Ye Buyu gave an awkward laugh. "You've got good ears."
Little Boy nodded. "I'll take that as a compliment. Those cleaners are at Number Two Gathering Place too, right? I haven't been there in ages. It should still be just as I remember."
Ye Buyu felt numb. "Can't we go somewhere else?"
"Hmm?" Little Boy leaned closer to her. "Are you worried I'll harm your companions?"
Ye Buyu rolled her eyes. Perhaps because she had spent so much time around Calamities, she could keenly sense that it meant no harm, but she still couldn't rest easy.
"Isn't that obvious?"
Little Boy froze for a few seconds, seemingly not expecting Ye Buyu to be so frank.
It straightened up. "I won't attack them. Cleaners are important, after all. Who would clean up all this filth without them?"
Ye Buyu covered her face. This was probably the second Calamity she had ever met that didn't play by the rules.
Yes, the first was that dead whale.
She lowered her head and typed a line with a blank expression.
[Friends, [Pollution] is also going to Number Two Gathering Place to watch the show. Everyone, get ready.]
Lou Guanshan replied instantly.
[Understood. We'll set traps and try to kill it in one strike!]
Ye Buyu paused, then began typing faster.
[I'm not telling you to prepare for battle. I'm telling you to prepare for purification. [Pollution] probably has highly potent mental pollution capabilities, and my advice is not to make any rash moves yet.
I want to get to the bottom of what it is first. I suggest everyone lie in ambush nearby and hold off on making any rash moves.]
She thought for a moment, then typed a few more lines as she watched Little Boy's retreating back.
[To be safe, Kou Ying,