Tianguang Building, 28th floor, in front of room 2805.
The four college students who had just survived the disaster looked at each other, feeling each other's confusion in their eyes.
They didn't understand why the damaged mask, which only had D-level pollution capabilities a few minutes ago, seemed to have unlocked some seal a few minutes later, making the four of them unable to control themselves.
Xiong Ansui was still hugging Wang Dadui tightly, who was thrown to the ground. He slowly let go of Wang Dadui and looked at Lu Chuan, who was gasping for breath on the edge of the balcony.
"What should we do now?"
Lu Chuan was silent for a moment and uttered two words:
"Call the police."
"Which number to call?"
Wang Dashui was still a little out of touch with the situation.
Lu Chuan sighed,
"Call our dedicated line, the one that goes directly to the Clearance Department, and add one on the pound key."
"Oooo!"
Only then did Wang Dazuo suddenly wake up. He pushed himself up from the ground, then took out his cell phone and started dialing.
After a few busy signals, the call was quickly connected.
There was a cold female voice on the other end of the phone.
"The Qing Department's special line, employee number Yao Erqi, Qi Xi. How can I help you?"
"I, I, I, I want to call the police, we saw the Satisfaction Mask in Tianguang Building!"
The voice on the other end of the phone paused, and then suddenly raised a level,
"Please describe the current situation in detail! What are the casualties? What is the status of the pollution site? Are you sure you saw the Satisfaction Mask?"
"we are……"
Wang DaZhuo organized his words, but saw Lu Chuan reaching out to him.
"Call me and I'll talk."
"We are four sophomore students at the Negative Emotion Cleaning University in Yanyan City. My name is Lu Chuan, conducting major, student number 20501504. I confirm that we are experiencing an emotional pollution incident, and the pollutants that have been detected so far are suspected to be imitation masks. , the mask is damaged, the danger level is at least D+."
"The characteristics of pollution are increased heartbeat, increased possessiveness, desire to put the mask on one's face, and loss of self-awareness. We threw the damaged mask into the green belt downstairs. So far, there have been no casualties and no mobility. Influence."
"Our location is Tianguang Building, Zhenxing Road, Baishi District, Yanshui City. We are now on the 28th floor."
The sound of keyboard tapping came from the other end of the phone. It should be that the operator was taking notes about the case scene while answering the report.
After hearing a paragraph of Lu Chuan's report, the sound of typing on the keyboard slowed down, and Qi Xi spoke on the other end of the phone,
"The report has been received. We will arrange the nearest professional cleaning division to support within twenty minutes. Before the cleaning team arrives, please stay as far away from the contaminated site as possible and ensure your own personal safety."
"Stay away from the pollution site... Okay, we understand."
Lu Chuan glanced at his roommates and nodded.
"Okay, then keep the phone signal open, and I will notify you as soon as possible after getting in touch with the negative clearing master."
The call with the Negative Clearance Department was temporarily terminated, and Lu Chuan returned the phone to Wang Dazhuang.
"So where are we now?"
Xie Zhi couldn't help but ask. Until now, he was still a little outside the situation, as if he was watching a suspense movie with a tight plot and a strong rhythm at close range, but he seemed to be an outsider from beginning to end.
"The Cleaning Department took over and said that a professional cleaner will be contacted within twenty minutes to deal with the problem of Tianguang Building. We need to seize the time to evacuate the building before the Cleaning Team arrives."
"Take the elevator?"
The person who asked the question was Wang Dazhuo.
"Are you asking nonsense?"
The answer was Xiong Ansui,
"Take the stairs, of course."
…
In the fire stairway, four college students lined up in a line and tiptoed downstairs.
Xie Zhi was walking in the middle of the team, carrying a backpack with a laptop in it.
Wang Da was at the front of the team because he had the longest arms and legs, was the fastest, and could react immediately when encountering danger; Lu Chuan was at the back of the team, responsible for observing the overall situation and also dealing with unknown threats.
The walk from Room 2805 to the fire stair entrance was through the elevator door. Wang Dazhuo still refused to give up at first and thought of taking the elevator downstairs. Then Lu Chuan grabbed his sweater and hat and dragged him into the stairway.
"I still don't understand why you have to take the stairs instead of the elevator?"
Wang Dazhuo's voice came from the front of the team.
"Two reasons."
Lu Chuan's voice came after him unhurriedly,
"On the one hand, when the emotional pollution field is formed, the electromagnetic field and other energy fields in the site may be disrupted. If we take the elevator downstairs, there is a certain probability that we will be trapped in the elevator, and there is also a considerable probability that we will be trapped in the elevator. Arranged to the wrong floor due to the chaotic electromagnetic field."
"You don't want to open the elevator door and run directly to the top floor of the 33rd floor even though you clicked on the first floor. Or you don't want to stop on a floor where monsters are rampant. When the elevator door opens, there are corpses everywhere. It's completely like a self-inflicted trap. Rations.”
"Will monsters appear in the pollution site?"
Xie Zhi finally found the topic and joined in.
"What kind of monster?"
"There's everything,"
The answer was Xiong Ansui,
"Groups of moving flesh and blood, zombies that exude a putrid smell, a clown with a bright balloon in his hand, a giant rag doll that has its facial features sewn up but can run and jump..."
"The monsters in the pollution site all appear because of the contamination of the site by the pollution source. They are monsters that combine the negative memories of the pollution source with negative emotions. They will attack everyone who enters the pollution site crazily."
"I still don't think they should be called monsters."
Wang Dazhuo's voice came from the front of the team again,
"They are just normal people who have been severely polluted. As long as they can escape from the pollution site and remove the pollution from their bodies, they can still return to normal life. The so-called monsters are more like a piece of skin imposed on them from the source of pollution. set."
"Is it like a stuffed bear puppet show invited by a shopping mall promotion?"
Xie Zhi gave an example.
"Absolutely." Wang Dazhui shrugged, "In short, I think everyone's life is life. We come to learn the Qing Dynasty major in order to rescue as many ordinary people as possible from pollution sites in the future. Normally, In communication, it’s better not to call those with severe tainted emotional illnesses monsters.”
"You're going to suffer."
This time it was Lu Chuan who spoke.
"They attack ordinary people in the pollution site, doing things that only monsters do, and saying things that you can't understand at all. They look weird, and their actions have no bottom line, but you have to firmly treat them Eliminate the monsters and say they are the ones you want to save too.”
"You're saying this now because you haven't encountered the monsters in the pollution field yet. When you are actually injured or even lose your life due to the attacks of these monsters, you won't think so."
Xiong Ansui took over what Lu Chuan said and continued,
"Patients with emotional illnesses who turned into monsters in the contaminated site may naturally have hope of recovery, but that is only possible after the pollution has been resolved and they have undergone rehabilitation treatment with a fatality rate of over 50%. .When they were in the pollution site, they were murderous monsters. We cannot be merciful at this time."
Xie Zhi was walking in the middle of the team and suddenly realized that he seemed to be experiencing a roommate debate. He thought to himself, should I say something?
But the current tense atmosphere seemed to make it impossible for me to find the opportunity to speak. Even if I spoke, I didn't know what to say at all, so I stopped talking for a long time, thinking that it would be better to be a listener.
"Oh, it's up to you."
Wang Dashui suddenly waved his hands and crossed them behind his neck.
"I have my own beliefs. Anyway, I will not harm those polluted strangers in the pollution site."
So the debate ended here, leaving Xie Zhi slightly confused. Is this the end?
Also, the relationship between college roommates is like this. They disagree with each other and then treat it as nothing happened after three to five minutes.
While Xie Zhi was sighing in his heart, he suddenly remembered his roommates in his previous life. He wondered where the roommates at that time were now. Have you found a job and started a family of your own?
He naturally understood the conversations that his current roommates had with him in Room 2805. The world he was in before he traveled through time was imagined by the original Xie Zhi, and his roommates might also have been imagined by that Xie Zhi. came out, but who can say that today’s world must not be a fantasy world?
Xie Zhi raised his head and glanced at the lighting on the ceiling of the stairs.
Maybe our current world is also fake, maybe I am in a novel?
Therefore, whether it is true or false is not that important. What is important is that my feelings and memories are real at this moment.
I am surrounded by three new roommates. They argue for their own ideas, and they even make my ears hurt. Therefore, everything that happens at this moment, in my opinion at this moment, is true.
If it doesn't work, just treat it as a game.
Anyway, in my opinion, I am already dead in my previous life, so in this life after time travel, every minute I live is earned.
"Huh--" Xie Zhi let out a breathy breath as he continued to walk down the stairs.
He suddenly patted his cheek hard. This move made Wang Daduo, Xiong Ansui and Lu Chuan look a little confused.
"What's wrong with you? Are you affected by the Satisfaction Mask again?"
Wang Dazhuo turned his head and looked up at Xie Zhi, revealing a wrinkle on his forehead.
"I figured out that it doesn't matter whether I existed in the past. What's important is that the person I am now, what I feel every moment is real, and I truly live in this world."
"ha?"
Wang Dazhuo opened his mouth wide. He had no idea what his roommate was talking about.
"No, brother, did you realize the profound philosophy of life in a pollution site?"
“Descartes’ I think, therefore I am.”
Lu Chuan nodded,
"Dazhuo is right. We can discuss topics related to philosophy together in the future if we have the opportunity, but the top priority now is to get out of this Tianguang Building."
He glanced at the floor number on the wall of the stairwell. During the conversation, they had walked twelve floors, and the stair number changed from twenty-eight to sixteen.
"Work harder, there are still sixteen floors left to climb to the bottom."
Xie Zhi nodded to express his understanding, so he stopped talking and just accelerated his pace along with the team.
However, before the four people had passed the first floor, a cell phone ring suddenly rang in the stairwell.
"Just like the sun penetrates the dark night, the dawn quietly crosses the horizon..."
"Xie Zhi, your cell phone."
Xiong Ansui pointed to Xie Zhi's pocket, where his smartphone was vibrating and singing.
Xie Zhi blinked, who would be calling him at this time?
"A harassing phone call?"
Xie Zhi took his phone out of his pocket and found "Well 1" displayed on the screen.
"Negative Emotion Cleaning Department?"
Wang Dazhuang leaned his head over,
"They contacted Master Negative? But why didn't they call me?"
Lu Chuan also felt a little strange,
"Thank you, boss, did the Clearing Department just leave your phone number?"
"It seems not."
Xie Zhi shook his head, and then shook his head faster,
"No matter how many there are, we can't just leave the people responsible for the Clearance Department alone. If you have any questions, just pick up the phone and ask."
Xie Zhi picked up the phone and turned on the speakerphone.
"Hi, hello, I'm Xie Zhi."
A sweet female voice came from the other end of the phone,
"Hello, dear Mr. Crazy Scissors, this is the Yanshui City Negative Clearance Action Team! I am Baishui with the job number No. 106! Your exclusive operator!"
"We have found that your current location is very close to a Class C pollution site, less than one kilometer away, so I am very sorry to disturb you during the meal. I don't know if it is convenient for you now. If it is convenient for you, I will not contact you again. Other negative masters will directly assign tasks to you on the Overloaded Personality!"
"..."
Silence, deathly silence.
Then came Xie Zhi’s tentative speech,
"Is this Class C pollution site you are talking about... the Tianguang Building located on Zhenxing Road, Baishi District?"
"Oh my god! Are you already in the contaminated site? You actually know the information about the site very well!"
"Um... I'm on the... sixteenth floor of Tianguang Building."
"Your sense of responsibility is as warm as a hand warmer in winter! Then I understand, I will mount this task for you, and I will transfer the relevant task information to your Superman software within three minutes! I wish you immediate success , cut off all negative emotions like in the past! Bai Shui won’t disturb Mr. Scissors’ work for now, see you after the mission is over!”
"Ah...no, I..."
The sweet female voice on the other end of the phone spoke very fast. Before Xie Zhi could react to the previous sentence, the next sentence had already been answered like a barrage of fire. When Xie Zhi finally realized that he should probably talk to the other end of the phone. When he was in his own situation, Bai Shui had already finished his concluding remarks and hung up the phone.
Five large words appeared on the screen, "The call has ended."
"..."
Xie Zhi's right hand holding the phone trembled inexplicably, and he was silent for a long time.
Around him, the three roommates also fell into a long silence and great shock.
In the end, Wang Dadui, who had the most lively personality, slightly raised his hand and tried to speak.
"Just, I just heard, on the phone from the Clearance Department, you were called, Mr. Crazy Scissors?"
"It seems...that's the case."
Xie Zhi raised his head and scratched his hair.
"There is also a little girl named Bai Shui who is your exclusive operator?"
"It seems...that's the case."
Xie Zhi's left hand slipped from his hair and touched his earlobe.
"I also heard someone say on the phone that the Tianguang Building pollution case will be sent directly to an APP on your phone? What is that APP called?"
"Superman." Xiong Ansui intervened in the topic.
"Overloaded personality." Lu Chuan heard everything.
"It seems...that's the case."
Xie Zhi sighed. He really didn't understand anything, but in a daze, he seemed to understand everything.
Why do I have three million in my alliance credit account? Why do I have a broken pollutant mask under my bed? Why do I skip classes and leave the campus every once in a while? Why do I appear in the center of the emotional pollution field...
OK, now it all makes sense.
"Crazy Scissors, ranked 376th in the Dayu Alliance's list of culprits, and 19th in the Eastern Second City Group's culprits list. In the three years since his debut, he has cracked 82 Class D pollution site cases. There were twenty-four cases of Class C pollution sites, nine cases of Class B pollution sites, and 115 cases of various types of pollutants were handed over..."
Lu Chuan stood on the stairs that were several steps higher than everyone else, reading word by word the information related to "Crazy Scissors" that he had just found on the search engine.
"So you are the legendary crazy scissor..."
"I should have thought of it earlier. The damage and cracks on the imitation mask were clearly the marks of scissors, and there is only one cleansing master who meets the conditions in Yanshui City, and that is the 19th-ranked Crazy Scissors... "
Xiong Ansui also seemed a little excited at this time, but his excitement was different from Wang Dadui and Lu Chuan.
Ever since the call from the Qing Department was hung up, Xiong Ansui, who was a head taller than Xie Zhi, seemed a little at a loss. He stood there and kept rubbing his hands, with an expression on his face that he wanted to laugh but dared not.
Finally, Xiong Ansui finally spoke,
"Um, can I get your autograph... I'm your fan, I like you so much!"
"Stop! Stop it all!"
Xie Zhi suddenly raised his hand and suppressed the noisy crowd.
He sighed, put the phone back in his pocket, and rubbed his face again.
"Let's put the Crazy Scissors thing aside for now. According to what you said, I am now another personality of Xie Zhi. I don't know anything about the personality of Crazy Scissors. I can be Crazy Scissors, and I can also be because of Crazy Scissors. I earn three million in this capacity, but at least now, those things don’t matter.”
"In other words, have you ever thought about it, if I, Xie Zhi, were Crazy Scissors, what would the three days of my disappearance and my sleeping personality mean before I met you?"
"What does it mean?"
Wang Dazhui picked it up just right.
Xie Zhi sighed heavily,
"It means that there are things in this building that even crazy scissors can't hit."
Before he finished speaking, a huge muffled sound came from the stair passage below, like a door being knocked open by a heavy object.
Then came the sounds of dense footsteps, rushing from bottom to top towards Xie Zhi and the four of them!
