Zhao Yijiu woke up from the clinic. It was already dawn outside. The pale sky was blue covered with layers of clouds and mud, and the sun could not be seen.
He only slept for three hours, from five o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock in the morning. This was already a very good sleep quality since he entered the simulation. He had already resisted the infection caused by the surrounding factors once, so the safety factor was good.
And for some reason, he had a feeling that something good would happen today.
This is a feeling that he has never experienced before. It is mysterious and mysterious. Just like he listens to his brother saying "it is not a good time to travel today" and "it is best not to go to the west today" every day, he has always been curious about how this is done.
.
He pulled off the jacket covering his body and touched his heart. He didn't feel any difference. He could only attribute it to his mysterious sixth sense.
He casually smoothed his slightly upturned hair, washed his face at the sink in the small clinic, put on a hair tie, then packed his bags and prepared to leave.
He has to go see how the third phase of the mission is done today.
Speaking of this third phase of the mission, literally it exuded unabashed malice. The mission gave him two options. One was to be infected himself, which meant that he had to actively fail when experiencing mental pollution and become
A corpse in reserve with chaotic thinking and ready to commit suicide.
Another option is to kill ten Defilers.
Zhao Yijiu: "..."
There are an indefinite number of deducers lurking in the city now. According to his experience, the deducers who choose to be in the city all have the same task.
Almost everyone will choose the second option and compete for the quota to kill the infected.
But at the same time, are there really that many infected people in the city?
Infected people refer to dying people who have not been able to resist the pollution, have been successfully corroded by the wraith factors and transformed from an invisible state to a normal state. They are usually not numb, but have been given various abilities by mental pollution.
Confused thoughts, such as how to be burned to death in a high-profile way, how to let more people appreciate his jumping performance...
Such a person can no longer be called a human being.
Zhao Yijiu didn't feel embarrassed about sending them back to the west early. It was true that he had never killed anyone before, but he was not a very empathetic person. Killing the polluters who had been polluted would at most make them angry.
Able to realize their own abnormal thoughts.
The only difficulty in this mission is the competition.
Because the system reminded you at the beginning that the tasks in each stage must be completed. If you fail, you will face extremely terrifying punishments.
No one wants to accept unknown dangers. Once the first two stages of tasks are completed, starting from the third stage, the deducers must race against time and kill a polluter as soon as they see it. Otherwise, they will have to wait for the polluter to run away.
It has become someone else's task quota.
He silently arranged the belongings and equipment on his body. In order to make it easier to access, he did not put it into the persona, but carried it with him.
At this moment, he heard the sound of trucks driving on the usually quiet street. Zhao Yijiu immediately squatted down so that he was hidden behind the pillar, leaving only one eye exposed for sight.
On the deserted street, a truck with half-open doors was driving steadily past. The driver's seat and passenger's windows were both open, revealing two young faces.
One of the young people is driving, and the other is tinkering with something with a test device. When they reach a certain location, the person holding the test device will raise his head and shout towards the street that does not look like anyone would be afraid to avoid:
"This is Base Team 51! All uninfected are welcome to return to the base with us!"
After shouting, the truck bumped over the gravel on the road and drove away into the distance, leaving behind an unremarkable figure.
This is the second time Zhao Yijiu has seen this truck in the city. The last time was seven days ago. The same two people were in the driver's seat. They also used this process to attract uninfected people. It was just that the last time Zhao Yijiu returned the truck.
I felt wary of its existence and purpose, but this time I felt much calmer.
He learned about the existence of the cleanup team from Carlos, and learned that the base's cleanup team has at least two categories, one is to rescue survivors, and the other is to clean up the Wraith Virus.
However, he had just received the news that Actor had joined the cleanup team a few hours ago, and he thought that the people in the truck would become Actors this time to find other Deducers, but it turned out not to be the case.
Could it be that the actor is not joining the team searching for survivors, but the team cleaning up the virus?
Zhao Yijiu stood up from behind the cover, squinted his eyes and stared at the truck's exhaust, feeling a little concerned.
He carried a map of the city on his back. Based on the direction of the truck, he could tell that the truck had already made a large circle in the city. As soon as the inspection of this area was completed, the truck would drive to the low hills in the suburbs and return to the base to resume operations.
Zhao Yijiu told himself that since there were no actors, this was just an ordinary inspection and there was no need to pay too much attention. What he should do now was compete with others for task progress.
Withdrawing his gaze, he turned around and disappeared among the tall buildings.
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"Ruru, are you sure this is here?"
Just after the sound of the truck completely disappeared, two people emerged from under a high-end office building in the city center, a man and a woman. The man was very thin and wore a hideous leather mask that imitated a ghost face. The woman was small and tall.
Wearing a round head.
I saw the girl walking in front, holding a jingling string of copper coins in her hand, and the boy followed suit, his obedient behavior completely different from the cold feeling radiating from his body.
When they passed through the bustling commercial street, bypassed the high-end office buildings, and finally stopped at the entrance of an alley where nearby merchants took out garbage, the boy couldn't help but ask questions.
Zhao Ruru squatted down on the spot and scattered a handful of copper coins on the ground. After observing for a while, he clapped his hands and said in a relaxed tone: "Xu Shu, I can't do anything else. I can do divination and find people. Can you trust me in this major?"
person?"
"So, is the person really inside?" Xu Shu looked towards the alley. Just standing at the entrance of the alley, the smell hit his face when the wind blew, "What is this infected person planning to do, smoke himself to death?"
"You have to allow people to have different hobbies." Zhao Ruru shrugged, picked up the copper coins, wiped them clean lovingly, and raised his chin at Xu Shu, "The goal is inside, but the hexagram shows that there will be twists and turns. The result is undecided. We
It’s better not to waste time.”
At the same time, Zhao Yijiu, who was moving quickly through the shadows under the slope of the high-rise building, also came closer because he felt the breath of the infected person here.
He is at the other end of the garbage alley.
These smells and dirt didn't make Zhao Yijiu frown. He didn't even hesitate, and walked calmly into the alley with a stopper.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
There is one more update to be made during the day tomorrow. I want to go to bed early today.