Cleaning Center, Abnormal Events Team.

There are piles of documents in this office. As soon as you enter, you will trip over the messy cardboard boxes. Many people say that the abnormal events team is a doghouse.

Huo Wenxi was sitting on the messy sofa. The coffee table was covered with Zhu Ning's related information. Next to him, Zhuang Lin was helping to sort it out.

Fang Ying suddenly opened the office door and said, "Team Leader Huo."

Huo Wenxi raised an eyebrow, "Fangzhu?"

Fang Ying doesn't often appear here, she usually comes with urgent tasks.

Sure enough, Fang Ying said: "Urgent mission."

Huo Wenxi held down the document under his hand and covered it with his backhand.

Fang Ying: "Zhu Ning went on an A-level mission and lost contact."

Fang Ying didn't feel anything unusual when she assigned Zhu Ning a task today. At that time, Prometheus's assessment of the danger level of the task was average. At that time, Fang Ying felt that Zhu Ning was just going for a walk outside the wall.

Then the news reported by Lu Xingqiao was quickly received. The cleaning center received the report and was trying to figure out how to deal with it.

There were twenty-seven people on this trip. Twenty-seven people was not a small number. So many cleaners were talents from the cleaning center.

Huo Wenxi frowned. Zhu Ning and Xu Meng had lost contact together? He had just started their investigation mission.

She looked at Zhuang Lin and asked, "Who is the person in charge of the mission?"

Fang Ying: "It is a very ordinary task. There is no ministerial-level intervention. The person in charge is Haibo from the task center."

This is the normal configuration for regular tasks. Like the last mechanical aquarium, it was a rare case. Xuanqing didn’t have that much free time to stare at it every day.

Huo Wenxi: "The whole team has lost contact?"

Fang Ying put down the document in his hand, "Yes, everyone including the garrisoned troops has lost contact. The rule outside the first-level protective wall is that if something goes wrong, no one can participate in the rescue. They must rely solely on self-rescue. Similar situations have happened before."

The environment outside the wall is too complex, even artificial intelligence cannot calculate it. Once you enter outside the wall, it is equivalent to triggering a random field, and you will not be surprised to encounter anything.

Prometheus compiled a table of previous employee mortality rates, and Fang Ying felt that he had to find Huo Wenxi.

Huo Wenxi put away the documents on the desktop, and Fang Ying spread them out. "Prometheus has done a simple screening. We may need your help here. This is all employee information."

Fang Ying had detailed information on the entire team, and Prometheus even called up their social accounts for cross-comparison, as well as surveillance videos of them entering and exiting public places.

Prometheus couldn't find any doubts. These people were all innocent. It seemed that Zhu Ning was unlucky and accidentally stepped on the mortality rate.

Therefore, professionals like Huo Wenxi need to intervene.

Huo Wenxi instinctively felt that something was wrong. She lit a cigarette and looked at the information in front of her carefully.

The information prepared by Prometheus is too detailed. At first glance, the information seems very complicated. Each person's personal information starts at thirty pages.

Huo Wenxi held a cigarette and read the information very quickly. She browsed page after page, her eyes like a scanner.

The more anxious he was, the less he could panic. Fang Ying could only wait beside Huo Wenxi while he was reading the information.

For a while, there was only the sound of turning pages in the office.

Suddenly, Huo Wenxi's movements stopped. She had put down the page of information, and then went back.

She put half of her cigarette in the ashtray and pulled out one of the documents. Fang Ying looked at it carefully. The document showed that the person's name was Jiang Ping.

A third-class citizen, he is twenty years old, a replicator, and has no parents. He was raised by a mechanical mother.

He was stationed outside the wall all year round. He joined the garrison at the age of fifteen and had his own house in the east of the city.

Because of federal subsidies, his consumption was not high, so Prometheus found his only hobby in playing games.

It's unremarkable, there's nothing wrong with it from any angle.

Fang Ying: "Is there something abnormal about him?"

Huo Wenxi: "It should be."

Huo Wenxi was a little unsure. She noticed that the effect this time was very weak, but her instinct told her that there was something wrong with this person.

Fang Ying couldn't see anything strange at all, Huo Wenxi said: "Zhuang Lin, 7th floor, Building 3, Bailing Community."

Huo Wenxi reported a list of addresses.

Prometheus was a blanket screening, and the anomaly team was a precise dig. Zhuang Lin nodded to Fang Ying, and then his whole body suddenly swayed. Fang Ying only saw a shadow flashing in front of his eyes, and Zhuang Lin had disappeared.

Zhuang Lin is Huo Wenxi's assistant, Huo Wenxi is responsible for detecting anomalies, and Zhuang Lin is responsible for collecting evidence.

It should have been one of his superpowers just now.

Huo Wenxi lit another cigarette and said, "Just wait."

The investigation mission had to wait, Fang Ying had known it for a long time, but Huo Wenxi didn't let her go, as if she just wandered around here at will.

Huo Wenxi placed her hand on the table, and she kept staring at a photo, which was a photo of a very shy little boy.

They stipulated that the information must be updated in a timely manner and photos must be taken again after each mission, so what Huo Wenxi saw was the latest.

Jiang Ping's eyes in the photo are very strange, somewhat peaceful, and more importantly... there seems to be a trace of kindness.

It's like another creature is looking through the photo, and you are not the same kind of people.

What a strange expression.

About fifteen minutes later, Zhuang Lin delivered the news, "It's nothing special, it's just an ordinary home."

Zhuang Lin has entered Jiang Ping's home. This home is clean and tidy. Due to professional habits, the layout is very obsessive-compulsive. The only entertainment is a game console.

The survival game owned by Chuangshi Technology has been very popular recently. Because of its ultra-high simulation level, many people play it. If Jiang Ping relaxes and plays the game during his vacation, it is nothing.

Zhuang Lin walked carefully around Jiang Ping's house, "Team leader, are you looking for the wrong one?"

Huo Wenxi: "No."

Zhuang Lin could only search again. He looked through every book in Jiang Ping's house and found that it was easy to hide something in the books.

Jiang Ping's family didn't have many books, so they quickly read through them. Zhuang Lin read them one by one as usual, and suddenly a piece of paper fell to the ground.

Zhuang Lin frowned and picked up the note. There was only one simple sentence on it: "I really want to die."

…

Zhu Ning was swallowed by something.

The huge bite force crushed her body, and she felt a little short of breath.

Surrounded by mucus, she entered the mouth of a monster. This bug was not afraid of fire, or in other words, the form Zhu Ning saw was that it had been burned by fire.

Its evolution method is more terrifying than Zhu Ning imagined, and it does not have the traditional weaknesses of insects.

Zhu Ning tried to use liquid control, but she was not sure of the effect. She could crush Gao Zijian's heart, but could she escape by crushing the bug?

None of the system props and talents she currently possesses are suitable for this scenario.

snap——

Zhu Ning's body sank, and the insect spat her out.

The helmet was covered in mucus, and Zhu Ning took a moment to see clearly where he was. It was still the familiar large locust tree, which had been burned to the point that it had broken apart from the middle door, with sparks coming out of it.

There was no sunset this time, and the sunset hanging on the horizon finally dissipated. It was just nightfall, and the sky was bright and dark, but there was still a little dark blue light.

She looked back and saw that the deserted village had turned into a piece of scorched earth, the houses on both sides were burnt marks, and scattered sparks were scattered on the dark ruins.

Mars seems to be alive, they are like pollution spores that flicker in and out with the wind.

There is actually a sense of beauty here after the ruins, where all traces of human beings have been covered up.

The third world.

In other words, this is the real world, the real desert village, and what they saw before was all an illusion.

Zhu Ning could hear the breathing behind him, and a huge creature was right in front of him. It was a... burned insect.

Because it had been injured, its fuzzy flesh and blood had re-fused, causing it to look less like a bug and more like a monster covered with tentacles.

The surface of its skin is carbonized, and when it breathes, fire will rise and fall inside.

Shengxin didn't burn it to death with fire, but instead gave it a layer of armor?

A crimson tentacle was wrapped around Zhu Ning's neck, and his back was pressed against the large black locust tree. This tree had a very strong vitality. Even after being burned like this, it was still so strong.

Countdown to nine minutes.

There are no system props available, guns are useless, there are no reliable teammates, and no one will come to rescue.

The other party is a creature countless times larger than you, far beyond your understanding. It is different from the pollutants you have come into contact with before. It is bred by nature.

All feasible plans have failed, a place of true despair.

Chongzi looked down at her from a high position, and Zhu Ning watched helplessly as she melted into another face in front of him.

He has a shy appearance, his hair is very soft, hanging limply against his forehead, his eyes are very shy, and he always lowers his head first when looking at people.

Jiang Ping's face.

Then came the second one, Old Man Wu's face appeared below, Old Zhang's face, A Fen's face, Old Du's face, including Sheng Xin's face.

Cui Kai, Xiao Yilei, and people Zhu Ning didn't know at all.
To be continued...