dmims Chapter 6 Omens
Chapter 6 Omens
After leaving the Fuling Knife Hall, Lu Fan and Lei Yun said their goodbyes.
Lei Yun patted his chest and assured the curator that he would definitely persuade the curator to accept him as a formal disciple.
Lu Fan remained noncommittal. In any case, he had a player panel and had already learned the Black Tiger Blade Technique, so he had a direction for future upgrades. Whether or not he learned the Fortune Spirit Blade Technique was no longer important.
After saying goodbye, Lu Fan walked down the street as night fell, surrounded by a constant stream of traffic.
At this moment, my stomach started growling.
"I've been busy all day, and it's already dinnertime..."
"Let's finish dinner first, then go to the Second People's Hospital to complete the exploration mission."
Lu Fan rubbed his stomach and went into a Sichuan restaurant on the street.
The Sichuan restaurant was doing very well. Although there were only a few tables, they were almost full. Lu Fan finally found an empty table in the corner, picked up the menu and ordered a boiled pork slices and stir-fried pork with chili peppers from the waiter.
When the boiled pork slices were served, the red oil soaked into the meat slices, and a rich aroma wafted into Lu Fan's nose, greatly increasing his appetite. He couldn't help but pick up his rice bowl and put the meat slices into his mouth one by one with his chopsticks.
Spicy and refreshing slices of meat paired with rice make for a delicious and satisfying meal, full of carbohydrates and the joy of eating meat.
Soon, a bowl of rice was gone.
Lu Fan got up and got another bowl of rice. Just as he was about to continue eating, he heard the people at the next table talking loudly.
"I can't keep up with stock trading these days!"
"All stocks are plummeting; there are more people selling than ants!"
"A lush green expanse, so green it fills me with sorrow..."
The speaker meant no harm, but the listener took it to heart. Lu Fan couldn't help but look at the person who spoke. He was a middle-aged man who appeared to be in his forties, with some signs of receding hairline. He wore glasses and looked quite refined. He was pointing at the screen of his phone, pouring out his troubles to the guests at the table.
"All the stocks I bought have plummeted; I'm completely trapped in the stock market!"
"It's really weird. Just a week ago, the stock market was a bull market, with almost every stock rising. How did it turn into a bear market where all stocks plummeted in just one week?"
"It's as if those big investors and investment institutions made a pact to sell off their stocks in the recent period."
The middle-aged man spoke with great enthusiasm, and finally, unable to contain his anger, he slammed his fist on the table.
"I've been in the stock market for so many years, and I've never seen such a bizarre market trend!"
A mass sell-off of stocks?
Lu Fan felt a chill run down his spine, and a reasonable guess began to form in his mind.
Humanity's elite have some premonition of the apocalypse, so they will collectively sell their stocks and convert these assets into cash, or more likely, gold, since "antiques are valued in prosperous times, and gold in chaotic times."
As if to confirm this, the television hanging inside the Sichuan restaurant was broadcasting the evening news:
"It is reported that the rise in gold prices has broken historical highs."
"The value of one gram of gold has now exceeded one thousand federal dollars!"
"The phenomenal surge in gold prices coupled with the stock market crash are hailed as a once-in-a-century spectacle..."
"Military exercises in various provinces have entered the preparatory stage. This nationwide exercise will cover 21 provinces."
A beautiful female host is talking eloquently in front of the television.
Upon hearing this information, Lu Fan became even more certain that the rise in gold prices was inextricably linked to people selling stocks. Upper-class individuals had sold off large amounts of stocks, converting them into gold to carry with them or store in vaults.
The end times are really coming soon.
Knowing this, Lu Fan's mood grew even heavier. If the Eastern Federation could predict the impending disaster, why didn't they announce it? There was probably only one reason: they also had no way to survive the disaster.
The only option is to conceal the information and avoid causing widespread social panic.
Even the Eastern Federation, a state-run machine, lacked confidence in surviving the apocalypse; how much certainty could one person have on their own?
All I can do is increase my strength as quickly as possible before the end of the world comes.
The player panel is your biggest trump card for survival.
Completing the task is the top priority.
With a heavy heart, Lu Fan quickly finished his second bowl of rice, cleaned up the dishes on his plate, paid fifty-nine yuan, and left the Sichuan restaurant.
Behind him, the middle-aged man continued his loud and boisterous talk, completely oblivious to the omens of the impending apocalypse.
...........
Standing on the side of the road, Lu Fan took out his phone and used Didi to call a ride-hailing car.
Soon, the black sedan pulled up in front of him.
Lu Fan got into the car, gave the last four digits of his mobile phone number, and headed straight for the Second People's Hospital.
The driver ahead stepped on the gas, and the black sedan merged into the traffic, heading towards its destination.
A dozen minutes later, in front of the Second People's Hospital.
Lu Fan got out of the ride-hailing car and looked at the People's Hospital in front of him, feeling somewhat uneasy.
After all, according to the mission description, the target of this mission is the Mother Monarch among the zombies.
【The Mother Monarch in the Hospital (Lv.5)】
Difficulty level: Lv.5
Mission objective: To spy on the Mother Monarch.
Completion Rewards: 400 experience points, Bronze Treasure Chest (guaranteed reward)
[Mission Brief: On the first night of the virus outbreak, a Mother Sovereign was born in the Second People's Hospital. Investigate her situation to receive the mission reward!]
According to the mission description, the Mother Monarch is definitely stronger than the elite zombies.
After all, Lu Fan's mission to fight the elite zombie was at difficulty level Lv.3, while this mission to explore the Mother Monarch, which only requires a few glances at the opponent, requires a difficulty level of Lv.5, which is much higher than that of the elite zombie mission.
It's easy to imagine how terrifying the Mother Monarch's power is.
Fortunately, the mental disability panel is set to three days later.
In other words, the current mother monarch has not yet fully developed and is still an ordinary human being.
This gave Lu Fan the opportunity to spy on the other party.
With a sense of caution, Lu Fan stepped into the hospital and headed towards the inpatient area.
Although we don't know the location of the Mother Monarch, we can be sure of one thing: the other party is definitely a long-term resident of the hospital, and could not be someone who came to the emergency room or to visit a patient. Otherwise, the other party would not be inside the hospital.
After all, the mental disability panel can pinpoint the location three days in advance. The mission location is inside a hospital, which means that the other party has been in the hospital for at least three days and belongs to the resident patient group.
That's why Lu Fan went straight to the inpatient area.
Although the inpatient area is large, it is all in the same building. As long as Lu Fan sweeps through each floor and spends some time, he will eventually find the true form of the Mother Monarch.
With this in mind, Lu Fan began to wander around the hospital ward.
After scanning the first floor, Lu Fan opened the player panel, and sure enough, a notification appeared on the panel.
[Warning: You are surrounded by low-level zombies. Please proceed with caution!]
[Warning: You are surrounded by low-level zombies. Please proceed with caution!]
[Hint: Your surroundings.......]
The patients and nurses on the first floor have all turned into low-level zombies. As expected of the birthplace of the Mother Monarch, the entire area has become a zombie paradise and a forbidden zone for human life.
However, the prompt advised Lu Fan to act cautiously, rather than to carefully distance himself.
This is different from when Lu Fan first awakened the panel, because when Lu Fan awakened the panel in the lecture hall, the prompt was that low-level zombies were very dangerous and that Lu Fan should stay away as soon as possible.
Because my strength has improved, after taking the Z-virus antibody drug, my strength and physique have been enhanced, and I have also mastered the Black Tiger Blade Technique, my combat power has increased significantly, so the panel is just telling me to act cautiously? Lu Fan seemed to understand. It seems that the panel is quite intelligent and can accurately compare the combat power of both sides.
This is good news, indicating that their combat strength is improving.
Next, Lu Fan searched through the first level but did not find the true form of the Mother Monarch.
Lu Fan was not discouraged and continued towards the second level.
The second-floor inpatient ward was not much different from the downstairs area; it was still filled with a large group of "low-level zombies." They were all patients or medical staff in the inpatient ward who had become low-level zombies when the apocalypse broke out.
The more Lu Fan read, the heavier his heart became.
He had no good solution to any of this.
You can't just grab anyone and say, "The apocalypse is coming in three days, you shouldn't stay in the hospital."
In that case, I'll definitely be mistaken for a mentally ill person.
Even if a few individuals do believe it, one must consider whether the police of the Eastern Federation will take action against him after he leaks high-level secrets. If he is imprisoned, that would be quite a mess.
Lu Fan is not a saint and has no intention of sacrificing himself for others.
All he wanted was to save his own life and protect his sister in the impending apocalypse.
As for the others, they were not related to him, and Lu Fan did not have the saintly idea of saving everyone.
Therefore, Lu Fan could only keep the secret and quietly wait for the end of the world to arrive.
Sweeping up floor by floor, Lu Fan soon arrived at the seventh-floor inpatient ward.
Suddenly, the notification on the panel he opened changed—
[Warning: You are surrounded by elite zombies. Please get away as soon as possible!]
[Warning: You are surrounded by elite zombies. Please get away as soon as possible!]
[Hint: Your surroundings.......]
Elite zombies? Lu Fan's face lit up with joy; this was important news.
Since the Mother Monarch was born in the hospital ward, it means that there should be a group of guards around it, just like the cruisers that accompany an aircraft carrier, which are the so-called elite zombies.
These zombies, infected by the mother, are definitely much more powerful than ordinary zombies.
It's no surprise that he was promoted to an elite zombie.
The appearance of a large number of elite zombies means that one is not far from the Mother Monarch.
As for the message on the panel to get away as soon as possible, it's probably because there are too many elite zombies, and the panel determines that you can't handle them all at once, unlike the one-on-one situation in the martial arts hall.
Lu Fan ignored the panel prompts and quickly walked through the entire seventh floor.
As he went deeper, medical staff passed by one after another, and on both sides were inpatient wards. One after another, inpatients appeared in his field of vision, but none of the panels indicated that the mother body had been found.
Just as he was nearing the end of the seventh floor, a notification sound suddenly rang in Lu Fan's ears.
[Warning: The Mother Sovereign has been detected. Please escape as quickly as possible!!!]
[Warning: The Mother Sovereign has been detected. Please escape as quickly as possible!!!]
[Hint: The mother monarch has been detected...]
"Have we discovered the Mother Sovereign?" Lu Fan paused for a moment, then a look of joy appeared on his face.
The next second, he turned to look at the ward on his right, because at the end of the corridor, there was only one ward on his right, and without a doubt, the Mother Monarch was in the ward on his right.
When Lu Fan looked into the ward through the open door.
He saw two empty beds, and on the innermost bed, a beautiful pregnant woman with a large belly.
The pregnant woman was around thirty years old, exuding a mature, sophisticated aura. Her looks would be rated six out of ten; she was a pretty woman of delicate beauty. However, her belly was quite large, indicating that she was nearing her due date.
Without a doubt, this pregnant woman is the sovereign of the womb.