Jiang Mengchi still remembers the place where he started to have problems, or rather, that place is vividly stuck in his mind.

But it seems that there is something in his own mind preventing him from going to that place again. It wasn’t until Shen Wang appeared and proposed to go there that he ignored his inner restlessness and agreed.

It was the backyard of Building No. 2. Unlike the overgrown front yard, the backyard was obviously cleaner, but rather than being taken care of or looking neat, it was better to say…

“Not a single blade of grass grows here.” Shen Wang narrowed his eyes slightly and said the conclusion.

It was dead silent, without any vitality, as if even time had stopped. People would feel physically uncomfortable when they walked here.

Shen Wang thought: This place looks more like a pollution source than the woman who’s jumping off the building.

In the three years outside the high wall, Shen Wang has visited many places, including some pollution sources, and has even gone deep into these pollution sources.

In Shen Wang’s view, those pollution sources are like worms, suddenly appearing on the ground and chewing a hole in the ground, then devouring the surrounding nutrients like parasites, entrenching and turning everyone who is near into monsters with pollution viruses.

They are more like immovable pollution mothers.

“It was here.” Jiang Mengchi said: “I found myself lying here after I woke up. I felt very uncomfortable at the time. My mind urged me to leave quickly. After leaving here, I began to check the uncomfortable parts of my body, and then I found that my body was distorted.”

Shen Wang squatted down, he looked at the small piece of ground around him, and then pointed in a direction.

“There.” Shen Wang said: “There seems to be traces of turned soil.”

Jiang Mengchi looked at that place for a long time before speaking, “Well, it seems to be.”

“Then should we go dig it?” Shen Wang was a little more interested.

Jiang Mengchi did not answer.

“Are you worried about digging up a pollutant?” Shen Wang looked at Jiang Mengchi, “Or are you worried about digging up the bodies of your teammates?”

Jiang Mengchi: …

To be honest, he is no longer surprised. Although he has only known Shen Wang for a short while, he arrived at the conclusion that Shen Wang is a person who says whatever he wants without restraint. He doesn’t seem to like superficial politeness, nor does he like to hide his personality, so the words he occasionally says are very straightforward.

…Polaris’ recruitment standards are really amazing.

However, Jiang Mengchi is indeed worried that he will dig up the bodies of his teammates. He is too repulsive to this place, and he’s even feeling that something is wrong.

“Then you can go and wait for me.” Shen Wang didn’t care. He started looking for tools. “I’ll go find you after I finish digging.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Jiang Mengchi took a deep breath. “I have to go there anyway.”

He found the tools first, and then with a stiff face he walked to the place with the traces. Shen Wang squatted beside him and they dug together. While digging, he said, “Could this be a place where someone else has dug? After all, 50 victims have entered here.”

Jiang Mengchi shook his head. “According to my observation, no victims have come here.”

After being refuted, Shen Wang shrugged and continued to dig down, but soon he found that he had dug something. The tool made a familiar metallic sound.

“It doesn’t look like a corpse.”

Jiang Mengchi breathed a sigh of relief. He and Shen Wang dug out the metal together.

It was a metal box. It didn’t seem to be oxidized or corroded. It was just mixed with mud on the surface. It looked like a prop box configured by the Pollution Control Center. Jiang Mengchi opened the box. There were no props or weapons in it, only a tattered book stained with blood.

“Isn’t this my notebook?” Jiang Mengchi was a little surprised, “How did it get here?”

“You buried it?”

Jiang Mengchi was about to deny it. He turned his head to look at Shen Wang, but the words stuck in his throat when he looked into Shen Wang’s eyes. Shen Wang, who was squatting beside him, looked at him calmly, his figure reflected in his black eyes. Although he used a question, there was no doubt in his eyes.

He was sure that this was something Jiang Mengchi buried himself.

Jiang Mengchi felt that his eyes were very stressed for some reason, and he didn’t even dare to look directly at Shen Wang’s eyes.

So Jiang Mengchi turned his eyes to avoid Shen Wang’s sight, and finally answered: “I don’t know, I don’t remember.”

In order to avoid being embarrassed, Jiang Mengchi subconsciously opened the notebook. There were dark red bloodstains on the notebook, and the paper was also stuck when he opened it, as if he had sealed the notebook in the box without cleaning it after the blood splashed on it, causing the blood to stick together after it dried.

Jiang Mengchi tore open the two pieces of paper and saw the words written in black pen on them.

[September 18, 27th year of the Doomsday calendar. It has been almost three months since we were trapped inside. The time has gradually become confusing. I have not given up hope, but it’s difficult for everyone to hold on. Since Tang Quan jumped off the rooftop due to pollution a week ago, the atmosphere in the team has become worse. ]

Jiang Mengchi slammed the book shut.

“Don’t you want to continue reading?” Shen Wang asked him, “Don’t you want to make sure your teammates are safe?”

“I just realized that this may be a result I can’t bear.” Jiang Mengchi stared at the cover of the book.

After many psychological preparations, Jiang Mengchi reopened the book and looked down.

[January 13, 28th year of the Doomsday calendar. I am not sure if the date is correct. The time is completely chaotic. Three of the seven people couldn’t bear the pollution, they either distorted or committed suicide by jumping off the building. We still can’t find a way to leave here, and everyone has begun to give up. ]

[On x/x/29 of the Doomsday calendar, I find it hard to understand why an ordinary D-level pollutant can be so powerful. I think there are other reasons. I decided to re-investigate this place. Wangshui wants to go with me. He is the only survivor in our team. ]

[On x/x/29 of the Doomsday calendar, we found a large number of low-level pollutants, generally at the level of E and G, with serious distortion and disfigurement. What on earth is this place? Why are there so many low-level pollutants? ]

[I finally understand… It turns out that this is not a simple pollutant at all, this is a pollution source! A C-level pollution source! ]

[Wangshui is dead too, everyone is dead, and I am the only one left. It turns out that this is the reason why we can’t leave. ]

“Be careful.”

Just when Jiang Mengchi was immersed in the content, Shen Wang next to him pulled him aside and pinched something in the air with his other hand.

Jiang Mengchi looked up and saw that Shen Wang’s hand was pinching a person’s neck.

No, it should not be said to be a person.

It was a pollutant, it was highly distorted, his whole body turned into black dead wood, a small tree came out of his eye socket, and the roots in his skull could be seen. He opened his mouth but could not make a sound, because Shen Wang had pinched his throat.

With a click, a crisp bone cracking sounded.

Shen Wang threw the pollutant out, and he twisted on the ground. His neck was broken, but this did not affect his movement. When he stood up, his head just dropped below his shoulders.

This scene was enough to scare all ordinary people to tears, but it was no big deal for Shen Wang.

He pulled out the weapon that the Pollution Control Center had issued to him from his waist, pointed the gun at the twisting pollutant, shot him in the skull, breaking the creeping roots, and then shot him in the chest, breaking the heart in the chest, and this time the pollutant could no longer move.

“Low-level pollutant.” Shen Wang said, “It doesn’t even reach Class E. It can be cleaned up on a large scale with thermal weapons.”

Jiang Mengchi stared at the dead pollutant, and frowned, “I seem to have seen this pollutant before… No, I didn’t see a pollutant, but a human.”

“He was a victim who committed suicide by jumping off a building after being polluted!”

“That’s normal.” Shen Wang was not surprised, “This is the source of pollution. The source of pollution will pollute all life within the range. Everyone who dies inside will become a distorted person or a pollutant.”

Jiang Mengchi turned his head and looked at Shen Wang in surprise. His mind buzzed, and he suddenly realized something.

His fingers trembled as he continued to turn over his subordinates’ notebooks. Jiang Mengchi had never been so panicked in his life.

[They became pollutants, they didn’t recognize me anymore. As low-level pollutants, they only had the instinct to expand. ]

[But they probably didn’t want to become pollutants. They were members of the guard team that protected ordinary people and eliminated pollutants before all of this. ]

[I killed them at the cost of getting polluted myself. ]

Yes, this is the source of pollution. The woman who committed suicide became a Class D pollutant. After she died, she also became a pollutant because of the pollution source.

Watching his teammates die from pollution one by one was enough to torture Jiang Mengchi, but they became pollutants. Jiang Mengchi had to kill them again. This experience was enough to make Jiang Mengchi collapse, so his body became distorted and pollution spread rapidly in his body.

In order to control the speed of pollution, Jiang Mengchi’s brain self-defense deleted those memories.

But even so, the pollution was irreversible and even caused greater hidden dangers.

He became the only Class C pollutant in Qianzhen Community, and his talent also changed to a pollution talent. He spread pollution through the barrier unconsciously and pulled people in one by one.

Those people, those people were killed by him!

Jiang Mengchi took a deep breath, and there was a severe pain in his neck. A black object broke through his skin and drilled out. It was a small branch. The branch grew along with his collapsed mental state.

His body distortion was getting worse, and even his hands began to become hard and brittle, as if they could break into pieces if he used too much force.

Shen Wang, who was watching this scene, was not worried at all. He even picked up the notebook that Jiang Mengchi dropped and sat on the stone next to him carelessly.

“Are you going to become a pollutant?” Shen Wang looked at him, “If so, I will have to kill you. I don’t want to kill you, so you’d better maintain your state.”

Jiang Mengchi raised his head suddenly, and after his memory was restored, his eyes began to turn pale, like a corpse.

His reason, which had not yet been lost, told him: Yes, there is still another person here.

“Kill me!”

Shen Wang held the notebook and said as if he didn’t hear it, “If you become a pollutant, you’ll be C-level, so I have to kill you. Maybe I’ll also be polluted like you because of the pain of killing my companions. But I’m better than you. If I become a pollutant, it will be B-level, and I am quite smart.”

“Then I will bring disaster to the world and kill people everywhere.”

“Okay, I lied to you. This matter is not enough to make me mentally collapse, let alone pollute me, so I can still kill you properly when the time comes.”

Jiang Mengchi:…

At the end of his life, he actually met a mentally ill person with problems. What did Polaris like about him?

But fortunately, he met this lunatic.

In this way, he won’t have to become a pollutant and wander around this place, but die. He sincerely thanked Shen Wang for this.

Just when Jiang Mengchi was about to nod, there was a buzzing sound, the wind suddenly moved, and he smelled a fresh smell different from decay in his nose.

The two turned their heads and looked to the side. At that moment, they felt something was different. The isolated space seemed to be trembling, and dark clouds appeared in the sky.

“Just now…?”

“The isolation was opened for a moment, and someone came in. It might be someone sent by the Pollution Control Center.” Shen Wang stood up slowly, “Do you want to find a place to hide? I’ll go to other places to look.”

Jiang Mengchi was still squatting on the ground, his pale and empty eyes staring at Shen Wang.

“Why? We have been here for so long and no one from the Pollution Control Center has come. Why today…”

“Of course it’s because I’m here.” Shen Wang said, “Don’t forget, I’m a member of Polaris. When I came in, the captain and deputy captain were with me. The Pollution Control Center will give face to Polaris and Zhou Xiangzhe no matter what. What’s more, the pollution here has spread, which means that there is a problem with its isolation.”

“Why didn’t you come earlier…” Jiang Mengchi repeated and murmured.

‘If it had been earlier, they wouldn’t have died, and neither would I. Why couldn’t you have come earlier…’

A voice suddenly sounded in Shen Wang’s mind, and he frowned.

Class C pollutants usually have a pollution talent, but their rationality is not strong. In other words, their talent for pollution is difficult to control except for instinctively trying to expand. That’s why Jiang Mengchi pulled in more than 50 people to save him without any awareness.

This is not Jiang Mengchi’s intention, it’s just the evil nature of pollutants seeking to expand.

“According to the Pollution Control Center manual, a pollutant causing pollution should be cleaned up as soon as possible.”

Shen Wang stared at Jiang Mengchi and murmured, “It’s because this is a Class C pollution source, just cleaning up the pollutants won’t eradicate the pollution. I will go to the pollution source center first, I’ll leave you to the staff later.”

“Well, good luck.”