Happiness City has three major corps.

Each with unique functions, they form three interlocking lines of survival defense.

The first line of defense is the Blood Dragon Corps, mainly responsible for sweeping deterrence. They patrol the surrounding areas all year round, weaving a dynamic defense network, using high-frequency actions to reduce the threat of infected bodies. They are best at mobile warfare and assault warfare.

The second line of defense is the Cross Legion, mainly stationed near the hydroelectric power station, protecting nearby industrial factories and other core infrastructure, ensuring the city's energy and production lifeline are secure.

The third line of defense is the Happiness Corps, responsible for guarding the Happiness High Wall, equipped with elite armaments and a systematic defense system, constructing a three-dimensional ultimate defense line.

"Could something have happened at the hydroelectric power station?"

A chill ran through Cheng Ye's heart.

In Happiness City, to improve energy utilization, most large factories are built near the hydroelectric power station.

If something goes wrong, it's either a collision with an infection surge or an armed attack from another Shelter City.

However, given the combat capabilities of the three major corps of Happiness City, the latter hasn't occurred for nearly twenty years, while the probability of the former, colliding with an infection surge, is quite high.

Of course, there's also the least desirable special situation...

He opened the Collector panel and glanced at the upper right corner, where the charging value had reached 54%.

Cheng Ye felt slightly reassured and calmly instructed, "Raven, send down the order, the guard crew is to postpone shift change and assist in the inspection."

"Owl, you follow me inside. If anything seems off..."

"Don't worry, sir, I understand." Owl affirmed, immediately realizing the issue at hand.

The Cross Legion's return, if it were official business, should have been remotely reported to the Inner City and notified to the inspection station long ago.

But now, the other party was rapidly approaching, only using the onboard notification to inform the inspection station.

Thinking of the recent malicious incident at the Central Inspection Station, it was easy to imagine what might be approaching.

A vehicle full of infected bodies?

"Young bulls aren't afraid of tigers, you kid, you're really brave!"

Matthew Lee had already packed his backpack, but as he turned, he saw Cheng Ye sitting behind the alloy table again, couldn't help but sigh softly, and quickened his steps.

By the time the vehicle entered the diverging channel, his figure had already disappeared into the rain curtain.

"Brave, huh?"

Cheng Ye squinted his eyes, his gaze piercing through the rain, staring intently at the slowly approaching vehicle.

What was coming was not the usual Big Golden Cup, but a new car he had never seen before.

It resembled a compressed Hummer, with a flat and long build, and sharp lines outlining a box-like contour. The metallic body glinted with a cold brilliance under the light.

The car stopped steadily in front of the isolation net, the passenger door popped open with a "bang," and a burly man bent over and climbed out.

Wearing a gray-blue uniform of the Cross Legion, with broad shoulders and a thick back like a standing gray bear, his height appeared to be over two meters, and his aura was extremely intimidating.

Even though Cheng Ye had recently trained arduously, honing a bit of a fierce spirit, seeing this gray bear stepping through the puddles made him feel slightly breathless.

Damn, even if the genes of the Wastelanders are regressing, how can they produce such a monster?

Cheng Ye cursed silently and instinctively placed his hand on the Wild Bull Fighting Handgun at his waist.

Even if the infected bodies were created from the same infection source, their strengths would not be entirely uniform.

The stronger the host, the more terrifying the mutated monster becomes.

Those who leave their names in books, the infected bodies, were likely formidable figures in the wilderness before mutation. Never have small, insignificant characters mutated into fiendish stars.

"Wait... The stronger the person, doesn't this mean the stronger the skills I can search?"

Thinking of the search skill, Cheng Ye's anxiety dissipated a little, and he became somewhat excited.

There are no such strong characters within the isolation bay.

Encountering them in the wilderness, there would be no cooperation.

Only now, sitting at the inspection desk, bearing the title of an Inspector, does he have the opportunity to "search the strong as the weak."

As long as the other party is not infected, the probability of revealing good skills is not small.

Owl, standing aside, clearly observed the change in Cheng Ye.

Realizing that the Inspector was not fearful but rather excited, for no apparent reason, he too became bolder.

Having become an observer with the intention to strive upward.

Compared to an old hand like Matthew Lee, clearly, following someone like Cheng Ye, there would be opportunities to earn merits and climb higher!

If that's the case, what's there to fear?

"Halt!"

Cheng Ye picked up the megaphone, his voice cutting through the rain like a whip, lashing directly at the gray bear.

"I am Wu Rui, the second team leader of the Cross Legion, and have communicated with the inspection station. I ask for the Inspector's indulgence for overtime."

The gray bear... Wu Rui announced his name, standing compliantly outside the caution line.

"Overtime is not an issue, it's just past eight. I need to know why Captain Wu hurried back without notifying the Inner City."

"There was an accident; one of my team members was injured by an infected body and needs to be taken to the Inner City for treatment."

"What?"

Owl, who had been maintaining a ready-to-fire stance, was shocked. Is this kind of reason something that can be said?

Listen, attacked by an infected body, one might think it was just a trip and fall.

"I can vouch that he hasn't been parasitized by the infected body. Please, Inspector, make an exception and give my brother a chance to live."

"You vouch?"

Cheng Ye's fingers tapped on the tabletop as he gently shook his head, "Rules of the inspection station, Captain Wu should understand them, right?"

"Understood."

Wu Rui's throat moved, his heart sinking.

He, an Eastern person, chose North Station precisely to avoid being imposed rules by Eastern people at South Station.

Even if he came to North Station, getting fleeced by the Inspectors here wouldn't matter.

But no one expected the inspection A-gate at North Station to be manned by an Eastern person.

And this young inspector isn't as easy to deal with as he appears. The calm composure he displays is more like that of a veteran who has been at the inspection post for years.

"Save my brother's life; our Scarlet Guard team owes the Inspector a life."

"Lift the person, let me see."

Having reached this point, there's no way around inspecting the injured.

Cheng Ye pressed the isolation door button, simultaneously taking the Wild Bull Fighting Handgun from his waist and placing it on the table.

Just then, Raven arrived urgently with ten duty guards, instantly tightening the atmosphere at the inspection station.

"Alright!"

Wu Rui turned and headed to the armored vehicle.

Drizzle fell continuously, raindrops hitting the face and leaving a damp trace.

The side door of the armored vehicle opened, and four soldiers in Cross Legion uniforms quickly lifted an injured person out of the compartment.

Hiss.

Almost at the same time, everyone gasped.

The injured person's left leg was completely gone, severed from the hip, leaving behind a blood-soaked bandage.

A hideous wound stretched from the abdomen up to the shoulder, with skin and flesh turned outward, like torn cloth ripped open by sharp claws.

Can this be saved?

As if seeing Cheng Ye's doubts, Wu Rui spoke again, "There's a special biological resuscitation technology in the Inner City. It's just an external injury, so the survival probability is over eighty percent."

"Resuscitation technology?"

Cheng Ye clicked his tongue silently; this was another term he couldn't find in his memory.

And oddly enough, despite being so severely injured, the person on the stretcher could still manage a faint smile.

"What's with him?"

"A special talent brought by the regression gene, his pain perception is only a tenth of a normal person's."

It wasn't Wu Rui who replied, but the injured person on the stretcher who should have been barely conscious.

This guy could actually speak on his own.

"Name?"

"Dai Zun."

"Age?"

"29."

"How did you get injured? If you can't explain clearly, let Captain Wu say it."

"It's fine, the way I feel now is no different from you guys just getting a little skin scraped, the pain's already gone."

Dai Zun's pale face stretched into a small smile, "An infected body mixed into the battery factory, hid inside the workers' bodies and snuck into the feed pipe. I crawled inside and killed it."

That fierce?

Cheng Ye's eyelid twitched, although he didn't know how thick the feed pipe was, it must be an enclosed space.

Without support, it was almost a death-defying mission.

"Everyone else, leave. I need to check the wound."

"Withdraw."

Wu Rui glanced deeply at Cheng Ye and waved to the others, sending seven back beyond the alert line.

The isolation gate slammed shut, and ten guards simultaneously aimed their guns at Dai Zun on the stretcher.

"Damn, this Inspector Cheng is really gutsy."

Upon noticing Cheng Ye putting on rubber gloves, planning to closely approach the high-risk potential infected body,

everyone gasped. They had never seen such a daring inspector before.

Of course, Cheng Ye himself was a bit shaky, but upon hearing the words "special talent,"

he immediately opened the panel and decided in less than a second with gritted teeth:

Go for it!

At this moment, Wu Rui's cooperation rate on the Collector's panel was stuck at 54%, barely enough to search LV.1 skills.

But Dai Zun's cooperation rate was unmatched, reaching an unprecedented 94%!

It was the first time Cheng Ye had seen such a high cooperation rate.

"LV.2 skills... If I can search for this talent that reduces pain perception, that would be amazing."

Constantly maintaining only a tenth of pain perception isn't a good thing; sensitivity to external dangers would dull significantly, potentially weakening combat capability.

But... skills are different!

Once acquired, Cheng Ye could equip or uninstall at any time, enjoying the resistance advantages of reduced pain without the risk of dulled perception.

"Brother, you must fully cooperate with me next, otherwise I can't guarantee..."

Cheng Ye squatted down, gesturing towards the back with his mouth.

Actually, he didn't need to hint; the dozen wavering red dots aimed at the stretcher indicated that any excessive movements from Dai Zun would not escape "physical exorcism."

"Tell me, you want to live, right?"

"Of course, I don't want to die at the hands of an ordinary infected body, that would be too unjust."

Sweat seeped from Dai Zun's pale face, his Adam's apple rolling violently. "Whatever the inspector says, I'll do, fully cooperating."

"Very good, I like your attitude."

The cooperation rate on the panel rose again, reaching 97%.

Cheng Ye was slightly pleased, picked up the instrument on the table, and started measuring.

"Body temperature, 38.7"

"Heart rate, 144"

"Respiratory rate, 17"

With every set of data spoken, Wu Rui's face outside the door became a shade darker.

When approaching the Central Inspection Station, he already knew what happened today and inwardly protested.

According to the station's rules, if there are more than two sets of abnormal data, one must be confined in the isolation cabin.

And now Dai Zun's data, his body temperature was undoubtedly over the limit, with heart rate barely at the edge of 140.

Though there was a 5% measurement tolerance, if Cheng Ye insisted on this data being abnormal, Dai Zun's outcome would only lead one way.

"One abnormal set!"

Phew.

As the words fell, a suppressed sigh echoed simultaneously from outside the door.

At the same time, the numbers on the Collector's panel jumped again, reaching 98.9%.

Just a hair's breadth from 100% cooperation.

"You're nervous, even though you've blocked the pain, I can feel your fear."

"Relax, I'm not like other inspectors. As long as you're not infected, I can ensure you leave here, survive!"

Cheng Ye said as he opened the black box, taking out the vital signs bimodal detector and the decay metabolism detector.

However, just as he was about to perform the test, his hand stopped abruptly, and a faint smile graced his lips.

[Dai Zun, 100% (Perfect), searchable range: Intelligence, Items, Skills (lv1.lv2)]

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