Even if the cleaning center dispatches at the fastest speed, it will still take at least ten minutes on the road, but they have dispatched an aerial mechanical monitoring device.

Monitoring machines are spread throughout District 103, lying in every corner of the city like an eight-legged spider. Once large-scale urban pollution occurs, the monitoring machines will act at the same time and can provide feedback on the situation in the entire District 103 as quickly as possible.

The surveillance machine closest to the ant nest is the hive, which usually perches on top of a telephone pole or on the top floor of a building, blending in with all backgrounds.

At this time, under unified orders to take off, nearby residents realized that there were surveillance planes lurking around them. Ten surveillance planes had already entered the ant nest.

The surveillance machines traveled through the complex interior of the ant nest. Since they didn’t know exactly where the problem was, ten surveillance machines were scattered across six areas of the ant nest to search, and then the pictures were sent back to the technical department of the cleaning center.

"This is really weird." The technician in charge of the control said while looking at the image.

Because of the strange structure of the ant nest, the depressing corridors, and the lack of internal communication, even technological products can easily get lost in it.

There were no lights in the ant nest, and the video feed they saw here was green. They saw no one along the way, and they had no idea why there were abnormal data.

There were some signs of human activity in the corridor, with several black pill boxes and syringes scattered, as if someone had taken drugs here.

"Who do you think lives here?" the technician asked.

"I heard it was a defective product nearby. I had no place to live, so I came in and found an empty house to live in."

"Isn't there serious metal pollution here?" another technician asked.

"It's better than sleeping on the street. Wait, there seems to be something going on here."

One of the surveillance machines was responsible for buildings between 30 and 40. It had just patrolled the 36th floor when it suddenly heard a rustling sound.

Rustling——

"Did you hear that?" The technician stopped chatting and held his breath to listen to the sound. Now that technology has developed, the radio device can accurately capture the sound at the scene. Even if you are not at the scene, you will feel like you are there.

The strange rustling noises were mixed with the sound of electricity. They captured the audio, amplified the sound, and listened back and forth over and over again.

Rustling——

Chi la chi la——

"What is this sound?"

"A bit..." the technician said uncertainly: "A bit like a bug?"

Much like bugs, in an old house that has been in disrepair, any sound will be amplified. Bugs shaking their densely packed feet and climbing on the ceiling will leave similar noises.

"H-how do I hear people's voices?"

The audio was very messy, but the technician always felt that there was a human voice mixed in. Someone was talking?

Is there anyone still asking for help?

The technician controlled the machine while moving closer to the screen. This is completely a human instinct reaction. When you can't hear a specific sound, you always feel that you can hear it more clearly if you get closer.

The technician's face was about to lie on the screen. Suddenly, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a black face suddenly appear on the screen.

The technician's body stiffened, and a cold sweat broke out on his back. He was completely frozen.

The face on the screen instantly filled his sight. It was a blurry face with only two black holes where the eyes were, and the edges of the black shadow were struggling, like thick black blood.

The other party was hanging upside down from the ceiling, staring at the surveillance camera with a pair of empty eyes.

I don't know if it was the technician's illusion, but he always felt that this black figure could be seen through the screen and directly see his own eyes.

Even though he knew that this was impossible, they were far apart, and he was behind the logistics force, and there was no way he could be seen through an electronic screen.

But he felt inexplicably at that time that the other party was looking at him.

He looked over.

He saw me.

There were only these two sentences in his mind, and he couldn't even look away. His face was pressed against the screen and he couldn't move. He was like an ant locked by a bird of prey.

"Damn!" The colleague next to him reacted. He did not look directly at the black shadow on the screen. He only saw a foreign object inside and immediately transmitted it to the leader of the abnormal event investigation team.

"What is this? Pollutants? But no obvious increase in pollution concentration has been detected." He was typing on the keyboard with both hands, completing the work at hand, not paying attention to the people next to him.

When he uploaded pictures to report the situation at the scene and wanted to continue investigating again, he realized that his colleague was a little strange.

"Hello? What's wrong with you?" He pushed his colleague, but didn't push him.

I only saw that his colleague's eyes were a little distracted, his whole person looked very dull, and then he showed a silly smile.

"Hey hey hey——"

The technician had goosebumps all over his body. To be honest, compared to the black figure on the screen, his colleague frightened him more.

"You, what are you laughing at?"

The colleague didn't reply to him, and the smile seemed to be frozen on his face.

"Are you mentally polluted?" The technician waved his hand in front of his eyes, but none of his colleagues responded.

He touched his colleague's nose with trembling hands, but he couldn't feel his breath.

His colleague was laughing, but he was not breathing. He only took in a breath and couldn't spit it out. If he continued like this, he would suffocate to death.

He immediately pressed the help button, "Help! There is an abnormal situation in the logistics and technical department. It is suspected of being mentally contaminated. Repeatedly and abnormally..."

…

Zhu Ning and Pei Shu reached a cooperation.

They had only known each other for ten minutes, and then they had to work together for no apparent reason. Liu Niannian was the only acquaintance among them, and his biggest role was that of a mediator.

Otherwise, Pei Shu was afraid that he would be tempted to beat someone up.

The three-person team retreated all the way. The good news was that Zhu Ning's idea was surprisingly good.

The entire interior of the ant nest is made of metal, and Zhu Ning's talent for metal manipulation is brought into full play here, especially the structure of the ant nest's aerial corridor. Cutting off the head and tail is a natural cage.

Liu Niannian acted as a bait and used firepower to drive away the alien species. Pei Shu set fire and Zhu Ning blocked the two exits in the corridor. The metal itself conducts heat. Once successful, the screams of the alien species will be heard from inside the cage once it is closed.

Their screams were very strange, very similar to human voices, which gave Zhu Ning the illusion that what he was killing was not a alien species, but a living person.

Liu Niannian may not have done this much before, so he was a little stunned when he heard it for the first time.

Zhu Ning and Pei Shu both frowned. Even if you know that the other person is a monster, when their screams are too human-like, it will naturally arouse people's disgust.

It's not the disgust towards the monster, but the disgust towards myself.

They used this plan to successfully seal off the dental office, and then evacuated the corridors of Buildings 35 and 36. It seemed like everything went smoothly.

Even a little too smooth.

Liu Niannian was more considerate and asked: "Are you okay?"

Zhu Ning was not wearing a helmet, so her nosebleed was particularly noticeable. She was overusing her power.

"It's okay." Zhu Ning wiped his nose and felt the wet blood on his hand.

She feels that if she continues to use it like this, she will die sooner or later. She must find a way to reduce her dependence on the system.

Zhu Ning took the lead. According to the rough plan she and Pei Shu made, they should walk down from Building 36 and find each other after reaching the ground successfully.

They are currently on the 35th floor of Building 36. Going down one floor at a time, they can reach the ground in four minutes at the fastest possible speed.

But Zhu Ning stopped.

"What's wrong?" Liu Niannian asked from behind.

"Shh-" Zhu Ning stopped the person behind him, "Listen."

Liu Niannian had been rescued by Zhu Ning and trusted Zhu Ning's ability. He stopped when he heard this and really started to listen carefully.

Rustling——

There was a strange sound coming from the dark safety passage. They had heard this sound before, so they shouldn't find it strange, but this sound was a little weirder than before.

It seemed like... there was an echo, mixed with the sound of people talking.

Although she couldn't hear clearly, her intuition told her that it must be someone talking.

Zhu Ning is always on guard against unknown dangers. Even though she can use her metal manipulation talent unscrupulously here, she can't help but be a little scared at this time.

There was obviously only the last stretch of the road left, and they could leave the anthill after walking up the stairs.

Zhu Ning was on alert, moving little by little with the people behind him. Pei Shu was the rearguard, and Liu Niannian was caught in the middle. Their speed suddenly slowed down and they began to move slowly down.

34th floor, 33rd floor, 32nd floor...

Walking down one level after another, there is no difference on each level, just the same emergency passage stairs.

Moreover, there are no pollution sources here, so there will be no mental loss. Zhu Ning successfully walked up like this, and now he has to go down slowly.

19th floor, 18th floor, 17th floor...

The floors are gradually lowering, but there is still no risk.

Zhu Ning, all the plants and trees are soldiers?

The danger warning didn't go off either, so there was probably no problem at all.

A person cannot stay tense all the time. One must relax. Being tense all the time will cause some stress reactions.

But her sixth sense kept telling her to leave immediately, so she quickened her pace. When she reached the 13th floor, Zhu Ning had already relaxed a little. She had just breathed a sigh of relief, but before she could fully breathe, she was suddenly stunned.
To be continued...