Embers Ad Infinitum

Just as Long Yuehong was about to read the information a few more times, the lights in the room suddenly went out.

"Is it time for a power outage?" Jiang Baimian turned his wrist and looked at the electronic watch and found that it was already past eight forty.

She suddenly laughed:

"This is much more humane than a company."

Inside "Pangu Biology", it is said that if the street lights are turned off at nine o'clock in the evening, it will not be delayed until nine o'clock and one o'clock. Unlike now, it is more than ten minutes overtime.

"Does humanization mean looser management?" Bai Chen tried hard to understand the subtext of the team leader.

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

"There are good things and bad things. The specific situation needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis."

"If you say it, you haven't said it yet." Shang Jianyao commented seriously.

Then he added:

"I'm afraid Bai Chen is embarrassed to say that."

"Hey, you're quite enthusiastic." Jiang Baimian was already used to Shang Jianyao's similar behavior and just rolled his eyes at him.

She immediately said:

"You all should have some rest. You have been busy from morning to night today, and you have to do your business again tomorrow."

"Yes, team leader!" Long Yuehong replied loudly subconsciously.

Seeing this, Jiang Baimian smiled helplessly and said:

"It doesn't have to be so formal. Do you want the whole building to know that we are together and that we have a team leader?

"Haha, it's okay, just pay attention. Different environments have different environmental requirements."

Fortunately, there had just been a power outage at this time, which caused a lot of noise and noise, completely covering up the small movements here.

Following the previous arrangement, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong entered the room next to the courtyard.

In this way, something unexpected happened. Bai Chen was able to jump into the yard and return to the jeep with Long Yuehong immediately. Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao both had sensory abilities that were different from ordinary people and could effectively Guard against accidents from the street.

"Are you going to sleep on top, or should I sleep on top?" After watching Bai Chen and Long Yuehong leave, Jiang Baimian pointed to the bunk beds in the room.

"You." Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation.

Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and asked with a smile:

"Are you worried that waking up at night will affect me?"

"I ate more today." Shang Jianyao said sincerely.

"That's okay." Jiang Baimian suddenly remembered something, "Don't challenge the disease island tonight. You have to do business tomorrow and recharge your batteries."

"Okay." Shang Jianyao did not hesitate.

"It's better to understand the priorities of things." Jiang Baimian praised with a smile.

While she was talking, she walked to the table by the window and looked outside.

The entire South Street and East Street were dark, and even the street lights no longer emitted light.

Some places on West Street still have light shining through, like a beacon in the darkness; North Street is brightly lit, as if the stars have fallen to the ground.

"It's so clear-cut..." Jiang Baimian sighed, took off his coat, and climbed to the upper bunk.

Not long after she and Shang Jianyao lay down, they suddenly heard several crisp gunshots.

This is from West Street.

After a few bangs, the night calmed down again, and the dynamic and enthusiastic music continued to come from West Street without any impact.

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao suddenly clapped his hands.

"Why are you applauding?" Jiang Baimian didn't bother to guess what Shang Jianyao wanted to express, so he asked directly.

"They are really energetic." Shang Jianyao replied with some yearning.

"Maybe this is Weed City." Jiang Baimian closed his eyes and slowly became sleepy.

Not long after, a commotion broke out at the city gate not far from them, mixed with a few gunshots.

"Why are there people shooting here?" Long Yuehong, who was sleeping on the lower bunk, asked Bai Chen worriedly and curiously.

He chose the lower bunk because Bai Chen was good at sniping and could better monitor the movements in the yard from a higher place.

"Those wanderers who couldn't enter the city during the day probably wanted to break in at night." Bai Chen guessed based on his own knowledge and the current environment, "Then the guards opened fire."

Long Yuehong felt quite mixed after hearing this. She felt pity for the homeless people waiting to die in the cold winter night, but she also felt that the guards were justified in shooting and had not made any mistakes.

This reminded him of a saying that those employees who have served in the security department for a long time in "Pangu Biology" like to say:

"This fucking world!"

When the commotion at the city gate subsided, Long Yuehong quickly forced herself to fall asleep.

At this moment, he heard a sound of um um ah ah coming from upstairs or upstairs.

In other buildings, similar noises were heard, echoing in the yard.

Long Yuehong is no stranger to this. After all, the sound insulation in the places where ordinary employees of "Pangu Biology" live is not that good.

This made him blush a little - the difference between now and the past was that there was a woman sleeping on his upper bunk.

After a while, the um um ah ah ah ah sounds subsided one after another, and Long Yuehong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But within a few minutes, the chanting started again.

Almost at the same time, sharp curses broke out:

“Get out!

"I only gave you two steamed buns and you want to come here a second time? How shameful are you?"

Long Yuehong was a little stunned after hearing this, and then he hesitated and asked:

"What's going on?"

"Prostitute." Bai Chen replied concisely and concisely.

Within "Pangu Biology", this is a non-existent profession, and Long Yuehong only knows what it means through textbooks and dictionaries.

"Ah..." Long Yuehong was startled for a moment, then defended herself, "I thought people on the surface were busy surviving..."

"This is a way of survival in itself." Bai Chen said without any disdain, "And the more pressure you have to survive, the more you will seek to vent in this aspect."

She paused and added two sentences:

"In Weed City, there are too many outsiders and too many relic hunters. They wander in the dust all year round and have not touched a woman for weeks or even months.

"In this regard, female relic hunters are much better. As long as they are willing, there are many candidates, and they may be able to earn some supplies, but they also have to consider whether they will be infected with diseases and whether they will become pregnant. For a female relic hunter, these are all If you’re not careful, you could ruin your own business.”

Long Yuehong listened quietly and wanted to say something, but in the end it turned into a sigh.

The night flowed between calm and restless at a constant speed. By the time Long Yuehong woke up in the middle of the night, the whole city had fallen asleep completely.

By 7:30, it was just dawn, darkness still dominated the earth, and the streets were already bustling.

Many shops opened their doors and started selling breakfast.

Among them, the most prosperous ones are several shops selling wowotou. Their specialty is that they are cheap enough.

Some stores even only sell charcoal-roasted hot water, 1 cup per cas, specially prepared for ruin hunters who choke after eating the hot water.

——Tap water also has to be paid for.

"Good job..." Shang Jianyao commented after eating two yellow steamed buns.

One of these Wowotou costs 5 cas, and two of them cost 1 cas.

Jiang Baimian, who was picking up the water bag, gave Shang Jianyao a white look:

"No one is rushing you, why are you eating so fast?"

"Experience the feeling of being in the 'hungry ghost realm' again." Shang Jian Yao Gulu explained seriously after drinking the water.

"You want to say that if you adapt to this way of eating first, when you encounter the purification method, you can gain a few extra seconds after falling into the 'hungry ghost path'?" Jiang Baimian had a clear understanding. Di asked rhetorically.

"Be prepared and be prepared for any danger. The more you calculate the better, the less you calculate." Shang Jianyao nodded.

"...You're repeating the reading again!" Jiang Baimian first felt that these words sounded familiar, and then remembered that he had said it before.

She turned to smile and said:

"Actually, wouldn't it be better to prepare some food that is easy to swallow?"

"You can't predict when you will encounter Jingfa." Shang Jianyao hung the water bag back on his armed belt.

"You can keep it on your body and not eat it." Jiang Baimian retorted, "But, you shouldn't be able to meet Zen Master Jingfa in Weecao City. There are so many women here, and he can't control himself at all."

While talking, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao walked along the street to the central square, aiming for the Hunter Guild.

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong ate their breakfast slowly, not in a hurry to follow.

After walking a few dozen meters, Jiang Baimian saw a man wearing a wide-brimmed round hat hurriedly coming out of the alley.

Suddenly, she stretched out a hand, stopped Shang Jianyao, and turned her gaze to the building opposite.

boom!

After a gunshot, the man wearing a wide-brimmed round hat fell to the ground, with red and white splashing all over.

The whole street suddenly froze and lost its sound.

After a few seconds, screams and shouts started one after another.

The Wild Grass City patrolmen armed with submachine guns rushed towards the building where the bullets were fired.

They stuck to the corresponding street to prevent themselves from being shot.

"Quite professional..." Jiang Baimian commented very calmly.

She had just noticed that the gunman was on the rooftop.

Shang Jianyao sighed inexplicably:

"pity……"

"What's a pity?" Jiang Baimian asked slightly confused.

"Crossing another island should prevent him from pulling the trigger." Shang Jianyao replied regretfully.

Jiang Baimian looked at the width of South Street and the height of the building, nodded slightly and said:

"If the gunman is on the fourth floor of these rows, it's not impossible."

The width of South Street is about five or six meters, and the three-story building is almost ten meters high. Counting the height of the window sill and applying the Pythagorean theorem, you can simply calculate that if the sniper is on the fourth floor and is roughly parallel to the two people, then he will be in the same position as the businessman. The straight-line distance from Jian Yao is between twelve and thirteen meters, which is just within the range of the awakened person's ability of "lack of movement of both hands".

The fifth floor and rooftop are beyond the boundary.

Without waiting for Shang Jianyao's response, Jiang Baimian smiled thoughtfully and said:

“I kind of ignored this ability before.

"In a city with many obstacles and in an environment dominated by street fighting, its role should be greater than I expected."

Especially in a place like Wild Grass City where buildings are generally not high.

"What a pity..." Shang Jianyao sighed again.

"Are you sorry that there are no enemies for you to try now?" Jiang Baimian asked knowingly.

"Yeah." Shang Jianyao nodded honestly.

Jiang Baimian did not say anything to him, but only reminded him seriously:

"This place is also suitable for most awakened people."

Here, the distance between people will be significantly compressed by buildings.