Embers Ad Infinitum

Shang Jianyao and others saw the captain of the 23rd Brigade outside Black Rat Town. He was in his thirties, wearing gray and black clothes and a nameplate with two extra stars.

"Wang Beicheng." He extended his right hand to Jiang Baimian.

Jiang Baimian also stretched out his hand and gave it a virtual squeeze:

"Jiang Baimian."

"I've heard about the name for a long time." Wang Beicheng smiled and retracted his hand.

He is about the same height as Shang Jianyao, and his facial features are tall and handsome, but he is very tanned and has a grayish appearance.

"I hope it's a good reputation." Jiang Baimian said modestly, and then introduced Shang Jianyao and others, "These are members of our 'Old Tune Group'."

Wang Beicheng was not arrogant at all, and greeted Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao, and Long Yuehong in turn.

Then, he turned his attention to Jiang Baimian again:

"To be honest, we were all surprised when we heard that you applied to form a new 'old tune team'. This is one of the most dangerous tasks, and you are completely unnecessary."

Hearing "one of the most dangerous missions", Long Yuehong's face turned a little pale involuntarily.

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"This is my personal pursuit. Above the dust, there are still some idealists."

"Sometimes, you are simply enviable." Wang Beicheng half-smiled and half-sighed, "Unfortunately, people like us, with wives and children, can no longer be willful."

The pleasantries between the two ended here, and Jiang Baimian began to talk about his own experience, hoping that the colleagues opposite him could obtain useful information from the story.

She first mentioned how she heard a roar the first night she slept in the wild, and suspected something unusual happened north of Yuelu Station. Then she skipped the battle with the wilderness bandits wearing exoskeleton devices, and didn't even talk about Shuiwei Town. From the experience, I only briefly mentioned that I encountered a black marsh iron snake on the road and successfully killed it - the black marsh iron snake's skin is on the roof of the jeep and can be seen at a glance.

After telling the "pre-plot", Jiang Baimian directly talked about the trip to the ruins of the steel plant, retelling the information provided by Harris Brown, the bald ruin hunter, exactly as it is - except that the words may be different, there is no increase in the content. reduce.

Wang Beicheng listened very attentively, and the polite smile on his face gradually disappeared.

Then, Jiang Baimian changed the topic to the mechanical monks’ purification.

At the beginning, she faithfully recounted the conversation between Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and Jingfa, emphasizing the supernatural power of "other minds", which is suspected to be the ability of awakened people.

But when Jingfa caught up and relied on the "hungry ghost path" ability to control the four of him, Jiang Baimian hid Shang Jianyao's performance without leaving a trace, only saying that he judged that Jingfa's hatred of women was not because of "immortal people". "The technique was defective, but it was the mismatch between his lustful nature and his physical condition, which led to psychological distortion. Then, he deliberately used this to anger him, causing him to start committing violence uncontrollably. Then, he seized this opportunity and used his left hand to The index finger was inserted into an interface on Jingfa's neck, and the high-voltage current stored in the electric eel-shaped prosthetic limb was used to destroy the opponent's main control system and body structure.

Here, Jiang Baimian deliberately changed the facts and did not mention that because he was worried that Jingfa had an emergency backup system and redundant body structure, he only wanted to use "gold fingers" to invade the internal information network of the mechanical monks and directly control the opponent.

Then, she omitted the middle process and grafted the subsequent ending here - because Jingfa had an emergency backup system and redundant body structure, he still escaped from the jeep after suffering heavy damage and was not destroyed on the spot.

"If it were me, even if I were leading a combat team, I might not be able to do as well as you." After hearing about the mechanical monks, Wang Beicheng couldn't help but sigh, "Combat robots plus real human wisdom plus awakened ability, It’s just a big killer.”

"This is also forced by pressure. Otherwise, we will be violated and tortured to death by a mechanical monk. Where does this make sense?" Jiang Baimian laughed at himself, "After getting rid of the Jingfa, we thought about the Black Rat. He came to the town and used the radio transceiver here to transmit the obtained information back to the company. On the way, while sleeping in the wild, he met two strange people, one was named Du Heng, who claimed to be an antiquities scholar and historical researcher, and the other was from the original city, named Jia Luo Lan, calls himself a Taoist priest..."

Her focus was not on how strange these two people were, but on eliciting some of the information about the Awakened Ones obtained that time.

After that, the "old tune team" arrived in Black Rat Town and found that the place was completely slaughtered, so they searched the scene and fired emergency flares.

Jiang Baimian did not conceal the results of his investigation and pointed out the suspicion of the "Hyena" bandit group.

Near the end, she talked about the real nightmare, but she did not mention that Shang Jianyao relied on the ability of the awakened person to break free on his own. She only talked about good luck. At that time, the night shift happened to be handed over. Long Yuehong and Bai Chen discovered something was wrong and promptly Shake her and Shang Jianyao awake.

Finally, she connected the real nightmare with the anomaly north of Yuelu Station and expressed her guess.

"This is indeed similar to some kind of awakened person ability..." Wang Beicheng, who was nearly a round older than Shang Jianyao and others, recalled what he saw and heard, and said hesitantly, "When I was young, I followed the action group and participated in a big event. Large-scale transactions between forces, I accidentally met a sect called "Dawn Star". They were both afraid of dreams and used them. At that time, the cultist I communicated with was an awakened person who called himself "Dream Keeper" and thought that he was doing something for People fight to avoid being consumed by nightmares. He describes a nightmare situation that is somewhat similar to what you are describing."

Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others looked at each other and then asked Wang Beicheng:

"He hasn't shown you his abilities?"

"No." Wang Beicheng shook his head, "This may be because I am more vigilant."

Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and asked:

"Which executive do they admire?"

Wang Beicheng already knew that Shang Jianyao and others had obtained information related to Zhi Sui from the mechanical monk Jingfa, so he did not hide it and answered calmly:

“It’s ‘Dawn’.

“The god who rules the month of February.

"They call this minister the light that shines into dreams."

Having said this, Wang Beicheng glanced at the already dim sky:

"Is there any other information?"

"No." Jiang Baimian smiled slightly, "My mouth is dry from talking about it."

Wang Beicheng suddenly laughed:

"I won't say anything polite. It's getting dark. You guys can find a place to camp and rest. Me? I have to arrange a few reconnaissance squads to go out to find out the news based on the intelligence you provided as soon as possible. I can't waste any time.

"Ah, by the way, it's best to sleep under the watchful eyes of your night watch companions, so that you can be awakened in time if anything goes wrong."

He didn't mention whether it would make sleeping uncomfortable. Above the dust, such things are no problem at all, and every experienced person knows that life is better than shame, better than embarrassment.

"Don't worry, we have experience." Jiang Baimian waved, took Shang Jianyao and others to say goodbye to Wang Beicheng, and returned to the jeep parking area.

After finding a good place and setting up the tent, Long Yuehong finally couldn't restrain her doubts and asked:

"Team leader, why are you hiding the exoskeleton device?"

Hiding Shang Jianyao's secret is their internal consensus, and there is no need to say more.

"This requires too much talking. It's not necessary. It might involve matters in Shuiwei Town." Jiang Baimian replied nonchalantly.

"Didn't we already discuss that we should report on Shuiwei Town, but not mention the specific location, but only mention that we met their hunting team in the wild?" Bai Chen, who was less emotionally unstable, asked with slight concern.

Jiang Baimian laughed and said:

"Don't worry, you have to wait until you return to the company and report according to the procedures.

"What's the use of telling Wang Beicheng and his team? It will only increase the risk of leakage."

"It doesn't matter if it's leaked, right?" Bai Chen didn't quite understand.

Jiang Baimian sighed slightly, smiled and pointed at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong with his chin:

"Tell us about the internal staff's attitude towards wilderness wanderers."

Shang Jianyao, who was in charge of the vigilance, did not cover up:

"There's a bit of exclusion, there's a fear of absorbing too many wilderness wanderers that will lead to reduced rationing on all fronts."

"Yes, although we don't have enough manpower, everyone feels that we can survive now anyway, and there will be more and more newborns in the future, so there is no need to absorb a large number of wilderness wanderers." Long Yuehong glanced at Bai Bai. Morning, he said in a slightly soft voice.

Jiang Baimian then extended his right hand to Bai Chen:

"Did you hear that?

"If we only absorb the best of the wilderness wanderers like you sporadically and use your experience, knowledge and abilities, the internal staff will not object, and even understand it very much. But if we absorb the wilderness wanderers from the entire settlement at once, everyone will That's not very acceptable.

"Although the combat teams and action brigade of the Ministry of Security have been active outside for a long time and know the situation in various settlements, they may not have sympathy, but they are also human beings. They also have parents, wives and children living inside the company, and they will also be subject to various The impact of speech.

"If they leak the news about Shuiwei Town to relatives and friends before the board of directors makes a decision, and let everyone start discussing the matter, it will easily have a negative impact."

Bai Chen still doesn't understand:

“Can ordinary employees influence board decisions?”

In her view, such high-level officials will not be affected by public opinion at the bottom.

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"You are still more accustomed to the Wilderness Wanderer style, and you are not quite used to some things within the company.

"'Pangu Biology' is not small, but it is not big. Which board member has not mentioned the relatives and friends of ordinary employees? Moreover, internal stability is also very important, which will directly affect the combat team and operations. The status and position of the brigade.

"If there are all kinds of negative public opinions, even if the board of directors insists on absorbing the entire Shuiwei Town, the details of the plan will definitely be different:

"It's very different whether they should be treated as full-time employees or treated as peripheral vassal forces. Whether they should be split to a certain extent and directly send people to manage them, or whether they should be treated like Black Rat Town."

Bai Chen stopped talking, lowered his head slightly, and thought carefully about Jiang Baimian's words.

In her experience as a wanderer in the wilderness, those in superior positions and powerful positions have absolute say.

At this time, Long Yuehong muttered:

"But I still think this is just one reason."

Because he was used to it, his voice when talking to himself was not low.

"Maybe the team leader is afraid that Wang Beicheng will commandeer our exoskeleton device." Shang Jianyao glanced at Jiang Baimian deliberately and said with a smile.

Jiang Baimian raised his eyebrows slightly:

"Am I afraid of him?"

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