About three minutes later, the first transplant recipient ran head-on into the team led by Connors on the street.
Connors immediately had his men surround him.
Then, following the procedure Angel had explained earlier, he tapped the emblem. Several nearly invisible Nightmare Illusion Nodes drifted out. Some floated into the transplant recipient's brow, while others wove an inseparable invisible net around him.
The former controlled the transplant recipient's thoughts; the latter sealed off any virus leaking from his body.
The moment the transplant recipient was sealed within the invisible net, Angel saw the progress bar change.
It had originally been at 93%.
But the moment the man was contained, the decimal after the progress bar jumped forward, becoming 93.058%.
Seeing the progress bar change, Angel finally relaxed.
Sure enough, their guess had been right. Everyone who had received Harietta's organs was a potential virus carrier. Once Harietta died, those carriers could become new sources of infection.
Now that they had confirmed containment worked, all that remained was to search for the other transplant recipients step by step.
The countdown ticked away, second by second.
Connors and Schneider each led a team in searching for transplant recipients throughout Fourteenth Town, and their progress was extremely fast.
The progress bar was surging upward at a rate visible to the naked eye.
At first, Connors had worried they would encounter resistance. Many mutants were in poor mental states, difficult to communicate with, and even less likely to let themselves be taken away peacefully.
But after witnessing Nightmare Illusion's overwhelming control—
Connors let out a sigh of relief as well.
Every transplant recipient controlled by Nightmare Illusion voiced no objections and actively cooperated with their work.
Later, worried about their progress, Angel even had the controlled transplant recipients head to the care center themselves,