She is too big.

There is a huge size difference between humans and birds, so birds can be strangled to death by a thin woman or even by a child.

This is potentially the situation between them and this woman.

“There are two birds!” The woman’s hand went into the birdcage, she smashed the disassembled window and grabbed them with her hand.

Because of her huge size, her hand was not very delicate, and the red nail polish was mottled and bright, similar to the color of blood.

Zhou Xiangzhe pulled Shen Wang away from the woman’s hand, and they quickly left the room. When they went out, the living room had changed. The sofa and TV disappeared, leaving only the rows of bird cages and the empty stairs.

Creak. All the windows sealed by red bricks were shaking, and soon they were pushed down from the outside.

The woman kept dismantling the windows and doors with her hands, and her eyes looked inside from all the holes.

“You’re here, I see you.”

“Little birds, don’t run.”

She giggled, and her hands kept coming in from all directions to try to catch them.

“It’s amazing that she could think of this.” Shen Wang complained as he and Zhou Xiangzhe avoided the debris of the house “The three-story building is actually a birdcage.The woman tends to abuse birds. The birds are in the cage and the windows are sealed to avoid being discovered by the woman. Once they are discovered, the woman will start to catch them and dig out their eyes.”

“What a crazy artistic creation.”

What’s even more hateful is that Hundred Eyes’ pollution ability happens to be [Drawing Reality], making this crazy artistic creation a reality.

They finally hid in the gap under the stairs. This is a dead corner that can’t be seen from the windows, and the woman’s hands can’t reach them.

Zhou Xiangzhe also felt the difficulty of their situation.

He has been in the team for ten years and has dealt with countless pollutants. The only pollutant of huge size that he has dealt with was a tree-shaped one. It was three meters tall and covered with willow branches. It looked like a spirited willow tree. As long as a branch hits a person, it will immediately drag the person away and turn him into its nutrients.

But this woman is bigger than that tree-shaped pollutant. The three-story building is just a birdcage that reaches the high of her knees.

The huge difference in size makes it difficult to use many attack methods.

“What should we do now? Can you k*ll her?” Shen Wang frowned as he watched a hand bigger than him moving around.

This thing is really beyond people’s expectations.

“Large-range weapons should be able to do something, but we don’t have such weapons now.” Zhou Xiangzhe answered him, “Even if we had, in this place it’s difficult to aim. She is outside the cage and we are inside the cage. The only things between us are these windows and doors. This situation is only an advantage for her.”

Everyone knows that hitting hands and arms with stones in a fight is far less effective than hitting the head.

Shen Wang listened carefully to the women’s movements, and he continued to frown, “So we have to wait here until she gets tired of searching?”

“In fact, we can split into two groups.” Zhou Xiangzhe said, “Our advantage is that we have two people, while she only has one.”

“One person will attract her attention and lead her to the other side, and the other person will go upstairs to find the portrait that disappeared. The portrait should have other uses.”

Shen Wang knelt on one knee and stood up, “Then let’s chose who will attract the woman’s attention and who will find the painting.”

Zhou Xiangzhe nodded, but he suddenly paused, a thoughtful look appeared in his golden eyes.

“Why don’t you talk?”

“We seem to have overlooked something…” Zhou Xiangzhe said, “Where did that woman go?”

Shen Wang looked at the huge woman who was leaning against the window at the staircase, “You mean her?”

“I’m talking about her but not exactly her.” Zhou Xiangzhe also stood up, “I’m talking about the cowardly and selfish woman in the story. She was killed by us twice and resurrected twice. Before we opened the window, she changed into new clothes and asked us if she looked good.”

“Where did she go?”

Shen Wang understood Zhou Xiangzhe’s meaning this time.

After the huge woman appeared, they connected the fragile woman with the woman outside the cage, because they were originally one person, but even if they were one person, one lived inside the cage and the other lived outside.

“The mother plays two roles.” Zhou Xiangzhe thought and said: “One is the ruler outside the cage. She decides the fate of the bird in the cage and vents her grievances on the bird in the cage.”

“The other is locked in the cage like a bird, because she is cowardly and powerless. She doesn’t know how to resist and will only be hurt, but she still locks herself in the cage.”

“She’s still in the house!”

“Hehe.”

The woman’s weird laughter sounded at the same time. Shen Wang looked to the side and saw the woman they just talked about standing next to the stairs.

She was still wearing the moon-white long dress, and her thin wrists seemed fragile enough to break if she bent them. She laid at the foot of the stairs and looked at them dimly.

“Are you playing hide-and-seek with your mother?”

“Really, I knew you wouldn’t hate your mother.”

The woman smiled, her voice was extremely weak, but at that moment, her voice overlapped with the voice of the woman outside the cage.

“Mom found you.”

“Found the birds!”

A huge hand came in from the window and reached towards the stairs. Zhou Xiangzhe shot at the fragile woman directly.

The fragile woman fell down with a smile. She ended up on the stairs, and blood fell down the steps. Her smile before dying was so happy and weird, as if she existed only to die.

The ir hiding spot was destroyed by the woman outside the cage, and the big hand attacked them.

They moved again, but the fragile woman resurrected and appeared in front of them again.

This is the purpose of her continuous resurrection.

“The child wants to be with the mother forever!” The woman in the cage raised her hand, and her eyes were fanatically staring at Shen Wang.

“Child, mother loves you, we want you to live here together!”

“Look, this is the paradise that mother built for you!”

“It’s not a cage, it’s our home!”

Zhou Xiangzhe shot her again.

“Continue to execute our previous plan.” Zhou Xiangzhe said as he walked: “I will attract the attention of the woman outside the cage. You go to the second floor to find the portrait. The woman inside the house has an obsession with you for some reason, so the woman outside might follow her to find you. Be careful.”

After talking, Zhou Xiangzhe took out a piece of candy from his pocket and put it in Shen Wang’s hand, “Before you finish eating this piece of candy, I’ll go find you.”

“It’s not that troublesome.” Shen Wang said calmly: “It takes time for her to revive. As long as I kill her the moment she appears and move quickly, there will be no problem.”

Zhou Xiangzhe listened to his words and nodded, “Very good.”

“I think you are an extremely good dispatch team member.”

Afterwards, Zhou Xiangzhe left, but in just a few seconds he heard the woman’s screams.

After the screams, there was an extreme angry sound.

The bird in the cage pecked her, and the little pet whose life and death were in her hands dared to resist, so she wanted to punish the birds.

Shen Wang also set off.

As he walked, he drew out his gun. He pulled the safety bolt and fired the moment a moon-white silhouette appeared in front of him. The bullet penetrated the woman’s body and she fell to the ground before she could say a word.

Shen Wang stepped on her blood and walked upstairs expressionlessly.

After killing the woman, Shen Wang peeled off the candy wrapper and put the candy in his mouth. Because he had eaten too many candies and didn’t drink a sip of water, he felt an astringent dryness in his mouth, and the sweet taste became particularly tempting. Shen Wang wanted to eat something else, like some bitter chocolate or water.

He walked up the stairs to the second floor. The windows on the second floor were destroyed, but there was no portrait on the second floor.

The wind blew in from the windows, shaking the small bird cages hanging from the ceiling, making them collide with each other, and make a crisp metal collision sound.

Suddenly all the birds in the bird cage stood up from inside the cages. Their eyes were bloody holes, but each of them faced the direction of Shen Wang.

“Why didn’t you turn into a bird?”

“Why are you different! Why can you still stand here!”

“You have to become like us!”

Each bird made a hoarse sound, their tone was full of resentment, and strong pollution emanated from them.

There are two pollutants in this painting, one is [Mother], she is the ruler outside the cage and the self-locked up inside the cage; the other is [Bird], who wants to escape from [Mother]’s slaughter but still got its eyes dug out and the strong resentment bird pollutants that are no less powerful than [Mother].

Shen Wang stared at these birds, his pupils turned red little by little.

He asked: “Are you chocolate flavored?”

“Can I have a taste?”

An overwhelming number od thorns came out of the floor.

These bird cages were present on all three floors. Even Zhou Xiangzhe, a S-level mutant, would find it difficult to clean such a large number of bird cages, but Shen Wang was different. The parasitic pollution of Blood Thorns was far stronger than the bird cages.

“You should at least to taste like chocolate.”

Shen Wang whispered, “You are a waste. You don’t taste good when you are raw. Aren’t you useless?”

Thorns were wrapped around all the bird cages, and the thorns pierced into the birds’ bodies and nailed them to the bottom of the cage. Unfortunately, they were dead and distorted pollutants. Throwing them here had more symbolic meaning than practical meaning, which was not much different from the room full of portraits in the first painting.

It was something that could not provide him energy.

Shen Wang sighed softly. After using his ability, he felt even hungrier.

Crack, Shen Wang couldn’t help but bite the candy in his mouth. The hard candy was ground on his teeth, and the sweetness made him frown.

But even so, Shen Wang couldn’t help wanting to eat a lot, more…

Suppressing the urge to continue chewing, Shen Wang continued to walk upstairs.

On the third floor, he finally saw his goal, the portrait of a woman hanging in the living room.

The woman in the painting sat on the chair as usual, with the cage in her hand placed neatly on her knees. The two blurry birds in the cage were still there. She smiled brightly at Shen Wang, as if the two birds gave her great pleasure.

Shen Wang swallowed the candy crumbs in his mouth.

I don’t know if this painting can be eaten. Maybe I can take a bite… 

Maybe it tastes like chocolate.

/

After swallowing [Deer God], Zhou Xiangzhe changed his method of killing pollutants. He could no longer directly swallow pollutants weaker than him.

So most of the time Zhou Xiangzhe would use the firearms created by the Pollution Control Center, and only in a few cases would he think of other ways.

It is true that he can use some of the pollution ability of [Deer God], but that is a pollution ability. In other words: it’s an ability used by pollutants on humans. Once used, not only pollutants but also his teammates will be affected. This is why he will only use this ability when he’s alone and face to face with pollutants.

His blood carries the pollution of [Deer God], and it’s under his control so he can use it against other pollutants. This is actually a way to hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt yourself by eight hundred. 

But right now, there seems to be no better solution than this.

Zhou Xiangzhe bit his finger and dripped blood on the window smashed by the woman. After being hurt by the blood, the woman didn’t dare to put her hand into this window again.

While running upstairs, Zhou Xiangzhe thought: It would be great if his previous ability could still be used.

Swallow, an ability that was not recorded by the Academy of Sciences, and wasn’t officially included until Zhou Xiangzhe awakened. It was ranked at the top of the S-level abilities .

The Academy of Sciences believes that Zhou Xiangzhe’s awakened ability is related to his own mental state.

He awakened in an S-level pollution source. The pain of the disappearance of the orphanage stimulated him, allowing him to give birth to this unique ability that targets only pollution. The Academy of Sciences even conducted a large-scale investigation and determined that the mutants who survived in high-level pollution areas or high-level pollutants would awaken a higher level.

Mingguang expressed his opinion on this conclusion: It sounds as good as farting!

He’s saying that it’s ridiculous

People who can survive in high-level pollution areas or to high-level pollutants are not ordinary. The reason why they are higher in level is that those with lower levels are dead!

This is simply survivor bias!

Running up to the second floor, Zhou Xiangzhe did not see Shen Wang nor the painting. His eyes were seeing wriggling thorns everywhere.

Blood thorns were all over the birdcages, and occasionally a small tail part of them was dangling, they looked very comfortable.

Zhou Xiangzhe frowned slightly, but he didn’t have time to care about these thorns now, he had to find Shen Wang.

Zhou Xiangzhe avoided these thorns and went up to the third floor where finally saw Shen Wang and the painting. 

Shen Wang stood in the living room with his back to him. Zhou Xiangzhe could see that he was holding the painting, but his posture didn’t look like he was looking at the painting.

More like… preparing to put the painting into his mouth.

Huh? !

He rushed up quickly, grabbed Shen Wang from behind before he bit down, and covered his slightly open mouth with his hand.

“You can’t eat it.” Zhou Xiangzhe said, “Can’t eat weird things.”

Shen Wang turned his head and glanced at him, his black eyes slightly red.

The candy had no effect, and his hunger intensified again, and now in front of him was someone that could relieve his hunger.

“It has nothing to do with you.”

“You will regret it.” Zhou Xiangzhe said: “Even if you are hungry, you can’t eat pollutants.”

“Pollution is secondary. Shen Wang, you are a human being, and humans can’t eat such strange things.”

But he isn’t a human being, he has never been a human being.

Shen Wang grabbed Zhou Xiangzhe’s arm, and Zhou Xiangzhe forcibly took the painting out of his hand. Shen Wang watched the food disappear from his hands. Fortunately, some thorns fell from the ceiling and snatched the painting from Zhou Xiangzhe’s hand at an incredible speed.

This is the second time these little things snatched something from Zhou Xiangzhe, but this time Zhou Xiangzhe did not chase them. All his thoughts were on Shen Wang.

Shen Wang felt Zhou Xiangzhe’s strength and even found it a little funny.

“I will bite you again.”

“Go ahead.” Zhou Xiangzhe answered him, “Human blood is a very dirty thing. Under normal circumstances, I don’t recommend you to bite people, but now I think human blood is much cleaner than pollutants. If you really want to bite something, just bite me. At least it can guarantee your safety.”

So Shen Wang really laughed.

“Are you this nice to everyone?”

Zhou Xiangzhe thought: I’m nice to you because it’s you, my little Shiwu.

How could I allow you to be hurt again.

Shen Wang didn’t really want an answer. He looked at the window next to him. The red bricks on the window were being moved. The woman outside the cage pushed the window open, and her black eyes were against the window, staring at them.

They were discovered.

“Even if I have a problem with my brain, I won’t bite a pollutant.” Shen Wang said: “It’s so dirty.”

Zhou Xiangzhe didn’t let him go, but he didn’t refuse his actions.

Shen Wang looked at the woman outside the cage with a little smile on his lips, and this smile made him look quite confident.

“I just thought of one thing.” Shen Wang said, “Every painting is related to the eyes, and [Hundred Eyes]’s experience.”

“The first painting is [Hundred Eyes]’s fantasy of the hospital after she lost her eyes in a car accident. She wanted a hospital that could treat her and let her paint again. What about this painting?”

“A cowardly, controlling mother who only vents her anger on her.” Shen Wang watched the woman outside the cage stretch her arm in, “So in this painting, what does painting mean to [Hundred Eyes]?”

Zhou Xiangzhe answered calmly: “It means..”

“It means to continue living in a birdcage controlled by her mother.”

“That’s right.”

The thorns hung from the ceiling, and when the woman outside the cage wanted to catch them, they threw the painting into the hands of the woman outside the cage.

“Painting is the only tool [Hundred Eyes] uses to deal with her mother’s domination and this birdcage.”

In the endless pain and shadow brought by her family, she is herself only when she paints. Her hobbies bring her the meaning of life and are the only light in her life.

Only when she was painting could she completely get rid of her mother.

The woman outside the cage screamed miserably. Her hand that touched the painting began to melt, and her red nails fell to the ground. She wanted to pull her hand back, but the whole birdcage was dissipating, so she panicked and grabbed the birdcage she had created.

“No!” The woman kept trying to grab the birdcage, “You can’t leave!”

“You can’t disappear!”

“Mom loves you! Mom really loves you!”

“We will be together forever!”

The overexposed incandescent light outside the cage finally shone in with the collapse of the house. The too strong light made Shen Wang close his eyes subconsciously.

The woman’s miserable crying became farther and farther away. She cried so sadly, as if she was really crying for her child.

When he opened his eyes again, the woman’s crying still remained in his mind, but the damp smell of earth around him told Shen Wang: They are out.

Zhou Xiangzhe exhaled softly in his ear.

He let Shen Wang go from behind.

“Sorry, I misunderstood that you wanted to eat something strange.”

Shen Wang glanced at him, “Then will you still let me bite you?”

Zhou Xiangzhe looked at him for a long time before speaking, “Why do you have the habit of biting people?”

Shen Wang thought: He doesn’t have the habit of biting people, he doesn’t bite people or anything, but Zhou Xiangzhe is too special. He is a human, but there is a S-level pollutant in his body, which not only triggered his illness, but also made him want to bite him uncontrollably.

“Didn’t you say you believed me 100%? Why do you ask this?”

Shen Wang’s tone was full of ridicule.

Zhou Xiangzhe was silent for a while, he couldn’t say: Because I don’t know the answer. 

“It’s the captain’s responsibility to understand his teammates.”

It’s just eating books, you will get used to it after eating a few times.

“Because your expression when you were bitten was very interesting.” Shen Wang decided to make a harmless joke, “The cold guardian of Central City actually restrained himself when he was bitten, and even pushed himself to comfort me, and told me that it was okay. Don’t you think such a person is suitable for teasing?”

Zhou Xiangzhe: …

How should I say it? Although I know Shen Wang is joking…

But, I feel like he’s like a cat teasing humans. When he sees an honest person, he will bite and scratch him.

And what can an honest person do? He can only let the cat bite him.

“Don’t bite in front of other people.” In the end, Zhou Xiangzhe could only say: “It’s easy to be reported to the Control Center for investigation.”

He emphasized, “Only mentally abnormal mutants will bite people suddenly.”

“Then I will tell you in advance next time.” Shen Wang didn’t care, “It’s not considered a sudden bite if you give notice in advance.”

Zhou Xiangzhe, who was slightly obsessed with cleanliness, sighed.

He wanted to ask: Xiao Shiwu, do you really have to bite people?

It’s really unhygienic!