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「BIOLOGICALLY SPEAKING...」

Corruption syndrome seems to have its own consciousness in some way. It will force infected people to corrupt other people around them. Meaning if someone of your surroundings is infected, you will have many chances to be infected as well. Not everyone is equal face to it though, there are predispositions that can force more an infected person to infect someone else.

Some mecanisms to know.

First, infecting someone by introducing infected fluid in the brain is the surest method to infect them the most quickly possible. Reach central nervous system, either by the neck either by the center of the back where the vertebral column is, and you can be sure your victim will declare symptoms within seconds.

Once you touched black fluid, you are infected. This thing will penetrate the skin. It has the "power" to do so. Causing a wound near the place the fluid is penetrating the skin will only accelerate the process.

If you get infected, don't panic. This will reduce the chances to declare symptoms immediately. Panicking is really the worst thing to do. The syndrome is searching for you to have negative emotions. Don't give it what it wants.

The first thing the infected fluid will do is reach your brain and corrupt it. Some people will get infected pretty quickly, some others will try resisting, or even... Forget about the infection. It can happen. But it helped in the past. Another part of the fluid will go through some cells of your body and "trigger" in some way the production of a target that is created by changing some DNA to the victim. Once this change is done, you are considered as completely infected. In order to better access the cells, the fluid will just wait for you to have a mental weakness instant and force your body to produce more fluid. Not sure in which way it does that. But be sure: you are infected, even without psychological symptoms, you'll get physiological ones. You'll have more difficulties managing them if you are mentally weak.

Once the corruption has reached your brain, it will try taking control of it, or at least some parts of it, especially where your consciousness and your rationality are. And it will cause a serious havoc in the process.

If ever you start having:
- trouble vision
- hallucinations (visual or auditive such as whispers)
- consciousness management issues
- serious headaches that don't go away even after injection of painkiller (which should have resolved the issue within 2 minutes)
- nightmares with external infected fluid production

This means you're out of asymptomatic phase and just went to symptomatic phase.

Starting from there, you are at the mercy of the syndrome. It will just control you whenever it wants, mostly taking advantage of your mental weaknesses. This is also why mentally virgin persons can hardly resist it.

Apparently, the syndrome doesn't seem to kill the infected victim. It just uses their body as a "vessel". To contaminate more people.