Chapter 1197: Anchor
"Clementin was the name of a reservist in District 1," Victoria said. "During her Secondary Awakening training, the instructors discovered unusual bleeding and isolated her in the underground hospital for treatment. Then they observed a very typical Chelated Disease progression in Clementin, except her condition progressed far faster than normal. Treatment was completely ineffective, and she died soon after.
"Fortunately, aside from Clementin herself and several non-Quicksilver Needles researchers, no one else was infected during the process.
"At first, everyone thought the virus had come from the Chelated Being she trained with. But after that Chelated Being was executed, Isolde found no virus in its corpse either."
"So even now, we still don't know where this virus came from?"
"We're looking," Victoria replied. "Clementin previously went to intern around the Longtail Ocean. Maybe she brought it back from there... The new sample was isolated by Isolde from an aberrant. They say it's slightly less dangerous, but I haven't received the detailed report, so I don't know much yet."
Victoria paused briefly.
"However, Deep Anchor has a copy of this new sample as well."
For the next two days, Hesta remained at Awad Prison. Something also seemed to have happened within Mother City in District 12, and Office No. 2 ordered her and Victoria to stand by in the underground prison for the time being.
During that time, the two visited Arantida once. She was still alive—the execution order had been delayed for some reason.
While Victoria continuously handled new orders from Office No. 2, Hesta's thoughts had long since drifted back to the farm in the Emangria countryside.
Over the two days she had been away, Lairin had led the palace guard around under the pretext of testing the plantation's electrical load, cutting several incoming power