Caught Cheating, Lose a Hand

Several children of seven or eight were chasing a ball down the street.

One little boy was running hard enough to be drenched in sweat. He laughed as he kept scratching at his neck. Perhaps he had scratched it until it itched even more, because he tugged at his collar, revealing several fine cracks along the side of his neck.

Those cracks did not look like ordinary dry skin. Their edges had already faintly turned grayish white.

[Current Status: Scale Plague (Early Stage).]

[Infection Chain: Level 4 Exposure Carrier.]

The little boy quickly ran off after his companions again.

No one by the roadside found anything strange. Even the child himself only took the discomfort in his neck for an ordinary itch.

Ling Chu frowned. You really wouldn't know if you didn't look.

Black Reef Island still appeared lively and prosperous on the surface. Casinos, taverns, and shops were all operating as usual, but the plague had already silently spread through the crowds.

From Level 1 to Level 3, then Level 4.

No one knew how many infected people were already in the city.

"Follow that girl from earlier," Ling Chu said.

You Jiali asked, "Is there something wrong with her?"

"I checked with the blindfold earlier." Ling Chu lowered her voice as she walked. "She has an infectious disease called Scale Plague, and it has already reached the middle stage. When she bumped into me just now, what I saw wasn't an illusion either. Fish scales had already grown on her neck."

"So you want to save her?"

"Let's see first."

Ling Chu was not kind enough to run off and save a stranger she had bumped into on the street while ignoring Lucas's situation.

What truly concerned her was another piece of information on the girl's