Embers Ad Infinitum

Listening to Jiang Baimian's explanation, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen gradually felt enlightened.

They actually noticed many signs, but they didn't think about it deeply.

Jiang Baimian glanced at Shang Jianyao:

"Shouldn't it?

"Shouldn't you have guessed that there is something wrong with this plan? When I didn't say a word and used my actions to suggest that you hold a biscuit in your mouth to resist the 'hungry ghost path', didn't you understand it very quickly?

"From the fact that I didn't make a sound about such an important matter, but when I was formulating a plan before, I didn't even lower my voice, you can detect the abnormality, and you can even directly guess that what I said at that time may not necessarily mean what I actually did."

Shang Jianyao said directly without thinking about it:

"I thought you were afraid that using your voice to explain would make me remember the corresponding content from time to time, making it difficult to circumvent Jingfa's 'other minds'. After all, we don't know how wide the effective range of this ability is.

"When it is transformed into actions and images, there is a process of interpretation. Even if Jingfa can see the scene in my mind, I may not be able to understand the true meaning."

"...You think too complicatedly." Jiang Baimian commented.

Bai Chen echoed Shang Jianyao:

"I also thought that your silence at that time was based on your understanding of the awakened person. Although I have never heard of discussing the ability of the awakened person and discussing how to deal with him, it would make him 'hear', but I cannot rule out this possibility. I There is certainly no big force that knows much about this."

"...You think more complicated than him." Jiang Baimian laughed and praised himself, "Am I really impeccable in my performance?"

"I just didn't expect you to lie to us, and I didn't think about it in that direction." Shang Jianyao responded immediately.

Bai Chen nodded in agreement.

Jiang Baimian looked around again and changed the topic with a smile:

"So, coming out to practice can help you quickly accumulate experience and develop a tacit understanding between each other.

"In short, no matter what decision I make, you have to believe that I will never cheat you."

"Let's go, let's meet Long Yuehong."

"Okay." Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen have completely figured out what happened and learned a lot from it.

Jiang Baimian looked again at the direction where the mechanical monk Jingfa was escaping, and sighed:

"It's a pity that we couldn't destroy Jingfa's body and get the bionic chip inside.

"The corresponding technology is definitely worth researching and can help the company overcome many difficulties. Moreover, the monks probably have a certain understanding of the reasons for the destruction of the old world. The 'Immortal Man' was one of the most important projects before the destruction of the old world. It can Carrying on this legacy will not be easy.”

Having said this, without waiting for Shang Jianyao's reminder, Jiang Baimian shook his head and said:

"Haha, these are all my beautiful thoughts.

"In fact, if I really want to destroy Jingfa's body, I don't dare to take his bionic chip. The ability of the awakened person is weird and terrifying. Carrying the bionic chip that carries his consciousness is simply suicide.

"That's good, that's good."

She then turned to look at Shang Jianyao:

"Let's go."

Shang Jianyao glanced at the wheel marks, turned around silently, and squatted down.

"It's very meticulous. If we were not allowed to go on our own, I wouldn't be able to catch up with the exoskeleton device." Jiang Baimian nodded with satisfaction and sat sideways on the energy backpack, leaving half of the space for Bai Chen.

After the two sat down and grasped the metal frame at the shoulders, Shang Jianyao straightened up, took long steps, and followed the wheel track with the slight sound of metal friction.

He was not running at full speed, and the sound of his pedaling was not very loud.

About a quarter of an hour later, Shang Jianyao left the sparse forest and came to a gray and black wilderness.

This is a world of rocks and weeds. The soil is hard and the car marks are shallow and numerous, making it difficult to distinguish.

Using the "comprehensive early warning system", Shang Jianyao saw the jeep in the distance.

Its side wheels were stuck in a pool of mud the size of a pond, and the entire vehicle was tilted, threatening to sink at any time.

However, two ropes connected it to a patchwork, wild-looking gray off-road vehicle.

The gray SUV's engine hummed as it tried to pull the Jeep out of the mud.

Long Yuehong stood next to the car with an assault rifle on her shoulder, chatting happily with a man and a woman.

"How's it going? Did you see the jeep? I sensed a lot of people over there." Jiang Baimian pressed the shoulder of the exoskeleton device, stretched his neck, and looked into the distance where Long Yuehong was.

Shang Jianyao nodded:

"I saw it."

"Is Long Yuehong okay?" Bai Chen asked a question when he saw that Shang Jianyao's pace had obviously slowed down.

Shang Jianyao smiled and said:

"He was nice and made some friends."

"Hey." Jiang Baimian said, "Go over and have a look."

Shang Jianyao immediately quickened his pace and ran towards the location of the jeep.

Kick, kick, kick, he deliberately increased the sound of his footsteps so that Long Yuehong and the man and woman next to him could hear the sound from a distance.

The man, woman and Long Yuehong turned their heads almost at the same time and looked here.

As soon as they saw the black military exoskeleton device of Taiwan Railway coming over, the faces of the man and the woman suddenly changed. Without thinking, they rolled over and returned to the vicinity of the gray off-road vehicle.

At this time, the Jeep had been towed out of the small swamp by the assembled gray off-road vehicle.

Long Yuehong's face showed joy and she took a few steps forward:

"how's it going?"

After shouting, he remembered something and hurriedly turned to the gray off-road vehicle and shouted:

"Don't worry, he is my companion!"

"Who are they?" Shang Jianyao had already rushed forward.

In the gray off-road vehicle, both the people inside and the man and woman outside were highly nervous and alert.

Long Yuehong quickly replied:

"I was not familiar with the road and drove my car into the mud. After they found out, they offered to help.

“They are so friendly!”

Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen looked at each other and laughed softly:

"This is not like what ordinary wilderness wanderers would do..."

After speaking, she patted Shang Jianyao on the shoulder:

“We also show our kindness.”

Hearing this, Shang Jianyao immediately stopped.

After Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen jumped off the energy backpack, picked up their guns and took precautions, he walked to Long Yuehong and said loudly:

"Help me take off my exoskeleton."

Jian Shang Jian Yao was indeed dismantling the exoskeleton device, and the group at the gray assembly truck breathed a sigh of relief.

They discussed it and asked the man and woman who had talked to Long Yuehong to come over again.

The man was in his early thirties, with a face that resembled a Chinese character, and his skin was rough and weathered.

He had black hair and brown eyes, and was wearing what the old world called formal clothes, with a straight back - of course, the formal clothes must have been modified to facilitate movement.

Unlike the wilderness wanderers Shang Jianyao and others encountered before, although his clothes were old and had an inconspicuous patch, they did not feel tattered at all.

The woman was in her twenties and had black hair and brown eyes.

She was wearing a military green camouflage uniform, and her facial features were pretty good, but her face was completely expressionless, giving people a cold and indifferent feeling.

There is a faint blue and black tattoo at the junction of her neck and clothes.

The man and woman each carried an automatic rifle on their backs and held a black pistol. They stopped four or five meters away from Jiang Baimian and others.

"Thank you for your help!" Jiang Baimian shouted.

"This is what every moral person should do." The man in his thirties responded calmly.

Jiang Baimian suddenly smiled:

"On this earth, morality is a luxury, no, a rare commodity."

"We cannot give up morality just because the old world is destroyed." The man was quite proud of his ability to adhere to morality.

Then he asked loudly:

"Are you going north of Wolulu Station too?"

"Are you looking for someone?" Jiang Baimian raised his eyebrows slightly, "What do you want to call him?"

The man replied calmly:

"Wu Shoushi, an intermediate hunter."

He paused and said:

"It seems you don't know yet. North of Yuelu Station, the ruins of an old-world city have been discovered. They have never been discovered before."

Never-before-discovered city ruins? Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen couldn't help but look at each other.

Jiang Baimian frowned slightly:

"How do you know?

"There was something abnormal happening deep in the swamp, which happened the night before."

Wu Shoushi glanced at his companion and did not hide anything:

"Someone entered the ruins of the city, discovered a lot of things, modified a wireless telegraph machine, and passed the matter back to the guild in Weed City.

"You should know what it means to have urban ruins that have never been discovered."

Before Jiang Baimian and others could answer, he gave the answer himself:

"Danger and opportunity!

“The items, information, and secrets there are enough to satisfy a team of thousands of relic hunters many times over, and you don’t have to worry about killing each other.

"In comparison, the dangers that exist in the ruins of the city are more intuitive and terrifying, and having more companions will give you more power to fight against them."

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