Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 3 Control Bureau
Walking through the museum's campus, Xia Shou saw people constantly nodding to the red-haired woman in front of him, as if she had a very high status here.

This made Xia Shou, who was originally skeptical, completely believe what the other party said. She did have the power to make the final decision on hiring.

Xia Shou followed the other party through the transparent barrier between the parks and finally walked into a hidden elevator.

In the elevator, the LCD screen on the wall was playing some strange news.

On the screen, a tall man with three heads and four legs was fighting fiercely with a group of armed men wearing white chemical protective suits and holding rifles.

The picture is not blurred, blood is flying everywhere, and broken limbs are everywhere. The scale is far beyond that of a B-level movie.

From the first floor to the seventh floor underground, Xia Shou read two such short news stories.

This seems to be special news exclusively for the Control Bureau, because it mentions things that are not known to the public, so this news should not be seen by ordinary people.

"Ding!"

The elevator stopped on the seventh floor underground, and the elevator door slowly opened, revealing an empty corridor outside.

The red-haired woman walked slowly in front of Xia Shou with her hands behind her back, her heels tapping rhythmically on the ground.

"Today is your first day at work. Let me first give you a detailed introduction to the key functional divisions.

The first thing is to choose your function. After entering the Control Bureau, you can engage in safe clerical work, or you can become a finisher, responsible for investigating, controlling, and hunting monsters.

The former is very safe in most cases, while the latter..."

"Then I choose the second one." Xia Shou said without hesitation.

If he chooses a civilian job, then there is no point in joining the Control Bureau. His purpose here is to devour monsters and increase buoyancy.

"You are so impatient. Don't rush to answer. Wait until you have seen those abnormal bodies before making a decision.

90% of new employees will change their minds and choose a stable clerical job after visiting those 'mild' anomalies. "

After saying that, she stopped in front of a wall with a controller.

She just operated the control panel a few times, and then the wall slowly opened, revealing a pure white room in front of Xia Shou.

Behind a huge explosion-proof glass, in the room, a huge creature was crawling on the ground.

Xia Shou took a deep breath, raised his head, and his eyes fell on the sharp, jagged bony protrusions like flint. The dark bone spurs covered the entire body of this "monster lizard" like scales, but the twenty-meter-long body gave Xia Shou a huge sense of oppression and an indescribable visual impact.

This made Xia Shou unwilling to associate the monster in front of him with an ordinary animal like a lizard.

Rather than a lizard, it looks more like a Western dragon without its wings.

This huge reptile seemed to be aware of the sight outside the glass. It slowly turned its neck, and the friction of its scales made a harsh metallic noise. The huge beast looked at Xia Shou through the glass, and its glowing vertical pupils were like molten gold.

Xia Shou saw the emotion that only belongs to humans in the other person's eyes.

That's contempt.

"This explosion-proof glass won't break, right?" Xia Shou swallowed.

"Under normal circumstances, it can be said to be foolproof." The other party replied with a smile.

Normal circumstances, that is to say... there are times when accidents happen.

"Take a look at the introduction first."

She raised her hand and a blue screen appeared on the glass surface, with a brief introduction to the anomaly:
[Name: Disaster Crystal Dragon Lizard]

【Hazard Assessment: High】

[Abnormal Level: Level 5]

【No.: 53-678】

[Control risk: low]

[Introduction: The abnormal objects swallowed by this creature will be excreted from the body in the form of crystals. As long as the crystals are not broken, the cursed power of the abnormal objects will not dissipate.

In addition to devouring special items, the creature also has strict requirements on its intelligence when it comes to eating.

It is necessary to feed a death row inmate regularly within 24 hours, and the inmate must have at least a college degree. 】

"If high-risk prohibited objects and anomalies are left unchecked, thousands of people will die in a short period of time. The level of anomalies at level five is almost the limit of what the Control Bureau can safely resolve.

The higher the abnormality level, the higher the priority of supernatural power, and the stronger the immunity to external supernatural power. It is not an exaggeration to describe humans who can reach level 5 abnormality as monsters. "The woman said slowly.

Xia Shou nodded, and then heard the sound of a mechanism operating in the room behind the glass.

The next second, a human scream was heard in the room.

"Ahhhh!"

Following the scream, the ceiling of the inner room suddenly opened, and a man in prison clothes fell from it and landed heavily on the ground.

His legs were broken at terrible angles. He lay on the ground, twisting his body in pain, and kept calling for help.

The next second, he saw the twenty-meter-long monster, and his cry of pain turned into a hysterical scream.

"Ahhh! Ahhhhhhh!!!"

"It's so noisy!" The lizard spoke in human language, raised its claws to hold down the struggling prisoner, and opened its bloody mouth.

In an instant, broken limbs flew everywhere, blood splattered everywhere, and blood spots mixed with broken flesh continuously splashed onto the glass in front of Xia Shou.

The huge reptiles were tearing at the corpse with their sharp teeth while laughing playfully and reciting Nietzsche's famous words aloud: "If you don't want to die of thirst among the world, you must learn to drink from all cups; if you want to stay clean among the world, you must know how to wash yourself with dirty water... Hehehe!"

Xia Shou witnessed the whole process of the man being tortured and killed by the monitor lizard through the glass.

"How does it feel?" asked the red-haired woman.

"Not so good. It can actually speak, and it seems very unconvinced." Xia Shou said.

Hearing this answer, the woman was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "It seems that there is really no need to take you on a further tour. As expected, you are very suitable for finishing work. Then fill in the form and tick the box under Investigation Department 3. Fill in my name as the referee."

After saying that, she took out a piece of paper and handed it to Xia Shou. It was an employment intention form.

Xia Shou quickly filled in the basic information, ticked the box after investigating the three departments, and finally stopped writing in the column of the referrer, looking up and giving the other party an inquiring look.

"Just write Shangguan Yan." The woman said lightly.

Xia Shou's pupils suddenly shrank and he looked up at the other person in shock.

She is Shangguan Yan? !
"Huh? What's wrong? You look very unhappy." Shangguan Yan asked puzzledly.

"Oh, that, sorry, I have a letter of recommendation! I already have a department I want to join." Xia Shou smiled apologetically, quickly took out the letter of recommendation from his pocket and handed it to Shangguan Yan.

Shangguan Yan took the recommendation letter from Xia Shou, took a look at it, and then smiled: "Oh~ That's even more coincidental. This is the recommendation letter for the Third Department, but it was written to the previous minister, but he has already died, and now the minister of the Third Department is me."

"?!"

Xia Shou frowned, his mind a little confused.

Damn, are all the recipients of recommendation letters dead?

How did the notes come about? Did he stay in that room for too long and lose touch with the outside intelligence?

The recommendation letter was for three departments, so it was useless.

If you refuse the other party, you may not even be able to join the control bureau.

Now, the situation became tricky.

Xia Shou's brain was stuck, and the two stood facing each other in silence for a long time.

"Oh~~Have you heard some rumors about our department?" Shangguan Yan asked with a smile.

"Rumor? No! That's really not the case!" Xia Shou denied it flatly, but even he felt that this answer was a cover-up.

Shangguan Yan stared at Xia Shou for a while, until Xia Shou's scalp felt numb.

Then, she smiled slightly and replied very generously:

"It's okay. You can take your time to think about it. It's okay to join other departments. After all, this is your future job. It depends on which department's working style suits you."

(End of this chapter)