Embers Ad Infinitum

"This may be called the unity of knowledge and action." Long Yuehong agreed as the team leader.

Those flyers made him want to laugh once he saw them.

Jiang Baimian looked away from the leaflet, glanced at Shang Jianyao, who was silent, and asked casually:

"what's on your mind?"

"I'm wondering what their Holy Communion is." Shang Jianyao's expression was very serious.

Jiang Baimian was not surprised at all. He smiled and said:

“Maybe they’re not a religious organization at all.

"Besides, with this kind of brainless organization, the quality of the Holy Communion is definitely not very good."

"Hey..." Shang Jianyao sighed regretfully.

Bai Chen watched the team leader throw the flyer back to the table and said thoughtfully:

"There is a similar organization in the First City. Their slogans are 'the mind is useless', 'ignorance is bliss' and 'giving up thinking means saving the world'..."

"Will anyone believe this?" Long Yuehong asked in surprise.

Although he has seen examples, he still finds it incredible.

Compared with this, I don’t know how high the “Life Rite” religious sect, which imparts knowledge about child care and advocates natural childbirth, is.

Jiang Baimian smiled and sighed:

"After experiencing the destruction of the old world, years of war, repeated famines and epidemics of disease, people on the earth are willing to grab anything that looks like a life-saving straw. This can at least make them feel that the future is still there. There’s some hope.”

Long Yuehong was speechless for a while, wanting to say something, but couldn't form the right words.

"I don't know which Zhi Sui they believe in, or maybe they don't believe in anyone?" Bai Chen said instead.

"I have never been in contact with similar organizations." Jiang Baimian shook his head and looked at Shang Jianyao with a smile, "It's better not to get involved in this kind of organization. If you are 'infected' by them and lose your brain, then That’s troublesome.”

"I can be their common brain, their only brain." Shang Jianyao said seriously.

"What an ambition!" Jiang Baimian joked and distributed the information in his hand to the team members. "Take a closer look. It's time for us to discuss business."

As for the organization that preaches that knowledge is poisonous and people should not read books, they have no conflict of interest with them, so there is no need to pay too much attention.

After everyone had finished flipping through the information, Jiang Baimian repeated what Chen Xufeng had said and finally said:

"Which line do you think we should start investigating?"

Bai Chen looked at the information in his hand and thought:

"The tasks they took over were all of a relatively common type. There was nothing special about them. There is currently nothing worthy of further understanding."

"Yes, yes." Long Yuehong agreed before remembering something, "Bai Chen is an 'intermediate hunter'!"

This was what he discovered when he registered as a hunter in the afternoon.

——You are a "novice hunter" who just joined the Hunter Guild. You will become an "official hunter" when your credit points reach 100. After that, you will have to accumulate 1,000 points to become an "intermediate hunter".

This cannot be satisfied by one or two big tasks like collecting Qiao Chu's intelligence. Every "intermediate hunter" must have completed dozens or hundreds of tasks and has rich experience.

"I registered as a hunter seven or eight years ago." Team leader Bai Chenjian and Shang Jianyao looked over and explained briefly.

"Were you eighteen or nineteen years old at that time?" Jiang Baimian asked back, laughing self-deprecatingly, "Every time I think you are younger than me."

"Maybe it's because of the height." Shang Jianyao helped "explain".

Jiang Baimian glared at him:

"If you can't speak, don't speak."

She then asked about Bai Chen:

"When you registered as a hunter, did you use your real name?"

"No." Bai Chen shook his head, "That would be inconvenient for many things and easy to be exposed. It's not like the clerks of the Hunter Guild cannot be bribed."

"That's good." Jiang Baimian nodded happily, "You are really smart since you were a child! Well... if you want to take on tasks to make money in the future, it will be up to you. The 'intermediate hunter' can take on many more tasks."

She, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong are all "novice hunters" with zero credit points and cannot take on tasks that require sufficient credit.

"Okay." Bai Chen nodded slightly.

Jiang Baimian turned to Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

"Which clue do you think is more valuable?"

This can be regarded as a combination of education and discussion, and she tried to stimulate brainstorming.

"Item 5: People suspected of Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei are still haunting Weeda City." Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation, "As long as we find them, the problem will be solved."

"So, how to find them?" Jiang Baimian asked with a smile.

Shang Jianyao seems to have thought about this problem for a long time:

"Find a place to print out the photos, distribute them throughout the city, and ask if anyone has seen them."

As a graduate of the electronics department, although he doesn't touch computers much, he still knows how to copy and print.

"..." Jiang Baimian laughed after hearing this, "A very direct method. This is definitely effective, but there are also two problems. One is that the cost is too high and we don't have that much material support. The other is that it is very easy to alert the snake, resulting in Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei, who might have been alive, were brutally silenced. Besides, such a big movement might attract the attention of the upper echelons of Weed Grass City and bring about bad changes. Think about it, Chen Xufeng knows about Weed Grass City He must be above us, he has not adopted this method of casting a wide net, so he must have great concerns."

She said "hmm" and continued:

"The two problems of high cost and too much noise are easy to solve. We can go to the Hunter Guild to issue a missing person mission and pay with food. This is a very common thing, and no one will feel wrong. At the same time, there is no need to print or Copy the photo, scan it and upload it directly to the Hunter Guild, so that those who are willing to take on the mission can remember the characteristics.

"However, the efficiency will definitely not be that high, and the problem of alerting the enemy cannot be avoided."

Speaking of this, Jiang Baimian sighed and laughed:

"If it's not a rat trap, it's not impossible to scare the snake by striking the grass. It will scare the snake and make it move, so it will be easier to find its traces."

After listening to these analyses, Long Yuehong felt that she had learned a lot, and murmured to herself:

"How can the team leader be so smart?"

Seeing Jiang Baimian looking at him, he quickly expressed his opinion:

"Team leader, which line do you think we should start investigating?"

Jiang Baimian suddenly laughed:

"Can't you think about it yourself first?"

"Shang Jianyao and I have similar opinions." Long Yuehong quickly said that she had not thought about it.

"I don't believe it." Jiang Baimian responded with a smile, "Most people can't keep up with his thinking."

Long Yuehong had no choice but to add:

"Go to the Bird Bar and look for people who have had conflicts with the 'Old Tune Group'."

"This is a line." Jiang Baimian first confirmed, then shook his head, "However, Chen Xufeng will follow up on this. He is a local snake, and it is more convenient than us. I hope I can gain something. Uh... That place on North Street The line is too broad to investigate. Besides, we can’t enter North Street now unless we accept the short-term mercenary mission..."

After sorting out everything, she laughed:

"There is only one clear line left, and that is a certain senior official of the local hunter guild that Lei Yunsong and the others visited."

"But, we don't know who it is." Long Yuehong said with a frown.

This remains to be further investigated by Chen Xufeng.

Jiang Baimian's smile did not change and he said:

"I don't know, but we can analyze it.

"That 'Old Tune Team' came to Weed Grass City to find old people who had experienced the old world, so why did they suddenly visit the top brass of the Hunter Guild? Is he just such an old man, or does he have such an old man in his family?

"Go to the Hunter Guild tomorrow to find out who the senior members are and compare the conditions one by one. If none of them meet the requirements, ask Chen Xufeng to get the family information of these senior leaders to confirm whether their elders are still alive.

"After setting the target..."

Having said this, Jiang Baimian smiled even brighter, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:

"It's your turn to make 'friends', or to accept your father, godmother, grandpa or grandma."

Long Yuehong, who didn't know much about the details of the events related to the "Life Sacrifice", was dumbfounded.

"Okay." Shang Jianyao's eyes lit up a little, not knowing what he thought of.

Bai Chen nodded invisibly and said to himself:

"It is now the end of the 46th year of the New Calendar. The previous chaotic era was about twenty years ago...Those under the age of seventy are not considered to have truly experienced the destruction of the old world..."

Those who are no more than seventy years old, even if they experienced the destruction of the old world, will still be unable to remember what they encountered because they were too young at the time.

And given the current living environment in Huitu, very few people can live to be seventy.

"That's pretty much it." Jiang Baimian patted his palms lightly and said, "Look at the photos carefully and remember their appearance. What if we meet each other when we go out tomorrow?"

"Is this a good life or a bad life?" Shang Jianyao asked.

"It depends on the situation at the time." Jiang Baimian understood what Shang Jianyao meant and resisted the urge to look at Long Yuehong.

If the fortune-telling is good, you will probably not encounter it. If the fortune-telling is not good, you will probably encounter it directly.

Long Yuehong didn't want to argue with Shang Jianyao about whether her life was good or bad, so she lowered her head and looked at the photos:

Lei Yunsong looks like a twenty-seven-year-old, with eyebrows like swords. He looks good, but his eyes are relatively small, giving people the impression that they are not fully opened;

Lin Feifei looks a little older than Lei Yunsong, with long hair, an oval face, a gentle temperament, and a faint black mole on his eyebrows;

Lu Jiqi is in his early thirties, masculine and handsome, with thin lips and bronze skin;

Yun He seemed to have been weathered, with a rather thin face, like a surface person rather than an employee of "Panguage Creatures", and there was an old scar on his chin;

Wei Yu has a baby face and a very pleasant appearance, and according to the data, he is 1.66 meters tall...

Looking at it, Long Yuehong suddenly said:

"They should all be married, have spouses, and have children..."

Jiang Baimian said "hmm" and sighed:

"That's why we can't be reckless, we can't scare the snake away..."