Embers Ad Infinitum

Davis sat leaning against the front of an old-world military vehicle near the campfire.

Wearing a black trench coat and a beard, his eyes were full of panic and fear, but he had an exaggerated smile on his face. Bubbles came out of his mouth from time to time, and his eyes blinked rapidly at intervals like a cramp.

His hands kept shaking up and down, and his body was shrouded in illusory darkness.

The darkness was like mist, originating from his left pocket, sometimes sloshing like water, sometimes as deep as night.

This is the ruin hunter who just returned from the ruins of No. 9 in the Bloody Wilderness. He and his team also escaped the pursuit of two high-level "Heartless"... What extraordinary thing did he bring out from that ruins? Items that can connect to the "new world"? Any numbered ruins are not simple... While Jiang Baimian was thinking a lot, Shang Jianyao was like performing old-world gymnastics. While standing on his head, he spread his legs and let one of them point at Davis.

Gennava "understood everything", stepped over, and rushed to Davis' side.

Although he can't see the source of "darkness" and doesn't know where the problem lies, as an intelligent person, he has his own best method:

Exhaustive!

Gennava first pointed at the sunglasses clipped on Davis's windbreaker. Seeing that Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao were motionless, he changed them to the mechanical watches on the other's wrists.

After repeated trials and errors, he finally reached out and pressed his palm to the left pocket of the black windbreaker.

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands with his feet without shoes and socks.

Jiang Baimian was extremely glad that she was standing upside down and could not see the distorted picture, but just by imagining it, she had the feeling that Shang Jianyao was bringing the "chaos" on the terrifying cruise ship into reality.

The most complicated thing is that one of the feet used by Shang Jianyao to applaud also contains the "Six Senses Pearl".

After receiving the positive feedback, Gnawa's eyes flashed red, and he put his metal, bone-like palm into the pocket.

Soon, he took out an item.

It was a silver necklace that was gray and almost black. The pendant was in the shape of a short horizontal cross and a long vertical cross. Its surface was also inlaid with tiny diamonds one after another.

Suddenly, Gnawa's arm that was pulling back froze in mid-air.

Half-crouching, his eyes kept flashing red, but his silver-black body remained motionless.

In the "eyes" of Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, "darkness" was pouring out from the old but exquisite pendant.

It is as quiet as a lake on a windless night.

Seeing this, Shang Jianyao blew several bubbles.

He wanted to wake up Gnawa!

Seeing that the action of speaking would be reconnected to blowing bubbles, Shang Jianyao blew bubbles seriously, trying to reconnect to the action of speaking.

But for a short time, he couldn't figure out the more complicated corresponding rules. Although he really opened his mouth and made a sound, it was only limited to a single syllable:

"Puff puff!"

This made Jiang Baimian want to laugh and be frightened.

At this moment, Gnawa did not respond to Shang Jianyao's "call" at all. As if possessed by an evil spirit, or someone pressed the freeze button, he squatted beside Davis and became a "hanging" color. Lamp statue.

Even if it is an intelligent robot, will it be affected if it touches the nodes of the "new world"? Jiang Baimian had a change of thought, alternated his hands, and quickly approached Davis and Gnawa in an inverted posture.

Not to be outdone, Shang Jianyao gave up trying to speak and just ran with his hands.

This scene was so funny that the hunters around him couldn't help but laugh.

But what appeared on their faces was panic and fear that could not be concealed.

After arriving at Gnawa's side, Jiang Baimian adjusted for a while, and finally supported his entire body with his right hand.

She then tried to "raise" her left leg so that her left palm was off the ground.

When Jiang Baimian pointed his palm at Gnawa, he was a little hesitant in his heart.

What she wants to do next is to imitate what Shang Mian Yao did in the secret laboratory at the ruins of Wasteland No. 13, using a large current to shock the "New World" node and temporarily destroy it, relying on the high voltage stored in her electric eel-shaped biological prosthetic arm. The current briefly suppressed the "darkness" pouring out of the cross pendant, buying time to move the "danger" away.

But there is still quite a difference between the two things upon closer inspection. At least the "New World" node in the secret laboratory at Wasteland 13 did not plunge the surrounding humans into chaos, but simply acted as an artificial intelligence "future" to manipulate electromagnetic fields. The passage appears relatively harmless.

And now this "new world" node is affecting nearby humans on a large scale, as if there is some kind of consciousness contained in it.

Therefore, for the impact of high-voltage current, it may not be passively beaten like the one in the laboratory, and Jiang Baimian's attempt may bring bad results.

By then, there is a high probability that the entire "old tune team" will be buried here.

Comparatively speaking, it seems to be a better way to drive away from this camp while still using your feet to turn the steering wheel and your hand to press the accelerator.

However, in this way, the "immobilized" Gnawa will undoubtedly be abandoned. Anyway, the robot will not suffer from "unintentional disease", and it can be rescued when the abnormality disappears.

Of course, there are certain risks hidden in the escape strategy. Several members of the "Old Tune Team" who have been affected or eroded by "darkness" may not be able to escape the subsequent outbreak of "unintentional disease" even if they run away to the ends of the earth.

After thinking for several seconds, Jiang Baimian gritted his teeth and made a decision.

No matter what, let’s try it with high voltage current first!

Avoiding can't really solve the problem!

Wait until the impact of high-voltage current aggravates the abnormality, then consider staying away from this camp, there is still a chance.

With this mentality, Jiang Baimian shouldered the pressure of losing his companions. He raised his left hand with difficulty and barely aimed his palm at the cross pendant.

Amidst the crackling sound, silvery white arcs of light jumped out one after another, entangled into a giant python, and struck at Gnawa's palm holding the strange object.

Davis, who was sitting at the front of the military vehicle next to him, couldn't lower his head to the side. He couldn't see what Jiang Baimian did. He only knew that his vision was instantly filled with an explosion of silver-white lightning.

The high-voltage current struck the cross pendant, and the "darkness" spreading out from there shook violently.

At this moment, Jiang Baimian felt eyes coming from infinite distance and falling on her. This made her blood freeze and her thinking slowed down.

However, this seemed to be just an illusion caused by the dispelling of the eroding "darkness", and everything quickly returned to normal.

This includes the movements of surrounding hunters.

Davis blurted out:

"Throw away that necklace!"

Noticing that the "darkness" had retracted inside the cross pendant, Jiang Baimian also quickly issued an order to Gnawa:

"Throw it five kilometers away, it would be better to bury it!"

Gnava, who still had tiny electric currents running around his body, seemed to have had a dream just now, in which he reunited with his wife and daughter in Tarnan.

When he woke up and felt a little melancholy, he heard Jiang Baimian's voice.

Without hesitation, Gnawa jumped on the spot and jumped dozens of meters away.

Then, holding the old cross pendant, he ran out of the car and felt like it was traveling at high speed.

While running, he aimed the electric shock module he installed at the object in his hand. If anything went wrong, he would immediately take emergency measures.

In just over two minutes, Gnawa rushed a full five kilometers.

Boom!

He fired a grenade, creating a shallow crater in the heavily polluted wilderness.

With a snap, he threw the cross pendant in.

After breaking away from the object, Gnawa was no longer in such a hurry. He carefully found soil and stones and filled up the shallow pit.

By this time, the hunters in the camp had already returned to normal. Jiang Baimian also stood up, unbound his right foot and left leg, and threw the "Angel of Life" necklace back into Shang Jianyao's tactical backpack.

Shang Jianyao reluctantly gave up the handstand state.

Seeing that all eyes were turned here, Jiang Baimian said to Davis, a relic hunter wearing a black windbreaker and a beard, and his team:

"Is that what you brought out from Ruins No. 9?"

Davis nodded fearfully and said:

"Yes, I saw it had special abilities, so I brought it out."

"Hasn't this kind of anomaly happened before?" Another ruin hunter not far away asked dissatisfiedly.

This almost caused everyone in the camp to be wiped out!

Fortunately, the beauty and her companion seemed to have had similar experiences and knew how to deal with it.

Davis and his companion looked at each other, frowned slightly and said:

"It seems to have happened, but it didn't take more than five minutes each time to return to normal."

"Then why don't you throw it away?" Jiang Baimian raised his eyebrows.

Davis's statement made her feel more and more similar to what happened on that terrifying cruise ship:

Both have happened repeatedly over a period of time, but now one has its ending and the other has not yet developed to that stage.

Seeing the obvious anger in the glances directed at him and others, Davis, who was originally confident and calm, muttered:

"We planned to throw it away, but, but..."

"But what?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.

Davis and several of his companions replied in unison:

"forget!"

"Forgot?" Some hunters didn't believe it, while others showed contemplative expressions.

Shang Jianyao rubbed his chin:

“The negative effect of that item is forgetfulness?”

Davis showed a look of realization:

"So that's it..."

Jiang Baimian did not intend to intensify the conflict. After thinking about it, he deliberately changed the topic:

"Where did you find that item in Ruins No. 9?"

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