17 The Man-Eating Hot Pot Restaurant (Part 6)
◎Zhu Ning, blow up the floor!◎
Zhu Ning was squatting, and the man was standing behind her, pointing a gun at the back of her head.
"Are you from the cleaning center?" It was the voice of a young girl. She recognized the uniform on Zhu Ning.
It was a living person. This might be the target of my mission. This little girl seemed quite clever, taking advantage of the natural conditions in the room, projecting a shadow behind the incubator, then hiding herself in the shadows.
As long as the person who comes in has the slightest mental pollution, he or she will go crazy in the house.
Zhu Ning: "Yes."
Little girl: "Are you here to save me?"
Zhu Ning: "Maybe."
She wasn't sure who this person was, nor was she sure if he was the survivor she wanted to save.
The girl with the gun was silent for a while. The bell kept echoing in the corridor. She didn't have much time left and she couldn't take any more risks.
"How do you prove that you are not a pollutant?" she asked a very crucial question.
"Just because of--" She held her breath and listened attentively, and heard Zhu Ning say two words. Her wrist suddenly hurt. Zhu Ning grabbed her hand with his backhand, unloaded the gun quickly, and kicked out at the same time.
"ah!"
The girl screamed, her abdomen felt like it was hit by a huge rock, and her whole body slammed against the shelf behind her, and the medicine bottles on it crashed all over her.
Zhu Ning frowned when he heard her cry and immediately judged her as a rookie.
Before the girl could react, Zhu Ning's gun was already pointed at her forehead.
Snap——
Zhu Ning loaded the gun. The movement of holding the gun was almost engraved in her bones, and she could shoot without hesitation.
"Misunderstanding! I am alive!" she immediately shouted.
The other party was a young girl, fully protected. She was wearing a pure white protective suit with a cute cat print on it.
If Zhu Ning's outfit looked like a robber in a motorcycle suit, then the girl in front of him looked like a little white cat or a park doll.
Zhu Ning knew that some wealthy people, fearing contamination, bought a set to keep at home. Their protective suits were designed by renowned designers, offering both protection and aesthetics. These suits start at at least S$10 million.
All in all, this girl is rich.
"Who are you?" Zhu Ning pointed the gun at her.
"Liu Niannian." The girl raised her hand and spoke quickly, fearing that Zhu Ning would shoot her. "I have no bad intentions. I'm a good person."
Liu Niannian? Never heard of her.
Zhu Ning didn't stop, and the thing that appeared in the polluted area was likely pollutants. Liu Niannian had just suspected Zhu Ning, and now Zhu Ning was also suspicious of her.
Zhu Ning asked, "How long have you been here?"
Liu Niannian: "I don't know, it feels like several days have passed."
Zhu Ning changed the question: "When did you come in?"
Liu Niannian: "11:45 on October 3, 1981."
It's all connected, Zhu Ning thought.
The mission is effective for 6 hours. According to the latest data, the maximum time an ordinary person can stay in a contaminated area is 6 hours, after which they will suffer brain death.
After Liu Niannian entered the contaminated area, some mechanism was triggered, and a gray "grave post" appeared on the Clean Center forum. It seemed the system had tasked her with rescuing this very Liu Niannian; at least she had found the right person.
Liu Niannian's spirit level should be quite high. He has been here for an hour and his mind seems quite clear, at least better than Li Nianchuan's.
But why did the system ask Zhu Ning to save her?
Zhu Ning put away the gun. This gun was a pneumatic bullet, and it was not easy for ordinary people to buy it. Liu Niannian must come from a wealthy and powerful family. Zhu Ning made a judgment in his heart. She is the daughter of a chaebol family.
Zhu Ning threw the gun back to Liu Niannian: "I came in an hour later than you."
"An hour?" Liu Niannian's face changed drastically. "It's been an hour since I came in. It's over, it's over, my brain is failing."
"Don't believe anything I say later. I might hurt you."
This person knows a lot about pollutants, Zhu Ning thought. She knows that she must cover all her skin before entering the polluted area, and she also knows that staying there for a long time will lead to mental pollution.
"Calm down." Zhu Ning reminded.
The more unstable your emotions are, the easier it is to be contaminated.
Liu Niannian took a deep breath. Time was running out for her. She checked her protective suit and found no holes. If she was infected by the contaminated spores, she would just run into it and die.
"Are you a cleaner?" Liu Niannian asked, "Why did the cleaning center send garbage collectors to rescue people?"
Zhu Ning: “…”
Is there occupational discrimination when saving people these days?
After Liu Niannian said that, he also felt that it was quite rude and asked, "You got separated from your teammates? Where's your demon hunter? When will he come to rescue us?"
Zhu Ning: “…”
This person can save anyone he wants, but how come he touches on her sore spots in every three sentences he says?
Zhu Ning asked, "What are you doing in the contaminated area?"
"Uh..." Liu Niannian hesitated for a moment, as if wondering if Zhu Ning could be trusted: "Looking for my aunt."
"Aunt?" Zhu Ning asked, "How old are you?"
Liu Niannian: "Nineteen, a graduate student, how old are you?"
“…” Zhu Ning: “Same as you.”
They are of the same age.
Everything in the wasteland world is forced to mature. A chicken can be served on the table in just six hours from birth. Human learning time is constantly compressed. People graduate from college at the age of 18. If Zhu Ning's family had money, he should be studying for a master's degree now.
Liu Niannian: "What's your name?"
"Zhu Ning," Zhu Ning didn't have time to chat with her, and asked, "Your aunt is missing, and you came here to look for her?"
There is a warning sign hanging at the intersection. How blind would one be to come in and look for missing persons? Besides, Liu Niannian looks like the daughter of a chaebol, and her aunt should also be a noble lady. How could she possibly come here and eat at a hot pot restaurant?
It’s almost as if her family bought out the entire hot pot restaurant.
Liu Niannian hesitated, as if trying to sort out her words: "She's called my aunt, but actually she's the gardener at one of my homes."
A certain home, Zhu Ning caught the key word, how many homes do you have, rich woman?
"When I was little, no one played with me, so I kept looking for her. Before she disappeared, she was very strange and spoke in mysterious ways every day. When I was little, the adults in my family wouldn't let me have any contact with her. Only after I grew up did I realize she might have been mentally contaminated decades ago."
"I looked through her diary and found out that she used to love coming to this hot pot restaurant. My aunt has a burn scar on her arm. It covers her entire arm, neck, and extends all the way to the lower half of her face."
Liu Niannian gestured on his body to show how large the burn area was, which was almost disfiguring.
"My aunt said she got burned while eating hot pot. She didn't have plastic surgery and felt the scar was a blessing. She didn't hate the hot pot restaurant at all, but instead missed it. She said the restaurant was so delicious and it was a pity it was closed. I wanted to come and see how delicious it was."
Here it comes, the last piece of the puzzle is filled in.
Zhu Ning read the diaries and recordings written by the employees, and now he has completed the puzzle of the diners. The diners at that time ate the meat, and it must have been contaminated. Where did the diners go after the meat was contaminated?
Now I seem to have some clues.
After being mentally contaminated, they appear normal, able to do their gardening work normally, but they also do some abnormal things. They blend into the lives of ordinary people, making people feel strange but unable to explain what is strange about them.
Liu Niannian was quite curious. Just because his gardener had mentioned this hot pot restaurant was delicious, he wanted to check it out. Perhaps Liu Niannian didn't want to expose his family's wealth, so he hid some of the information and made his confession half-truthful.
Zhu Ning guessed that coming to see his aunt was secondary, and coming to take risks was real, just like a rich second-generation who had nothing better to do and liked adventure.
Zhu Ning: "Did you find it?"
Liu Niannian: "No, I looked around and there was no aunt among the diners."
Zhu Ning: "How did you get in?"
"Employee application," Liu Niannian said: "Yang Tao asked me what I was doing, and I said I was washing dishes. I saw a sign in the room saying 'Do Not Trespass' and thought it was hiding some secret, so I came in."
Zhu Ning: "Is this the first door you opened?"
Liu Niannian: "Yes, I only opened it once. After I came in, before I left, I saw Yang Tao killing someone, and then I didn't dare to go out."
Zhu Ning: “…”
I don’t know whether I should say that Liu Niannian is lucky. This room is used by the boss to store medicine. Maybe he rarely came here when Yang Tao was alive.
Liu Niannian: "I couldn't sense the time after I came in, but they would ring a bell every once in a while for a meeting. Each time the bell rang, it lasted for quite a while. Everyone in the store would go into the basement. I found a hole in the room. I don't know who dug it. They would kneel down and pray to the boss, then cut off his flesh and take it to the kitchen to process before eating hot pot."
"I was quite disgusted at first, but then I stopped feeling disgusted and just wanted to run away. The moment they went into the basement was the best time to escape."
"I've observed this several times and it's always the same. I was thinking of taking the opportunity to run away, but then I heard your voice."
Zhu Ning made too much noise, and the sound of her gunshot shocked Liu Niannian, who was thinking that a living person had entered the contaminated area.
Liu Niannian thought that Zhu Ning was a reinforcement sent by the cleaning center, but on the other hand, he suspected that Zhu Ning was a pollutant and did not dare to show up rashly.
Liu Niannian confessed all her information, and Zhu Ning also briefly told her what he knew. Liu Niannian didn't need to read the diary or listen to the recording in person, but what Zhu Ning told her was still very scary, like a collection of horror stories.
"So the person lying on the hospital bed below is the source of pollution?" Liu Niannian asked.
Zhu Ning opened his mouth and was about to answer.
Buzz——
The ringing suddenly stopped, the meat cutting in the basement ended, the WiFi formation dispersed, and they returned to the hot pot restaurant in an orderly manner. There were rustling sounds in the corridor, and customers and employees came up.
Zhu Ning heard the pig-headed man dragging his axe again. Yang Tao was still trying to find a way into the girls' dormitory. He was even more furious than before, smashing the door to pieces with his axe. It wouldn't take long for him to find Zhu Ning's room.
Not only that, other diners in the restaurant did not go back to the lobby to eat hot pot, they patrolled the corridor.
Find the outliers, they want to find the outliers.
Liu Niannian's face turned pale, and he asked in a low voice, "What should we do next?"
Zhu Ning sighed. If she wanted to escape alone, she could use the acceleration function of the rotten fish head, but it would be difficult for her to escape with Liu Niannian.
Zhu Ning: "I'm going to kill the source of pollution."
"How to kill him?" Liu Niannian was in a dilemma.
There are pig-headed men blocking the way outside, and everyone in the hot pot restaurant is in the same group. The diners and other employees are in equal danger. It is impossible for them to cross the corridor and enter the basement unharmed.
Moreover, she didn't trust Zhu Ning's ability very much, and it would be better if it was a demon hunter who came.
"It's too troublesome to walk through the corridor." Zhu Ning said.
Liu Niannian agreed that Zhu Ning was indeed capable.
"Let's find a shortcut," Zhu Ning said. "It should be empty down there. Back off."
Liu Niannian: “Ah?”
Why didn't she understand?
Zhu Ning took out a device from his backpack, pressed it to the ground with his backhand, and there was a bang!
Liu Niannian was stunned. Zhu Ning, the floor blew up!
…
1:30 in the morning.
The interior of the Lu family manor was brightly lit, and the patrol team searched twice.
"We didn't find the lady." The patrol captain broke out in a cold sweat.
The man in front of him was wearing a black suit, and he gave off a chilling aura. He had a very important person to meet in the middle of the night, and who knew that something would happen at this critical moment.
He didn't have time to deal with these things, as he was going to meet the director of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical today.
"The young lady is very curious about pollutants. Will she..." he said uncertainly, "enter the contaminated area?"
The protective suit at home disappeared, and a gun was lost in the armory. She must have gone to look for pollutants. I don’t know which district she went to or which contaminated area she entered. Such a blind search is definitely like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Every extra second in the contaminated area is dangerous. The young lady has been missing for more than four hours now.
The man said, "Tell Pei Shu to find someone to notify the Security Bureau and the Cleaning Center and ask them to help."
"Post a bounty, don't reveal her identity, and offer a one million yuan reward to whoever finds her."
"Just one million?" Isn't that a bit too little?
They say he doesn't care much about the eldest lady, and it turns out to be true.
"Idiot." He uttered two words, and it was unclear whether he was talking about the young lady or the butler. Thirty seconds later, a speeding car stopped and the man got on.
After the others left, the housekeeper finally realized that he couldn't ask for too high a reward, because once people found out, they would be silenced.
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