220 Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Foundation (End)

◎The focus is on the Devouring and Alienation panels◎

Zhuang Lin was waiting outside the hotel entrance. The inspectors showed that the place had been purified.

"The pollution source seems to be dead," the inspector said. "The pollution concentration is decreasing."

The fluctuation of the pollution source once reached a peak, which frightened the inspectors on site.

Zhuang Lin was both happy and anxious when he heard this. They had truly completed their mission. Zhuang Lin said, "Operation Cleaner. Two teams of demon hunters will follow."

This place is a trap set by Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. He heard that the inside of the cleaning center was infected, so he didn't dare to be careless.

Zhuang Lin: "Mission objective, find our people first."

When it comes to missions, Zhuang Lin always believes that as long as people are alive, nothing else matters.

There were thirty-nine demon hunters and cleaners in total. Some of them joined after Zhu Ning activated the human-machine joint device. They walked into the hotel lobby in a mighty procession.

"The test equipment is reporting back normally," the technician said. "We have images."

He controlled the detection instrument to fly, and Zhuang Lin immediately went over to take a look. The screen showed the internal scene.

The technicians were shocked by the scene inside. There was rotting flesh all over the floor and the concentration of contaminated spores was too high.

The previously paralyzed inspection device has reached the entrance of the underground cave, and the video takes off shakily, like a peeping eye.

The bee-shaped lens passed through the contaminated spores, and the machine was easily infected and parasitized by the contaminated spores. The technicians operated it carefully, but there were so many spores that even the most precise operation could not avoid collisions.

The camera lens was all red, as if the only theme of this world was red, and the spores moved like fish in water.

Finally, the camera saw the person in front, a woman in black protective clothing kneeling on the ground, in front of her was a piece of rotten flesh piled beside her legs.

Her fists hung by her knees, clenched tightly.

"We found a survivor," the technician said.

He zoomed in the camera, and because he wasn't wearing a helmet, he could see Zhu Ning's face. The side of Zhu Ning's face was covered in blood. She lowered her head, and something was dripping down.

It wasn't tears, it was the blood on her face. There was too much blood, and it was flowing down her face.

Whose blood? The technician thought she was injured.

The technician reported: "We've found the cleaner, Zhu Ning, without a helmet. Anti-pollution department, get ready. Medical department, get ready."

He turned on the conversation device and asked, "Zhu Ning? Are you okay, Zhu Ning?"

When Zhu Ning heard the sound, he moved the hand on his knee, slowly raised his head and looked at the camera. The thing looked like a bug.

"Where are the other survivors?" the technician asked. "Anyone else?"

Zhu Ning rolled his eyes and looked over expressionlessly.

"Are you alone?" the technician asked. "Backup is here."

Zhu Ning stood up slowly. The surroundings were getting noisier and noisier. A cleaner pushed open the door of the underground entrance.

Because everyone was wearing helmets that covered their faces, humans looked at each other as if they were aliens.

Zhu Ning is an alien in their eyes.

A cleaner came over to her, put a blanket over her, and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Bring me a helmet," someone waved it in front of her eyes and said, "She might be infected."

After he said this, the other support personnel stopped and looked at her warily.

"People from the anti-pollution department..." They wanted to ask the anti-pollution department to come over immediately. It was very serious to come out of the polluted area without wearing a helmet, and it needed to be handled by professionals. But before they finished their words, Zhu Ning suddenly moved.

Everyone looked at her with strange expressions and backed away as if she had some plague.

In this world full of pollutants, it's always better to be vigilant.

After Zhu Ning stood up, Xu Meng's rotten flesh slowly slid off her body, and Zhu Ning walked towards the door step by step.

This is the road she has not yet completed.

She followed the spiraling path up step by step, passing through the contaminated spores, and opened the door to the underground entrance.

This passage was very narrow and one had to bend over when entering. At that time, Xu Meng took the lead to check whether there was any danger ahead.

Zhu Ning walked with his back bent, his body almost bent. The passage was narrow and cramped, but it became wider as he walked.

She could straighten her back, raise her head, and see the scene before her.

She pushed open the door and saw the hotel front desk. The cockroach man in the middle of the hotel lobby had turned into rotting meat, and contaminated spores were floating upwards from the first floor.

All the rooms were filled with contaminated spores.

There were more people in the lobby, some wearing blue protective suits, some wearing green protective suits, and people from other departments that Zhu Ning had never seen before.

Huo Wenxi announced the entire process of this mission. After the infection occurred inside the cleaning center, other volunteers who were not in the center were urgently mobilized.

Someone was pointing a gun at her. There was a red dot on her chest, not a contaminated spore, and she knew she was being targeted.

The demon hunter came out of the polluted area and used his life to purify the world, but was treated like this after coming out. It was understandable but a bit cruel.

"Hey, back off!" someone said. "There's something wrong with her."

The technical department said: "The pollution concentration is rising, it is now 325%!"

The pollution concentration was too high and had completely reached the data outside the wall. The detection instrument beeped and sounded an alarm, and the alarm rang loudly when it approached Zhu Ning.

"Is she going to break down?"

Zhu Ning was right in front of them, but no one tried to communicate with him.

Everyone was in a panic. The highest mental value in history and the super S-level strength corresponded to the super S-level pollution area.

On the day when Zhu Ning became the person with the strongest mental value in the cleaning center, they all imagined the day when she would have a mental breakdown.

Now this speculation is about to happen.

"She... has... black lines on her body..." someone from the medical department said.

He thought he was seeing things, but there was something really wrong with Zhu Ning, and the air around her was changing.

The gray-black lines initially blended in with her hair and were not very obvious when viewed from the ground, but now they looked like shadows cast in a comic book.

Her face and arms were covered with gray and black lines.

Everyone was very familiar with this; it was a sign of the formation of a polluted area. Based on their experience, Zhu Ning was about to suffer a mental breakdown and degenerate into a pollutant.

Previously, someone suddenly opened the contaminated area in the lobby of the cleaning center.

"She's not a natural human!" someone yelled. "She's a demon!"

As soon as she finished speaking, more guns were pointed at her, "Stop! Don't move!"

Zhu Ning said "oh", she was a devil, she knew it.

Zhuang Lin put on protective clothing and walked in. It was too chaotic here, which was beyond his ability. People from various departments gathered together, information was not flowing, and some people simply did not obey him.

Zhuang Lingang heard the news outside, "Zhu Ning!"

This was the scene Zhuang Lin saw when he came in. There were a total of twenty-four guns present, and many of the people were people with special abilities.

Zhuang Lin quickly walked in front of Zhu Ning, blocking her and said, "She's fine, put down your guns first."

Zhuang Lin said, "After all, we're all here to carry out our mission. We've all risked our lives. No one wants to be pointed at like this. Everyone, calm down."

Zhu Ning came here to look for key clues to the doomsday. She didn't risk her life to walk in here just to face being pointed at with a gun one day.

Zhuang Lin said, "She's really fine. I guarantee it."

A small number of people lowered their guns upon hearing this, but the majority still pointed their guns and said helplessly, "I know, but this is the rule. All demon hunters must be prepared to die."

They were told during training that if infected, they should sacrifice themselves immediately and not drag down their teammates.

From the perspective of the overall situation, this rule is of course fine. The least troublesome thing for Zhu Ning to do is to die immediately, like Xu Meng.

Except for Zhu Ning, no one can remain unscathed after their protective suit is damaged. Most people who enter S-level contaminated areas will be infected if their protective suit is damaged. Their behavior is normal.

"I finally understand Xu Meng's choice." Zhu Ning said.

If Xu Meng degenerates into a pollutant in front of these people, it would be better for him to be killed by Zhu Ning. At least he would die quickly and neatly.

Zhu Ning had imagined this scenario before. She had a foreign object in her stomach and thought it was an internal infection that was incurable.

She chose Xu Meng as the executioner, but her executioner died, killed by her own hands.

Zhu Ning's words were incoherent and the others couldn't understand them at all. Zhuang Lin, hearing the key point, asked, "Where's Xu Meng? Where are they?"

"After entering the underground entrance, walk down 800 meters." Zhu Ning said.

Zhuang Lin quickly checked his screen and saw that the detection machine had taken a picture of that location, and only a pile of rotten meat was left.

He immediately understood that Xu Meng was dead.

"Doctor Fu is in the third examination room of the underground hospital." Zhu Ning continued, "Cao Wei is at the end of the ward corridor, near the laboratory."

She reported the locations of death of other teammates.

Zhuang Lin's pupils shrank. Except for Zhu Ning, the entire army was wiped out?

The wristbands they were linked to were at the technical department headquarters and had not received any information about the disappearance of vital signs. Now that they suddenly received it, they were unable to react for a while.

Zhu Ning asked, "What is Doctor Fu's real name?"

Zhuang Lin replied woodenly, "Fu Bai."

"Fu Bai." Zhu Ning read it out, "Place them well."

Zhuang Lin felt that Zhu Ning's mental state was normal, and there was no problem with her speech, but there were indeed black lines on Zhu Ning's face.

Huo Wenxi trusted Zhu Ning, so Zhuang Lin did too. He whispered, "No matter what you are like, I suggest you leave first."

He immediately judged the situation and decided that the farther Zhu Ning went, the better. It was not appropriate for Zhu Ning to appear in the cleaning center right now.

Zhuang Lin needs to take care of Zhu Ning's safety before Huo Wenxi comes out.

Zhuang Lin wanted to tell Zhu Ning about a safe house, but Zhu Ning interrupted him and said that she would not leave and would go to the cleaning center to kill that damn superior.

Zhu Ning took off a cloth bag from his waist, inside of which was Chu Ling's head. She was still in a dormant state, with her eyes closed, looking very peaceful.

Zhu Ning: "All the information you want is here."

Zhu Ning stuffed Chu Ling into Zhuang Lin's arms, "But I don't know what it's for."

God has come, and they may have really wasted their lives looking for a worthless piece of information.

Zhu Ning touched his heliopause, and the human-machine joint device lit up with blue light, but Prometheus did not say a word from beginning to end. Like a cold bystander, he watched their deaths mercilessly.

Zhu Ning pressed the blue ring and slowly pulled it out. The white mycelium was stained with her red blood.

Zhu Ning took it off and handed the human-machine joint device to Zhuang Lin, "You must return it after the mission."

Zhuang Lin was a little at a loss holding the device. He didn't understand what Zhu Ning meant.

Zhu Ning began to remove the employee bracelet from his wrist and handed it to Zhuang Lin. "This is the center's property. I resign."

After receiving this, Zhuang Lin finally understood that Zhu Ning was going to leave the cleaning center.

According to the procedure, she should return to the center for examination, and go to the anti-pollution department, medical department, and examination room. Just like before, every data was carefully recorded to prove that she was not infected.

Zhu Ning had been very cooperative before, but now she feels a little disgusted.

After Zhu Ning gave the instructions, she continued to move forward. As she moved, the muzzle of the gun behind her also moved. No one dared to shoot rashly. No one could predict the consequences of stimulating the source of pollution.

Zhu Ning pushed open the door of the hotel, and reinforcements arrived outside. They shouted something, asking Zhu Ning to cooperate with the inspection. Zhu Ning didn't hear anything, but only felt that the winter sun was particularly dazzling.

She finally made it out into the real world, ignoring the guns pointed at her and simply looking up at the sun.

Her eyes were so sore that a normal human would get burned if they looked directly into the sun, but she was an experiment.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Huo Wenxi made a public statement, after which Zhuang Lin drove to pick him up. It was less than ten o'clock when they entered the contaminated area.

It is now one o'clock in the afternoon, and there are only three hours in total. Ordinary people may just go to have lunch at this time.

But they went to a polluted area once, and some of them could never get out again. This is the cruelty of this world.

Zhu Ning felt as if he was in another world. This world seemed fake, and the world in the polluted area was the real one.

bite--

The system's mechanical voice suddenly rang out: [Congratulations on completing the side quest: New Century Hotel, purification level 100%]

[Reward settlement in progress...]

[Congratulations on receiving the basic reward. Your spirit value has been restored to...]

[Spirit value recovery failed...]

Her spirit value would automatically recover to 100% after each mission, but today it kept showing failure.

After killing Xu Meng, Zhu Ning perfectly completed the system task and began to settle the accounts.

There was a crackle of electricity—

[Spirit value decreased... decreased to 49%... Spirit value decreased to 47%... Spirit value decreased to 43%... Spirit value decreased to 39%...]

The system kept making the sound of electricity. Zhu Ning lowered his hands, ignoring the system's prompts and looking at his hands coldly.

The lines of the contaminated area were forming, right in her hand, gradually spreading and covering her side.

Black slime surged over her body and crawled out from the back of her neck, wrapping her like flowing armor, becoming more and more, and thicker and thicker, until they gradually merged into one.

Zhu Ning suffered his first mental breakdown in the basement of the Noble Queen Store and rebuilt his defenses.

That was the first time she obtained the black slime. Now the black slime seemed to have endless vitality and was multiplying and wriggling.

What happens next? Does he become polluted and get shot to death by those behind him? Does the pollution spread and kill the people in the cleaning center?

Reinforcements outside the hotel set up their weapons, ready to hunt her down at any time.

bite--

A clear voice rang out: [Congratulations on awakening the Alienation Panel: Devour]

There was only a short sentence, and then the system fell into a long silence. Everything was so cold.

Zhu Ning was stunned. She awakened the alienation panel?

So this is how the Alienation panel is opened, and this is how Devour is activated. Zhu Ning wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. Xu Meng died, and she got the reward. Nothing could be more ironic than this.

"I can't tell you too much. Revealing too much information will distract you."

"The focus is on the Devouring and Alienation panels."

The words of the first generation were right next to his ears. Zhu Ning had never understood the prophet’s predictions about the future, but only today did he truly understand them.

The first generation couldn't tell her, because once he told her that Zhu Ning must kill Xu Meng, Zhu Ning would definitely deviate from the route.

This was the only way out that the first generation had calculated after dying a thousand times. Zhu Ning was pushed onto the right path by the hand of fate, and now he saw a true starting point.

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