Pollution throughout the territory

"Sorry, I didn't know you couldn't eat spicy food."

Seeing Liu Xiuxiu gasping for breath from the heat and her eyes dim with tears, Huang Qiuyuan smiled sheepishly.

Xia Ren handed the thermos cup back to him after taking a sip, but the other party didn't care. He wiped the edge of the cup with his hand, closed it, and took it back into his hand.

"Let me meet you. My name is Huang Qiuyuan. I just moved upstairs to you."

He stretched out his hand to Liu Xiuxiu.

Liu Xiuxiu glanced at Xia Ren and extended her hand.

"My name is Liu Xiuxiu."

"What a pretty little girl." Huang Qiuyuan praised.

Liu Xiuxiu's face suddenly stiffened: "I'm a man."

Huang Qiuyuan was stunned for a moment, then laughed:

"I'm really sorry. I have to go to work, so I won't disturb you. See you next time."

Watching his back disappear at the corner of the corridor, Liu Xiuxiu turned her head and asked Xia Ren doubtfully: "When did he move here? Did you know him before?"

Xia Ren thought of the two doors he saw last night, obviously absent-mindedly, and said, "It seems like I just moved here less than a day ago, and I'm not very familiar with them either."

Liu Xiuxiu said oh, and then asked: "By the way, why are you running out in such a hurry? Is there anything in the house?"

After his reminder, Xia Ren remembered that there was an old seal worth 500 achievement points thrown inside.

One advantage of redeeming items from the system store is that they can be taken back at any time. It was so disgusting just now that he actually forgot about it and threw it away.

Qin Yun was unwilling to go in again, Xia Ren could only open the door, endured the discomfort of both body and mind, covered his nose and ran back, found the old seal beside the sofa, and put it back into the system.

Almost instantly, the nauseating feeling disappeared, and he was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

"come in."

he shouted toward the door.

Qin Yun cautiously stuck her head out and walked in after finding that she was no longer sick.

Liu Xiuxiu had been paying attention to Xia Ren's actions because of curiosity. He had a sharp eye and took advantage of that fleeting opportunity to see the pattern engraved on the old seal and was shocked.

"Why do you have the old seal?"

You must know that whether it is a 'ghost' or a contained object, there will be inexplicable resistance to the pattern of a pentagram with an eye in the middle, so almost everything linked to the foundation will be engraved with that pattern using special materials.

"Old seal?"

Qin Yun muttered on the side.

Is that the name of the thing that makes me extremely disgusted?

"You also call it the old seal?"

Xia Ren originally thought that these things were named differently by each force, just like the system calls contaminated people infected and aberrant, while the Foundation calls them 'ghosts'.

"Well, it has quite a lot of uses." Liu Xiuxiu replied.

Xia Ren thought of the support staff in the alley. The black cloaks they wore had this pattern on the back.

"So you ran out just now because of the old seal?"

Liu Xiuxiu suddenly thought about it, and then became confused: "But the pure mark has no effect. It must be combined with the dark water to exert the effect of the old seal. Do you have the dark water?"

This was a good opportunity to learn about the system and the foundation. Xia Ren recalled the green liquid in Zhu Youqian's necklace and directly exchanged it for a bottle of first-level anti-pollution liquid and took it out.

"Is it this one?"

Liu Xiuxiu was shocked from ear to ear: "Are you still a 'ghost'? Why do you even have this?"

Dark water can cause huge damage to 'ghosts', and other 'ghosts' are afraid to avoid it, but he still carries it with him? And it seems that the purity is not low, it must have been refined.

But then I thought about it, when they first met, I had shot him with a water gun filled with ghost water, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

"What is hell water?"

Xia Ren asked.

Regarding this question, Liu Xiuxiu hesitated.

However, thinking about the arrangements made by the Foundation for him last night, there seemed to be no need to hide it from Xia Ren, so he explained: "The underworld water is a special spring water obtained by the Foundation through secret methods. The containment objects and 'ghosts' we found , and in the end, they have to slowly destroy them with Nether Water, which is also the only thing known to be able to resist pollution."

"You also know about pollution?"

This time it was Xia Ren's turn to be surprised.

The two looked at each other, and Liu Xiuxiu felt that there was a reason for the foundation's ambiguous attitude towards him. This guy didn't seem to be an ordinary 'ghost'.

They began to exchange information about their doubts, while Qin Yun listened.

Through comparison, Xia Ren learned that, except for the classification of infected bodies, the Foundation's understanding of contamination was basically consistent with what the system told him.

"Don't call me 'ghost' anymore."

Xia Ren suggested that he had some resistance to the word ghost.

"What's that called?"

Liu Xiuxiu was puzzled.

Xia Ren explained to him the concepts of infected bodies and aberrant bodies.

"This division is much more detailed than the foundation's levels."

After listening to this, Liu Xiuxiu frowned and thought for a long time, and suddenly realized a serious problem.

The knowledge I just heard is beyond the bounds. This is not what a D-class personnel like me should master!

"It's over, I won't be contaminated by this..."

It is not uncommon in the Foundation for D-class personnel to become contaminated because they leapfrogged their hierarchy to learn deeper secrets. Once the personnel is found to be contaminated, the Foundation will impose a month-long quarantine on the individual and correct them. Take cognitive testing.

If during the cognitive test, it is found that the person's rationality deviates from the scope of human beings, even just a little bit, he will be executed on the spot!

Especially since he has been in contact with Xia Ren and the others for such a long time, even with the protection of the old seal left by his father, this is still a high-risk behavior.

The two of them were so much like humans that they actually ignored this.

Liu Xiuxiu felt her hands and feet were cold.

"I am dead……"

"ah?"

His words shocked Qin Yun.

Then Liu Xiuxiu told them her worries as if she had given up on herself.

I originally thought that Xia Ren would take this opportunity to laugh at him like before, but I didn't expect that he would look serious.

This is indeed a serious question.

If Liu Xiuxiu was contaminated by staying with them, then so would everyone else.

Xia Ren doesn't want to become a source of pollution.

He pondered for a moment and asked: "I have a way to tell whether you are contaminated, but the process may be a little difficult to accept. Are you willing to let me try?"

Liu Xiuxiu hesitated and nodded repeatedly.

Testing here is better than going back to quarantine.

Then, he saw Xia Ren stretch out that long and thick tentacle and roll it towards him.

Liu Xiuxiu took a step back.

Couldn't escape.

He watched the tentacle penetrate his body from his forehead, his eyes widened, his whole body trembled, and he did not dare to move.

"Xia Ren..."

Qin Yun screamed subconsciously.

Xia Ren explained: "It'll be fine in a while, I'm not harming him."

Qin Yun was relieved.

Liu Xiuxiu didn't feel anything physically, her tentacles seemed like non-existent shadows, without any touch, but mentally, it was really a huge torment.

After all, anyone who sees such a big thing inserted would probably tremble.

Soon, Xia Ren put away his tentacles and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's fine, not contaminated."

His pollution value is zero, safe.

"Is this what you call a little uncomfortable?"

Liu Xiuxiu was limp and about to cry.

It really scared him to death just now.

"correct."

Xia Ren thought of something and said, "You should have come back before, so do you know what happened on the sixth floor?"

The two doors and the sound of children running on the ceiling last night still bothered him.

Liu Xiuxiu was in shock and reluctantly recalled: "It seems that no one has ever mentioned anything about the sixth floor."

Xia Ren touched his chin, and after a while, he said to Qin Yun, "You stay at home first."

Then he turned to Liu Xiuxiu and said, "You should have the tools to unlock the door, right? Follow me up there to see what's there."