Chapter 54

Chapter 54: The Peerless Garlic (8)

Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma

There were two paper sheets in the drawer, which were definitely the given clues to solve the puzzle . Feng Bujue unfolded the first sheet . There were three lines scribbled on the paper . The first line read ‘JMMJAOD’; the second line was 1/4F, and the third line was 3/4F .

Feng Bujue skimmed through the paper and disdainfully exclaimed, "Tsk . "

The second sheet was richer in content . This was a part of a printed document with neat words that described the virus in detail .

First, this virus was named ‘Z’ . The introduction of the Bloody Zombie Wolves at the beginning of the plot did mention it . It seemed that those mobs on the ground and the staff of this research laboratory had been infected with the same kind of virus, but it was unknown why they were turned into different types of zombies .

Next, after being infected with this virus, the time the players had to cure themselves was less than three hours . This document read that three hours after the victim had contacted with the virus, the same symptoms as the flu would burst out, and in the late stage, the victim would suffer from ‘dementia’ . This explained why Feng Bujue was drenched in cold sweat . Moreover, he felt fatigued as his limbs didn’t have any strength remaining in it . The system, of course, couldn’t make the players get ‘dementia’ . Thus, when the virus had reached their brains, players would then be considered dead and have to leave the scenario .

The next paragraph described in great details about the mutant variations that the victims who got infected could have . For example, the necrotic cells appeared and resulted to gangrene; the blood cells' capacity would abruptly increase and slow down the bloodstream; the muscles and powers would be enhanced; cognitive ability would drastically reduce; and the desire of eating human flesh would appear, etc . Of course, there was one line at the end of the document, which read, ‘to suppress the infected person, a strong injury on the head is needed' .

After Feng Bujue had read this paragraph, he couldn’t help but spit out, "Isn’t it the SCP008? Anyway, this scenario offers an anti-poison serum . " Upon his words, Feng Bujue’s eyes raked over the last paragraph that talked about the serum .

It read: "The experiment proved that the serum couldn't work on anybody . There are 390 subjects with different ages, genders, blood types and ethnicities who participated in the experiment . 150 subjects among the total number could be released from the effects of the virus or become immune after being injected with the said serum . The success rate of the serum is under 40% . Currently, it’s unknown why the serum couldn’t come into effect to any object . "

Feng Bujue had a bad feeling after reading this document . With his thug life, the probability of failing in detoxification was self-evident . Even if he could find the serum, he only has 40% chance to get rid of his[Sick] status, or else, he had only two hours left to finish the scenario, which was almost impossible . The most significant contribution he could give to his team was to find the serum and hand it to his teammates before he died .

Oh, talking about teammates, 10 minutes earlier when he was still in the corridor, he had heard the notification which announced the death of Young Master Ji Bu and Little Name . This scenario wasn’t as simple as it seemed . It was only a mystery of how they had died . They seemed to be the kind of people who would not randomly leave the gun shop and wander around . Thus, since they had all died just in a short time, it was possible that they had encountered a tremendous monster at the gun shop .

But it was on a street of the city which wasn’t related to the Main Quest, so how could such monster appear there? Just considering if it was nighttime already when the Bloody Zombie Wolves were strengthened, they could have never killed the two players who were equipped with rifles in just a couple of seconds apart .

Besides, Feng Bujue felt something odd when Wang Tanzhi had been going with Pan Feng and Hua Xiong, but they didn’t search the underground laboratory when they got into the building; instead, they were in somewhere else now . Why is that? There was a big layout of the building displayed on the first ground . Also, the Main Quest said that they had to rescue a ‘Doctor’ . The other levels of the building were marked with different sections or just simply ‘Office’, so why did they climb up there in searching for him?

Many abnormal situations had happened without any obvious evidence . Feng Bujue didn’t think further; he turned around and walked towards the metal gate, leaning over to check the electronic combination lock .

"Six digits, indeed . " He looked at the blank spaces which required the number inputs . His face was as if he had guessed it all and determinedly entered the sequence 312928 . Unexpectedly, after he had finished, on the screen appeared the ‘accept’ window .

When Feng Bujue read the notes on the paper sheet, he already knew the answer to the puzzle . The first line read JMMJAOD; these letters were the first letter of January, March, May, July, August, October and December, which all had 31 days each . And, the second and the third line indicated February since only February starts with an F . 1/4 means the February which has 29 days in leap years, and the number 3/4, of course, represents 28 days . It wasn’t a hard puzzle to him . He was someone who always had to think about puzzles and answers . With the given clues, as long as the required knowledge to solve the puzzle wasn't over his competence, he could solve half of them pretty quickly .

After he had unlocked the gate, Feng Bujue grabbed the hand valve on the metal gate and turned it to open the gate . Behind the gate was a small room . There were transparent cabinets standing along the three walls of the room, which were filled with test tubes containing some sort of liquid . Each row of tubes was labeled with numbers .

He saw the description of the item when picking up a test tube .

[Name: Antitoxic Serum]

[Type: Related to the plot]

[Quality: Normal]

[Functions: 39 . 48% of users could be cured or immunized from the effects of virus Z . ]

[Being able to be brought out of the scenario: No]

[Remarks: It could be orally consumed or injected . To Zombies and players who are completely turned into Zombie, this item is inoperative . ]

Based on the numbers labeled on the tubes, those serum tubes seemed to be produced group by group . Thus, the contents would possibly be different . Feng Bujue couldn’t help but think about the possibility in which Allerbmu Corporation hadn’t created virus Z but found it somehow . Then they perhaps wanted to control it and create the detoxification .

Right now, Feng Bujue didn’t want to dig this matter further . Also, he didn’t know which group of those serum tubes would be more effective . He just randomly took a test tube from the cabinet and used the syringe to inject himself .

After the injection, his Curing Specialty was unlocked, which was graded F now . The system’s voice arose along with it: "Congratulations on fully unlocking all Specialties in Closed Beta stage . "

"In Closed Beta stage?" Feng Bujue thought, "it means I can unlock new Specialties later on?" He opened his menu to see his Specialties were all unlocked . It was a good thing . Pityingly, his [Sick] status was still there, next to his Survival Value .

"Of course it failed . " He was a little bit disappointed as he muttered, "How about taking another injection? I wonder if this brings any side effects . "

While he was still hesitating, the [Sick] status disappeared . The status next to his Survival Value was [None] once again .

Fortunately, he didn’t close the menu immediately that he would have missed this change in his status . This could lead to a bad decision . Feng Bujue laughed cheerily with a feeling of being alive again .

He took a test tube rack in the cabinet which was holding eight tubes of serum . Then, he carefully put it in his bag . Now his bag was full with the 10 occupied slots, including [Mario’s Pipe Wrench], [the Eye of Hatred], [Western Chef Knife], [Baseball Bat], [Flashlight], [M1911A1 Pistol], [The Echo Armor], [Winchester Shotgun], [Antitoxic Serum] x 8 pcs, and a bag of garlic .

He was wearing [The Dance of the Knight] on his feet . Unless he got something else to change into, it would never be back to the bag . Of course, if needed, Feng Bujue could take the Eye of Hatred out of the bag, equip himself and also hold another weapon in his hands to save rooms in his bag .

After the serum had taken effect, Feng Bujue didn’t need to search the laboratory anymore . He was here to find his teammates, and he hadn’t expected that he would be ambushed right when the elevator booth opened, leaving himself wounded and infected . Also, he hadn’t known exactly the time when his illness would burst out; thus, he could only try his best to find the serum, which might not exist .

And now, as his time wasn’t bounded by a coming death, he felt that it would be better to get up there and find his teammates . In consideration of the serum he took would create a FLAG, he would meet a Little BOSS if he wanted to search further more . Although he was immunized against the virus, it wasn’t worth taking risks now .

While he was still thinking, the system’s voice announced, "Current Quest completed . Main Quest, updated . "

"What?" Feng Bujue was amazed, "is it true that Doctor Ashford isn’t in the underground lab? The three of them had made a right decision to climb up there and successfully rescued him?"

He took time to open his menu to check what the Quest had been updated to after they had rescued the doctor . It turned out the new Quest was [Defeat the mutant Ashford] .