Fourth Perspective - Chapter 27

TN: Choice one won! Zhongdu/Haidu will be left as they are and any new cities will be translated correctly. Sorry!

Chu Wenting died.

Under the bright light, this young and thin woman said her last sentence and fell back.

Then she stopped breathing.

Doctors and nurses came into the examination room immediately and attempted to revive her. No one would have thought that the woman who was just talking one second ago would be lying on a bed with a pale face in the next. And like they were just trying to revive a corpse that was long dead, no rescue measures worked on her.

Ten minutes later.

Zhongdu’s User Committee sent people to block off the hospital.

All the doctors, nurses, and patients in the hospital were transferred to the nearest hospital, and with the hospital as the center, an emergency evacuation was carried out within a radius of a hundred meters. The reason for the evacuation was—

A radiation leak.

After the Type-A radiation, small radiation leaks often happened around the world. A week ago, Xiao Jinyu didn’t know that the evacuation notices he would encounter from time to time as he grew up weren’t actually from a radiation leak, but instead they were because of a logic storm, an out-of-control logic skill, or a polluter.

This reason had always been very convincing for people who were reluctant to move their legs.

And no one would be curious about a radiation leakage.

Chu Wenting’s sudden death, as well as her strange behavior before her violent death, shocked and frightened the only ordinary person in the examination room, Officer Wang. This person was frightened into confusion like he had bumped into an evil spirit, losing his soul.

The psychologists from the User Committee took Officer Wang to the lounge for psychological counseling.

Soon, only four people were left in the examination room.

Xiao Jinyu didn’t immediately go forward and examine Chu Wenting’s body. He only quietly looked at Qi Simin’s reaction.

Qi Simin was a subject to learn from.

This short-haired woman was a level two user and strictly speaking, she was indeed more experienced than Xiao Jinyu. But since she didn’t know who Su Jiuzhou was, she wasn’t that experienced.

…The fissure on Chu Wenting’s neck was like the one on his mom’s, exactly the same.

How should a user who wasn’t that high of a level react when he sees such a strange and creepy event?

—Provided that before then, this low-level user hadn’t seen anyone with similar wounds.

Qi Simin wordlessly looked at the woman’s corpse that wasn’t that far away with complicated eyes.

It seems like there weren’t any special reactions. Low-level users shouldn’t have much experience with this. However, Xiao Jinyu realized that he hadn’t considered something, he was different from Qi Simin in the first place.

Xiao Jinyu suddenly opened his mouth: “This wound is just like Meat King’s, exactly the same.”

Everyone turned to look at him.

Xiao Jinyu’s expression didn’t change. He tilted his head up: “I went to Haidu City to help investigate Meat King’s case. Captain Wang even gave me a commission of ten thousand yuan.”

Wang Tao nodded.

The four people in the examination room all knew about Meat King’s case but the only one who had gone to the scene and seen Meat King’s body was Xiao Jinyu. Even Su Jiuzhou had only gone to the coffee shop and didn’t go to the scene to check Meat King’s corpse.

This was the difference between him and Qi Simin.

Under the flickering light, Xiao Jinyu walked to the woman’s corpse: “The fissure in the neck of Meat King was pulled apart by his wife after using a lot of strength. Just now, Chu Wenting didn’t seem like she had used a lot of strength, Su…” Pausing for a moment, he continued: “Colonel Su also quickly pressed her head back down so I didn’t see clearly. But with that glance, it looked exactly like the fracture on Meat King’s neck.”

Xiao Jinyu: “She has been confirmed dead and she’s also not a pollutant.”

After saying this, Xiao Jinyu deliberately paused for half a second.

No one refuted him.

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Because pollutants kill people, they must be killed.

If they don’t want to kill people, then they aren’t pollutants.

“Indeed, she isn’t a pollutant.”

His thoughts were suddenly interrupted and Xiao Jinyu looked at the person who said that.

Su Jiuzhou walked over to him and looked at the woman on the iron bed who was no longer breathing. He looked at Xiao Jinyu: “Just now, you said that there aren’t any logic factors on her.”

Xiao Jinyu froze for a moment before nodding: “Yes.” He was just about to explain that there was one other place that he wasn’t able to check, only to see Su Jiuzhou raise his hand and reach out to Chu Wenting’s neck: “What about here?”

Xiao Jinyu was stunned.

Su Jiuzhou: “Take a look.”

“Rip—”

The level six user easily pulled open the woman’s neck. Xiao Jinyu pursed his lips. His right hand gently slid over his eyelids, his gaze quickly dropping down and sweeping over the flat cleft of the woman’s neck.

When he saw the two black dots of light flickering between the flesh and blood, Xiao Jinyu’s heart stopped for a moment but there was no change on the surface.

He looked at Su Jiuzhou: “There are logic factors!”

Su Jiuzhou narrowed his eyes.

It turned out there really were logic factors!

From the moment he had stepped into Chu Wenting’s home this morning, Xiao Jinyu had always been looking for logic factors. He had carefully inspected every corner of her house and also observed this woman several times, but he never found a logic factor, so he wasn’t sure whether her so-called ‘strangeness’ was related to a logic skill.

After they found the problem with Chu Wenting’s neck, Xiao Jinyu also guessed that if there really were logic factors on her body, then it would definitely be embedded in the flesh and blood of her neck, just like his mom.

But he wasn’t completely sure.

Because Meat King’s fissure didn’t have any logic factors.

And he didn’t know if Chu Wenting’s abnormality was like his mother’s and Meat King’s.

Only now was he sure.

Xiao Jinyu took a deep breath and thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind. After a few seconds, Xiao Jinyu looked up: “Colonel Su, there’s something I want to tell you privately.”

Once he said this, both Wang Tao and Qi Simin were surprised.

Su Jiuzhou raised an eyebrow.

The two soon went into the corridor.

“Colonel Su.”

In the empty corridor, the gentle and indifferent voice of the youth echoed softly.

He only heard Wang Tao shout this once and he actually learned from him and followed. Su Jiuzhou smiled: “What did you want to say to me in private?”

Xiao Jinyu’s expression didn’t change. He didn’t respond and instead asked: “Do you remember what I told you before about the color of logic factors?”

“Multicolored.”

The response was very fast. Xiao Jinyu looked up towards the man in front of him: “Yes, it’s multicolored. But Colonel Su, the two logic factors I saw on Chu Wenting’s neck just now… were black.”

Hearing this, Su Jiuzhou’s eyes moved slightly. He glanced at the youth in front of him and smiled.

“This was what you wanted to tell me in private?”

“…En.”

Su Jiuzhou: “So cautious, you really don’t plan on leaking your logic skill information at all. So I’ll have to keep this from Wang Tao?”

Xiao Jinyu’s expression was calm and didn’t refute.

Su Jiuzhou: “Xiao Jinyu, you definitely didn’t fill out any information in the Grow Some Brains APP.”

Xiao Jinyu froze, staring at him.

Su Jiuzhou shook his head and sighed: “So naughty.”

Xiao Jinyu: “…”

You say that as if you filled out any information, you clearly didn’t fill in a single word!

004 said that even your name was filled in by the User Committee!

Su Jiuzhou looked at him with a smile and turned around to walk back to the examination room.

Behind him, Xiao Jinyu’s expression gradually sank. He looked indifferently at the man’s distant back, and after a while, he followed.

Choosing to tell Su Jiuzhou that the pollution factors were black in private, was to make it so that the other party would think he was simply just overly cautious and didn’t want to expose any part of his logic skill. That his only secret was his logic skill.

No one would think that under one secret would be another secret.

Although the black pollution factors wouldn’t expose the presence of his mom, Xiao Jinyu must be extremely careful. Any possibility of exposing must be smothered at its starting point.

The two returned to the examination room.

Su Jiuzhou and Xiao Jinyu didn’t mention the conversation in the corridor. Wang Tao and Qi Simin were not stupid and didn’t ask.

Su Jiuzhou: “After the forensic doctor checks her cause of death, send it for safekeeping first at the Logic Research Institute.”

“Alright.” Wang Tao: “Also, Colonel Su, I already sent people to check which logic skills or polluters are related to people’s necks.”

“Check the out-of-control logic skills too.”

“Huh?” Wang Tao looked at Su Jiuzhou in surprise: “Colonel Su, she wasn’t polluted.” Pollutants will definitely kill, yet Chu Wenting became a corpse after her death and other than her strange neck, there are no other special areas on her body. She couldn’t be a pollutant.

Su Jiuzhou didn’t answer him: “Check it.”

Wang Tao responded in confusion: “Ok!”

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

Wang Tao had Qi Simin leave first as there was no need for her to intervene in this matter. For a level two user, Qi Simin had already completed her task. The proceeding tasks were not something she could manage. At the same time, he followed Su Jiuzhou’s instructions and contacted Haidu City’s Extermination Team.

Xu Qi, the vice-captain of Haidu City’s Extermination Team, heard about Chu Wenting’s situation and became emotional, immediately saying that he would come to Zhongdu the next day and bring all the documents on Meat King’s case with him.

When Wang Tao finished handling these matters, he looked up.

Eh, Colonel Su disappeared?

That new user who could see logic factors seemed to have disappeared too.

In the corridor of the hospital, Su Jiuzhou was walking in front and Xiao Jinyu followed behind, leaving half a person’s distance between them.

“Have you seen pollutants before?”

“…No.”

Xiao Jinyu really hadn’t seen a pollutant before.

He had awakened for ten days and had never gone to the contamination area nor had he taken on a task that was too difficult for him.

But he had seen more than one polluter.

Su Jiuzhou looked back and found that the youth was half a meter behind him, his cold and delicate face full of vigilance. He was slightly stunned and his dark eyes locked onto the youth: “Xiao Jinyu, how do you know that the black logic factors are related to pollutants then?”

Xiao Jinyu froze and looked up at him.

This question… couldn’t be answered.

Before today, Xiao Jinyu had seen the black logic factors in two places.

One was on the flesh and blood of his mom’s neck and the other was on the task reward given by Meat King, Polluter 198.

As for the pearl necklace in that Haidu City’s coffee shop, Xiao Jinyu did not see any black logic factors flow out. Probably because he didn’t use Fourth Perspective to look at it for a long time.

Low-ranking polluters won’t emit pollution factors all the time, just like Howard’s Fan. Xiao Jinyu had to stare at it for a full minute before a black light dot floated out of the fan’s pendant.

Su Jiuzhou thought for a moment: “The black logic factors might not necessarily be related to pollutants.”

Xiao Jinyu pretended to be curious and nervous, asking: “Then what do you think it is?”

Su Jiuzhou: “Maybe your logic skill broke?”

Xiao Jinyu: “…”

Your logic skill broke!

Your entire family’s logic skill broke!

Su Jiuzhou didn’t say where he was going to take Xiao Jinyu. But before they left the examination room, he specifically asked Xiao Jinyu if he had killed a pollutant before. After Xiao Jinyu gave a negative answer, he took him away.

Without a word, somehow Xiao Jinyu sensed what this man wanted to do.

Have you seen a pollutant?

No.

Do you know what an out-of-control logic factor looks like from a pollutant?

Don’t know.

—Then we’ll just kill one and see.

As they got closer and closer to the entrance of the hospital, the biting wind passed through the waiting lounge, blowing open the loose hair on Xiao Jinyu’s forehead.

The two were just about to walk out of the hospital when suddenly, at the corner of the hallway on the first floor, two figures quickly ran out of the room. The two were originally behind Xiao Jinyu and Su Jiuzhou and when they heard footsteps coming from behind them, Xiao Jinyu subconsciously looked back.

Eh?

“Officer Wang?”

Su Jiuzhou also turned around.

Not far away, Officer Wang was following a staff member and rushing towards the examination room they had come out of.

Hearing his voice, Officer Wang stopped. Looking back at Xiao Jinyu and Su Jiuzhou, his eyes lit up. His lips were still slightly pale from fear and the fear from tonight hadn’t completely left his system, but he ran over to Xiao Jinyu in large steps.

For him, this was more important than his fear.

“Expert! Quickly save my colleague! I just remembered that Chu Wenting’s feeling of ‘her head falling’ was also said by my colleague. He also suddenly supported his neck inexplicably before!”

“Quickly save him, he’s so young! He’s hasn’t gotten married yet, he can’t die!”