Chapter 460: Chapter 170: Wasteland Stroll, A Unique Employment Platform!

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Perhaps because Pinghai Building doesn’t involve anything extraordinary, the information displayed is far richer than expected.

The dense entries clearly outline the contours of this "organization."

[Pinghai Building]

[Organization Nature]: Transfer Hub; Gathering Place; Hire

[Organization Leader]: Ling Ping (deceased)

[Organization Affiliation]: Sea Province

[Organization Structure]: One of the transfer zones for chaotic personnel activities, loosely structured, serves only as a place to receive tasks and submit tasks to receive rewards, with no strong organizational constraints, no fixed members

[Establishment Time]: New Era 12th Year

[Organizational Characteristics]:

1. Task Execution Style: Result-oriented, unlimited execution process, flexible methods (assassination, forceful attack, theft, disguise, etc. are all allowed), allowing executors to fully utilize their strengths, thus broadly attracting various types of executors to take on tasks

2. Personnel Background Check: Those who accept high-reward tasks must not only pass a basic information check (excluding those with insufficient abilities to ensure task progress), but also must be infected with "Malicious Insect" to ensure important information is not leaked

3. Internal Atmosphere of the Organization: Violent and dangerous, often conflicts erupt due to competition for tasks and division of interests. There is an underground market inside, where weapons, intelligence, and scarce resources can circulate, providing executors with resource replenishment channels

4. Black Market Transfer: A relatively large black market resource transfer point, gathering all kinds of firearms, modified equipment, high-value materials, providing paid door-to-door delivery service

5. Insufficient Privilege

6. Insufficient Privilege

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[Search related entry: Malicious Insect]

[Malicious Insect (Source of Infection)]

[Origin]: New Era 7th Year, developed by the organization ’Shanhai Building’, originally used to control its mercenaries and assassins, but later the infection source leaked and diverted to other organizations, specifically used to bind important tasks, preventing executors from leaking task details and organization related

[Incubation Period]: No obvious symptoms, infected individuals’ daily actions and thoughts are completely consistent with non-infected state, only activated under specific trigger conditions

[Outburst Period]: Trigger conditions include infected individuals being interrogated (including verbal questioning, coercive interrogation, etc., attempting to obtain task information), after the outbreak, the infected will immediately lose independent thinking, only able to mechanically repeat task objective-related rhetoric, until they exhaust their physical strength and die

[Fusion Period]: Unable to advance to Fusion Body form, Malicious Insect always remains in the form of an independent infection source parasitizing the infected individual’s brain, does not integrate into host body tissues, and is unaffected by any existing medication

[Removal Method]:

1. Craniotomy, physically directly removing the infection source, mortality rate >99%

2. The infected corresponding infection source will periodically (cycle usually 7-10 days) shed small insect body fragments, if fragments are ingested through the mouth, the infected can neutralize and remove the parasitic Malicious Insect

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"Transfer hub, issuing tasks, Malicious Insect..."

Cheng Ye’s thumb repeatedly swiped across the screen, quickly capturing key information.

The so-called Pinghai Building turns out not to be a formed assassin organization or mercenary group.

But rather a platform for issuing tasks?

Someone has posted a high bounty with him as the target on this platform, and Wang Qing and the other three are the mercenaries who took the task?

Comparing the characteristics of the Malicious Insect’s outburst period, all four are now infected, probably not far from death.

"A high bounty on an Intern Inspector like me..."

Cheng Ye’s thoughts raced, combining previous details and deducing that the task goal was most likely to uncover the anomaly with him.

"But what anomaly do I have?"

Cheng Ye couldn’t help but shake his head; he hadn’t displayed any abnormal behavior lately.

Including recharging and such, ever since Master Zhang left, he hadn’t ventured to the Public Works Bureau.

And once the task was posted, it would take at least two weeks for the assassin to travel from the distant Sea Province, by which time he was still on duty at South Station, and had just left the hospital for a few days.

No, that’s not right.

Suddenly, a thought surged into his mind, Cheng Ye’s expression changed slightly.

Although he hadn’t been abnormal recently, his present self was like a completely different person compared to his former self.

Recalling the data Master Tian found on Matthew Lee.

If there were a comparison, his information now should appear highly abnormal, enough to make a dog shake its head.

The former self who liked lyrics, poetry, and was scared to death by the Wasteland reality.

How could he associate that with his current identity, being on the forefront of the young generation set to become an Inspector?

The so-called anomaly is probably investigating the reason for his huge change.

"Such an anomaly is inevitable; I can’t maintain my former self’s persona and just wait for death..."

Understanding this twist, Cheng Ye’s inner entanglement instantly dissipated mostly.

He had worried about this matter before, but later, nobody pursued it, so he put it behind him. Now a sudden organization investigation emerged, but it wasn’t unacceptable.

Thinking about it now, the probing gaze felt in the Wilderness that night was probably also from mercenaries taking the Pinghai Building task.

Whether it was one of the captured four, the fifth who escaped, or other executors hiding in the wild without exposing themselves, it’s unclear yet.

There might be quite a few people in the Wilderness waiting for him to leave the Buffer Zone, looking for an opportunity to investigate.

Thankfully, back when Shanhai Building developed Malicious Insect, they didn’t take a dead-end route.

This "trigger interrogation and repeat task objectives" setting seems to lock executors to death, but also turns the hatred from the platform itself to the "task-publishing employer."

Like now, Cheng Ye’s focus isn’t on dealing with Pinghai Building. It’s a loose transfer platform; destroying it would only bring new ones; it’s meaningless.