disabled child was pacing back and forth in a corridor in one of the cubes. Through the window on one side, row after row of medical pods was visible. “Do you think there was a problem with the medical pod and it didn’t cure her the first time? Is it just a relapse?” she asked the man next to her in a worried tone.

The last three weeks had been some of the best in her life, as her daughter, who had suffered from juvenile onset Huntington’s disease from a young age, had been free of the effects of her illness. There was no feeling more joyous in the young mother’s memories than watching her daughter, who had previously been confined to the grasp of a motorized wheelchair as the degenerative disease ravaged her young body, step out of the medical pod and run to her mommy.

The low-level fear that had yet to even calm down from the initial wave of attacks once again erupted as news organizations reported the spread of a “pandemic” that affected children in their teens. But it was a weird spread and all of the epidemiologists and virologists the anchors interviewed as experts could only shake their heads. Diseases always spread from a “patient zero”, but this one seemed to just descend all over the world at once. Nobody said it, but everyone was thinking the same thing: biological attack.

Actually, there were a few who said that in an attempt to create mass panic, incite chaos, or just increase engagement on their social media accounts to satiate their greed for fame. There were also those who believed they were special and had discovered some secret that nobody else had, and others that believed it was a curse from the gods or an attack launched by the incoming visitors to herald their incipient arrival.

Oddly enough, a few were even close to the truth. Some webnovel addicts believed it was the dawning of a mass mutation that would enable people to become cultivators and cultivate immortality before shattering the chains that held them bound to their mortal selves and ascend to higher planes.

lightsnοvεl Weirdos(jk).

Still, it was true that the new empire did seem rather cursed. In just the first few weeks of its existence, it had suffered problem after problem, and a wave of opinions popped up on Pangea calling for the thousand imperial senators to use their power to vote the emperor off of his throne. That, they believed, would save the world from more calamities.

That said, the silent majority reigned, and had chosen to wait for news from official sources before making their own informed judgment.

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