195 Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Foundation (I)
They have a chance to make amends.
Zhu Ning hadn't gone out since she read the first generation's will. This was her first time going out, and she realized how chaotic the outside world was.
Flying cars were suspended in mid-air, the highway was severely congested, there were many traffic accidents, people got out of their cars and cursed, and the road to the port was blocked.
The billboards were covered with red slogans: Area 103 has entered a wartime state, please evacuate in an orderly manner.
Roadside advertisements play the "Public Infection Emergency Evacuation Guidelines" in a loop.
Before Zhuang Lin's car started, a beggar suddenly rushed over and smashed the brick in his hand on the car with a bang.
The car was covered in scratches, and after it started moving, it swayed in the air.
Zhu Ning looked out the car window and saw a woman holding a baby on the nearby highway, begging someone to take the child away.
It's been cold lately, and the woman and baby's faces have turned purple from the cold.
Zhu Ning had seen similar scenes in the zombie world. The eve of the end of the world was extremely similar.
Ordinary people will experience the catastrophe next. Zhu Ning still has some ability to survive in extreme environments, but the baby has no ability to protect himself.
Zhu Ning felt like a stone was weighing down her heart. She looked away and asked, "What happened to Huo Wenxi?"
Zhuang Lin: "The team leader has been arrested."
Before Zhu Ning could reply, Zhuang Lin consoled her, "Don't worry about her. She'll live longer than us."
Huo Wenxi is not the same type of person as Zhu Ning. People like her have their own way of living.
Zhu Ning asked, "Where's the cleaning center?"
"It's chaos," Zhuang Lin said. "It's even more chaotic than you might imagine. It's almost out of control now, and all the rules are about to become invalid."
Now the cleaning center is being fought over by various factions. Xuan Qing controls the demon hunter team, and the headquarters is about to lose control of the 103rd district branch.
The more chaotic the situation is, the safer Huo Wenxi will be.
"The center has entered a wartime state. All weapons and human-machine combined equipment are locked."
Zhu Ning could understand that if weapons were distributed directly during such a chaotic time, the result would be a mutual slaughter.
It would be a disaster if someone contacted Prometheus at this time and became a puppet of artificial intelligence.
"The center is divided into two camps. Everyone is not optimistic about finding the source of the pollution, and a considerable number of people are in favor of violent demolition."
The behavioral habits of demon hunters are that they tend to use violence to flatten things during their daily work.
For them, if they find the wrong source of pollution, District 103 will be wiped out. It’s too mysterious. What if they find the wrong source?
But the flattening caused by hot weapons is visible and tangible.
Zhu Ning: "Didn't Huo Wenxi say that the current reserves of hot-weapon weapons were insufficient?"
Zhuang Lin: "The ones in the center are not enough, but District 103 has a natural advantage. There is an incinerator at the garbage dump."
Zhu Ning was stunned. The flying car was in mid-air at that moment. From any angle in Area 103, one could see a corner of the garbage dump, where there was a huge abandoned robot.
The robot's sitting position was like a tall building blocking out the sun, and the incinerator was burning, emitting black smoke.
Zhu Ning remembered that it was a retired city defense robot.
If all the robots in the junkyard stood up, they would at least be an army.
Zhu Ning could imagine the scene: huge robots walking in human cities, destroying all buildings wherever they passed.
"Who will control it?" Zhu Ning asked a key question. If such a large weapon is launched, who will control it?
Zhuang Lin: "Prometheus."
It was indeed him. The first generation machine told Zhu Ning not to trust Prometheus. She has never communicated with Prometheus privately.
Her intuition told her that it was dangerous to hand over control to Prometheus at this time.
Zhu Ning: "If the nuclear weapons attack fails, will it accelerate the destruction?"
"Definitely," Zhuang Lin insisted, "so we have to be faster than them."
Zhu Ning heard that the cleaning center was now divided into two factions, the violent demolition faction and the pollution source elimination faction.
Both approaches have drawbacks, so Zhu Ning had better resolve the issue before they deploy the city defense robots.
The road conditions were complicated, and Zhuang Lin had to constantly dodge oncoming traffic. "The team leader arranged everything before we went in. Your teammates were all selected by her. Including you, there are five of us in total."
Huo Wenxi can judge who can be trusted, and at this time he is more suitable to be a teammate with Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning: "Her ability has recovered?"
"Good news, the team leader has recovered and is stronger than before. Bad news..." Zhuang Lin: "The team leader has transformed."
alienation?
Zhu Ning was a little confused when he heard these two words. What does alienation mean?
The first generation Zhu Ning said that the key to her breakthrough lies in devouring and alienation.
Zhuang Lin: "When she left your house yesterday, her injured eye became abnormal, and she..."
When Zhuang Lin recalled that time, he seemed to feel the shudder again. He had once looked into the eyes of the devil.
Zhuang Lin simply recounted what he had seen and heard, without adding any personal feelings, so as not to influence Zhu Ning's judgment.
Zhu Ning kept frowning, so Huo Wenxi's right eye was a blood-red vortex?
Zhu Ning: "Wait, can you first explain what alienation is?"
Zhuang Lin was a little surprised that Zhu Ning didn't understand this, so he explained, "Take Team Leader Huo as an example. Before she awakened her superpowers, she was a first-class citizen."
He explained as he drove, "After awakening her talent, she became a sixth-class citizen and needed to be registered to avoid endangering public safety. Do you understand everything so far?"
Zhu Ning nodded.
Zhuang Lin: "Sixth-class citizens have always been treated as sane contaminants. They can pass most inspections and remain undetected by humans."
If a sixth-class citizen wanted to hide himself, he could do it. So when Xuan Qing tried to ask the research department to check whether Zhu Ning was a metal-type mutant, it was impossible to measure it.
Zhu Ning has always felt that sixth-class citizens are very similar to non-natural humans.
Zhuang Lin: "So-called alienation means that the sixth-class citizens can no longer maintain their sanity, or the infection spreads. In short, they experience somatic reactions."
Just like depression, at the beginning you will feel low in mood, and moderate or severe cases will have varying degrees of physical reactions, such as headaches, back pain, or stomach pain.
Corresponding to the contamination of a person, alienation means growing tentacles and another eye. In human terms, Huo Wenxi was infected, and what appeared to the naked eye was a monster.
Zhu Ning asked, "Is she okay?"
Zhuang Lin gritted his teeth. Zhu Ning needed some good news to boost morale, but he couldn't say it.
Huo Wenxi asked Zhuang Lin to tell Zhu Ning the truth about her situation. They were comrades-in-arms and must understand each other thoroughly.
Zhuang Lin: "Theoretically, in this situation, she should have urgently received medical treatment and consulted with anti-pollution experts. She might be just one step away from a complete collapse."
Huo Wenxi was wearing a blindfold, so no one knew she had become alienated when she made a public speech. She remained calm enough in front of the camera from beginning to end.
She is now being held in the basement of a cleaning center without any treatment.
The situation was even worse. She was isolated and helpless, and the person she trusted most, Zhuang Lin, was transferred away.
Zhu Ning clenched his fists on his knees. Zhuang Lin said, "No one knows what the next reaction will be. It's too uncertain."
Alienation is rare, and Huo Wenxi didn't tell Zhuang Lin how she felt, so Zhuang Lin could only guess.
Zhuang Lin looked at Huo Wenxi's right eye, and it seemed... that eye was a separate living thing, just living in Huo Wenxi's body, and one day it would devour the host.
Zhu Ning could only think positively. Did the first-generation machine allow her to activate her alienation and cause her to suffer from physical infection?
How to get infected?
Zhuang Lin stopped the car. They were already at the entrance of the Eternal Life Pharmaceutical Foundation. Because everyone was trying to find a way to escape, there were not many people around.
Zhu Ning knew they had reached their destination and should get off the car, but Zhuang Lin closed the door.
"Miss Zhu," Zhuang Lin said without opening the car door. "The team leader asked me to tell you something. You're about to enter a contaminated area. It's like entering another world. Just a few hours will feel like a lifetime. But no matter what you see, please remember our alliance."
When Zhuang Lin said this, it was as if Huo Wenxi had told her in person in the back seat.
Huo Wenxi's task is to withstand pressure from all sides, while Zhu Ning's task is to find the truth.
Zhu Ning must find clues about the source of the pollution.
With a click, Zhuang Lin unlocked the vehicle, Zhu Ning put on his helmet, and he and Zhu Ning got out of the vehicle together.
The venue for the Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Foundation event is actually a hotel.
This was Zhu Ning's second time visiting this place. The last time he came, it was very lively. While Zhu Ning was watching a speech, someone slipped a flyer to him asking if he wanted to participate in the Eternal Life Pharmaceutical experiment.
In just two months, the store has become so deserted, as if it has not been open for a long time.
In broad daylight, I don't know why this building looks a bit eerie.
A cordon was set up at the door, four cars were parked nearby, and there were several staff members outside. The technical department had just conducted a survey.
These should be the few people that Huo Wenxi can still call upon.
"Assistant Zhuang." The technician saw Zhu Ning and didn't ask any questions. "When we arrived, the area was already contaminated."
Zhuang Lin asked, "What is the pollution concentration?"
"270%," the technician said. "S-level contamination area. If it exceeds 290%, it will be S+."
They are professional technicians and their accuracy is higher than Zhu Ning's helmet testing.
S level, similar to the time when the company couldn't escape. If this entire building was a polluted area, then this pollution concentration would be considered normal.
Because of the recent chaos and the commercial districts nearby, most civilians have evacuated on their own initiative and there is no need to evacuate the crowds.
Zhuang Lin: "When was the contaminated area formed?"
Technician: "My guess is it was early this morning. Nearby surveillance showed that pollution concentration suddenly increased at 2 a.m. and then continued to increase. But it was too chaotic. After the technical department reported it, no one came to investigate."
The cleaning center has been in a semi-paralyzed state recently and can hardly function. If they hadn't come, no one would have noticed it.
Zhuang Lin and Zhu Ning both felt that something was wrong. This place was temporarily "detonated" by someone. It was obviously a trap.
But in other words, there might really be clues in it, which is why they go to such great lengths to cover it up.
Zhuang Lin didn't hesitate and turned to Zhu Ning, saying, "Before I explain the details to you, let me introduce you to my teammates."
Zhu Ning had already seen three people wearing witcher protective suits. One of them looked very familiar from his figure, and his height of 180 cm was particularly conspicuous.
"Hi!" Chu Ling greeted Zhu Ning.
Next to Chu Ling was Cao Wei, who said stiffly, "Long time no see."
They were the only two survivors of the Grey Eagle team, which had already lost three of its members.
At this juncture, the only team willing to team up with the devil Zhu Ning is the Grey Eagle Team.
Standing on Chu Ling's right was a thin man wearing a helmet, so Zhu Ning couldn't recognize him.
He took the initiative to greet Zhu Ning: "Hello?"
It turned out to be Doctor Fu, the one who had been treating Zhu Ning and said that her skull was beautiful.
Zhu Ning remembered that this doctor was a bit "perverted" and a bit cowardly. As a member of the medical department, wouldn't he die if he entered the S-level contaminated area?
Zhuang Lin: "You need a professional who understands pollutants."
There might be traces of strange creatures inside, and if they don't bring professionals with them, they will miss key clues.
There is a shortage of manpower now, and Dr. Fu is the only doctor willing to participate in this operation.
Doctor Fu looked extremely nervous, probably having never experienced such a big scene before.
Zhu Ning greeted them. Zhu Ning was outgoing and had a good relationship with Chu Ling. As they were talking, a figure suddenly appeared in the distance. She appeared silently, like a nimble black cat.
Zhu Ning recognized this person without any introduction. She was a little surprised, but not that surprised.
Xu Meng is here.
Xu Meng would not miss any opportunity to investigate Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. At that time, she was attending a lecture at the foundation and was temporarily transferred due to the mechanical oceanarium incident.
Fate has come full circle and returned to the starting point. Zhu Ning and Xu Meng missed it at that time, and they have the opportunity to make up for it again.
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