Embers Ad Infinitum

"Don't look at her too much, it will reveal that we know her." Bai Chen simply glanced at her and then looked away.

When they were in Weed City, unlike Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, she and Long Yuehong had direct contact with Kristina. They only met twice and knew each other's appearance. Later, they heard about the deputy The president is suspected to be an awakened member of the "Holy Desire" sect.

Therefore, she did not want Christina to find out that she and Long Yuehong not only knew her, but also seemed to have a deep impression on her, which would cause a lot of trouble for the "Old Tune Team" in the original city.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Chen added:

"You can watch a little longer."

It's a man's instinct.

Not going to see it might make Kristina suspicious.

In Bai Chen's previous career as a wanderer in the wilderness, she had encountered similar narcissists.

Long Yuehong coughed and looked away:

"I noticed just now that the ruin hunters who had female companions around them didn't look much at it."

As he talked, he was satisfied with his obvious improvement in observation skills.

His mental journey just now was as follows:

No, you can’t look too much, otherwise something will be wrong. No, Shang Jianyao said that when a normal man meets a beautiful lady, he will look at her for a while. There are only two possibilities for hastily looking away. One is that the other party has noticed your beauty. I paid attention, looked back, and secondly, I had something in my mind - I had to pretend that I just looked at it in passing, and then turned my eyes to other places - Hey, why did that man get his arm pinched by his female companion - Oh, he quickly looked away from Kristina and began to defend...

Bai Chen pondered for a few seconds, nodded slightly and said:

"That makes sense."

She immediately said:

"We know that's not the case, but Christina doesn't."

"Yes, yes." Long Yuehong was very happy to see that her statement was recognized.

At this time, Kristina walked in their direction, passed by them, and entered the stairwell.

She took a look at Bai Chen and Long Yuehong, but her attention was mainly attracted by the silver-black robot.

When the former vice-president of the Wild Grass City Hunter Guild went upstairs, Long Yuehong glanced back at the place where her back disappeared, and smiled to himself:

"She invited Shang Jianyao to her office back then, but she turned a blind eye to me."

He originally wanted to say "us" to tease Kristina, the awakened person suspected of being a member of the "Holy Desire" sect, for being a standard "face dog" - he learned many old-world words from Jiang Xiaoyue's related information. But when the words came to her mouth, she realized that it seemed to be mocking Bai Chen for not being pretty enough, so she forcibly changed it to "I".

Anyway, he is self-aware.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gnawa echoed:

"I know the reason. You have been genetically modified to be only 1.75 meters tall, and you look ordinary..."

Long Yuehong opened her mouth little by little and forgot to close it. After Bai Chen was stunned for two seconds, he raised his hand to cover his mouth and turned his head.

"Stop!" Long Yuehong came to his senses and stopped Gnawa from talking.

He asked eagerly and confusedly:

"Did Shang Jianyao teach you?"

"Yes." Gennava nodded honestly, "He said that every time you deny yourself, repeat this sentence to stimulate you to work hard."

"I'm so grateful to him!" Long Yuehong turned her head to the side in embarrassment and turned her gaze to the big screen on the first floor.

The scroll above displays the tasks currently available:

"...There is an urgent need for a batch of water purification devices..."

"...The number of abnormal creatures in the wasteland on the north shore has increased, and a cleanup is needed..."

"...A giant white wolf appeared in the mountains on the north coast..."

"...Looking for companions heading to the ruins of Bloody Wasteland No. 9..."

"...hire bodyguards..."

When Long Yuehong pretended to be looking for a mission, a team of five or six ruin hunters came to them.

The leader was a mature man from Red River with a mustache. He wore an old-world cowboy hat, a linen shirt, and an old black vest. He had a pistol on each waist.

"Let me meet you, my name is Carlo." The man greeted Bai Chen and Long Yuehong with a smile on his face.

He spoke Honghe dialect.

"Qian Bai." Bai Chen skillfully gave his pseudonym.

"Gu Zhiyong." Long Yuehong followed closely.

Carlo glanced at Gennava's silver-black body and asked with a smile:

"Are you interested in forming a team and going to the mountains on the north coast to capture the white wolf?"

Before Long Yuehong and the others could answer, Carlo suppressed his voice and whispered:

"We have some connections in the guild, and we got a piece of top-secret information, which contains detailed information about the white wolf..."

If I guessed correctly, that information should have been sold to the guild by us... Long Yuehong didn't know how to answer for a moment, so she just muttered in her heart.

Seeing that the two-person team seemed to be hesitating, Carlo glanced at Gnava again and said with a smile:

"Believe me, our cooperation will lead directly to success, and the risks will not be too great."

Why do you always look at Gnawa... I understand, what they are interested in is actually a robot that is immune to charm. Xiaobai and I are just talking to each other... Long Yuehong suddenly realized.

At this time, Bai Chen shook his head:

"We have other tasks."

"It's OK." Carlo persuaded hard, "If you can't trust my team, you can find a guild to witness our cooperation. We have established a firm foothold in the original city and will not give up all this for profit."

Bai Chen shook his head again:

"We're not going out of town for a long time."

"Okay." Carlo looked disappointed.

Bai Chen thought for a while and reminded:

"That white wolf may be more dangerous than you think."

She and Long Yuehong no longer stayed in the hunter's guild hall, and "led" Gnawa back to the street.

As soon as Long Yuehong took a breath of the air outside, she heard Bai Chen ask:

"Did you find anything suitable for Su Na and Li Qiong from those tasks?"

The missions of the Hunter Guild often reveal some business opportunities.

"Ah, no." Long Yuehong was embarrassed to say that she just glanced at it casually.

Just as he was about to suggest that he go back and take a closer look, there was a sudden loud noise from a certain direction in the city.

Boom!

The glass windows of the surrounding buildings shook one after another, making them look weak.

"What's wrong?" After the loud noise subsided, Long Yuehong looked blankly at the approximate location where the sound came from.

Bai Chen frowned and replied:

"Like an explosion."

"After comparison, it was an explosion." Gnawa gave the analysis results.

Soon, dark black armed helicopters appeared in mid-air, flying towards the southeast of the Red Giant Wolf area.

After a while, someone finally sold the information to the guild over the phone:

A vicious explosion occurred at today's citizens' rally!

When Bai Chen, Long Yuehong and Gnawa drove to other streets, they clearly felt that the atmosphere in the original city had become tense, and there were obviously more armed patrols.

This forced them to give up the idea of ​​stopping by the home of Ole's grandson Marcus.

It can be predicted that the Golden Apple District is definitely in a state of semi-martial law.

After preliminary research on which businesses were easier to do in the First City, Bai Chen drove back to Iron Medal Street in Qingliu District.

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"There was an explosion at the citizens' rally. This is no small matter..." Jiang Baimian, who was returning to Qinglili District, casually chatted while driving, "It seems that the situation in the initial city will be chaotic to a certain extent."

She and Shang Jianyao found out what the loud noise was through the "Black Shirt Party" channels.

Without waiting for Shang Jianyao's response, Jiang Baimian laughed to himself:

"This is not a bad thing. Proper chaos may help us find opportunities to contact Avia and Marcus."

"You're right." Shang Jianyao was very pleased.

Jiang Baimian glanced at him and turned the car onto the road leading to Ugo Hotel.

She and Shang Jianyao were going to get the case data of this "unintentional disease".

The "Old Tune Team" paid a full 10 Ore for this.

The hotel owner Ugo did not lie to them, he actually gave them a stack of information in a brown document bag.

"Thank you." Shang Jianyao was very polite.

He and Jiang Baimian turned around and were about to leave when a figure suddenly jumped out of the door.

The figure was a Honghe woman with black hair and brown eyes. She looked about thirty years old, but she had a lot of white hair on her head and her skin was tanned and rough.

The woman was holding a simple wooden doll in her hand. When she saw the person, she smiled and shouted:

"Don't be afraid, Philip is very good! He won't kill people randomly even if he has an 'unintentional disease', and he listens to my words!"

When she spoke, she kept pointing to the doll in her hand, with a flattering smile on her face.

When Jiang Baimian felt a little confused, he heard Ugo, the hotel owner behind him, say:

"Her child is the second patient this time. He has just grown up..."

After a pause, Ugo looked into the woman's eyes with a mixture of eagerness and joy, and added in a low voice:

"She's gone crazy."

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