One hundred and ninety-two. Everyone who was infected
Pollutants are also called sources of infection, and source of infection is a more advanced term - it means difficult to find, difficult to detect, and difficult to combat.
Just like ghosts, wraiths, and evil spirits are often collectively referred to as ghosts, contaminants and sources of infection are also collectively referred to as contaminants, and are only subdivided when necessary.
Pollutants usually have a source, which may be an object, a corpse, a book, or a piece of text. The infection methods are also different. It may be infected after contact, infection after contact, or infection after seeing.
The forbidden ability and content of the pollutant will distort all beings infected by it, which may be the mind or the body. This infection generally has the negative effect of reducing the sanity value.
This fluctuation will be captured and alerted by the pollutant detector, which is a common method used by exorcists to detect pollutants.
But there are also some pollutants that do not produce any fluctuations. They are like rats at the bottom of a cargo ship, following the ship to the shore and quietly sneaking into human gathering places without anyone noticing.
Exorcists don't have a good way to deal with this kind of pollutants. The way they deal with them is often: a group of people in a certain area go crazy/dead/sick - suspect the spread of pollutants - send investigators to investigate - investigate
The member is mad/dead/sick - it is confirmed that contaminants are spreading in the area - and the night watchman appears to solve the problem.
Fortunately, there are not too many contaminants, and their infection speed is also limited. For example, if the infection is a book, only those who read it will be mentally distorted by the contents, which means that the infection will only be within a limited range.
spread.
But there are also extremely scary pollutants, or sources of infection.
They are like diseases, even more desperate and frightening than diseases. Perhaps if you get close to it and see it, you will be infected by it, and other people who get close and see people infected by it will also be infected.
For example, the "door" on Lu Li's body.
After Pulis finished telling the secret about pollutants, he quietly watched Lu Li lower his head and think. But after waiting for a while, he saw Lu Li turning his head and paying attention to the group of ordinary people at the end of the store.
After Lu Li and others came back, they were silent for a while, but now they were back to normal, chatting in low voices. Except for one child and two ladies who didn't interrupt, the relationship between the others seemed to be good.
Pulis observed the expressions of those people and Lu Li, and suddenly saw Lu Li picking up paper and pen from the table and writing Petra's name on it, followed by the number 1.
On the line below he wrote the owner of the café and the number 2 and the number 3 for 3 Elm Street.
The remaining four were written by Lu Li on the last line.
Waiting for Lu Li to stop writing, Pulis looked away from the paper and asked, "You seem to have an idea."
"I have some ideas." Lu Li capped his pen and drew the pen towards Petra's name: "The Petra incident is the first one, at least the first one in this city. It can be regarded as the source."
The pen slid down and landed on the name of the cafe owner. After a short pause, it landed on 3 Elm Street: "The cafe incident and the 3 Elm Street incident are the second and third incidents, less than an hour apart, and
They were one week apart from the Petra incident and could be considered infections."
The pen moved to the third line: "The consciousness of evil objects in the remaining four events has not yet appeared, and can be regarded as the second batch of infections."
The pen moved away and the pen cap was removed. Lu Li drew a circle around the three lines of names, including them, and his calm voice sounded in front of the window: "The awakening of the evil consciousness will take about a week. If you want to know about the contaminants,
As for the cause of the spread, we should investigate the Petra incident and the cafe and 3 Elm Street incidents."
"These three evil creatures have awakened and we can't get in," Pulis said.
"There may not necessarily be clues in the house." Lu Li said, his dark eyes falling on the civilians. "The cafe owner seems to know everyone, which means he can contact everyone."
"So just ask him if these people have been to his cafe in the past week and everything will be clear."
"I'll go." Matthew, who was standing behind Pulis and listened to the whole content, turned his head and swung his ponytail.
"No, I'll ask." Pulis held her down and walked towards the ordinary people.
Upon noticing that Pulis was approaching, those murmurs of conversation suddenly disappeared.
A few minutes later, Pulis returned to the window with the answer, his expression not very good: "Your guess is right, they have been to the cafe this week, and they are regular customers there. What is more consistent is that Pei
Petra would come to the café for tea in the morning, and the owner of 3 Elm Street would often come to the café about an hour apart from Petra.”
Lu Li lowered his head and drew a few straight lines between those names - Petra connected the cafe owner and No. 3 Elm Street, and the cafe owner connected everyone in the third row.
Petra infects two people in the second row, and the cafe owner infects everyone.
Pulis' face became increasingly ugly, with an unbearable heaviness: "We have all been in contact with him..."
This means that everyone present, including Lu Li, has been infected by the cafe owner.
A suffocating breath suddenly filled the void next to Lu Li.
Pulis and Matthew, who were closest to Lu Li, froze.
"Anna, don't worry." Lu Li whispered to comfort Anna and explained, "But the infected person may not be a human being. I didn't sense any abnormalities in him or us."
The cold atmosphere gradually faded away. Pulis suppressed his shocked expression and quickly said to Matthew: "Tell the base that an infectious agent was found here. Block off Elm Street to prevent anyone from leaving, and avoid communicating with the people inside."
After finishing speaking, he looked at Lu Li and said, "You can do whatever you want next. Our Team 78 will fully cooperate with you."
He didn't want the entire team to be wiped out.
Lu Li nodded: "Call the cafe owner to come over."
The cafe owner was quickly brought to the window. Pulis moved his chair towards Lu Li. Suddenly he remembered his "assistant" and sat on the other side instead of next to him.
The cafe owner sat down where Pulis had been.
"Investigating... Mr. Police Officer," the boss said cautiously.
Lu Li ignored the politeness and asked directly: "Tell me about Petra."
"What do you want to know?"
"Everything about her recent visit to your cafe."
"She...she doesn't like to talk very much. Every time she comes over with a cup and asks for a cup of tea, she will sit by the window and look at the scenery. Sometimes her former students will come to see her, say a few words and then leave...I
I don’t know what they are talking about. I usually stay in Petra for one or two hours and then leave. I come here every morning, and the rest... I don’t know.” The boss said with difficulty. He really couldn’t recall too many details.
details.
But Lu Li still noticed the key content: "You just said 'cup'."
The cafe owner was stunned for a moment: "...Yes, Petra has a set of cups, and she likes to use them to drink tea."