"Slap"
Rebecca turned her head stiffly like a robot to look at Ain, who was looking angry. She remembered how she had impulsively flung Ain's hand away earlier.
Ain almost fell on the deck. Rebecca awkwardly let go of Vic, picked Ain up and held her in her arms to comfort her, inevitably giving her a pampering of face wash, which made Ain whimper.
"Thump"
Just then, the sound of a heavy object hitting the deck rang out again. The group looked in the direction of the sound and saw Wendy lying on the deck, looking pained and with an unusually flushed face.
Vic reacted the fastest, flashing to Wendy's side and embracing Wendy upper body. By this time, Wendy had completely lost consciousness. Rebecca and the others then reacted and immediately surrounded her.
"What happened to Wendy? Why did she suddenly faint?" Rebecca asked in disbelief. You know, people like them who train every day rarely get sick; most of the time they need treatment for injuries.
"Her head is burning hot, she has a high fever, we need to bring it down quickly, or her brain will be damaged!" Vic touched Wendy's head and felt that the temperature was frighteningly high, definitely over 43 degrees Celsius. If it stayed there, her brain would definitely turn to mush.
"No wonder Konan said this morning that Wendy was like a little furnace last night. It turns out she had a fever. I thought she was just horny, so I didn't pay much attention to her flushed face!" Rebecca felt a little guilty, completely unaware of Wendy's unusual behavior.
"I'll go find the ship's doctor. You guys take Wendy back to her dorm and make sure she doesn't get any more sea breeze. Try to cool her down." Barnett remained relatively calm, saying only one sentence before heading off to find the ship's doctor. It was still early, and the doctor hadn't yet gone to the island to investigate addiction symptoms.
Vic quickly carried Wendy to her bed. The students they encountered along the way were all confused. She seemed fine yesterday, so how did she end up like this today? When someone came up to ask, Vic and Rebecca didn't have time to answer. Only Frodeku gave a brief explanation to everyone from behind.
" Vic, Wendy, could it be the same disease that Konan has? Konan said that many people on the island have this disease!" Rebecca was worried that Wendy had been affected by the Smoke Flower.
"Probably not. That kind of illness requires prolonged exposure to Smoke Flower. Wendy came with us, and she's only been exposed for a day at most. Even someone like Konan, who's not particularly healthy, hasn't gotten sick after that long. Wendy's body, which has been trained, will only be more resilient."
This is most likely inflammation caused by her previous serious injury, but this acute symptom doesn't seem like it. It's more likely a reaction caused by pollen from Smoke Flower getting into Wendy's wound. There's no point in speculating now; let's wait for the doctor to arrive. Go get some ice quickly; Wendy needs to get her fever down!"
Since transmigrating, Vic has never been sick. Even though he has a photographic memory, he has never studied medicine and is completely ignorant about it.
"Okay, I'm going right now!" Rebecca said as she ran off, leaving only Ain beside Vic.
" Vic, how about I use my abilities to restore Wendy first?" Ain asked, wanting to help when she saw Vic's furrowed brows.
"Not now, the doctor is on his way. We need to show him all of Wendy's symptoms so we can accurately diagnose what's wrong."
"Our physical condition is far superior to that of ordinary people, so we'll be fine in a little while! Your sister Wendy will get better soon, so don't worry!" Vic patted Ain's little head and smiled with relief.
At the very moment Wendy fainted, the Room of Authority of Pangaea Castle on the Red Line was also discussing the events in the Flower Kingdom.
"You all heard the phone call Kong gave me. What are your thoughts on this?"
"We've been working on getting more countries to Affiliated Nation the World Government. Since you're willing to pay the Heavenly Tribute, we can agree to that."
"But most of our intelligence agents who were sent there are dead. Only a few low-ranking members survived. Even the CP0 agent who Devil Fruit Awakening was killed. It's a loss for us, and we can't let this go like this!"
" Devil Fruit Awakening Zoan Fruit is no easy feat. Most users aren't prepared, and after Awakening, they lose their personality, becoming unfit even to be spies. They end up being sent to Impel Down be recycled."
We already have several people like that. Although we lost some men this time, we've achieved our goal, and that's enough. We have plenty of men.
"However, these intelligence agents were aware of their mission and did not leak information about our World Government, which is the most important thing."
"That's not necessarily true. Although it's said that Zephyr didn't go to the island at the time and didn't know what happened there, who can guarantee that it wasn't to protect that recruit named Vic?"
This matter needs to be thoroughly investigated. Aren't the CP people going to receive the Heavenly Tribute? Let them investigate while they're at it. Call Kong back and tell him not to let the training warship leave that area. We cannot allow our World Government's reputation to be tarnished!
"What we need to be wary of now is that recruit named Vic. He's definitely going to be a Admiral- level fighter in the future. This time he killed everyone, which strongly suggests he was trying to cover it up. And not everyone in CP is tough; he probably already knows the truth."
Moreover, he killed everyone knowing the truth, and now this powerful future force is turning against us? We don't need such an unstable and powerful force."
"Then let CP investigate. Even if he can't find anything, it's okay. We can give him a similar task in the future, and we can just check the results."
"This matter is over, there's no need to make a big fuss. The worst outcome is that the recruit named Vic finds out the truth."
But if his choice to kill to silence witnesses still indicates his desire to protect that small country, then it means he won't reveal the truth, and this is the worst possible outcome.
If he truly doesn't know the truth, then there's even less need to concern ourselves with it. But since we can investigate now, we should. Let's see what happens next. If he can save the country from crisis, then at least it shows that he still prioritizes justice. There are other people like that in the Navy, such as Garp.
Even if people like them know our methods, so what? They can still work for us. If we can't find out this time, we'll test them again later and then we'll know how to use them. Strong combat power is very scarce."
"Then let's do it this way. Let's pretend this never happened, and have CP secretly investigate what happened while they're at it."
Aside from the sound of a phone call, silence gradually fell Room of Authority.