Life in North America, you call this an autopsy officer?!
Chapter 581 - 306: Strange Infection! (June monthly ticket additional 4/8)_2

Chapter 581: Chapter 306: Strange Infection! (June monthly ticket additional 4/8)_2

"This is the weirdest video I’ve ever seen," said Ike Hector, "there’s no air contact, no tangible contact, not even a path for sound to travel, because the environment inside the dissected blood is a vacuum... and through the specially made glass, they all died.

"Every time I watch it, the hair on my body stands on end."

Brian nodded. "This is also the first time I’ve seen such a bizarre phenomenon. Do you have any other clues?"

Ike Hector nodded.

He took a deep breath and flicked the ash.

Brian even felt the fingers that Hector was using to hold his cigarette trembling.

He realized that the video he had just seen was just an appetizer, and perhaps even weirder things were to come.

Ike Hector seemed to feel that his performance was a bit low.

He extinguished the cigarette and replaced it with another laced with Heavenly Grass, then lit it again and took a deep breath.

This time, Ike Hector finally regained his composure.

He continued, "Sorry, there’s something I didn’t tell you. I was actually the fleet commander of the first group of soldiers who died.

"The dissected corpses you saw in the video were my subordinates.

"Can you imagine that scene?

"Waking up one night to find bodies everywhere!

"Besides me and a few First Rank officers, there wasn’t a single survivor on the entire warship!

"They were just like they were sleeping, the same death expressions, the same pre-death conditions...

"Just overnight, around ten thousand people died on patrol warships in eighteen sealed areas of various nations, leaving only a few of us alive...

"We didn’t even know what had happened that night!"

Even though Ike Hector was using the intensely hallucinogenic Heavenly Grass to calm his emotions, Brian could still see the uncontrollable fear on his face.

He himself didn’t feel much.

Silent killing of tens of thousands of people overnight, he could do that too.

So, Brian was more concerned about a term Hector had mentioned: sealed area.

His current position within NW was not low, and Susan came from a well-established family, being a second generation.

But they had very limited information about the Deep Sea Base.

Brian had learned about it from Susan who, in turn, had heard from her father.

The reason was simple: information was encrypted and sealed!

Only those who arrived at the Deep Sea Base for service could access more in-depth secrets.

The deep sea was related to the Heritage Bloodline.

That is, those mutated Big Octopuses.

Previously, he had considered conducting research and investigations, but he had been unable to do so and had gradually put the idea aside.

After experiencing the strangeness of the "Afterglow Board," Brian had regained some interest in that area.

Unexpectedly, this mission had directly put him in contact with an officer from there.

Brian seized the moment and asked, "Hector, are you saying that none of the survivors noticed any anomaly at the time?"

Ike Hector shook his head. "No, we only felt something was wrong afterwards. After all, the sealed area had a large number of Biological Nuclear Weapons installed. It’s our most critical defense against those deep sea monsters, so we had made it routine that each night, half of the First Rank life officers were on duty together. But we all ended up knocked out."

"No Second Rank Life?"

Brian asked, puzzled.

While Second Rank Life was less common in some regional organizations, globally, they weren’t rare.

Ike Hector continued to shake his head, "Due to confidentiality protocols, I could face a military court trial if I disclosed specific reasons. Just know, in that region, only First Rank Life can step in. Higher than that, whether human or those deep sea monsters, they would all be killed. Even Third Rank Life is ineffective; otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to lock down such huge numbers of deep sea monsters."

Seeing that Hector was unwilling to say more, Brian redirected the conversation back to the topic of the corpses. "Then when you transported the soldiers’ bodies back, why didn’t a person-to-person Infection occur?"

At this, Ike Hector gave a self-mocking laugh. "Brian, you’re not from one of those great families by any chance, are you?"

Brian nodded, puzzled, "That’s right, I’m not. Is it another secret sealed by information lockdown?"

"Yes, and it’s the highest level of lockdown."

He took another deep drag on his cigarette, steadying his emotions, before he continued, "I can’t tell you the specifics, but generally, only the lineal descendants of those great families can know the reasons. Everyone else can only know a little bit. But you might think about it, could it be that high-caliber insiders from civilian backgrounds are rare within your official organization?"

Brian’s eyes narrowed slightly. "Isn’t that due to resources?"

"No, resources are just one factor, but more importantly, it’s because of the sealed area!

"Many civilians are assigned to guard the sealed areas, and only a few lucky ones ever make it back out!

"Like me.

"For civilian soldiers, another high casualty area is the front line of the sealed area.

"That’s also where a lot of official Combat Department members are stationed.

"They’re a bit luckier, though. While the death rate is high, at least each year a good number return alive, and if they die, their bodies are recovered and returned to their families.

"Just not from the sealed areas.

"If we die there, even our bodies can’t be brought out.

"That’s why the bodies in the video were encapsulated.

"Under normal circumstances, those bodies aren’t allowed to be removed!

"Even if there wasn’t this strange incident.

"The only outcome for dead soldiers is to be swallowed by the ocean, forever staying in the deep sea."

After listening to Ike Hector’s narrative, Brian furrowed his brow.

So cruel...

He understood the rationale behind differential treatment, but such a harsh rule easily leads to problems, doesn’t it?"