Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 3736 Progress Doubts
Let’s put aside the question of whether or not it was copied.

Angel carefully read the introduction of this hidden mission, feeling both surprised and confused.

The surprise, of course, is the emergence of hidden tasks.

Originally, Angel thought that this time his work was in vain, because after he decided to prevent the virus from leaking out in advance, he could no longer accept either Henrietta's "No Survivors" mission or Dean Connors' "Death Town".

But Angel didn't expect that the power of wonderland would actually create a hidden task.

The prerequisite for this hidden mission is to discover the crisis in the Fourteenth Town in advance and choose to prevent the crisis from happening, which can be triggered.

And Ingres fits this premise perfectly.

He also didn't know whether the fairyland had set up this mechanism in advance or created it temporarily.

But no matter what, at least Angel has prevented the virus from leaking this time and no longer has to worry about not getting a reward.

Back to the task itself.

Angel's eyes were fixed on the "blocked progress" column.

The current progress was only 50%, which surprised Angel. Because according to his previous speculation, Henrietta was the key figure, and once she was controlled, the subsequent doomsday crisis should disappear.

But according to the progress, even though Henrietta was placed in a closed space and the virus could no longer leak out, the progress still did not reach 100%.

This means that Ingres' previous considerations may not have been comprehensive.

Controlling Henrietta alone is not enough to completely prevent the virus from leaking out.

Therefore, there must be other channels for leakage.

What Angel has to do now is to find all the loopholes and quickly plug them before the countdown ends!
……

The rooftop of the Beverly Nursing Center.

The sloping roof is covered with blue-gray tiles.

In the past, only earthquake pigeons that detected earthquakes had stopped here, but at this moment, there was a human figure standing silently on the only roof ridge in the middle of the roof.

This person was undoubtedly Ingres.

Because he was shielded by the nightmare illusion, Angel was not afraid of being seen.

He looked down at the dense, ant-like crowd in the nursing center below, and then looked outside the nursing center at the passers-by and vehicles coming and going.

"What do you think I should do?" Angel asked softly.

A small golden "囧囧" TV floated to Angel's head. After squinting his eyes and pondering for a moment, he said, "I still don't quite understand what the master means. Can the master really see the progress of the weird virus leakage?"

Angel looked at Turing who was floating beside him.

"Why do I see these progress? You will understand when you follow me out of the Modern City dungeon."

Seeing that the little TV still had question marks in its eyes, Angel reached out and patted its head gently: "You don't have to doubt anything that happened to me, let alone understand it deeply. You just need to believe what I say."

Turing thought about it, but unfortunately his thinking logic was not self-consistent and he couldn't figure it out.

Simply do not want to.

Turing: "If the current progress of prevention is only 50% as the master said, then in my opinion... the mutated Weird Virus may have already leaked out."

"If you want to stop it completely, you may need to use tougher measures."

"Tough measures?" Angel raised his eyebrows: "For example?"

Turing: "For example, notify the higher-ups at the homeless shelter and find a way to get them to send someone to seal off the entire Beverly Care Center."

"If the containment progress still does not reach 100% after the Beverly Nursing Center is sealed off, then we may have to seal off the entire Fourteenth Town."

At this point, Turing tilted his head and said, "But what needs to be solved now is how to make the higher-ups of the homeless house pay attention to what's happening here."

Turing didn't know how to do this either.

After all, what Angle said now, "The virus will leak out in two hours and no one in the town may survive," seemed too fantastic to Turing.

People in the nursing center below were crowded together, and it looked quite lively.

There is also a lot of traffic on the streets outside.

It doesn't look like the end of the world at all.

Under such circumstances, it was almost an impossible task to persuade the homeless house to dispatch a large number of soldiers to block the care center within two hours.

At least, Turing couldn't think of a way to do it at the moment.

In the face of Turing's confusion, Angel did not give an answer, but whispered: "Block the Beverly Nursing Center? This is indeed a way to test the progress bar."

Even if Turing had not proposed this method, Angle had thought about doing so.

After all, the mutants in the entire nursing center were visibly infected, and secondary mutations, which were rarely seen in other places, were almost the norm here.

Therefore, the weird-looking virus must already be present in their bodies.

But what Angel didn’t understand was… since they were already infected, why did the virus leakage described in the hidden mission causing the “doomsday” only happen after Henrietta’s death?

It was as if, as long as Henrietta was alive, she could control the virus in these people's bodies and prevent it from leaking out.

Angel shook his head, feeling that there was something strange going on, but he knew too little information and had no way of deducing the truth yet.

Let’s put the truth aside for now.

Now we can try Ling's suggestion and seal off the entire Beverly Nursing Center.

This is actually not difficult for Angel.

"Not difficult?" Turing was a little confused: "Could it be that the master also has connections in the wandering house?"

Angel shook his head: "You will know if you keep reading."

Under Turing's gaze, Angel slowly walked to the center of the roof, which was also the center of the entire Beverly Nursing Center.

Facing the breeze blowing from the underground cave wall, Angel slowly stretched out his hands. The cold wind blew his clothes and hair away, and every time his body moved, a large number of light spots that were invisible to the naked eye floated out.

It seemed as if at this moment, Ingres had become the source of countless points of light.

These points of light were like brilliant star sand, slowly dancing and spinning around him, as if weaving a dreamlike cocoon of light.

At the moment when the light spot emerged from the cocoon, a hand stretched out from the cocoon.

"Snapped--"

Snap your fingers.

All the light spots flew in all directions like fireflies.

More than half of these light spots that are invisible to the naked eye floated toward the periphery of the nursing center, and they weaved a huge light net for the entire nursing center along the outer wall.

The other half of the light spots turned into countless scattered dust and fell into the brows of everyone in the nursing center.

Whether they were patients, their families, security personnel, doctors, or even the parrots kept in the yard and the rats burrowing underground, they were all invaded by the light spots.

However, no one saw the whole process.

The only one who saw this scene was Turing.

In Turing's energy vision, the entire nursing center has been surrounded by hidden spots of light, from the surface to the underground, like a "spherical fortress", completely blocking the entire nursing center.

At this moment, although everyone in the nursing center could not see the blocked spherical barrier, they all chose to stay.

Even if the people in the barrier were ready to leave the previous second, they would decide not to leave the next second.

The people outside the barrier, who had originally planned to come in, turned around and left.

Everything is so natural.

In other words, in the eyes of those trapped in the besieged city, everything is self-consistent.

And this... is the master's great power?

"Great power?" Angel shook his head: "No, this is just some small application of illusion."

As he spoke, Angel snapped his fingers again.

After this "pop", nothing seemed to have changed.

But Turing discovered that, whereas he could vaguely see spots of light and barriers before, everything had now disappeared, as if the cocoon of light, barrier of light, dust rain of light... were all a dream.

Seeing a question mark on Turing's face, Angel casually explained: "It concealed the energy fluctuations for a while."

"Is that all?" Turing flapped his wings and flew to the edge of the roof, then looked down.

The entire nursing center looked the same as before, with not much difference, except that the door was closed and no one went in or out.

However, Turing felt inexplicably that… this was still a dynamic space, but the dynamics in the nursing center were very static…

"Dynamic and very static?" Angel glanced at Turing with a strange expression: "It seems that you need to continue observing and learning."

Turing nodded obediently.

"I just want to express my shock." Turing: "I originally thought that the blockade would require the cooperation of the higher-ups in the homeless house, but I didn't expect the owner to have such great power."

Turing originally thought that he could be a good helper to Ingres, but after seeing such an astonishing scene, he inexplicably felt guilty.

The master has the strength to push forward easily, and it seems that there is no need for its "wisdom"... Most importantly, its "wisdom" does not seem to be that good.

Just by thinking deeply about it, Turing felt that his thoughts seemed to be negative.

Angel looked at Turing who was spinning dizzy in the air, chuckled, shook his head, and said nothing.

Instead, he focused his eyes on the text column.

Previously, after he set up a sealed illusion outside the nursing center, he clearly noticed some fluctuations in the text column.

If nothing unexpected happens, the progress bar should have changed.

When Angel looked at the progress bar, he indeed found changes.

"Progress blocked: 93%. (When it reaches 100%, the task will be settled directly)"

Just by blocking the entire nursing center, the progress bar was increased by more than 40%.

Sure enough, the nursing home has become a drug den.

"Master, is there any change in the progress?" At this time, Turing also recovered from his dizziness and floated to Angel's side as soon as possible.

Angel nodded, "93%."

Turing: "Only 93%?"

There is still 7% progress left, which means that there is still a loophole in the mutated strange virus.

"So what is the master going to do next? Is the whole town going to be sealed off?"

Angel smiled and said, "Next, I plan to open the door."

Open the door?
Turing didn't understand at first, but the next second, he saw Angel pointed casually, and the door of the nursing center, which no one had approached, was opened again.

The person who wanted to leave just now also walked outside.

Turing: “???”

They had just sealed him off, so why did they suddenly let him go? Turing was puzzled.

Angel didn't explain, but watched the people leave while silently watching the changes in the progress bar.

He let these people leave, not really wanting to let them go, but wanting to see how the progress bar would change when these people walked out of the blockade area.

After his test.

He found that almost all people with skin infections would see their progress bar drop as soon as they left the hospital, indicating an increased risk.

As for ordinary people, family members, or patients without skin infections, there was no fluctuation in the progress bar when they left.

This means that Connors' previous lockdown measures were actually correct.

Skin infection is the key.

However, although Connors achieved the correct lockdown, "doomsday" still came when he followed the normal procedures.

This shows that he hasn't done enough.

The blockade was not thorough and some omissions occurred.

Angel could understand the former. After all, Connors couldn't use Nightmare to completely block all space like Angel did.

The latter, however, was a major mistake.

Ingres is not sure what is missing here, but there is no doubt that it is the remaining 7% of the progress bar!

……

"Master, are you really going to let them go?" Turing looked at the crowd gathering at the gate below. It seemed that more and more people were leaving the nursing center.

Angel: "Don't worry, I'm only releasing those who are not infected. Those who are already infected are still staying in the care center."

As for how to determine whether there is an infection.

You can tell by looking at the changes in the progress bar.

The progress bar displays to three decimal places, so Angel can accurately count every infected person.

Angel did not let go of all the uninfected people at once. Instead, he followed the "normal and reasonable" logic and decided that those who should leave would not stay in the care center before the countdown was over.

Angel has planned to make the nursing center a blockade area, so those who are not infected must leave first.

Avoid being infected without reason after the countdown ends.

After making the arrangements, Angel turned around, and with a flash of his shadow, he left the roof.

He planned to see Connors again.

Connors' help is still needed to arrange the containment of infected people in nursing centers and to find the 7% of missed cases.

This time, because everyone in the nursing center was under the control of Nightmare, even though Angel was not invisible, he was not stopped by anyone from beginning to end.

Even the security guards on the first floor acted as if they didn't see Angel.

We arrived at Connors' office smoothly.

This time, Connors was not the only one in the office, there were also several chief doctors including Schneider.

They seemed to be having a meeting.

Angel only had to glance at the minutes to understand that they were discussing the containment measures after Henrietta's death.

“There’s no need to discuss this.”

As soon as Ingres entered, he got straight to the point.

If it were before, everyone present might have questioned Angel's identity, but now that he was controlled by Yanhuan, no one questioned Angel's identity.

No one suspected why Ingres knew these things.

But let’s stick to the facts.

Angel did not enforce control over their thoughts, so when Angel proposed some inexplicable actions, they still expressed doubts.