Jiang Mengchi’s distortion was not serious, at least much milder than the distorted people Shen Wang saw in the containment rooms.

Black blood vessels spread and bulged on his neck, climbing under his skin like living roots, and occasionally one or two spread to his face, like a living parasite.

“It’s alive, often moving around in my body. After it appeared, I began to feel weak and listless, and it became more and more serious as time went by.” Jiang Mengchi didn’t seem to care much, “It’s just a moderate degree of distortion at most, I won’t die.”

Shen Wang didn’t like to meddle in other people’s affairs, so he changed the subject after hearing what he said.

“How big is the restricted area?”

Jiang Mengchi thought for a while, “It should be the entire Qianzhen Community. I’m not sure, because this space will occasionally be distorted, and I will be randomly teleported to a certain location in the community.”

“I even thought: Maybe one day I will be teleported out.”

“It’s a good wish.” Shen Wang smiled, “Then let’s go to the rooftop to take a look. Standing high, we can see far. Let’s first determine the scope of the community.”

“I don’t recommend doing this.” Jiang Mengchi shook his head, “The rooftop is the woman’s territory. If you go to the rooftop, you will definitely run into her. The distance is too far. If the pollutants are too close, they will be polluted faster. “

“Then there is no need to worry.” Shen Wang stood up and looked at Jiang Mengchi calmly, “I am a C-level mutant, about to break through to B-level, and that woman is a D-level pollutant.”

“She can’t pollute you, and of course she can’t pollute me.”

Jiang Mengchi looked at Shen Wang in surprise, and spoke after a long time, “A mutant close to B-level? Member of the dispatch team, which team are you in?”

“Polaris.”

The moment Shen Wang heard this name, he saw a glimmer of hope in Jiang Mengchi’s eyes that were so dull.

In the eyes of Central City, Zhou Xiangzhe and his Polaris are the epitome of miracles.

At this moment, nothing is more exciting than a mutant saying “I am from Polaris”.

“It’s Polaris. I understand.” Jiang Mengchi stood up immediately. “The Pollution Control Center has a tradition of obeying higher-level mutants under special circumstances. From now on, I will obey your orders and provide you with all the clues I can know.”

“Until you leave here or clean up this pollutant.”

Jiang Mengchi no longer refuted all his actions. He left the guard room if he said he would leave the guard room and went to the rooftop if he said he would go to the rooftop.

It took about five minutes to climb the 18-story building. Jiang Mengchi was a little weak because of his distorted body, which delayed him a little, but he never complained about being tired. He followed Shen Wang closely and didn’t fall behind at all. Jiang Mengchi breathed a sigh of relief after he got up the stairs.

Shen Wang looked at him, “Are you okay?”

“It’s okay.” Jiang Mengchi sighed, “It’s okay to walk. If you don’t walk, you may not be able to walk in the future.”

“You sound like a retired old man.” Shen Wang complained about him.

The rooftop was still damp. There was a rotten smell everywhere, but there was wind on the rooftop, and the wind blew on his body as if it still had a little vitality. Shen Wang took a deep breath and felt that the dust that was poured into his lungs in the corridor was blown away.

“So, how big is the range?”

Jiang Mengchi added, “We got the data of Qianzhen Community when we were on the mission. Because it’s located in the corner of the Central City, this community is not big. There are only three residential buildings, and each building has about 100 families. [Qianzhen Community Depression and Suicide Syndrome] is in Building 2, which is the middle building.”

Shen Wang put his hand on his forehead and looked out, “It doesn’t look special.”

“You can’t see the difference with your naked eyes, but it’s like a magical circle¹. No matter where you go, you can’t leave it, as if the road is completely cut off.”

“Maybe [Qianzhen Community Depression and Suicide Syndrome] is special, she was born with a talent for pollution. “

“Impossible.” Shen Wang put down his hand, “A D-level pollutant will not be born with a talent for pollution, especially if she is just a brainless stereotyped pollutant, this place is not hers to fence off.”

Jiang Mengchi looked at Shen Wang, “Is this your experience from Polaris?”

“This is Shen Wang’s experience.” Shen Wang smiled and gestured to Jiang Mengchi, “There is something I didn’t tell you, I am actually an novice mutant, I just joined Polaris today, and I haven’t had time to go out on a mission.”

“So Polaris’s experience is not applicable to me.”

Jiang Mengchi:…?

He looked at Shen Wang with an indescribable look, as if he was in extreme confusion.

Wondering why someone like Shen Wang could join Polaris, wondering why Polaris accepted such a person.

“Okay.” In the end, Jiang Mengchi chose to give up on himself. “Your level is higher than mine, you have the final say.”

“Oh, just kidding.” Shen Wang put one hand on his waist, with a smile in his black eyes. He lowered his voice and was a promising young man worthy of trust.

“Do you want to listen to the judgment of Shen Wang, who just joined Polaris?”

“You say.”

Although Jiang Mengchi felt that Shen Wang was a little unreliable, he was a member of Polaris after all, even if he had never followed Polaris on a mission. He believed in Polaris’s vision, and believed that someone chosen by Polaris must have their own unique features.

So he believed in Shen Wang.

“Pollutants have the habit of expanding. Even the most common pollutants cannot be trapped in a space. But it took three months to use your cry for help to pull in prey.”

Jiang Mengchi was stunned for a moment, “You mean we can’t leave the community because of pollution?”

“I said she is a Class D pollutant.” Shen Wang stepped forward and stepped on the edge of the roof with one foot. The wind blew up his coat, making him look extremely chic and free. “So there is only one possibility, this is an isolation made by the Pollution Control Center.”

“But the Pollution Control Center does not need to isolate an ordinary community. Just like you said, she is just a Class D pollutant. Isolation is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is more convenient to kill her. That’s why the Pollution Control Center sent us to clean up the pollution.”

Shen Wang looked at him, “Yes, a pollutant does not need to be isolated. What is being isolated?”

Jiang Mengchi was stunned and silent for a few seconds.

“It’s a pollution source.”

He looked into the distance outside the rooftop, and finally understood.

“Because this is not just a pollutant, but an uncontrollable pollution source, the Pollution Control Center has urgently isolated and controlled this place…”

“That’s why we can’t find a way out and are trapped in here.”

/

If this isolation is caused by the outside world, even if they kill [Qianzhen Community Depression and Suicide Syndrome], they can’t leave. This isolation will not disappear before the pollution source disappears, unless they have special means to deal with this pollution source and notify people outside.

This probability is really too small.

“Do you still want to deal with [Qianzhen Community Depression and Suicide Syndrome] now?” Shen Wang asked Jiang Mengchi standing beside him.

Jiang Mengchi was not surprised by this proposal. He thought for a while and nodded.

“Yes.”

“Even if this is a pollution source, and killing her does not mean we can leave, but given that new people come in from time to time, if she is dealt with those new people won’t be so easily contaminated, and the survival rate will also increase, so it is still necessary.”

Shen Wang’s eyes were full of appreciation, “You are a person who thinks positively.”

“If I didn’t think positively, I would have died here long ago.” Jiang Mengchi said: “Mental stability is the greatest wealth of this era, and I happen to have it.”

Since the decision has been made, they went down from the rooftop. This time the destination is the home of the suicidal woman, apartment number 501, which is also the place where the woman jumped off the building to commit suicide when she was depressed.

There is a lot of dust in the stairs, and there are footprints left behind when you step on it. It looks like no one has lived there for a long time, so there is dust everywhere. There are also remains of messy footsteps in the dust one after another, but there are only footprints going up and no traces going down, as if no one who went up came down.

Shen Wang and Jiang Mengchi left the only footprints going downstairs, and finally stopped at the stairwell on the fifth floor.

Apartment 501 was not closed. Standing in the stairwell, one could see that the room was extremely messy, with all kinds of furniture tilted and crooked. Because the doors and windows were not closed, there was more dust than in the stairwell.

There was no trace of the pollutant.

They walked into the room, the air was filled with the smell of dust, there were traces of trampling underfoot, and the walls were full of bullet holes, as if someone was standing here shooting at the wall to vent.

“You did it?” Shen Wang looked at the mess on the wall.

“No… I’m not sure.” Jiang Mengchi frowned, “I didn’t come here in my memory, but maybe my teammates did it, but if there was a gunshot, I couldn’t miss it.”

“Oh.” Shen Wang made a meaningful sound, “Hey, what’s that over there?”

Jiang Mengchi turned his head to look at the place where Shen Wang pointed, and then he found that there was a piece of debris hanging on the tilted table corner in the corner of the room.

He ran into the room and picked up the debris almost before he could react.

The uniforms of the Pollution Control Center are specially made, with special fabrics, heat preservation and defense effects. After getting them in his hands, Jiang Mengchi judged that they were the uniforms of the guard team. The black fabric fragments had a fishy smell. If you rubbed them carefully, you could see the red and black dried things, which looked like blood stains.

There was also a mission report under the fabric fragments, which was stained red with blood and covered by dust.

[Taskers: Guard Team 13th Street Patrolmen, All Members of Formation 337. ]

[Task Content: Eliminate the pollutant [Qianzhen Community Depression and Suicide Syndrome] at all costs. ]

[Task Time: August 21, 27th Year of the Doomsday calendar. ]

Shen Wang came over and took the paper from his hand. He looked at it for a while before speaking, “Isn’t this time wrong?”

Jiang Mengchi slowly raised his head and looked at Shen Wang.

“August 21, 27th year of the Doomsday Calendar, more than two years ago, but you seem to say that your team has only been here for more than half a year.”

“But I remember it was only more than half a year.” Jiang Mengchi stood up, clutching the pieces of clothing, “Maybe there is no concept of time inside so I ignored the passage of time, or maybe there is something wrong with my memory.”

“But…”

Jiang Mengchi stared at the piece of clothing, with a little doubt in his eyes.

“I don’t know why, I always feel that my teammates are fine, they must not be dead.”

“Seeing this situation, normal people will subconsciously feel that something is wrong, right?”

“Why do I believe in them so firmly?”

1. It says magic circle but i think hitting the ghost wall fits more this sitation ↩︎