Embers Ad Infinitum

As soon as the thought flashed, Long Yuehong raised his arms and pointed the assault rifle in his hand at Bai Xiao, Lin Tong and others.

"Don't be anxious." Jiang Baimian interrupted his stress reaction.

Shang Jianyao took a loudspeaker and asked:

"Which ruined city were we talking about? In what position were we talking, upside down or lying on our side?"

The four ruin hunters next to the mountain bike fell silent.

Their figures gradually faded and disappeared without a trace along with the vehicle.

"It's really an illusion!" Although Long Yuehong already knew this fact, it was still a bit unbelievable.

The illusion of Bai Xiao's team just now was so lifelike, no matter the actions, words, expressions, or reactions, it was no different from the real thing.

If the "old investigation team" hadn't mastered the key information in advance, prepared a plan, and used some things that only both parties knew as questions to verify the identity, it would have been very likely to be deceived.

Jiang Baimian frowned slightly and said to himself:

"They all have bioelectrical signatures..."

"Is it still true?" Long Yuehong was even more incredible.

At this moment, he understood why the team leader had stopped him just now.

Because Bai Xiao, Lin Tong and others might be real, but they had auditory hallucinations on their side and got wrong answers, so they thought they were fake.

If a gun were fired at that time, not to mention the issue of accidentally killing innocent people, it would only cause conflicts and chaos, which is also a very dangerous thing.

"Identity verification" can determine whether it is true, but it cannot determine whether it is false - if the answer is correct, it is definitely true, and if the answer is "wrong", it may not be false.

Jiang Baimian shook his head:

"it's gone now."

Seeing that Long Yuehong was still a little confused, Shang Jianyao, who was holding a loudspeaker, helped "explain":

"Knowledge leaked!"

He had a sad look on his face.

"Team leader, do you mean that after what happened last night, the 'high-level unintentional one' began to know how to use hallucinations to create bioelectric signals to make up for the falsehoods in the details?" Long Yuehong came to the realization and asked in surprise.

Doesn’t it mean that this “Higher Heartless One” is closer to a beast?

He, he can still evolve?

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:

"This may be very small. I didn't use this ability to pose any threat to him last night. I just used it as a warning for myself. He can't know it out of thin air."

At this time, Bai Chen gave his guess:

"Maybe when the 'Higher Heartless One' created the illusion, he was referring to the original version. The original version has human consciousness, the illusion has human consciousness, the original version has bioelectrical signals, and the illusion has bioelectrical signals."

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

This was his way of assent.

It was rare for Bai Chen to receive such treatment, and he was a little uncomfortable for a moment. He fully understood the funny and angry reaction of the team leader every time he encountered this kind of situation.

"That's right." Jiang Baimian nodded lightly, "It is indeed possible that he is just copying it. He knows it but doesn't know why. But no matter what, in terms of illusion, he is much better than Zhou Guanzhu."

She had previously commented that the illusion created by Zhou Yue was a bit crude, with no human consciousness or bioelectrical signals.

Saying that, Jiang Baimian added:

"Next, let's see if he deliberately distorts the bioelectrical signals when hiding his traces."

What just happened reminded her that she couldn't rely entirely on weak electrical signal sensing.

While the four of them were communicating, another car came out of the mountain.

It is dark blue overall, equipped with bulletproof steel plates, has a high chassis and large tires.

This is the mountain bike of Bai Xiao team.

It comes "again".

Long Yuehong felt a toothache when she saw it. She didn't know if it was real or fake this time.

He put on night vision goggles and saw nothing wrong.

——At this time, it was just evening, and the light was barely okay. There was no need to use night vision devices. Long Yuehong just used some functions of this auxiliary device.

Soon, the handsome mountain bike stopped in front of two full-length mirrors.

Shang Jianyao held a loudspeaker and greeted cheerfully:

"Hello, Bai Xiao, Lin Tong, Lei, Zhang Shaopeng."

"Why do you have to shout every name once?" Long Yuehong couldn't help but muttered.

"This is polite." Shang Jianyao put down the loudspeaker and replied seriously.

"But these names may not be true." Jiang Baimian hit Shang Jianyao.

Shang Jianyao quickly smiled:

"Everything is a fantasy, why take it seriously?"

At this time, Bai Xiao, whose lower half of his skull had been modified, got out of the car and asked doubtfully:

"How do you know our names?"

He did not remember exchanging names during the contact between the two parties.

"The mountain man has a clever plan." Shang Jianyao said the line he learned from somewhere.

Jiang Baimian quickly "remedied":

"You were here just now."

"You mean, that 'Higher Unintentional' created our illusion?" Lin Tong, who had a gentle temperament, got out of the car.

Behind her, Lei and Zhang Shaopeng were holding weapons and guarding the surroundings.

Jiang Baimian responded with a loudspeaker:

"Yes, fortunately we used what we had talked about to find out whether it was true or false."

When Bai Xiao heard this, he nodded slightly and said:

"You also have a lot of information."

He actually found out about the characteristics of the "Higher Heartless One"'s hallucination ability and started to use the "identity verification" method.

"The target attacked Tarnan last night." Jiang Baimian briefly explained, "Okay, please accept the 'identity verification'."

"No problem." Lin Tong expressed understanding.

"What did we talk about at the Chilar Mountain water point before?" Shang Jianyao took a loudspeaker and asked the previous question.

Bai Xiao shook his head:

"Without any chat, I just reminded you that there are 'high-level careless people' haunting the southwest mountainous area."

"Congratulations, you got the answer right!" Shang Jianyao responded through a loudspeaker.

If the distance wasn't too far and there were countless landmines and traps with iron nails in between, he would probably shake hands with the opposing team one by one.

Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and asked:

"When was the last time you did an 'identity verification'?"

"An hour ago, we were all in the car after that, and the car never stopped." Bai Xiao, who was carrying a straight knife and whose right eye was a strange purple-red, answered patiently.

Jiang Baimian said sincerely:

"Please do the 'identity verification' for them again, and then take a look in front of the mirror one by one."

Bai Xiao turned around and chatted a few words with Lin Tong, Lei and Zhang Shaopeng respectively.

Soon, he gave the result loudly:

"no problem."

Immediately afterwards, they walked to the two full-length mirrors facing each other in turn and took a look respectively.

During this process, Lin Tong and Lei took the opportunity to comb their hair.

This made Long Yue's red scalp tingle.

The illusion created by the "Higher Heartless One" before also did similar actions!

His observation of the target and grasp of details really don't look like a "careless person" who lacks intelligence.

"That's enough." Jiang Baimian breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Have you found anything?"

Bai Xiao seems to have his own loudspeaker, and the sound reaches the ears of Shang Jianyao and others without using any special force:

"We have been lost for a long time, and no equipment can help us.

"This should be the ability of the 'Higher Heartless One'.

"We were wondering why he didn't take the opportunity to attack us before, but now it seems that after he influenced us, he came to Tarnan.

"Later, we found our direction and found that the vehicle was parked very close to the edge of the cliff. If we had acted blindly and not arranged manpower to explore the surroundings in the most cautious way, we would be dead by now."

He told what happened in a clear and logical manner.

The mountains are indeed more dangerous than the town, and are more suitable for the "high-level unintentional person"... Jiang Baimian sighed with emotion and said thoughtfully:

"Won't all those intelligent robots and their auxiliary robots fall under the cliff?"

She believes that living things are path-dependent, and successful solutions will always be used again and again.

Bai Xiao was a little surprised, and immediately calmed down:

"right.

"We have found some traces, which are confirmed to be left behind when the robots fell under the cliff.

"Well, they should have activated the jet device and tried to save themselves, but their judgment of direction was interfered with, and they hit the mountain directly and exploded."

"May the breath of the gods bathe them." Shang Jianyao performed a convulsive dance with compassion.

Seeing this scene, Bai Xiao and Lin Tong looked at each other and nodded invisibly.

Based on this, they judged that the other party was a believer of the "Scorching Gate" and a member of the "Melting Pot Sect".

——The dance performed during the salute of "Frenzy Dance" is somewhat different from that of the "Melting Pot Cult". There is no feeling of being scalded by boiling water.

After a brief exchange, Bai Xiao asked:

"Can we get through here?"

Jiang Baimian smiled and pointed to the wooden sign next to him:

"Look there."

Bai Xiao, Lin Tong and others followed Jiang Baimian's hand and looked at the wooden sign.

Because the light bulb that came with the wooden sign was not on yet, and the sky was getting darker at this time, they carefully identified it for a while before interpreting the content on it:

"This road is blocked, please take the northeast gate."

Lin Tong was confused:

"Then what were you talking about so much just now?"

Professional instinct... Jiang Baimian replied silently.

Then she smiled and said:

"After verifying your identity, I can tell you something:

"Well, that 'Higher Heartless' is afraid of looking in the mirror."

"Look in the mirror?" Lin Tong subconsciously looked at the full-length mirror in front of him with a thoughtful expression.

She, Bai Xiao, Lei, and Zhang Shaopeng didn't ask why.

Bai Xiao then expressed his thanks on behalf of the entire team.

They didn't stop any longer, got in the car, and drove along the fork road to the northeast intersection of Tarnan.

"It's strange that their answers were not distorted, allowing us to determine the authenticity so easily..." Jiang Baimian muttered to himself doubtfully after watching the dark blue mountain bike go away.

Bai Chen considered it and said:

"Perhaps that 'Higher Unintentional One' has found another way to break through."

No longer in this area.

"He has a strong will to win." Shang Jianyao sighed after hearing this.

A desire to win? Jiang Baimian was amused for a while and wanted to reply, "He is not Shang Jianyao", and called Zhou Yue and others to remind them to pay attention.

At this moment, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and realized an important problem:

Why did that "Higher Unintentional One" insist on entering Tarnan?

The "hunt" he hunted before was enough to feed him for several days!