【Mariano family】

In addition to the family's main residence in Zion, there are basically their family's buildings or factories in medium and large cities in the Fourth Continent, and their firearms industry is the main pillar of the family.

The firearms produced by Mariano are recognized by the organization. Each one is a fine product and can be sold at a very high price.

The family also needs to hand over a certain number of guns that meet quality standards to the organization every year in exchange for the family's private residence in Zion and business privileges.

In order to ensure that the firearms industry can operate normally in a diseased world, each firearms factory is supervised by gentlemen within the family, and there are also many quasi-gentlemen who have learned gun skills to patrol around the clock.

Three days ago,

An old factory built in the early days of Wendel Town and about to be decommissioned has developed major problems.

The town of Wendel was once a small town that relied on mining. In the early stages of development, the Mariano family opened an early factory here because of various problems with materials.

Currently, some classic firearms are still being produced and are collected by some gun lovers at high prices. Most of the workshop assembly lines have been discontinued.

As the ore was mined out a year ago, the town declined rapidly, and the family decided to close this old factory that had long since realized its value.

Just a week before the shutdown, something strange happened inside the factory. A group of ordinary family members who stayed in the town, and even a gentleman temporarily stationed in Wendel Town, were killed.

Unfortunately, a groom happened to pass by the town by chance and immediately brought the situation back to Zion.

Soon, the investigation team from [Gentlemen's Hall] came here to investigate and characterize the general situation of the incident. They quickly organized it into a task event and brought it back to the hall, where it was handed over to the new gentleman to handle.

Since the incident was directly related to Mariano's factory, the staff of the Gentlemen's Hall personally came to the family mansion to inform them of the incident.

Edmund had some insights during the process of breaking his arm. Since his body had recovered, he took the initiative to handle the matter. At the same time, he also called his former partner, Dagbert, the giant man in the north.

Juliana did not participate due to health problems.

At that time, Yi Chen was in the mission evaluation period, so Edmund didn't call him.

In addition to Edmund's two-person team, there is another team of gentlemen participating together, which is a cooperative mission.

According to the testing conducted by the investigation team, the number of patients in Wendel Town has exceeded double digits, and the source of the casualties and infections in the town is suspected to have reached severe illness.

…

【Wendel Town】

Before you even fully enter the town, you can smell a strong smell of crude oil, industrial waste, heavy metals and other by-products. If you open your mouth, you can even taste it.

The entire town was shrouded in thick fog, with a black substance suspected to be soot floating.

Factory buildings account for 70%, and chimneys of various sizes are dotted throughout the town. They are all products of the previous era and most of them have been abandoned.

Currently, the entire town is deserted.

There are some weird corpses scattered on the street.

They are all humanoid but not entirely human. They have the same characteristics. The stiff flesh covered with corpses is mixed with a large amount of metal components, and even has a barrel structure that can fire.

The gun barrel may exist in the fingers, it may exist in the eyes, or it may be hidden in the mouth or even in some special parts.

This disease related to contemporary firearms craftsmanship does not form a separate category, but belongs to a subcategory of "iron disease".

Also known as "Iron Disease-Firearm Variation".

In the early stage of infection, individuals are extremely affinity to substances containing iron (or other metal elements), and will swallow metal substances privately to satisfy their desire to eat, and will also wear various metal products with them, the more the better.

In the middle and late stages of infection, the individual's skin will become obviously ironized, and the gun body structure will begin to appear.

When it becomes a patient, its basic form has been formed, and it can pour out firepower arbitrarily, and can replenish bullets by swallowing and absorbing metal.

These patients are quite dangerous. Their iron bodies represent extremely high defenses, and their iron skin needs to be broken through to damage the core of their bodies.

In addition to the threat of firepower, they can also remove the iron element from the human blood through physical contact, thereby causing rapid death.

…

but,

The two gentlemen teams that came here have killed all the infected and sick people in the streets of the town.

Only Mariano's factory, the origin of the gun infection, is left waiting for final processing.

Although it is very old and is one of the earliest factories established, its scale is not small at all. Due to the continuous growth of the firearms business, this factory has experienced several expansions.

The time has come to night.

The two teams have been inside for more than three hours.

More than ten minutes have passed since the last shooting. During this time, there has been no movement and no one has left the factory.

The situation inside was worse than expected.

The two teams were forced to separate for some reason and hid in different rooms. They did not dare to act rashly until they could figure out a way to "break the situation", and both teams suffered varying degrees of injuries.

【Staff Lounge-03】

Blond Edmund and Dagbert are hiding here,

The door is sealed with a time-sensitive sealing paper.

Dagbert was lying flat on the employee's desk. His strong and huge body, protected by gentleman's clothing, was still wounded by bullets.

What's worse is that the bullets left in his body are eating away at his body over time, leading him to death.

There are only bullet holes less than the size of a little finger left on the body surface.

The bullets fired into the body accurately stay between the organs and main blood vessels, constantly absorbing the iron content in the body.

Seven minutes have passed since he was hit by the bullet. The bullet, which has grown by absorbing iron elements, has even reached 1.5 times its original size.

An ordinary person would have died long ago, but Dagbert relied on his special physique and injected medicine to hold on.

Now surgery must be performed to remove these bullets from the body at all costs.

As for Edmund, although he was only shot once, his condition was still not good.

He leaned against the corner, cut open his abdomen with a red-hot sword, and cut out the bullet embedded in the flesh.

After a simple bandage, he immediately came to Dagbert's side.

The two looked at each other, nodded slightly, and did not exchange any words.

Edmund immediately put the sword blade to the lower part of Dagbert's chest, preparing to open the gun and take out the bullets.

Bang! There was a noise from the window.

Edmund turned his head and looked, and saw that there was a thick branch connected to the outside, and then something was crawling along the branch, until an all-too-familiar face was pressed against the window.

Cracking croaking~ Destroy the corners of the window with small and soft branches, and remove the window frame without making any sound.

Yi Chen easily climbed into the room following the plants, and at the same time, a colorful figure also jumped into it.

"William!"

Just when Edmund was surprised as to why Yi Chen appeared here,

The latter has quickly moved to Dagbert's side,

Two warm and vibrant palms were placed near the bullet holes, and the deformed and bulging bullets were removed one after another by plant roots.

Not only that,

Dagbert could also feel a different kind of vitality being injected into his body through the plants, like new water flowing through his body. As a result, new blood was born, quickly replacing those that had been stripped of iron elements.

Waste blood is excreted from the body.

It’s only been over two months since I last saw you,
Chapter completed!