Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Clatter...

When Lu Xin escaped from the high-speed rail station, he saw that the surrounding area was in chaos.

The desolated neighborhood was suddenly filled with countless black jeeps and many people in uniform as if they suddenly appeared out of nowhere. They were loaded with guns and approached the neighborhood with their heavy military boots. Meanwhile, they quickly set up roadblocks and sealed all the roads.

The sound of chasing, capturing, and shooting could faintly be heard. Lu Xin was slightly shocked and did not dare to move slowly. He quickly jumped, moved in the corner near the walls, and escaped after climbing over an apartment wall that had broken windows.

Fortunately, no one seemed to think that someone would escape from the wall. Moreover, he was fast and did not attract the attention of the bystanders.

Lu Xin used both his hands and feet and was like a flexible spider. He managed to climb to a dozen-story building located a few hundred meters away. He squatted on the edge of the building and turned his head to look in the direction of the high-speed rail station. Every road was filled with people, including the cafe and the high-speed rail station. The whole area was packed with people.

This caused him to feel slightly scared.

“Brother, how are you going to thank me?”

His sister’s voice was heard. She was holding a teddy bear and squatting near Lu Xin.

Her messy hair was down, and her eyes were lit up slightly, a sign of unusual satisfaction.

“Thank you?”

Lu Xin was frustrated. “I would hit you...”

However, when the words reached his mouth, he thought about the danger earlier on and couldn’t help but let down his fierceness and say, “Thank you...”

“You’re my elder brother, I’m your sister, why are you thanking me?”

His sister smiled, and her hair covered most of her face. She looked eerily cute.

Lu Xin was about to praise her when she suddenly looked up expectantly. “You’d better give me toys!”

“You want toys again?”

Lu Xin looked at the bear in her arms and said helplessly, “Don’t you already have one?”

“The bear is very cute!”

His sister hugged the bear tightly and said, “However, the bear doesn’t know how to speak!”

Slightly excited, she described it in detail. “I want one that can speak...”

Lu Xin said perfunctorily, “I will buy one with electronic sounds for you.”

“Those aren’t fun...”

His sister’s smile was a little weird. “I don’t only want it to speak, I want the kind that can scream. The more tragic the screams, the better...”

Lu Xin said, “Have you heard about the screaming rubber chicken?”

She seemed stuck at this question. She kept silent for a moment before suddenly saying, “I don’t want to play with you anymore.”

“Sigh, you...”

Lu Xin was just about to speak when he saw his sister suddenly jump up. Her small figure made her look like a flexible kitten which jumped down directly from the building. When he hastily reached out to see, he saw her landing on a horizontal wire outside the building. The wind blew, and she gently swayed with the wires, shook her head, and laughed at him. “Brother, you have to be careful, someone is watching you...”

Lu Xin was cautious. “Who?”

“I won’t tell you...”

His sister smiled cheekily and climbed along the wire to the opposite side, quickly disappearing into a broken window.

“This girl...”

“Yes, strange incidents that are beyond one’s imaginations. For example, the situation you encountered in the cafe.”

Chen Jing nodded and took out a document. She pushed it in front of him and said, “You can take a look.”

Lu Xin looked at the title. It was printed with the word “confidential”.

He slowly opened it and saw the printed words on the first page as well as many statistics.

Target number: Class D Special Corruption Source—036

Target level: First Class

Corruption level: Low (contact corruption/corruption rate 90%/deep corruption rate 70%)

Growth potential: High

Danger level: Low

Target Characteristics: The target is a Level 1 Psyche Monster that can corrupt any lifeform that it has come into close contact with. Does not have airborne corruption ability. It can be eliminated by eliminating the psyche monster parasite. The parasite remains in the normal human category and can be harmed by physical attacks. According to current observations, the corrupted source does not possess higher intelligence and will only repeat everything it did before being corrupted and simply communicate.

Special cleansing means: None

...

...

While Lu Xin was looking at the document, Chen Jing slowly lit a cigarette.

She slowly spoke. “The Red Moon event caused more than 70% of the people in this world to turn crazy. We survived, but we can only live in the high wall protection of the main city and satellite cities. However, even if we survived, we aren’t necessarily all normal. Many are born mentally unsound and affect the people or things around them.

“We term this corruption!”

“Corruption?”

Lu Xin lifted his head as he listened to this familiar, but at the same time, unfamiliar word.

After the Red Moon event, due to the collapse of civilization, the fracture of order, the destruction of countless chemical plants, power stations, and so on, the leakage of waste, caused this world, especially the area outside High Wall City, to have traces of corruption. Even after thirty years, many places had not improved. The residents of High Wall City were certainly not unfamiliar with corruption, but the corruptionthat this woman was talking about did not seem to be quite the same.

“Indeed, corruption.”

Chen Jing nodded. “Just like a source of corruption in the ordinary sense, it will radiate and affect the people around, making them also have the same symptoms, similar to the plague. However, this kind of corruption is much more mysterious and terrible.

“The cafe you entered today is one of them. Before today, it had already corrupted 52 people!”

“...”

“If...”

Lu Xin was a little shocked by this number. He tried to digest Chen Jing’s words and gestured with his hand.

“What would happen if one gets corrupted?”

“The person would get the disease!”

Chen Jing answered very simply as if she had already answered the question too many times, seeming somewhat robotic.

“Ordinary corruption would make one physically sick, but psyche corruption would make one mentally ill!

“The consequences of getting ill vary.

“Some will cause severe depression and cause people to commit suicide after not being able to take it!

“Some will cause people to lose their minds and attack those around them!

“Some will make people lose the ability to communicate with everything around them...

“There are also some that will cause a person to develop a strong intention to hurt themselves...”

“...”

“To put it simply, the corruption will result in a psyche disease that can be transmitted!”