This was the largest general hospital, and there were still so survivors here.
In a sense, that was a good thing, but it was also a bad thing.
The good thing was that people were still alive. The more living people remained in the world, the more "human vitality" the world still had.
The bad thing was that when people had already fallen into despair, they were easily emotionally triggered and prone to irrational behavior.
So, once they saw that this team had real strength, they desperately wanted help.
If you couldn't keep them under control, they would keep nagging, and everything would beco difficult at every step.
As for this situation, they had anticipated it. So Saya and the others watched as a Takagi family mber walked over to those people.
This person was like a politician, the type who "knew how to talk," and was suited to the job of soothing people's emotions.
With that side handled, Saya's collection of pharmaceuticals began to proceed smoothly as well.
And the selection of dicines here was more complete, so she connected the "Eye" into her laptop and began preparing multiple formula sets.
She had to admit it. This "Eye" really was high-tech. The "Eye" was an extrely precious treasure.
She plugged it directly into computers that had been scrapped by the EMP attack, and sohow it could still read their data, even open the hospital's internal system.
Right now, Saya was also working on a special formula, sothing he had specifically reminded her to try.
He told her to make use of those extrely expensive drugs, the special dications ordinary people could never afford, and the kinds of drugs that normally weren't even used. She was to filter those out and feed them into the Earth Elixir manufacturing program, letting it analyze and derive new formulae.
And also those dicines that required refrigeration. Because of the EMP attack, the environntal temperature was shifting, and those drugs would quickly spoil and be ruined, so they needed to be added as well.
After that, she would use other drugs, building around the Earth Elixir manufacturing program, using Earth Elixir's formula as the baseline.
"Shizuka-sensei, what is this?"
"Oh, this is for…"
She also had Shizuka-sensei help, because Saya could only understand the drug descriptions at the literal level. She didn't know the targeted properties and professional specifics behind them.
For example, what reactions occurred between two drugs, and what the description ant in terms only industry professionals would understand. Of course she couldn't read that at a glance.
She could have the Earth Elixir system further interpret it and make it comprehensible to her, but that would cost even more ti.
With a professional like Shizuka-sensei on hand, who understood what those reactions and descriptions ant, they could save a great deal of effort.
In the blink of an eye—
"So this is what you call 'making a vaccine'?"
Mikoto stared at the scene in front of her in disbelief.
She had already seen them produce a vaccine in another general hospital before, and it had even been a group of high school students helping.
But now, watching the production process from this close distance, it was so outrageous that it felt like children playing house.
And the so-called raw materials for the vaccine really were just pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients.
It didn't even look like they needed rare materials. It was as if any dicine could be used as a material, so long as it was dicine.
It looked that simple?
How could that be possible.
The real secret had to be in that laptop in Saya's hands.
No, not the laptop.
That Hard Drive.
Suddenly, Mikoto frowned when she noticed sothing.
Three people were approaching. They looked like a nurse and a doctor from this hospital, plus a patient, or perhaps the patient's family mber.
They were probably coming to take so dicine.
That had happened before.
However, Mikoto sensed that these three were different. The closer they got, the more tense they looked, even frightened.
"Save …"
The voice ca out in a sobbing whimper, their face filled with terror.
"Stop. Answer !"
Mikoto raised her handgun at them imdiately, and with her other hand she slamd the door shut behind her.
She fired a warning shot, because they didn't stop.
That also proved sothing. They were being threatened by sothing so severe they dared to keep running straight into her muzzle.
Yet they only hesitated briefly, and then kept charging forward.
And at that mont, Mikoto noticed an earpiece hanging by their ear.
She understood. Soone was threatening them through the earpiece.
Threatening them with what?
Family?
No.
Mikoto's face changed drastically when she saw sothing. Sothing was bulging under their clothes, an odd outline in light and shadow.
A bomb?
Very likely.
So, should she shoot them?
But they were obviously innocent people being forced.
If she didn't shoot, then her own life was threatened, and so were the lives of the people behind her.
Damn it.
Bang—!
She pulled the trigger, but they still kept coming.
Because she hadn't hit them.
Because she still couldn't bring herself to shoot an innocent person.
She couldn't hesitate again.
At that mont, a streak of light flashed past Mikoto's side and struck the runner in the neck, piercing deep.
The one who threw it was Saeko.
She had been watching the corridor on the other side, noticed what was happening here, and acted without the slightest hesitation.
This woman was brutal.
No, it wasn't "brutal."
It was clear-headed judgnt. That person was dood either way, destined to beco a human bomb.
Since they were going to die regardless, it was better to end it sooner and keep their own side as safe as possible.
That was rational thinking based on the surrounding environnt.
Mikoto spun around imdiately and yanked open the door behind her.
"Bomb. Get down, now!"
As she shouted the warning, she slamd the door shut again, then lunged toward two people, tackling them to the floor.
What followed was not the heavy sound of the door closing.
It was a deafening explosion.
Just as Mikoto had expected.
The mastermind realized they could no longer push forward, and detonated the bomb.
In an instant, the entire pharmacy shook as if an earthquake had struck, chaos erupting everywhere.
At the sa ti, the glass wall on the sa side as the door shattered with a crash, fragnts spraying inward.
"W-what happened?"
"What exploded?"
"It hurts!"
…
The students and adults who had been helping to produce dicine panicked, and so were injured, crying out in pain.
After Mikoto adjusted first, she imdiately stood and looked toward the front of the pharmacy.
The door had been blasted open.
The explosion zone was a wreck, and the corridor walls on both sides had collapsed inward.
You could tell how terrifying the bomb's power had been.
"What the hell? A terrorist attack? Bastards!"
Saya cursed as she pushed herself up.
"Miss, c-cousin, we're under attack outside. What about inside? Are you alive?"
A warning ca through the radio, from one of their own.
So which bastards attacked them?
Saya's first thought was—
Syringe.
…
Outside, they were suddenly hit by a fierce barrage of fire from below.
The two guns opened up almost to the split second, and the ambush angles were perfectly symtrical.
This didn't look like human-operated fire.
It looked like preset, automated fire.
And the enemy was clever. The two fire positions could not be observed at the sa ti.
That ant no matter how you moved, one fire position would always be blocked by obstacles.
So you couldn't destroy both at once.
The result was that the vehicles loaded with dicine were turned into honeycombs.
Fine.
At that mont, his gaze locked onto soone who had brazenly appeared right in front of him.
A heavily built figure, covered head to toe in sothing like armor.
It looked like heavy powered armor at first glance, but it clearly wasn't. It was more like a layer of tal skin laminated over the entire body.
And the face was covered by a mask like sothing out of a nightmare.
Syringe. Confird.
"Winged Golden Horse Leech: A2, if that set can be used now, transmit it over here imdiately."
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