Embers Ad Infinitum

A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Chong picked up a chopstick of tomato scrambled eggs and stuffed it into his mouth.

"It's so delicious." He praised with satisfaction. "They don't know how to cook it. They only know how to bake and boil it. Moreover, sometimes it's either burnt or full of blood."

After saying that, he took another bite of pizza, feeling quite happy.

"This dish is very simple." Jiang Baimian deliberately suggested, "How about I teach them?"

The reason it took her a quarter of an hour to finish was because she had to clean up the messy kitchen with Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.

Xiao Chong hesitated:

"If you don't use it for the time being, they won't be able to learn it now."

The IQ of the "Advanced Heartless" can only be restored to this level at present? Jiang Baimian pretended to be disappointed and sighed:

"All right."

She could sense the bioelectrical signals around her, but the place itself was an apartment building, full of people, so she had no way of telling where the "higher careless ones" who "protected" Xiao Chong were hiding.

As for the sleeping cat, he was lying on the balcony, basking in the sun and feeling sleepy.

Seeing Xiao Chong eating happily, Shang Jianyao asked with concern while eating with him:

"After you left there, did you come directly here?"

"Yeah, yeah." Xiao Chong was busy eating and couldn't answer clearly. "After leaving the swamp, I heard some hunters say that the First City is the largest city in the world. I thought there should be electricity here, so I came here."

"Have you always lived in this apartment, or did you just move here?" Jiang Baimian asked seemingly unintentionally.

Xiao Chong swallowed the tomato scrambled eggs in his mouth:

"It's so troublesome to move. If I can't help it, I won't move. There won't be many power outages here."

"That's it..." Jiang Baimian nodded slowly.

If Xiao Chong didn't lie, judging from the current situation, the previous "unintentional disease" epidemic in Qinglili District should not have been caused by him, otherwise the people around him would not have been affected, but the distance would have been affected.

Xiao Chong was half full and asked politely:

"Why are you here too?"

"We are here to investigate a matter." Jiang Baimian used the excuse that "Machine Paradise" was concerned about Ole's whereabouts, and talked about how he and others tried to find Avia and Marcus, but were unable to get close. Among them, She focused on describing the performance of "virtual worlds".

"It's amazing." Xiao Chong exclaimed as if listening to a story.

He ate and listened with relish.

This answer... was almost the same as the one given by the company... Jiang Baimian sighed helplessly in his heart.

She turned and said:

"Later, we met a man in the bathroom. He was scared by your cat, and we knew you had come to the First City."

"That's it." Xiao Chong suddenly realized.

But that didn't stop him from eating pizza with tomatoes and scrambled eggs.

Shang Jianyao then added:

"We have been looking for you for a while. We heard that the Nightmare Horse appeared in the mountains on the north coast, so we went there, hoping to encounter it."

"It fell in love with a white wolf and wandered around there all day without knowing how to do anything serious." Xiao Chong complained.

Doing business means working as a coolie, working to earn money to support you? Long Yuehong couldn't help but cursed in her heart.

Facing this "king of the unintentional", he didn't dare to interrupt, for fear of accidentally saying something wrong and irritating the other person.

The next second, Xiao Chong turned his head and glanced at him.

This frightened Long Yuehong's heart to beat rapidly.

Can he sense that I'm speaking ill of him behind his back? Long Yuehong inevitably had similar associations and no longer dared to murmur randomly.

Jiang Baimian followed Xiao Chong's words and said:

"We also met the white wolf, which can control humans..."

She told the story of her two battles with White Wolf, and took the opportunity to bring out the incident of the "old tune team" entering the ruins of Wasteland 13.

Then, with a lingering fear, she mentioned the horror of Wu Meng and the suicides of Waite, Fals, and Felinton.

"That person is very strong." Xiao Chong said without raising his head.

His attention was on the plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and the remaining pizza in front of him.

As for the two butter buns, he had arranged them carefully and planned to eat them at night.

Before Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian could add anything, Xiao Chong suddenly raised his head and said with a smile;

"If you still want to go again, you can go with the ruin hunter named Du Heng."

At this moment, Jiang Baimian actually saw "wisdom" in the face of this seven or eight-year-old boy.

"We met Du Heng some time ago." Shang Jianyao immediately reminded his good friend.

"Ah?" The chopsticks in Xiao Chong's hand froze in mid-air.

After several seconds, he muttered:

"I just said that I am always a little irritable these days, and the games are not so good anymore."

"What does he want to do to you?" Jiang Baimian asked tentatively.

Xiao Chong's face was covered with a layer of gloom and a little aggrieved:

"He wanted to take me back."

"Go back?" Bai Chen was very sensitive to this word and blurted it out.

Xiao Chong snorted twice and continued eating his lunch without answering.

Du Heng's origin is not simple... Long Yuehong couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

Jiang Baimian instantly made some guesses based on these words:

Could it be that Du Heng is a senior commissioner of a certain research institute, and his mission is to take Xiao Chong back?

As a result, during the mission, he lost his memory due to a certain problem, leaving only his obsession?

"Do you want to move? We can help." Shang Jianyao enthusiastically suggested.

Xiao Chong stopped his chopsticks and thought:

"No need, I'm better at hide-and-seek than him, he shouldn't be able to find me in a short time.

"After a few days, he might go somewhere else."

Why are you, a "kid", a bit procrastinating... Seeing this, Jiang Baimian didn't force it.

During the chat, Xiao Chong finished his lunch and rubbed his belly with satisfaction.

He immediately turned his head and said to Shang Jian Yao with bright eyes:

"Let's play games!"

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao looked like "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

He then said:

"We got a batch of the latest model portable computers in Tarnan before, with many old-world games installed on them. Do you want to give one to you?"

Xiao Chong was stunned for two seconds:

"This, why is this so embarrassing? No need..."

His face was filled with excitement, and he just opened his schoolbag and refused while letting the "Old Tune Team" put it in.

"Are we good friends?" Shang Jianyao asked seriously.

Xiao Chong hesitated:

"right……"

He nodded immediately:

"Yes."

"Then don't refuse." Shang Jianyao said confidently.

Xiao Chong smiled:

"When will you come next time?"

"Come in a few days." Jiang Baimian breathed a sigh of relief.

"Can you bring some more food?" Xiao Chong looked expectant.

This, coupled with his childlike appearance, made Jiang Baimian and others inexplicably soft-hearted.

And that's what they originally planned to do.

"This is simple." Shang Jianyao responded with a smile.

Xiao Chong suddenly smiled brightly and pulled Shang Jianyao to the game console.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the "old tune team" who had other matters left the apartment rented by Xiao Chong.

"See you next time!" Shang Jianyao waved his hand reluctantly.

"See you next time!" Xiao Chong said the same thing.

Back on the jeep, Long Yuehong exhaled and said:

"This kind of interpersonal communication is also very tiring."

"Why are you tired?" Shang Jianyao expressed confusion.

"Of course you're not tired, you just have to play games!" Jiang Baimian snorted, "We also have to help Xiao Chong clean the kitchen, clean the living room, and organize the bedroom."

This makes her look like a nanny.

Shang Jianyao hesitated for a second and said:

"I can let you play games with him next time."

"Thank you!" Jiang Baimian replied funny.

She immediately sighed:

"Today's results were pretty good."

"Well, it can be seen that Xiao Chong's good impression of us has improved a lot." Bai Chen, who was driving, also felt that this visit had achieved its purpose.

Jiang Baimian turned to Gnawa in the back row:

"Have you noticed anything unusual about Xiao Chong?"

Gennava shook his head.

…………

No. 9 Harley Street, Golden Wheat Sheep District, downstairs from the apartment rented by Smith, a member of the Mirror Sect.

"503... This house number always gives me some bad associations." Long Yuehong said with a hint of fear.

Jiang Xiaoyue's room in the "Soul Corridor" is "503".

"This should be just a coincidence. There seems to be no connection between the two." Jiang Baimian said after careful consideration.

Of course, she didn't dare to be too sure.

everything is possible.

The group of five people maintained a vigilant attitude and slowly climbed up the stairs.

Arriving at the target floor, Shang Jianyao glanced at room 503 and said with a smile:

"No one."

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"There are no electrical signals from medium to large creatures."

There was silence in that room, no sound came out.

Seeing this, Long Yuehong asked:

"Should we wait for a while, or should we find a way to get in and see if there are any clues?"

Before Jiang Baimian could answer, Shang Jianyao had already "criticized" Long Yuehong:

"That's not polite!"

"Well, we are asking about things from the Mirror Sect, and we are not enemies of them. There is no need to do such a thing." Jiang Baimian sided with Shang Jianyao this time.

"I'm actually more inclined to wait." Long Yuehong defended herself in a low voice.

Therefore, the "old tune team" chose to wait.

After waiting for several hours, it was completely dark.