"And what about the other two?"
Yin Zhu asked casually.
Since Feiyu and Xiaoqiang were able to enter the inner city together, Yin Zhu naturally didn't believe that they were just there to shop; they must have some other purpose.
Xiaoqiang looked at Feiyu, as if to say: I'll listen to him.
However, Feiyu never looked at Xiaoqiang and directly told Yinzhu the answer: "I'm planning to go back to my old home. My family used to live in the inner city. Didn't you also realize the problem with my number?"
C-01-3656.
This is a fairly high number.
“Perfect, you can stay at my house for one night and study the rules of the inner city.”
He was referring to the rules the security guard had given everyone. No one had paid much attention at the time, as there was quite a bit of information, and waiting too long at the gate would "make the boss impatient." So, to complete the charade, they simply went inside.
If they are really just a delivery team, then they don't really need to remember all the rules.
After all, the rules of the inner city only apply to those who need to live there. If they are the original inhabitants who are just doing manual labor and will not be inside for more than six hours, there is no need for them to memorize them.
At this point, only one question remains.
Led by Feiyu, Yin Zhu's team drove in one direction, towards a cluster of buildings.
"Since your family left the inner city for some reason, will they still leave you a house?" Yin Zhu asked curiously. "I have a feeling that we've been dragged into some serious political struggle."
"...It's not that bad."
Flying Fish was silent for a moment, then explained simply: "Our family was implicated. At that time, a god fell, so as His followers, we were all demoted and moved out of the inner city."
"Even gods can fall?" Yin Zhu asked in surprise, her tone clearly showing astonishment.
"Actually... even gods can be infected..."
Feiyu didn't say what came next, but Yin Zhu already guessed what it was.
Cyber disease.
"What are the symptoms of that disease? Schizophrenia? Antisocial behavior? Madness? Body deformities?" These were the different behaviors that Aunt Cai and others exhibited when Yin Zhu saw them.
First, splitting is the most obvious characteristic.
Aunt Cai split into several parts, each knocking on different neighbors' doors at the same time, and eventually scattered when she ran away.
Secondly, there's antisocial behavior and madness.
Aunt Cai was clearly mentally unstable and had an unusually strong desire to attack her neighbors. The unfortunate neighbor who fell from the building was also dragging one of her clones down with her, and both of them were smashed to pieces.
Finally, there's the issue of human deformities, though Yin Zhu isn't entirely sure about that.
The first person to knock on the door, Aunt Cai, had a strange body. The people who came after her had their whole bodies melted away. It was no longer related to whether they were human or not; it was more like their bodies had turned into some kind of special substance.
Yin Zhu's judgment made Hirano Shan smile approvingly.
As a former resident of the same building as Mary's family, Feiyu naturally knew what Yin Zhu's judgment was based on. While turning the steering wheel, he answered Yin Zhu's question: "What you said are all superficial. In fact, the symptoms of cyber disease are varied, and different people may have different symptoms."
"How do we know they're sick?"
"Well... Xiaoqiang, why don't you tell us about it?" Feiyu abruptly shifted the topic to the most silent person in the car. "Didn't you have it before? And you were cured for the first time ever, so you're the most qualified to speak on this, right?"
All eyes were on Xiaoqiang.
The ordinary-looking man seemed quite uncomfortable in this environment; his face flushed red, and after a long pause, he finally managed to utter, "I..."
"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't," the worm tried to smooth things over.
He knew about Xiaoqiang's situation.
"It's okay... I can do it." Xiao Qiang mustered his courage. His voice was hoarse and dry, like the sound of a stone being put into a pot and stirred. The stone was constantly rubbing against the bottom of the iron pot, and the sound was definitely not pleasant.
Xiao Qiang's whole body tensed up, his hands gripping the back of the chair tightly, as if uttering each word required him to use all his power:
"Cyber disease is a disease that pollutes the soul. During the time I was infected, I was jealous of all humans. I was jealous of their wholeness, their health, their ability to live freely, and their ability to run in the sunlight."
"You're from the inner city too?"
Yin Zhu found it hard to associate sunshine with the outer urban area; people in that awful place should be secretly happy if the PM2.5 level was even slightly lower.
"Yes, probably." Xiaoqiang was in low spirits, probably because it was an unpleasant memory. "I wasn't the source of the disease, but I was infected by someone else. The infected person hid very well, but when he got close to me, I smelled a rotten smell in the air. At the time, I thought it was my own problem, but later I realized that it was the stench of a rotting soul."
However, shouldn't a soul be without physical form and have no scent? Kind-hearted Yin Zhu didn't say it directly, lest she ruin the tragic atmosphere that Xiao Qiang had created.
“After my kneeling to the gods was not done properly once, my parents noticed something was wrong with me and took me to get a checkup. They found out that I had been infected with cyber disease, and that everyone infected with this disease would be arrested.”
"After I was discovered during the inspection, I was immediately detained by the Bureau of Divine Religion."
“At the time, I didn’t know what they wanted to do. I was terrified, but I didn’t dare to resist, fearing that the wrath of the gods would affect my parents. I naively thought… that if I got better, everything would be alright…”
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