Prime Material Plane—City of Husks
After sending Yi Chen and the others off, Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable led the other recruits brought over from the Plague Focal World to check into the hotel and quickly arranged recruit missions for them.
As long as these Sick Ones could produce results as soon as possible, or put in an especially outstanding performance, he could apply for another recruitment drive targeting the Plague Focal World sooner and shorten the time required to establish a connection between the worlds.
Unlike the Pharaoh, Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable was not pessimistic. He still believed the plane might be saved, and he placed great emphasis on this unmarked, extraordinarily special living world.
After personally visiting the Plague Focal World, he had discovered many powerful beings—many superpowered Sick Ones who could contend with gods without relying on divine godhood. The locals called them Plague Lords.
As for dealing with the Plague Lords, he did not intend to continue using a recruitment policy. Instead, he planned to pursue "equal cooperation." This would be put forward after several recruitment drives, once the higher-ups valued the Plague Focal World enough and were willing to offer sufficient sincerity when inviting those terrifying Plague Lords.
Just as Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable finished assigning missions to this batch of recruits and had rested for a day in the City of Husks, a staff member from the World Information Department suddenly came looking for him.
"Heavenly Venerable! It's urgent. Please come with me to the World Observation Room immediately!"
"What's the rush? Don't you have a god on duty over there?"
"This matter concerns you directly. The Simulated World Serial-1910 underwent two changes in its malignancy value an hour ago. As far as I know, you applied for three-day passes to that world for four