338 Survey
◎It's time for Zhu Ning to contact Huo Wenxi◎
They camped in the fishing village and set up a large tent as a temporary studio. After the flying car stopped, Lin Xiaofeng repaired and maintained it. Since it had been running outside the wall all year round, the depreciation rate of the flying car was particularly high.
Lin Xiaofeng was weaving around under the flying car. He was so happy to be praised that he was like a little butterfly flapping its wings.
There is a clothes cleaning bag in the car, just throw it in, it is very smart, and the remaining wet clothes are dried by Pei Shu.
Pei Shu found instant noodles in the car. The pollution concentration is now 0. He even set up a camping cooker. It has been soaked in water, and it is not comfortable to dry it. He wants to eat something warm.
Zhu Ning was sleeping, but he came out half asleep when he smelled something. It was human food, instant noodles with mushroom and chicken flavor. It was a pity that it was not braised beef. But how could contaminated spores be as delicious as instant noodles?
It’s a pity that there is only one packet of instant noodles. People don’t bring much when they go out of the wall. Zhu Ning guessed that this was given to Pei Shu by Old Zhao out of selfishness.
The four of us only had two mouthfuls at most. It was more like drinking soup than eating noodles, but drinking soup was also comfortable.
Zhu Ning took a bite and her whole body felt warm. She didn't seem to have any cognitive problems. Being a pollutant or an alien species was not as comfortable as being a human being.
Sure enough, the investigator has some tricks up his sleeve. When humans are lost, they can be easily lured back if they eat something delicious.
She ate the noodles and drank the soup bit by bit, reluctant to finish it all. Zhu Ning asked, "Is there anything else delicious?"
Pei Shu: “No more.”
Zhu Ning looked at him and always felt that there was something else. Pei Shu's back felt numb when Zhu Ning stared at him. It was probably because after they established a relationship, Zhu Ning had some kind of "blood suppression" on him.
Being a running dog for someone is almost enough to squeeze out both the body and the soul, so why is Zhu Ning still squeezing out snacks?
Pei Shu had no choice but to get into the car and took out a bag of peanuts, which were no bigger than a palm. He gave each person three more, which looked pitiful.
Pei Shu: "It's really over this time."
Zhu Ning snorted, feeling that Pei Shu was right. After finishing the drink, he felt unsatisfied. The four of them were so useless that they didn't even leave a drop of noodle soup.
I really want to go back inside the wall. I guess everyone has this idea. You will miss home after traveling for a long time.
Zhu Ning felt embarrassed to keep eating his teammates' food, so he took out his treasured Coke from the car and poured some into each person's cup. There was only a little left. Zhu Ning originally wanted to drink from the can, but after thinking about it, he felt that when he drank it, a soft toad might fall out of it.
Finally, the four of them raised their glasses and clinked them together as a celebration. What were they celebrating?
Zhu Ning thought for a moment and said, "We have survived another day. How amazing!"
Bai Cheng thought Zhu Ning was funny and replied stiffly: "Yeah——"
The sound was mechanical and awkward, but very funny. Zhu Ning burst out laughing, and when she laughed, everyone else laughed too. No one knew what they were laughing at. They clearly hadn't drunk any alcohol, but it sounded like they were drunk.
Finally, after enough laughter, the four of them ate and drank their fill, feeling as if they had really come to a farm vacation. However, there was no signal in the fishing village, so they couldn't contact people inside the wall, and the entertainment facilities were limited.
Everyone chose their own way to rest. Pei Shu smoked and knitted. His hat had taken shape. Teacher Pei's knitting created a unique atmosphere, which was extremely peaceful. Zhu Ning was itching to try it.
Bai Cheng stared blankly with her eyes open. When she stopped, she became as quiet as a doll without power.
Lin Xiaofeng was sitting and playing games. He couldn't connect to the internet and had to choose the stand-alone mode. He was particularly immersed in the game at this time, and his fingers were moving very fast. He must be a good gamer.
Zhu Ning got up to clean up the dishes. Even if he went out of the house, there were still a lot of chores to do. Repairing the car, cooking, cleaning and washing clothes were all assigned by the three of them. Zhu Ning didn't do any work and felt a little embarrassed.
Everyone is equal in this regard, even the devil has to wash dishes.
Zhu Ning was cleaning up while secretly looking at Lin Xiaofeng. Zhu Ning had discovered long ago that Lin Xiaofeng seemed to have an online friend.
It's normal for a little girl to have a friend. Zhu Ning even thought she was too precocious, always hanging out with the three adults. It would be nice to have a friend of the same age.
But what if it's a man? What if he's a bald old man?
Zhu Ning felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy. In his mind, he imagined a wretched bald man picking his feet and laughing in front of the screen.
That shouldn't be the case. Bao Ruiming contacted Lin Xiaofeng online at that time. With her experience, she would definitely not easily trust others on the Internet.
Who was that person? Zhu Ning remembered that the only person Lin Xiaofeng had contact with outside the Great Firewall was that stranger online. Could it be someone like Chen Qihang?
She had just finished reading the story of the investigation notes and thought that the protagonist was led down this path of no return by a private message from a netizen.
Zhu Ning walked closer and closer, wanting to ask quietly, but she had never done this kind of work in her life, so any question she asked would seem deliberate.
When she was a child, she was very unhappy with her parents' constant questions and found them annoying.
Pei Shu finished packing and called out, "Xiaofeng, go to bed early. We'll go down to the lake to survey it early tomorrow morning."
Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng discussed going down to the lake tomorrow morning. There should be some traces at the bottom of the lake, so the sooner they go, the better. Pei Shu planned to start at dawn.
After they came out, they went through five contaminated areas, and it was the first time they needed to conduct on-site research after finishing, as if they were a scientific expedition team.
"Okay, Teacher Pei." Lin Xiaofeng put away the game console, nodded in agreement, and went straight into the small tent. He turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Zhu Ning missed the opportunity and watched the tent grow dark. He could only go to sleep and had a lot of dreams.
She used to dream about big things, such as predictions and seeing crow's eyes, but this time her mind was filled with bald heads as big as fried eggs, walking in a line in front of her. She had never seen so many bald heads in her life.
Zhu Ning slept uneasily and fell asleep only at dawn. When he woke up, it was already afternoon. Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng had already gone into the water. He couldn't see clearly last night, and now he saw that the sky was still yellow.
There were no contaminated spores, and most of the lake bottom was rotten meat. Lin Xiaofeng didn't mind the smell, and he followed the instructions obediently, helping Pei Shu.
Zhu Ning leaned against a tree, wrapped in a blanket. Because of the disturbance caused by the bald man, he was surprisingly quiet.
Bai Cheng was next to her. She was a bounty hunter and had no interest in information gathering.
Zhu Ning shifted his attention to Bai Cheng. Bai Cheng had a stiff smile on his face. He had started smiling yesterday, but his facial expression had not adjusted yet today. He was looking at the mountains in the distance, which was the north.
Zhu Ning was silent for a moment. All superpowers were put to bid. Bai Cheng was immortal, but she couldn't store her memories either. She was like a system that was always updating. She had only one goal, to go to the north to find her memories.
Zhu Ning suddenly said, "Thank you."
Bai Cheng: "Are you okay?"
Zhu Ning tilted her neck. The back of her neck had healed, but she felt a strange sensation. The black mucus used to be attached to her spine, but now it seemed as if she didn't have a single white bone.
If Bai Cheng cut Zhu Ning open at this time, he would see that her bones were all black. Zhu Ning could only record the changes herself each time and could not judge whether the changes were good or bad.
She seemed... Zhu Ning squeezed his hands tucked into the blanket and found that she was indeed a little different. She was extremely sensitive to fear, and her swallowing power should have increased.
She hasn't figured out any other reactions yet, so she might try them in the next contaminated area.
This time, he only ate a bunch of alien species, didn't devour the pollution source, and didn't gain more superpowers. But Zhu Ning guessed that it was making people grow moles? She didn't really want it.
With a splash, Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng came ashore. Lin Xiaofeng was holding a large instrument in his hand. Pei Shu took off his helmet after coming ashore, like a fisherman with a good harvest.
They spent five and a half hours clearing the river until they could see the actual bottom of the pond, and only started exploring after they went into the water a second time.
It took more than eight hours in total, and Zhu Ning had already slept for a while. Lin Xiaofeng followed behind and never complained of being tired. Pei Shu, who was a teacher, immediately felt that Lin Xiaofeng was really suitable to join the scientific expedition team outside the wall.
What a good seedling! Pei Shu wanted to contact his acquaintances to send Lin Xiaofeng for further studies. It would be a waste of talent to follow him. Maybe Lin Xiaofeng could become a great scholar outside the wall in the future.
Pei Shu wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Zhu Ning about this matter.
Zhu Ning: "What did you find?"
It is common to notice that Pei Shu does not have this expression. It is rare for a decadent person to look so energetic.
Pei Shu sorted out his findings. "The pollution concentration under the lake is also zero. Most of it is rotting meat. Lin Xiaofeng and I cleared a passage."
Pei Shu: "The space for the blood vessels below is empty."
There used to be a giant blood vessel buried under the pond, similar to a human sewage pipe. After it disappeared, it was equivalent to adding an extra pit underneath.
Zhu Ningjing listened quietly. What Pei Shu had shared so far was very ordinary, and the polluted areas after purification were all similar.
Pei Shu had a screen in his hand and swiped it twice. "Look."
Pei Shu took several photos from various angles. Just as he said, after cleaning up the rotten meat, there was a long empty passage underneath. The mud was soft and the edges were no longer clear.
Pei Shu scrolled through the photos, as if a movie was playing in front of him, and Zhu Ning frowned.
Pei Shu and his team swam a long way underwater and reached the critical point of Fengyu Village. He photographed the edge of another blood vessel.
The huge, scarlet blood vessels had a surface that looked like a tumor and was not smooth, and were contracting regularly.
When you get close, you can hear a sound similar to the beating of a heavy heart, boom, boom, boom—
Judging from the photos, the edge is not smooth. Because the pollution source has been killed, the blood vessels below Fengyu Village have been cut off, but it is not completely closed. It is estimated that it will be polluted again in a few days.
Pei Shu didn't dare to get close, for fear of being swept into the contaminated area. He came back after taking some photos, and all that was left were some scattered information.
Zhu Ning sorted it out and asked, "So we really cut off a small section of his blood vessel?"
Pei Shu: "Yes, you can also understand it as us digging out someone's mole."
Zhu Ning thought that they were serving the world by making moles.
Hello, open the door, the Ace Mole Removal Team is at your service?
Zhu Ning asked, "Theoretically, we can follow the blood vessels and find our way there?"
Assuming that this planet is a whole organism, and the blood vessels are its roads, most investigators walk along the ground. Is there actually a shortcut that can be taken underground?
Bai Cheng: "It's only feasible in theory, but no one dares to do it."
This is what it means to walk in the belly of pollutants. Some people have thought about this over the years, but a mole can make the four of them very dangerous. If they really encounter any danger, they will die in the ground.
Moreover, the ground environment is complex. In the fishing village, it is at the bottom of the pond, while in other places it may be magma or underground rocks.
Pei Shu: "This discovery supports the theory of unified pollution sources."
People have various hypotheses about doomsday, the most interesting of which is that the world has a single source of pollution. Once they have an argument, they will try every possible way to use various evidence to reason.
Humans have been slow in their research on pollution outside the wall. This time, they discovered that underground pollutants seemed to be in a collaborative relationship, supplying nutrients to a larger organism.
It has its own independent pollution source, but it has also established an extremely close connection with an unknown existence.
The relationship between pollutants is that of master and servant, and it also seems to be a collaborative relationship, with a certain logic within it.
If the world is truly one, and all pollution serves a certain purpose, then what part of the underground "evil child" in Area 103 that they killed is related to the source of the world's pollution?
Zhu Ning: "In other words, our discovery is very valuable for research?"
Pei Shu: "It's higher than you think."
No one has been able to achieve zero pollution over the years. After Zhu Ning swallowed it, it was like a fault was formed, and the difference between the polluted area and the non-polluted area could be clearly seen. It was simply an excellent control group.
From a utilitarian point of view, if the Alpha experiment had been successfully developed earlier, human exploration outside the wall would have achieved significant results.
Zhu Ning sorted out his gains this time. First, he understood the process of Chen Qihang's formation, which would help Huo Wenxi to continue to delve deeper into Chen Qihang's line. Maybe they could really find Chen Qihang himself.
Second, they obtained valuable information that was useful to professionals and helped them find the core source of pollution.
Pei Shu collected some biological samples and also wrote an investigation report. Since he was not a professional, it was best to present the original data. These things had to be sent inside the wall, for example, to Huo Wenxi.
Zhu Ning looked into the distance. The sky was dim. The impact of the sandstorm had not yet passed, but the world had literally changed.
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