Similarly, witnessing this scene, Saya Takagi also bit her lips tightly, because this was her mother's true purpose.
Although this purpose hadn't been told to her initially, after her mother began speaking and providing stimulation, she realized what was going to happen.
Even though she knew the panacea was effective for Alice who had already been infected with the virus, and it seemed as long as it wasn't before completely becoming a corpse, it could be cured.
However, her mother's dangerous behavior still worried her greatly.
This was being directly bitten, not like Alice who had accidentally been cut by a sharp object and infected by touching corpse blood.
"Quick, drink it quickly, Mom!"
Saya Takagi couldn't help but cry out, because her mother hadn't drunk it yet. She knew what her mother was going to do.
To prove she was truly infected with the corpse virus and it was spreading, she wanted to wait until symptoms appeared before drinking.
No, she couldn't stand it and rushed forward, only to be thrown down by her father.
Moreover, her father also raised the blade in his hand, standing right behind her mother.
Once confirmed that she had completely become a corpse, he would personally kill his own wife.
"Mom, what are you waiting for? Drink it quickly!"
Her arm had already become obviously terrible, with veins clearly protruding and turning purple-black.
Then she suddenly spat up blood, making Saya Takagi's heart jump to her throat.
"Yes, indeed I can't drag this out any longer."
Murmuring this, Yuriko Takagi also clearly confirmed the terrifying erosion of the virus.
If she dragged it out further, her consciousness really wouldn't be able to resist. So she brought the panacea to her lips and drank it down in one gulp.
This kind of performance - not taking it first, but being bitten first then taking it - what if it ultimately failed?
Wouldn't this also be botched?
This was also experimental data, indicating the panacea was best drunk before being bitten, otherwise drinking it after being bitten couldn't be confirmed.
But if after being bitten with such obvious infection changes, drinking it and then recovering would be more impactful proof of this medicine's power.
The reason Yuriko Takagi personally served as the test subject was also because her daughter had already used it.
It wasn't that she completely trusted the drug's effectiveness, but if her daughter ultimately died from problems with the medicine, she would accompany her daughter and not let her be alone.
Hmm?
The intense dizziness in her brain was rapidly receding, and the body's pain was also quickly ebbing away like a tide.
The abnormality in her arm, which had originally become somewhat corpse-like with black patterns all over, was visibly rapidly fading away, even faster than the phenomena produced after viral infection.
Within a few breaths, her arm returned to normal.
Not only that, she also felt the wound was itchy and the bleeding was rapidly stopping.
It seemed what her daughter said about this also having rapid wound healing effects was true.
However, according to her daughter, this thing wasn't just for treating the corpse virus.
It was said to cure almost all diseases in the current world.
If this were true, it would simply be the miraculous divine elixir from myths that could cure all ailments.
Calling it panacea was quite fitting.
"Do you see?"
Souichiro Takagi's low and powerful words made everyone's eyes increasingly fervent.
This was right.
Although the fervor here was mostly eager desire for the medicine. If they weren't afraid of him, they would probably immediately start fighting over it.
But at least knowing there was medicine that could prevent the corpse virus gave them strong desire to survive for the future.
"And now, I need people to stand up and go with me to collect the raw materials to manufacture this!"
After these words, no one immediately stepped forward.
After ten seconds of silence, people began stepping forward one after another.
"Very good. These brave warriors who stepped forward will of course be the first to receive this medicine, and their families will also be given priority."
"This isn't fair..."
Again that sharp-faced woman - Saya Takagi couldn't help wanting to pull out her gun and blow this person away.
This woman said this was unfair to women, especially elderly people like her - elderly my ass.
If she remembered correctly, this woman was even younger than her mother. As for why she looked like such a super old hag, it could only be said that appearance reflected the heart - people with ugly hearts would have such ugly, old-looking faces.
This person tried to rally all the women, saying women should—
"Bang—"
The other party was permanently silenced, with a hole appearing in her head.
Everyone was also startled by this gunshot.
Saya Takagi, also startled, mechanically shifted her gaze toward the sound source and saw her mother's gun still slightly smoking.
Obviously, her mother had also couldn't stand this sharp, constantly troublemaking woman anymore.
Wait—
A main reason her mother acted was because of that guy.
Saya Takagi noticed his movement - putting his gun away.
This meant he had also lost patience. Wasting his time like this, he was probably about to go on a killing spree.
The gun he put away wasn't the one that fired bullets that could melt almost any material - that gun was too dangerous, one shot would affect many people.
The gun he was prepared to use was a handgun from this world, taken from personnel on the attack helicopter.
"If you want priority access to the medicine, then join the team. If you have opinions, sorry, we don't accept your opinions - you can only accept ours. If you don't accept, leave the Takagi house directly. If you keep making noise, you'll be permanently silenced!"
Her mother was no longer gentle, but had transformed into a cold queen.
So cool!
In a flash, there were ten minutes left before departure.
The team would split into two groups, one of which would be led by Ejie himself, and his group also included the original members.
Especially three of them were essential.
The glasses girl Saya Takagi who had obtained "hard drive" certification, school nurse Shizuka Marikawa who was familiar with medicines, and the kendo girl Saeko Busujima who had invited him to this world.
"Hmm?"
Ejie noticed an obvious change in Saeko Busujima who had just walked out of the room and couldn't help but pause.
That should have been at least D-class scale - how had it dropped by one and a half grades?
As for why he noticed this first - no helping it, it was just D-class objects that had helped with back-washing and performed even more subtle assistance in reducing blood pressure for a certain existence.
"I bound them with cloth strips, so it's easier to fight this way."
Seeing his confusion, she explained this way.
I see.
So she had called him over just now to help her.
Unfortunately, Saya Takagi had suddenly run over and pushed him out.
Suddenly, Ejie, whose hearing far exceeded these people's, heard a familiar motorcycle engine - the same roaring sound as the motorcycle that had been secretly following all along.
Walking to the balcony and looking toward the sound source, his pupils dilated as he captured the figure.
Were they only now coming to make formal contact with him?
Really a bit slow.
If possible, he would prefer to cooperate with Black Label - that side had more security guarantees and more comprehensive equipment than here.
Unfortunately, their headquarters wasn't in Tokonosu City, but in Hioka City.
If he had known when first invited to this world that the story from that work was also happening in this world and had set out immediately, he should have been able to reach that organization's location before the corpse outbreak.
However, he probably wouldn't have looked for Saya Takagi to try opening the "hard drive," so whether Black Label had anyone who could pass verification was hard to say.
If verification failed, it would be a wasted trip.
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