Starting from the Red Moon

"Hua la la..."

When Lu Xin escaped from the subway station, he saw that the surroundings were in chaos.

It seemed that there was no one in this block just now, but now there were countless black jeeps and many people in military uniforms, as if they suddenly emerged from the ground, armed with live ammunition, with heavy military boots, approaching this block, and quickly setting up roadblocks, setting up guns, and quickly blocking every road.

Faintly, one could even hear the sounds of chasing, catching, and shooting. Lu Xin couldn't help but feel a little surprised. He didn't dare to neglect it. He quickly jumped in the corners of the wall, climbed over the walls of the apartments with broken windows, and fled far away.

Fortunately, it seemed that no one thought that someone would escape from the wall, and he was very fast, so he didn't attract the attention of others.

Lu Xin used his hands and feet, like a flexible spider, to climb a few hundred meters away to a building more than ten stories high. Then he jumped up and squatted on the edge of the building. He turned his head to look in the direction of the subway station, and saw that every road was full of people, including the coffee shop and the subway station. The whole area was already surrounded by people.

This made him a little scared.

"Brother, how are you going to thank me?"

The voice of the younger sister rang out, not far from Lu Xin, she was squatting not far away holding the patchwork bear.

The messy hair was scattered, and her eyes were slightly shining, which was a manifestation of her unusual satisfaction.

"Thank you?"

Lu Xin, who was still in a state of anxiety, was furious: "I will hit you..."

However, when the words came to his lips, he thought of the danger just now, and he couldn't help but soften his bones and said: "Thank you..."

"You are my brother, I am your sister, why should I say thank you?"

The sister smiled, her hair fell down, covering most of her face, she was weirdly cute.

Lu Xin was about to praise her when she suddenly raised her head with a look of expectation: "Just give me a toy!"

"You want a toy again?"

Lu Xin looked at the little bear in her arms and said helplessly: "Don't we have one?"

"The little bear is very cute!"

The little sister hugged the little bear tightly and said: "But the little bear can't talk!"

Her voice seemed a little excited, and she described it in detail: "I want the kind that can talk..."

Lu Xin said perfunctorily: "I'll buy you one with electronic sound later!"

"The electronic sound is not fun..."

The little sister smiled a little weirdly: "Not only can it scream, I want the kind that can scream, the more miserable the better..."

Lu Xin said: "Have you heard of screaming chickens?"

The little sister was hit and was silent for a while, and suddenly said: "It's so boring, I don't want to play with you anymore!"

"Hey you..."

Just as Lu Xin was about to speak, he saw his sister suddenly jump up. The small figure, like a nimble kitten, jumped down from the building. When he stretched his head to look, he saw that she had landed on a horizontal wire outside the building. The wind blew over, and she swayed gently with the wire. She shook her head at Lu Xin and said with a smile: "Brother, you have to be careful, someone is watching you..."

Lu Xin was a little alert: "Who?"

"I won't tell you..."

The sister giggled, climbed along the wire to the other side, and quickly disappeared into a broken window.

"This girl..."

Lu Xin looked down from the tall building and felt a little dizzy: "If you leave, how can I go down?"

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Keep alert, Lu Xin jumped from the opposite side of this apartment building to the next building, and then went down one floor at a time along the dilapidated corridor. When he was about to reach the downstairs, he deliberately took a few more turns, and followed the tilted electric poles, the broken house that was only left with a wall, etc., and came to a street a few hundred meters away, and walked out cautiously.

He deliberately straightened his clothes, put his hands in his pockets, and prepared to blend into the crowd naturally.

"Get in the car, I'll buy you coffee!"

But just after taking a step, he suddenly heard a voice saying.

Lu Xin was startled, turned around abruptly, and saw a woman leaning against a jeep.

She was a woman in a casual suit and short hair. She wore a pair of large brown sunglasses on her face. She was thin and agile, with a wild temperament. Under this temperament, even the high heels on her feet seemed to have a sharper breath. Even the black jeep behind her looked like an iron monster, sturdy and ferocious.

Drinking coffee?

Lu Xin was surprised and immediately thought of what his sister had just said. He was already 23 years old and had never been asked out by a woman, especially a woman like this in front of him. She would definitely not like someone like him. So she was one of the people who surrounded the subway station just now? Maybe she had been staring at me for a long time? Asking me out for coffee doesn't seem hostile...

Although it didn't seem normal for such a woman to ask him out for coffee, Lu Xin didn't dare to refuse.

So he whispered, "Can I change to something else? I don't want to drink coffee now!"

The short-haired woman seemed a little surprised by Lu Xin's calmness, but she had obviously seen many people like this.

Thinking of what Lu Xin had just experienced, she smiled, "Okay, let's go to the bar!"

As she said that, she naturally opened the car door for Lu Xin.

Lu Xin sat in the passenger seat honestly. Although he had not had many experiences of riding in a car since he grew up, he did not look around or touch anything in the car. He just sat in the passenger seat honestly, and did not even peek at the woman who was driving.

The woman was also not in a hurry to speak, but just drove the car attentively.

They drove for about twenty minutes, and the car had already entered a sparsely populated street. The woman stopped the car and took Lu Xin through a dark underground passage to the door of a bar with an iron fence at the door.

The bar had not yet opened, and the light was dim and silent.

After the sleepy waiter opened the door for them, he put a bottle of wine and two glasses on the table without asking a word, and went back to sleep. In the huge coffee shop, only Lu Xin and this woman were left, and it was empty.

"My name is Chen Jing, and I have no ill will towards you, but I admit that what happened to you today was arranged by me!"

The short-haired woman said frankly, and placed a green-skinned ID in front of Lu Xin. Lu Xin took a look and learned that she was from the main city of Qingcheng and was the highest-level officer of the Qingcheng Inspection Office. He couldn't help but look up at her. People in the main city were not what people in the satellite city could imagine, especially her high status, and it was even more strange to invite him to drink.

Thinking of the documents that the director had asked him to deliver for no reason and the monster he had encountered in the cafe, Lu Xin knew that something was wrong. It seemed very infuriating to be suddenly arranged to encounter such a terrifying thing, but Lu Xin saw that there was a floating part of the woman's clothes around her waist, and knew that it was a gun, so he still hung his head and said, "Why?"

"Let me explain it as a routine first!"

Chen Jing didn't say much about this issue, bit off the cork, and poured two glasses of wine.

"I belong to a department that handles abnormal affairs, specializing in pollution control in the high-walled city!"

Lu Xin blinked, obviously unable to react to such words.

Chen Jing pushed a glass of wine in front of Lu Xin and said, "You can understand us as: official."

"After the Red Moon incident, the reorganization of the major main cities and satellite cities, the handling and strangulation of those crazy people outside the city, the resistance of the Wilderness Knights and the Spiritual Sect, and the construction of high walls and daily repairs were all handled by our people!"

"And now, we are mainly dealing with pollution incidents in the main city and the five major satellite cities!"

"Abnormal incidents?"

Lu Xin looked up and glanced at her.

"Yes, it is a strange incident beyond the understanding of ordinary people, just like what you encountered in the coffee shop!"

Chen Jing nodded, took out a document, pushed it in front of Lu Xin, and said, "You can take a look!"

Lu Xin saw the title page of the document, and the word "confidential" was printed on it.

He slowly opened it and saw lines of lead type printed text and a lot of data on the first page.

Target number: D-level special pollution source - 036

Target level: Level 1

Infection level: Low (contact infection/infection rate 90%/deep infection rate 70%)

Growth potential: High

Danger level: Low

Target characteristics: The target is a level 1 mental monster, which can infect any life form that has been in close contact. It does not have the ability to infect through air. It can be eliminated by the method of eliminating the mental monster parasite. The parasite is still within the scope of ordinary people and can be harmed by physical attacks. According to current observations, the source of infection does not have high intelligence, and can only repeat everything it did before being infected, and communicate simply.

Special cleaning methods: None

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

She slowly said, "The Red Moon incident has turned more than 70% of the people in the world into lunatics. Those of us who survived can only live in the main city and satellite cities protected by high walls. But in fact, even those who survived are not necessarily normal. There are also many who have developed mental abnormalities, which will affect the people or things around them!"

"We call this situation pollution!"

"Pollution?"

Lu Xin raised his head when he heard this familiar but suddenly unfamiliar word.

After the Red Moon incident, due to the collapse of civilization, the breakdown of order, the destruction of countless chemical plants, power stations, etc., and the leakage of waste, the world, especially outside the high-walled city, is full of traces of pollution. Even after thirty years, many places have not improved. The residents of the high-walled city are certainly familiar with pollution, but the pollution this woman talked about seems to be different.

"Yes, it is pollution!"

Chen Jing nodded and repeated, saying: "Just like the pollution source in the ordinary sense, it will radiate around and affect the people around, causing them to have the same symptoms, similar to the plague, but this kind of pollution is more mysterious and more terrible!"

"The coffee shop you entered today is one of them. Before today, it has polluted 52 people!"

"..."

"If..."

Lu Xin was a little scared by this number. He tried to digest Chen Jing's words and gestured with his hands:

"What will happen if you are polluted?"

"You will get sick!"

Chen Jing's answer was very simple, and it seemed that he had answered it too many times, and it seemed a little mechanical:

"Ordinary pollution will make people's bodies sick, while mental pollution will make people's minds sick!"

"The consequences of illness are different. Some people will feel strong depression and commit suicide because they can't bear it!"

"Some will make people lose their minds and attack people around them crazily!"

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

"Some will also make people have a strong desire to hurt themselves..."

"..."

"In short, the pollution source will give rise to a contagious mental illness!"