Starting From Zero

Chapter 59 Sparks Everywhere

"Go down and have a look." I jumped out from the window of the observation room. I first made a free fall and quickly approached the sea surface. I suddenly opened my wings more than 300 meters above the sea surface, and then I suddenly smoothed out.

Seeing me jumping down, Eagle and Rose each summoned their own guardian spears and jumped out of the city. This is the advantage of our guild. Everyone has an aircraft and can all participate in air combat when needed.

After I landed, Rose and the others also fell down. From a distance, we saw the emitting point of the light curtain. It seemed that the person emitting these lights was a person. After we ran over, we saw an acquaintance. "Qinglong?"

"Why is it you?" The one in front of him is the Qinglong who guards the east. He is now holding his left hand flat, with his middle finger and index finger pointing forward in the direction of the sea. A strip of light connected from his finger to the colorful light curtain, and it was this light curtain that blocked all the seawater on the east coast of China.

I pointed to the sky. "My city is up there, why are you here?"

"I just came back from heaven." Qinglong said slightly angrily: "Emperor Yu asked me to pay more attention to the situation in the east and take care of your ship. Who knew that there would be such a big wave just after I left."

"This wave comes from overseas. Even if you are here, you can't care about it!"

"I can at least keep it out of the Middle Earth!" Qinglong shook his head: "You guys wait a minute, I'll force the water back."

We nodded and stepped back to let Qinglong get busy first. A guy like him is extraordinary. He actually caught such a huge tsunami with one hand. I saw Qinglong start to make the same gesture of casting spells with his right hand as with his left hand, and then put the two fingers on the shoulder of his left hand. At this time, Qinglong's whole body lit up with cyan light. The light band suddenly skyrocketed, and the light curtain in front began to become dazzling.

Qinglong suddenly slid the two fingers of his right hand forward along his left arm: "Water Dividing Curse. Back off!"

The water in front suddenly began to recede. Qinglong pointed at the sea water and started walking forward. The sea water followed his forward speed and retreated as if he was afraid of his approach. It was pushed to the normal coast position and then pushed out several hundred meters before stopping.

Qinglong suddenly pointed the fingers of his right hand at the center of his eyebrows and began to recite the mantra: "Tu overcomes water. Literally."

There was a roar on the coast like an earthquake, and suddenly a wall of earth rose hundreds of meters high, blocking out all the sea water like a dam. I have seen the mage's Earth Wall Technique. There are many people in our guild who know this trick, but isn't this too exaggerated? The mage's earthen wall is only one meter thick, three to five meters wide and two meters high, but this earthen wall rises hundreds of meters high along the entire coast of China to protect the entire China. In order not to damage the seaside city. This earth wall was specially set up a few hundred meters away from the coast to make way for coastal cities and ports.

After the earth wall was raised, Qinglong removed the light strip. The seawater hit the earth wall with a loud bang but did not break away. I chased Qinglong: "Is this the end?"

"Of course not. This wall can't block it for a while. It will collapse sooner or later if the water doesn't recede." Qinglong took out a green seed from his pocket. "This is the end." He threw the seeds towards the dam. "Water-growing wood, collect it."

After the seeds sank into the dam, a green light suddenly flashed, and then a thunderous noise was heard. Several thick green vines emerged from the earth wall, and then this thing grew at a crazy speed. . A green wave instantly extended to both ends of the earth wall. This growth rate is even more terrifying than the original rose vine.

Qinglong clapped his hands and said, "Okay. This plant will absorb seawater to the normal water level within three days, and the excess water will be injected into the groundwater to become spring water."

"But sea water is salty? If you mess with the ground water like this, won't it make you drinkable?"

"After being absorbed by this plant, it is no longer salt water. I am not a fool. Of course I thought of this."

"High! It's really high." Qinglong was indeed terrifying. He actually managed to deal with such a strong tsunami with a raise of his hands.

"Since you can stop this tsunami, why can't you make it retreat quickly?" Rose asked.

Qinglong said very directly: "If you block it, it will retreat on its own. If we collect them all, the sea level will drop in the future. My task is to maintain the safety of Middle-earth and not to destroy the natural balance. Now that the matter is over, then I want to gone."

"Hey! Wait a minute!" I quickly stopped him: "The water will be gone in three days. What will you do with this wall? Is it always standing like this?"

"I will come and take down the wall when the water recedes. Don't worry about that."

"Oh, then I'm relieved."

"Then I'll leave." Qinglong seemed to be anxious about something, and suddenly turned around and disappeared into a ray of green light.

"This guy is really impatient!" Ying said as he looked at Qing Guang going away.

"Ignore him, let's go back first." I said, spreading my wings and leaping up to fly.

Eagle and Rose jumped on their guardian spears and flew up. Halfway through the flight, they suddenly heard a "bang" from behind. The sound was like the sound of a cannon fired from the exhaust pipe of an old car. When I looked back, I saw Hongyue's spear falling down, and there was a trail of black smoke trailing behind the spear.

I folded my wings and dived in, barely holding on to Hongyue, and she quickly put away her spear. I was about to speak when suddenly there was another sound above my head. When I looked up, I saw Rose's spear also smoking and falling down. I quickly reached out and caught Rose.

Bang! A third crack followed, this time from the eagle's spear. "Holy shit! I only have two hands!" It's not that I value sex over friends, but I have no hands to hold one on the left and the other on the right. "Yeying, help me!"

Fortunately, I have many magic pets. After Yeying suddenly appeared, he rushed down to catch the fallen eagle, but just a second later, the same problem occurred between Daguofan and Sumeidi's spear. This was not the answer, so I summoned the rose vine, and a huge piece of land instantly opened up on the ground, and everyone fell into it with a splash. In the end, Xiaoyao didn't even run away. Just seconds later she too fell. A bunch of people were crowded in. Looks very embarrassed.

"What happened?" With so many spears falling down at the same time, there was obviously something wrong.

"Who knows how it happened! What a ghost!" The eagle sighed while crawling out.

Hongyue suddenly said: "By the way, Ziri. Your...!"

"Wait a minute, Scott is looking for me." I asked Hongyue to wait, and Scott's voice appeared in the spiritual contact. "whats the matter?"

Scott's voice was anxious: "Oh no, there's something wrong with the Sub-Dragon Cavalry."

"Adragon Cavalry? What's wrong with them?"

"They're sick!"

"Sick? Why are they sick because they are undead?"

"It's not a cavalry, it's a cavalry mount."

"You mean the little dragon hunter?"

"It's not just the little Venator. Our armored dragon is also sick."

"I'll be there right away." The space door was still open and he stood in Steel City. It has not been closed until now.

Rose asked: "What happened?"

"Scott said that all the dragon cavalry's mounts are sick."

"Are you saying that all the little hunting dragons fell together?" Hongyue continued.

"Yeah. Not only the little hunting dragon, but also the armored dragon of the Bell Knight is also sick."

After hearing this, Hongyue said: "Zi Ri, where is your bird? Let him come out and take a look."

"What?" I asked as I released the bird, but the situation was very bad. Asuka actually lost consciousness.

I remember that the flying bird burned out the combustion chamber just because it flew for too long. How did it become so serious? I quickly summoned Xiaochun. I originally wanted to ask her why she didn't take care of Feiniao as I said, but as soon as Xiaochun came out, she leaned against me and was as soft as mud.

"What's wrong with you, Xiaochun? Why are you so hot?"

"I...I have a fever!" Xiaochun spoke in a broken voice, and her lips were dry and cracked. Looking so haggard.

"What happened? Even if you are a retired goddess, you won't be so tired with a small spell like healing, right?"

"No...it's not because of tiredness." Xiaochun was now very weak. "It's...it's...the virus...we are...infected...cough cough cough cough...vomit!" Xiao Chun actually started vomiting blood as he spoke.

The eagle next to him was startled. "What kind of virus is so powerful?"

Xiaochun reluctantly stood up and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "It's just... because... it's because I don't know that it's... it's like this!"

"What about the others?" I quickly released all the magic pets in Fenglong Space, and the results were different.

Except for Ling and A Di Na who had gone out to do errands and yet to return, none of the humanoid demon pets here ran away, and all of them fell ill. Amynis and Xiaochun were the most seriously ill, and they looked like they were about to die. Jingjing and Lingling looked like they had just finished a marathon. Sitting on the ground with his head hanging, he didn't even have the strength to speak. Chili seemed to be in good health and could barely stand, but he walked with a swaying look, as if he was drunk. Based on this, it seems that neither angels nor demons can resist this virus. Otherwise Xiaochun and Amynis would not have been infected. Chili's Sea Clan system is indeed better, but obviously it's not completely immune.

Xiaoxue, the unicorn, is better than Xiaochun and the others, but she is also listless now, and this is the first time since I met her that I saw her kneeling on the ground with her four hooves fisted. I suddenly remembered that I had summoned Ye Ying just now, but when I turned around, I saw Ye Ying still lying there. He had clearly caught the eagle just now, but the eagle still fell in. It turned out to be because he could no longer fly. It seems that Yeying's resistance is not as good as Xiaoxue's.

The phantom has always been on me, and there seems to be nothing unusual about it. Presumably because it has no physical body, it cannot be infected with the virus. Look at Lucky and the other giant dragons. The body of the dragon clan is indeed very good. The four dragons look healthy at first glance, but upon closer inspection, something is wrong. Fortunately, they all covered their cheeks with their paws.

"What's wrong with you?"

Lucky said in a hesitant voice: "Toothache!"

Boom! All fainted.

"toothache?"

Lucky nodded: "It hurts like hell!"

I asked him to lie down on the ground: "Open your mouth and let me see."

When Lucky opened his mouth, I saw that his gums were swollen like sausages, and there were air blisters in many places. "When did this start?"

"It started some time after Asuka came back, and it's getting more and more serious."

The mistress nodded beside her and said, "Oh! I'm the worst offender. I have toothaches in all three heads!"

Crystal said: "I don't just have toothache. There seems to be something wrong with my claws as well."

I looked at the crystal dragon claws, and there were blood stains where her claws connected to the flesh. It's obviously starting to go bad. But the powerful recovery ability of the Dragon Clan seems to have healed the wound again. So only blood and some rotten flesh were left.

"Little Dragon Girl, how are you?" The European Dragon Clan is pretty okay. I don’t know about the Chinese dragon.

Xiao Longnu was transforming into a human and sitting on the trunk of a fallen tree. She didn't even raise her head but just rubbed her temples with both hands. "I have a headache, and it's getting worse. It's best not to talk to me yet. The more I talk, the more it hurts!"

"Then stop talking and have a good rest."

Looking at the pioneer on the ground, he was obviously sick. His abdomen was rising and falling rapidly, as if he had difficulty breathing.

I turned around to look at the large rose vine and asked Phantom to ask him how he was doing. The rose vine said that he felt no discomfort as usual. Probably this virus is useless to plants.

Among the small familiars, Bai Lang and Shui Dart can no longer move. Bai Lang's problem was that his whole body ached, while Fei Dart had a high fever just like Xiao Chun.

Except for these few magic pets, other magic pets seem to be very good. The two Phoenixes were fine at all, and Tank and Red Thorn were as healthy as ever. After my analysis, this is roughly the situation. first. This is obviously an infectious disease, and it spreads very quickly. It seems to be airborne. At the same time, the applicability of this virus is quite limited, and so many living things have been infected. But not everything can be infected by this thing.

The fact that the rose vine is fine indicates that the virus is not effective against the plant. The fact that Phoenix is ​​fine means that the virus is afraid of high temperatures. The fact that Tank and Red Thorn are fine means that arthropods and insects are not afraid of this virus. In addition, pure spiritual beings and undead like Phantom should not be afraid of viruses. Otherwise, the sub-dragon cavalry should have fallen ill along with his mount.

I suddenly remembered that there was the Ice and Snow Queen and the God of Contract who said he would follow me as a familiar in the space gate, so I asked Scot through telepathic contact. It turned out that the Ice Queen was fine but the God of Contract was ill. . It seems that low temperature can suppress the virus, and God's identity is not immune.

"The president is in trouble." A member's voice suddenly sounded in the guild channel.

"what happened again?"

"Many spears in the guild cannot fly, and everyone's magic pets seem to have various problems in different situations, but some people's magic pets are fine."

"I understand, please turn off the communication first, I want to notify the guild." Really. It seems that our guild has gotten into something bad for some unknown reason. "Attention to all members of the Frost Rose Alliance, I am the president Ziri. Unless it is related to life safety, no matter what you are doing, stop immediately."

All the people in the guild stopped walking. This time I turned on the full channel notification. Overseas players in the guild can also receive messages conveyed by the players on duty next to the crystal communication machine. So many people seemed to freeze at the same time, waiting for my words.

I started by focusing my video camera on Lucky's tooth. "This is my first magic pet, Lucky. There is probably no one in this industry who doesn't know him, right? What you see now is his gums. It is obvious that he is sick. In fact, he is not the only one who is sick." I used The camera glanced at the defeated demon pets beside them. "Most of my demon pets have been hit."

When everyone was wondering why I was saying this, I continued: "My demon pet is not the only one who is sick. Many people's demon pets in the guild have already suffered from the same situation. Now it can be confirmed that this is a malignant infection. sick."

The people in the guild immediately started to get into chaos. Since we last played Prankster 2.0 in Japan, people all over the world know how powerful the virus is.

"Now everyone, please calm down. I want to explain something. Although we don't know the specific cause yet, we are working hard to find a solution. The top priority now is to reduce the coverage. At least we must ensure that people who are not infected do not get infected again."

Everyone nodded, this is a routine way to deal with large-scale epidemics.

"First of all, we need to understand the characteristics of this disease so that we can fight against it. The phenomenon discovered so far shows that this disease is airborne, because many magic pets who have not been in contact are also sick. At present, it seems that my magic pet Bird He was the first one to be infected, and he has already entered a deep coma, and the healing magic is completely ineffective."

After a moment of relief, I continued: "It is known that this disease has a wide range of infectious sources. I have speculated some ranges from the organisms that have been infected. This disease seems to be able to infect all higher organisms that have life, but because We haven't studied it in detail yet, so we don't know yet whether this is accurate or not. It has been confirmed among the creatures around us. Plants, arthropods, insects, incorporeal energy creatures, and undead creatures all have immunity to this disease. If If your magic pet is of these types, you can basically rest assured. In addition, I can basically confirm that immunity only protects the body from harm. It does not mean that it will not carry germs. At present, some of my magic pets seem to be I was infected, but I didn’t show any symptoms myself, so I guess just because I don’t get sick doesn’t mean I don’t carry germs.”

Eagle asked: "Where are we?"

I quickly said: "Yes, we players are another problem. So far, I am the only one who has been in contact with the virus for a long time. And there are a large group of people who have been in contact with the virus for a short time. I don't know if I don't get sick because the players are not affected or because My physique is immune. After a while, if everyone around me is fine, then there will be no problem. At this stage, I ask those players who have not summoned a magic pet today not to summon any more magic pets. It is absolutely safe in Fenglong Space, but only if you have not sent back infected magic pets. As far as I know, it seems that magic pets in Fenglong Space can also infect each other. Now please try not to come into contact with lay players. , if the virus spreads, it will be more difficult to control. Also, whoever finds a rescue method must notify it immediately. Okay, the notification ends here. Everyone, please act quickly."

Really, how could I be so unlucky to encounter such a tricky thing. Tomorrow I will help Michael kill that Nile. Now that the demon pet has fallen into a large area, I am still a carrier. This time it is really troublesome!

Because most of the demon pets were infected, I had to let Lucky endure the toothache and send us back to Isengard. As soon as I returned to the city, I was extremely busy. The entire Essinger turned into the most serious epidemic area. A large number of demon pets fell all over the ground, but I was lucky. Undead creatures account for the absolute majority among our guards here, and the order in the city is relatively normal.

An hour later, the situation happened again. Hongyue suddenly said that she had a headache, which eventually became more and more serious. In order to reduce her pain, I had to let her go offline first. It was useless to be online anyway. Less than half an hour after Hongyue fell, Ying was also dead, but he was different from Hongyue, he just had no strength all over his body. People are as soft as noodles. What follows is complete chaos. The players in our guild fell down one by one, and soon a large area fell.

Because of the flood, I had already ordered all ships to return to port. Therefore, almost no one in our bank is in the quarantine area. Although I have only been active in Essinger, people who have been in contact with me have traveled to other cities, so other cities have also been infected with the virus. None of the cities under our bank's name escaped, they were all hit. But unlike what I initially expected, people who are susceptible to the virus actually have antibodies.

I, who was the first to be infected, had no problems from beginning to end, and many other players in the guild also had no problems. The result of statistics is that the uninfected players cover all races, but there are two types of them. The first is complete racial resistance, of which Ah Wei and I are both members. We found that all players with vampire ancestry were fine. Perhaps this ancestry is undead and therefore not afraid of disease. Ah Wei is a necromancer, his race is ghost, and he also belongs to the undead system, so it's okay. In addition to undead, humans are also completely immune to the five elements of air, earth, water, fire, and spirit. Like familiars, energy creatures are naturally immune to toxins and diseases. In addition to these racial immunities, there are also specific groups of people within each race. Almost every race has individuals who are not afraid of viruses. But this seems to be a random result, because we can't find anything in common between these people to ensure that they will not be infected.

The large-scale outbreak of the epidemic in our bank did not end easily. Soon I received news that a large number of magic pets began to fall ill in a place called White City. It seemed that players, no matter what race they were, were more likely to be infected than magic pets. Pamper yourself more slowly. After problems occurred in White Rock City, problems occurred in Goddess City, and the source of infection was Michael. Xiaochun's situation is already obvious. Angels cannot resist viruses at all, even if they fall in love with goddesses. The Temple of Light was all destroyed within an hour, although the virus did not appear to cause death. But it knocked everyone down. Symptoms after infection by various organisms are different and completely irregular. Some people even feel hungry all the time after infection without pain or itching.

I sent Ling to take the monsters to Du Ling's home. I thought she would come back soon, but when Di Ling was carried back, she was carried back. Ling's illness turned out to be paralysis. She lost control of her whole body starting from her neck, and was eventually brought back by two monsters. But unfortunately, monsters have no immunity, and they failed to make it after sending Ling back. The two monsters fell ill together.

Judging from the information we have, the virus is completely out of control. Now unless a treatment is found, it will be completely over. I was worrying there, and a German player suddenly appeared next to me. "Is President Purple Sun going to be president?"

"Isn't Ashford also sick?" This man's logo was obviously from the Iron Crusaders, and I roughly guessed the situation when I saw him.

The player said in surprise: "How did you know?"

I pointed to the people lying on the ground next to me. "Our army is almost wiped out. How is Ashford doing?"

"Our president's magic pet fell ill. He himself also suffered from cramps all over his body. We had to tie him up like a mummy on a cross to stabilize his body. However, his brain was awake and his speech was normal. I just can’t control my body.”

"That's not bad. There are many people here who are more serious than this. Is anyone else infected besides your president?"

"The senior leadership of the guild has basically been tricked, otherwise I wouldn't have let me inform you! And not only our guild, but also some cities with which we have contacts have begun to have problems. And before the president fell ill, there were A secret envoy from France will meet with him, and if nothing else happens, the French will not be able to escape."

"This is terrible, it has become a global virus! By the way, are you okay?"

The player looked confused and said: "I don't know what happened. Most of the people in the guild fell down, but I didn't react at all."

"You are probably an antibody carrier. There are quite a few in our guild. Do you think I'm fine?"

"That's right! The president said you might be the source of infection, but why are you okay?"

"Because I am an antibody carrier like you. People like us can carry the virus, but we will not be affected."

"No wonder!" The player nodded: "Ah, that's right. Our president said he wants you to meet him over there."

"Okay then. But you have to wait a moment. It's a mess here and I need to make some arrangements."

"That's good for you. The operation of our city has been completely paralyzed. Even the mage in the Resurrection Hall has collapsed, but everyone is sick. Since no one is leveling up, no one needs to be resurrected."

I found Vina and asked her to help me manage the situation here first. Wei Na readily agreed and said she had it covered. In fact, many of her own temple guards also fell, and those fallen angels were as unable to fight against the virus as ordinary angels. On the contrary, low-level skeletons and disembodied ghosts are the safest.

After leaving Essinger, we first teleported to Tianyu City. It was not much better here. People were everywhere moaning, and the undead creatures in the city guards were helping the sick players to lie down in the room. The order I gave was for those who are sick, if they can't stay online normally, they should simply go offline. There is no use keeping them anyway. However, I asked them to let the undead NPC bring them back to their room before going offline, so as not to affect others.

I originally planned to use the teleportation array to go to the Iron Crusaders' city, but it turned out that the teleportation array was malfunctioning. It seemed that the person responsible for controlling it on the opposite side also fell ill.

When I used my wings to fly this player to the Iron Crusaders' city, it was already in chaos. Some players are sick and behave like crazy killing and destroying. It's like a neurosis, but there's actually nothing wrong with their brains, they just can't control their bodies like Ashford. Because the city of Ashford does not have as many undead souls as we do, so their side can be said to be filled with sorrow. The free NPCs in the city used to improve realism were lying all over the ground, and even the city guards fell among them. It seems that the outbreak here is more serious than ours.

The leading player and I almost tiptoed all the way from the crowd to Ashford. As soon as I entered the door, I couldn't help but laugh. I don't know who had the idea. Ashford was tied to the cross and placed opposite the door, as if he was suffering the crucifixion of Jesus. "Hahahaha! Why are you like this?"

"It's not all your fault!" Ashford gestured for me to sit down first and then continued: "After much thought, you are the most likely source of infection."

"I also know this, but the question is where I was infected. It is impossible for me to be infected without any help or reason. I must have been exposed to something sick and contracted the disease, but the problem is that I have no contact with it in my impression. Live this kind of thing!”

Ashford thought for a moment and said, "Who among your guilds got sick first?"

"Hongyue, she was the first to have problems."

"Then whose demon pet was the first creature to get sick?"

"The first creature to get sick was my own bird."

"So it's not wrong to say that you are indeed the source of infection. Then when do you estimate that Hongyue may be infected?"

"She must have been infected when I was chasing gourds, because she was the first to get sick, which means she was the first to be exposed. After that, I met many people one after another, and she was the only one who was alone with me when I was chasing gourds. It’s been a long time together.”

Ashford analyzed: "That means you were infected on the road. Generally speaking, you will not be infected while flying in the sky. Have you ever landed on the ground during the journey?"

"Landing?" I started to remember. "By the way, I landed once in Russia to intercept the gourd. I even called in tanks to help. Yes, I must have been exposed to the germ there. So Asuka was not infected by me, he was with me Those who entered the epidemic area and were directly infected."

"That's right." Ashford said: "Of course you are all infected. After you met me, I was also infected by you. When you returned to your guild, everyone else was infected. . And this thing seems to have collective consciousness. As long as someone nearby has an outbreak, some people who have not been infected for a long time will also develop the disease. So this thing is contagious the faster it gets."

"So I was indeed infected in Russia, but just knowing the place of origin is useless! The key now is to know how to treat it!"

Ashford said: "I tried all the medicines I could find, but they were completely ineffective."

I also said: "I have also experimented with all known healing magic. But the effect is zero, and I can't even delay it."

"Then what are we going to do? Are we going to let it spread like this? As far as I know, there are already people infected in countries such as Germany, France, China, Italy, and Russia. With the speed at which this thing is spreading, I believe it will take less than three days. The whole world is infected."

Suddenly I thought of a possible solution. "We Chinese have a view since ancient times that mutual growth and mutual restraint exist. Wherever venomous snakes are produced, there must be something that can detoxify the venom of these venomous snakes."

"You mean that since this thing came out of Russia, there must be plants or animals that can be used as antidotes growing in Russia, right?"

"That's roughly what it means. Although this method is not 100% accurate, it is better than blindly searching, right?"

Ashford nodded and said helplessly: "What else can we do if it's already like this?"

"Actually, I have a way to determine the location of the antidote 100%."

"You haven't said anything yet?" Ashford was also anxious.

"Isengard has a wishing platform called the Ruyi Altar. It is a super artifact that can definitely come true as long as you make a wish. But each wish has level restrictions, and the more advanced the wish, the harder it is to fulfill it. But if we just make a wish If you want to know the approximate scope of the antidote, it should be easier to solve."

"Then why don't you just make a wish for the antidote formula!" Ashford shouted excitedly.

I immediately retorted: "Is your head flooded? It must be difficult to fulfill such a high-level wish, just forget it in normal times. Now our guild is only left with defeated soldiers, what do you want me to use to complete the task?"

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