I can equip strange items

Chapter 89 Superpowered Cleanup Team

After leaving the prefab house, Li Yuan found his motorcycle and rode it towards Donghe City.

Since it's daytime now, there's no need to worry about being attacked by eerie streetlights.

The snow on the main roads must have been cleared by the authorities to facilitate the transport of disaster relief supplies.

So riding a bike isn't a problem, it's just a bit slippery, so you have to drive slower.

A cold wind blew in his face, but for Li Yuan at this moment, this chill was nothing at all.

His current normal strength has reached the eighth level of the Extraordinary Realm, and his physical fitness far exceeds that of ordinary people. Such low temperatures have almost no effect on him.

Along the way, Li Yuan noticed that snowplows were already operating on the main road, pushing the snow to the side of the road and revealing the black asphalt surface.

He is able to ride his bike normally now thanks to these snowplows.

About twenty minutes later, the motorcycle entered the edge of Donghe City.

The scene before him made Li Yuan pause for a moment in surprise.

Donghe City was originally a bustling medium-sized city with a permanent population of over one million.

But now, the entire city is deserted, like a ghost town.

All the shops on both sides of the street were closed, and various kinds of seals were pasted on the glass doors.

However, these seals seem to have been put up by the city residents themselves, since the city residents probably don't have that much free time or the manpower to spare.

In addition, the roller shutters of some shops had been violently damaged, and the goods inside were scattered all over the floor, indicating that looting had occurred.

Vehicles were parked haphazardly on the road, some even crashing directly into roadside utility poles, their front ends severely deformed.

Withered leaves and trash mixed in with the snow made the whole city look even more dilapidated.

Who would have thought that just over a week ago, this was a bustling city with people and traffic?

With a sigh in his heart, Li Yuan continued riding his motorcycle along the main road.

The further you go into the city center, the more shocking the sights become.

Some buildings have obvious claw marks on their exterior walls, clearly left by mutated creatures.

Of course, it could also be left behind by those rotting corpse puppets from before.

Occasionally, dried bloodstains can be seen on the ground, which, when soaked by snowmelt, take on an eerie dark red hue.

The world seems to be collapsing at a visible speed.

Li Yuan sighed inwardly, withdrew his gaze, and focused his attention on the road in front of him.

His main purpose in entering Donghe City was to check on the progress of the official cleanup efforts.

Although no one would dare to cheat on this matter, it is still necessary to personally confirm it to be on the safe side since it concerns the solidification of one's blue tag.

However, the recent snowfall will undoubtedly significantly increase the speed of the official cleanup efforts, which has caused him some concern.

Thankfully, the snow has stopped now; hopefully, it won't snow again.

After driving for a few more minutes, Li Yuan suddenly heard a strange sound coming from ahead.

It was a whooshing sound of wind, mixed with the sound of something being lifted up and falling.

"Is someone ahead?"

He sped up and drove in the direction of the sound.

After turning a corner, the view suddenly opened up.

There was a crossroads in front of us, and a dozen or so people were busy at work.

Most of them were wearing orange sanitation worker uniforms and were using brooms and shovels to clear snow and garbage.

But what truly caught Li Yuan's attention were the two people standing right in the middle of the intersection.

It was a middle-aged woman in a dark blue uniform and a young man who looked to be only in his early twenties.

The middle-aged woman was in her early forties, slightly overweight, and looked as ordinary as a neighborhood committee auntie.

But her actions at this moment were anything but ordinary.

She slowly opened her arms, then suddenly lifted them upwards.

The next moment, a whirlwind that could be seen with the naked eye appeared out of thin air in front of her.

The whirlwind was about three meters high and one meter in diameter, like a transparent pillar, spinning rapidly in the center of the intersection.

Wherever the whirlwind passes, lightweight waste such as fallen leaves, waste paper, and plastic bags on the ground are swept up and swirled upwards with the airflow.

In less than ten seconds, the entire intersection became spotless, with all the lightweight trash swept into the center of the whirlwind.

The young man stood to the side, his hands resting lightly on the bottom of the whirlwind.

As he moved, the trash caught in the whirlwind began to decompose and dissipate at a visible speed, eventually turning into fine powder that drifted away with the wind.

"Is this the 'whirlwind' and 'garbage decomposition' capabilities that Lu Jiayin was talking about?"

Li Yuan watched in amazement.

Although he himself possesses various powerful abilities, he still finds this kind of purely supportive superpower somewhat novel.

Just then, the middle-aged woman seemed to notice Li Yuan's presence and turned to look at him.

"Are you—Mr. Li Yuan?" the woman asked, her tone tinged with uncertainty.

"I am."

Li Yuan jumped off the motorcycle: "Who are you?"

"My name is Li Xiuzhi, but everyone calls me Sister Li."

The middle-aged woman said with a smile, "Deputy Team Leader Lu told us that a young man named Li Yuan would be coming to inspect the cleaning work. I didn't expect to see you so soon."

"Deputy Team Leader Lu mentioned me to you?" Li Yuan was somewhat surprised.

"Yes, she said you're the 'quality supervisor' for this operation."

Sister Li said with a smile, "Don't worry, we will definitely clean the city up and won't let you down."

Quality supervisor? Lu Jiayin will arrange an identity for me, though.

Li Yuan chuckled inwardly, but outwardly nodded calmly, "Then I'll trouble you all. May I look around here?"

"sure."

Sister Li readily replied, "Feel free to look around. If you have any questions, just let us know."

Li Yuan thanked them and walked to the roadside to carefully observe their work.

That young man's ability to decompose garbage was indeed quite special.

Any organic waste that is swept up by the whirlwind will decompose into grayish-white powder within seconds under his lightly pressing hands.

These powders were blown away by the wind and completely dissipated into the air, leaving not a trace.

"That's quite environmentally friendly," Li Yuan thought to himself.

He was initially worried that the powder left behind would make cleaning more difficult.

But that decomposition seemed to be a kind of magical degradation. Although the principle behind it is unknown, at least no waste was left behind.

In addition, Li Yuan keenly noticed that the temperature inside the city had increased significantly.

Because of the rising temperature, the snow in the entire city of Donghe is melting rapidly.

Is it a strange object? Or the effect of some kind of supernatural power?

He was secretly surprised: it seems this is also part of the cleaning work; the authorities are indeed putting in the effort.

After watching for a while, he continued riding his motorcycle forward, wanting to see what was happening in other areas.

Because the snow kept melting, there was no more snow to be seen before we even got close to the city center.

The further he went into the city center, the more cleaning staff he saw.

Besides Sister Li and the young man, he also saw other people with special abilities.

In a park, two water-controlling superhumans are using water to wash away stains on the ground.

Their ability allows them to manipulate water to form high-pressure jets that wash away dried bloodstains and grime from the ground.

On another street, an earth-elemental ability user was manipulating the soil to fill in and smooth out the broken pavement and collapsed potholes.

He pressed his hands on the ground, and the ground seemed to come alive, the soil churning and surging, quickly filling the pothole, then compacting it, restoring it to a smooth road surface.

"He actually has this ability—"

Li Yuan watched in amazement.

When the Bureau of Abnormal Affairs collected so many people with special abilities, even they probably didn't expect that these abilities would eventually be used in this way.

Because not everyone knows him, most people don't react much when they see him.

He drove through several more streets and found that the cleaning work was proceeding in an orderly manner.

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