Chapter 14: Containees

The moment he saw the Aether Company badge, Cheng Cannon quickly pushed it back into Lu Yun's hand, and everything was as usual except for the movements of his hands.

This kind of behavior made Lu Yun feel confused, could it be that the mutual aid association actually didn't want to see the ether company?

Cheng Dacang didn't wait for Lu Yun to react next, and directly pressed the button under the bar, and another man's voice sounded from the loudspeaker on the side, listening to it still a little unconscious.

"Hey Uncle Cheng, isn't it time to change shifts yet?"

"You come down first, I'm going to handle a commission."

"Oh..."

The man reluctantly hung up the communication, and Lu Yun immediately heard the sound of the door opening and closing.

"Let's go, let's talk upstairs."

Cheng Cannon walked out of the bar and motioned for Lu Yun to follow him.

Seeing that he had become so serious, Lu Yun didn't ask much and followed directly.

"Hah! I really didn't expect this kid to be able to entrust a big one! ”

The members who were drinking on the side put away their presumptuous laughter when they saw Cheng Cannon walking out of the bar, the mutual aid association has always had to deal with Cheng Cannon alone only if it was a large commission.

In their eyes, Lu Yun has changed from a lost hairy boy to a worker who runs errands for a certain small force, if he continues to ridicule wantonly, it is not impossible to see his name on the order that needs to be dispatched by "cleaners".

After all, although this kind of errand runner can't decide on a goal, it's not difficult to use some reasonable reasons to describe yourself as an obstacle to achieving your goal.

Passing by a tall and strong guy yawning on the stairs, Lu Yun followed Cheng Cannon to a small room on the second floor.

As soon as he entered the door, Cheng Cannon closed the curtains and locked the door together.

"Did you wear that thing when you came?"

After doing all this, Cheng Cannon sat down on the sofa, stared at Lu Yun and asked.

"No, I didn't wear it for fear of getting into trouble, what's wrong?"

Lu Yun didn't expect that it would be such a battle when he came over to get something, and he couldn't help but start to crazily recall whether he had done anything else when he came.

Cheng Cannon retracted his eyes, as if he was relieved, and his inquiring tone was obviously much softer:

"Didn't Feng Ran tell you not to take that thing out around here?"

"No, he just gave it to me and didn't say anything."

Lu Yun shook his head, thinking to himself that this couldn't be because he was too lazy to write, right?

"Tsk, this person is still so careless about how to do things." Cheng Cannon shook his head, as if he had endured Feng Ran's style of acting for a long time.

"Why did he let you come? Are you a subordinate of his Field Support Department? What is the employee level? F or E? ”

"No, no, I've just passed the induction test, and I haven't officially joined yet."

While speaking, Lu Yun was also puzzled in his heart.

Employee level? In Lu Yun's impression, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as employee rank in the publicity of Ether Company.

"You haven't officially joined the company yet? That Feng Ran dared to let you come so much? ”

"I don't... Know? ”

Lu Yun was a little stunned by Cheng Cannon's words, he really didn't know why, and even he began to wonder if he should be here.

"Uncle Pao, Feng Ran only asked me to come here to sample things, and didn't say anything else."

"Don't call me Uncle Cannon, Cannon is a kind of wine I mix, not my name."

Cheng Cannon pinched the bridge of his nose, as if relieving the pressure.

"Okay, okay, kid, what's your name?"

"Lu Yun."

"Well, Lu Yun, since you are not an official rank employee, then..."

Cheng Dacang looked at Lu Yun's eyes, his expression was very serious, as if he was about to tell some secret.

"Are you a containee?"

"Containment?"

Lu Yun didn't quite understand what this word meant, and he didn't know why it needed to be so serious.

"You don't know the containees?"

Cheng Cannon covered his face and supported his forehead, and seemed to scold Feng Ran one hundred and eighty times in his heart.

"Alas... To put it another way, have you ever had a sudden increase in physical abilities or conjure something strange out of thin air? ”

"You mean... Such? ”

Lu Yun concentrated for a moment, and a dagger condensed from the rising black mist appeared in his hand, and he was a little stunned when he saw it as a cannon.

"yes, that's it."

The doubts in Cheng Cannon's tone before he completely disappeared, as if he finally understood why Feng Ran would let such a newcomer as Lu Yun come over.

Seeing that Cheng Cannon seemed to know something, Lu Yun didn't let go of this opportunity, and he had accumulated enough questions since last night.

"Uncle Cheng, what is a container, and what is it?"

Lu Yun swung the dagger in his hand twice in the air, and the bitter taste in his mouth became slightly stronger.

"It seems that Feng Ran really didn't tell you anything."

Cheng Da Cannon looked at Lu Yun with a little more sympathy in his eyes, as if he was looking at a victim who was sympathetic to the same disease.

"Have you been exposed to post-war anomalies lately?"

"Well, there's one in a building near my house, what's wrong with that?"

Speaking of which, Lu Yun had actually guessed some answers, but he couldn't believe it.

"I don't know exactly how to do it, you have to ask Feng Ran later, I can only tell you one thing-"

"The one who contains part of the post-war anomaly is the container."

Even though he already had a psychological expectation, Lu Yun's eyes still widened when he heard this, and he clenched the clothes on his chest in some panic.

Is there a part of that monster in your body?

“… Will it be dangerous? ”

"Of course there is, but don't be too nervous, the condition for becoming a hierarchical employee in the Aether Company is to accommodate the post-war anomaly, don't you think that guy Feng Ran is okay?"

Cheng Cannon took a cup for Lu Yun and poured some wine into it, different from the cheap taste outside, Lu Yun could feel that this was the kind of grain wine in the city.

Lu Yun hesitated for a while, picked it up and drank it in one gulp, the burning sensation in his throat made him cough again and again, but the sudden uneasiness in his heart eased a lot.

"Every containee is in danger, which is why the Aether Corporation needs to recruit people with 'qualifications' in the suburbs, otherwise why do you think we suburbanites will have the opportunity to climb on the heads of the city lords?"

Cheng Cannon chuckled and poured himself a glass.

"You give as much as you get, whether it's a suburban or a city or an ether company."

"But you don't have to worry too much, the containers within the Aether Company generally have a way to deal with their own dangers, this is what Feng Ran told me, seeing that he is doing well, he probably didn't lie."

"But... What exactly is that danger? Moreover, could it be that there is anyone else besides Aether Corporation who has the ability to contain post-war anomalies? ”

Lu Yun thought it was incredible, if it was normal for the Ether company to be able to do such an unbelievable thing, it would be contrary to common sense for other people or organizations to do it.

"Of course, kid, were you the one from the Aether Corporation when you contained the post-war anomaly?"

Cheng Cannon took a sip of wine and asked the natural question.

That's right, when accommodating "George", there was no external force to help him.

Lu Yun thought of this obvious answer at this time, Feng Ran was always by his side at that time, making him subconsciously forget about it.

Could it be that the battle in that room in the dream world is the process of containment?

"Anyone can become a container, and after becoming a container, your physical abilities will be improved accordingly, just like our etheric body modification, but there are no side effects, and you will also gain some magical abilities, and your dagger is one of them."

"I don't know about the rest, you'll have to ask the Aether Corporation, that's all I know."

"As for the danger..."

Cheng Cannon lowered his head, as if he was recalling some memories that he didn't want to remember.

Lu Yun held his breath and stared, and the next thing was what he cared about the most.

"Danger, danger is that the containment itself becomes a post-war anomaly."

"Impossible!"

Humans become post-war anomalies? This kind of ghost story would not have been believed by Lu Yun when he was a child!

"Listen to the child, I know it's hard for you to accept, but this is what I've seen with my own eyes, and it's also what Feng Ran has personally experienced."

Cheng Cannon calmed Lu Yun, it didn't seem to be the first time he had seen this kind of reaction.

"Further south where you can't see, or in this drifting area, there are a lot of post-war anomalies every year, but not all of them are addressed by the Aether Corporation."

"In the suburbs, the vast majority of those who are lucky enough to become shelterers have not overcome the danger."

“… Is there any way to avoid that? ”

The sentence just now is impossible, a large part of Lu Yun shouted it for himself.

"I don't know, but it's not easy for this kind of thing to happen with high qualifications, that's what Feng Ran told me."

Then, Cheng Cannon put a stack of documents on the table, looked at Lu Yun and said.

"And these things that Feng Ran asked you to get this time are related to the containers."