Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 522 Back-up Strategies
While eating, Xia Shou smelled a fragrance, a very peculiar fragrance.

"What's that smell?" Xia Shou picked up the hot pot seasoning and smelled it, only to find that it was not the source of the fragrance.

"Brother Xia Shou, what's wrong?" Su Yue looked at him curiously.

"Do you smell... a scent?"

"What a fragrance! There are so many fragrances now. The quality of this meat is really good." Gu Liang was completely focused on the hot pot.

Xia Shou touched his chin and racked his brains to describe the smell, but he couldn't find any corresponding comparison material in his mind. The scent of lilies?
This smell has some similar characteristics, and there is a little bit of jasmine, but it cannot be said to be the scent of jasmine, or even the smell of flowers. The reason why lily and jasmine are used as examples is simply because this is the closest metaphor that Xia Shou has found in his mind.

He had never smelled this scent before. It was like smelling jasmine in a world without jasmine. This scent was difficult to describe specifically. Without a vivid expression, it could only be described as smelling good.

I was just about to trace the source, but when I smelled it carefully, it disappeared again, very faint.

Moreover, it seemed to be floating over from Su Yue.

Xia Shou picked up a strand of Su Yue's hair and smelled it, but the hair, which had been repeatedly soaked in blood and dried, only had a strong fishy smell of blood, and no fragrance could be smelled.

"Hey! Are you a pervert?" No. 102 frowned and reminded.

Su Yue's cheeks felt a little hot, but the moon in the underworld was originally red, so there was no change in her expression.

"What...what happened?" Su Yue asked in a low voice.

Xia Shou thought for a moment and shook his head: "Nothing, let's eat."

The smell was indeed there, vague and hard to find its source, just like the smell of bad milk of unknown origin that you occasionally smell at home, but you can't find the source of the odor no matter what, except that this time it was a fragrance.

And looking at the reactions of No. 102 and the others, they couldn't smell it at all, which meant that the smell was either very subtle and only he, as a recipient of the scorpion spine implant, could detect it with his keen sense of smell, or... it was because the Root Sea had sunk to a deeper level.

Xia Shou could only think of this possibility at the moment, because when he just sank to a deep depth, the price did not appear, but suddenly a smell that only he could smell appeared. It was really a bit of a coincidence.

True delusion?
But Alice didn't react at all.

Or is it that Alice is unable to distinguish between true and false smells?
No, he should be able to distinguish them. Although Alice's ability mainly focuses on vision, the first time she had delirium was as a symptom of auditory hallucination. It was Alice who reminded him that she should be able to distinguish smells as well.

Ask her when you are alone.

Xia Shou was eating absentmindedly while the others were chatting about daily gossip that had nothing to do with the mission. In the middle, a few rescued mortals came over and talked to Su Yue for a long time.

It can be said that Su Yue’s contribution accounts for more than half of the reason why these hundreds of people are so emotionally stable.

As a national idol in China, she is known to everyone. Although she is far from being world-famous, she has a certain degree of fame abroad because of the movie "The Imprisoned Girl".

In this extremely harsh and desperate situation, having a celebrity you know and who is extremely approachable as a leader will naturally increase your sense of security.

This is called the "fellow countryman effect" in psychology, which means that when you come to a strange place, having familiar things can greatly increase your inner sense of security and reduce anxiety and panic.

Once you leave the village, everyone in the same village is considered a “fellow villager”.

Once you leave the city, the neighboring villages are your "fellow villagers."

Once you go abroad, people from the same country are called “fellow countrymen”, and compatriots are another name for “fellow countrymen”.

If there are aliens, then Earthlings are our fellow countrymen.

Su Yue is a public star, an ordinary person, and well-known because of her exposure. The character she has built on the screen for a long time is almost perfect.

In the eyes of this group of ordinary people, apart from Xia Shou, the person who saved them, Su Yue is the most trustworthy. If we only talk about intimacy, then Su Yue is even better than Xia Shou.

Although these hundreds of people cannot be considered combat power, they can provide great help by acting as basic logistics. They helped with setting up camp in the clock tower. Because their bodies do not belong to them, they will not feel tired and they work extra hard.

"Shen Fei, when the time comes, you and Xiaoyue will go and ask them how they were caught by the funeral home and what they went through before they became like this. You will definitely be able to find out something." Xia Shou said.

Shen Fei nodded.

Then Xia Shou continued: "In addition, we must also prepare for the worst."

"What's the worst plan?" Gu Liang was stunned when he heard that.

No. 102 glanced at Gu Liang coldly and said calmly: "The plan to help thousands of people get rid of their worries."

Gu Liang was stunned for a moment, opened his eyes wide, and looked at Xia Shou in confusion.

He knew what liberation meant, and he was well aware of the rules and procedures of the Bureau's missions. Sometimes, the Bureau did abandon civilians, and they all did this.

But what Gu Liang didn’t understand was that now that they had been rescued, why did they still need to make such preparations.

"Idiot, you're too slow thinking about this kind of thing. Look, Shen Fei already understands it." No. 102 said.

"I don't understand, what does it mean? We...you rescued them all!" Gu Liang said to Xia Shou.

Shen Fei took the initiative to explain: "Because we only saved their heads, their bodies are still in the funeral home."

Xia Shou said it more directly: "If these people are important to the funeral home, maybe the funeral home will not do anything to their bodies, but it is more likely that the funeral home will directly destroy their bodies.

If they are destroyed in the underworld, they will be no different from those in the hell. If they are transported to reality and destroyed, then although they will not be tortured by pain, they will not be able to return to reality because their bodies are already truly dead. "

Gu Liang's expression darkened, and Su Yue was also stunned.

They hadn't thought of this at all.

No. 102 took a sip of Coke and looked at Xia Shou: "You thought of it a long time ago and saved them... So, what do you want to do?"

"Investigation and intelligence gathering, we can always get important clues from them. The influence of the funeral home in reality is obviously not as small as the control bureau judged. At least they were able to kidnap so many people quietly.

In addition, as for the undercover agents, send them back to the funeral home and let them act as our undercover agents. Even if some of them can't stand the torture and betray us, it doesn't matter because they don't know our key information anyway.

But if there really is someone who goes undercover and can stick to his original intention and provide us with help, that would naturally be the best.

We will explain this to them later.”

No. 102 nodded, and Shen Fei and Gu Liang just sighed and said nothing.

Xia Shou's arrangement is impeccable, and it is even the only choice.

It is the best for these mortals and for them.

Their bodies are in the hands of the funeral home, so it is impossible for them to escape its control.

"Of course, I have to explain my plan clearly to the people in the Clock Tower. This plan requires the cooperation of everyone." Xia Shou said with a cold look.

(End of this chapter)