Nightmare Light

Chapter 272 Pollution Resistance

The air conditioning in the conference room kept the temperature slightly cool.

The faint light from the screen shone on everyone, casting their faces in shifting shadows.

Jiang Shanjun and Tian Taozi looked excited.

The case seems to be pointing in a clear direction.

The female sheriff lightly tapped the table, stood up, and said in a brisk tone, "I'll organize the team right away and start investigating..."

Before Jiang Shanjun could finish speaking, Lin Wang raised his hand, interrupting her: "Don't rush to organize a search."

The female sheriff frowned slightly, but stopped anyway. She asked Lin Wang, "Why?"

“Because if you search now, even if you catch a bunch of mosquitoes, it won’t help,” Lin Wang bluntly poured cold water on her idea. “And it will scare the real culprit away.”

Jiang Shanjun looked thoughtful.

Lin Wang said, "If we combine the blood bank theft and the fact that someone was bitten, we have reason to guess that there must be a group of people behind the scenes committing the crime."

Jiang Shanjun and Tian Taozi nodded. The latter pulled out a bag of rice crackers from somewhere and was about to tear it open when the female section chief glared at her, so she sheepishly put it back.

"Now, we need to figure out one thing—what are these blood-stealing guys up to?"

Jiang Shanjun frowned and pondered for a moment: "But we have very few clues now, making it difficult to analyze the suspect's motive."

“No, of course we have clues.” Lin Wang said, pointing at the screen with a laser pointer. “The commonalities among these patients are enough to help us complete the analysis.”

“You mean…” Jiang Shanjun unconsciously drew out her words, her expression gradually becoming serious, “Lushan?”

"To be precise, it should be a certain characteristic of the people of Lushan." Lin Wang drew a circle on an old man with a laser pointer. "Why a person from Lushan? Why an old man? What do they have in common?"

Lin Wang pointed at the screen with a laser pointer: "Although these elderly people are all emaciated and bloodless, it is not difficult to tell from their physique that they should have been very healthy, or even strong, elderly people."

Jiang Shanjun said to the sheriff, "Open up the files of all the patients who have lost blood."

The sheriff nodded and quickly switched to all the patients' information.

Lin Wang asked him to divide the information of Lu Shanren into two columns, one for him and one for other patients.

Then, they began to go through the patients' files one by one.

When they reached the fifth person, the female section chief of the Public Security Bureau's expression changed. Her expression turned serious: "These elderly people... have almost never been sick?"

“Strong, healthy, long-lived, and almost never sick,” Lin Wang said. “Three of them even had close contact with unusual events and emerged unscathed and uninfected.”

"What about the people from Lushan?" Tian Taozi asked.

“The people of Lushan…” Lin Wang pondered for a moment, “Speaking of which, I just helped with a case related to the people of Lushan a few days ago.”

“You haven’t given me any information about this case yet,” Jiang Shanjun said.

"I just returned to Tangsheng City a day ago," Lin Wang said, shrugging.

Jiang Shanjun nodded, indicating that she didn't mind, and gestured for Lin Wang to continue.

“In this case, I obtained a…” Lin Wang pondered for a moment, organizing his thoughts, ““very interesting, or rather, very important information.”

"That is, the people of Lushan... or rather, the descendants of the ancient royal family, are resistant to abnormal pollution."

"The descendants of the three ancient emperors all showed great resistance when faced with pollution sources. Some of the more powerful ones could even suppress the pollution within their bodies, preventing it from taking effect or delaying its onset."

Jiang Shanjun frowned and said, "I've heard such rumors before, but I've never had the chance to verify them... Besides, those were ancient royal families. Do the people of Lushan today have such abilities?"

Lin Wang said, "Speaking of now... the leader of the Wild Wolf Gang, known as Brother Dog, is actually a descendant of Deer Mountain, and his real name is Ji Shuming."

Jiang Shanjun nodded: "The Public Security Bureau knows about this intelligence."

They did know.

Lin Wang thought to himself.

Then he said, "In the case I just came across, the murderer used some kind of contamination to attack everyone in the entire Wild Wolf Gang, but their leader, Ji Shuming from Deer Mountain, showed extremely high resistance. Not only was he not infected, but he was also able to run around freely and even venture into the dream world."

Lin Wang put away the laser pointer and tapped the table: "Therefore, I have reason to believe that even the current inhabitants of Lushan still possess strong resistance to pollution..." Jiang Shanjun slowly followed Lin Wang's train of thought: "Considering the recent blood loss cases..."

“The answer is hidden in the blood,” Lin Wang said. “Or rather, the murderers believed that the answer was hidden in the blood.”

“The case is becoming clearer,” Jiang Shanjun said, her face still showing worry and unease. “But the question is, what do they want with the contamination resistance?”

"What's pollution resistance for?" Lin Wang asked her in return.

"Combating...pollution?"

"Yes, so there is pollution."

……

Meanwhile, outside Tangsheng City, dozens of kilometers to the northwest, a reservoir that supplies water to Tangsheng City passes through a man-made flood control embankment and enters the mountainside on one side.

A figure in a black and red robe, holding a strangely styled copper bell, shook his robe and stepped into the cave inside the mountain.

The figure in the black and red robe passed through a section of reservoir maintenance work, checked that no one was around, and pushed a stone wall a few times. The stone wall rumbled and receded inward, revealing a passage that should not have existed.

The passage was deep and secluded, with a slightly cool temperature.

The man in the black and red robe, carrying a copper bell, walked into the passage. After walking for a while, the space suddenly opened up before him, revealing a spacious room.

In the center of the room was a huge pool of blood, half of which was boiling and churning as if it were alive, and it had a pungent smell.

On one side of the blood pool, seven or eight metal pipes extend from the pool to the side, with their ends connected to a metal bowl-shaped facility.

Above the center of the room is a passageway leading to the cave above. Sunlight streams into the room through the passageway, shining directly above the blood pool.

Inside the room, beside the pool of blood, stood a person, also wearing a black and red robe, but with a much more ornate style.

The man in the black and red robes, holding a copper bell, walked towards the figure in front of the blood pool. Upon approaching, he bowed and touched his chest, slowly offering a salute.

The figure before the blood pool, silent but panting, reached out a hand towards the pool. In its hand, a crimson mass condensed, changing shape as if it were alive.

TA said to the figure holding the copper bell, "I hope you won't disappoint me this time, Apostle."

Judging from her voice, she was a woman with a slightly hoarse voice.

"As you wish, Your Excellency," came the man's voice from the figure known as the Apostle.

He raised the copper bell in his hand and shook it gently, but the bell made no sound: "But, I hope you understand... this is not easy."

The copper bell made no sound.

But a few seconds later, a buzzing sound came from above the skylight pipe.

The air vibrated with a buzzing sound.

A few seconds later, a large swarm of enormous mosquitoes, nearly the size of volleyballs, descended from the sky and flew into the blood pool space.

These enormous mosquitoes, each with a swollen, blackish-red abdomen, flew into the blood pool and then headed towards the metal bowls beside it.

After landing on the bowl, these mosquitoes began to excrete blood into the metal bowl.

At this time, a line of words will appear out of thin air next to the metal bowl.

Human blood, meets standards.

[The blood of the strongest humans, exceptional]

[Royal blood, exceptional]

[Cat blood, substandard, discharge procedure performed and pipes purified]

Fish blood, substandard, must be removed and the pipes purified.

Pig's blood...

A hoarse, angry shout from the woman echoed through the underground space: "Why is there still pig's blood here?!"

(End of this chapter)