Random Hermitcraft Things [COMPLETED, MOVED TO NEW BOOK]

Corruption - Xisuma - Angst

Yes- I know I haven't updated in a full week, but I'm back now-
(I've been binge watching Ace Attorney if you're wandering)

Few things before going into the story (You can skip these if you want)

First things first I would like to thank BlueQuills_ for helping me beta read this! It was a big help since my vocabulary wasn't too big and my grammar was also pretty trash. So once again, ty friend! :D

Second of all, I'll probably start using [Author's POV] more than [Third Person POV] from now on, since usually my writing style is too biased and informal to be called [Third Person POV]

Lastly, I would just like to say that the poll is closed! Of course, the stories mentioned in the poll will take time to write, so please be patient. Also, if you're waiting for another part of the Poltergeist of mischief, then don't worry, part 3 will probably be out in 2 days. I just wanted to finish this one since I've been working on it for weeks 

And that's all, on to the story now :>
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/-+* Author's POV *+-\

X was looking through the admin panels, switching from looking at one to another, clearly distressed and confused.

"Still nothing?" Joe asked from beside him. He still was still wounded from 2 days ago, and was sitting down because of it.

"No, it's no use." X sighed as he deactivated his admin powers and turned to Joe, "This virus is very smart. It has probably hidden it's presence beforehand, before even entering the server."

"Well, can you at least identify what it is?"

"I can't really identify anything from this. This virus has some sort of force field protecting it's core data." X said while turning to Joe, "I couldn't even find anything about how it was affecting players that were killed by affected players, and how Bdubs even got the corruption in the first place. Seems like we can't just rely on admin commands for this." He sat down next to Joe and sighed. "We probably need to do some hard info gathering. We also can't really trust too many people, knowing that most of the server is now infected..."

-~[Flashback]~-

"Morning, Shashwammy!" 

Keralis greeted X, who was just wandering round and about the shopping district, looking for ingredients to use in his brewer.

"Ah! G'morning, Keralis." X returned the greeting as Keralis walked towards him.

"You won't believe what happened, Shashwammy!" Keralis said, seeming a bit more serious, "Earlier this morning, Bubbles was acting strange!"

"Bdubs, acting strange?" X raised an eyebrow as they continued walking.

"Yep yep! And it didn't even start just this morning. About 3 days ago, I beat him in a sleep-off!" Keralis informed him. "At first, I only thought it was because he was slow, but then right after, he told me that he no longer cared about sleeping!"

X stopped walking to process what was just said, and Keralis also stopped besides him, "Bdubs... no longer caring about sleeping?" he repeated in disbelief, "you're joking. There's no way Bdubs, the self-claimed sleep king, would stop being interested in sleeping!"