Chapter 3
"Observe carefully, and if there is anything unusual, be sure to tell us as soon as possible."
Looking down at Chen Nan, who was facing away from the surveillance camera on the screen in front of him, he looked up at the hundreds of other surveillance cameras on the entire wall above him, which showed hundreds of recently caught infected people.
After a slight sigh, Tang Ke left the oppressive data analysis room and went to eat in the underground cafeteria.
"Brother Tang—"
"Brother Tang, you're back!"
"Brother Tang, do you have a lot of tasks today?"
"Hey Tang, I heard you just caught a pretty female internet celebrity?"
At 11 p.m., the lights were still on in the cafeteria of the Superpower Institute. When he came in, several of the thirty or so superpowered individuals eating inside immediately greeted him excitedly.
Tang Ke politely nodded in response to everyone's enthusiasm, without offering any particular reply. However, upon hearing the last question, he instinctively turned around, still holding his plate, and asked, "Who told you that? Capturing infected individuals—isn't that confidential? Who leaked the information?"
After a 30-day infection period, infected individuals may mutate into cockroach monsters, or they may be lucky enough to transform into superhumans.
At this point, the specific information regarding the arrest of the infected individuals needs to be kept confidential.
At least within their organization, there are explicit rules prohibiting them from discussing information about infected individuals excessively.
Seeing his serious expression, the young supernatural police officer who had just spoken immediately tensed up. He quickly pulled out his phone and explained, "No, I didn't deliberately inquire or ask, and none of my colleagues leaked any information to me. It's just that you weren't paying attention when you were arresting people, Brother Tang, and someone filmed some footage of you. Of course, it's not a big deal. The information department has already dealt with it while everyone was discussing it online, and there are no related videos or trending topics online now. I just happen to be a fast internet surfer, and I saw it as soon as it started trending, so I couldn't help but want to share it with you."
The young police officer with superpowers quickly explained, and Tang Ke, hearing his explanation, knew that he wasn't deliberately asking questions, so she didn't press him further.
After replying "I understand," he returned the other person's phone and then turned around to continue getting his food.
This is the headquarters of the Supernatural Abilities Institute of the Beijing Safety Bureau, and also the headquarters of 72 Supernatural Abilities Institutes nationwide.
To provide food supplies for all the superpowered police officers here, the entire cafeteria always has hot, free food and fruit available.
This is perhaps the key reason why countless ordinary people in this era want to transform into superpowers and join superpower institutes to become police officers or civil servants.
However, it is evening now, and only a few people are eating in the huge canteen that is several hundred square meters in size.
So after getting a large portion of two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, and taking her favorite seaweed and egg drop soup, Tang Ke, dressed in casual clothes, started eating right there in the corner.
While he was eating, the thirty or so superhumans who had been sitting together earlier ate very quietly, without making any obvious noises.
But after he finished eating, put his plate in the automatic washing machine, and turned to leave, the noise and chatter from the people behind him became noticeably louder.
"Oh my god, they're finally gone!"
"Yeah, now that he's surnamed Tang, why is he still coming to our canteen for ordinary superhumans?"
"No, he really is a member of the Tang family?"
"How could this be fake? Look how much he looks like the guy in the picture above. Apparently, the guy in the picture above is his cousin!"
"But isn't the Tang family known for producing geniuses? How come he's a spatial ability user?"
"Who knows? But if he wasn't just an ordinary spatial ability user, would he have ended up here working on the front lines?"
"Yeah, he's not a bad-tempered person anyway. As long as he doesn't act like a spoiled brat at us, it doesn't matter."
The people inside were talking loudly, and although there was a door between them, and although their "loudness" was only slightly louder than before, Tang Ke, as a superhuman, could still clearly hear all the conversations inside.
Even after hearing those things, Tang Ke acted as if she hadn't heard them at all, as if they were just talking about someone else, and left without changing her expression.
The buildings above the Superpower Institute cover tens of thousands of square meters, with more than a dozen buildings of various heights and levels.
In addition to the buildings exposed on the surface, there are even larger underground structures beneath them.
Before encountering the cockroach monster, that is, before the so-called apocalypse, the taller the building, the more expensive it was.
But in those days, the tallest buildings were always empty, and the top-floor apartments in the city were always the cheapest. Even though everyone has been out of the underground world for decades, the twenty years when we were forced underground by cockroach monsters still have a profound impact on us. To this day, the place everyone most wants to live in is still underground.
Moreover, with the changing times and technological advancements, the environment below is not much different from that above.
In short, rather than sunbathing up there only to be torn apart and infected by a sudden cockroach monster, countless people still prefer to take various vitamin pills and continue to stay safely down there.
In short, the people living in this place are all infected individuals who came here for quarantine, as well as other staff members of the Superpower Institute who do not have superpowers.
People with special abilities like Tang Ke were assigned to lower ranks instead.
It's not that the country doesn't value the safety of ordinary people, but rather that in everyone's mind, many ordinary people are simply not as capable as the very few superhumans who can actually go out and fight the cockroach monster.
Therefore, the country takes extra care of them during their regular meals and rest, and subconsciously provides them with all the better conditions and things.
During their normal rest periods, they enjoy the best treatment the country can offer in terms of accommodation and food. But when real danger strikes, they have an unshirkable responsibility to rush to the front lines immediately.
The elevator was equipped with a full-body scanning device. As soon as Tang Ke entered, the system automatically recognized his facial features and quickly transported him to a bedroom on the sixth floor.
Once inside her two-bedroom apartment, Tang Ke relaxed and immediately went to the bathroom to wash up.
Just as Tang Ke finished washing up and had a meal, she went back inside to wash up again. Chen Nan, who was on the seventeenth floor upstairs, also finally went into the bathroom to take a shower.
While showering, she made a point of observing her surroundings. Only after confirming there were no cameras did she secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
But as she washed, she couldn't help but observe her new body again.
In Chen Nan's eyes, this body was exactly the same as her previous one. But in the original owner's memories, the original owner always looked like this and had never undergone any surgery or minor adjustments.
This is also the key reason why Chen Nan, even after arriving in this world and knowing that it is 2112, still felt that this was a parallel world to her original world.
When she woke up in the hospital and stumbled home following the original owner's memories, Chen Nan had already carefully observed her body.
At that time, Chen Nan was looking for specific differences between her body and the original owner's body; she was subconsciously looking for the slightest differences.
But now, Chen Nan is curious about how she got infected. When she was in the hospital, she was carefully examined by the doctor, and there wasn't a single wound on her body.
Moreover, after returning, she also carefully checked herself.
He stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, looking at himself over and over again.
After struggling for a while, Chen Nan still found nothing. Apart from discovering the small, scabbed wound on the right side of her neck where the doctor had implanted the electronic chip, she noticed nothing else unusual.
"Sigh, I don't want to think about it anymore!"
It could be an airborne infection or a droplet infection; there's no point in thinking about it anymore.
Lost in her own thoughts, Chen Nan quickly came out of the bathroom, dried her hair, and went to bed.
Half asleep and half awake, Chen Nan felt her body was extremely heavy.
Sensing something was wrong, she raised her hand to touch it. But when she suddenly touched something smooth like scales or feathers, Chen Nan was wide awake and suddenly screamed as she sat up in bed.
As she sat up, the lights in her one-bedroom apartment immediately came on.
When she raised her hand, she realized that what she was holding was a smooth piece of fabric, seemingly the smooth headboard cloth that had been used to cover the bed yesterday. Chen Nan then raised her hand and threw the thing in her hand forward heavily.
But just as she finished throwing the things and was about to pull her arm back, Chen Nan clearly saw two black, snake-skin-like things on her wrist.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Her reason vanished in an instant. After regaining her senses, Chen Nan swung her right hand and jumped up, screaming without any regard for her image.
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