Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 341 Omissions but not omissions

The group remained stunned for a while before recovering from their shock.

Despite feeling unwell, 27 peered around cautiously, then hesitantly asked, "Do we still have to go in and look?"

Lu Wei hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted his teeth and nodded: "Go in, we must go in!"

He knew he had to take the lead, but when it came to actually doing it, he just couldn't bring himself to take the first step.

The group looked at each other, all hesitant, regardless of whether they had been to epidemic areas before.

"Maybe we should just forget about it," Luohan said hesitantly.

"What do you mean 'forget it'!" Lu Wei's eyes widened immediately. "This is a mission that must be completed. You think such a small difficulty can stump you?"

Luo Han vehemently argued, "If this were a bunker, I would charge up with a bomb without batting an eye, but this is different!"

This statement immediately won everyone's approval.

Even the most timid person would feel uneasy venturing into a church overgrown with mycelium and filled with countless spores suspended in the air.

Ouyang suggested, "It's just a pile of corpses, there's probably nothing to see, right? Why don't we look around first, and then go into the church if we don't find anything?"

Lu Wei breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, that's what we'll do!"

Ouyang had never been inside a church before, but he knew that the structure of this place was not as simple as it appeared in movies and television. With the naked eye, there was a vestibule in front of the main hall, a side hall on each side, and functional structures such as the apse.

They started with the auxiliary buildings, but instead of going inside, they smashed open the doors and windows and sent the drone in. They found that the side hall was also filled with the bodies of infected people, but the rear hall was different. There were two purification devices installed there, and several cardboard boxes were stacked against the wall.

The remaining space was transformed into a small factory by the apostles, with cardboard boxes and rice knives used for packaging scattered all over the table.

There were also some packed cardboard boxes piled up to the side, filling half a carton.

The conditions were quite basic, but everything that was necessary was there.

The tests showed that the spore concentration in the back chamber was very low, and Lu Wei immediately made a decision: "Let's go in and take a look!"

The door opened, and everyone filed in. Ouyang took a cardboard box, carefully opened it with a rice knife, and immediately saw a small half-box of spores.

He immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Whether or not there is evidence will not affect the determination of those above to strike at the apostles, but he still feels that it would be better to obtain concrete evidence.

A startled cry suddenly came from deep within the rear hall, and everyone turned to look.

"What's wrong?" 27 asked with concern.

Luohan pointed at the table in front of him, his face full of anger: "Look!"

Everyone immediately gathered around and discovered some lumps on the table covered with mycelium. They varied in size and shape, but the only thing they had in common was that they were all small.

There were also several unsealed cardboard boxes containing these fungal blocks.

But that's not the point. Among the scattered mushroom clumps, half a human leg covered in mycelium was clearly visible! The flesh above the knee was gone, and the cut was neat and clean, full of broken pieces of mycelium; the area below the knee was relatively intact, but the skin surface was covered with grayish-white spots.

Those are the marks left after picking the mushrooms!
Lu Wei suddenly felt a suffocating sensation, as if he couldn't breathe properly: "Is all of this human flesh?"

"No wonder they collected so many corpses." Ou Yang felt a strange sense of frustration.
The others were no better off; they were all shocked by the apostles' cruelty.

So it turns out that corpses aren't just used to produce spores, they can also be used directly as a source of infection. How could they even think of that!
But upon closer reflection, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

If a balloon carrying body parts flies across the ocean and lands on another continent, it can take root and grow even if no one picks it up, provided the environment is suitable, and eventually release spores, becoming a new source of infection.

The apostles' wickedness is beyond imagination!
Ouyang's face was extremely ugly, and an unnamed rage was burning in his heart. He wished he could wipe all the members of the Apostles from this world immediately!

The last thing that gave him this feeling was Unit 731.

"Stop looking, secure the evidence immediately!" Lu Wei ordered, and everyone immediately got to work, recording everything.

When the command center received the images from the front, everyone's understanding was refreshed by this shocking scene, even those who were used to the tragic scenes in the epidemic area.

Shortly after, the command center held a heated discussion about whether to preserve the church.

One view holds that this church is crucial evidence of the apostles' transgressions and perverse actions, and that all bacteria should be inactivated using technological means while the entire church is preserved.

Another viewpoint argues that while preserving the church has some positive aspects, Meadrin is located in South America, the region hardest hit by the pandemic, and it's impossible for our side to remain there indefinitely. Once the personnel are evacuated, the apostles have plenty of ways to destroy the church. If it cannot be preserved for long, there is no difference between keeping it or not.

Furthermore, the apostles have always been ruthless in their efforts to spread the epidemic. Although the apostles' spore factory has only been discovered in Maidelin, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There must be similar places in other areas. Rather than spending time and effort to preserve the church, it would be better to destroy it once and for all.

After all, this is South America, not the mainland of East America. If it weren't for cutting off the apostles' way of obtaining spores, there would be no need to destroy the church!

After the debate ended, Ouyang and the others, who were far away in Maidelin, received a notice to evacuate immediately.

Shortly after everyone left, a drone dropped an incendiary bomb on the church, instantly setting it ablaze and reducing the church and its hidden shadows to ashes.

This church also served as a reminder to the command center, and each group quickly received new orders to focus on similar buildings and report any abnormalities immediately.

The decision has been made: even if we have to erase Maiderin from the map, we cannot leave him to the apostles.

While Ouyang and his group discovered the church, other groups also made their progress, capturing some surviving apostle members. Although none of them were important figures, they still managed to extract some crucial information from them.

According to the prisoners' confessions, in addition to the city, the apostle had several camps in the rainforest, but he only knew that they existed and did not know their exact locations.

The rainforest is densely vegetated, with visibility less than ten meters, making it difficult to find hidden camps whether by air or ground reconnaissance.

But that's okay, the message itself is the most important thing.

The apostles did not hide in the rainforest to avoid disaster, but came to this place to achieve some purpose. It is impossible for them to hide forever, to cut off contact with the outside world, and to never light a fire!

As long as they dare to show their faces, we have plenty of ways to expose them!
In this way, the military deployed a large number of drones into the jungle and sent personnel to install monitoring equipment at key locations, ultimately creating a giant monitoring network with a radius of tens of kilometers centered on Maidelin.

Sparse, but not leaky.

(End of this chapter)