"That girl is a low-key introvert and would like some privacy during work, so, I installed a soundproof system for her, she can activate it anytime if she needs some privacy, I guess that's the reason..." said Ben, rather remorseful.
Hearing this, Chris frowned a bit and lightly patted Ben's shoulder.
"I know this doesn't help much but it's an accident, no one would have expected it." said Chris, trying to comfort Ben despite knowing it's pretty useless for the current situation.
"How is Silvia's condition right now? She will make it, right?" Sky asked, in a careful tone. Ben silently nodded.
"Fortunately, we stopped the ant's activities inside of her just in time before the ants infested her important organs. Although some of her other organs had pretty much been destroyed by those ants but... She will survive... Yeah." said Chris, a bit hesitant.
"Ah... That sounds... awful." said Sky.
"Mmm... And it will be a hard job to remove all the dead ants inside of her. Even for the infestation on Ruby's hand, Maria is still in the process of cleaning even after more than an hour." said Chris, rather troubled.
"Hah... I see. Anyway, the people from Alliance will be here in an hour. We should be preparing for their arrival by now. I had cleared up the dead bodies and separate those who are injured or infested by the ants from the healthy individuals. What should we do about them? I don't think we should let Alliance handle all this mess." said Sky.
"Well, I will check out on them after this, if we can't make it in time, we will let them take the twenty healthy individuals with them first." said Chris.
Sky quietly nodded...
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A short while later.
Sky and Chris had done with their discussion regarding the analysis results and are heading to the isolation room where they isolated all the injured and infested.
"Hey Chris! I had been wondering about something, I don't feel like I should ask it in front of Ben just now. Have you fully recovered from the after effects of your ultimate form? I mean, the symptoms of that after effect are still very obvious yesterday, are you sure you are alright now?" Sky asked, rather concerned.
"Well, even if I have not, I will have to. The situation right now doesn't allow me to have that after effect anymore." said Chris, who doesn't really give a proper answer to Sky, which makes Sky even more worried.
After they entered the isolation room, they started inspecting the condition of those wounded and infested, as well as giving some treatment to them according to their condition. Most of them gratefully accepted their help, while some questioning about their intentions of helping them since they are supposed to be enemies to them, and a few of them refused to accept their help.
"If you are wondering why are we still trying to save you despite of your invasion to our place, the damage caused by your invasion is not enough for us to end your life, while we believe you are having a good reason to invade our place. Furthermore, everyone of you here are remarkable fighters, it will be a waste if any of you lost your life to those pests again, twenty is enough." said Chris as he applied special healing magic on one of the armored men to stop the ant infestation.
Despite with all the great words, Sky detected a bit of shakiness in Chris's voice, but he chose to keep quiet and continue cleaning the dead ants out of one of the infested men.
They continued to treat all the infested and injured for another half an hour and they finally reached the last person who has the most serious injury and infestation among all the infested men, where almost half of his face is infested by the ants with blood oozing out from the ant holes. After Chris stopped the ant infestation with his special magic, he suddenly stopped his movements and stared at the man with trembling eyes.
"Chris? What's wrong? Are you alright?" Sky asked, rather worried.
Chris did not give any response to Sky while his eyes slowly turned red.
Then, without any warning, Chris blasted himself with a weak magic burst.
"Chris! What are you doing? Why are you hurting yourself?" Sky exclaimed, slightly shocked before holding Chris with both of his hands, trying to stop him from hurting himself even more.
"Don't worry... This level of magic burst wouldn't cause too much harm to my body." said Chris, who sounds like just regained his sanity.
"Chris, you need to take a rest now, you are not in a condition to handle all these messes. I can take over from here." said Sky as he forcibly dragged Chris out of the isolation room.
Surprisingly, Chris did not resist, he exited the isolation room after some brief disinfection and headed to his own room directly. Ben who had just gotten out of the laboratory saw Chris and followed him back into the room and locked the door.
Chris is lying on his bed while staring at the ceiling as his eyes are still trembling. His left hand is constantly rubbing and scratching on his right hand until the skin surface turned red and started to bleed. Ben immediately stopped him.
"Hah... I knew you were lying about your condition just now. If you need 'that' right now, I still have some in my stock." said Ben as he sighed.
"No... It's okay, it isn't that bad for now." said Chris in a slightly shaky voice...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might cause the writer to stop writing."
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