Chapter 54

Chen Buyan was wandering around the infirmary an hour ago, but an hour later he was admitted to the infirmary due to a broken arm.

An awakened individual repaired the collapsed hospital in a short time. The action department has buried many talents. If this person had joined the civil engineering department, his future would have been even brighter.

The feeling of a broken arm is indeed unpleasant. Even though his talent repaired it, the injury was still numb and tingling. Chen Buyan lay on the hospital bed, grimacing in pain, but when the door was pushed open, his grimacing teeth closed again.

It's Shen Yao.

Shen Yao's face was pale, it was hard to tell whether it was from poor health or from being frightened.

"Are you injured?" The girl's eyes were dark and deep, and Chen Buyan shivered.

"Don't worry, it won't hurt," Chen Buyan thought she was trying to comfort him.

“But last time, Mom also stood in front of me like this, and she said it didn’t hurt,” Shen Yao said.

"Oh, you're treating me like your mother," Chen Buyan thought, his face expressionless as he noticed the girl's affection.

"I want to see my mother."

This request isn't unreasonable, but it's difficult to fulfill.

The causes of death of Shen Xiuping and He Yun are mysterious, and their bodies are currently being examined by the forensic department of the Operations Division.

Moreover, Shen Yao is too young; what if she suffers psychological trauma?

Shen Buyan wrote a report, which was rejected as expected.

That night

The nurse rushed into the ward, shouting that Shen Yao was missing.

Missing.

Chen Buyan, who was half asleep, was suddenly awakened by this.

She probably won't go to see Shen's parents.

"They're dead?" Shen Yao lay on the ice coffin, where her parents were.

“Dead,” said the shadowy figure beside him, one of the two who had attacked the hospital during the day.

What is death?

"It means they can no longer talk to you."

"What about storytelling?"

"No, not either."

"Eat something?"

"cannot."

The questions raised by Shen Yao were all rejected by the shadowy figure.

"Yes, once they're dead, they can only lie here, and you can only watch them from here. There will be no more after this," the shadowy figure whispered, uttering the cruelest words in the gentlest tone.

Shen Yao, who had been standing there in a daze, seemed to suddenly realize that the glass barrier separating her from the outside world had been broken.

Those warm yet cruel things came rushing at us.

If he dies, Dad will never be able to tell stories again.

Mom can no longer dress her up in pretty dresses.

The two corpses in the ice coffin had a peculiar gray-white color.

Large tears slid down her face, merging with the ice coffin.

"Can a monster like you shed tears?" The shadowy figure grabbed Shen Yao by the back of the neck. Shen Yao struggled violently and bit the shadowy figure's arm.

Chen Buyan rushed over, and this was the scene that greeted him.

"Let her go!"

His figure disappeared, and he quickly attacked the shadowy figure behind him, but the opponent easily blocked the attack.

Chen Buyan's "Amaterasu" is one of the elemental talents, "light," which can be used for both offense and defense. However, the concentration of source matter in his body is very low, so he cannot exert much of his strength.

The dark figure seemed unwilling to get entangled with him and quickly ran towards the stairwell.

His speed is incredibly fast; he should have put all his skill points into speed.

But light is the fastest substance.

Chen Buyan was like a stubborn plaster that he couldn't shake off, clinging to him relentlessly.

"Get off me." The shadowy figure tried to kick the person clinging to his calf off, but the "plaster" was tightly wrapped around him. The shadowy figure seemed to be getting impatient. He held Shen Yao in one hand and raised his gun in the other.

"careful!"

The bullets traveled faster than he could deploy his light shield defense.

Chen Buyan originally thought that the other party did not have offensive talents, but he overlooked the fact that the fire weapons invented by humans could kill many low-level awakened beings instantly.

This is it.

The moment Shen Yao's voice rang out, he didn't think about his own death, but rather what would happen to Shen Yao.

However, the expected attack did not occur.

The bullet was stopped by the light, fluttering wings, and the red feathers clung to Chen Buyan's face, looking fluffy.

Shen Yao had completely changed. Her face was covered with fine scales, her wings on her back resembled bat wings, and her limbs had turned into bird claws as she frantically attacked the shadowy figure.

Shen Yao is a pollutant...

The two were locked in a fierce battle, one man and one bird, or more accurately, the man was being unilaterally beaten.

But the shadowy figure seemed pleased, moving swiftly and deftly dodging each attack.

The sound of hurried footsteps rang out, and Chen Buyan sent out a message requesting backup as soon as he entered.

Shen Yao didn't care. The anger and sorrow that had been building up for a long time finally found an outlet. She attacked the shadowy figure frantically, her black claws sharp and gleaming with a metallic sheen.

But the shadowy figure panicked upon hearing the footsteps, and in its dodge, it unleashed an aerial attack, its sharp claws piercing the man's body. The man's breathing became disordered for a moment due to the pain.

Whoosh—

A beam of light shone in from outside the room, the glass was broken by something, a long grappling hook reached in, and the dark figure grabbed it, but a yellow light curtain instantly unfolded in front of him.

"Don't even think about leaving!" Chen Buyan hurriedly stopped the dark figure, but the light screen vanished into thin air the next second.

A bullet flew in from outside and pierced his chest.

When Ye Ting and the other two arrived, all they saw was the broken window, Shen Yao, whose body had been mostly mutated, and Chen Buyan lying in a pool of blood.

Shen Yao had completely lost consciousness. The moment the door opened, the scent of fresh flesh and blood wafted in, and she immediately flapped her wings and flew over.

"Holy crap, what is this?!" Huang Yu was caught off guard and got hit right in the face.

It wasn't pasted on.

Shen Yao's wings were entangled by the black silk threads in Xiao Shengyun's hand. He sensed the powerful pollution as soon as he came downstairs and made preparations in advance.

Seeing that the pollutants were trapped, Ye Ting hurriedly contacted the hospital to have Chen Buyan taken away.

"What's going on? This place has been attacked, the attackers have escaped, but where is Shen Yao?" Ye Ting had just gotten out of bed, his head throbbing with pain.

"This is Shen Yao."

Xiao Shengyun held up the thrashing pollutants in his hand. Most of Shen Yao's body had changed, and only a small part of her face could be barely recognized.

Shen Yao?

Ye Ting and Huang Yu stared blankly at the horrifying-looking pollutants, unable to reconcile them with the image of that fair-skinned and adorable little girl.

Moreover, judging from the degree of this distortion alone, it has already exceeded the scope of treatment that antagonists can provide.

"Go contact the research institute and see if you can extract the pollutants from her body to develop a special antagonist. I'll go and investigate the intruders' information," Ye Ting said.

Xiao Shengyun nodded, gently stroking the pollutant in his hand. There was a source core on Shen Yao's neck.

"It is not pollution, it is the pollutant itself."

As soon as Xiao Shengyun finished speaking, the other two looked at him with strange eyes, their left eyes saying "Are you still asleep?" and their right eyes saying "Are you crazy?"

The idea that pollutants could transform into fully human beings was too far-fetched for them. This is how humanity's worldview is gradually shattered and then expanded.

The saying goes that fortune favors the bold, and doing so could indeed expose one to risks.

This was the first time Xiao Shengyun had seen someone of his own kind, someone who could become human. He desperately wanted to know if there were other Shen Yaos in the world. Of course, he could also live a muddled life as a human, but the recent events had taught him that sitting idly by and waiting for death was not an option.

Moreover, even if it's not disclosed, the operations department will find out sooner or later.

The only way to determine whether a pollutant is from humans is by its source nucleus.

"I will have the research institute send someone to handle this matter. Shen Yao will be detained in the operations department for now."

Before that, Shen Yao had to be detained somewhere, but the Action Department had never detained a pollutant before, and Xiao Shengyun was just able to suppress Shen Yao.

Therefore, Ye Ting had a sudden inspiration.

They locked both of them up.

"The people over there will be here soon. Stay inside for a while. If you need anything, just tell the people outside."

Ye Ting was separated from the iron fence.

Xiao Shengyun: "..."

"Ye Ting, are you crazy? You've even made up the story of pollutants turning into people?" This matter is of great importance. After contacting the research institute, the report was submitted to the director. The director was speechless at this absurd statement. After thinking for a moment, he realized that the teams might be under too much pressure recently. He said gently, "There have indeed been too many tasks recently. Everyone is having a hard time. The New Year is in a month. I'll give the team two more days off. You should rest now."

Before Ye Ting could say anything more, the other end of the phone hung up.

Ye Ting: "..."

The research institute's examination results showed that Shen Yao's body structure was basically the same as that of humans, but there were three differences.

First, there's her brain structure. A normal person's brain is composed of gray matter, white matter, and ventricles, while Shen Yao's brain is a chaotic whole.

Secondly, there is the source nucleus within the body, which is the biggest difference between humans and pollutants.

Third, what flows in her body is not blood, but a thick source substance.

When the report was submitted, the entire Bureau of Supernatural Abilities was in an uproar.

Pollutants can take on human form and blend perfectly into the population, which means that your husband or wife, children, or friends may not be human.

Just thinking about it sends chills down my spine.

Humanity had barely had time to celebrate the development of new specialized antagonists when a new crisis struck.

At the same time, all of Shen Yao's information was dug up again.

"Blue Sky Welfare Home..."

Xiao Shengyun recognized the familiar words; this was not the welfare home where Yue Ning had been.

It disappeared because of a mysterious fire.

Shen Yao was sent to this orphanage by someone, but who that person is no longer known, as everything was buried under the fire.

She was later adopted by the True Knowledge Society, and three months after Shen Yao was adopted, a fire burned the orphanage to the ground.

This also destroyed the most important information.

Where Shen Yao came from, how she became human, and who brought her to human society are all unknown.