Chapter 42: The Passing of the Years
For students, the college entrance examination is a watershed moment.
The beginning of school before the college entrance examination is a nightmare in the heart of every student, and the beginning of school after the college entrance examination is the beginning of successfully getting rid of the shackles of family and letting go of oneself. College students who have had enough of listening to their parents' nagging at home happily rush back to school to continue a new round of indulgent life of drunken dreams and death. Different from the heavy negative atmosphere of the opening season of junior high and high school, the cheerful sound of the opening season of college always fills every inch of the campus, filled with the aroma of over-fermented fruit, depraved and intoxicated.
Injured Liu walked on the campus of S University, surrounded by an explosive youthful atmosphere, and in a trance, it seemed to take him back to his youth. Hurt Liunian stood by the playground and laughed at himself, he was obviously not much bigger than the people around him, but he felt that he was out of place in this world.
"Did I abandon the ordinary, or did the world reject me......" Hurt Liunian sat down on the bench, and a faint melancholy floated in his heart.
Ten years ago, at the age of 16, he ended his two-year training in the "Ministry of Disaster Relief" and became a combatant of the "Thunder Dragon Brigade" under the "Ministry of Disaster Relief" and followed his monitor to S City and began his own work and life. The "Ministry of Disasters" is an organization established by the state to inject funds, and on the surface it is an ordinary business group that purchases assets in various cities, and it has countless camouflage names, for example, the assets in S City are registered under a leather bag company called "Xda Technology Co., Ltd.", but the people in this organization call it "Ministry of Emergency Response to Non-Natural Disasters".
Its mission is to monitor and deal with anomalous catalysts.
Regarding the formation of "catalysts", countless religions, governments, and groups throughout the ages have their own set of narratives: miracles, awakening, enlightenment, channeling... And so on and so forth. In short, it seems that all problems that cannot be explained by common sense can be put into this category. With the innovation and development of science and technology, many unexplainable things have been unveiled, and 99.9% of them have been confirmed to be simply because of the ignorance of the predecessors, or the limitations of the knowledge of today's people, but even those very few events reveal the strangeness that is completely incompatible with the world.
They do not conform to the fundamental laws of this world, and their very existence can have an unpredictable impact on the world around them. They take the form of paranormal events, but they affect the functioning of the normal world through the people and things around them who come into contact with them. Catalysts below Class F are considered undetectable and can only be detected by specific instruments, and are considered harmless.
Class E and F catalysts are low-order catalysts that cannot be perceived by ordinary people. On the other hand, people and animals that can perceive F-class catalysts are out of the category of ordinary people, and such people and animals are also within the scope of the "Ministry of Disasters". The only way for low-level agents to diffuse their influence is through humans and animals who are able to sense their presence, such as people who do not claim to be able to see "ghosts". However, within the "Ministry of Disasters", it is said that such people have obtained "divine revelations", and the process of obtaining divine revelations is called alienation, and if the degree of alienation is too severe, it will itself become a catalyst.
Class C and Class D catalysts can already be recognized and perceived by ordinary people, and are medium-level catalysts, which tend to seriously affect the lives of ordinary people, and do not require any specific aliens and foreign objects that can sense their presence to have an impact on the world around them.
The A-level and B-level catalysts are defined as high-level catalysts beyond the cognitive way of ordinary people. Agents capable of reaching this level often have the ability to actively control and use their own extraordinary features, and they are the real enemies of the disaster department.
The disaster department has made a corresponding division of the hazards of catalysts,
Class H that needs to be destroyed
G-rating that requires a ban
N levels that need to be mothballed
and
J1 level requiring incarceration
J2 level requiring regulation
J3 level that needs to be monitored.
Injured Liunian is a high-level catalyst that has been judged to be a J2 level of hazard, and all the fighters of the Thunder Dragon Brigade of the Ministry of Disaster are all dangerous beings who have been judged to be J2 level of danger. The people who supervised them were called "dragon herdsmen", and they were all people who had received divine revelations through alienation.
In the process of dealing with hazardous catalysts, there is no doubt that the Inhuman, who is a catalyst itself, is the most suitable. Ordinary people who come into contact with medium-level and above catalysts can easily encounter "divine revelations" and be alienated, so how to reduce the impact of catalysts on the normal world has become extremely important.
In the end, the "Ministry of Disasters" formed a selection of inhumans with high ideological consciousness and as catalysts to form the Thunder Dragon Brigade as the front-line personnel, and at the same time selected people with strong will to obtain divine signs as the monitors of the Inhumans, that is, "Dragon Mu" to form a basic combat unit for dealing with catalysts. In this way, it not only avoids the alienation of ordinary people from contact with the catalyst, but also improves the combat efficiency with the help of the ability of the alien.
Anything powerful has people who covet its interests, and the completely counterintuitive catalyst is no exception, and countless religions, regimes, and groups throughout the ages have invested a lot of money and manpower in how to obtain and manipulate the catalyst. Various religions have studied elaborate rituals, bloody sacrifices, countless emperors exhausted their national power in search of immortal medicine, or built huge mausoleums. Wounded years is a victim of this silent darkness, the fourteen years before entering the disaster department are extremely miserable in his life, he was trafficked to a foreign scientific research institution as a test when he was a child, and finally experienced countless twists and turns and bizarre he was rescued by the disaster department and became a member of the dragon brigade. In the two years of training for the Ministry of Disasters, he got acquainted with Shangguan Shanshui of the same age, and in his seventh year in S City, the 23-year-old Shangguan Shanshui finally came to S City to become his dragon pastor, and the love between the two has been ten years away is another story.
Hurt Liunian raised his head and quietly looked at the students coming and going on the road, and envy surged from his heart.
"Two months left," he muttered to himself, having signed an agreement with the ministry before coming to S City. After serving the country for ten years and showing no signs of continued alienation, he can reduce his hazard level from J2 to J3 and spend the rest of his life as an ordinary person under the watchful eye of the ministry. He fantasized countless times about his life after retiring from the Ministry of Disasters, and the first thing he did was naturally to marry Shangguan Shanshui, who had been waiting for him for ten years. And the second thing is to take a degree, find an ordinary job to support the family, and let Shangguan Shanshui give birth to an ordinary, healthy and lovely child for himself. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile.
"What are you giggling at! Do you have a crush on which little girl? The hidden earphones in his ears came from Shangguan Shanshui's slightly angry voice
"Why, I'm thinking about our married life." Hurt Liunian raised his head and glanced at a commercial vehicle parked in the distance, and his throat moved slightly and explained helplessly with three points of grievance
"Don't coax me with nonsense, you stare at the point seriously, see that the time catalyst is about to appear, don't just sit there and pretend to be handsome and flirtatious!" Shangguan Shanshui ignored his explanation at all and said hatefully
He only reacted at this time, and he sat here, and the little girls passing by around him were quietly looking at him. A few bold girls simply stood not far away and stared at themselves whispering, and when they saw him looking over, they were not shy, and they threw a string of silver bell-like laughter with flattering eyes. He could even feel his girlfriend secretly staring at him, and his eyes suddenly sharpened with this burst of laughter.
He hurriedly got up from his chair and quickly disappeared into the flow of people before anyone could muster up the courage to strike up a conversation with him.
According to the detection results of Skynet, the catalyst detection satellite system dedicated to the Ministry of Disasters, the campus of S University has recently experienced frequent fluctuations of suspected catalysts, and it is one of the eight anomalous areas that need to be investigated in the urban area. Generally speaking, places with dense crowds are very easy to generate catalysts, and dense and active mental force fields can easily attract the attention of high-dimensional beings, thus becoming an interface to link the dimensional wall. In ancient times, bloody living sacrifices were considered an effective means of communicating with the gods, and it was precisely because the mental fluctuations of the sacrifices that erupted in extreme pain were like ethereal stars flashing in the dark night sky in the eyes of the higher dimensional beings, and there was an extremely low but not zero probability of attracting their attention. And even a glimpse of a higher dimensional existence would be a terrible shock to this world.
The department's report pointed out that fluctuations on the campus of S University have recently generated regularly at noon and night, and it is very likely that the catalyst itself is an alien like Wound Liunian, so the two of them came to the campus to try to find out.
The most difficult part of wandering around the campus aimlessly, and the most difficult part of checking for the catalyst is that you don't know what form or state it appears in and where. Only when it actually happens, can it be detected by special instruments, and at this time, the two of them can only rely on the information transmitted by Skynet to delineate the preliminary scope of the campus, and it is difficult to find clues about the specific location until the catalyst becomes active again.
"It would be nice if it was a dead thing like the previous one...... "Wound Liunian sighed, he preferred the object catalyst fixed on the roof of the building yesterday, which was easy to check and easy to arrange. At this moment, a strange feeling rose from the heart of the sad year.
"Liunian, in..."Shangguan Shanshui's voice sounded in the headphones
"I feel it, it's very close." Hurt Liu Nian cut off his girlfriend's words and said calmly. He raised his right hand and looked at the crystal pillar hidden in his palm, carefully observed the difference in the brightness of the six sides, and raised his head to lock on to a teaching building in front of him.
"Be careful." Shangguan Shanshui reminded in a low voice
"Don't worry, the fluctuation is not strong, don't get close to this side yet, I'll go up and have a look." Hurt Liunian pressed the communicator and walked into the teaching building to meet the flow of people.
At this time, at the end of the morning class, the students walked out of the teaching building in twos and threes, discussing the itinerary without classes in the afternoon, and discussing what to eat for lunch in those who had classes. By the time he reached the third floor, the students were almost clean, and the whole building was like an old man with dried blood, losing all its vitality and vitality. A few minutes ago, there was laughter and laughter everywhere, but now it was as silent as death.
When he walked to the fifth floor, he could already feel the source of the abnormal fluctuations without the help of the instrument in his hand, and the fluctuations as high as D-class came from the end of the corridor, which had a wonderful resonance with him. I can't help but be a little anxious, the mid-level catalyst itself can alienate the surrounding things to distort and affect the present world, not to mention the great harm in a crowded place like a university.
Wounded Nian withdrew the crystal pillar into his arms, his hands naturally drooping and ready for battle, slowly and silently approaching the end of the corridor. The hallway turns 90 degrees to see a public toilet on one side and a separate classroom on the other that extends back through a dimly lit corridor, a classroom that has not been used for a long time by the heavy dust above the door frame.
Hurt Liunian took a deep breath and gave it a gentle push. The door was not locked, and it opened with a slight "squeak", and the injured Liunian paused and turned slightly to look at the classroom from the open door, among the randomly stacked tables and chairs in the classroom, a thin figure turned his head in horror and met the eyes of the injured Liunian.