20 The Man-Eating Hot Pot Restaurant (Part 9)

◎Exploiting the daughters of chaebol families◎

Zhu Ning has always been curious about what would happen if he used mental pollution on a pollution source.

To put it another way, do polluters need to ensure their own mental "health"? Zhu Ning had been exposed to very few pollutants, and Yu Ren was because he missed the last train on Line 1, which disappeared.

She later checked the news of that day. Radiation was spreading underground throughout the district, and the last train on Line 1 had to stop temporarily at the previous station due to the radiation.

Yu Ren waited at the station, his anxiety growing. He kept thinking he had missed the last bus. He kept muttering to himself that he couldn't find the last bus and he had no money for a taxi.

Pollutants also need a safe zone to maintain their mental stability, but their judgment criteria are different from those of ordinary people.

Most people don’t know they are doing bad things when they are doing them. They will rationalize their behavior, otherwise they will easily suffer a mental breakdown.

What about Wang Ming?

After killing his boss, he regained consciousness for a while, but was soon driven mad again.

He could only convince himself that it was the boss who wanted to kill him first, and he was just protecting himself, and took over the hot pot restaurant driven by desire.

He contaminated other people in the hot pot restaurant and cut off the boss's flesh so that he could continue to support the operation of the hot pot restaurant.

He put his fingers in the cash register. In order to make the hot pot restaurant reasonable, he made the entire hot pot restaurant look like Xiaohui's diary.

If the hallucinations seen after mental pollution come true, then everything will make sense.

Rotten meat in a hot pot restaurant, monsters in the trash can, strange aromas, constantly disappearing employees, a strange basement, and a boss who is portrayed as the source of all evil.

At the same time he left a tape in the toilet tank, making him the safest victim.

This polluted area has always maintained an ecological balance. Wang Ming has made the hot pot restaurant logically self-consistent. He has been working hard for 30 years, and his business has always been perfect, until today, when Zhu Ning exposed it.

Zhu Ning broke his foundation in half.

Did Wang Ming do anything unforgivable? It seems not; he, too, is a victim of spiritual pollution.

But ever since he was mentally polluted, he has been obsessed with making mental pollution a reality. He can only accept himself as a victim, and is trapped in his own polluted area like a dead end.

Liu Niannian felt the situation was strange because, in her eyes, Zhu Ning hadn't done anything. He froze in front of the giant pig face, his mouth wide open, and then froze in place.

He looked very painful, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't. He wanted to roar in anger, but found that he had no reason to roar.

He wanted to laugh happily, but then found that he had no reason to laugh. He wanted to cry, but he also had no reason to cry.

There was chaos inside the hot pot restaurant for a while.

The few employees who had their heads sticking out of the hole in the ceiling were clapping wildly. Half of their bodies were sticking out of the hole, and they looked like they were hanging upside down from the ceiling, including the pig-headed man.

Snap, snap, snap—

They laughed so hard that the corners of their mouths reached their ears, and they clapped their hands so fast that it seemed as if they were going to break them.

Wang Ming in the mirror was crying and laughing at the same time, and with every movement he made, the broken lens fluctuated.

Rustling——

The hot pot restaurant owner's body seemed to have some uncontrollable disease, and his flesh began to want to run away like crazy.

Crazy, really crazy this time.

Zhu Ning disrupted the order in the hotpot restaurant, and the staff and diners went crazy.

Zhu Ning took a step forward, and the mirror in front of him actually moved back. He looked at Zhu Ning warily, as if he was looking at a real monster.

As Zhu Ning moved forward, the pollution source retreated, and eventually the mirror was forced into a corner, but he had no way of getting back in.

Once the source of pollution is discovered, there will be no way out.

With a crackling sound, Liu Niannian saw that the source of pollution was trembling visibly, and the lens was still reflecting light as it shivered.

The source's mind was in a state of confusion, and in his confusion, he shuddered along with the wall. Zhu Ning blocked the source's way, and he even looked at Zhu Ning with a pleading look.

It works.

Zhu Ning stood in front of him. She did not use any weapons and turned a blind eye to the crying face of the pollution source.

If it works, then add some more. She opened the system panel again.

System: [The rotten fish head has been opened. This will consume 5 health points. Do you want to use mental pollution on Wang Ming?]

Zhu Ning: "Use it."

After Zhu Ning clicked on it, the pollution source showed a confused expression.

At that moment, no one spoke, no one applauded, and the entire polluted area was extremely quiet, so quiet that you could hear the sound of breathing.

Breathe—breath—breath—

The rhythmic sound of breathing filled the polluted area. That was not the voice of Liu Niannian and Zhu Ning, but the sound coming from the source of pollution.

The pig-headed man hiding in the mirror stretched out his hand tentatively.

Both of his arms were covered with scars. Zhu Ning was standing opposite him. The source of pollution could have easily caught Zhu Ning, but he didn't.

After he stretched out his hand, he paused and looked down at his palm.

It's like thinking about a difficult math problem.

Then, stretch your arms toward your face and gently pull them to the sides.

With a crackling sound——

As easy as tearing a paper bag, a deep crack appeared inside the contaminated area.

The cracks began to spread from the pig face in the mirror, extending to the ceiling, the ground, the boss's life detector, and other employees peeping through the ceiling.

The contaminated area is so fragile that it looks like a paper toy, slowly collapsing from the inside.

Contaminated area...committed suicide?

Liu Niannian looked on in disbelief. He had never heard of anyone committing suicide in a polluted area in his life.

But what happened next easily answered her question. From the torn hole in the contaminated area, contaminated spores like blood drops gushed out.

Thousands of contaminated spores.

The contaminated spores were so numerous that they resembled a swarm of locusts, fluttering around the collapsed hot pot restaurant, quickly enveloping Zhu Ning and Liu Niannian. Only upon seeing the contaminated spores did Zhu Ning breathe a sigh of relief, his tense body relaxing.

It worked.

She spent ten life points in exchange for two rounds of mental pollution, just to gamble whether the pollution source would be polluted again.

Pollutants are not normal, but their mental pollution status must match their own strength.

The pollution concentration is not enough to form a polluted area, but if the pollution concentration is too high, it will cause the internal balance of the polluted area to be broken and eventually lead to collapse.

bite--

Zhu Ning heard the system's mechanical voice in his head: [Congratulations on completing the random mission: Man-eating hot pot restaurant, purification level 100%, rescue survivor mission, completion rate 100%]

[Reward settlement in progress...]

[Congratulations on receiving the basic reward, your spirit value has been restored to 100]

[Congratulations on receiving a purification value reward of 2000. Current purification value accumulation: 2154]

[Congratulations on receiving the Pigman Reward: Pigman's Guillotine]

[Reward Description: C-level contaminated item, can kill the mission target once within 24 hours, with a 100% accuracy]

[Congratulations on obtaining the primary talent: Metal Manipulation. This talent is a primary talent that allows you to manipulate metal objects within a distance of one meter.]

[Congratulations on receiving the random mission reward: Universal/Key]

[Reward Description: Can open any door]

[This quest line promotes the side quest: Find the truth behind the death. The key clue has been found and the search progress is 20%]

The hot pot restaurant now supports the side quest, and the progress bar has increased from 5% to 20%. Is it because of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical?

Zhu Ning had never heard of this pharmaceutical company, so he could only investigate it slowly after he got out.

…

After the contaminated area collapsed, the hot pot restaurant returned to its original appearance.

There was a thick layer of dust inside. The hot pot restaurant, which had not been run for 30 years, was extremely dirty and messy, with old tabletops, beer bottles scattered on the floor, and blackened walls.

If you ignore the rotten flesh and contaminated spores on the ground, it looks like an ordinary abandoned building. Thousands of contaminated spores have illuminated the interior of the hot pot restaurant blood red.

This was Zhu Ning's second mission and she was more experienced than the first time. She knew she had to start containing the contaminated spores immediately.

Liu Niannian next to her was shocked. It was the first time she saw so many contaminated spores at the same time.

She had only seen them in the lab before, and only three of them at that.

In Liu Niannian's heart, Zhu Ning is simply a talent. She still doesn't understand how Zhu Ning killed the source of pollution without using weapons.

Moreover, Zhu Ning was injured in order to protect himself. If it weren't for Zhu Ning, Liu Niannian would have been chopped in half by the guillotine.

Liu Niannian: "Um...thank you for saving me."

Liu Niannian was trying to decide her words. Her family was wealthy, and she was thinking about how much money would be a suitable thank you for Zhu Ning. Zhu Ning was canceling the automatically sent message. She had been in the contaminated area for less than an hour, which was relatively fast.

Zhu Ning asked: "How is your mental state now?"

Liu Niannian thought Zhu Ning was concerned about her, and said firmly, "I'm okay. I don't seem to have lost my mind."

This girl is in very high spirits, Zhu Ning thought.

Liu Niannian now felt a little regretful for looking down on Zhu Ning. "You saved me, I will thank you very much."

She felt a little embarrassed and said, "My family will bring money."

"That's not necessary." Zhu Ning received thanks from the system. The reward this time was very generous.

How could that be embarrassing? Liu Niannian thought to himself, is Zhu Ning some kind of walking Bodhisattva?

Zhu Ning: "Just help me sweep the trash."

"Ah?" Liu Niannian was confused. "Ah?"

What did Zhu Ning ask him to do? Sweep the trash? Not to mention that Liu Niannian had never even seen a broom in her life.

"I'm a garbage collector." Zhu Ning had already opened his cleaning backpack.

Liu Niannian blushed, thinking about how she had mocked other people's low-level jobs and where Zhu Ning's witcher was. Now Liu Niannian wanted to put back the outspoken self of the past.

Zhu Ning had already taken out the cleaning tools from his backpack and threw one to Liu Niannian. There were thousands of spores inside the contaminated area, and Zhu Ning would have to work alone until dawn.

If Liu Niannian had not suffered from serious mental pollution, she could help her.

Liu Niannian was holding a strange-looking cleaning tool in his hand, looking confused. What was this?

Zhu Ning demonstrated and collected a contaminated spore. "Have you learned it?"

Liu Niannian nodded in confusion. It wasn't that difficult. He just had to bring the end of the straw close to the contaminated spores and they would be automatically collected.

Liu Niannian tried it and found it… quite relaxing? Was the process actually somewhat therapeutic?

Liu Niannian: "We just need to collect the contaminated spores?"

If that's all I do, it's actually not that unbearable.

Zhu Ning: "After containment, clean up the scene, remove all rotten flesh, rinse away bloodstains, and ensure no contaminated spores remain. If the two of us are quick, we should be able to finish it in two hours."

Liu Niannian: “…”

Zhu Ning realized that if she wanted to do this in the future, such as containing contaminated spores, she would definitely not be able to do it alone, so she would have to find a way to develop her own companions.

Zhu Ning had already imagined how to expand the great business of garbage collection, and Liu Niannian was the first employee she hired.

Zhu Ning: "Call your family to let them know you're safe. Let's get to work."

Liu Niannian's eyes went dark. What kind of farmhand was Zhu Ning, exploiting labor? Zhu Ning had always been exploited by capitalists, but this was the first time she was exploiting the daughter of a wealthy family.

So cool.

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