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Chapter 11

Lin Sinan hurriedly nodded, “Yes, yes. Our Special Operations Division has very good benefits. Not only do you get five social insurances and housing fund, you also get a house when you join.”

Lu Yan, “I have one. An 800 square metre flat in the city centre with a market price of 13 million yuan.”

The spacious flat was compensation given to him after authorities took his father away. The housing prices weren’t as outrageous back then but it was still worth a few million.

“And family members enjoy high subsidies as well as special benefits.”

Lu Yan, “My parents are both dead and I’m an only child.”

“Children are given priority in enrolment to prestigious primary and secondary schools.”

“I’m gay. It is impossible for me to have children and I am against surrogacy.”

Lin Sinan, “……”

The way Lu Yan answered so earnestly, it reminded him of construction workers who liked to prove a point.

Lu Yan lightly coughed. He drank another glass of water, “How much is the monthly salary?”

Despite working for so long, this was probably the first time someone asked him about the monthly salary. He was a little at loss for a moment.

After all, for people like him, money was the least important.

Lin Sinan, “One hundred thousand? …That’s the base salary plus commission.”

Lu Yan did some calculations.

It was pretty good, much higher than his salary as a doctor. But the patients this time are much more dangerous so this salary was reasonable.

Lu Yan picked up the document and started to read through it.

Lin Sinan had brought over a formal contract, but perhaps it was because he was not from a military background, there weren’t many clauses. There were only two requirements: Reporting to the headquarters regularly and carrying out a mission every three months.

Once he joined the Pollution Disease Centre, Lu Yan would receive special medications on a regular basis, free access to information regarding the pollution disease, training at the headquarters and also support from organisations if he ever ran into any difficulties.

In short, in order to attract more people to this job where your life is constantly at risk, the benefits offered by the headquarters are quite generous.

[The Pollution Disease Prevention and Control Centre and the Research Institute are not the same organisation. If you want, joining them might be a good choice.]

After Lu Yan finished reading the contract, he signed his name in the lower left corner.

*

Under Lu Yan’s adamant request, Lin Sinan arranged for two staff members to escort Lu Yan home.

In just one night, the streets looked like it had just experienced a terrorist attack. Shattered glass and fallen street lights were littered all over the street, and occasionally blood and bodies could be seen. Some were human, some were Pollutants.

The Pollutants in K City could also be killed through physical attacks, so there were still many people in military uniforms busying about.

Lu Yan rolled the window down a little and looked at the world outside.

He had been indoors the entire time, not venturing out during the day. Seeing it in person was different from seeing it on the news.

Because of his enhanced senses, Lu Yan could even see the tear streaks on an officer’s face, who was collecting the bodies of his comrades.

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Blood, tears and dirt flowed down together in silent grief.

[How could a few dozen Enlighteneds as well as thirty thousand or so military officers, save all three million people in K City? Very clearly, because of the commotion earlier, some of the humans hiding in their homes were dragged out and eaten by the angry Pollutants. Nom, nom.]

The system’s aloof tone made Lu Yan frown.

[You’re asking too much of me if you expect a system to empathise like a human.]

Lu Yan closed the car window. He pressed onto the palm of his left hand with his right hand and closed his eyes in discomfort.

Something there was bulging out, like bamboo shoots after rain. It would soon burst out from the soil.

*

Lu Yan returned home and turned on the computer he hadn’t used in a long time.

He still had Lin Sinan’s number in his phone. The other party had sent him a web address and told him it was for the internal forum.

[Also, this would make it easier to gather Enlighteneds.]

……

……

The name of the internal forum was ‘Enlightenment’ and access was invite-only. All the Enlighteneds in the world who have some kind of affiliation with official organisations have an account. The administrators were people from various countries who were selected by the Pollution Disease Prevention and Control Centres. To cater to people of varying origins, the forum very conveniently had its own translation system.

This forum required users to use a fixed user ID, but it didn’t require real information to be entered. Users can also choose to post anonymously. Not even the administrators had the authority to check.

It was said that a foreign organisation once tried to hack the forum, but not only were they unable to get any information, the person behind the hacking was discovered dead the next day.

Since then, no one dared to attempt it.

Lu Yan hesitated for a long time on the ID page.

He originally wanted to use the name ‘Doctor’, but that ID was already registered.

Lin Sinan told him that some of the records from the missions carried out by Enlighteneds may be published on the forum and the name used would be his forum name, so he must be careful with his choice.

“There was an Enlightened from Sichuan who registered his ID as ‘Looking for a Top’. As a result, when he was carrying out his missions, he was either shunned by straight male teammates or pestered by strange people. In short, you should think over your decision carefully. The forum doesn’t allow name changes.” After saying that, Lin Sinan seemed to remember something and added, “He is ranked quite high in the forum. If you are a top – ahem – maybe you can post a selfie and try teaming up with him….”

Lu Yan wasn’t interested in forming a team. He thought for a while and typed in two words: Curious Listener.

Curious Listener, a mythical beast who knew everything about the world and could distinguish true from falsehood.

It was quite fitting.

This time, Lu Yan registered successfully.

The Enlightenment Forum looked like a chat forum from the early 20th century, when the internet was just beginning to take off. The user interface was tacky, like the final assignment of a freshmen in Computer Science, and it was divided into three sections: ‘Technical Exchange’. ‘Bounty Missions’ and ‘General Chatter’.

Lu Yan clicked on a post under the Technical Exchange section: Pollution Disease Case Study. He then read through all the information from S-Grade to F-Grade.

Intel was very important. At least in the future, when encountering a pollution source, they wouldn’t need to perform an autopsy to find out its characteristics.

The lower the level of the pollution source, the more detailed the information was.

Information on S-Grade pollution diseases only consisted of a few lines but information on C-Grade pollution source ‘Parasitic Fish’ was seven or eight pages long.

[Ahem. This is very normal. Although everyone says that their fates are shared, the Enlighteneds still have their nationalities…You can apply to access the Pollution Disease Centre’s internal data, which will be much more detailed. Frankly speaking, District 1 is already very generous. 40% of information in this forum is from the Enlighteneds in District 1.]

After all, in a situation like this, the concept of having shared fates wasn’t a joke. The whole world was in trouble. Even District 1 alone wouldn’t be able to last very long.

Lu Yan had always been a fast reader but it took him two full days to finish reading through all the cases. In some cases, just the photos alone were enough to affect him psychologically, making him sick in the stomach.

He saw Lin Sinan’s pollution source. C-Grade Pollutant: “Parasitic Worm”.

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In the images, the bodies of numerous corpses were covered in long and plump maggots.

The plump maggots crawled through their nose, ears and mouth. It made those who saw it want to drag the photographer out of the computer and beat them up for not blurring it out.

In the profile section, there was also an ‘Enlightened Ranking’.

This was selected annually through evaluation by officials. It was primarily based on their spiritual power threshold, their contributions over the past year as well as other secretive political ploys.

There were more than sixty thousand people registered in this forum. Only the top one hundred were announced on the list.

Lu Yan scrolled down to the bottom of the list and found that the person in 100^th place was ‘Looking for a Top’.

Personal introduction: Face-con. Ugly tops, please don’t interact.

Bai Qiushi, alias: Winter Cicada, was ranked 37^th.

There were also some names on the list that looked very foreign, such as ‘Indra’, ‘Michael’, ‘Odin’, ‘Miyamoto Musashi’ and so on.

Lu Yan scrolled up and checked the person in first place.

ID: Tyrant.

He clicked into it and saw that they only had their name on their personal profile page and their location was District 1. The number of page visits were however quite amazing.

Lu Yan was speechless, “Isn’t that too childish? There are actually people who would call themselves ‘Tyrant’…”

He also noticed something. The registration time of the ‘Tyrant’ ID was 84 years ago. In other words, even if he registered on the forum as soon as he was born, Tyrant would be 84 years old now.

Lu Yan’s own registration time was today, February 26^th.

He looked through several other people’s profiles. The time periods ranged from the last century to this century. It didn’t appear to be a system error.

“Turns out the pollution disease and Enlighteneds have existed since the last century.”

They were probably unable to keep this under wraps any more, so strange occurrences have recently been appearing in public.

Lu Yan, like an elderly man who had just learned how to surf the internet, enthusiastically browsed the forum for several days.

He only lurked and didn’t post. He gained a lot of useful knowledge. For example, when encountering a pollution source, the more fearful you are, the faster the rise in mutation degree and the further you are, the slower the rise in mutation degree…He also learnt that there were two types of Pollutants. One was a Physical Pollutant and the other was a Mental Pollutant. The Pollutants in K City belonged to the former but powerful Pollutants typically are both.

On top of that, Lu Yan also saw several posts in the General Chatter section titled ‘Offering large sums for healing type items’.

With global evolution, in addition to the healing type Enlighteneds, there were also many special items that could reduce mutation degree.

Lu Yan lowered his head and looked at the palm of his left hand.

As he stared at it, his palm slowly split open, revealing the bright red flesh inside. The edges of the split in his skin were lined with sharp fangs that were triangular in shape, like shark teeth.

Although it looked a little strange, it was indeed a mouth.

Lu Yan poked at it with a finger on his right hand. It was a strange sensation, His left hand didn’t hurt much but it was definitely not very comfortable. His right hand conversely felt like it was being licked by an excited puppy.

He snuck out again in the middle of the night and came back with some algae strands he had cut off from a Phyta.

The mouth on his left hand ate it very happily. It was much more convenient than the way the white threads ate.

Lu Yan asked, “Is my left hand still my hand? Will my body still belong to my soul in the end?”

The system laughed and said: [It is still a young fish and is very dependent on you. But if you continue to stay in your current state, once they realise that their master can easily be subdued, the naughty fish would turn against its host.]

*

On the seventh day after Lu Yan returned home, the announcer on TV spoke in an uplifting tone, “After a month of unremitting efforts, we were able to unite as one and work together to get the pollution under control! The Pollution Disease Prevention and Control Centre has announced that the lockdown order for K City can be partially lifted after three more days of observation!”

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“This pollution disease incident has been classified as a B-Grade emergency. The source was a C-Grade Pollutant called ‘Parasitic Fish’. This incident has resulted in a total of 46,321 deaths in K City. 456 rescue personnel have lost their lives….”

As the announcer spoke, their eyes turned red.

Behind each of these numbers was a family member, a life, and many years of joy and sorrow.

After Lu Yan turned off the TV, he was silent for a long time. He had always had very few social connections, but when he thought of the late Dr. Li, the rich second-generation as well as the missing Shen Qingyang, he inevitably felt a little sad.

Fortunately, Lin Sinan’s call interrupted his downcast mood.

“Dr. Lu, it’s me. Lin Sinan.” On the other end of the phone was Lin Sinan’s hearty voice.

“Captain Lin.”

Lin Sinan, “I actually called to discuss something with you. An Enlightened’s evolution requires exposure to a pollution source. Now that your details have been sent back to the headquarters, the people above are of two opinions. The first is to let you train while ensuring your safety. The world is changing too quickly and personal strength is very important. The second is for you to go to the headquarters and evolve through taking medicine like the ‘Pope’…”

When he talked about the medicine, Lin Sinan’s tone sounded a little unnatural.

System: [Whether it is taking medicine or eating humans, this one also wants to know. I have to say though, among the thirteen research institutes in the country, the First Research Institute is really depraved.]

[A group of lunatics devoid of human emotions are conducting experiments that would make even the gods afraid. Sooner or later, it will come back and bite them.]

Lin Sinan continued on the phone, “If you choose the former, the headquarters have already decided on a location. It is W City, which is near K City. There is a village there that has undergone mutation. The code name is ‘Living Dead’ and the pollution source is E-Grade. According to tests, the highest pollution level is 1100. In addition to myself, an Enlightened with a spiritual power threshold of 3000 will also be accompanying you. If you choose the latter, it will also be me escorting you to the First Research Institute. The advantage is that it is safer and more controllable.”

“I am outside your building right now. Once you have made up your mind, you can come down and tell me your decision.”

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