Embers Ad Infinitum

Nearly two hours later, a light truck riddled with bullet holes drove over from the direction of Zhao's Manor, heading towards the First City.

Sitting in the driver's seat was a man with shaggy black hair and an unshaven beard. He held a cigarette wrapped in leaves in his mouth, his body swaying slightly, and his expression was quite relaxed.

Jiang Baimian turned his head and looked at Shang Jianyao, asking him with his eyes whether this was his goal.

——Many people passed by during the previous period, but none of them were the "suspicious persons" in Zhao Shouren's memory.

Shang Jianyao responded with a nod.

Then, he mouthed a name:

"Shen Kui."

This man's name was Shen Kui, and he was an acquaintance in some of Zhao Shouren's memories, but in other parts of his memories, he was mixed with the image of another person, and certain details seemed to indicate that he did not exist.

There is no doubt that Jiang Baimian did not understand Shang Jianyao's mouth movements, but she only needed to "nod".

After receiving a positive answer, she turned to Gnawa and held out three fingers, signaling action.

Gnawa, who was squatting behind a tree, suddenly jumped out.

Immediately afterwards, he exerted force on the metal joints of his legs, and his whole body flew up and landed on the front cover of the light truck.

Shen Kui, who was holding a simple cigarette in his mouth, caught sight of this scene from the corner of his eye, and his spirit suddenly became very tense.

Without caring about who the figure that suddenly jumped out was or what its characteristics were, he showed a cruel smile, put his right foot down, and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.

He has received training and knows that when encountering similar situations, he must not brake. No matter what, it is the best and safest option to directly crash into the car.

Amidst the roar, the speed of the light truck suddenly increased.

This caused Gnawa, who was supposed to be on the front cover according to the plan, to hit the windshield directly.

When Jiang Baimian saw this, he couldn't help but raised his hands to cover his face.

She was not worried about Gnawa, but pitiful Shen Kui who was driving.

In the commotion of bangs and clatters, Shen Kui was first splashed with fragments of the windshield, a little bit inserted, and then hit into his arms by heavy and high-speed steel. He fainted without even a groan.

He had several broken ribs.

When a normal person saw an "iron ball" flying towards the windshield, they would definitely choose to reduce their speed or turn the steering wheel to avoid injury, but he accelerated directly, as if he wanted to compete with Gnawa about who was harder and who could withstand the impact better.

Needless to say the final result, how can an egg hit a stone?

There was a squeaking sound, and after the light truck rushed a certain distance, it barely stopped without overturning and falling to the ground.

This is because Gnawa tried to control the steering wheel in the driver's seat and kicked away the other person's foot on the accelerator.

As soon as the light truck stopped, the intelligent robot opened the door and got out. While checking itself, it "complained" to Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, who were approaching quickly:

“Didn’t he know that this would cause a car accident?

"I'll have to touch up the paint again."

"Carbon-based people all have their brains twitched sometimes." Shang Jianyao explained sincerely.

Jiang Baimian looked at Shen Kui who was slumped in the driver's seat, and said slightly worriedly:

"Don't kill him."

"I had a controlled posture and avoided the fatal position." Gnawa was very confident about this.

In the situation just now, it is not a strange development for the driver to have his head smashed by an "iron ball".

At this time, Jiang Baimian carefully took Shen Kui out and placed him on the soil beside the forest.

"Only a few bones were broken..." Gnawa then acted as medical examination equipment.

Phew, Jiang Baimian breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head to Shang Jianyao and said:

"There are no electrical signals from large creatures within fifty meters."

It’s not that she’s afraid of accidental injury to human lives. Every fewer believers in the “anti-intellectual religion” will increase the average IQ of all mankind. Moreover, these are not ordinary believers who have been bewitched and deceived. They are grassroots backbones who directly participate in the action and play a certain role. She just I was afraid that it would be too late to obtain "intelligence" and I would have to wait for a while.

"There is no human consciousness." Shang Jianyao took out the night pearl that bloomed with green light.

Facing a comatose person, "Fate Link" is easier to use than "Reasoning Clown".

When the green light suddenly brightened, Long Yuehong saw that Shang Jianyao's eyes became empty and his vision was no longer focused.

The next second, Shen Kui, who was in a coma, opened his eyes.

He raised his hands, groped his body, and said excitedly:

"If the target is unconscious, I can also manipulate him to do something."

At the beginning, Di Marco could forcibly control the target's body regardless of whether he was unconscious or not, but he would only suffer certain interference and resistance.

Seeing Shen Kui's unshaven face full of excitement and his hands constantly touching his body, Long Yuehong felt inexplicably absurd and couldn't help but say:

"Look through your memories, you look like a pervert."

The legendary narcissist.

Bai Chen nodded in agreement.

"He's not very strong..." "Shen Kui" his voice trailed off and became silent.

After a while, he opened his mouth and said:

"It is true that someone who is an 'anti-intellectual religion' was arranged to enter the Zhao family manor and control it..."

"He has never seen the real 'priest' or other high-level officials. There is no similar figure in his memory. It may be that the key memory has been modified...

"He followed the instructions of the man in black trench coat next to Zhao Yixue. That man was called Meng Gang. He should be an awakened person and showed the ability of 'hypnosis'..."

While talking, "Shen Kui" turned around in his pocket and found a few randomly folded papers from his pocket.

After he unfolded it, Jiang Baimian and others could clearly see the contents:

“Thinking is pie, knowledge is poison…

"If you think more deeply, you will be able to stay away from Wu Xin C..."

"Passing on knowledge will definitely lead to Wu Xin Bing..."

"This reading makes my mind so confused, just like a spell." Jiang Baimian sighed in a funny way.

She immediately said:

“With these leaflets and the ‘confessions’, we can report to Congressman Zhao and confirm that the ‘anti-intellectual religion’ is in action.

“Lao Ge, take a photo of the flyer and keep a copy for your files.

"Hey, you can come back and save some energy of the 'Fate Bead'."

"Destiny Pearl" is the name she gave to the night-bright pearl.

This cannot be charged unless Dimarco is resurrected or someone with the same ability as him at the "Psychic Corridor" level provides help.

"Shen Kui" reluctantly nodded.

His eyes closed quickly, and Shang Jianyao's eyes began to move.

The brightness of the luminous pearl also returned to its normal state.

"Leave?" Gennava asked.

Before Jiang Baimian could speak, Long Yuehong hesitated and said:

"I think, do you have to do a full set of acting?"

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

"Yeah." Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully.

Bai Chen said objectively:

"Our current role is the investigation team hired by Congressman Zhao, and we certainly don't want to expose ourselves."

"Then wake him up." Jiang Baimian pointed to Shen Kui on the ground.

"I'll do it." Gnawa was interested in testing the newly loaded module in the Red Stone Collection - the stun gun.

After a moment, Shen Kui woke up tremblingly and saw four human faces in front of him, and a silver-black robot standing next to him.

"What's the matter with you? Why are you driving?" Bai Chen made a condemning voice on behalf of the whole group. "You don't know how to brake or turn off the steering wheel when you meet people on the road. Do you want to hit us to death? Fortunately, we are walking on the road. The first one is a robot, it’s nothing serious, otherwise you wouldn’t have thought of leaving alive today!”

Long Yuehong watched in shock, because Bai Chen had no trace of acting at all, as if this was something she was good at.

Well, she was born as a wanderer in the wilderness and mainly engaged in business. She must often have disputes with others... After a second thought, Long Yuehong found an explanation.

Shen Kui was at a loss after being scolded, and he had the intention to reply, but the pain in his chest bones and the reality of the large number of people on the other side made him lower his head and only muttered:

"It doesn't walk well on its own and wants to jump on my car."

"It's a frog-shaped robot. Does it like to jump around and bother you?" Jiang Baimian opened his eyes and told lies.

Shen Kui weighed it again and again and said with a smile:

"How do you want to solve it?"

"This has to be repainted, right?" Bai Chen made the request.

In the end, they "blackmailed" Shen Kui away from the "Anti-Intellectual Cult"'s full 50 Ole activity funds.

After watching them disappear into the woods, Shen Kui touched his pocket to confirm that the pieces of paper were still there.

"Bad luck!" He slowly moved back to the light truck, preparing to go back to find someone for treatment.

In the woods, Long Yuehong looked back at the highway area and said funnyly:

"The IQ of ordinary believers of the 'anti-intellectual religion' is really not very high..."

"If I could make a sum of money from them every time, I would be reluctant to attack them." Jiang Baimian sighed with a smile.

Shang Jianyao deeply agreed.

…………

At around seven o'clock in the evening, the "old tune group" had dinner and moved into a rental house on Iron Medal Street in Green Olive District.

"Sleep here tonight. There are only two beds. Let's squeeze in." Jiang Baimian looked around and said.

Then, she smiled:

"Xiao Bai and I!"

This rental house is very small and can only accommodate a bunk bed and a set of tables and chairs.

"I can sit and rest." Gnawa said this is not a problem.

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong looked at each other with disgust at the same time, without saying anything more.

While a few people were chatting, Jiang Baimian drafted a telegram of the afternoon's harvest and prepared to send it to Zhao Zhengqi tomorrow morning.

Suddenly, outside near the port, a wolf howl came.

It dragged on for a long time, like the whimpering of a wild animal, which was both sad and strange.

"What's going on?" Jiang Baimian turned his head and looked at Bai Chen.

Bai Chen simply repeated what he had told Long Yuehong before:

"Grey native prostitutes, they don't understand the language, so they can only attract customers by imitating wolf howls.

"This was supposed to be a symbol of sex in the original city."

As an outsider, she wasn't so sure about the second half of the sentence. She just heard someone mentioned it and remembered it in her heart.

Before Jiang Baimian said anything, Shang Jianyao stood up and said with his usual expression:

"I gonna go see."