After measuring the ability threshold, Ming Guang and Zhou Xiangzhe wanted to send Shen Wang back.
On the way, Ming Guang introduced himself. It was the first time that Shen Wang learned that he was the vice-captain of Polaris and a B-level mutant with the talent [No Passage].
“Polaris is on vacation now. I will introduce you to the rest of the teammates next time we go out of the city.” Ming Guang said while driving.
“They are all good people and easy to get along with.”
Shen Wang didn’t feel much about meeting his teammates. To be honest, he hadn’t had friends since he was a child. The only one who could be considered a friend was a child of the orphanage. At that time, they didn’t have names, and they were all called by serial numbers. He was Little Fifteen1, and the child was one year older than him, Little Seven2.
After that, the orphanage was gone, and he often lived in the hospital. His irritable temper during the onset period was enough to discourage all the children who wanted to make friends with him just because he looked good.
So he gave up the idea of making friends and had fun playing by himself every day.
“Captain Zhou doesn’t have many friends. Everyone in the team is afraid of him and doesn’t dare to talk to him.” Ming Guang said with a smile: “In the end, I am the only friend of the most popular S-level mutant in Central City.”
“You don’t need many friends.” Zhou Xiangzhe was unusually calm, “And it’s not that I don’t have friends except you. I have also received gifts from friends.”
“That umbrella?” Ming guang sighed, “Look at you, an umbrella has made you remember it for so long.”
Ming guang asked Shen Wang, “Would you give an umbrella as a gift to your friends?”
“What a coincidence.” Shen Wang rarely had a trace of nostalgia, and he said: “I did.”
Little Seven always couldn’t get an umbrella. After all, there were only two umbrellas in the orphanage but dozens of children. He didn’t fight or compete, and his personality was too good. He was always willing to give his things to others, so he always suffered losses. All the good things didn’t go to him, even if it was just a shabby little umbrella.
But Little Seven would always wait for him outside to make sure that the first thing Little Fifteen would see when he came back was him. So every time Shen Wang came back from the hospital, he would see him squatting at the door of the orphanage, and his whole body would be wet when it rained.
Even if he sneezed because of the cold, he would smile at Shen Wang, and his eyes would be bright as he wanted to hold his hand.
This is why he asked the nurse for a disposable small umbrella, which didn’t cost much. Shen Wang was cute and cute, so the nurse gave it to him when he acted coquettishly.
When he went back, Shen Wang gave the umbrella to Little Seven, so that he would not be rained on while waiting for him.
Little Seven told Shen Wang that it was his happiest day.
“Captain Zhou, we are very destined to be together.”
Shen Wang said jokingly, “I sang songs for my friends, and your friends sang for you. I gave umbrellas to my friends, and your friends gave you umbrellas.”
“If you didn’t look like him at all, I would think you were my friend.”
The car was quiet for a few seconds.
Finally, Zhou Xiangzhe answered, “Well, what a coincidence.”
His tone did not change, as if the previous conversation did not bring any impact on him, but Ming Guang regretted bringing up this topic.
Zhou Xiangzhe’s original appearance was not like this, it was without long silver hair and a pair of golden eyes. This was actually the price he paid for killing a S-level pollutant. It caused him to lose a lot, including his original appearance. No one would connect him now with him from three years ago.
That’s why Shen Wang couldn’t recognize him and didn’t know that he was Little Seven from Galaxy Orphanage.
Ming Guang sighed imperceptibly. He wanted to point it out directly, but Zhou Xiangzhe was obviously unwilling. He was still worried that Shen Wang changed his identity because he didn’t like his past.
The orphanage was Zhou Xiangzhe’s nightmare, but he didn’t want this past to become Shen Wang’s nightmare.
He continued to drive the car. In order to ease the atmosphere in the car, Ming Guang reached out to turn on the radio.
But I don’t know if it was because of the signal problem, the radio was turned on and a piece of noise came out.
“… Listen… Patrol… Real community… Lost…”
“What’s the sound quality?” Ming Guang frowned. He continued to adjust the channel, trying to make the sound clearer.
Shen Wang looked over and was a little curious about the car radio. “Is there a music channel? Can I order songs?”
“How can there be such a thing!”
A large number of songs from the old era were lost. After the apocalypse, due to the large-scale population loss, singing and dancing entertainment was close to decline. The car radio was more of a notification platform.
Zhou Xiangzhe reached out to pull Shen Wang back, “Don’t stand up suddenly, it’s dangerous.”
“I have music tapes at home, sit still, I’ll give them to you when I get back.”
“Really?”
“It’s true.” Ming Guang answered for Zhou Xiangzhe while adjusting the radio: “In addition to eliminating pollutants, Polaris will also clean up new areas. Every time he arrives at a new place, he will collect music products, including musical instruments and CDs. Everyone in the team knows it.”
Ming Guang muttered softly, “I used to be curious why he would collect such things if he didn’t listen to music, but now I know.”
This man is collecting for others!
Ming Guang, while complaining about his captain in his heart, turned the tuning and soon the sound became much clearer than before.
“Is anyone… here?… Qianzhen… help!”
Ming Guang slammed on the brakes, and Zhou Xiangzhe quickly stood up.
“Help?” Ming Guang looked at the radio channel number in front of him, “Is this a distress signal?”
Zhou Xiangzhe checked the communication equipment, “The equipment did not cut in the distress signal, where did this broadcast come from?”
“I don’t know, but I can try to adjust it to make the sound clearer.”
Ming Guang continued to adjust on the spot, and the noise was slowly cleared out, and soon the human voice could finally be heard clearly.
“Excuse me, can anyone hear it? This is the 13th Street Patrol of the Guard, Formation 337. We are on a mission to investigate the Qianzhen Community. The seven of us encountered Class C pollutants in the community and have lost contact with the outside world. Help, help!”
“Does anyone hear it? Qianzhen Community, help! Save us!”
With a ding-dong sound, the pollution detector installed in the car sounded an alarm.
[Warning! Environmental pollution has increased, and there are pollutants nearby! Nearby staff, please go and clean it up immediately! ]
“Pollutants?” Shen Wang listened to the radio, “Is this a pollutant that spreads pollution through sound or simply through radio?”
Shen Wang asked the right question. If it was the latter, then there was nothing to worry about this pollutant, just turn off the car radio, but if it was the former… No one wanted to know how many casualties a pollutant that can spread pollution through sound can cause.
“I found it.” Ming Guang said.
“This place was marked as an unknown pollutant. It appeared about three months ago. Someone passing by here called the police and heard the cry for help. The guards sent people to come and found nothing unusual, but soon, all the people who called the police and heard the cry for help disappeared, including the guards who came to investigate.”
Hearing this, Shen Wang asked: “Then will we disappear together?”
“There should be a limit.” Zhou Xiangzhe answered him, “The pollution ability of low-level pollutants won’t affect high-level mutants.”
The words of help were still repeated in the car radio.
It should be a man, perhaps very young, his voice was full of sadness, even with a crying tone, full of despair of not being able to ask for help or even for being ignored after asking for help.
“Qianzhen Community, Class C pollutants, please help.”
“Does anyone hear us? We have 7 victims here, please help us!”
“We can’t hold on for much longer, hurry up, please hurry up!”
With a click, a strange sound came from the side.
Shen Wang turned his head to look at the place where the sound came from, but saw a pale face. It was a woman, wearing a blood-stained white dress. She was clinging to the car window like a ghost in a horror movie, and her dark and empty eyes stared at Shen Wang through a cold car window.
After staring at each other for a few seconds, the woman smiled at him. How to describe that smile? It was strange.
“A class C pollutant.” Shen Wang suddenly spoke.
Zhou Xiangzhe and Ming Guang, who were listening to the radio, looked at Shen Wang at the same time. They saw Shen Wang turned his head and looked out the window. Outside the transparent car glass there was only an empty wilderness.
“I saw her.” Shen Wang put his hand on the car window, “It seems that it will only pull people below Class C in.”
Zhou Xiangzhe instantly understood what Shen Wang meant. He immediately stood up and wanted to grab Shen Wang, but before he could grab the corner of Shen Wang’s clothes, he disappeared in front of him.
Zhou Xiangzhe grabbed nothing.
“F*ck!” Ming Guang shouted, accompanied by the mechanical sound of the pollution detector.
“The pollution level has returned to normal. Thank you for the staff’s efforts.”
Zhou Xiangzhe took his hand back. He stared at the car window with a little indifference in his golden eyes.
“Don’t worry, Shen Wang is a Class C mutant after all. He almost reached Class B. He will be fine.”
“It’s just a Class C pollutant. Shen Wang can handle it!”
“I know.” Zhou Xiangzhe’s voice did not have any emotions. He just looked at the empty road ahead thoughtfully.
“Call Bo Wenhuan.”
“Tell him to find this pollutant.”
…
Shen Wang felt a moment of weightlessness, and afterwards he found that the scene in front of him had changed.
There was a dilapidated high-rise building in front of him. Looking up, he could not see the edge. The sky was dark as if it was dusk. The air was sticky and humid, with a faint smell of earth, as if it had been raining for several days and the sun had not come out, so everything around was moldy and rotten.
Shen Wang first took out his mobile phone. Then he tried to send a message outside, but the signal was absent: the messages he sent were also followed by a series of exclamation marks.
“Okay, no signal.”
Shen Wang put away his mobile phone, and stood on tiptoe trying look at the empty building.
The weeds that no one cleaned were scattered on the lawn at the entrance of the community. Because of the cold winter, they all withered. The arrival of spring did not bring any changes. There were still bare and messy branches, revealing the loneliness of no one taking care of them for a long time.
It was too empty here, so empty that it didn’t seem like there were any pollutants.
And Shen Wang was very curious about where he was. The pollution that was only broadcasted through the car radio was really not in line with the expansion of pollutants.
“Forget it.” Shen Wang shrugged, with a smile on his lips, and his black eyes reflected the entrance door filled with weeds in front of him.
“Let’s go in and take a look first.”
Before Shen Wang walked to the entrance door, there was a bang, and something hit the ground with a sticky sound. It was a woman in a white dress.
Shen Wang walked over and saw that she was exactly the same as the woman Shen Wang saw in the car, but this time her face was no longer pale, and was even a little bit unbearable to look at. She fell from a high altitude and was broken into pieces, which was unsightly. Blood was spilling from under her body, and the white dress was dyed red by the blood.
At the same time, the pollution detector on his body also made a sharp explosion dutifully.
“Warning! Pollution exceeds 80%!”
“Warning! Pollutants appeared nearby!”
“Warning! Please evacuate nearby residents as soon as possible!”
Shen Wang tutted. He always hated sharp sounds, and this detector successfully annoyed him.
Turning off the detector directly, Shen Wang took two steps back to avoid the blood flowing from the woman. He was not afraid, but he was afraid of dirt.
Just as he walked about one meter away, the woman lying on the ground suddenly raised her head. Her whole face was smashed because of falling from a high building. The flesh and white bones were stuck together, but the deep wounds spread with granulation at a speed visible to the naked eye. The granulation connected her face and pieced her face together bit by bit.
“Why are you okay?” The woman stared at Shen Wang with her bloodied eyes.
“Why are you the only one okay?”
Shen Wang squatted down and looked at her, and the destroyed face of the woman was reflected in his black eyes.
“Isn’t it normal that I’m fine? Because I’m mentally stable and better than you, of course I won’t be polluted by you.”
“So, it was you who pulled me in?”
Shen Wang saw this woman through the car window, but the voice on the car radio was a man’s voice.
Hermaphroditism is normal in the plant world, but this pollutant doesn’t look like hermaphroditist at all.
On the opposite side, the woman who fell from the high building seemed to have lost the desire to communicate with Shen Wang. She didn’t even look at Shen Wang, but climbed up the high wall of the community like a gecko, and the sticky granulation just stuck to the wall, making a puffing sound.
Shen Wang stepped back two steps and watched the woman climb up. He was curious about what would happen next.
She climbed quickly and reached the rooftop in a moment. Her white dress fluttered on the rooftop. She took a step like a person who had lost the meaning of life, and her body fell from the building. The blood stained her dress red, and even the posture of landing was exactly the same as last time.
Then she came a third time, a fourth time…
There are differences between pollutants, and there are also many similarities between pollutants. He has also seen a pollutant that thinks that he is fish and swims around in the river. The seven-second memory can only let it have fun in the water, but everyone who sees it swimming is polluted and gradually thinks they are fish like him.
This is a stereotyped mental pollution, which pollutes and assimilates other people in the same way, so people who see the suicide will also commit suicide, and people who see the swimming fish will make people also think that they are fish.
But such pollutants can generally only reach D level.
“Don’t get close to her, you will be polluted.” A voice appeared behind Shen Wang, and the voice sounded familiar.
Shen Wang turned his head and saw a man.
He was wearing a familiar guard uniform, but it was a little faded, and the corners of the uniform were also damaged, full of traces of time.
“Who are you?” Shen Wang asked.
“Let’s leave first, there is a safe place over there.” The man spoke again.
Shen Wang, who finally recognized his voice, raised his eyebrows slightly, with a little subtlety in his eyes.
Because this man’s voice is exactly the same as the cry for help on the car radio.
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