NOVEL NEXT Chapter 27
Companions of Shejia Town, we must accept this painful truth with heavy hearts—just moments ago, Miss Somezaki sacrificed her life.
In accordance with Miss Somezaki’s will, the shrine’s medical team promptly used the life support system to maintain her blood and oxygen circulation, preventing the degradation of vital functions. They harvested usable tissues and organs and extracted a large amount of blood.
The inner ring has fallen, with almost all villagers infected by the virus and turned into Rakshasa ghosts. To prevent the entire Cicada Hiding Town from being affected, Miss Somezaki had no choice but to end their lives.
Many people in Shejia Town originated from the inner ring. However, please do not blame Miss Somezaki; she has done enough for everyone.
She spent her fortune distributing clean drinking water and food to the inner ring, provided medical aid, and adopted many unfortunate children.
More importantly, she silently protected the entire Cicada Hiding Town, offering her blood every night to prevent genetic mutations in people.
Stay strong, everyone, don’t cry… Cheer up!
Miss Somezaki’s body has perished, but we can allow her to exist in another form.
The shrine’s research staff have removed her brain and backed up all the information inside. Although we currently cannot perfectly implant a human brain into a machine, we can make a robot mimic and learn from humans.
For now, please treat the robot as the real Miss Somezaki, and temporarily keep her death a secret from Genji Susa!
This measure is only due to current technological limitations. In the future, we will strive to create a new body for Miss Somezaki.
Although cloning technology is unethical and would have been vetoed by Miss Somezaki had she been alive, let’s not discuss this now.
Fortunately, all members of Shejia Town have consumed the Blood of the Gods and will not be infected by the virus. A dispatch team is currently headed to the inner ring to clean up the site and prevent the spread of the epidemic to the town.
The tasks at hand are as follows:
1. Use induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for in vitro directed differentiation, continuously generating blood cells of the “Blood of the Gods.”
With this technology, if we successfully replicate Miss Somezaki’s body in the future, she can be freed from the endless suffering of blood loss.
The mutation in the inner ring is a conspiracy. Miss Somezaki performed rituals every night, so such a large-scale epidemic should not have occurred. It’s likely someone intentionally triggered the virus mutation, making the God Blood Stone insufficient for suppression.
Previously, Miss Somezaki funded the inner ring’s working class and Shejia Town’s charities, and was reluctant to make everyone eat the day’s ration, so she never initiated the blood production project.
Now, the inner ring no longer needs aid, and we must immediately use the existing blood samples to create effective vaccines and blockers, permanently solving Cicada Hiding Town’s endemic disease.
2. The supervisors in the town council and the research institute’s higher-ups are not benevolent. We don’t know who’s behind them, their purpose, or their future actions. Therefore, it’s necessary to plant our own intelligence agents there.
Mr. Mikawa, we are sorry about Miss Yuzan’s situation. Thank you for informing us—the research institute’s vaccine is fake, actually implanting Oracle chips in people’s arms to monitor for virus infection or genetic mutation.
The former palace officer once donated blood samples to the research institute, hoping to benefit the entire Yeh Island, but the institute’s high-ups have always concealed the real progress of the experiments under the guise of “no successful experiments to date.”
Miss Somezaki wanted to know what the research institute intended to do with the “Blood of the Gods,” but she seemed reluctant to involve your junior, so she didn’t reveal much to him.
Now, no one can escape the threat on the island. At the critical moment, we need Susa-kun’s help to provide important information from the research institute. His field of study makes it easier to access the truth of the incident.
He has already consumed the Blood of the Gods, so he won’t end up like Mr. Kitayama and Miss Yuzan, becoming an experimental subject of the research institute.
3. We are not strong enough yet and need to recruit more talent to address food, water, and medical issues in North Yeh and the whole Cicada Hiding Town.
On Oguno Island, which once produced poison gas, the soil contains high levels of arsenic, severely contaminating groundwater and forcing residents to rely on externally supplied safe drinking water. The government spent a fortune to purify the soil, but it still contains high concentrations of toxins. There have also been several mustard gas and hydrogen cyanide poisoning incidents during the construction of the seawater bath and seawall.
The situation on Yeh Island is slightly better, at least North Yeh
above the hidden river has safe soil and water sources. However, the middle and lower reaches of the hidden river are not so optimistic.
Town residents can rely on high-precision water purifiers to filter bacteria, viruses, and harmful chemicals from water, but if they accidentally enter the inner ring or fall into the river, they won’t be so lucky.
If we don’t firmly hold technology in our hands, we can only be at the mercy of others. Do you all realize the severity of the problem?
Recruiting talent is something the Endomura Hall, Park Clinic, and other transportation stations have always been striving for. However, due to deliberately created bad rumors about Cicada Hiding Shrine, many teachers and students of the research institute are frightened, and there is even an assassination organization against the Divine Descendants in the town.
This is very unfair to Miss Somezaki, who has always worked tirelessly. It’s time to take action to eliminate the negative impact of the rumors.
We must infiltrate the Deicide organization, investigate all members, and track down their leaders.
Miss Kasahara was deeply affected by her brother’s disappearance and joined that organization, acting irrationally. In fact, Mr. Kasahara has been protected by the shrine since his escape to North Yeh, and Miss Somezaki never harmed him.
We can arrange for them to meet, bringing Miss Kasahara to our side as an informant for the shrine. Miss Somezaki said Miss Kasahara isn’t bad, just a bit reckless and impulsive.
We need enough people, money, food, weapons, and advanced technology. A tough battle is inevitable in the future; we must be well-prepared, digging deep holes, building high walls, and storing ample food.
There are good and bad people in the research institute and public organizations; be careful not to misjudge. We must first figure out who our friends and enemies are, then increase our friends and decrease our enemies.
Finally, let’s end today’s meeting with the song “Warsawianka.”