The man led Shen Wang to walk forward, avoiding the building in front of them, and soon saw a small house with the sign “Guard Room” hanging on it.

There were two chairs in the guard room. The window was very dirty and small, but it was facing directly to the building, in fact through the window one could see a woman climbing up and jumping down the building repeatedly, like a farce.

He sat on one of the chairs and motioned Shen Wang to sit on the other one.

He asked: “Are you an ordinary person or a mutant?”

Of course he would not stand if he could sit. Shen Wang sat down casually, with his hands in his pockets, looking extremely comfortable in this weird atmosphere, as if he was not in a cold and narrow guard room, and as if there was no woman jumping off the building repeatedly outside the window behind him.

“What do you think?” Shen Wang asked him.

“You are a mutant, you are too calm.” The man’s eyes were subtle, “You are different from the people who came in before, you don’t seem to be afraid at all.”

Shen Wang spread his hands, “What is there to be afraid of? This is what mutants look like when they reach the end.”

“Maybe they won’t be as good as her.”

The man was speechless, he could only say: “…You are really optimistic, but it’s good to be optimistic.”

Shen Wang nodded, looking very pleased with this compliment, “Then, who are you? Why are you here?”

“I am the one asking for help.” The man replied after calming down.

“This is Qianzhen Community, which has been isolated from the world for more than half a year. I am a member of the guard team who came to Qianzhen Community to deal with the pollutant. My name is Jiang Mengchi. I am a patrolman of the 13th Street of the guard team, formation number 337.”

Shen Wang raised his eyebrows and stretched out his hand, “Hello, colleague, I am Shen Wang from the dispatch team.”

Jiang Mengchi was stuck again, as if he didn’t expect Shen Wang to suddenly introduce himself at this time and shake hands with him.

…Oh, he’s human.

Shen Wang calmly withdrew his hand, as if he had done nothing.

Inexplicably, Jiang Mengchi and Shen Wang shook hands before continuing to introduce the situation.

“Qianzhen Community was originally an ordinary residential area on the edge of the Central City. The entire building was full of residents, with at least 300 families, and there had never been any problems.”

“Until one day, a woman who had been complained about domestic violence to no avail committed suicide by jumping off a building. The next day after her body was collected, the guard team received a call from seven or eight families in the same community. The caller claimed that in the middle of the night, he saw the woman who committed suicide by jumping off the building and then crawling on the wall like a gecko to go back to her home in a twisted state.”

“On the third day, 26 families in the community committed suicide by jumping off a building, and on the fourth day, 38 families. The community was determined to be a place of widespread mental pollution. The polluted people would have a strong desire to commit suicide and would jump off a building from a high place during the night to commit suicide.”

Intense emotions make people more susceptible to pollution. The Pollution Control Center judged that the woman who committed suicide by jumping off the building probably had signs of pollution before she committed suicide. The moment her depression reached its peak and she jumped off a building to commit suicide, at the same time her the pollution broke out. She became a pollutant and emitted mental pollution to the surrounding area.

As a result, people in the community also developed depression after being polluted, and then jumped off the building to commit suicide.

The Pollution Control Center named her [Qianzhen Community Depression and Suicide Syndrome], and the pollution level hovered between C and D. It was originally planned to accurately classify her after investigation and evidence collection.

“That’s why we were sent here to remove the pollutant.”

“I am a C-level mutant and the captain of this team. We originally thought that this was just ordinary mental pollution.”

“But we were wrong.”

Jiang Mengchi spoke calmly, which was very different from the cry for help in the car radio. Only a trace of sadness could be seen in his eyes.

“After entering the community, we found that we had lost contact with the outside world, and the road we came from had disappeared. We thought this was the pollution ability of the pollutant. As long as the pollutant was eliminated, this barrier could be broken.”

They tried to kill the woman in front of the building, but found that they could not attack her at all. She was like a residual image repeating her the suicide behavior of jumping off the building. External forces could not interrupt this behavior pattern, and the woman continued to emit pollution to the outside world.

“Unable to kill the woman and unable to find a way out, my teammates all became mentally unstable.”

“This is something that cannot be controlled. Extreme emotions can cause pollution, and pollution can cause mental abnormalities. This is a vicious cycle.”

Jiang Mengchi pressed his temple with a headache. “After persisting for a while, I went out to find food, and when I came back, I found that my teammates had left.”

“We have been separated since then, but I think they must be alive somewhere.”

Maybe they even left the community, otherwise how could Jiang Mengchi not find them?

He was sure of this, and sincerely hoped that his team had really left, instead of being trapped here like him.

Shen Wang held his chin with one hand. He looked at Jiang Mengchi and nodded after listening to him. “Then how did you ask for help from the outside world?”

“My innate ability is [Truth].“

Jiang Mengchi said: “I can communicate with other people in my heart, with a range of about one kilometer. At the beginning, I tried to use my ability to connect to people outside, but unfortunately no one could connect with me. After a few times, I gave up.”

“… But I don’t know why, three months ago, people gradually appeared in the community, and everyone said that they heard my cry for help.”

Jiang Mengchi frowned slightly, with fatigue in his eyes, “This is terrible.”

Most of the people who entered the community were ordinary people. They could not bear the pollution of women, but they jumped off the building the same day they arrived. The one who persisted the longest was a team of guards, who came to investigate the car radio, but they did not persist for more than seven days and jumped from the high building.

“I promise that I only asked for help in the early stage of being trapped. It is absolutely impossible for me to contact the outside world three months ago.”

“My call for help was used by the pollutant.”

Jiang Mengchi was not in good condition. He looked pale from the moment he appeared, and the whole person looked like he had just recovered from a serious illness. But considering that he had been trapped in this place for half a year, and ordinary people who heard his cry for help were involved in the past three months, it was normal for him, a former member of the guard team, to be in a bad state.

Shen Wang looked at Jiang Mengchi. At this time, Jiang Mengchi was looking up at the woman who repeatedly jumped from the building outside. On his exposed neck, Shen Wang saw a black bulge like a blood vessel.

“What is that?”

Jiang Mengchi glanced at Shen Wang, and after a moment, he slowly covered his neck as if he had reacted.

“Distortion.” Jiang Mengchi answered him, “I’ve been trapped here for so long, I’ll inevitably be more or less polluted, which will cause physical distortion.”

…

When Bo Wenhuan got out of the car, he saw Zhou Xiangzhe standing there.

He was still wearing the white casual clothes, his long white hair was tied up, and his hand wearing a black glove and a silver ring was holding a lit cigarette. He didn’t smoke it, but just let the cigarette burn little by little. The white smoke floated in the air, and the air was full of the smell of tobacco.

Zhou Xiangzhe didn’t have a smoking addiction. He would just light a cigarette to vent his unhappiness when he was upset.

Ming Guang, who came to pick him up, said: Their new team member of Polaris had just been swallowed by an unknown pollutant here, so they needed to determine the location of the pollutant.

At first, Bo Wenhuan didn’t quite believe it. After all, it was just a C-level pollutant, and the person swallowed was a mutant who was about to break through to B-level. Zhou Xiangzhe was not a person who would be nervous when his team members fell into the pollutant nest. He would only let the team members make some experience through it.

But seeing Zhou Xiangzhe now, Bo Wenhuan was sure: Zhou Xiangzhe seemed to be really worried.

“I’m late.” Bo Wenhuan greeted Zhou Xiangzhe with a smile.

Zhou Xiangzhe nodded to him, “It’s good that you can come.”

As the only A-level psychic mutant, Bo Wenhuan rarely goes out now. He mostly works in Central City. As time goes by, his pollution level is getting higher and higher. Many people are worried that if he continues to work overtime, he will be like [Safe House] and have to rely on sleeping to avoid further pollution.

But this time it was Zhou Xiangzhe’s request, so he made an exception for him.

Most mutants in the central city owe Zhou Xiangzhe a favor, and no one will refuse Zhou Xiangzhe’s request.

“The only clue is this distress broadcast.” Mingguang turned on the broadcast, “The news I found is that everyone who heard the broadcast will disappear. Shen Wang told us that the opposite side is a C-level pollutant before he disappeared.”

Bo Wenhuan nodded, he took off his gloves and put his hands on the car radio.

“Okay, I understand.”

He closed his eyes, activated his innate ability, and began to find the location of the pollutant through the broadcast.

The man’s cry for help was still playing on the car radio.

“Who can come to Qianzhen Community to save us? No more people can die…”

“Qianzhen Community, help! Does anyone hear me?!”

“I beg you, come save me!”

Bo Wenhuan opened his eyes suddenly, took his hand away from the car radio, and took two steps back with heavy breathing.

“Bo Wenhuan?”

“No, I’m okay.” Bo Wenhuan stared at the car radio with wide eyes, “The pollutant is not here, this is just a hole it pried open!”

“Go back to the Pollution Control Center to find information immediately, the guard team must have left some information!”

“Because this is not a Class C pollutant at all, but a Class C pollution source, it’s regional pollution!”

Ming Guang took a deep breath.

Pollutants and pollution sources are completely different concepts.

Pollutants are polluted humans. Because of pollution, they have transformed into monsters that can spread pollution, causing regional mental pollution or regional distortion pollution, but as long as the pollutant is cleaned up, the pollution in this area will not spread again.

Victims can go to a shelter or Mental Pollution Center for treatment.

But the pollution source is different. It is a deep-rooted imprint on a place. It will continue to emit pollution and give rise to more than one pollutant.

There are only ten well-known pollution sources in the world, six of which are hundreds of miles wide. Once ordinary people step into them, they will immediately lose their human form. Each pollution site breeds a large amount of pollutants. Even the most terrible Zero Pollution Site has no less than three S-level pollutants.

And the Galaxy Orphanage is also one of the S-level pollution sources.

Zhou Xiangzhe clenched his hands, and his round nails pierced into his palms, leaving red marks.

“Find a way to enter.”

Zhou Xiangzhe said: “We can’t let this C-level pollution source continue to stay in Central City.”