Inside the office of the first team of the Qinghe City Investigation Bureau
Bai Yu ticked the name Zhou Yi on the missing persons list, thought about it, and annotated a reason behind it.
“Rebellious youth run away from home”
He pulled down the form and took a look. After more than half a month of hard work, most of the missing persons had a check mark next to them.
Most of the disappearances are related to pollution.
These include becoming a deformed being, being eaten by pollutants, being parasitized by pollutants, being eaten by pollutants disguised as humans, and committing suicide due to being unable to accept the fact of being polluted.
The reason for the sharp increase in the number of missing people is that pollutants that can disguise themselves as humans have poured into Qinghe City from nowhere, devouring or polluting the residents of Qinghe City.
There are also a considerable number of human disappearances that have nothing to do with pollution.
This includes people who choose to leave home because they owe money, people who are addicted to gambling and dare not tell their families, minors who run away from home during their rebellious period, people who are killed because of disputes over money or sex, and people who are unlucky enough to be secretly killed by antisocial elements.
Society has never been a peaceful place, and the sudden outbreak of pollution has made the civilized order shaky.
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Casualties from pollution are increasing dramatically, and so are casualties among humans.
In addition to the missing persons whose reasons have been found, there is still a small number of people who have not been found yet, and the table at the back is blank.
Huang Rui was among them.
And from the surveillance footage that Yuan Xue brought back, Huang Rui disappeared in Qinghe City as if she had evaporated from the face of the earth after talking to them a few times at the Investigation Bureau. They were the last people to see her.
Huang Rui did not show any abnormality that day.
Even at that time, the residents of Qinghe City did not disappear in large numbers due to the influx of strange foreign pollutants.
Bai Yu leaned back in his chair, recalling their meeting at the door of Qinghe City Investigation Bureau, but he smelled a distinctive fragrance at the tip of his nose.
He sat up straight and looked out the door involuntarily.
Chu Zehuai is back so soon?
He thought he would have to wait for more than a month.
With a "bang", the office door was violently opened, and a familiar figure walked in with a bloody smell and a cold air.
The temperature in the office rose rapidly, but the atmosphere became cold.
Bai Yu put down the booklet in his hand and was about to say hello to the person he hadn't seen for a long time, but Lin Mo rushed over from behind and covered his mouth, and forcibly took him to the wall.
Lin Mo's speed was so fast that it seemed as if he had used up all his life's strength. Before Bai Yu could react, he had already leaned against the corner.
From this angle, he could clearly see the numbers on the monitor on Chu Zehuai's neck.
13568.
Yellow represents warning.
Lin Mo, who had dared to challenge his brother in the past, dared not breathe a word at this moment. He was like he was facing a flood or a wild beast. He slowly, slowly moved out of the office. As he moved, he showed the friendliest, most submissive, and most respectful smile of his life:
"Brother, you are back. Have a good rest. We won't disturb you."
Chu Zehuai sat in his seat, his cold golden-orange eyes swept over the two of them, his lips slightly parted, and he uttered only one word:
"roll."
Lin Mo was like a eunuch in ancient times who had received an imperial decree. He ran as fast as he could, as if this office was going to eat him up in the next second.
Bai Yu followed closely behind his friend, but was frozen in place by a look.
"You stay."
Bai Yu turned around slowly, leaned against the wall, and smiled obediently, imitating Lin Mo: "Captain Chu, what do you want to talk to me about?"
The sunlight outside the window poured in through the glass. It should have been a warm picture, but it was instantly tinged with a cold and murderous atmosphere.
Chu Zehuai didn't say anything. He tapped the table with his fingertips, and then a golden flame ignited.
Bai Yu moved away without saying a word.
He's even angry, I don't think he's really going to hit him.
He once heard Li Song say something to Chu Zehuai.
'Your stat is green, so you can't beat up your coworkers because you're mentally unstable.'
That means that when the number on Chu Zehuai's neck is not green, it is really possible for him to beat up his colleagues.
Bai Yu was already thinking, if the other party really wanted to burn him, would he run away or retreat strategically?
He didn't want to turn into a plate of barbecued vegetables yet.
However, the tragic scene that was imagined did not happen. The golden flame jumped and changed on the white fingertips. Slowly, the inside of the flame turned into a bright red.
The outer golden flame firmly controls the inner red flame, as if trying hard to show something.
"Bai Yu."
Chu Zehuai's voice became lower and it sounded a little hoarse if you listened carefully.
"I killed Fen Ji."
Bai Yu was stunned for a moment.
Chu Zehuai told him that Fen Ji was dead, and then...what should he do?
What should I do? There has never been a similar situation in the human quotations I have learned.
'You are so awesome'?
"Wow, you are indeed Captain Chu."
'Is the injury not serious?'
In the end, Bai Yu did not give the other party a response.
Before he could come up with a perfect answer, the other party put away the dancing flames on his fingertips, propped his elbows on the table, supported his forehead with his fingertips, and closed his golden-orange eyes.
The cold and terrifying atmosphere intensified again, the temperature in the office rose again, and the yellow number on the neck flashed and grew rapidly.
13985
14210
14389
"Captain Chu, you are now..."
Bai Yu moved towards the door calmly, and the warning that had not appeared in his heart for a long time sounded again.
The last time I had this feeling was when Linhai City was burned by the golden flames.
"go out."
Chu Zehuai's voice became even colder.
After getting the other party's answer, Bai Yu decisively opened the door and ran out. He breathed a sigh of relief and when he looked up, he met several fully armed doctors.
The group of doctors carried metal boxes and walked into the office carefully. Chu Yunrou stood at the door with a serious expression, while Bai Yu was dragged by Lin Mo to the sofa not far away and waited.
"Actually, I should have told you this at the beginning, but I thought my brother would stay in Qinghe City forever and the value would be unlikely to turn yellow, so I forgot to tell you."
Lin Mo said with some annoyance, and then gave Bai Yu a belated scientific explanation of the dangers.
"The numbers on the monitor represent the pollution value, which comes in three colors. Because my brother is an S-level awakener, the value will always be above 10,000."
"Ten thousand to twelve thousand is green, which means it's safe. My brother is emotionally stable at this time, and we can chat and even argue with him. Maybe we can even take advantage of my brother's good mood and ask him for some benefits or something."
"Twelve to fifteen thousand is yellow, which means warning. Don't get close to my brother if you have nothing to do. Stay as far away from him as possible. If you really need to find him, be extremely careful and follow his words. Don't provoke, refute or question him."
"Above 15,000 is red, which means danger. You don't need to run as far as you can at this time."
Lin Mo spoke a long paragraph in one breath and took a deep breath.
Bai Yu was curious: "Why? Yellow needs to run, but red doesn't need to run?"
Could it be that when the value reaches the highest, the opposite effect will appear?
"I can't run away anyway, and dodging will only make my out-of-control brother even more furious. I might as well knock myself out early. I'll wake up in the hospital anyway, so I can at least be moderate if I do it myself, and I won't feel bad about it."
There was a hint of vicissitudes in Lin Mo's tone, as if he had experienced things that were not suitable for his age at such a young age.
Bai Yu didn't know what to say for a moment.
Lin Mo didn't expect to hear any answer. He leaned on the sofa and muttered to himself, "I hope it doesn't turn red, otherwise we will all go to the hospital today. No, before going to the hospital, I have to settle accounts with Shen An first."
We were talking fine last time, but this time, after being away for such a short time, his condition changed from green to yellow.
Is this what Shen An meant by 'don't worry'?
The angry Lin Mo directly called the other party, and the latter also expressed helplessness.
"I can't do anything about it. It wouldn't have gotten to this point. I just went to the Nanzhou area to eliminate an A+ grade pollutant pitcher plant. In the end, it didn't rise to the warning level. But when he was leaving, he found that Fen Ji had fled back to his hometown in Nanzhou to recuperate, so he chased after him."
"Can't you stop him? Don't tell me you don't know the consequences of his actions."
"You think I can stop him? You overestimate my strength."
Lin Mo hung up the phone silently, leaned back on the sofa and looked at the ceiling.
Bai Yu sat with him, watching the serious-looking doctors coming and going.
Fortunately, the final result was not as bad as Lin Mo had imagined. Chu Zehuai's value did not exceed 15,000. Under the effect of the potion, the value slowly and steadily fell back.
A week later, the value fell back into the green safety zone.
Lin Mo fell into deep contradiction.
On the one hand, he certainly hoped that his brother could return to normal as soon as possible, as high pollution levels would seriously affect his mental stability.
On the other hand, he didn't want his brother to recover so quickly, otherwise the Four Continents Alliance would definitely use him to death again.
"Why that expression?"
Chu Zehuai leaned back in his seat, spinning the pen in his hand around his fingertips, with a lazy look all over his body.
The side effects of the inhibitors made him lose interest in the whole thing. He didn't want to stay in the hospital, so he simply stayed in the place he was most familiar with.
"Nothing, I was just thinking about the missing persons. Huang Rui... she still hasn't been found."
Lin Mo came back to his senses, smiled as if to cover up, and briefly recounted what had happened before.
Chu Zehuai thought about it for a while but couldn't remember who Huang Rui was. He flipped open the booklet Lin Mo handed over and found her face: "I think I've seen her somewhere."
"We did meet once, in front of the Qinghe City Investigation Bureau. She disappeared on the day we met her." Lin Mo's tone dropped.
"It wasn't that long ago. It seemed like just a few days ago. Sigh, I can't quite remember where I saw it."
Chu Zehuai rubbed his temples. The side effects of the inhibitor were a bit severe.
Lin Mo's eyes lit up, and he took Bai Yu's hand and ran out: "It's okay, you haven't been to many places these days anyway, Xiaobai and I can go to each place one by one, I-ah!"
In excitement, he opened the office door and bumped into the person who was about to knock on the door.
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