The world of Wasteland OL was not made up of isolated islands cut off from one another, but a seamless, continuous whole.
A typhoon in the Boro Sea could trigger torrential rain in the Baiyue Province.
After such a long closed beta, the players had long grown accustomed to the chain reactions of events across the wasteland. Thus, when Gale saw the Legion dumping corpses into the river, he immediately thought of the impact the viruses carried by those bodies might have on downstream settlements.
After consulting Mammoth University researchers, Fang Chang promptly passed the news on to Absek, hoping the Boro authorities would prepare for a potential epidemic.
Unfortunately, faced with an overwhelming pile of affairs and endless factional infighting, Absek clearly did not take the matter seriously enough.
He agreed verbally and did assign the matter to the health commissioner, but neither man appeared to take this "minor issue" to heart.
To be fair, it was not entirely his fault for being inattentive.
The players' understanding of viruses was completely different from that of wasteland survivors.
After all, infectious diseases had already become rare in the Human Alliance era, and for the Boro People living on the Red Earth, they were even less of a concern.
The Alliance's volunteers occasionally came down with colds from not acclimating properly. Even awakened ones like Big Eyes had caught a cold once.
Yet after living there for so long, Absek had only heard of people starving to death or dying in poverty. He had never heard of anyone being killed by a virus.
The greatest legacy the Human Alliance had left its children was actually hidden within every person's DNA.
It was the product of controlled evolution.
Even if human civilization had stagnated, naturally occurring viruses would probably need at least