The psychic mutants are searching for possible traces of pollutants in the central city.

Although Zhou Xiangzhe issued a B-level alert within the mutants, this alert did not affect the lives of ordinary people. Zhou Xiangzhe originally wanted to let ordinary people stay at home for a period of time, but this proposal was rejected by the guards.

The guards insisted that they patrolled every day and had never encountered any problems. Moreover, the deaths of the B-level pollutant Plum Rain and the D-level pollutant The Clown showed that even if this pollutant existed, its target was its same kind, and it was not necessary to make a big move like the city in lockdown.

“This is too imprudent.” Ming Guang completely disagreed with this, “What if this A-level pollutant decides to attack humans?”

Zhou Xiangzhe sat on the chair. At this time, he changed his clothes again and now he’s wearing white casual clothes. This color made him look more delicate. The bright color greatly enhanced his appearance. Moreover, this time he also wore a pair of black gloves, and two silver rings connected together were worn on his ring finger and little finger.

He did not express his opinion.

“We dispatched all the psychic mutants.” A man in a guard uniform opposite Zhou Xiangzhe said, “Zhou Xiangzhe, you should know that this time it’s not just our guard teams that are dispatched, your dispatch team members are also searching, but all the psychic mutants didn’t find this A-level pollutant.”

“So everyone judged that the pollutant has left the central city.”

“I can put all the mutants on alert, but it can’t affect the normal life of ordinary people.”

Zhou Xiangzhe looked at the person opposite him, “Are you sure?”

“Of course.” The man looked at Zhou Xiangzhe.

“Although you are the most powerful mutant in the Central City, Zhou Xiangzhe, you are in the dispatch team after all, and you are outside the city most of the year. No one knows the situation inside the city better than me. Being too alert will affect the mental state of ordinary people and make them more susceptible to pollution. I promise that this A-level pollutant will not appear again.”

Ming guang frowned slightly, he really wanted to ask, ‘What guarantee do you have?’

“I can also guarantee it.” A voice appeared at the door. Zhou Xiangzhe glanced at the door, and a smiling man walked over from the door of the conference room.

“Zhou Xiangzhe, you don’t believe him, but you can always believe me, right?”

The man said: “I didn’t sense the smell of Class A pollutants in the Central City either, unless this pollutant is not a pollutant.”

The sharpness in Zhou Xiangzhe’s eyes faded a little.

The smiling man is called Bo Wenhuan, with the innate ability A023 [Sensing Tracking]. He is a human-shaped pollution detector. He can detect places where pollution exceeds the standard faster than machines, and can also track the location of pollutants through the traces left by pollutants.

The things left by the blood thorns are enough for him to track several times.

Since he said so, it is very likely that this Class A pollutant has really left Central City.

Although the people here are different in character and power, everyone wants to protect the ordinary people of the Central City.

“Okay.” Zhou Xiangzhe compromised, “Since you have promised so much, of course I will believe you.”

After that, Zhou Xiangzhe got up and left the meeting room, and Ming Guang followed him out.

The Pollution Control Center has a large headquarters. It is not open to visitors except for the mutants and staff who have joined the company. When they left, there were few people outside.

“I think they didn’t want to deal with this matter from the beginning.” Ming Guang said as he walked.

“The death of Plum Rain, a Class B pollutant, was suspicious. With so many flaws at the scene, they didn’t realize that Plum Rain was killed by a high-level pollutant? As a result, they didn’t investigate after so many days. It wasn’t until we came back and the D-level pollutant The Clown was killed that they slowly started to investigate.”

Zhou Xiangzhe put one hand in his coat pocket, “It’s not necessarily that they didn’t want to investigate, but that they can’t investigate.”

“What do you mean?”

“The mental state of ordinary people affects their degree of pollution. If the mental state is not stable enough, they will be more susceptible to pollution. The appearance of Plum Rain, a Class B pollutant, in Central City is enough to make ordinary people panic. If it is announced that this Class B pollutant was killed by a higher-level pollutant instead of being eliminated by the guards, then the emotions of ordinary people will be even more intense.”

“So the guards have been hiding it? Until we came back with good news, they began to gradually investigate?” Ming Guang suddenly realized.

Zhou Xiangzhe glanced at him, “Have you finished what I asked you to do before?”

“What?”

“Shen Wang’s joining the team.”

Ming Guang gritted his teeth instantly, “Zhou Xiangzhe, you still dare to say that, do you know how many times I have been questioned by the group of people above, constantly asking me why I want to fill in a new member, asking me if our team has lost members? You really have no selfishness in your daily life, and you always make a big deal when you do something!”

“So is it done?”

“Done.” Ming Guang took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Xiangzhe, “This is the team joining notice, just sign your name.”

Looking at the stamped notice, Zhou Xiangzhe nodded, and then he put the notice away.

“Since it has nothing to do with us, you take me to Shen Wang’s residence, and I will take him to do a talent threshold test.”

What else can Ming Guang do, he can only nod.

“So what is your relationship with Shen Wang? I don’t remember you having such a friend. He has only been in Central City for ten days, right? He even stayed in the shelter for a week.”

Zhou Xiangzhe glanced at Ming Guang.

“The one who gave me the umbrella.”

“Ah? But I remember that your orphanage was hit by a S-level pollution source… Wait a minute!”

Mingguang remembered something, “The child who escaped because of genetic disease?! Wait, that’s not right. I remember you looked for him, but the hospital where he was treated was attacked by C-level pollutants, and he has been missing for more than three years. No, are you sure it’s him?!”

“It’s him.” Zhou Xiangzhe said, “Don’t worry, he’s human. If not he wouldn’t get out so easily  from the Center. He is a human with blood, temperature and breathing, not a pollutant.”

Mingguang was choked, and he thought about it and felt that it was right.

If Shen Wang was a pollutant, he would never be able to leave the Center. The Center has checked and tested him several times a day.

Then where has he been in the past three years? Why didn’t he show up, and why did he show up now?

But compared to these, Ming Guang has a question that he wants to know more.

“Does he know that you have been looking for him? I think his attitude towards you seems to be no different from that towards others. He didn’t recognize you, and you don’t intend to recognize him at all?”

Zhou Xiangzhe was silent for a few seconds, “He seems to have changed his identity. I’m not sure if he wants to recognize me.”

Ming Guang remembered the question Zhou Xiangzhe asked him before and his answer at that time…

No way, it turned out to be that time.

Ming Guang and Zhou Xiangzhe were discovered to have awakened their abilities at the same time, and they also trained in the same school. They were good classmates and comrades. He always knew that Zhou Xiangzhe cared a lot about the orphanage where he was raised. The outbreak of the undiscovered S-level pollution source swallowed up his childhood and home, and he was the only one who was pushed out by the dean.

That was a nightmare that went deep into his bones, a thorn that would bleed if touched.

After graduating from school, Zhou Xiangzhe began to look for the children who survived like him. He searched for a long time and investigated for a long time. Finally, a few years later, he found Shen Wang’s whereabouts, but at that time he had already disappeared in the disaster of pollutants attacking the hospital.

Unexpectedly, Shen Wang was still alive and came back.

So Zhou Xiangzhe’s desire to protect him exploded. He insisted on watching Shen Wang and wanted to never let him encounter such a disaster again.

[Polaris] is the safest place Zhou Xiangzhe has.

…

Although Shen Wang joined the dispatch team, he would not go out of the city to eliminate pollutants so soon.

Because the dispatch team is divided into many teams, he needs to wait for the team’s allocation, and the Central City has just issued a B-level alert, so the dispatch team’s outbound operations have been temporarily stopped.

Shen Wang is happy to be free and happily played with his mobile phone at home.

The man next door who abused his daughter moved away yesterday. The door that Shen Wang broke has never been repaired. When he came back at night, he could see a dark hole in the room. Song Chen from the security team was so busy that he only came back in the middle of the night and fell asleep as soon as he got home.

He wouldn’t make any noise.

Shen Wang was very satisfied.

So when the knock on the door sounded, Shen Wang wondered if someone had knocked on the wrong door. He was alone now and no one should come to visit.

The knocker saw that no one opened the door, so he knocked a second time after ten seconds, and only knocked three times each time. Shen Wang sat on the sofa and stared at his door, thinking, would he knock a third time after ten seconds? So Shen Wang waited for a while, and sure enough, the person outside knocked three times again ten seconds later.

Tsk, obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Shen Wang put his phone back in his pocket, got up and walked to the door.

The person outside was far beyond Shen Wang’s expectations. He thought about it and couldn’t figure out why a living Zhou Xiangzhe appeared at his door.

Zhou Xiangzhe didn’t care why Shen Wang came to open the door only after he knocked three times in a row. He went straight to the point, “From today on, you are assigned to Polaris. This is the admission notice.”

Shen Wang subconsciously took the light paper.

He read the notice from beginning to end, and finally looked at Zhou Xiangzhe.

“Why?” Shen Wang leaned against the door frame, his posture was lazy, and his lips were smiling. Instead, he lost his usual harmless and peaceful attitude, and looked sharp as if he didn’t know why but didn’t bother to care.

“We met in the Center, and there is no need for me to pretend in front of you. I have a bad personality and won’t listen to discipline. I will get into trouble if I enter Polaris.”

Shen Wang still remembered that he strangled a pollutant to death in front of Zhou Xiangzhe.

Zhou Xiangzhe certainly knew that he had a bad personality. He knew that since they were children.

“Then you should pretend to be a good person and sign your name on the notice.”

His voice was still cold, and his jokes didn’t sound like a joke, instead it gave a strange contrast.

“No.” Shen Wang smiled, and his peach blossom eyes, which were already smiling, looked even more affectionate and extremely attractive.

“Are you trying to coax me into signing a contract?”

Zhou Xiangzhe kept handing the notice¹, and he stared at Shen Wang.

Don’t you want to join Polaris?”

“Just kidding.” Shen Wang shrugged, still with a casual look of ‘whatever is fine’, “The strongest mutant in Central City is here to recruit me, how could I not agree?”

But in fact, it was because Shen Wang realized that staying in Polaris might be more efficient.

Since they were all here to pick up leaks to treat his disease, of course they had to choose the most efficient one. He had not considered Polaris at first, after all, the probability of Zhou Xiangzhe discovering him in Polaris was very high, but since Zhou Xiangzhe had come to invite him personally, it would be more conspicuous if he didn’t go.

It would be better to just join.

Zhou Xiangzhe breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, then he motioned to Shen Wang to sign his name at the end of the notice.

“Sorry, I don’t have a pen.”

Shen Wang pointed at the signature with his index finger. Although he said sorry, he didn’t feel sorry.

He really didn’t have a pen, and he didn’t want to go back to the room to find it. And even if he did, it would be useless. He never bought a pen. His residence was not much different from when he hadn’t moved in yet except for the fact that he lived there.

Zhou Xiangzhe looked at him helplessly, “… I have a pen in my pocket.”

Shen Wang raised his eyebrows slightly after hearing what he said, and his hand went straight into the other’s coat pocket to find the pen he mentioned. Zhou Xiangzhe was stunned and didn’t react for a while.

Until Shen Wang very naturally put the notice against the door and signed it with the pen, and handed the pen and the notice back to Zhou Xiangzhe, not caring about Zhou Xiangzhe’s stunned look at all. Zhou Xiangzhe hesitated to speak, his eyes were strange and subtle.

Zhou Xiangzhe thought: Has no one taught Shen Wang that people should have social distance?

In the end, Zhou Xiangzhe didn’t say anything. He took the notice and put the pen back in his pocket.

“There is one last procedure to go through. You haven’t tested your talent threshold yet. Do you have time now?”

“Of course.”

Shen Wang followed Zhou Xiangzhe downstairs. Ming Guang was waiting for them in the car downstairs. He waved to them when he saw them coming down.

However, ability threshold.

After the apocalypse, people who awaken an ability are called mutants. The Academy of Sciences classifies known abilities according to their usefulness when dealing with disasters, but that does not mean that if he awakens an A-level talent, he is an A-level mutant. The level of a mutant depends on the ability threshold, also called the pollution tolerance value.

In other words: mutants are polluted people just like pollutants. The higher the pollution level of pollutants, the stronger they are. The same is true for humans. The higher the pollution they can withstand, the stronger they are.

The place to test the talent threshold is more remote than the Center. According to the official statement, it’s because the test of the talent threshold requires the mutant to use his talent ability with all his strength, some mutants have mental abilities, which could affect the residents around them, so they must avoid residential areas.

So Shen Wang saw that the staff members were fully armed and covered with protective equipment. It didn’t look like a test, but more like demining.

They tested Shen Wang tremblingly, and only breathed a sigh of relief after the test was completed.

“C-level! Almost to B-level!” The staff was very excited when they saw the result, “It’s really excellent to reach this value soon after awakening! The talent threshold will increase with time. I think this gentleman will eventually reach A-level or even S-level!”

Ming Guang hissed, “Zhou Xiangzhe, what level were you when you just awakened?”

It was judged that Shen Wang might become an S-level mutant in the future. He(MG) was also C-level when he just awakened, but now he was only at B-level after so many years.

Zhou Xiangzhe sat next to him and answered casually: “A-level.”

Ming Guang: …

No, I can’t compare with this pervert.

In short, the bureau has great expectations for Shen Wang, believing that he will be the next A-level or even S-level mutant in the future. Shen Wang smiled and accepted the blessing, but in fact he thought: It will really fail their expectations.

After picking up a few high-level pollutants with Polaris, they will find out that he’s a fake mutant, and then he will run away.

There is no future.

He might be hunted down as a pollutant.

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TRANSLATOR’S CORNER

probably in the future Zhou Xiangzhe: I should teach my wife to stay socially distant to other people!
Shen Wang: no need, you’re the only exception!