Chapter 116 Get Out of Here! (3K5)
Yuri quickly followed the adjutant to a piece of contaminated corpse, where many members of the Devil Army had already gathered.
"Get out of the way, the captain is coming."
The adjutant cleared a path for Yuri, allowing him to see the rotten remains of a human.
The face of the corpse could no longer be seen, and its body had turned into components similar to the pollutants. At first glance, there was no difference between it and the pollutants themselves.
The only difference was the clothes he was wearing—they were from Eve Star ten years ago.
Sure enough, it was just as the adjutant said.
"We" finally found "them".
Looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar uniform, Yuri felt dazed for a moment, but he quickly calmed down, quickly bent down to check the condition of the body, and asked the adjutant: "How did this body come from?"
The adjutant replied: "It is hanging on the body of a pollutant."
"Hanging there?"
"Yes." The adjutant nodded. "It was probably eaten by the pollutants, and then the pollutants' bodies were destroyed by us and exposed."
Pollutants are monsters that only have the ability to eat but not the ability to digest or excrete.
It can only eat itself bigger and bigger like a gluttonous snake, but when it reaches a certain size, it will collapse and decompose, and then continue to eat, as if the meaning of its existence is to eat.
"Have you confirmed your identity?"
Yuri asked as he turned over the body and looked at his armband. As expected, the armband was so blurred that the name could not be seen at all.
Sure enough, the adjutant's answer was also: "I can't find any valid identification for the time being. I only found a few broken equipment with names engraved on them, but the names are all different."
Yuri also found several small equipment placed next to the corpse, such as a dagger, pocket watches, etc., which were basically broken, but the names could still be vaguely seen on them.
He looked through the equipment and found that, just as the adjutant had said, the names engraved on them were all different.
"This is the rule of Eve Star." Yuri whispered, "Those who are left behind will exchange the same equipment with those who are leaving. So as long as there is equipment with a different name, it means... there is a sacrifice."
“But these names are all different.”
"That means there are always casualties." Yuri said, "They didn't fall at the same time, but people kept getting into trouble and kept being left behind. This is what happened."
…People kept being left behind.
After hearing these words, the atmosphere in the venue became a little depressing. The devils wearing heavy masks looked at each other, as if they could hardly imagine such a scene.
Yuri didn't pay too much attention to the equipment, and he wasn't even very interested in finding out the other party's specific identity, because no matter what, this person must be one of those on the missing list.
Rather than confirming his identity, Yuri wanted to see if he could find something else on him.
For example, the written document from the so-called "Clerk No. 44" ten years ago is the evidence that Gerard has been talking about.
It is precisely because that thing has never been found that the authenticity of Xiaoxing’s mission cannot be proven.
If that written document really exists, it should be left on the bodies of these dead Knights of the Evening Star.
So, will you find it?
Just as Yuri was searching carefully, his hand was suddenly grabbed.
Yuri was slightly startled. He subconsciously thought it was his adjutant, but when he saw the hand clearly, his whole body froze.
The hand was pale and rotten, like a joint of pollutants.
And its owner is... the corpse lying in front of him.
Yuri's gaze slowly moved upwards, and then he saw the man who should have been dead for ten years opening his "eyes" towards him.
His eyeballs had long disappeared, leaving only two irregular holes that looked like they were made by fingers.
Yuri soon realized that it was indeed tapped out, because he used his other hand to tap out the mouth.
This made Yuri's hair stand on end.
This is definitely not something that ordinary pollutants can do!
At the moment, one of his hands was grabbed, but he still used his other hand to reach for the flaming sword at his waist.
No matter what, the pollutants must be dealt with.
But just as his hand grabbed the hilt of the sword, the corpse in front of him made a sound with its buttoned mouth.
"Who are you?"
These sudden words almost made Yuri's heart stop.
Pollutants...can talk?
If Yuri hadn't seen so many things beyond common sense today, he would never have believed it.
Yuri tried to calm himself down.
He looked at the corpse in front of him, and then did something he would never do before.
That is to talk to him.
"Devil Army, Yuri." Yuri answered in a deep voice, and then immediately asked, "Do you remember who you are?"
He wanted to know whether the corpse in front of him was a pollutant that had mastered the ability to speak.
Or... the Knight of the Evening Star who has survived to this day.
For Yuri, these two results are very different.
"Devil...ghost...army..." the corpse slowly repeated the word.
Yuri gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, beads of sweat covering his thick mask.
"Yes." Yuri repeated the question, "Who are you?"
"Who are you……"
Pollutant repeated Yuri's words again, as if he had no way to answer Yuri's question and could only repeat Yuri's words.
It looks like it's just a contaminant that has acquired language skills for unknown reasons.
Yuri suddenly felt a little disappointed when he came to this conclusion.
So he slowly pulled out the blazing sword.
And pollutants, there is nothing to talk about.
However, just when Yuri was about to pull out the flaming sword completely, the corpse suddenly "thought" of something, and squeezed out strength from somewhere. The whole person suddenly stood up, and then pointed its open mouth at Yuri. Yuri saw that the mouth was still rapidly tearing and expanding.
Then, Yuri heard a deafening sound that penetrated the mask and reached the depths of his brain.
"Get out of here!"
“The source is pollution!”
"Go! Alive!"
These words that penetrated deep into Yuri's brain made him shudder.
When he came to his senses, the body had returned to its previous state.
The face was blurry and the features could not be seen clearly... but, there were no eyes or mouth.
It seems as if everything is an illusion.
Yuri stared at the corpse blankly. He felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what it was exactly.
But then he heard a "cracking" sound coming from his neck, and it became more and more rapid.
Yuri suddenly came back to his senses.
Emergency device?!
He immediately reached for the emergency device around his neck.
Then he discovered that the spring on the emergency device had reached its last turn. If it continued to turn like this, his head would fall to the ground in less than five minutes.
While breaking out in a cold sweat, Yuri realized that something was even more wrong.
How come his emergency device is already on the last lap? !
How long has he been watching here?
Also, why didn't anyone remind him?!
Yuri raised his head suddenly and found that his subordinates were still standing in the same position as before, without any reaction, like motionless sculptures.
But the emergency devices around their necks did not stop, but were getting faster and faster.
Yuri immediately stood up and yelled at his men.
“Wake up!”
"We are polluted!"
Puff, puff, puff.
The moment he finished speaking, three heads fell to the ground.
The spurting blood added a touch of glaring scarlet to this gray world.
And that touch of scarlet also made Yuri realize something he had overlooked.
That is, they are not yet ready to actively enter the deepest part of the contaminated area, that is, the abyss.
But the abyss was already walking towards them.
…
"Why did you come here?"
Gerard stood in front of a processing plant, and in the distance was the steel bridge connecting to the fifth district.
"Why can't we come here?" Bai Wei said lazily, "You also know where this is."
Gerald hesitated for a moment, but nodded: "Source Oil Processing Plant."
"From your reaction, it seems like you have never been here before?" Bai Wei said, "Isn't this your previous job? Drilling for oil."
“What is oil?”
"I was talking about source oil." Bai Wei said lightly, "You heard it wrong."
Gerard didn't care too much about whether Bai Wei made a mistake or not. He just said, "Making source oil is indeed the main job of Xiaoxing, but we are only responsible for transporting the produced source oil back to District 5. Then the technicians of the source oil factory will haul the source oil back... just like that."
While the two were talking, a special gear train happened to pass over the bridge in the fifth district and stopped in front of the processing plant. Then employees of the processing plant came out and moved the black barrels brought from the gear train into the factory.
Bai Wei asked: "What will these source oils be processed into?"
"A lot." Although Gerard was not responsible for the further processing of the source oil, he still knew some of the most basic procedures, so he answered, "Power source oil responsible for providing power for various large-scale equipment such as gear trains, and life source oil responsible for people's livelihood. Some scraps will be converted into lubricating oil and the like."
"Ah, that sounds interesting." Bai Wei said with a smile, "Take me in for a tour. I've never seen a processing plant like this before."
Bai Wei's relaxed tone did not make Gerard feel at ease.
He originally thought that Bai Wei would take him directly to a branch tower in a certain district, and then tell him who the problem was and that it was a member of the Zhuxin Society, and asked him to take action as soon as possible.
But Bai Wei made him come here.
Source oil processing plant.
Just as Bai Wei said, this is closely related to his previous work.
"I can try to go in." After observing the surrounding environment, Gerald nodded and said, "The security here is not tight... but I want to know one thing."
"Go ahead."
"Do you think there's something wrong with the source oil factory..." Gerald asked slowly, "or is there something wrong with the source oil itself?"
"...Haha, you're quite perceptive." Bai Wei was not surprised by Jellal's reaction. After all, they were already here. "As the captain of Xiaoxing, you should know where the source oil comes from, right?"
"Of course," Gerard replied, "From the pollutants."
"What are the details?"
Gerard hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Completely crush the pollutant's body and turn it into liquid, which is the source oil."
"To put it simply, it's squeezed into juice, right?" Bai Wei asked with a smile.
Although Bai Wei's description seemed a little strange, Gerard had to admit that it was indeed very vivid, so he nodded: "Yes."
"So if they are squeezed into juice, will they die?"
Jellal's pupils narrowed slightly, but his expression did not change much. He just said in a deep voice: "We have done many experiments. The source oil itself is not polluting, nor does it have vitality."
"Really?" Bai Wei asked calmly, "Where did the experimental results come from?"
Jellal's eyes widened instantly.
He raised his head and looked at the factory in front of him again.
Workers in black uniforms were carrying barrels of crude oil to the factory.
Their expressionless faces look like precision parts, but also like,
A ghost that wanders the polluted land.
(End of this chapter)
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