Chapter 42
Chen Yilan walked out of the house carrying a heavy cloth bag.
In the past, the mornings on the way to the North District were always crowded, but today, it was sparsely populated. It seemed everyone was getting all worked up about that rent-free policy.
This is a good thing, Chen Yilan thought. Back then, her husband had left home one ordinary morning and never returned.
This world is too dangerous for trash citizens.
The ditch was damp and her knees ached slightly. The bag was a bit heavy, so climbing the stairs to the ground was a bit difficult.
Chen Yilan was out of breath, but when she saw the figure not far away, she immediately laughed.
Chen Yu hurried over: "Mom, why are you here?"
Chen Yilan opened the cloth bag and a stream of hot white steam came out.
"Steamed buns, steamed buns, steamed potatoes, and porridge—all freshly made. You're up so early, you can't go on duty hungry."
"We can just eat some compressed food... Besides, you asked us to go back and eat it, why are we carrying it here when it's so heavy..." Chen Yu took the bag.
"It would be nice to be able to go home for dinner, but didn't you say that your superior was coming on business?"
Chen Yu suddenly realized that it was no wonder that so many glass lunch boxes were used. There must be more than just two portions in them.
He led his mother to the police station. His brother Chen Rong had already set up a folding table a little distance away from the door.
Chen Yu walked towards the Central Security Guard guarding the door. "Captain Wang, you and the Major General have been busy all night, haven't you had time for breakfast? My mother sent some breakfast over, would you like to have something simple together?"
Seeing Wang Qin looking at the closed police station door, Chen Yu smiled and said, "Miss Ji is not a criminal, the Major General will be safe. We won't go far, we can eat at that table."
Wang Qin was indeed hungry. Hearing this, he looked at the table again. Glass lunch boxes had been placed out, and warm white steam was spreading out bit by bit.
When interrogating a wanted criminal with high mental power, he must be with the major general, but this young woman named Ji Mingshu is just a trash citizen.
"Sir, the conditions here are very poor, and there's no chair. I'll have to ask you to eat standing up."
Chen Yilan handed the chopsticks to Wang Qin. Both the chopsticks and the cotton cloth wrapped around them were very clean.
However, she was left aside by Wang Qin.
Wang Qin took out a handkerchief from his pocket and carefully wiped an empty glass lunch box. He then took out a pair of folding chopsticks he carried with him, picked up some buns, steamed buns and steamed potatoes, and put them in his lunch box.
He thinks it's dirty.
Chen Yu's naturally smiling face darkened. Just as he was about to speak, his mother tugged at his sleeve.
"Eat it quickly while it's hot," said Chen Yilan.
Chen Yu remained silent. Chen Rong, standing beside him, spoke in a harsh tone, "Have you eaten yet?"
"I ate it, I ate it."
Three people at the table ate in silence, the atmosphere colder than the air.
Chen Yilan quietly stepped away, and when Chen Yu finally remembered, he saw his mother bending over to pick up trash around the police station. This wasn't the first time; every time she asked her to stop, she would say, "No matter how small it is, it's still a police station. It has to be clean to look presentable."
On the first day back on the 29th, Chen Yu took his mother with him to record his face and iris into the electric door lock. Although the police station was small, the temperature and humidity were constant, which was much better than the cold and damp underground.
But Chen Yilan never came in except for a short while when she came to clean at night. As a result, after so many days, no one knew that she was the mother of two security guards.
Seeing his mother holding her knee with one hand, Chen Yu felt extremely distressed. He rubbed his stiff face for a long time before putting on his usual smile and walking over.
Unexpectedly, a short bang was heard in the police station.
He and Chen Yilan were both stunned for a moment, only to see Chen Yilan bending over in front of the door, raising her head slightly.
Click—face recognition was successful and the door was unlocked.
The electric door slowly opened inward, and a surging gray fog poured out from the door, like an angry beast, instantly engulfing the hunched figure.
"mom!"
Chen Yu roared urgently and rushed into the thick fog without hesitation. At the same time, a sharp pollution alarm sounded.
He had a B-level mental power and a certain resistance to pollution. If there were no other interference, he could survive in an area of normal pollution for fifteen minutes. However, as soon as he entered the thick fog, he was attacked by the pollutants.
A mutated hand, without five fingers, whose fingers had turned into sharp claws, connected to a slender arm with wriggling flesh and blood, and the pollutant behind the arm was nowhere to be found.
Chen Yu was nearly smothered in the face by its claws, but luckily he reacted quickly, drawing his gun and firing, repelling the claws with his bullet. However, it only repelled the claws; the bullet didn't even penetrate them, only sending a small spark through them.
The roar of pollution came from somewhere, and it seemed very close.
Chen Yu knew that he couldn't kill the enemy on his own. Without reconnaissance equipment, he couldn't even find the location of the pollutants. In a contaminated area, pollutants could immediately locate living people.
Staying even a second longer could be fatal.
But his mother is more dangerous than him. With E-level mental strength, she will be infected and mutated if she cannot last more than three minutes.
He forced himself to calm down and carefully listened to the sounds around him, but strangely, apart from the roar of the pollutants, he could not hear the slightest sound of his mother panicking or shouting.
His mother was ahead of him, having faced the pollutants before him. It couldn't be...
This thought almost made Chen Yu lose his mind, and he shouted again: "Mom! Mom, where are you?!"
Without a protective mask, entering a contaminated area requires doing everything possible to reduce breathing and slow the rate of infection. As soon as he opened his mouth, contaminated gas rushed into his throat.
But Chen Yu couldn't care less, and he turned around with the gun in his hands: "Mom, Mom, say something!"
Suddenly, his neck froze. As far as he could see, the gray mist suddenly thinned, revealing his mother floating quietly in the air, her mouth covered by someone's hand.
That person... turned out to be my brother Chen Rong!
Behind Chen Rong, a person slowly turned out.
Miss Ji!
Miss Ji placed one hand on Chen Rong's shoulder, walking in mid-air as if it were flat ground, and with the other hand she raised her index finger and put it to her lips.
"Shh-"
There was a loud noise of a wall being destroyed, and a mecha rushed over. Its high-temperature fire gun emitted a dazzling light, spraying towards the three people in the air.
"No!" Chen Yu cried out in shock.
However, he did not expect that the sharp claws of the pollutant would fall from the sky, one attacking him and the other covering the head of the mecha.
Xi Yue raised her foot, and pure space enveloped Chen Yu's head with lightning speed. The sharp claws hit the invisible barrier and were immediately thrown away.
But the contaminants had managed to get to Wang Qin's mech, their sharp claws nearly digging into the metal visor. Wang Qin had no choice but to abandon his target and use his flamethrower to burn the deformed arm.
It roared and loosened its claws, but its other arm wrapped around the mecha's neck twice, and its claws grabbed the mask again.
Inside the mask, the analysis results projected by the combat system into Wang Qin's eyes startled him.
Violent Pollutants...
How is that possible? The pollution just broke out, and the concentration hasn't settled down to the standard yet. How could the pollutants go into a frenzy?!
But that was the fact. The attack power of the pollutant was far beyond expectations. After grabbing his mask for the second time, it directly tore a big hole in the mask made of Qijin.
There were also several deep bloody marks on his face.
That ring... that jeweled ring on the claws!
The pollutant is Major General Ning Peng!
The moment the thought came to mind, bang——
A gunshot rang out.
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After all, Sector 29 is a lawless area, and the number of pollution detectors installed by Legion 33 in the sector is limited, making it impossible to detect every pollution in time.
However, as the most important place in the entire star area, the police station was naturally within the detection range, so the pollution alarm was quickly sounded.
The residents of the nearby North District all fled. In the empty ravine, only two people were walking slowly.
Xipo covered the mecha box on her back with her coat and carefully broke the silence: "Sister, I'm sorry, I was impulsive."
Xiyue shook her head without saying anything. She continued walking a few steps, then suddenly stopped and handed the broken laptop in her hand to Xipo.
"Put it away first, I'll go check the situation."
"I'm going too."
"No, my identity has most likely been exposed, and I don't know what the consequences will be. Go back and look after Xiyao."
Seeing Xipo's stubbornness, Xiyue added, "This isn't your fault. Ning Peng discovered my identity first. If you don't take action, I will find a way to kill him. The video he shot with his optical computer may have been uploaded to the system. Until I'm sure no one is targeting me, I need to keep my distance from you and Xiyao."
"Big sister..."
"Xipo! Use your mech-soldier brain to think carefully, don't waste time."
After a scolding, the young man finally obeyed.
Xi Yue watched him walk away, then turned and walked towards the police station. A military starship flew overhead; it looked like the 33rd Legion's mecha squadron had arrived.
She didn't go up to the ground, but stood on the stone steps, looking towards the police station.
Due to the countdown, the contaminated area opened this time was only level 5, affecting a very small area. However, the superposition of two level 5 contaminated areas caused the pollutants to immediately enter a violent state, which caught Ning Peng's men off guard.
According to Xiyue's original plan, the pollutants would attract Wang Qin's attention in public, while Xipo would hide in the dark in a mecha, looking for an opportunity to kill him. Unexpectedly, the one who finally gave Wang Qin a ride was Chen Rong.
Chen Yu's brother who is taciturn and has a sullen face all day long.
The pollution level was low, with the gray fog covering only the police station and a small area outside. The 33rd Legion's mecha squadron was already in position, and Xiyue happened to see several mecha soldiers entering the contaminated area. Chen Rong supported his mother and stood at a distance, while Chen Yu spoke to a mecha soldier in front of the squadron's starship.
"...It was too sudden, no one expected it. Otherwise, we would have died to protect Major General Ning. But... we don't have a mecha box, and the protective masks are in the station, so we can't get them."
"Major General Ning is here to investigate the kidnapping case. Before coming here, he had just visited the kidnapping den that was busted in Sector 44..."
After all, the other party wasn't from the Central Star Region. They had come only to eliminate the pollution and didn't care why Ning Peng died. Chen Yu used a mix of truth and lies to fool around, then let it go.
He walked back to his brother and glanced at his unconscious mother with a complicated expression.
Chen Yilan was not too frightened when she was engulfed by the contaminated area or saw the pollutants. Instead, she fainted when her son shot and killed a mecha soldier.
"elder brother……"
"He deserves to die."
It is estimated that Wang Qin would never have thought that his small act of disdain for a trash citizen would eventually lead to him being shot fatally.
Chen Yu was speechless. This brother was so casual about everything, but once he set his mind to something, even ten starships couldn't pull him back.
"I want to talk about Miss Ji." Chen Yu lowered his voice. "Although I don't know how Miss Ji did it, she saved our mother after all. We can't let others know that Major General Ning was with her before his death."
Chen Rong hummed a syllable through his nose and said, "Do you need to tell me?"
Inside the military starship, the captain of the star team, Zhang Wei, was directing the operation. The contaminated area would more or less interfere with the signal, causing the sound coming from the communicator to contain a lot of electrical noise.
However, it does not affect his communication with the team members.
"Captain, this is a bit strange. Although there aren't many pollutants, they are all violent. The pollution concentration hasn't reached that level yet."
Zhang Wei thought for a moment and said, "If two ash holes appear at the same time, causing secondary pollution, this phenomenon will occur, but the probability is relatively low. What is the amount of pollutants?"
"Not many, visually estimated to be no more than 50. The more powerful ones are the pollutants mutated by Ning Peng and Wang Qin. The others are all mutated plants."
"Then cut the crap and eliminate it quickly."
"receive!"
The gunshots suddenly became more frequent, but were soon drowned out by the roar of the engine.
Another military starship landed, with a conspicuous number painted on its surface: 42.
The 42nd Legion? What are they doing here?
Before Zhang Wei could frown, a black mecha flew out from it. After landing, the strange gold retracted, revealing a rather neutral face.
Miyashiro Toshi?
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