Lin Mo soon returned with the news.

The quarrel between the two of them really had nothing to do with Bai Yu.

"Captain Li went to eliminate the pollutants in Ping'an Town, and Captain Yue went to handle the subsequent purification work in Ping'an Town. As a result, he found that the pollution value in Ping'an Town would not decrease. So he suspected that Captain Li did not eliminate all the pollutants at the beginning, and the two of them had an argument."

Chu Zehuai put the paper in his hand back to its original place and raised his eyes: "That guy can actually leak pollutants?"

He was away on a business trip for a few days. Did Li Song's strength decline so seriously?

"It seems that they went back several times and used many instruments, but they didn't find any pollutants or deformers. However, the pollution level just wouldn't go down."

Lin Mo spread his hands, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

"By the way, I just ran into Director Chu. She asked me to inform you to go over there with those two to prevent them from continuing to quarrel and affecting the harmonious and friendly atmosphere of the Investigation Bureau."

Chu Zehuai:...Why does he have to do everything?

He sighed, and his fingertips slightly hooked the black coat he had just taken off: "Okay, let's go."

...

...

Those who are capable should do more work. It is normal to have many tasks during this dangerous time of pollution outbreak.

Anyway, this kind of work intensity is not as high as when he was the executive officer of the Dongzhou region.

Chu Zehuai buttoned up the metal buttons one by one. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Lin Mo suddenly run to Bai Yu and said, "You go with them too."

"Will Director Chu let me in too?"

Bai Yu was a little confused. The director probably didn't even remember his name. What's more, he was just an ordinary intern now. What was he going to do there?

"No, no, I just think it would be better if you went over there. At least those two captains would calm down a bit."

Lin Mo touched his chin and explained that he didn't know much about Yue Feng, but he knew that in front of Bai Yu, Li Song would definitely choose to maintain his good image.

Bai Yu didn't know what kind of strange connection there was between him and the two captains when he heard Lin Mo add another sentence.

"Oh yeah, I want to go too."

"What did you do in the past?"

Chu Zehuai buttoned the last button and turned to look at his cousin.

Lin Mo said with a solemn promise, as if he was doing this for everyone's good:

"Isn't this because we're afraid that the four of you will be seen together by others? It's even harder to explain. Bai Yu went to prevent them from continuing to quarrel, and I went to protect your innocence."

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**

What was originally a job for three people was forcibly turned into an action for five people.

Just as Lin Mo thought, Yue Feng and Li Song did not quarrel fiercely anymore. They just exchanged a few words occasionally. The situation was much calmer than he had imagined.

Li Song wanted to maintain his elegant, humble and gentle image in front of Bai Yu. Yue Feng felt embarrassed when he saw Bai Yu, and even more embarrassed when he saw Bai Yu and Chu Zehuai walking together. Under the embarrassment, he didn't have enough emotions to quarrel with Li Song, but would occasionally stab him.

Just like this.

"Bai Yu, do you believe me or that guy? I don't think my judgment would be wrong. It's obvious that someone is just trying to find fault with me."

Li Song smiled and put his arm around Bai Yu's shoulders, his dark brown eyes looking at Yue Feng standing beside him.

"No matter what, the fact is that there is a problem with your own work."

Yue Feng folded his arms with a cold face.

Bai Yu, who was sandwiched between the two people, could only give an awkward yet polite smile.

Didn't they say that the quarrel between the two had nothing to do with him? Why was he still forcibly dragged into it?

Facing two pairs of eyes, Bai Yu chose to divert the conflict: "Of course I choose to believe...Captain Chu."

The combat power ceiling of the Dongzhou region is right next to us. What’s the point of arguing about it?

"That's right. If you can't find the instrument, let my brother look for it."

Lin Mo nodded in agreement, but his eyes couldn't help but fall on Bai Yu.

Was it his illusion? He felt that Bai Yu had deliberately slowed down his pronunciation for a moment when he said the last two words.

During this conversation, the group walked in harmony on the streets of Ping'an Town.

“It’s so quiet here.”

Lin Mo's attention shifted from his companions to the surroundings. He looked left and right at the empty streets. He didn't know what he remembered. He clasped his hands together and touched the goose bumps on his arms. He felt heavy-hearted.

"Is it possible that all the residents were killed?"

One town, thousands of lives.

"It's not that serious. After discovering that the pollution level was abnormally high, the higher-ups arranged for the residents to evacuate. Only three people who had turned into mutants were left behind, and they were all killed."

Li Song's words made Lin Mo breathe a sigh of relief, but before he could relax, he heard Yue Feng ask back a question.

"Are you sure?"

"What's the meaning?"

"Literally."

Chu Zehuai looked with a headache at the two people who seemed to be about to quarrel again.

I thought these two would calm down for a while after their quarrel, but I didn't expect them to start stabbing each other again so soon.

He simply forced Bai Yu and Lin Mo to stand in the middle, separating them physically.

Both of these emotions are wrong, so it’s better not to get too close.

They walked around the town in this "peaceful" way.

"Did you find anything?"

Lin Mo was holding a pollution value testing instrument in his hand. He looked at the red number 6,418 on it, then looked at Chu Zehuai who was standing there in deep thought, and felt that something seemed to be wrong.

He originally thought that this matter would be simple. Li Song had not been able to find the hidden pollutants/deformers for various reasons, resulting in the pollution value not decreasing. They would just need to investigate carefully and find the hidden guys and eliminate them.

But looking at his brother's condition...he still couldn't find it?

“Did the value change?”

Chu Zehuai looked at the tester in Lin Mo's hand.

Generally speaking, the closer to the pollutant, the higher the value will be, and vice versa.

But after they went around, no matter where they went in Ping'an Town, the numbers on the tester would not change.

"No, it hasn't fluctuated since it soared so high."

Lin Mo shook his head honestly.

Everyone was silent.

If even Chu Zehuai couldn't find it, then what exactly caused such high pollution levels?

Bai Yu moved his nose slightly.

There was indeed a sweet scent in the air.

But....can't find the source.

Every hint of sweetness in the air is exactly the same, with no difference in strength or lightness.

It's like copy and paste.

Couldn't even he notice it?

Bai Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and tapped his former colleague:

【System, give me a graphics card. 】

This card was originally supposed to be a prop for players. After using this card, players in the dungeon can see the locations of him, sunflowers, roses and other plant NPCs, so that they can escape or attack better.

It is an important item to assist players in passing levels.

There are no players left now, and I might never encounter it again, so I might as well use it.

[You just used the Player Protection Card last time, and you're targeting my inventory so soon? I didn't get that many cards at the time.]

Even so, the system still took out the prop card with a heavy heart.

[Don’t be so wasteful in the future. ]

Bai Yu perfunctorily gave the other party an "I know" and then used the card.

In an instant, his world went red.

It was not a pure red color, but more like countless densely packed red vertical lines stacked in the air, rendering his vision like an impenetrable mosaic.

This is a blood bar, but because it is too thin, it looks like a bunch of thin lines.

These thin red lines floated slowly in the air, completely covering the white and gloomy world.

[Fuck, he's always been by our side! ]

The system was also surprised and murmured that it had thought it would be hidden underground or in another space, places that ordinary people would never think of.

Who could have imagined that from the moment they entered Ping'an Town, they were surrounded by pollutants.

These pollutants are too weak, so small that they cannot be seen or identified, and their number is too large. They can float with the dust in the air. Not only have they turned the entire Ping'an Town into what it is today, but they have also evaded everyone's search.

[I have tested it and found that these things can affect people's mental state, but they seem to have not yet reached maturity and are not aggressive towards us at the moment.]

The system, which had a solemn look on its face, relaxed a lot after a quick test.

The reason why Li Song and Yue Feng started quarreling so easily was probably because they were influenced by these things.

"Bai Yu? What's wrong with you?"

A doubtful voice was heard amidst the red sky.

From just now on, Bai Yu's eyes became blank and unfocused, as if he had suddenly gone blind.

"I--"

Bai Yu came back to his senses, and before he could finish his words, he felt his right wrist being grabbed, and a burning temperature came from the place of contact.

"Can't you see?"

It’s Chu Zehuai.

Bai Yu pursed his lips. All he could see in his field of vision was a patch of red that was slightly darker than the surrounding red.

It is the floating pollutants that gather on their bodies.

He grabbed the other person's wrist with his sense of touch, and then reacted quickly to unbutton the three metal cufflinks on his uniform with one hand. In a few seconds, he touched the other person's wrist all the way to his elbow and smoothed off all the pollutants that had accumulated on it.

A large area of ​​red was cleared away, revealing the fair skin of his forearm and the muscle lines that were tensed because of his sudden movement.

Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

It's fine as long as they can be wiped off. It seems that these floating pollutants will just fall on the body like dust. It would be terrible if they could penetrate into the skin.

After his guard was lifted, he lowered his eyes to look at the other person's hand, and his mind began to become active again.

Perhaps due to long-term use of the sword, there were obvious calluses on the opponent's hands, and his fingers and wrists were much more flexible and powerful than those of normal people.

His fingertips just rubbed against the inside of the other person's wrist, and he could clearly feel the warm blood full of vitality rushing underneath.

I'm so hungry.

If you can't eat the neck in a short period of time, the wrist is actually pretty good. You should find a way to get a bite of it.

Bai Yu was still thinking about the dangerous behavior, and the others who were shocked by his quick and swift actions also reacted.

"Bai Yu, are you...giving my brother a spa?"

Lin Mo was shocked and hesitant. How else could he explain why the other party grabbed his brother's arm and kept touching him?

He even demonstrated the high-end operation of unbuttoning a button with one hand.

"If you have eyes that you don't need, you can donate them to people in need."

Chu Zehuai glanced at his brother, then stared at the place where he was caught, and turned his head to look at Bai Yu.

"Was there something on my arm just now?"

Rather than a SPA, Bai Yu's action was more like something being bounced off his body.

It was this process...Chu Zehuai recalled the feeling of Bai Yu's fingers touching his skin.

The other person's fingertips were very cold, but he inexplicably felt that the skin that was touched was slightly hot.

Chu Zehuai silently withdrew his hand, as if to hide something, and quickly buttoned up the three cufflinks on his sleeves.

Bai Yu also took his hand back: "I feel it. The air is full of pollutants, and they are all over us."

Lin Mo took a breath of cold air.

Bai Yu looked over in the direction of the voice and added, "You just took a full sip."

Lin Mo: .......

Stop it, he's going to vomit.

"Are you sure? I can't feel it."

Li Song stretched out his hand and could only feel the air passing through his fingers.

"These pollutants are too weak and too small, and only when they are present do they appear high in value. They can be likened to the fine dust in the air."

Bai Yu gestured and patched himself up.

"Perhaps because of the awakening of the plant side, I feel that my abilities are developing in the direction of the auxiliary system, and my perception and detection abilities are indeed improving."

Anyway, he was the only vegetation present who was identified as a plant-side auxiliary type, the others were all combat types, even Yue Feng was a weaker combat type, so he could say whatever he wanted.

Before Bai Yu finished speaking, he felt a hand around his shoulders, and warm breath brushed across his cheek, half joking and half serious:

"Bai Yu, are you really not going to consider joining our second team? We just happen to be in need of a talent like this. Chu Zehuai doesn't know how to use you at all. I can show him a demonstration - hey, hey, don't pull my face! I still rely on it to make a living!"

Chu Zehuai's emotionless voice sounded coldly: "If you say another word, believe it or not, I will make sure you won't be able to eat in the future."

"I believe it, I believe it! Let go!"

Lin Mo stared in amazement at the two people who were pulling each other back and forth, as well as Yue Feng who was watching the show on the sidelines and his good friend who kept glancing at his brother.

"No, the air is full of pollutants. How can you be so calm?"

He covered his mouth and nose, trying to breathe as little as possible, and said muffledly.

"It's been like this since we came in. We've been exposed for such a long time, and we've inhaled and stained a lot. We don't really care about this."

Yue Feng shrugged and replied.

Lin Mo:.........It seems to make sense.

Lin Mo fell into deep thought, trying to come up with a brilliant way to avoid floating pollutants, but his thoughts were interrupted by a noisy sound nearby.

"Captain Chu, there are a lot of pollutants in your clothes. Let me help you clean it up."

"There's no need to be so anxious. Wait, Bai Yu, stop pulling my collar! My clothes are going to be torn—"

"I have a lot on me, too. If Chu Zehuai doesn't want to do it, why don't you let me do it? I'm happy to do it."

"Li Song, get out of here."

"Ha, Li Song, just admit it, the charm you were so proud of is now completely ruined.

Lin Mo: So among these five people, he is the only one who is seriously thinking about how to complete the task?