Embers Ad Infinitum

Jiang Baimian was waiting to ask when he saw that the elevator had reached the first floor and opened the car door and hall door.

She pondered for a moment, pointed forward, and motioned to go to the elevator first.

Because there was no sound coming from the stairwell, Long Yuehong had no objection and followed Jiang Baimian into the elevator.

When Bai Chen and Shang Jianyao came in, Jiang Baimian pressed the number "6".

Their destination is actually on the eighth floor.

"What were you listening to just now?" After the elevator began to move upward, Jiang Baimian lowered his voice and asked.

Long Yuehong secretly praised the team leader for being cautious while recalling:

"We heard a conversation between a man and a woman, talking about betrayal, what most nobles accept, and whether they are in power or not..."

Due to the current environment, he could only pick out a few key statements, which made Jiang Baimian frown slightly and Bai Chen felt confused and confused.

Seeing that the elevator had reached the sixth floor, Jiang Baimian controlled the urge to ask questions and led the three members of the "old tune team" out and walked up the stairs to the eighth floor.

This apartment was considered good in the Green Olive District. It was divided into several units. Each unit had only four rooms on each floor. Jiang Baimian easily found the one described by General Phocas.

Shang Jianyao had already taken out the key found on the prisoner from his tactical backpack and opened the door with a click.

The living room in the house is quite large, but the layout is quite simple. There are only a set of old sofas, a cabinet, three chairs and a coffee table.

"What exactly did they say?" Jiang Baimian closed the door and asked the question he had been holding in his mind for a while.

Long Yuehong quickly recited the conversation between the man and the woman while her memory was still relatively clear, even simulating the corresponding tone.

Finally, he gave his guess:

"It should be that a certain force suffered betrayal from its allies during today's turmoil, and one of the survivors came to question the other party."

"Doesn't he want to live?" Shang Jianyao showed an appreciative expression.

Long Yuehong could understand what he meant:

The other forces have betrayed them, and they still come to ask people to question them. Isn't this just throwing themselves into a trap and seeking death?

This requires not only giving up IQ, but also having enough courage.

"It will take a few years to be accepted by most nobles and slowly come under the sun... Who is not in power is the key..." Jiang Baimian skipped the conversation between Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao and asked thoughtfully, "From the first sentence, which force can you think of?"

Bai Chen, who has a deep understanding of the situation in "Primary City", immediately responded:

"The 'Holy Desire' sect!"

Many nobles secretly believe in "Mandala" and indulge their own desires.

The "Old Tune Group" knows this, as evidenced by the late-night party at Lao K's house.

"That's why that person dared to question him. He and that woman have a certain friendship..." Long Yuehong suddenly realized something.

He originally wanted to describe the state between a man and a woman as "sleeping many times" and "frequently having sex", but he felt that these words were too vulgar, so he finally used "friendship" instead.

"You have tarnished the word 'friendship'." Shang Jianyao commented unceremoniously.

Without giving Long Yuehong a chance to argue, Jiang Baimian thoughtfully asked the second question:

“Who do you think that man could be?

"The force he belongs to can influence many nobles in the 'First City' and can create opportunities for them to slowly accept the 'Holy Desire' sect; the force he belongs to has suffered an extremely serious blow in this turmoil; his own status should not be the same. Low, high probability that he is still an awakened person, or has other abilities, otherwise he would not be able to ask someone to question him, nor would he be qualified; the woman mentioned that 'who is not in power is the key'..."

The combination of such stripped-out information made Long Yuehong feel that the answer could be fermented at any time, but the last point, the most critical point, was missing.

At this time, Bai Chen suddenly said:

"Assus, son of Archon Beuris."

Long Yuehong looked at her companion in astonishment, and saw a strange feeling in her solemn expression.

"Why do you say that?" Long Yuehong asked subconsciously.

"His status is sufficient. His father is the leader of the conservatives. He was the most powerful figure in the Prime City before the turmoil. It is directly related to 'taking power'..." Bai Chen said several things in one breath.

She was silent for two seconds and continued:

"He is at least an awakened person at the level of the 'Origin Sea' and belongs to the 'Mandala' realm."

"How do you know?" As soon as Long Yuehong blurted out, she received a look from the team leader suggesting that she should stop asking.

Oops... Long Yuehong vaguely understood something and felt very regretful.

He remembered that after Xiaobai was caught by the slave trader Eugene, he was sold to the First City and worked as a slave for a period of time before finding a chance to escape.

The corners of Bai Chen's mouth moved, as if trying to form a smile, but in the end he failed.

However, her tone was still quite calm, very calm:

"Because his price is highly suspected of being a 'sex addiction', and he possesses an item that has a similar negative impact to the 'Six Senses Pearl', a dried flower that serves as a bookmark."

The negative effect of "Six Sense Pearls" is "increased lust", and as an ability, it is likely to be in the "Mandala" field.

This time, Long Yuehong didn't ask you how you knew.

There was an unspeakable silence in the room.

After a few seconds, Jiang Baimian cleared his throat and said:

“We have discovered very early on that the ‘Holy Desire’ sect seems to be cooperating with the ‘Anti-Intellectual Cult’ to create conflicts and want to cause unrest, which is very detrimental to conservatives and Beuris.

"Assus and his father were completely unaware before?

"In other words, the early actions of the 'Holy Desire' sect were ordered by them, which was equivalent to driving a nail into the enemy. As a result, the 'Holy Desire' sect betrayed them in the end?"

Thinking of the conversation between a man and a woman, Long Yuehong intuitively thought it was the latter possibility.

"The turmoil in the First City is very deep." Shang Jianyao raised his hand and touched his chin.

Both he and Jiang Baimian looked at Bai Chen and Long Yuehong normally, without trying to avoid anything, and assumed the posture of discussing the issue seriously.

Jiang Baimian nodded gently and said:

“The saying ‘It’s who’s not in power’ is really interesting.

"I don't know what the lady wanted to express, but if you look at it at the level of executive games, it can be interpreted like this:

"It doesn't matter who influenced the 'Primordial City', as long as it's not 'Zhuang Sheng' or 'Broken Mirror' or 'Bodhi'..."

"Is this the attitude of holding the New Year's Mandala in September?"

Bai Chen nodded slowly:

"possible."

"It seems that the senior executives may also be divided into camps." Shang Jianyao recalled some entertainment information from the old world.

Jiang Baimian said "hmm" and then laughed:

"We ordinary people are thinking about the issue of governing the year again. Uh... write it down first. It is useless now, but it may not be useful in the future."

She then suppressed her smile and said seriously:

"One of the abilities in the 'Mandala' field is the 'sixth sense.' The lady didn't say anything anymore because she probably realized that someone was 'listening'."

"Did you find us?" Long Yuehong hissed.

Jiang Baimian nodded slightly:

"If they move quickly, they should be able to see our elevator going up to the sixth floor, and I have observed that there are no surveillance cameras here.

"In other words, they shouldn't be able to track this room unless they use area-of-effect abilities to have a covering effect. But if it's really Assus, he is definitely the target of the new consul who wants to kill him quickly. It's not too late to hide. , once there is no way to silence them quietly, it is unlikely to initiate a fight.

"So, after he can't find us, he will choose to leave the area quickly."

Having said this, Jiang Baimian turned his head and looked at Bai Chen:

"Xiao Bai, go to the window and take a look. If you can find Asus, you might have a chance..."

She raised her right hand and made a shooting gesture.

Bai Chen pursed his lips, picked up the "Orange" rifle, nodded and turned towards the wall with the window.

At this moment, Jiang Baimian looked to the side.

Diagonally opposite there is the stairway.

"Someone's coming up, three." As usual, she reported the situation she sensed.

Because the number of people was wrong, she didn't care too much.

However, after hearing her words, Shang Jianyao turned his right hand and tried to take off the tactical backpack.

During this process, he spoke quickly:

"only one person."

The bioelectrical signals show that there are three people, but there is only one in the human consciousness!

This shows that two people deliberately restrained themselves and hid their own fluctuations in consciousness!

Jiang Baimian easily understood what Shang Jianyao meant, but suddenly his body surface felt very itchy, and he wanted to scratch it a few times.

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