Rotten God Kingdom

"Our hero is back."

The commander stood in front of the breach in the fortress and gestured with his chin towards the distance.

In the dust, the outline of a motorcycle was approaching, the sound of its engine growing louder as it rolled over gravel and the remains of a monster.

He pointed to the smoke and dust beyond the walls and ordered, "Make way for him."

The cleaners stopped what they were doing and stepped aside to make way for them.

Jiang Wang slowly slowed down in the crowd and finally stopped in front of the commander.

"Brother! So fast?"

Jiangxin emerged from behind the crowd, but her running pace gradually slowed down.

"Brother, what's this?" Jiang Xin asked, pointing to the unidentified object tied to the motorcycle.

"A woman."

Jiang Xin said angrily, "Well done, you've got some skills at flirting with women now. I'm going to tell my sister-in-law."

"Nonsense, where did you get a sister-in-law?"

Jiang Wang parked his motorcycle and walked towards the commander.

"Welcome back, heroes of the sick city."

Jiang Wang shook his head and said, "I didn't do anything, I don't deserve this title."

"Not everyone has the courage to enter the epicenter of the epidemic."

The commander said meaningfully, "Not now, but it might be later."

"What do you know? Can you give me a hint?" Jiang Wang felt that there was something strange about Han Yue's mission from beginning to end.

Many questions remain unanswered.

"The director said that you should come to the bureau to find him, and you can ask him any questions you have."

"it is good."

Jiang Wang readily agreed. He glanced at the fortress still under reconstruction, said nothing more, called Jiang Xin over, and with the roar of engines, headed towards the cleanup bureau.

They encountered no questioning or obstruction on the way, but the houses around the street were damaged to some extent.

"That's strange. Could it be that the monsters have actually broken in? That shouldn't be the case," Jiang Wang said, genuinely puzzled.

The monster horde clearly stopped at the edge of the barrier.

"The people in the city have gone mad just now, spouting nonsense about wanting health and freedom, and even taking to the streets to protest, smashing up the hospital and the sanitation department." Jiang Xin opened her mouth and took a sip of air.

Jiang Wang vaguely knew who was behind this.

Wang Yuxie?

I never expected that she, who looks so timid, would be so bold.

Jiang Wang also saw people collecting corpses by the roadside.

For some reason, the corpses on the ground, which were clearly dead from serious illness, did not hatch into disease ghosts this time.

Jiang Wang shook his head.

This city is so mysterious; even after living here for so long, he has only seen the tip of the iceberg.

In terms of the degree of distortion, Sick City is definitely among the top.

Ye Xun had been waiting for a long time at the entrance of the Cleaning Bureau.

He looked at Jiang Wang with a burning gaze, as if he were seeing a lover he hadn't seen for many years.

Jiang Wang felt a chill run down his spine from that look. He pulled a gun from the armory and said, "Stand there and don't move."

"What is Mr. Jiang doing?" Ye Xun raised his hands, a smile playing on his lips. "Entering the city with the title of hero, yet afraid of a mere office worker like me?"

"Answer a few questions for me first."

"you say."

"Did you notice my sister and me when we entered the city?"

Ye Xun nodded frankly: "A hunter from a city will be noticed by everyone, no matter which city he is in. That's normal."

"No, you should be wary and cautious of the Hunters, but you deliberately led me to join the Cleanup Bureau. This is very unusual."

"Hey, hey, hey, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Everyone who joins the Cleanup Bureau does so voluntarily, and you're no exception." Ye Xun continued with a smile, "You can guess why I'm giving you this opportunity."

opportunity?

Jiang Wang knew that the opportunity Ye Xun mentioned referred to the mission of capturing Han Yue.

What makes Han Yue special?

Does she have the same disease as Jiangxin?

What else?

"Okay, I'll be frank. Because you want to treat your sister's illness, you are eager to explore the secrets of the disease city, deliberately getting close to the disease, and you don't even care that you have lung cancer."

This is why the Cleanup Bureau cares about you.

Only those with ulterior motives can be exploited; only those with strong desires have the courage to disregard everything.

Think about it carefully, don't all the people involved in this task possess this potential?

Jiang Wang, of course, goes without saying.

He didn't care about putting himself in danger in order to treat Jiang Xin's illness.

Lü Ang was the same; in the previous battle, he stood in front of Jiang Wang without hesitation.

Hu Chengyu is actually similar; he has a bad temper, but he really steps up when something happens.

Guo Jia didn't say much, so Jiang Wang couldn't figure anything out for the time being.

Wang Yuxie seems to think of himself as a fanatical savior.

Han Lin also has his own secrets that are unknown to others.

What do they have in common?

"You all have a certain affinity for disease. No matter what your reasons are, the end result is the same: you are more willing to get close to disease and more accepting of disease than ordinary people." Ye Xun stopped keeping him in suspense.

"The profession of sanitation worker, from the moment it was born, was not about eliminating disease and protecting residents, but about finding a true protector for this land."

Jiang Wang didn't quite understand what Ye Xun was saying.

Seeing the obvious skepticism on Jiang Wang's face, Ye Xun simply said, "Come with me, I'll show you the truth about Sick City."

He turned and walked into the cleanup bureau.

Jiang Wang and Jiang Xin exchanged a glance, picked up Han Yue, and followed her inside.

Judging from the miserable state of those monsters in the Western District Barrier, Jiang Wang felt that if the Cleanup Bureau wanted to harm him, there was no need to devise any schemes or tricks.

Behind the last door of the cleanup department is an elevator.

Ye Xun opened the elevator door, pressed the only button inside, and looked at Han Yue in Jiang Wang's arms, sighing, "I thought you were going to kill him."

Jiang Wang said seriously, "My mission is to capture Han Yue. As for Han Lin, I've already sent him on his way."

After Ye Xun finished speaking, he stopped talking, and the elevator remained silent for nearly ten minutes.

The elevator only stopped when Jiang Wang couldn't help but ask.

"It's been that long? So the Cleanup Bureau's headquarters is actually underground?"

"Two hundred meters, not too deep."

The moment the elevator doors opened, Jiang Wang saw a scene that he could not understand.

Outside the elevator was a huge cavern, with colonies of bacteria on the ceiling emitting a faint blue glow in the darkness, like an inverted starry sky. The light fell on the ground and illuminated the vast farmland and breeding farms in the distance, stretching as far as the eye could see.

"The food for the people of the sick city comes from here. While disease brings suffering, it also brings other things."

We identified some special strains among certain mutated pathogens. These pathogens can provide sunlight, nutrients for vegetation growth, and even accelerate animal growth. Such things existed in the pre-cataclysmic world, but not at this level of efficiency.

It is precisely because of these little things that people both love and hate that Sick City has been able to maintain its current size.

This did indeed answer one of Jiang Wang's questions.

Food originating from germs sounds exaggerated, but it is indeed the reality of disease-ridden cities.

"Where is the bureau chief?"

"You've already seen it."

Jiang Wang looked up and saw a surge of wriggling germs in the air. Countless germs, invisible to the naked eye, gathered together, swirling, overlapping, and intertwining, eventually forming a rough human shape.

The humanoid figure tilted its head slightly, seemingly sizing up Jiang Wang at the elevator entrance. After a moment, it spoke: "Not bad, young man. Before the cataclysm, you'd be the type of guy girls would fight over."

Before the catastrophe?

Jiang Wang tentatively asked, "You come from before the cataclysm?"

"Hmm, come to think of it, I should be over ninety years old this year."

"Long live the Emperor!" Jiang Wang couldn't help but praise.

"Humans in this era are short-lived; many don't even live to adulthood and fall like wheat being harvested. I'm glad to see a young person like you in this sick city."

By the way, let me introduce myself. My name is Qiao Shao. Before the catastrophe, I was the mayor of Linjiang City, which became a sick city after the catastrophe.

I was the one who changed the name "Sick City," and now it seems quite fitting.

Jiang Wang didn't quite understand what the bureau chief was trying to say, so he simply chose to remain silent.

"Young man, don't you have any questions?"

Jiang Wang considered it for a moment, and finally chose the question that interested him most: "What is the way to save my sister?"

"I appreciate your directness," the director praised. "My first method is to directly eliminate the disease from your sister's body, at the cost of you having to live in the Sick City from now on."

The reason is simple: I have paid the price, and to make up for my sacrifice, you must stay in the sick city to bear the disease and alleviate my condition, even if it's just a small part.

"What about the second option?" Jiang Wang considered it seriously and felt that staying in the Sick City wasn't a bad idea, but he might not survive there for long.

Once one disease is cured, what about the next one?

Is the existence of healthy people allowed in a sick city?

"You can have the same essence as me. You can eat your sister's disease yourself. As for the price, you are paying the price when you make this decision. Whether you choose to leave or not, I will not stop you."

Jiang Wang looked at the human figure in front of him, feeling a struggle in his heart.

To become someone whose body is made up of germs?

In that case, does it even matter whether you leave or not?

"May I ask what qualifications you're referring to?"

"You've seen that tree, haven't you?"

Jiang Wang nodded.

"When I first saw it, it was thriving from a pile of discarded medicines. I saw its amazing resistance to disease and gave it a little help."

This is what I mean by qualifications.

"The ability to metastasize disease?"

"No, it is becoming the disease itself."