Shen Wang never thought that he would make a mistake in judgment. He had indeed killed the pollutant.
Even if he remembered it wrongly, the thorns wouldn’t let go of edible food. Both he and his little thorns were extremely hungry. How could they let go of an edible pollutant?
So, Shen Wang did kill her, but now she is alive again.
Zhou Xiangzhe had also been observing this female pollutant. He thought that his guess was 70% correct. This female pollutant must be related to the entire painting.
The weak woman walked over step by step. Her eyes were red from crying. Her slender hands reached out to grab Shen Wang’s hands.
Shen Wang avoided her hands and looked quite ruthless.
So she cried again, and this time she ran upstairs crying.
“What does that mean?” Shen Wang asked.
Zhou Xiangzhe shook his head.
“She went to get the tools.” A strange voice sounded behind them.
Shen Wang and Zhou Xiangzhe turned their heads at the same time. They looked at the bird cages hanging in the living room behind them. Among the piles of bird cages, a bird dressed in black stood up from the bottom of the cage. Its feathers were clipped, and a chain was tied to its feet. Its small eyes were only bloody holes. It staggered on the support board of the cage.
“A bird?”
“It’s a former mutant.” The bird replied.
Its voice was hoarse, not like a human speaking, but more like a parrot imitating, the tone was vague and not clear enough.
“Hello.” The caged bird greeted them in a hoarse voice, “Are you mutants?”
Zhou Xiangzhe and Shen Wang looked at each other, and then Zhou Xiangzhe spoke, “We are members of the dispatch team.”
“That means mutants. The dispatch team only wants mutants.” The caged bird began to introduce himself, “Hello, my real name is Kong Zehua, I am a member of the dispatch team of Dust Desert West City, a former B-level mutant, and I have been trapped here for five years.”
“You don’t look like you are trapped here.” Shen Wang’s voice was a little teasing, “You are just a bird.”
“I am a B-level mutant. Even if I turned into a bird, I am not completely polluted. I can only be regarded as highly distorted.” The caged bird refuted Shen Wang, “The fact that I can communicate with you normally is evidence.”
Zhou Xiangzhe recalled, “The Main Danger Manual1* of the Pollution Control Center does have this name.”
Shen Wang looked at Zhou Xiangzhe in surprise, “Have you remembered all the names mentioned in this manual?”
“Almost.” Zhou Xiangzhe nodded.
…Such an impressive memory.
“This guy is good2. Do you believe me now?” The bird in the cage flapped its wings and turned its eyeless head to them. “I have been here for five years. Every once in a while, someone comes in. I’ve been trying to give them clues to help them leave, but every time they don’t believe me.”
Zhou Xiangzhe looked at it and spoke after a moment, “We are members of the Central City dispatch team. Our levels are all C. We accidentally ended up here on the way back to the city.”
Shen Wang looked at Zhou Xiangzhe with some surprise. He didn’t expect Zhou Xiangzhe to lie.
None of the information he said was true except that he was a member of the Central City dispatch team.
“Then you are really unlucky.” The bird in the cage said: “This is a place controlled by the pollution ability of a Class A pollutant. It is a painting. You accidentally stepped into the trap of the Class A pollutant.”
“How could it be?” Zhou Xiangzhe’s face was very calm, but his tone seemed a little panicked, “There is no Class A pollutant around Central City!”
“Of course, because this is a mobile pollutant, it will not be in a fixed place, just like an art exhibition will be held in different places to attract different guests.” The bird in the cage said: “She will keep moving the gallery to get different eyes.”
“It has never been recorded, because everyone who observed it died. It will devour all the humans who passes by and dig out everyone’s eyes!”
Zhou Xiangzhe stared at the bird, with a little coldness in his golden eyes. He didn’t seem to trust the bird.
“It’s terrible.” Zhou Xiangzhe said, “This level of pollutants must be reported to the pollution prevention center.”
“Yes, I think so too!” The bird in the cage jumped forward, “So, for humans’ sake, I will help you leave here.”
Zhou Xiangzhe looked at it for a while, and then said, “Thank you so much.”
“If we can leave, we will definitely take you out with us!”
Shen Wang was amazed.
He clearly knew that Zhou Xiangzhe did not trust the bird at all, and even his expression was cold, but he could still say those words in a happy tone.
Isn’t this the same as bullying the other party for not being able to see?
“Do you know what happened to that woman?” Shen Wang asked the question.
“She is the special pollutant in this painting. You two C-level people should not provoke her.” The bird in the cage said: “In the story of this painting, she is a cowardly mother. Her husband cheated on her and abused her and brought his lover to divorce her, so she came here with her child to live.”
“But she was too cowardly. She couldn’t resist her violent husband. In the end, she could only vent her anger on her child.”
“Don’t turn into a bird, because she will dig out the eyes of all birds.” This sentence was said to Zhou Xiangzhe.
“Don’t become her child, because her children are caged birds to her.” This sentence was said to Shen Wang.
“So.” Shen Wang sighed, “I have another question for you. Why did you, a B-level mutant, turn into a bird?”
Hearing Shen Wang’s question, the bird in the cage drooped its wings, as if it had mentioned the bird’s sad story.
He said sadly: “Because there is an invisible rule in this painting.”
“As long as the female pollutant is killed, the pollution level will increase. I didn’t know this. I killed women several times, so I turned into a bird and was locked in a cage and couldn’t leave.”
“Remember, you must avoid her!”
As he spoke, he made a bird chirping sound, the sound fluctuated like crying.
Zhou Xiangzhe responded, looking like he was completely obedient to him, and then pulled Shen Wang to check the clues around. Shen Wang and Zhou Xiangzhe looked at each other and turned around and left here together.
On the way out, Shen Wang asked, “Are his words trustworthy?”
“The invisible rule is consistent with my conclusion, and the caged bird’s statement is also consistent with the nature of pollutants. Even if he wants to deceive us, he will give us trustworthy information at the beginning, so the accuracy of his words is more than 80%.”
Zhou Xiangzhe resumed his cold tone, “But he didn’t tell us how to leave, just asked us to avoid that woman. He is not very trustworthy.”
A person who really wants to help others will not even care whether the other party will believe him, but tell them where they should go at the beginning. Proving yourself in a place where your life is in danger is really a troublesome and time-consuming waste of useless work.
“At least we have identified a clue. That woman cannot be killed.” Shen Wang sighed, “If I had known, I wouldn’t have killed her.”
“it made your feathers grow a little.”
“It’s not your fault.” Zhou Xiangzhe didn’t care. “A mutant’s first reaction when encountering pollutants is to deal with them. Even I am the same. Your behavior is in line with common sense.”
After saying this, Zhou Xiangzhe suddenly seemed to remember something. He took out another piece of candy from his pocket and handed it to Shen Wang.
Shen Wang, who had just almost finished eating the candy:…
Is he calculating the time?
“Why don’t you give me all your candies. How long do you plan to give one piece at a time?” Shen Wang took the candy.
“No.” Zhou Xiangzhe refused.
Once when he was a child, he did give Shen Wang a lot of candy at one time, all of which he had saved.
But that time brought a psychological shadow to Zhou Xiangzhe.
Because there were so many candies, Shen Wang couldn’t control his appetite. He would bite the candies and eat them as quickly as possible, so Shen Wang choked on the candies. If the dean hadn’t found out, he would have fainted due to difficulty breathing. Afterwards, the dean criticized Zhou Xiangzhe, and Zhou Xiangzhe never dared to give Shen Wang a large amount of candies at once again.
Every time he gave it to him, he would look anxiously at Xiao Shiwu, fearing that he would have problems again.
“Sometimes I wonder if we knew each other before. You seem to know me very well.” Shen Wang peeled off the candy wrapper and put the candy in his mouth, “Because you know, you don’t ask me about some things.”
Zhou Xiangzhe looked at Shen Wang calmly, “Polaris’s unspoken rules: trust your teammates 100%.”
“I don’t ask you because I believe that everything you do has a reason.”
“I believe you.”
Lying. Zhou Xiangzhe thought silently.
Although mutual trust is the standard in the team, Polaris does not have this unspoken rule. He didn’t ask because he knew that Shen Wang himself had some problems, but he couldn’t expose himself.
His little Shiwu has grown into a powerful person. Although he is still sick, he is capable of protecting himself and others. There are so many things that cannot be helped in the adult world. He doesn’t know why Shen Wang wants to abandon the past, but he can’t coldly reveal what Shen Wang wants to hide.
Occasionally, when Shen Wang talks to him, he will mention his childhood friend and the common memories they have. Shen Wang doesn’t seem to reject him as a friend.
Zhou Xiangzhe thought: This is good.
At least he didn’t become something Shen Wang wanted to forget.
“I won’t choke on candies anymore.” Shen Wang suddenly said.
Zhou Xiangzhe paused and looked at Shen Wang. Shen Wang didn’t look at him or stop, but just walked forward.
“When I was a kid, my friend would give me candies. He couldn’t stay for too long because of his illness. One time he gave me a lot, so much that I couldn’t hold it with one hand.” Shen Wang said as he walked, “I was so hungry at that time, so I ate in a hurry and choked on the candies. Since then, he didn’t dare to give me a lot of candies.”
“In fact, I have been in control since then, and I don’t want to see him being punished.”
But unfortunately, something happened in the orphanage within two months. Shen Wang couldn’t find a reason to control his appetite, and he no longer cared whether others would be hurt because of him.
“I don’t know what kind of person he became when he growed up.”
Zhou Xiangzhe stood behind Shen Wang and looked at him. He looked away and smiled lightly. This smile was very shallow and short. After laughing, he was still the cold-looking man, the strongest mutant in Central City.
He caught up with Shen Wang, then took out three candies from his pocket and handed them to Shen Wang.
“Since you won’t choke, I’ll give you a little more.” Zhou Xiangzhe said, “You can’t ask for more. This is the emergency food I prepared.”
Shen Wang glanced at him, “So, you were going to give it to me.”
But he still took the three candies.
/
They walked around here and finally determined that this was a three-story building, but there was nothing worth noting in the building.
Every window was sealed with red bricks. Only the room where Shen Wang first appeared had various stick drawings along with densely packed bird cages everywhere.
There were no clues. In fact, apart from the woman, there was only a caged bird in the living room on the first floor that was neither a human nor a ghost.
This is more abstract than the first painting. At least in the first painting, they knew that it was a hospital and that a doctor was going to perform surgery on them.
So they turned around and came back.
When they came back, the caged bird in the living room seemed to be lying down again, but the woman was sitting on the sofa.
There was a TV in front of the woman. It should be a TV from the old era. A large thin-screen TV on the wall. After the start of the apocalypse all surviving humans lived inside the high walls. The houses allocated to each person were very small, and the entertainment projects had long stagnated in development. Such a TV had no meaning to exist.
The TV in front of the woman had no picture, and there were snowflakes flashing on it, making a crackling sound.
As if she heard the sound, the woman turned her head and looked at Shen Wang.
“Come and watch TV with mom?”
“This is your favorite channel. Mom will watch TV with you.”
Shen Wang glanced at the snow on the TV, “I don’t want to watch TV now.”
“Why don’t you want to watch it? Isn’t this your favorite channel?” The woman frowned slightly, with a little impatience in her melancholy eyebrows.
“Everything on TV is fake.”
“What do you mean?! Are you mocking your mother’s love for you as fake?!”
The woman stood up suddenly and smashed the remote control in her hand.
“How did you become like this? You are my child, why don’t you stand on my side?!”
The woman looked like she was going crazy, “Mom has always been protecting you, but what about you? You never understand your mother!”
She suddenly stopped talking, “I know, there is something wrong with my mother’s education method.”
She turned her head and looked at Shen Wang dimly, “Mom didn’t raise a disobedient child.”
She walked towards Shen Wang step by step, holding a fruit knife in her hand, “Bad children must be punished.”
Shen Wang frowned, he remembered what the caged bird said when it first appeared: the woman went to get the tools.
Is this her tool?
Shen Wang began to retreat, the woman looked crazy, she stared in Shen Wang’s eyes, the fruit knife in her hand stabbed towards his eyes without any deviation
She wanted to dig out Shen Wang’s eyes.
Under normal circumstances, Shen Wang would never let such a thing happen, because he hated others releasing malice towards him.
Those who release malice towards him must bear his anger.
But this time it was not possible. He remembered that if he killed this woman, Zhou Xiangzhe’s feathers would grow. For the three pieces of candy given to him, Shen Wang decided to endure it this time.
She couldn’t die yet.
Shen Wang was still retreating. It was actually very easy to avoid the knife of this woman, because she was a cowardly and powerless person. She would only vent her anger on the weak birds and her children. Her bad temper seemed to trigger their anger on purpose. It would be better to kill her a few more times.
This setting was really annoying.
Shen Wang frowned and dodged her knife again, but he bumped into someone.
Someone was holding him from behind. The person behind him sighed softly.
Zhou Xiangzhe raised his gun beside him.
With a bang, the bullet hit the woman’s forehead, and she flew backwards. The fruit knife fell to the ground with a crisp metal collision sound. She was too fragile, just one bullet was enough to kill her once.
“Zhou Xiangzhe.” Shen Wang looked at the dead woman, “You shouldn’t have killed her.”
“What can I do?” Zhou Xiangzhe’s voice was very light, and it sounded a little helpless, “You can’t keep going around in circles with her.”
Shen Wang turned his head and looked at him. White feathers fell from his sleeves, like a cat losing its hair.
The feathers on his body grew again, just at the moment the woman died.
“You killed her?!”
After the woman died, the hidden voice suddenly sounded.
The two looked at the living room, and the caged bird lying at the bottom of the cage poked its head out.
Zhou Xiangzhe let go of Shen Wang and put away his gun again, “She can be killed easily.”
“That’s not the problem! I just told you that killing her will increase pollution! So you can’t kill her.” The bird in the cage jumped onto the balance bar, “You will grow feathers, and the feathers will gradually spread all over your body, and then you will become a bird like me, and then that woman will dig out your eyes!”
Shen Wang knocked on the bird cage, “Why didn’t you remind me just now?”
“I can’t.” The bird in the cage said, “That woman is the nemesis of birds!”
“She will dig out the eyes of all birds, and the birds that are not dead will be her toys. She will cruelly dismember the birds that are not dead. If I appear in front of her, she will dismember me immediately!”
“You are really too brave!”
After listening to the words of the bird in the cage, Zhou Xiangzhe was thoughtful, and he spoke a little panicked after a few seconds.
“I seem to feel that feathers have grown on my body, what should I do?!”
“What should we do to avoid turning into a bird?!”
Shen Wang:…
He is pretending again.
Zhou Xiangzhe tugged at Shen Wang’s sleeve and pointed to the side.
Shen Wang looked in the direction of his gesture and saw that the woman who had just been killed by Zhou Xiangzhe was gradually disappearing, like a projection.
It was the same last time. Shen Wang killed her and her body soon disappeared.
“That woman will be reborn!” The bird in the cage spoke, “She won’t die, she will only be killed and resurrected again. She will induce you to kill her, but after killing her, your pollution level will become higher and higher. If you want to end it all, you must not let her resurrect. “
Shen Wang looked at the bird in the cage, “What should we do?”
“She was resurrected from the painting. There is a self-portrait of a woman on the second floor.” The bird raised its wings and pointed upwards, “As long as we find this painting and destroy it, the woman won’t resurrect again. If she can’t resurrect she won’t increase your pollution level due to repeated deaths.”
“That’s great.” Zhou Xiangzhe looked at the bird in the cage with cold eyes, “Let’s go and destroy the painting now.”
“But only one person can enter that place.” The bird in the cage said again: “It’s rare for two people to be sent together here.”
Zhou Xiangzhe was stuck for a moment. He pretended to hesitate and paused for a while before speaking, “Shen Wang, let’s discuss who will go.”
Shen Wang lazily watched him act, and only responded after hearing this, “Okay.”
They avoided the bird in the cage and went to the stairs next to them.
“Do you believe him3?”
“It’s better not to believe him. There’s probably nothing good waiting for us.” Zhou Xiangzhe said, “That woman is very weak and can be killed easily, but the unwritten rule, that after k*lling her, the k*ller’s pollution level will increase. If the woman has a true body, it’s at least at Class B.”
“We told that guy that we’re two Class C mutants”
Whether it is mutants or pollutants, there is a huge gap between each level.
Not to mention two Class C mutants, even ten Class Cs can hardly deal with a Class B pollutant. This is the huge gap between levels.
The bird in the cage deliberately didn’t say the level, just to make them mistakenly think that the woman’s true body is as weak as the false body woman they killed.
“What are you going to do next?” Shen Wang asked him after nodding.
“I’ll go up and take a look.” Zhou Xiangzhe said, “You keep an eye on the bird. Even if it were B-level, it shouldn’t be too difficult for you. Don’t be too submissive. You have a bad personality. It’s okay to mock it more.”
Shen Wang: …
“What kind of image do you have of me in your mind?”
“No, I think people like you are very energetic.” Zhou Xiangzhe reluctantly said, “That’s it.”
It’s better not to say it.
Shen Wang sighed, he watched Zhou Xiangzhe walk up the stairs, then he turned back to the living room. Since Zhou Xiangzhe said so, he didn’t plan to pretend to be a good person.
So he sat directly on the sofa, adhering to the principle of never standing if he can sit.
“Your companion went to the second floor?” The caged bird suddenly spoke, “Are you the one left?”
Shen Wang glanced at it, “Has anyone ever told you that your voice is loud?”
“Too sharp, I hate sharp voices.”
“Oh, you are the one left behind.” The caged bird swayed in the cage, “Aren’t you worried about your companion? You let him go up to the second floor alone?”
Shen Wang leaned on the sofa calmly, “No worries.”
Who would even worry about an S-level mutant. Let alone a B-level, even if the original body of [Hundred Eyes] appeared here, it would not cause any harm to Zhou Xiangzhe.
“How did you two choose who has to go?” The caged bird asked again.
“Rock, scissors, paper.” Shen Wang answered casually: “He was unlucky, scissors came out, and he lost.”
The caged bird:…
So casual? How can he continue his conversation!
“I know you’re worried about him.” The bird in the cage could only reluctantly say the following words, “I have a way. I’m a B-level mutant. Although I can’t see, my abilities are still there. Help me open the cage, and I’ll go check on your companion. If there’s any problem, I’ll let you know immediately.”
Shen Wang calmly took out the woman’s comics from the drawer of the coffee table and flipped through them casually.
“Forget it.” Shen Wang said, “Let him die.”
“I’ve been fed up with him for a long time. When he dies, I’ll change to a new partner. This guy has a problem with his brain. He’s stubborn and doesn’t listen to advice. He’s really annoying.”
Bird in the cage:…
What the hell is wrong with this guy? ! He just said bad things about his teammates in front of him?
Aren’t they a dispatch team?
Aren’t they comrades who love each other and trust each other? !
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