ICUGW Chapter 36

Chapter 36 The House Where People Are Chased (9)

With the rotten fish head's acceleration function, Zhu Ning was three times faster than her opponent. As soon as the other party raised his hand, Zhu Ning had already guessed his next move. She quickly snatched the gun and broke the other party's wrist.

Bang!

A headshot.

[Do you want to use the Rotten Fish Head speed-up function?

Please note that it will consume 3 health points.]

"Use."

The second one.

[Do you want to use the Rotten Fish Head speed-up function?

Please note that it will consume 3 health points.]

"Use."

The third one.

[Do you want to use the Rotten Fish Head speed-up function?

Please note that it will consume 3 health points.]

"Use."

Zhu Ning uttered for the last time.

After the four shots, all the assassins fell to the ground. Silence filled the corridor with the only sound heard was her own breathing.

A five-man assassin squad, including the sniper, was killed in just three minutes.

The people above clearly underestimated Zhu Ning's strength. They speculated that the worst-case scenario was that Zhu Ning was a mutant. And even if she was, a five-man assassin squad could still wear her down enough to send more reinforcements.

But what they didn't expect was that Zhu Ning could use so many skills at once.

In a certain laboratory, no one spoke.

The data of Subject No. 777 on the big screen has been completely cleared, and replaced by a first-person perspective image stitched together by five cameras, with Zhu Ning's face in the center.

Everyone saw it. A Cleaner had killed a killer squad in three minutes.

They were not fools. They sent an elite squad to eliminate Zhu Ning, but the same elite squad got eliminated by Zhu Ning instead.

Until now they still haven't figured out what the problem is. Obviously, they issued the kill order immediately. The squad was lying in ambush at the door, waiting for the intruder to come out. Logically, they should have won now.

"Who is she?" Professor Chu asked in a deep voice.

The researcher typed rapidly on the keyboard: "I don't know. There are no mutants with these types of skills in the cleaning center."

Mutants, or people with special abilities, usually only awaken one special ability. It was already considered a blessing if they can use this ability well and not collapse. But some geniuses can possess multiple superpowers at the same time.

The current highest record given by the Federation was awakening six superpowers at the same time. However, there shouldn't be such people in District 103. Once someone shows that they possess two or more superpowers, they will be immediately sent to the First Military District and treated as a talent.

The laboratory has a list of all the officially registered mutants in the cleaning center. And the only one who can use metal manipulation was stated to be a man, but the one in front of them was obviously a woman.

Furthermore, the guillotine that killed the sniper didn't seem like a metal-controlled ability at all.

Even Zhu Ning's flash speed where her speed was at least three times faster than that of a normal person wasn't a metal ability too.

She moved quickly among the four killers and shot them in the head before they could react. She had used at least two skills at the same time.

This woman seemed like an alien that appeared out of nowhere.

Was there such a strange person in the 103 District Cleaning Center?

The woman with the black helmet grew larger and larger on the screen, her face moving closer.

"She found the camera," the researcher said.

In order to ensure communication, the killer squad was equipped with cameras on their bodies.

Professor Chu leaned against the operating table, staring at Zhu Ning on the big screen with a gloomy face. They seemed to be looking at each other from a distance.

"Who are you?" A distorted voice came from the camera.

"S-should we reply?" asked the researcher.

Professor Chu kept staring at Zhu Ning. The cleaner helmet she was wearing covered her face, so they couldn't see Zhu Ning's expression clearly. But his intuition told him that this person was not afraid at all.

Compared to a cleaner, she was actually more like a killer. Was it because Prometheus was helping her?

How could Prometheus have grown so large? It even had such people under its command.

"Hello?" Zhu Ning knocked on the camera. "You tried to kill me, yet you don't have the courage to show your face? What, you can't even talk?"

If the previous question was calm, then this sentence was clearly a provocation.

Professor Chu took a deep breath and quickly gave the order, "Cut off all links to prevent contaminated spores from parasitizing. Immediately activate the defense mechanism and don't let Prometheus in."

The big screen went black and Zhu Ning's face disappeared.

They weren't afraid of Zhu Ning. They were more afraid that the experimental base would be tracked and targeted by a certain AI

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Zhu Ning tapped the camera and saw the red light on it go out. The other party had hung up the call.

Couldn't they afford to chat with her? She was just asking casually for their names, but the other party cut off the communication.

'Hey, it's really rude. Still, it means that my face will no longer be exposed.'

Thanks to the helmet, Zhu Ning looked powerful on the outside, but was actually in a state of disarray on the inside. She had used up her mental energy excessively, and blood was flowing out of her helmet.

Her head hurt a lot, and the pain was different from last time. It was like a knife had been used to stir around her brain, and every time it pulsed through, her vision would blank for a second.

Zhu Ning looked back at the scene.

She pulled a device from her backpack and pressed it on the ground, creating a makeshift shield to temporarily prevent the contaminated spores from spilling out. The device can temporarily isolate the contaminated spores for fifteen minutes to ensure that they will not spread.

'Where are the other people in the building?'

Zhu Ning suddenly realized that it seemed very quiet here. No civilians could be seen.

Did they evacuated before the assassins arrived?

Wait, where's Huang Ya Ruo?

Zhu Ning looked around but couldn't find her. After Zhu Ning pushed her away, she had no time to care about her. Fortunately, there was no body that looked like her at the scene. Did she take the opportunity to run away?

Yes, a woman who has been trapped in a haunted house for fifteen years will instinctively reject everyone. She probably didn't trust Zhu Ning and took the opportunity to escape.

Besides, Zhu Ning only agreed to take Huang Ya Ruo out of the house. Now that they had come out, she has fulfilled her promise. Where Huang Ya Ruo goes in the future has nothing to do with Zhu Ning.

Click.

Zhu Ning's body moved faster than her brain. When she turned around, the gun was already loaded and she could have shot the person in the head in an instant. Looking at the pure white cleaner's uniform with a kitten's face printed on it, the corner of her mouth twitched.

"Zhu Ning?"

An acquaintance, Zhu Ning made a quick judgment, "Liu Niannian?"

Liu Niannian, who had just arrived, was obviously frightened by Zhu Ning. Just now, Zhu Ning seemed to be devoid of emotions and acted entirely on instinct. She was like a killing machine, more terrifying than any witcher Liu Niannian had ever met.

After receiving Zhu Ning's message, Liu Niannian began to plan to "run away from home". It took her an hour to shake off her bodyguards. However, she couldn't shake off Pei Shu, who was still waiting for her downstairs.

When she came in, the entire community had been evacuated due to a gas leak, so currently, the community was empty. As soon as she arrived below the building, she heard a burst of gunfire.

Liu Niannian paused at the stairs, but decided to go up and take a look. She ran upstairs breathlessly, but before she could see clearly, Zhu Ning pointed a gun at her forehead.

Zhu Ning was wearing the same black cleaner's uniform as last time, her whole body wrapped up so her face wasn't visible at all, but Liu Niannian recognized her at a glance.

What happened? Four bodies lay scattered in the hallway. One of them seemed to had tried to escape but failed, his body hanging by the stair railing.

Zhu Ning cleaned up a Class C contaminated area all by herself? And also killed four assassins after? Liu Niannian knew Zhu Ning was very strong, but she had no idea she was this strong.

Zhu Ning's hands dropped and she retracted the gun.

Liu Niannian was stunned for a moment, and only after she was sure that Zhu Ning had not lost her mind did her tense body relax. She looked at the large hole in the hallway, and saw many snail shells on the ground.

'What kind of contaminated area had this been? A snail nest?'

Her limited imagination couldn't imagine anything else.

'And why did the house collapse?'

The steel bars of the entire house had been violently twisted, as if an invisible hand had crushed the house like a can.

Demolishing a house to eliminate the pollution source? Only a mutant person would be capable of demolishing a house, right? But isn't Zhu Ning's ability more on the psychic side?

She doesn't understand. Normally, she can infer what happened from clues, but this time she really doesn't understand at all. If she didn't understand, then just ask!

Liu Niannian: "There's so many spores and corpses! What actually happened?"

Zhu Ning didn't answer Liu Niannian's question, but instead asked, "How's it going down there?"

Liu Niannian: "When I arrived, the entire community was evacuated because of a gas leak. The property management said it would take another two hours to repair it."

'So that's what happened. No wonder no one is here.'

When Zhu Ning was inside the contaminated area, they had already evacuated the crowd outside. Prometheus probably wants to protect the civilians, ensuring that no accident would occur within the community.

For a moment, Zhu Ning didn't know whether she should compliment her AI boss for being cunning, but then she thought about it and realized that this was its main job.

Artificial intelligence was all about predicting all possible outcomes before they happen, and then making plans for various situations.

Under the planning of artificial intelligence, humans were really just tools. Zhu Ning's every move was under the watchful eyes of Prometheus, protecting her from all the possibilities that could happen. But, why does it help her?

Zhu Ning decided to label this super artificial intelligence as treacherous.

"Two hours is enough," Zhu Ning said, "Prepare to contain the contaminated spores."

Liu Niannian was already familiar with the job and professionally took out a complete set of containment tools from her cleaning backpack.

Ever since her experience at the hot pot restaurant, Liu Niannian has been waiting for this day. She even used her connections to get the cleaner's tools for sweeping the garbage.

Liu Niannian had been baptized by the world. After coming out of the hot pot restaurant, ordinary corpses no longer scared her.

Zhu Ning next to her has already entered the working state. As a professional, she can get into the state even faster.

Liu Niannian cannot clean up such a large contaminated area by herself, so Zhu Ning must help. Behind the helmet, Zhu Ning had a dejected look on her face. She actually had to work after going through all that... Was this even fair?

Zhu Ning resigned herself to fate. She picked up the tools, and began to contain the contaminated spores.

System prompt:

[Purification value +1]

When Zhu Ning heard the notification, she was almost moved to tears.

Everything can betray you, but compensations won't.

As long as you work hard, it will reward you. What a fair and honest good system!

Liu Niannian glanced around as she took in the bodies. The body lying on the stairs was too conspicuous. She asked, "What should we do with the bodies?"

While Zhu Ning was collecting the contaminated spores, she asked Liu Niannian, "How did you get here?"

Liu Niannian: "I came with a car."

Zhu Ning: "Can you put five bodies inside?"

Liu Niannian: “?”

Huh? Did she hear wrong?

Zhu Ning wanted to use her luxury car to transport bodies?

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