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Chapter 8
Lu Yan couldn’t remember the last time he was chased.
It was probably when he participated in the sports meet when he was a student.
He had a good physique and ran very fast. At that time, he was always followed by seven or eight students.
Little did he know that after all these years, he would once again experience that thrilling sensation.
Lu Yan quickly glanced back. He saw Pollutants rushing over from all directions. It didn’t look safe anywhere.
He steeled himself and chose the route closest to his destination.
[You are not a Pollutant but you live in symbiosis with the Kingfish. As a result, your blood is extremely alluring to these parasitic fish Pollutants.]
He could tell.
The mutants nearby were all charging towards him. Although there weren’t a large number of them, their strange and disgusting appearance was enough to make one nauseous.
Lu Yan’s adrenaline surged, “Shouldn’t you have told me about this earlier?”
The system retorted with gusto: [How could I be blamed for this? If not for your low spiritual power threshold, I wouldn’t be this forgetful either! Turn left, there is an SUV with car keys inside. By the way, I suggest you take off your clothes.]
Because of the mucus on the Osta’s whiskers, Lu Yan’s arm was still bleeding nonstop. Crimson red blood soaked a large part of his sleeve.
The strong smell of blood could temporarily attract those mutants.
After turning left, there was not only an SUV, there were also a couple of aggressive mutants.
He tore off the bloodied part of his top and threw it out the car window.
If the bleeding didn’t stop, he could tear more off later. It was much more cost-effective than throwing the entire thing out.
Behind the car, a group of strange-looking Pollutants gathered around his clothes, fighting against each other. They even went as far as climbing over each other, like when rabid fans meet their idols at a meet-and-greet.
In the end, the three-metre-tall fish head brother successfully defeated the other weak Anurae. It swallowed the bloodstained fabric and continued to chase after Lu Fan by following his scent.
The SUV drifted to avoid an Anura charging at the car.
Lu Yan usually lived in the city, where it was typically very congested with traffic, so he liked to walk to and from work. As a result, he hardly drove a car after getting his driver’s license.
He didn’t expect that the next time he drove, it would be in a highly difficult situation like this. Fortunately, there was no one on the streets.
Pollutants continued to charge at the car. The metal above his head let out a teeth-aching screech. It was from the mutant’s nails.
After throwing off some of the low-level Pollutants, the forces chasing after Lu Yan’s car gradually dwindled in number.
Two Ostae, three Anurae. They were much bigger than the normal ones.
[Already reached the E-Grade Pollutant standard. Possesses basic intelligence.]
Lu Yan could smell a strong nauseating fishy odour.
This 7L engine SUV had reached its maximum speed but it was only slightly faster than these Pollutants.
The mutants which have evolved to possess basic intelligence were different. They even learned to spit sticky gastric acid onto the wheels, eroding away the rubber tyres.
[Do you feel as if time is extremely slow? Who would have thought that only six minutes had passed? The good news is that the people at the Pollution Disease Centre have noticed the anomaly and reinforcements will arrive soon.]
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Lu Yan could hardly see the road ahead. The SUV hit Pollutants one after another, the constant flow of mutants making him feel extremely uncomfortable.
All he could hear were the roars of the Pollutants.
But Lu Yan knew that the more it was like this, the calmer he should be. As such, every action he made was done with caution.
The sound of the tide once again sounded in Lu Yan’s ears. This was accompanied by the loud roar of helicopter propellers.
A row of dazzling searchlights shone onto the ground, attracting some of the mass.
Lin Sinan narrowed his eyes and shot down an Anura who had gotten onto Lu Yan’s car. Half of the Anura’s tongue was stuck inside, it was extremely disgusting.
“The target has been found. Lin One and Lin Two, go down to provide cover and bring the target back. Doctors, be on standby,” Although the target had been found, Lin Sinan didn’t dare relax. He shot down another two as he spoke, “This task is of highest priority.”
Thanks to the support from above, there was an improvement in Lu Yan’s difficult circumstances.
He took the opportunity to open the car door and jump out of the SUV that was leaking petrol. He climbed onto the roof of the car and waited to be rescued.
As the ladder got closer and closer, Lu Yan suddenly heard an excited shout next to him.
—– “I’m coming, I’m coming! Where is the healing type?”
The instant he heard that voice, a pair of hands picked Lu Yan up by his waist.
It was done so quickly, it was almost like a gust of wind.
Lin Sinan cursed from the helicopter, “Bai Qiushi! You fucking psychopath!!”
In just a few breaths, before Lu Yan could realise what was going on, Bai Qiushi’s feet had already landed on the rooftop of a shopping mall.
The Pollutants on the ground had lost their target. They let out an angry roar and circled around the mall while following the smell. Because the doors were closed, the Ostae could only helplessly roar in fury while the Anurae slowly climbed up the building.
Bai Qiushi looked down at Lu Yan and said with a smile, “Oh my, you are good-looking.”
He had a peculiar appearance. The most striking feature was his pair of silver eyes which had four pupils that constantly moved around. It was both eerie and beautiful.
Lu Yan, “Thank you. Can you put me down first?”
“No. I am here to protect you.” Bai Qiushi replied, “It’s not safe yet.”
After saying that, he stretched out a hand, looked coldly at the bottom of the building and said, “Don’t. Move.”
[Ability: Heavy Pressure]
This ability didn’t sit very high in the rankings, but combined with Bai Qiushi’s spiritual power threshold of almost 9000, it became something as terrifying as the grim reaper’s scythe when dealing with these low-level Pollutants.
Below, the Pollutants seemed to be hit by an invisible weight.
Regardless of size or type, these Pollutants were all crushed into pulp, blood splattering everywhere. Not a single one was spared.
Bai Qiushi put Lu Yan down and asked, “Wasn’t I handsome just now? Oh right, let me introduce myself. My name is Bai Qiushi.”
He revealed an extremely harmless smile.
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It was just that the canines exposed were a little too sharp, making him no better than those Pollutants.
But in Lu Yan’s mind, the system gave a more detailed introduction.
[Bai Qiushi, 172cm tall, that is why he wore a 6 cm insole…Oh, that’s not important.]
[Spiritual power threshold: 8700. Mutation degree: 42.]
[Abilities: Barrier, Teleportation, Heavy Pressure.]
Lu Yan shook his hand briefly, “Lu Yan.”
*
K City, Pollution Disease Prevention and Control Centre.
On the second day of the outbreak, Lu Yan had wanted to give this place a call but was stopped by the system. In the end, after twenty days of stumbling around, he came here on his own initiative.
The Pollution Disease Centre had specially arranged a small room for him to use to recuperate.
[Well, the good news is that although you haven’t awakened your second ability, they mistook you for a healing-type Enlightened. As there are too few cases of them, these people don’t know much about healing types.]
Lu Yan was taking a shower.
Because of the water being cut off, he had to use filtered rainwater that he had boiled in advance to wash up. It had been a long time since he had this luxury.
He asked, “You have been preventing me from contacting the Pollution Disease Centre and am wary of the Research Institute. Is there a reason for that?”
He wasn’t worried about the surveillance camera here because all his conversations with the system took place in his head.
The system was silent for a moment. It then replied: [The Enlighteneds don’t necessarily only have one ability. In addition to the ones they have awakened, one can also acquire them from external sources.]
[For the future of mankind, they would perform complicated surgeries to remove me and give me to someone more suitable.]
[But this kind of removal would cause irreversible damage to your brain, such as intellectual disability, brain atrophy or even brain death. Moreover, during the removal process, the host is required to be awake the entire time.]
[The Research Institute isn’t that simple. Some do it because of their lofty ideals, some only regard the pollution disease as a stepping stone. There are a lot of filthy matters going on in there.]
[Did you think that the pollution disease only appeared in the last decade or so? In fact, there had been precedents since the last century. Later, as people gradually awakened, there were always some foolish ordinary humans who thought they could control the Enlighteneds….]
[Also, as I said before, the evolution of Pollutants is much faster than that of the Enlighteneds. Nowadays, there are already many whose existence is close to a ‘God’, although they are collectively called ‘S-Grade Pollutants’ in the Research Institute’s files.]
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Lu Yan briefly cleaned his injuries, took a shower and blow-dried his hair.
The staff led him to an office.
Lin Sinan got up to greet him. He pulled out a chair and smiled warmly, “Dr. Lu, I didn’t expect for us to meet again.”
At the end of the conference table, Bai Qiushi had his feet up on the table. He spoke lazily, “Don’t try to get close to him. I was the one who saved him.”
“You are emotionally unstable. You should take your leave.” Lin Sinan pointed at the door.
“The person standing before you is the Vice Director of the Special Operations Division and the person in charge of Team 2. Is this the tone you should be using when talking to your superior?” Bai Qiushi was angry.
Bai Qiushi raised a brow, “Only 1?”
It was unbelievably low. It was hard to imagine that the young man with a calm expression standing before him was struggling against Pollutants just an hour ago.
Lu Yan withdrew his hand and asked calmly, “Does it mean something?”
“No. It’s a good reading. A threshold of 174. That’s not bad for someone who had recently awakened. Usually it would be around 150.”
Lu Yan was too embarrassed to tell him that his spiritual power threshold was actually 0 when he first awakened.
Lin Sinan’s gaze was scorching, “Dr. Lu, after you awakened, did you vaguely have a sense of your ability?”
[At the end of the last century, before his death, the head of the Research Institute, Qiao Yu, compiled a list of abilities, ranked according to strength. I, ‘Omniscience’, am ranked sixth…I don’t really understand this ranking. I feel that I should at least be ranked in the top three. After all, a purely healing type ability like ‘Heavenly Genesis’ was ranked first. Both humans and Pollutants share the same list of abilities.]
Lu Yan didn’t quite understand it either. It could be seen that intel is important in any situation. A chatty System like this wouldn’t be ranked sixth otherwise.
[There are currently only three people with healing type abilities in the world. Their abilities are respectively [Heavenly Genesis], [Revival] and [Integration]. The only remaining unknown healing ability is [Devour].]
[This is what you should pretend to be.]
“Are healing type Enlighteneds not afraid of having their ability taken?” Lu Yan asked.
[Removal of abilities isn’t always successful. Besides, not all the people in the Research Institute are bad. It would be a waste of energy explaining so I’ll leave it at that.]
After a brief exchange in his mind, Lu Yan raised his head and looked at the person in front of him
He thought for a long time and replied, “I just feel….a little hungry.”
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