As expected, more people started to return to the shelter that were missing, and despite Ko's orders to keep what happened into the faction base a secret. Word had gotten out to those in the Shelter as well. Rumors of a strange infection that took over peoples minds, making them attack anyone they could see.
Although the people were frightened by this, what it did do was stop them from asking questions about what happened to those returned. When they saw a group come back, now they had an idea why they were taken to the faction base.
However, the number of people that had returned was now over three hundred, and every single one of them had the mark on their body.
"Ko, what are we going to do?" One of the Orbus faction members asked while in the main office. "We are holding onto a ticking time bomb. More and more will eventually come. I know that we still outnumber them even if they all were to come, but the fact that they can infect others as well."
