Chapter 541 T virus?

"Yes." Gavin admitted generously, "It's just that what she said is only the most superficial thing. Can you give us a detailed introduction to this Arms and his bone dragon? Aren't bone dragons all a group of unintelligent people? How could a puppet hurt the lady so badly?"

Yeshandara's strength is not weak, and she is also a quasi-legend. It is precisely because of her tenacious life that she can resist the erosion of this weird poison. If it were an ordinary person, she would have died suddenly.

At first glance, the Bone Dragon sounds very ferocious and powerful, but in fact it is not worthy of its name, because it is a dragon-shaped skeleton soldier pieced together from the bones of a giant dragon. It only retains some of the dragon's special abilities, such as its fierce momentum or proficiency in grappling. The supernatural abilities, spell-like special attacks, and the dragon's world-famous breath were all lost.

In addition, it has no IQ and its strength is only half of its peak. Even a bone dragon formed from the remains of an ancient dragon has very limited combat power. It is probably about the same as an adult dragon of the same type.

Gavin was the least afraid of this kind of unintelligent enemy. When he heard that the powerful weapon Grace showed off was a bone dragon, he didn't take it to heart at all.

Yeshandara's special situation forced Gavin to re-examine her. From her wounds, he felt a familiar smell and breath - the breath of corruption, belonging to the corrupt and fallen god Moando.

Her symptoms are very similar to those of canker disease. Whether it is true or not, Ban Yueju needs help to determine whether it is true. She is professional in this aspect.

"Let me tell you about this matter. The captain's injuries are related to his emotions. Once too many negative emotions are generated, the injuries will be aggravated." Fan Ruina took the initiative and said, "Most of the bone dragons are indeed what you said. , but Agatha is a wise skeleton dragon. It is said that she was an extremely vicious black dragon during her lifetime. After being killed by a group of dragon slayers, she was unwilling to give up her treasure and made a deal with an abyss lord. His dragon soul was imprisoned back into his own bones, transforming into a bone dragon, nicknamed Razor Claw, and even more powerful than in life.

What really makes her unusual is her coercion with the necromancer Arms.

Arms has been dedicated to studying various plagues, especially plague viruses that, once spread, can turn all infected people into zombies, and can continue to evolve into more powerful undead species..."

After Gavin finished listening, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "T virus?"

The Resident Evil series is so successful that it has embedded the concept of viral zombies in people's minds. When I hear a similar description, I immediately think of it.

"What T virus?" Everyone present looked confused.

"It's okay, I just thought of something from what you said. You continue." Gavin's face still didn't look good. If the T virus were placed on the earth, it would definitely be a science fiction or fantasy existence. It only exists in imagination. It is really difficult to achieve success. Simply speaking of energy conservation will limit many things.

But in Faerûn, there are basic conditions for this kind of thing to exist.

The magic power and the negative energy of the Shadow Plane are enough to provide it with the most basic energy support, not to mention that Faerun itself exists in similar viruses, epidemics, and the like.

Once someone thinks of this topic and spends time and energy researching it, the problem becomes quite big.

Even if it does not lead to the destruction of the entire world like in games and movies - this is a world with countless extraordinary means and the real existence of gods, even if the T virus breaks out on a large scale, it will be a local disaster at best and it is difficult to evolve into a continent-wide disaster. Even a global disaster, but before everyone reacts, a zombie siege is not impossible.

Especially when the army of conquerors led by him has such a dense population, most of which are ordinary civilians, what they are most afraid of is this kind of thing, which is too lethal.

Yeshandara and Fan Ruina didn't know Gavin well, so they didn't think about it deeply. Veranika was different. She knew that although her lord was young, he was very deep in the city and could let him in such an occasion. The person who made the mistake must have thought of something unusual, but now, it is obviously not the right time to discuss this matter, so I can only write it down silently and postpone it until later.

"After Arms occupied Ivanso, he drove the citizens and the undead to build a huge virus experimental base for him underground. He has been conducting secret research here. It is true that they rarely use Ivanso citizens for experiments, but the giant In other cities on the Dragon Coast, a large number of people go missing every year, and many of them are traced to Ivanso and Arms. Do you know why our resistance army is called the Avengers?" Fan Ruina has snow-white teeth? With a crunching sound, he said with unconcealed hatred in his eyes, "We are the relatives of those missing people. In order to trace the traces of our relatives, we gathered together to avenge them. Even if Arms and Ivanso hadn't caused them The missing culprit is also one of them.”

This time, Gavin did not interrupt her because the other party took the topic away, and he was basically certain that what she said was the truth.

Since the study of epidemic diseases, there is no way to avoid the inevitable step of in vivo experiments.

If you don't attack the citizens of Ivanso, you can only attack outsiders.

In this case, what Grace said is very likely to be true. Their reputation in Ivanso may be really good, and many Ivanso citizens sincerely support them.

This situation will not only happen to Ivanso, but may also happen to many evil forces.

Not only would many bandits not rob the villages around their home base, but they would be extremely kind to them, often helping them, and even giving them some of the goods they robbed. When the officers and soldiers came to encircle and suppress these bandits, those bandits would The villages that had been favored by them not only refused to provide help, but even took the initiative to inform them, and in the extreme, provided force to help.

This is what is often said, rabbits do not eat grass around their nests.

This does not mean that these bandits have become good people.

Similarly, it does not mean that all missing people on the Dragon Coast are Ivanso's fault.

This place is a chaotic place. Murders among the same kind, human trafficking, secret hunting of monsters, coercion by bandits and pirates, etc. are all causes of missing people, especially human trafficking is the absolute main cause. There are many other places in Faerûn. There are a few countries that have not abolished slavery, the most typical examples being Calishan and Cyre.

When there is buying and selling, there will naturally be harm.

Ivanso does not necessarily find test subjects by kidnapping people himself. It is more convenient to buy them directly through slave traders, because in the slave market, the price of human slaves is not even as good as that of an animal. This is due to the low cost of slaves. The reason is that many have no breeding costs.

Fan Ruina took a deep breath, calmed her mind, and then continued: "Amus used the results of his experiments on those undead soldiers, especially the bone dragon Agatha. We destroyed them and the slaves at one time The merchant was ambushed by them during the transaction, and the leader was injured in a surprise attack by Agatha in order to save me. "

"How far has Arms' research on the plague virus gone? Does it have the ability to spread on a large scale? For example, through bites or something?" Gavin was most concerned about the plague.

"The plague virus in my body is very difficult to deal with. Its infectivity is not only in the body, but also erodes the soul. It is entangled with my negative emotions, which causes it to keep recurring and is difficult to completely eradicate." This time. It was Yeshandara herself who answered Gavin, "But so far, it has not shown the ability to spread. This will only happen if it is hit by Agatha's claws, teeth and saw wings." ”

Veranika asked: "Does this kind of poisonous attack only happen to the skull dragon? Or do all their undead soldiers have it?"

"Currently, only the skull dragon exists, but there are rumors that Arms recently made a secret deal with a hag gathering in the Far Sea Swamp, and purchased from them a method for making undead creatures called bone claws. It is said to be a very powerful undead creature, an undead soldier used by Arms to carry this unique virus, but no one has ever actually seen it." Yeshandara and the others knew everything about Ivanso. He said it all, and did not deliberately hide it because he was trying to win over Gavin and his army of conquerors. Doing so would only cast a shadow over the cooperation between the two parties from the beginning.

As for the rumors she said, they were definitely not rumors, but information collected by the spies they installed in Ivanso that could not be completely verified.

"Bone Claw?" Gavin quickly retrieved the information about this familiar name in his brain, and asked after a few seconds, "Has Ivanso been purchasing large quantities of corpses of large humanoid creatures recently?"

This was more of a statement than a question, because not long ago, the first transaction Grace negotiated was to try to purchase a large number of troll corpses from him.

Yeshandara thought about it for a moment, nodded involuntarily and said: "Yes, since last year, they have paid special attention to the corpses of large humanoid creatures. At the beginning of this year, they even dispatched an army of the undead to try to penetrate the giants. The collection of corpses in the plain was destroyed by our men. If you think about it seriously, their primary target is the giant corpse on the Giant Plain. Could this matter be related to the bone claws I just mentioned? Claw? Can’t you share it?”

"If this is the case, the bone claws you are talking about and the bone claws I know should be the same thing." Gavin said with a slightly serious expression, "They are not skeleton soldiers made up of bones, but the legendary ones. Intelligent large undead creatures created by a legendary gathering of hags, they are at least extraordinary to begin with. The claws in their hands are tens of centimeters long, hence their name. Their combat power itself is very amazing. If combined with the special preparation for them The epidemic virus will be a very terrifying battlefield killing machine. "

"Intelligent undead!" Yeshandara's cheeks twitched involuntarily.

The biggest flaw of the undead against intelligent creatures is their lack of intelligence.

This gives intelligent creatures a chance to defeat them.

But once an undead creature gains intelligence, its threat will skyrocket.

The characteristics of undead creatures make them immune to many control methods, directly abolishing many combat skills and special abilities.

Painless and insensible, they are less affected on the battlefield.

If coupled with their combat experience and cunning wisdom during their lifetime, there is no need to say more about their terrifying nature.

Below extraordinary, at the same level, the intelligent undead will definitely win.

At the level of Extraordinary and above, as the professional's abilities and methods increase, the outcome becomes more unpredictable, and each has its own advantages.

But if the Ams virus medicine is added, the properties are a little different. As a person who has experienced it personally, she knows very well how terrifying this virus medicine is. If it weren't for a master pharmacist among their avengers, After customizing the suppressive medicine, it was no longer a question of whether she would die, but it was very likely that she would be transformed into an undead spirit who would obey Arms's orders.

"Even the undead must abide by the principle of equal exchange. Such extraordinary undead cannot be made from the bones of ordinary people. According to me, if you want to make bone claws, you must use the bones of large humanoids. The corpse must have at least ten life dice when alive.

This alone prevents them from using the human sea tactics that the undead are best at. Instead, they form an elite battle group as an elite.

I just don’t know how many corpses of large humanoid creatures they have plundered from the Giant Plains. Those monster tribes have no moral bottom line. Let alone the enemy, even if they are from their own tribe, they will not be sold. any psychological burden. "

This is what we really need to worry about. The proportion of giants on the Giant Plains is not very high at first glance. According to the data currently available to Gavin and the others, the proportion is more than 1/20.

But it cannot be ignored that the entire Giant Plain covers an area of ​​more than 500 kilometers from north to south and more than 300 kilometers from east to west. This area alone covers an area of ​​150,000 square kilometers.

The Troll Mountains and the Giants Running Mountains are also covered by the same special laws as the Giants Plains, and their area is only larger than the Giants Plains.

There are more than a million monsters of various races living on it. In addition, there are many large humanoid creatures that are born like trolls and ogres. The number is definitely more than imagined.

It is estimated that Arms saw the uniqueness of the Giant Plains and just met with the hags to trade the method of making bone claws.

You know, the greed of hags is definitely no less than that of devils in hell. Many hags are famous hell brokers and soul dealers, such as the old hag.

What is more terrifying than one hag is a gathering of hags. They will definitely take the opportunity to extort your most precious treasure. Their transactions are always full of malice.

Many times, traders do find that their wishes have been achieved, but in a horrific way.

For example, a person traded wealth to hags and ended up in extreme poverty throughout his life until he died and was buried in a mountain of gold.

You can't say that the hag didn't keep the deal, it's just that the way the deal was made was not what you wanted.

"I still have a piece of news that has not been fully verified. Arms' research on the plague virus has made new breakthroughs. This brand-new plague virus can be carried by ordinary undead soldiers. Anyone who is attacked by them will After pregnancy, you will become a virus carrier.

These viruses have no effect while the carrier is alive. Once the carrier dies, these viruses become active, transforming the corpse into plague zombies and joining their army.

Such an undead army is very easy to create a human sea tactic. If combined with an extraordinary battle group composed of a certain number of bone claws, Ivanso's combat strength far exceeds our imagination. "Yeshandara gritted her teeth and shook out all the information she had.

They are just a resistance force with no fixed settlement. Under Ivanso's encirclement and suppression, their daily supplies are very difficult.

There is no way to compete with Ivanso for financial resources, and there is no way to provide benefits that can make the other party's heart beat.

As for the various promises made after occupying Ivanso, they are just empty promises. It may be useful to fool those passionate members, but for a person who can control tens of thousands of people for his own use, saying them is just to make him laugh.

The most practical way to get him to join our side is to let him clearly recognize the evil face of Arms and make him feel threatened by it. After all, his territory is in the valley.

If it were circumnavigated by land, it would indeed be more than a thousand kilometers away, but if it were taken by sea, the straight-line distance would not exceed five hundred kilometers.

A dragon lake alone cannot stop the plague.

After listening, Gavin couldn't help but frown.

This is a weakened zombie tactic.

This made him unable to help but retrieval the memories about the Dragon Coast in his brain, but he found almost no new gains.

At the same time in the previous life, I was still struggling to survive in the Zhentarim Death Arena, and I had no idea what was happening on the Dragon Coast at this time.

After gaining some freedom in the later period, he was mainly active in the Moonsea area, the valley and Waterdeep.

The intersection with Fan Ruina was not that Gavin went to the Dragon Coast, but Fan Ruina went to the valley.

Therefore, it is neither clear when Yeshandara and Fan Ruina seized the power of Ivanso, nor what method they used to seize it. It is also unclear whether there were any people on the Dragon Coast during the process. There was no large-scale plague or undead war that spread far and wide.

Since there is no more prophetic information to learn from, then we should not learn from it and treat it completely as a normal thing, ignoring the role that Yeshandara can play in it, but simply treating it as a source of information.

After making this decision, Gavin felt much more relaxed. This made things much simpler. He could freely express his own ideas and said to Ye Shandala, "I have some guesses about the plague that the lady is suffering from, but I am not sure. I need more professional help. If possible, I hope you can go back to Miss Noel with me. There are not only professionals there, but also unique geographical advantages. Maybe we can find a way to cure your injuries."