Wandering Dragon (III)

In the world of pestilence, there was no shortage of ambitious and talented people.

Such people were often exceptionally gifted, possessing abilities beyond those of ordinary people. They were immensely confident in themselves and believed they would ride the tides of the age.

Twenty-Three led the Patient Association in its assault on Sovereign City, ushering in the era of Pestilence Revival. To ordinary people, this was a terrifying and perilous age, where one could be diseased at any moment. Even colossal regimes like the Six Nations of the continent might not be able to guarantee their citizens' survival.

Yet some people saw opportunity within it.

Chaos was the greatest opportunity of this era.

Northern Biopharmaceutical, spearheaded by the Xue Clan, the leaders of the three northern provinces of the Chengyun Dynasty, represented the largest merchants of plague extermination equipment and medicinal materials in Chengyun's north.

The Xue Clan saw the possibilities of the future. They gathered the major forces stationed in the north, preparing to snatch gains from the flames of the new era.

"Artificial pestilence was clearly one of their projects."

"If they manage to create it, then together with the Wheelcasting Mill's Plague-Slaying Blade weapons, the Xue Clan could absolutely form a special force like the [Artificial Pestilence Symbionts]."

Zhou Zhi was also a research-oriented Plague Exterminator, so he naturally understood. Though he had encountered so many Plague Exterminators along the way, training one was actually extremely difficult.

It was not merely a matter of pestilence knowledge; one also had to master combat techniques against pestilence. There were truly very few Plague Exterminators capable of fighting pestilence battles—take Wen Liuchun, for example. She had studied medicine, so how had she ended up wielding a scalpel to hack people apart?

Pestilence symbiosis could be considered a shortcut, but pestilence