The whole nation: You're put to survive on a desolate planet, you'll be running an alien b

There was a long, deathly silence on the other end of the phone.

The only monotonous static from the electrical current proved that the call had not been interrupted.

Li Haotian could even hear someone whispering on Qin Yue's end, "Captain Qin, what's wrong?"

"fine."

Qin Yue's voice sounded like it was being squeezed out from between her teeth.

"Tell your people to stay away from those manhole covers."

Li Haotian added another sentence.

"My 'tool' has a bad temper and doesn't like being watched by people."

After saying that, he hung up the phone and threw the old cell phone back onto the sofa.

"Beep beep beep"

Hearing the busy tone on her phone, Qin Yue gripped the communicator so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

"Captain Qin?"

A young member of the Dragon Shields team standing nearby, seeing her extremely unpleasant expression, cautiously asked again.

"He's dead?"

Qin Yue didn't speak. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and when she opened them again, her eyes were full of struggle and humiliation.

Finally, she picked up the walkie-talkie and gave the order that she found utterly absurd.

Attention all units!

"Important note for all units!"

"Immediately evacuate all checkpoints near water plants, pumping stations, and the city's main sewage pipelines!"

"I'll repeat it again: evacuate immediately!"

"Furthermore, notify road patrol units to temporarily block all manhole covers on main roads in the northern part of the city, prohibiting anyone from approaching them!"

The walkie-talkie instantly erupted in chaos.

"Captain Qin? Why?"

"We just detected a decrease in toxicity levels at the drainage outlet of Water Plant No. 3!"

"Evacuate? Now is the best time to find the source of the pollution!"

Qin Yue's temples throbbed as she listened to the questions coming through the walkie-talkie.

She couldn't very well tell her proud team members that she had just received a call from a suspect who told her he had sent a "little tool" to clean the sewers and that they should leave it alone.

If she said that, she, as the leader of the seventh action group, would have to report to the logistics department tomorrow.

"That's an order!"

Qin Yue practically screamed it out.

"implement!"

……

The living room of a villa in the sky.

Li Haotian slumped on the sofa, his eyes closed and his breathing steady.

Su Wan stood to the side, looking at his appearance, and then at the "Exercise Announcement" that had just popped up on her tablet from the official Dragon Shield app. She felt completely numb.

[Urgent Notice: To facilitate pressure testing of the city's underground pipe network, temporary traffic control measures are in place on some road sections. Please do not approach manhole covers along the roadside to avoid potential danger...]

What the hell is this stress test?!

Su Wan looked at Li Haotian, opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

At this moment, in Li Haotian's world...

His consciousness was attached to a cold, slippery, high-speed moving body.

He is the Devourer.

That's him, the Devourer.

This is a bizarre and fantastical underworld belonging to the city.

A viscous liquid, reeking of a mixture of chemicals and putrid odors, enveloped his body.

The pipe walls were covered with slippery moss and unknown bacterial colonies.

Occasionally, the dull rumble and vibration of a passing subway can be heard overhead.

All of this, through the "Honeycomb Mindset," was transformed into the most direct sensory signals, flooding into Li Haotian's mind.

But he did not feel any discomfort.

Instead, it gives you a novel feeling of... playing a super high-definition virtual reality game.

First-person perspective, immersive experience.

Positive review.

"Gurgle... gurgle..."

The Devourer has stopped.

In front of it, a huge blockage made up of grease, hair, and plastic waste, like a disgusting tumor, almost blocked the entire pipe.

The "holy water" that was contaminated by the "bishop" is being intercepted by this mass of garbage and is converging here at a frighteningly high concentration.

Li Haotian could even "see" those microscopic extraordinary energies, like countless glowing worms, writhing in the sewage, exuding a malicious aura.

"So they've opened a buffet?"

Li Haotian issued the command in his mind.

The Devourer's chrysanthemum-like mouth opened wide to its limit.

A terrifying suction force erupted.

The sewage, garbage, and glowing "worms" in front of it were instantly pulled together, forming a huge vortex, which it swallowed whole.

The Devourer's body trembled with satisfaction.

A clear sense of "pleasure" was conveyed to Li Haotian.

It tastes crunchy and has a chicken flavor.

Energy +10.

Energy +15.

Energy +8.

Li Haotian could even feel that the little thing had grown a size larger as a result.

The purified water, after being broken down, flows out from the gill-like structures on both sides of its body, and the water is as clear as mountain spring water.

"Goodness."

In the living room, Li Haotian closed his eyes, but couldn't help but smirk.

"This job is exactly what I'm good at."

He was talking to himself, staring into the air.

Standing to the side, Su Wan was startled by his sudden remark.

Looking at the strange smile on Li Haotian's face, she felt that this man had probably gone mad.

"From now on, we can even save on property management fees, and the pipe dredging will be done in one go."

Li Haotian continued speaking.

He controlled the Devourer, sending it upstream.

Wherever it goes, whether it's deadly "holy water" or years of grease, it devours everything clean.

The entire city's sewer system is undergoing an unprecedented deep cleaning by this uninvited "cleaner".

Donghai City First People's Hospital.

The emergency room was packed with citizens who were exhausted from diarrhea.

Wailing and screams rose and fell.

Suddenly, an elderly woman who was receiving an IV drip sat up abruptly.

"Huh? It doesn't hurt anymore?"

She touched her stomach, her face full of surprise.

"Not only is the pain gone, but I also feel... a little hungry?"

Her shout immediately triggered a chain reaction.

"Me too! It seems...it seems better?"

"I'm not going to poop anymore! I even have energy now!"

In just a few minutes, the entire emergency room hall was transformed from a living hell into a large rehabilitation center.

The doctors and nurses were stunned by what they saw, feeling as if their medical understanding had been completely undermined.

The same situation was playing out simultaneously in various hospitals in Donghai City.

Before the panic-inducing posts on the internet were even completely deleted, the tone of the discussion suddenly changed.

"Fellow family members, does anyone understand?! I just got an appointment, and my illness was cured the next day. I wasted 500 yuan on a specialist appointment!"

"Hilarious! I just stood up from the bathroom, and my mom put the last case of bottled water I'd just snagged on Xianyu (a second-hand marketplace app)."

So, what exactly happened? Mass poisoning, then mass recovery? Does the water in Donghai City disinfect itself?

Su Wan looked at the rapidly refreshing posts on her tablet and felt completely bewildered.

She looked up at the man on the sofa who had his eyes closed and a slight smile on his lips.

She finally understood what it meant to "defeat magic with magic".

They poisoned me.

He directly purified the entire city.

This is no longer a battle on the same level.

Just then, Li Haotian suddenly frowned.

The relaxed and content look on his face slowly disappeared.

"Um?"

Su Wan immediately tensed up.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Li Haotian did not answer.

In his perception, the Devourer had already cleared most of the toxins from the northern part of the city.

But it also finally traced back to its source.

The strongest, most primal smell of pollution emanated from a branch pipe with a diameter of only thirty centimeters.

"Found it."

Li Haotian gave the order in his mind.

Without hesitation, the Devourer plunged into the narrow branch pipe.

Its deformed body looked somewhat crowded here.

The segments scraped against the rough inner wall of the pipe, making a "rustling" sound.

It is climbing upwards.

Vertically upwards.

Inside the pipe, only some residual traces of toxins remained, clinging to the pipe walls.

But for the Devourer, whose sense of smell is abnormally acute, it's like a lighthouse in the dark.

Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...

Finally, it stopped.

In front of it is an iron cover with a grille.

Through the grille, you can see the dim yellow light of the streetlights outside.

This is a roadside drain.

The strongest smell of pollution was found right outside this drain outlet.

Li Haotian slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes were cold.

He sat up from the sofa, picked up his phone, and opened the electronic map of Donghai City.

Based on the coordinates transmitted back by the Devourer, he accurately located the drain outlet on the map.

Suburbs, near the No. 3 waterworks.

An old residential community.

"We've found the rat's nest."

He looked at the red dot on the map and said softly.

Then he stood up and walked towards the door.

"Haotian, where are you going?"

Su Wan quickly followed.

Li Haotian stopped, turned around and glanced at her, then grinned.

"It's nothing."

"I'm going out to help a kind-hearted citizen fix his sewer."