Chapter 19: 19 Don't Ask, Asking Means Explosion (Part 2)

19 Don't Ask, Asking Means Explosion (Part 2)

"Hmm... indeed, it was truly just an accident."

Looking at his sister who was comforting him gently, and the complexion on her face that had improved significantly, Li Ang felt the heavy burden on his heart lighten slightly, and he smiled and echoed.

That's right, the out-of-control infected person incident yesterday that affected four or five hundred people had already become an accidental incident after the 'culprit' was killed by Li Ang with one shot and Auntie Ai Ma handed in the incident report.

According to the red-haired Director, hidden in the basement of the Cleaning Bureau headquarters was an abnormal object with an astonishingly high status.

As long as Cleaning Bureau employees complete cleaning missions and hand in incident reports, it will trigger the rules of that abnormal object, forcibly rewriting the relevant memories of the vast majority of those involved. Like this incident, it was confused into a gas explosion accident.

In the memories of Anna and others, first the hospital's gas pipeline cracked, producing the first round of explosions. This round of explosions coincidentally shattered the storage room containing anesthetics, and a large amount of anesthetic spread rapidly through the ventilation ducts, causing the collective fainting of hundreds of patients and medical staff.

The second round of explosions followed, occurring on the sixth floor where the director's office was located, and the fourth floor where the special care ward was located. The director of Red Brick Road Hospital was killed on the spot, and the special care ward where Anna was located was also blown into a mess.

Thanks to her smelling the gas leak in advance, she decisively took two nurses and hung out of the window, which luckily saved her life, but she was also slashed in the leg by broken glass falling from upstairs, and another nurse fell and was seriously injured, with multiple joints throughout her body suffering trauma.

And just as the third round of explosions was about to begin, fortunately, Li Ang and his colleagues came to visit her, closing the gas valve in time, preventing a greater disaster from happening and saving the lives of these hundreds of people in the hospital.

Yes, that abnormal object, which was said to be extremely awesome, even took care of the mental health of the Cleaning Bureau employees when 'writing stories' to cover up the incident, specifically leaving the 'credit' of Li Ang and the other person, so that they wouldn't suffer from psychological imbalance after saving people without receiving respect.

What's even more bizarre is that in order to facilitate the Cleaning Bureau to report to the higher-ups to cheat for rewards, it even added a memory for the victims that the Cleaning Bureau had received mass reports and had sent people to investigate the problem of Red Brick Road Hospital's random charging, highlighting a kind of thoughtful, open, humanized, and slightly shameless nature.

After hearing such outrageous operations, Li Ang, who understood the difference between 'programs' and 'artificial intelligence', questioned this abnormal object almost instinctively, feeling that something that could 'adapt' so well clearly had its own wisdom, and felt that it should have problems and was not a simple object acting according to rules.

However, the answer Li Ang got from the red-haired Director was that this abnormal object originally had a brain, and in fact, it was simply a brain itself.

This high-level abnormal object capable of distorting memory was originally a True God who had not made sufficient preparations and was captured alive after a hasty descent.

After the Cleaning Bureau killed it, they discovered that its ability to tamper with memory was excellent, so they simply dug out its brain, installed it in an abnormal object called 【Illusion Can】, and made it into an abnormal object specifically for cleaning up the aftermath of large-scale incidents.

However, because this thing's ability to modify collective memory is too dangerous, if left to be mastered by a single person, it could lead to extremely serious consequences, so the activation conditions are extremely harsh, requiring the consent of more than half of the twelve directors. Usually, it can only be buried deep underground to operate, and can only be used when it is very dangerous.

So, what exactly does this 'very dangerous' refer to? Or to put it more bluntly, if someone wants to move against the Cleaning Bureau, does that count as very dangerous?

When hearing the red-haired Director talk about this, Li Ang almost instantly thought of the definition of 'danger' and solved a huge doubt—why does the country in this world

allow an organization like the Cleaning Bureau to exist? And even actively cooperate?

I'm afraid they don't want to cooperate, but have to cooperate!

After all, this brain of an evil god that can modify collective memory is enough for all the kingdoms with ideas to drink a pot, and the history of the Cleaning Bureau is unknown how long it is; who knows what other strange things they have hidden?

And after understanding how powerful the Cleaning Bureau is through this news, Li Ang is now very certain that he is afraid he will be bound to this mysterious organization for the rest of his life.

Standing on the front line of guarding humanity, being able to know the truth of the world, obtaining abilities far beyond ordinary people... just these are enough to make him unable to refuse, not to mention the Cleaning Bureau's high treatment, good benefits, and even being a regular establishment of the kingdom.

Especially the establishment problem; I heard that in the blind date market in the Capital now, those with regular establishments, regardless of gender, are particularly popular...

Hiss... wait a minute, didn't I prepare to be single until I die? Why would I suddenly think of blind dates? Could it be that I was stimulated by something today? Or as Hearing Heishanyang said, I have reached the age of being restless?

"Brother? Brother! What's wrong with you?"

After calling Li Ang several times without getting a response, Anna, who was holding a bowl and drinking fish soup in small sips, couldn't help but blink her eyes in confusion.

Looking at his brother in front of him, who was sometimes stern and abnormal, and sometimes smiling somewhat shyly, the frail girl thought for a while, put the milky white fish soup back on the bedside table, then raised her right hand, covered her mouth, which looked delicate and shiny because of the oil stars, and suppressed a very low, very low cough.

"Hmm?"

Hearing the suppressed cough that had made him worry day and night for the past two years, Li Ang broke free from his wild thoughts almost like a conditioned reflex.

He hurriedly looked toward the girl on the hospital bed, and seeing that Anna just coughed lightly and had nothing more to say, he felt relieved. Then he reached out to pick up the soup bowl on the bedside table and said with some embarrassment:

"Brother was thinking about work just now and didn't take care of you for a moment... why did you cough just now? Did you choke? Or should I feed you?"

"No... hmm..."

Looking at Li Ang who looked over immediately after hearing the cough, the frail girl felt a warmth at the bottom of her heart. She shook her head and wanted to say she didn't choke, but looking at the spoon fed to her mouth, she thought about it and didn't refuse.

Leaning on Li Ang's arm, she propped herself up and sat back, leaning on the cushion he brought. The frail girl leaned on the head of the bed and drank the fish soup fed to her mouth in small sips again.

But for some reason, she, who had clearly drunk more than half a bowl of soup alone just now, would cough lightly once or twice from time to time, and then, amidst Li Ang's concerned inquiries, shake her head with a shallow smile, and then slightly open her oily mouth, waiting for the next spoonful of fish soup with peace of mind...

Mom and Dad, are you still watching me?

If possible, I hope you can let this bowl of soup have a bit more, let Brother accompany me for a little while longer, but don't have too much more, just a few more spoonfuls will do...

"Knock, knock-knock."

The sound of knuckles knocking on glass rang out, interrupting the frail girl's prayer.

The two in the ward looked in the direction of the sound, and then were quite surprised to find that, I don't know when it started, but there was a girl with red eyes outside the door.

The doll-faced girl looked to be about the same age as them, should be sixteen or seventeen, but she was wearing a mature-style professional suit, and a delicate name tag was hanging on her chest.

Looking at her appearance, it seemed she had already started working, and might have even been working for several years, but for some reason, there were strange inconsistencies everywhere on her body, as if she wasn't very used to this set of clothes yet.

"I'm from the gas company; the pipeline on the hospital side was signed by me for acceptance, I... I'm sorry!"

After getting permission from Li Ang and the other person, the girl whose eyes were swollen into a small circle carefully pushed the door and walked in. Seeing them, she didn't say a word, aimed at Li Ang, and gave a ninety-degree deep bow, crying with tears in her eyes:

"This incident is all my fault!

If I had been stricter with the acceptance at the beginning, the pipeline here might not have exploded, and it wouldn't have harmed your wife and caused her to jump off the building! Please rest assured, I will definitely give a compensation that satisfies you!" ===== CHAPTER 20 =====