Chapter 21 The Reception Department
聽 聽聽At four in the morning, Bart got the call to arrive at the hot pot restaurant.
聽 聽聽They'd brought a team of professional hunters with them, and before they arrived, they'd received a report from the technical department at the cleanup center.
聽 聽Yummy's was a class C contaminated area, which was聽just activated tonight.
聽 聽聽They were ready to collect Nora's body before they arrived. She's been in the contaminated area for more than two hours. She might have been assimilated into a contaminant.
聽 聽聽If she did turn into a contaminant, the hunters couldn't even decapitate Nora on the spot. They had to bring her back to the lab.
聽 聽聽They were thoroughly prepared, but they expected the scene to be a little less than they thought it would be.
聽 聽聽Nora was sitting alone in front of the fondue restaurant, her white kitten's protective suit聽all聽covered in blood.
聽 聽聽She was holding her chin with a pensive look on her face.
聽 聽聽The security team leader's name was Bart, and he was a little unsure of what was going on, "My Lady."
聽 聽聽Nora didn't reply.
聽 聽聽Bart didn't dare drop his guard. He signaled for the security team to go inside the area and search.
聽 聽聽Eight minutes later, a report came in: "The area is clean, with no contaminant and no residual contamination spores."
聽 聽聽He could understand the absence of contaminants. But why were there no contaminant spores or carrion here?
聽 聽聽In his perception, this matter requires a team of professional hunters and a team of professional cleaners to accomplish.
聽 聽聽So, someone from the cleanup center should have been here.
聽 聽聽But Bart confirmed that he was the first team to rush here.
聽 聽聽But now the person who聽actually聽purged the Fondue Shop is gone. Who the hell is she?
聽 聽聽Why did she save Nora first?
聽 聽聽Bart asks, "Isn't there anyone else in there?"
聽 聽聽"No. We've searched the entire street. Nora's the only one here."
聽 聽聽Bart was smart. There was no way Nora could have done this alone.
聽 聽聽Bart stood respectfully beside Nora, asking, "Do you want to go home first?"
聽 聽聽It was never safe for Nora to stay out too long.
聽 聽聽When she got home, she could be adequately questioned about the situation.
聽 聽聽Nora asked him, chin in hand, "Have I been looking in the wrong direction in my life all this time?"
聽 聽聽Bart: "WTF?"
聽 聽聽The little kid聽actually聽started thinking about life.
聽 聽聽Nora asked, "Could I have always had a talent that wasn't developed?"
聽 聽聽Bart: "........"
聽 聽聽Nora had always wanted to be a hunter, but Bart knew she had little talent.
聽 聽聽She always went out under the pseudonym Nora. Ever since she learned that one of her family's gardeners had once been mentally contaminated at a fondue restaurant, she'd always wanted to see for herself what an indeed contaminated area looked like.
聽 聽聽This behavior is downright stupid in Bart's eyes.
聽 聽聽Bart patiently asks, "What gift?"
聽 聽聽Janet tells Nora before聽she聽leaves that she has an excellent talent for sweeping up trash.
聽 聽聽Her words start Nora rethinking her dream.
聽 聽聽Nora says to herself, "I'm good at sweeping up trash!"
聽 聽聽Bart: "锛燂紵锛燂紵"
聽 聽聽Are they sweeping trash?
聽 聽聽A noble lady聽actually聽wants to sweep garbage.
聽 聽聽She must have been hit with mental pollution.
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聽 聽聽Janet's backpack was heavy.
聽 聽聽She finished collecting the contaminated spores in the area and increased her purification value by 1060.
聽 聽聽She also got 1060 contaminated spores and a pile of rotting flesh. The storage tool in her clean backpack can condense a cubic meter of carrion to a centimeter cube.
聽 聽聽Janet's cleansing backpack is full.
聽 聽聽But she ran into a problem; she was carrying a book bag full of Carrion and Contaminated Spores.
聽 聽聽It's certainly something you need to get the official way. So what was she going to do with them?
聽 聽聽Would she contaminate the land if she buried them in it?
聽 聽聽Then she did the stupid thing and used a search engine.
聽 聽聽She opened the forum and searched, "Please, what should I do with contaminated spores of unknown origin?"
聽 聽聽The method was so practical that there were聽actually聽experience posts in the forum.
聽 聽聽The step-by-step method was very detailed. She needed to go to the Contamination Spore Shelter Department in the Cleaning Center branch.
聽 聽聽The Sheltering Department was scattered all over the city, disguised as various storefronts, and was used to take in folk's contaminated spores.
聽 聽聽If someone collected contaminated spores, they could redeem them.
聽 聽聽The post was intelligent. It automatically locates and displays the nearest shelter.
聽 聽聽Janet auto-oriented the post and showed the nearest shelter as "Queen of Honor Store."
聽 聽聽Janet: "銆傘€傘€傘€傘€傘€�"
聽 聽聽The muscular man in the purple tights was聽actually聽a staff member of the shelter.
聽 聽聽No wonder he was so enthusiastic about giving directions.
聽 聽聽Janet once again went to this strip joint.
聽 聽聽Inside stood a line of muscle-bound men awaiting her selection.
聽 聽聽The purple muscle man wasn't there when she came in, and the store's introducer greeted her.
聽 聽聽The introducer said, "We have a wide variety of men here for you to choose from."
聽 聽WOW!
聽 聽聽Janet had just come out of a contaminated area and was dealing with disgusting pig people before. Now, she was surrounded by handsome men. Her whole being was very confused.
聽 聽聽The introducer noticed that Janet was still unsatisfied and continued, "If none of these men are your type, we can still customize them."
聽 聽聽Janet asked curiously, "What is customization?"
聽 聽聽"We store blank men here who have just been produced. They have no memories. You can enter any of your preferences to make the blank person into your ideal type of man. If you still want to customize the looks, we'll need to charge extra for the royalties."
聽 聽聽The blank man in Wasteland World is like a聽blank聽sheet of paper that customers can trace.
聽 聽聽The introducer said the customized exclusive face is the face of a particular celebrity that can be purchased. The star sells their face to the production company.
聽 聽聽This聽would fulfill the fantasies of the fans.
聽 聽聽For every face sold, the star could earn an extra royalty.
聽 聽聽The introducer laughed, saying, "Customization requires at least 50 million EAC."
聽 聽聽Janet: "........."
聽 聽聽"WOW! My Goddess! You聽really聽came back alive from the hotpot restaurant!" Janet suddenly heard a familiar voice and turned around to see the muscular man coming down the stairs.
聽 聽聽"Excuse me~ This is my guest." The muscular man winked flirtatiously at the introducer. He led Janet to the next room, "This way, baby."
聽 聽聽The door to this room was Barbie pink with "Gentle Warming Room" written on it.
聽 聽聽After opening the door, the room's decor was pure white. Inside, there was a wide desk with running instruments all behind it.
聽 聽聽"Please have a seat." The muscular man pointed to the chair across from him and sat聽himself聽on the black swivel chair.
聽 聽聽He was in a different state than before. The whole person revealed a sense of professionalism.
聽 聽聽The muscle man coughed lightly, "To formally introduce myself, my name is Egbert."
聽 聽This muscular man in purple tights was聽actually聽called Egbert.
聽 聽聽Janet thought for a moment but still gave her real name. "My name is Janet."
聽 聽Egbert was a staff member of the shelter department, which shared the same intranet as the cleaning center. It was easy for him to find out who Janet was, so there was no need to hide his identity.
聽 聽聽"You don't have to be afraid," Egbert said, "I only collect spores. I don't care about the rest."
聽 聽聽Janet was relieved.
聽 聽聽Egbert watched her with interest. Janet took off her helmet when she entered the door. She was very tall; she should be over 175cm.
聽 聽聽But she didn't look at all like someone fierce and vicious. Her features were three-dimensional, and her face was small; she was a beauty.
聽 聽聽She wore a ponytail, which was furled by the helmet.
聽 聽聽She looked like she should be a graduate student's age.
聽 聽聽But Janet had solved the C-level contaminated area all by herself.
聽 聽聽If the information in his hand was correct, this was Janet's second time entering a contaminated area.
聽 聽聽That contaminated area had existed for 30 years.聽This聽is the first time聽he's聽seen a person enter a contaminated area and come out alive.
聽 聽聽Egbert: "It's the first time I've seen a person working alone."
聽 聽聽Janet raised one eyebrow. Was he complimenting her?
聽 聽聽Egbert explained, "An operation like this usually has a hunter and a cleaner. There are times when there are more people."
聽 聽聽As the contaminated areas became higher rated, the logistics would have to be more because one person couldn't take them in.
聽 聽聽This time, Janet also discovered that the number of people issue was definitely a key problem she would have to solve in the future.
聽 聽聽"Where are your contamination spores?" Egbert became serious.
聽 聽聽Janet handed over the sheltered contaminated spores and the carrion assembled into cubes.
聽 聽聽Egbert threw the spores and carrion into the machine behind her. The machine was translucent, with a red light constantly scanning inside.
聽 聽聽"Contaminated spores 1060, contaminated carrion 300 cubes." Egbert read the machine data.
聽 聽聽"We have the same algorithm as the cleaning center, 700 EAC each for spores and 500 EAC each for carrion in a class C contaminated area."
聽 聽聽"Killed 39 contaminants, bulldozed a class c contaminated area."
聽 聽聽"Contaminated spores revenue 742,000, carrion 150,000, contaminant 117,000, contaminated area level c 1,000,000."
聽 聽聽With each number Egbert reported, Janet became more excited.
聽 聽聽"A total of 3062000 EAC," Egbert gave the final price, "Since you don't have any teammates, all this money is yours."
聽 聽聽Three million!
聽 聽聽Janet made three million for her second mission.
聽 聽聽Egbert: "After deducting one million for the pollution shelter treatment, you're left with 2,062,000 EAC."
聽 聽聽Janet "锛燂紵锛燂紵锛燂紵"
聽 聽聽So expensive?
聽 聽聽Egbert: "It's more expensive because it's an unofficial disposal channel."
聽 聽聽Dealing with contaminated spores is a technology monopolized by cleaning centers, and no other companies offer it.
聽 聽聽The cost was expensive, and the price was correspondingly high.
聽 聽聽Janet had worked for the Cleaning Center before and didn't have to worry about how the contaminated spores were sheltered and handled.
聽 聽聽Janet: "Don't you guys work for the Cleaning Center?"
聽 聽聽"It's hard to say." Egbert said, "But you'll find out later."
聽 聽聽The intake department used to be a department of the Cleaning Center, but it was slowly suppressed and moved underground.
聽 聽聽The grave posters are not for everyone. They are only pushed to the "best" people.
聽 聽聽The contaminated areas in the graveyard postings were all old areas that the Cleaning Center didn't care about. As long as there wasn't an outbreak of contamination, the Cleaning Center wouldn't be bothered.
聽 聽聽Janet thought for a moment. The Intake Department was supposed to be an underground organization.
聽 聽聽They would send people with a complete set of standardized weaponry, professional uniforms, and even more professional helmet intelligent panels.
聽 聽聽Immediately after that, they released grave stickers to attract people to voluntarily go to the contaminated area to carry out decontamination work, and in the end, a specialized contaminated spore sheltering organization would complete the aftermath.
聽 聽聽This was a very complete industry chain.
聽 聽聽With such a vast organization and institution, an individual must be behind the scenes.
聽 聽聽Only one person could do all of this and still be able to open up the resources and information of the entire cleansing center.
聽 聽聽Janet thought of someone and asked, "So, who is your boss?"
聽 聽聽"The same as you think," Egbert stared at her, "the one who chose you and me."
聽 聽聽Prometheus! It聽really聽did it!
Why would an AI do this?
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