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How did the initial pollution occur?
Next, Zhu Ning talked about how she was an experimental subject. Huo Wenxi kept frowning while she was talking. By the time she finished speaking, Huo Wenxi had just finished smoking two cigarettes.
The room was quiet, even quieter than during the showdown.
Huo Wenxi knew that Zhu Ning was no ordinary person, but he didn't expect him to be so unbelievable.
In the most popular discussion thread on the Cleaning Center forum, they regarded Zhu Ning as a demon. To some extent, their guess was correct. She really looked like an awakened demon.
She is a container, or carrier, of pollutants.
Previously, Huo Wenxi asked Zhu Ning whether she would betray humans. Zhu Ning was even difficult to classify into a certain type. Her mental value might be far beyond S level.
After a long while, Huo Wenxi finally spoke: "So you are a garbage purifier?"
Zhu Ning: “…”
Sister, what metaphor are you using?
Zhu Ning: "To make matters worse, I'm a garbage purifier that hasn't yet become a complete form."
She is not quite able to "use" herself in the full sense of the word.
Huo Wenxi felt like he had been in a state of shock all day. He gathered his thoughts and tried to treat Zhu Ning as a special person with special abilities. He asked, "How does Devouring work? What is the range of its ability?"
Zhu Ning: "I don't know, I haven't tried it."
She had used Devour twice before, and the one in the deserted village went smoothly. But the one in the company was when she was almost dying, and the alien was very timid, and even wanted to swallow Zhu Ning when she wasn't paying attention.
Huo Wenxi tapped the table with his fingers and asked, "Theoretically, you and the thing below are the same species?"
Zhu Ning: "You can say that."
The Alpha series of test products should all come from similar pollutants. Zhu Ning doesn't know where the pollutants in his brain come from.
Maybe she has a "matrix," like something underneath.
The only thing that is certain is that she may have developed less than 10% of herself.
Huo Wenxi: "When you grow large enough, you can devour the pollutants below?"
Zhu Ning: "I dare not think about it."
She really couldn't understand it. It was like throwing a baby who hadn't even grown all his teeth in front of a mammoth, without even a knife or fork, and asking her to devour the giant beast.
So Zhu Ning could only guess that what she needed to devour was the source of pollution.
Huo Wenxi narrowed his eyes. "So if you lose control, you might end up like that thing down there?"
The system in Zhu Ning's mind is a machine wrapped around pollutants. When it breaks through the last line of defense and the contents rush out, the pollution will spread, which is definitely a natural disaster.
Zhu Ning: "It's possible."
Huo Wenxi frowned. Zhu Ning was her companion, but also potentially the biggest source of danger.
Huo Wenxi: "Are you telling me this news so that I can be mentally prepared?"
Zhu Ning: "Yes."
She didn't know to what extent she could control the system, and she had no idea what would happen to her afterwards.
Huo Wenxi's special ability is intuition. She is very suitable to "look after" Zhu Ning and give early warning before anything happens.
Huo Wenxi clicked her tongue. Zhu Ning exposed herself as a potentially dangerous person, and then handed the decision-making power to Huo Wenxi. This move could break the biggest barrier between them and was also the basis for them to form an alliance.
And there's one benefit: Huo Wenxi will always have to clean up her mess.
Did Huo Wenxi owe her money in his previous life?
Huo Wenxi didn't light another cigarette, but pondered Zhu Ning's words carefully. Zhu Ning might be a breakthrough point, but he was not stable.
A walking bomb that can blow up the enemy or itself.
Huo Wenxi is the one holding the bomb.
Zhu Ning asked, "Do you know about the Alpha series experiments?"
Huo Wenxi: "I haven't heard of it. My mission is to investigate the interior of the cleaning center."
This series of experiments was conducted by Yongsheng Pharmaceutical and was done a long time ago. Huo Wenxi was too young and she had no idea what the older generation had done.
Zhu Ning was not disappointed. So far, the only people she had contacted were Bao Ruiming and Chu Qing.
Bao Ruiming is dead, she should find an opportunity to contact Chu Qing.
It's really abnormal that this perverted professor disappeared for so long.
However, Huo Wenxi has a strong psychological quality. He probably felt that Zhu Ning was abnormal before, so he didn't show any special reaction. At least he didn't treat her as a devil.
"There's something I haven't told you about the deserted village." Huo Wenxi didn't continue the conversation, accepting the fact that Zhu Ning was a garbage disposal and began to share his intelligence. "The deserted village investigation team brought more than one video."
Zhu Ning clicked his tongue, feeling that Huo Wenxi was very cunning. She only started sharing key information after she was sure of forming an alliance with Zhu Ning.
Huo Wenxi took out a package from his bag, "And a notebook."
notes?
Huo Wenxi wrapped the notebook very well, with a plastic bag on the outside and cloth wrapped on the inside. Zhu Ning opened it layer by layer as if it were a gift. The more he looked inside, the stranger the contents seemed.
The last layer was a dirty rag with dried blood and some black unknown liquid on it.
Zhu Ning lifted the rag, revealing the full appearance of the notebook, a hard-cover waterproof notebook.
The edge of the shell was old and yellow, and it exuded a musty smell as soon as it was opened. If Huo Wenxi hadn't handed it to Zhu Ning personally, she would have thought that this thing would spread pollution.
Zhu Ning looked up at Huo Wenxi, who was very calm. "The investigation team retraced Jiang Ping's route to retrieve all the information. This was found in a village behind the deserted village, in someone's home, under the corner of his table."
Zhu Ning: “…”
Does the company that makes table leg pads know how important this thing is?
There is actually a village behind the deserted village.
The investigator's task was to bring back all potentially valuable information. Perhaps the investigator didn't know what the information meant. Huo Wenxi saw a seemingly irrelevant notebook among the things he carried.
Zhu Ning opened the notebook, but before he could read what was written on it, he saw a black and white photo on the cover page.
Photos of this era are basically in color, unless you are looking for a black and white filter, and there are not many such old-fashioned photos left.
There are particularly old jagged shapes on the edges of the photo, which have turned completely yellow.
Zhu Ning could only look at the content of the photo. It was a temple with a statue of a god inside.
It was the same statue I saw in the deserted village. Its appearance had changed again, and its skin was covered with wrinkles, as if it had goose bumps.
Ever since Zhu Ning had looked directly at the pollutants underground, he could hardly feel the impact when he looked at the statue.
Mental strength can indeed be trained.
At first glance, this temple looks normal, with statues of gods, altars, and cushions inside.
But if you look more closely, you will see that the temple is upside down, with its top and bottom completely reversed, because there is a person standing in front of the temple and the photo captures this person's shoulders.
If you look at it from this person's perspective, the base of the temple is built on the ceiling, like an upside-down device.
Zhu Ning felt incredible when she saw the photo, because it was black and white and blurry, which made her unable to tell whether it was a person upside down or a temple upside down. She even felt a little dizzy after looking at it for a long time.
Zhu Ning: "What is this?"
Why did Huo Wenxi show her the notebook at this critical moment?
Huo Wenxi: "Take a look at the contents inside."
Zhu Ning had no choice but to put the photo aside and start reading the notes.
The first sentence at the beginning: March 1, 2007.
Zhu Ning was stunned after reading the first sentence. She had read many people's diaries, but this was the first time that one did not use the new calendar.
This is a record of the old world.
"I'm Chen Qihang, an investigator of unusual events. My main responsibility is to investigate unusual phenomena, which can be considered as studying the occult."
Zhu Ning asked, "Is he in the same industry as you?"
Huo Wenxi: "I guess so."
Zhu Ning continued reading his notes. Chen Qihang wrote, "It all started when I received a letter asking me to investigate the contents of a photo. The photo was so strange that if I looked at it for too long, I'd start hearing strange noises in my head. Ever since I saw it, I've been having nightmares. I keep dreaming I'm the person standing in front of the temple. That's how I came to this place, Guiyin Village."
"Legend has it that there are mysterious supernatural powers here, and that those who come here will be blessed by the gods. Of course, this village has also experienced serious incidents. Once, someone went mad and killed his entire family of nine. The locals all say that it is cursed."
March 9, 2007.
"I've been living in the village for a week now. The villagers are very kind. They even gave me dried white radishes and vegetables they grew themselves. I feel like I'm quickly integrating into the village."
April 1, 2007.
"When I was sleeping at night, I saw someone standing in front of the window. I was startled, but before I could see who it was, he ran away. The longer I live here, the more uncomfortable I feel. I look in the mirror and it seems like I've aged ten years."
Next, Chen Qihang recorded the horror stories he had encountered. For example, the chopsticks in his house would suddenly break, breaking in half with neat cracks in the middle, as if they had been cut by something sharp.
For example, he fished out a fresh severed hand from a jar of pickled cabbage in the backyard, but couldn't find out who the owner was.
Zhu Ning guessed that he might have encountered pollution.
May 19, 2007.
"There is a certain belief in Guiyin Village. In the middle of the night, I hear people singing. Those are the sounds of sacrifices. They seem to be offering sacrifices."
"I have some knowledge of religion. As far as I know, the earliest believers among the locals should be shamans."
Shaman? Zhu Ning had touched upon a blind spot in his knowledge.
Chen Qihang: "Shamanism has a concept called evergreen spirituality, which is what we often say that everything has a spirit, even a blade of grass and a flower has a spirit."
Zhu Ning actually thought this thing was quite fitting?
Doesn’t giving life to a bug mean that all things have spirits?
Zhu Ning continued reading. Chen Qihang said, "But it seems they don't believe in this. Or maybe they believed in it before, but later abandoned their god and found a new one?"
There was a big question mark on the notebook, and Chen Qihang's handwriting became sloppy, as if he was very uncertain about his guess.
Zhu Ning flipped through the pages quickly, skipping over some of his investigation diaries and complaints.
September 7, 2007.
Chen Qihang: "Over the past six months, they have grown to trust me more and more. Today, they finally took me to participate in the sacrifice."
Chen Qihang seemed very anxious when he wrote it down.
"They led me to the temple entrance. Strangely, when I saw the temple, it was upright, not upside down like in the photos. I took one look and was stunned. It felt like someone was looking at me. I got goosebumps all over my body, and each goosebump had a human eye. Later, Lao Liu, who was standing next to me, pushed me and told me to lower my head. No one dared to look up. They all wore white pointed hats to hide their faces."
"They asked me to pray. I don't believe in God. Although I study the occult, I'm an atheist. That was the first time I began to waver in my stance. They said that thing could bring eternal life. They... they called that thing umai."
Umai? What is this?
Zhu Ning continued to flip through the pages. The next page was dark brown, with traces of dried liquid covering all the writing.
She flipped through several pages in a row, and the back of the notebook was almost stuck. Zhu Ning didn't wear gloves and touched the notebook with her bare hands.
Her hands remained on the papers as she flipped through them, and suddenly, she felt something fluttering beneath her fingertips.
Boom——
It was as if she was touching not a notebook but a heart.
The touch was hot, and the dried fluid suddenly began to flow, as if trying to crawl along her fingers and onto her body.
Zhu Ning quickly withdrew her hand. She looked at the notebook in disbelief and touched it again. This time, nothing happened, as if it was all her illusion.
This... is alive?
The temperature in the room suddenly dropped several degrees, and she actually felt that a notebook was dangerous.
"Did you touch it too?" Huo Wenxi asked.
Zhu Ning looked up at her and finally understood why Huo Wenxi was wearing leather gloves today.
Zhu Ning: "What is this?"
Huo Wenxi: “Not sure.”
Zhu Ning frowned, and an idea came to her mind: what if the pollutants in the ground could turn ants and insects into humans and give them human consciousness?
Then can it also... turn people into objects?
Like…turning it into a notebook he writes in every day?
What Zhu Ning was holding in his hand was nothing else but Chen Qihang. He had turned into a notebook and was being used as a pad for the corner of the table.
To characterize and humanize things is no longer a metaphor but a reality.
Chen Qihang is an investigator who was led to the Haunted Village by a photo. He keeps feeling that things are getting weirder and weirder here, but he is also very curious about what is happening there.
He mingled with the locals, almost like one of their kind.
Finally he passed the test of all the villagers. At the next sacrifice, they took Chen Qihang with them, saying that praying for blessings would bring eternal life.
Chen Qihang agreed and prayed half-believingly, hoping that nothing unexpected would happen on the first day back, so he could still write down his notes.
Nothing happened the next day, and he was wondering if this was nonsense. It was indeed feudal superstition.
But gradually he felt something was wrong. His body became thinner and thinner, as thin as paper, and finally he became the notebook itself.
Chen Qihang is truly "immortal", but in a different form.
Is he still conscious? Does he think it's because he wasn't pious enough, or that he's been cursed?
Huo Wenxi: "I think the same as you."
Zhu Ning took a deep breath, closed the notebook as respectfully as possible, wrapped it with layers of dirty cloth, and finally put it into the plastic bag brought by Huo Wenxi.
But it seems to be of no use. Even if it is put into a sealed bag, this thing still emits a cold chill, as if it has penetrated and penetrated into your pores.
Zhu Ning's hands seemed to be dirty and he couldn't wash them off.
Zhu Ning asked, "Is there any other information?"
"Nothing. The only valuable thing is the notes," Huo Wenxi said. "And there's a witness. I still don't know how he escaped."
That crazy investigator is still in custody.
Huo Wenxi: "The content behind the notes is covered up. I can't see it. It doesn't make sense to me. I'll give it to you."
Zhu Ning thought, you put a corpse in my warm little home, and it felt like there was suddenly a cold and damp thing in her home.
Zhu Ning asked, "What is Wumai?"
Huo Wenxi: "I'm not sure exactly. I looked it up, and it means placenta in ancient Turkic."
Placenta? Sounds like some kind of matriarchal cult.
She once discussed with Pei Shu whether there was a God or not, and she always thought there were only pollutants.
Some strange and bizarre phenomena occurred in the area, and the villagers interpreted these phenomena as curses or miracles, and worshiped the pollutants below as gods.
People take abnormal phenomena, put them into the shell of a religion, and then use them to strengthen their own organizations. This is an old trick of mankind.
For a long time, religion has been a way for those in power to better rule over humanity.
Zhu Ning guessed that the Revival Society was the same. They found a "god" and attracted people like Bao Ruiming.
She ignored the strange feeling and thought back to the whole incident. She didn't go on the investigation mission outside the wall, so she didn't know what happened specifically, and the clues she got were fragmented.
But it seems that a rough outline has gradually been pieced together.
The deserted village incident gave life to a bug and made it become Jiang Ping.
This old-world investigator has most likely become a notebook.
Investigators from Huo Wenxi entered the vicinity of the deserted village to investigate. The closer they got to the village, the stronger the mysterious power became. Late one night, they encountered a pollution incident, the specific cause of which was unknown.
The investigator outside the wall went into the cave in a hurry. He saw the huge pollutants hidden underground and took video footage.
He then broke through the pollution defenses and returned to the wall in a state of madness.
All pollutants have patterns. What are the patterns of this pollutant?
Is it about transforming the relationship between people and things? Or is it about madness, chaos and a lack of rules?
Is there any connection between the villagers' belief in Umai and resurrection? Are they the same faith, or are they worshipping the same thing but with different names?
Wait, Zhu Ning suddenly raised his head, "How many years has this note been written?"
Huo Wenxi: "One hundred and thirty years."
Zhu Ning knew very little about this world. The radiation mutation crisis eighty years ago should have been in 2057. After that, humans built high walls and entered the new world and began to use the new calendar.
If the time recorded in the notebook is true, it proves that this incident happened a long time ago, long before the establishment of the Federation and before humans built the high wall, and the pollutants already existed.
So what is the source of everything?
If this secret is solved, Zhu Ning will be one step closer to the truth of the world.
"I've always wanted to ask," Zhu Ning, "How did the initial pollution happen?"
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