49 Weird Oceanarium (VI)

◎The camera is looking at her◎

Ten minutes ago, cleaning center, 49th floor lobby.

The big screen was projected onto a blank wall, and except for urgent tasks, many people stopped to watch the big screen.

The person in the lead was Xuan Qing from the Operations Department, and next to her was Lu Qiqin, Director of the Technical Department.

The last time Zhu Ning went on a mission, the technical department made a serious oversight, resulting in errors in the rating of polluted areas.

This time, Lu Qiqin personally appeared to supervise the inspection. He was sure that the Mechanical Oceanarium was only a Class B pollution area with two pollution sources.

There will be absolutely no problem.

Xuan Qing asked, "Is Xie Jiazu not coming yet?"

Xie Jiazu is the head of the cleaning department, and Zhu Ning's real boss. He has a very casual style.

A cleaner with an S-level spirit value appeared in the team, and he didn't even show much concern for Zhu Ning.

On the contrary, Xuan Qing, the leader of the demon hunters, seemed to be paying too much attention to Zhu Ning.

Lu Qiqin: "I guess he's slacking off somewhere."

The cleaning department is the most leisurely department. Generally speaking, they don't have to deal with direct conflicts. Xie Jiazu would rather be lazy than work, and his work style is very problematic.

Xuan Qing stopped talking nonsense and looked at the big screen with her arms folded.

The camera accurately captured Zhu Ning's situation. She was being entangled in her hair, and there was a mermaid in front of her.

Prometheus, the artificial intelligence of the cleaning center, can maintain communication with the outside world wherever it is. Prometheus is the only communication tool that can communicate with polluted areas.

From the video sent back, it can be seen that Zhu Ning is not in good condition and she looks a little dazed.

It seems like she has been bewitched by the mermaid.

Xuan Qing is the head of the Operations Department. She was a very good demon hunter before. She worked her way through countless polluted areas to get to her current position.

She is very familiar with the properties of polluted areas, and the pollution sources of mermaids are generally difficult to deal with.

Their eyes resemble some kind of intense spiritual pollution.

Sure enough, Zhu Ning on the screen looked like she was in poor condition. She had no power to fight back against the mermaid.

Beep, beep—

A red light appeared in front of him, and Prometheus was asking for instructions.

[Request to enter command state]

Prometheus needs instructions to take over Zhu Ning's body.

Xuan Qing raised his eyebrows. Artificial intelligence's judgment was never wrong. Prometheus's algorithm might have calculated that taking over the body and leaving was the best option in the current situation.

Lu Qiqin: "Give her permission. I don't think she can handle it."

"She's not a professional demon hunter. All those who entered before were D-class. It's too much to ask her to enter B-class all of a sudden."

The colleagues next to her also thought so. Zhu Ning's identity was a cleaner, and she only needed to sweep up the garbage. Finding the source of pollution and killing it was not within her job scope.

There's no need to expect a cleaner to have the qualities of a demon hunter.

Xuan Qing stood with his arms folded, looking at Zhu Ning on the screen, and said in a deep voice, "Request to reject."

Lu Qiqin: “…”

Tsk, this woman is a bit stubborn.

Prometheus did not send any more requests.

Xuan Qing stared at the screen expressionlessly, this was just the beginning.

The ecology in large-scale pollution areas is complex. Once the contaminated spores overflow, they can easily form new sources of pollution, which are called secondary pollution sources.

The pollution level of secondary pollution sources is generally weaker than that of main pollution sources.

This shouldn't be difficult for Zhu Ning.

But Prometheus's reaction today was a little abnormal, too fast, and Zhu Ning was obviously not forced into a desperate situation.

Are you so worried that Zhu Ning will die in there?

Employees stopped in the lobby of the cleaning center one after another, and every time a demon hunter came back from a mission, it looked like a live broadcast.

Some battles are very exciting to watch and are more exciting than sports competitions.

Some people also place bets.

"Do you think she can win?"

"I guess so. Minister Xuan is so optimistic about it, so it must be something."

"I also think that Zhu Ning's training record has always been good."

"I don't think so. The business of being a demon hunter relies on accumulation."

Different professions have different worlds. No matter how good a cleaner is, he can't always do the work of a witcher, right?

Two guys from the technical department started betting.

It was different after they gambled money. They stared at the big screen intently, and their expressions became more and more weird, their brows furrowed deeper and deeper. Xuan Qing, on the other hand, remained calm and composed.

In the end, Zhu Ning gave a perfect answer.

She turned on the flashlight.

The mermaid was shot into a sieve by her gun, and half of her five-meter-long tail sank, leaving the audience in the aquarium in shock.

The staff at the cleaning center were also shocked.

Why are you playing by your own rules?

"We won!" the technician shouted, "Give me the money!"

Another employee numbly transferred 10,000 Singapore dollars.

"Follow the minister, understand?" The guy who won the money showed off his balance. He was a highly regarded genius, and it was impossible for him to lose with Xuan Qing coming to supervise him personally.

The guy who lost the money had a painful expression that was hard to hide, and he said with difficulty: "Chu Ling, let me see Chu Ling sister."

The big screen was divided into three parts. The eight people were separated and were split into three teams by the sea monster.

Chu Ling is in a group with Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng.

On this side, gunshots just rang out.

After Zhu Ning was dragged away, the next person to be dragged away was Li Nianchuan.

Xu Meng quickly grabbed Li Nianchuan's arm, but the mermaid's strength was not at the same level as that of a human, and she actually dragged Xu Meng and Li Nianchuan away together.

The equipment they carried weighed nearly 400 kilograms, but the mermaid dragged it without any hindrance.

If Xu Meng doesn't let go, Xu Meng will disappear with Li Nianchuan.

Li Nianchuan was startled, and the next moment he plunged headfirst into the water. When the accumulated water spread up, he was almost scared to death.

insect.

There are bugs all over the bottom of the water.

Countless bugs swarmed on his helmet and he fell directly into the pool of bugs.

His arm was being pulled by Xu Meng, and his calf was being pulled by something unknown.

Pulled by the huge forces from both sides, he felt like he was about to be torn in two.

It turns out that when people face extreme danger, they won't even resist.

Swish——

A bullet passed by him, grazed his helmet and fell into the water.

Chu Ling fired.

Compared to Zhu Ning who was dragged away without any warning, Chu Ling was more experienced than last time and opened fire immediately. She was a good shot and could hit the target even in the chaos.

Bang!

She fired a second shot.

Li Nianchuan was still struggling in the water. A red mist rose on the surface of the water, and his ankle loosened.

The monster holding him had let go.

Due to the huge inertia, Xu Meng and he fell into the water together.

Li Nianchuan didn't react for a long time. He was dragged into the deep water, and then his arms tightened.

The arm was held again by someone, and unlike the mermaid's hand just now, this hand was powerful but not brutal.

His eyes darkened, and a face wearing a metal helmet suddenly appeared in front of him.

The next moment, he was picked up like a little chicken. The degree of mechanization of Chu Ling was as high as 80%, so it was not difficult to pick up Li Nianchuan.

Chu Ling: "Are you okay?"

"..." Li Nianchuan said blankly: "It's okay."

Chu Ling let him go upon hearing that and made sure Xu Meng was okay.

Li Nianchuan then began to look around. Zhu Ning had disappeared early in the morning, and the other demon hunters were also gone.

They were deep in an unfamiliar water area. The water was so deep that it could probably submerge a person's chest. Even with the protection of work clothes, people would still feel a little suffocated.

Chu Ling stood behind him with a gun, and Xu Meng also took out his weapon.

Li Nianchuan then hurriedly picked up his gun.

It's not safe now.

There was something in the water. They could see shadows flashing by, like monsters ready to strike at any time.

Li Nianchuan was a little overly cautious. The visibility here was not high. Under the green screen, he was suspicious of everything he saw.

I always feel like there are monsters everywhere, and the muzzle of the gun changes position back and forth, sometimes pointing in one direction.

Li Nianchuan stood in the water, and the leg that was previously grabbed by the ghost hand felt slightly strange.

It seems like there is something wrapped around it.

Water plants?

Li Nianchuan was quite troublesome, and he was not so shameless as to ask a girl like Chu Ling or Xu Meng to help him find out what was wrong with his feet.

I can only keep pretending that there is nothing wrong with me.

His right foot was grabbed, and in the water, he rubbed his right ankle with his left foot, trying to get the waterweed off.

But he hooked his eye, and his right foot showed no sign of loosening up. Why was it getting tighter and tighter?

There are no monsters ahead for the time being.

Li Nianchuan thought about it and decided to solve his own problem first, as sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood.

He stretched out his hand, thinking that this matter could be easily solved.

But he froze.

He felt a clump of... hair?

Wait, hair?

That must be the hair, heavy hair, like a bunch of water grass, he couldn't even move his palm.

He felt his hands being entangled as well.

Li Nianchuan lowered his head in confusion, and then met a pale face.

That face...was hiding beneath him, buried in a clump of water plants.

Although it is a beautiful face, the more beautiful it is, the more weird it looks.

Li Nianchuan immediately picked up his gun and pointed it downwards. He had been with Zhu Ning for so long that he had developed some courage.

But as soon as he moved, the mermaid dodged, and with her came the binding water plants.

His feet were twisted, and unlike the strange force last time, he could feel the sharp hairs, as if they were going to cut him in half.

Li Nianchuan fired a bullet, and the water plants suddenly tightened. He staggered and was about to fall again.

He was not the only one who was infected this time. The same happened to Xu Meng next to him.

Li Nianchuan didn't care about that. He struggled hard, but no matter how hard he struggled, it was of no avail.

Chu Ling was a little depressed. As expected, apart from the monster Zhu Ning, the quality of ordinary cleaners was just like Li Nianchuan.

As soon as he was fished out, he was immediately pulled down.

Chu Ling felt the frustration of taking her students swimming, swimming to the other side, and then turning around to find that her students were missing.

The waters became chaotic.

Something gradually surfaced. It was a human face, a pale face. Only half of it was exposed, and the lower half was still buried in the water.

The exposed pair of eyes emitted a light purple light, as if there was a light mist floating from them.

Mermaid.

It really is a mermaid.

As one appeared, more and more appeared, until there were four or five of them, as if they had come specifically to see their miserable plight.

Chu Ling yelled, "Don't look them in the eyes, turn on the lights!"

Li Nianchuan hurriedly turned on the flashlight. He turned on the strong light mode. Under the strong light, the mermaid was afraid of light and swam away quickly after seeing the light spot.

Chu Ling immediately adjusted her state after seeing the mermaid. She turned on the flashlight in one hand and fired a gun in the other.

But the number of mermaids in the water exceeded her imagination. There was no source of pollution here, so it might be on Zhu Ning's side.

If Zhu Ning doesn't eliminate the source of pollution, they will have to face endless troubles.

Chu Ling was alone and couldn't take care of two people. Li Nianchuan was almost entangled in the hair, and the more Li Nianchuan struggled, the tighter the hair became.

He felt the hair drilling into his body, as if trying to find a way into his work clothes.

Li Nianchuan felt a chill on his back and his mental state continued to decline.

If this torture doesn't end, he might scare himself to death.

Blood splattered continuously in the water, but Chu Ling was still maintaining his firepower output. The strong light and bullets were effective, but they had little effect on someone like Li Nianchuan who was stuck in the quagmire.

While suffocating, Li Nianchuan even wanted Prometheus to take over his body directly.

He's dying.

Chu Ling's voice in his ears became smaller and smaller, and the captain was getting farther and farther away from him.

I am quite useless. It turns out that for ordinary cleaners, a Class B contaminated area is like a trip to the King of Hell.

Didn't Prometheus have hospice care? Why didn't he take care of himself when he was almost dead?

He wanted to leave a few words for his family.

As soon as he pressed the button, he suddenly felt the hair wrapped around his body loosen.

Immediately afterwards, countless hairs lost their vitality in an instant, like withered flowers.

Li Nianchuan broke free from the suffocation and just took a breath when he heard a sentence:

[Cleanser Zhu Ning has cleansed the Mermaid Pavilion.]

[Cleanser Zhu Ning has cleansed the Mermaid Pavilion.]

The sound seemed to have an echo, and Prometheus opened the public channel to broadcast it.

At that moment, Li Nianchuan even wanted to cry.

Zhu Ning.

It’s Zhu Ning.

Zhu Ning said he would protect him and he kept his word.

After the announcement ended, strange changes began to occur around.

The mermaid's body floated to the surface of the water, and there were also many dead human bodies in the water. The place was restored.

It was completely different from the place they knew.

The glass wall in front of him was broken, as if someone had smashed it to pieces, and the mermaid's body was lying on the spot.

There were a lot of bloodstains on the glass wall.

This is the real polluted area.

Contaminated spores began to float, and within fifteen minutes of entering the aquarium, they had already resolved the first source of contamination.

Chu Ling smiled, Zhu Ning really has something, worthy of the S-level spirit value.

With such great abilities, it's such a shame that he has to be a cleaner.

It took Li Nianchuan two minutes to recover. When he looked up, he saw countless contaminated spores and asked, "What should we do now? Contain the contaminated spores?"

Chu Ling: "This is your job. I guess Zhu Ning should be nearby."

The Mermaid Pavilion is quite large, and Zhu Ning should be nearby, perhaps just by opening a door.

Zhu Ning solved the source of pollution, Li Nianchuan successfully escaped the crisis, and the remaining four demon hunters should also be stable.

Prometheus reconnected the channels of the three teams.

…

"Zhu Ning? Can you hear me? Zhu Ning?" Tang Ke's voice came from inside the helmet.

"I can hear you." Zhu Ning replied.

She had just solved a source of pollution, and the witcher also heard Prometheus's report.

Someone in the team was quite unhappy. It was Zhu Ning again. It was she who purified the polluted area where the fishmen came from last time.

Why does she, a cleaner, always do the work of a witcher?

Thinking about what Zhu Ning had said before about wanting to learn how demon hunters work, they were not sure at the time, but now they are sure, that is a mockery.

Zhu Ning's own side was also in a mess. She had originally wanted to take advantage of the situation and learn how the witchers worked. She had no intention of competing for any credit.

She was involved accidentally. She couldn't just wait to die, right?

"How's it going on your side?" Tang Ke asked. As the captain, he was more concerned about the overall situation.

Zhu Ning reported the situation on his side and asked, "What should I do next?"

Zhu Ning was on a group mission, Tang Ke was the captain this time, and Zhu Ning had to follow the captain's arrangements.

There was silence on Tang Ke's side. The original team of eight people had been forcibly split into three groups.

There were four demon hunters in a group. Chu Ling was with the remaining two cleaners, and only Zhu Ning was left alone.

Prometheus can provide everyone's location. Judging from the data, the four demon hunters are closer to the mechanical jellyfish pavilion.

It takes a lot of time for the three groups to reunite.

Tang Ke: "Chu Ling will bring Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng to join you and contain the contaminated spores."

Zhu Ning nodded. The three cleaners came in to contain the spores, which was normal.

Tang Ke: "The four of us will go to the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum. You guys will wait there after you finish. Keep in touch at any time. If you encounter any trouble, please let me know."

The cleaners came in just to contain the contaminated spores from a pollution source.

Once Zhu Ning and his team have taken in the monsters, their mission is over. The jellyfish museum can be left to professional demon hunters.

Zhu Ning agreed. In fact, Tang Ke asked them to keep in touch. If Zhu Ning was really in danger, he would be dead by the time they arrived.

So what he said meant to let Zhu Ning protect himself.

Zhu Ning hung up Tang Ke's call.

Then she received another call from Li Nianchuan, "I was scared to death!"

Li Nianchuan was in shock as soon as he answered the phone. Zhu Ning imagined that he might be hugging Chu Ling's thighs tightly.

It seems that they encountered the same thing as themselves.

Chu Ling is worthy of being a demon hunter, he can capture two cleaners by himself.

"Are you okay?" Zhu Ning asked.

"It's okay, I'm fine," Li Nianchuan said, "Sister Chu saved me."

Zhu Ning: “…”

Young man, you recognized your sister so quickly.

"Where is the captain?" Zhu Ning asked again.

Xu Meng's voice came: "I'm fine."

Xu Meng has high personal qualities and is an old employee, so Zhu Ning is not really worried about her.

Xu Meng said, "We'll be there soon. Be careful and don't try to be brave."

Zhu Ning paused. She remembered the last time Xu Meng wiped her face, it was also to teach her to learn to slack off and not work so hard.

Xu Meng really looks like her sister.

Zhu Ning was silent for two seconds, then softened his tone: "Okay, I'll pay attention."

She hung up the phone. Going on a mission wasn't the time to chat. She wanted to finish the mission as soon as possible and get out as soon as possible.

There were countless contaminated spores that needed to be contained, but Zhu Ning did not move. Instead, he looked at the Mermaid Pavilion carefully.

This place had just been destroyed by her and was a mess.

The formation of a pollution source requires some "mental power", that is to say, after the mental pollution broke out in the jellyfish aquarium, the polluted spores floated over and parasitized the people in the mermaid aquarium again.

Thinking carefully, she had not visited many polluted areas, but the types were very diverse.

Wang Ming, the source of pollution in the hot pot restaurant, is human.

The source of contamination for Subject 777 was a house.

The source of pollution in the mermaid aquarium is artificial organisms.

Humans, mere objects, artificial creatures, she had experienced them all.

It's hard not to think that this was arranged by someone.

The biggest boss that Zhu Ning suspected was right inside his own head, and it could talk to him even through intracranial conduction.

Unfortunately, Zhu Ning couldn't ask it any questions.

Because the camera is looking at her.

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