Sun Ying walked in the wide and cold corridor in a blue protective suit.
Walking alongside her were two other people, wearing identical uniforms with their names and titles displayed on their chests. They didn’t say a word and didn’t look sideways, but they would still inevitably see the containment rooms on both sides.
These containment rooms were filled with deformed or normal looking humans. Some were so deformed that only sticky tentacles were left there, climbing on the cold and transparent isolation walls.
Sun Ying exhaled gently, trying to get used to the scene before her.
After all, this is a pollution control center, and she is an intern doctor at the Containment Center.
After passing through this corridor and turning around two corners, Sun Ying and the others finally arrived at their destination.
This is a temporary testing and isolation zone set up by the Containment Center. Some people who have been rescued and show no abnormalities will be sent here for a one-week isolation period. They will be sent to human settlements only after they are confirmed to have no issues.
“How many people need to be tested today?” asked the senior sister in front.
“Five.” Sun Ying quickly replied: “These five are from different pollution events, and one of them is in the last day of their isolation period.”
Upon hearing this, the three people present couldnโt help but relax a little
There are very few humans who can survive pollution events without being polluted, and it is even rarer to find truly normal survivors. Most survivors will mutate within seven days, and less than one percent are able to safely leave the detention center within a week. Can we actually encounter a miracle today?
This couldnโt help but make them feel a little more hopeful.
The senior sister pushed open the door in front of her and stepped through it. Sun Ying saw the main character of the conversation. He was sitting on a narrow single bed, and when he heard a sound, he lifted his head and glanced toward them.
He was undoubtedly a very good looking man, with fair skin that seemed to glow under the pale light of the Containment Center. His eyes were as dark as ink, with a small beauty mole under the corner of his eye. He had natural smiling lips, and his peach blossom eyes carried a hint of a smile even when he wasnโt smiling1, giving him an incredibly warm and approachable aura.
The senior brother beside him looked at the real-time data detected by the Containment Center.
“Shen Wang, seventh day of quarantine, contamination level 51%.”
The senior sister frowned, “Why is it so high?”
“When he was first isolated and brought in, his contamination level was as high as 88%. It has been gradually decreasing since then,” Senior brother looked at the previous file and answered: “He has shown no signs of mutation, and his mind remains normal. Teacher suspects that his contamination level is high because he may have recently awakened a special ability”
“Mutant?” Senior sister also flipped through the previous test reports, “Where was he brought from?”
“The pollution event seven days ago, Class B pollutant [Plum Rain]. He is the only survivor of this incident.”
While listening to the words of senior brothers and senior sister, Sun Ying recorded this person’s test data according to regulations.
Contamination level 51%, heart rate 73, stable psychological condition, stable mental state…Except for the contamination level exceeding the normal range, he was simply too calm, as if it was not a big deal to be unlucky enough to encounter a terrible pollution event and be quarantined in this place where people and ghosts are neither human nor ghost2 after surviving.
Sun Ying even felt a bit of admiration for him.
“It seems that except for the need to confirm whether he is a mutant, all his data are normal.” The senior brother nodded, “I guess he must have experienced something major in the past to be this calm”
“Calmness is a good thing.” The senior sister signed her name on the test report.
“Who knows how many people have accelerated their mutation into monsters because of fear? Mental stability is an extremely valuable advantage in this era. Even we doctors must have courage.”
After signing her name, the senior sister knocked on the isolation wall to attract the attention of the people inside.
“Mr. Shen, your condition is very good. You can leave the detention center tomorrow.”
The person inside seemed to have heard this. Sun Ying saw him smile slightly. His already good-looking face, combined with a faint smile, made him even more attractive.
“This one is qualified. Next one” the senior brother flipped to the next file.
The three of them turned around and walked forward, but before they could take more than a few steps, the alarm abruptly went off, startling them.
The red lights kept flashing, giving the entire containment area a cold and tense atmosphere.
“Warning! A patient has escaped from the containment room C052!”
“Warning! All doctors, please proceed to the shelter quickly!”
“Warning! Nearby security, please head to containment room C052 immediately!”
The senior brother frowned and cursed. The senior sisterโs face, blocked by her protective mask, also looked unpleasant.
It is rare for patients to escape from the Detention Center, but once this happens, it usually meant that the patientโs condition was very bad. Maybe they have mutated into E-level or even higher-level pollutants. Only in such cases theyโre able to escape from the containment room.
This also often indicated that the escaped patient was extremely dangerous.
“Letโs go, hurry to the shelter!” The senior sister was the first to react and quickly signaled for them to follow the safety signs.
Sun Ying stumbled and followed behind the senior brother and senior sister. She only spoke up when they reached the shelter’s entrance, “C052, the patient in the C contaminated area has been classified as high alert. Currently, itโs still a moderate mutation.”
The senior brother looked at the senior sister beside him, “Is area C very close to the isolation zone?”
Hearing this, the senior sister frowned. “It is indeed very close, but there is a special isolation wall between the contaminated area and the isolation zone. Additionally, the thinking patterns of pollutants are simple. They will go to the center of the contaminated area to find food, where attractants are arranged.”
Although she said this, the senior sister still wasnโt fully reassured. She turned and headed toward the monitoring room, where the cameras were also showing containment room C052.
The C052 containment room was empty, the surveillance didnโt show any damage to the walls, but the white single bed in the containment room was torn into pieces, as if some large wild animal had been imprisoned in it. Sun Ying was a little scared as she looked at the miserable state of that bed. If they ran into it, their fate would probably have been no different from the bedโs.
“Where did he run off to? How did he get out?” asked the senior brother.
The senior sister began to rewind the surveillance footage, and soon they saw the entire process of the patientโs escape.
The patient was completely deformed, his body became soft, the sticky liquid soaked through his clothes, and his pupils turned into vertical slits, like those of a beast. He simply clung to the wall, and then slowly wriggling into the ventilation vent used for air circulation, he disappeared from sight.
The senior brother gasped in surprise, “A snake?”
“He’s already highly polluted. His body has elongated like this, it can get into all kinds of narrow spaces.”
Just as the three of them were feeling increasingly anxious, a slightly cold voice suddenly sounded through the communication broadcast.
“I am Zhou Xiangzhe. Report the location of the escaped patient to me.”
Everyone present was stunned. After a long time, the senior brother rubbed his ears, “What did I just hear? Zhou Xiangzhe?”
“Heโs actually at the Containment Center?!”
“No one would dare impersonate Captain Zhou at a time like this,”The senior sister was obviously calmer and her thinking was clearer, “Find the patient’s location immediately.”
Sun Ying quietly sighed in relief from behind. As soon as she heard Zhou Xiangzhe’s name, she was no longer nervous.
She was not the only one who felt this way. Everyone present felt the same way.
Because Zhou Xiangzhe was a rare S-rank mutant, the well-known captain of the special operations team against pollutants, and was called the Guardian of Central City.
As long as he was there, there was nothing to worry about.
“We found him!” The senior brother suddenly zoomed in on a screen. “No, we need to move quickly!”
Sun Ying hurriedly looked at the surveillance screen.
The person in the image was someone they were very familiar with. Mr. Shen, who was expected to leave the Containment Center the next day, was standing in front of the transparent wall of the containment room. He was looking up at something in the distance. The surveillance camera moved and showed a pale, narrow head emerging from the ventilation vent. The human features on the face were pressed against it, resembling a ghost.
It was the patient from C052.
It actually didnโt follow the attractant to the center of the contaminated area, but instead crawled through the ventilation hole into Shen Wang’s containment room!
The appearance of pollutants is generally not very good, but Sun Ying had never seen such an ugly one.
The face was more than twice as long as that of a normal person, and the pale facial features were squeezed out long and deformed. The ugly snake-headed man slid out of the ventilation hole, but Shen Wang did not avoid it like a normal person would. He stood there, watching this pollutant with what seemed like curiosity.
The pollutant hesitated for a moment before revealing its fangs, but rather than attacking, it seemed more like it was on guard.
Before Sun Ying could figure out what was going on, her senior brother let out a cry of surprise. Sun Ying subconsciously looked at the surveillance camera, and when she saw the image clearly, her eyes widened in shock.
The pollutant was being strangled by Shen Wang.
His hand was gripping tightly around its neck, his fingertips turning slightly white from the pressure. The pollutant struggled violently but was pinned against the transparent wall of the containment room, unable to escape, it could only make hissing sounds.
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Zhou Xiangzhe saw this scene when he rushed to the location of the pollutant.
The young man with a handsome appearance stood in front of the transparent isolation wall. His face was incredibly harmless, with a smile in his beautiful peach blossom eyes. His pale, slender fingers were wrapped around the pollutantโs neck, he looked elegant and beautiful. If posted online, he would probably be a very popular internet celebrity.
But such a gentle and harmless person had actually ruthlessly snapped the neck of a pollutant.
As if he had noticed someone coming, Shen Wang released his grip. The pollutant fell to the ground with a thud, and his soft body crumpled to the floor as if it had no bones.
“Hello.” Zhou Xiangzhe heard him greet him.
Without responding to him, Zhou Xiangzhe looked at the test value next to the containment facility.
The pollution level was rising little by little, but the final value stagnated at 63% and no longer moved.
“You are different from other doctors. You are not wearing protective clothes.” Shen Wang was still trying to make conversation.
Zhou Xiangzhe turned on the communication device and spoke expressionlessly: “The pollutant has lost all vital signs, and the logistics personnel should come to handle it.”
After he finished speaking, Zhou Xiangzhe looked at Shen Wang seriously.
He saw this good-looking young man smiling at him.
It was as if a mischievous child, after days of boredom, had finally encountered an unexpectedly interesting situation.
- ไธๅ็ฌๆ (sฤn fฤn xiร oyรฌ): “A hint of a smile.” This expression suggests that the personโs eyes or face carry a subtle smile even without their lips fully smiling โฉ๏ธ
- ไบบไธไบบ้ฌผไธ้ฌผ (rรฉn bรน rรฉn guว bรน guว): “Neither human nor ghost.” This is a metaphor describing a place or state that is strange, uncomfortable, or otherworldly, possibly implying an eerie or unsettling atmosphere โฉ๏ธ
Hello I’m Flying-Cat and I decided to try translating this novel for fun, it actually has similiar vocabulary to After The Global Evolution, I stand at the Top of the Food Chain! If there are mistakes you can tell me!
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