Infinite Pollution: The SSS Guide Pierces the Horror Dungeon - chapter 17

[This is the task above. Whether it’s possible or not, it must be done!]

[Understood.]

[Zzz… zzz… zzz]

[Who’s there!!!!]

After a burst of harsh static, a furious shout erupted, and then the recording abruptly stopped.

Wen Song stood still, her heart feeling as if it were soaking in a jar, sinking deeper and deeper.

What exactly is Shan Cheng Pharmaceutical? Why are they using children’s bodies to purify this blood? And what is the purified blood used for?

Wen Song felt as if she were trapped in a massive mystery.

She turned her gaze to the little girl in front of her. The game of hide-and-seek wasn’t over yet; she couldn’t stop now.

[This is not the Pollution Source.]

As Wen Song’s voice fell, a voice came through the channel without a trace of hesitation.

[Guide Wen, you go!]

[Guide Wen, we can hold on!]

[Guide Wen, we believe in you!]

[Okay.]

[We can do it.]

One after another, voices echoed in the team channel.

Wen Song turned and glanced at her teammates still fighting desperately at the door. The Aberrants had dropped all pretense, reverting to their true forms, frantically trying to break into the basement.

Her teammates were fighting with everything they had to hold them back.

[Wen Song, don’t hesitate.]

Qin Xu’s voice sounded in her ear.

Wen Song turned and walked further inside without stopping.

At the end of countless hospital beds, there had to be something.

Wen Song’s steps quickened uncontrollably. In her earpiece, she heard her teammates’ muffled groans, and then the channel went silent.

They had all turned off the team channel, so she couldn’t hear anything, allowing her to focus solely on finding the key to unlock the Pollution Zone.

Wen Song started running, and finally saw a hospital bed at the end of the corridor.

A frail little girl lay on the bed, eyes wide open. When she saw Wen Song approach, she gave a sweet smile.

“Sis, you found me.”

Wen Song saw her face and couldn’t help but turn to look at another bed with the exact same face.

Shu Xiaoyu.

Two Shu Xiaoyus.

No, that’s not Shu Xiaoyu!

Wen Song looked at the nameplate by the bed. “Shu Xiaoyue.”

Shu Xiaoyue raised her hand. Her hand was emaciated to the extreme, nothing but bone, with only a thin layer of skin barely holding it together.

“Sis, come take the gift I have for you.”

Wen Song reached out and grasped her hand.

In an instant, countless surging memories rushed toward Wen Song, making her dizzy.

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Xiao Yu and Xiao Yue were a pair of twins.

They were born together in the spring when everything grows, and grew up together.

They were inseparable, loved wearing the same clothes, and even their parents sometimes couldn’t tell them apart.

The difference was, Xiao Yue had a congenital heart disease. She would be out of breath after just a few steps, and even in the heat of summer, she had to sleep under thick blankets.

Xiao Yu, on the other hand, was born healthy and lively, preferring to sleep under a light blanket.

Because of her condition, even when she was old enough for school, Xiao Yue could only stay at home.

Every day, Xiao Yu would go to school and then teach Xiao Yue everything she learned, exactly as she’d learned it.

Xiao Yu liked math olympiads, Xiao Yue liked comics.

On June 13th, when Xiao Yu got first place in her grade, she brought Xiao Yue a piece of candy.

The two sisters lay on their pink princess bed, each biting half, sharing the candy.

Xiao Yue had never tasted such delicious candy before. She said joyfully, “This candy is so good. If only I could always eat candy like this.”

Xiao Yu patted her chest. “I’ll definitely let you eat more candy like this!”

Xiao Yu kept her promise. In the following days, she brought back the same candy every day.

Xiao Yue was amazed and asked Xiao Yu where the candy came from. Xiao Yu put a finger to her lips, signaling it was a secret.

The accident happened a week later. Xiao Yu suddenly fell ill.

Their parents took Xiao Yu to the doctor. Xiao Yue thought her sister’s illness was only temporary, since she’d always been so healthy.

But she saw her parents’ faces grow paler and more fearful by the day.

She wanted to know what was wrong with Xiao Yu, but her parents refused to say a word.

She was frantic with worry.

One day, however, her parents brought home Xiao Yu, who had lost a lot of weight but was in high spirits, and told her that Xiao Yu was saved!

After that, she often smelled a strong scent of blood at midnight.

Xiao Yu would also disappear in the middle of the night.

She was extremely curious and secretly followed, only to see her parents dragging a stranger toward the kitchen. The stranger was covered in blood. When he saw her, he struggled desperately, as if begging her to save him.
She was terrified, shrinking into the corner, desperately covering her mouth.

She saw with her own eyes as her parents knocked out that stranger and then drained all the blood from his body.

They transfused that blood into Xiao Yu, then drew out Xiao Yu’s own blood.

In the end, her parents would give Xiao Yu an injection of some unknown drug.

Xiao Yu cried out in pain, but her parents, as if possessed, muttered endlessly, “It’ll be better soon, it’ll all be better soon.”

Sure enough, as her parents said, Xiao Yu’s body seemed to gradually heal.

Yes-seemed.

Xiao Yu would still tell her jokes by the bedside every day, but she could clearly sense her body deteriorating.

She wasn’t going to make it much longer.

She knew things couldn’t go on like this.

Finally, one night, she rushed out, blocking Xiao Yu, watching as Xiao Yu was about to get another transfusion.

“Mom, Dad! Stop this! Xiao Yu can’t take it anymore!”

Her parents suddenly seemed to go mad, wildly waving the bloodstained knife. “Nonsense! Xiao Yu will be fine! Xiao Yu will be fine!!”

She sobbed and raised her own arm. “If you must, use my body. Don’t use Xiao Yu’s anymore.”

She didn’t want Xiao Yu to die!

Her parents looked at her, and finally plunged the needle into her body.

She felt blood that did not belong to her flow inside, then felt her own blood being drawn out.

The next day, her parents burst in, ecstatic, hugging her tightly and telling her, “Xiao Yu! Your blood works! Your blood works! They said they’ll give Xiao Yu a double dose of medicine! Xiao Yu can be saved! Xiao Yu can be saved!!”

Hearing that Xiao Yu could be saved, she was overjoyed.

Every day, her parents began giving Xiao Yu double doses of medicine.

Xiao Yu’s body looked even better.

She could even go to school, go out and play, and bring back snacks for her.

But her own body was too weak. After just a few times, she couldn’t hold on anymore.

She started coughing up blood.

Her parents cried and begged her to hold on-just a few more doses for Xiao Yu!

Xiao Yu came to her in tears, but her parents held tightly onto Xiao Yu.

She thought, it’s been a long time since her parents hugged her-

She saw more and more strangers, and numbly watched them die in front of her, one by one.

It hurt too much. It hurt too much!

She begged her parents to let her go!

She couldn’t take the pain anymore!

But countless uncles and aunties knelt before her.

They pleaded, “Xiao Yu, only you can save them, please.”

They, like Xiao Yu, were all sick.

But she was sick too-

Why did no one care if she lived or died?

She began to hate her parents, for making her suffer like this! They were like rats in the gutter, gnawing away at her body every day!

She began to resent Xiao Yu-why was she the one lying here! If she hadn’t rushed out to block Xiao Yu that day, Xiao Yu would be the one suffering now!

She began to loathe all the other children. Why did they get to enjoy lives traded for with her own?

She began to hate all the uncles and aunties. They were monsters! They tied her to the supreme tower of morality!

She began to abhor every stranger she saw-their blood was filthy and disgusting!

She lay in bed, alive, yet felt herself rotting!

Why was she the only one to suffer!

She wanted everyone to suffer like she did!

Something seemed to be growing inside her-

One day, she heard voices outside.

“Boss, this little girl’s body can’t take it anymore. We can’t find another vessel like her.”

“No! No matter what it costs, she must stay alive!”

“Yes!”

Why wouldn’t they let her die!

If she died, she wouldn’t have to hurt anymore!

Why!

Creak-

She held two people’s heads in her hands.

Their heads were fragile, crushed in her grasp.

She felt as if her body had recovered. Happily, she went to find her parents, but they stared at her in terror.

They screamed that she was a monster.

A monster?

What monster?

She was better now, weren’t they happy?

If they weren’t happy, then everyone could just die together!

Later, she lay back on that bed and hooked herself up to the IV again.

She looked at the two Rat-Headed Men before her, both wearing her parents’ clothes, and smiled sweetly, “Mom, Dad, is Xiao Yu getting better yet?”