Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 289 - 288: Sealed Memories

Chapter 289: Chapter 288: Sealed Memories

ps: This is Chapter two hundred and eighty-seven, "Sanity Value"

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"Both of your behaviors are problematic, and the one in red has even more issues. However, the task is to identify the anomaly. He should only be a human contaminated by mental pollution, not an anomaly."

"As for you, although you resemble a human, your every move has subtle discrepancies, so I stepped on your foot as an experiment."

"The force I used in stepping would indeed make an ordinary person cry out, but you thought for a moment before showing pain. This confirms you are not a normal human, so I threw hot coffee on you, and you revealed your true form."

The man, unwilling to accept defeat, asked, "What if you had guessed wrong?"

Wen Wen chuckled, "A stepped-on toe and splashed coffee won’t kill anyone. If I was wrong, then I was wrong."

Following that, he directly fired his gun. The insect-like creature fell into a pool of blood, its blood a dark bluish-black, resembling fountain pen ink.

After the creature died, the man in red crawled to its side, began using its blood to draw and write on the ground, and his body grew increasingly aberrant. The entire room turned sinister and odd, a place where anyone with a frail mind might go mad at any moment.

Wen Wen tried interacting, but he couldn’t interfere with the man in red, so the current scene seemed like some sort of transitional animation.

When the man in red had transformed into something totally unrelated to humans, Wen Wen appeared in another scene.

This was a textile workshop. The uneasy female workers worked apprehensively in front of the machines, a strange unpleasant odor lingering in the air.

Wen Wen held a piece of paper in his hand, which described the situation of the textile workshop. Starting a few days ago, female workers began disappearing without explanation. The Association suspected the presence of a monster. Find it and kill it!

"Is this assessment full of scenes like this... It’s quite interesting, especially since this kind of assessment is very simple for me."

So, Wen Wen found a beautiful worker and walked over to ask her for clues.

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Outside the machine, two examiners, a man and a woman, each stared at a screen, seriously analyzing Wen Wen’s various actions.

The male examiner’s screen displayed the scenes Wen Wen was experiencing.

Usually, he worked at the school established by the Association, training new Demon Hunters. His task was to decide based on Wen Wen’s performance in the Virtual Space whether he was qualified to become a Ranger.

A superpower user who only had strength but lacked intelligence and didn’t know how to properly handle supernatural incidents was just marching to his death as a Ranger.

After watching for a while, he nodded. Except for a moment of hesitation in the first task, Wen Wen performed exceptionally well in other scenes.

His assessment of situations and handling methods both greatly satisfied him. Among the Rangers he had seen, Wen Wen was at least top-notch, if not the best.

As long as Wen Wen didn’t act extremely foolishly later on, he had essentially passed in his view.

The female examiner’s screen was split in half, one side showing the same content as the male examiner’s, and the other displayed Wen Wen’s face while he was sleeping.

She was a psychology expert specially hired by the Hunters Association and could gauge Wen Wen’s mental state through subtle facial expressions.

Having the strength to handle supernatural entities correctly doesn’t necessarily qualify one to be a good Ranger.

If a Ranger’s mental state was problematic, and they encountered the influence of supernatural entities during a mission, they could plunge into unwarranted madness, potentially failing the mission and dying during it.

Therefore, during Ranger assessments, a comprehensive mental evaluation of Demon Hunters is conducted, and this evaluation is represented by a specific number, known as the "Sanity Value," with a full score of one hundred.

Superpower users with a Sanity Value above ninety have very stable psyches and are unlikely to be mentally contaminated easily.

Those with scores from seventy to eighty have relatively stable psyches and can handle normal superpower incidents appropriately.

Superpower users scoring between sixty and seventy are more susceptible to mental contamination and are not suitable for handling various types of abnormal incidents.

A score below sixty indicates an irrational state; it is inadvisable to undertake any tasks, and the person should be regulated.

When the score drops below thirty, a superpower user might lose control at any moment, turning into a bizarre and monstrous being.

Generally speaking, a score above seventy satisfies the requirements to become a Ranger.

The female examiner’s task was to conduct a simple mental evaluation. If she determined Wen Wen’s score should exceed seventy, he would provisionally pass. If she judged it to be below sixty, Wen Wen need not proceed with the following assessments.

Subsequently, professional personnel would conduct a professional assessment of Wen Wen’s psyche based on video data, but this evaluation would not affect the assessment score.

All the scenes Wen Wen experienced were meticulously designed, and his expressions would reflect the most genuine changes in his psyche.

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After handling the ninth scene and watching a very ’depressing’ transitional animation, Wen Wen rubbed his temples, feeling slightly overwhelmed. Although the scenes were not particularly challenging for him, dealing with nine consecutive supernatural-related incidents had indeed tired him out.

However, the assessment also broadened his horizon, introducing many monsters and odd items he had never heard of before.

For instance, a possessing monster that would transfer to another person when certain specific phrases were uttered, which Wen Wen eventually resolved by gagging everyone’s mouths.

Or a shape-shifter that could perfectly mimic a human, almost without flaw. Wen Wen, having no other choice, ended up pinning several suspects to the ground and beating them until he spotted minor discrepancies and pulled the shape-shifter out.

This brutal action caused the male auditor outside to deduct a point from Wen Wen’s score...

"This is the tenth one, huh? Others handling ten consecutive events must feel like their brains are exploding."

Thinking of Miao Miaomiao’s intelligence, Wen Wen felt that this kind of assessment was really too difficult for her.

But in fact, he was overthinking; at this moment, Miao Miaomiao had already passed the entire second assessment and was sitting with a few others, eating fruit while waiting for the third assessment to begin.

Although her intelligence wasn’t high and she couldn’t analyze overly complex cases, her intuition was so strong that it was perverted, even to the point where she could determine the target by just walking around the suspects twice after reading the mission requirements.

Moreover, she never chose wrong...

This allowed her to easily pass the first two assessments and nonchalantly feel that the examinations were quite simple.

Meanwhile, Chu Wei was still struggling in the fifth scene, finding this kind of assessment truly taxing.

Once the transitional animation finally disappeared, Wen Wen appeared in a closed-up photography studio, holding a note in his hand.

’This is the last scene. Please use wisdom to overcome the challenge and refrain from using violence...’

Wen Wen gave a wry smile, seeing that the outside could indeed see his actions and had reproached him for breaking the rules.