Embers Ad Infinitum

It was just dawning, and Shang Jianyao, who had just finished his rotation and had been lying down for an hour, jumped up, opened the door and got out of the car, and moved his body.

"It's time to prepare breakfast. It's time to prepare breakfast..." He mumbled as he turned to the trunk, looking like he was about to finish his meal and leave the camp.

"Why don't you let people sleep?" Jiang Baimian poked his head out from the passenger seat.

Worried that there were other abnormalities last night, she took a hasty sleep and let Long Yuehong and Bai Chen go to rest. She took Shang Jianyao to get up for the night, and waited until the time passed smoothly until it was close to morning before waking up her teammates. , get in the car and catch up on some sleep.

Shang Jian Yao explained earnestly:

"It's not a good place to stay for a long time!"

Just as Jiang Baimian was about to ask why he shouldn't stay for a long time, Bai Chen led Davis and others around the front of the car and arrived here.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Baimian was startled and asked with a smile.

Davis touched his hair slightly awkwardly, trying to be as bold and natural as usual:

"After a good sleep, I realized that I was so nervous last night that I forgot to say thank you to you.

"If it weren't for your help, my companions and I might have become 'careless people'."

"We are just trying to save ourselves." Jiang Baimian did not take credit.

"No matter what, we have to sincerely thank you. Is there anything we can do to help?" Davis' attitude was correct.

He has thought about it. The other party may not care about thanking him or not, but he cannot wait for others. Moreover, establishing a good relationship with such an experienced and powerful team may not be without benefits in the future.

This is his survival philosophy as a relic hunter who has lived in the wilderness until now.

You definitely can't get what we need... Jiang Baimian completely forgot that he was worried about lack of funds because of the Alpha body.

She smiled and planned to find a more decent reason to reject the other party.

At this moment, Shang Jianyao interrupted:

"If you really want to thank us, you can give us your windbreaker."

Davis is close to 1.8 meters, which is only five centimeters shorter than him.

"Huh?" Davis was obviously stunned.

He couldn't have imagined that the other party would make such a request.

Subconsciously, he turned his attention to Jiang Baimian.

Jiang Baimian could only smile.

It's impossible to say "Sorry, my teammate is mentally ill" to a stranger, right?

Davis came to his senses, weighed it a little, smiled and took off the black trench coat he was wearing.

He didn't take out the items from his pocket, but handed them to Shang Jianyao.

"Not bad, not bad." Shang Jianyao was not polite at all.

However, he took the initiative to take out the items from the pocket of his windbreaker and returned them to Davis, which included several bills, coins, a lighter and a magazine filled with bullets.

"We have received your thanks. There is no need to feel bad. Everyone is fine anyway." Jiang Baimian helped Shang Jian Yaoyuan start.

Davis secretly breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a smile:

"I wonder what they are called?"

"You don't need to know this. Knowing it is not necessarily a good thing." Jiang Baimian laughed.

As a wanted criminal who has spent a large sum of money on a bounty in the "Prime City", it is better to try not to have too much contact with the team of relic hunters based in the Prime City. Otherwise, how will the latter deal with it after discovering the truth?

Catch him, let’s not mention things like conscience, which he has and don’t have, and he probably won’t be able to defeat him. If he doesn’t arrest him, he will be seen by others. How will he explain to the “Hand of Order” when he returns to the First City in the future?

Very mysterious... Davis mumbled silently.

He didn't ask any more questions and said goodbye in a sensible manner.

Being so disturbed by him and his companions, Jiang Baimian completely lost his sleep, and ordered Shang Jianyao to prepare breakfast as a revenge.

Shang Jianyao proudly put on the windbreaker, found his sunglasses and put them on, then went to the trunk to pick out two cans of vegetables, two cans of braised beef and a few loaves of bread, and was busy around the campfire. stand up.

After eating and drinking, Bai Chen drove his jeep out of the parking lot camp under the gaze of people who didn't know whether they recognized the identities of the wanted criminals from the "Old Adjustment Team".

They headed northeast and soon penetrated into the wilderness, moving forward on sometimes broken roads.

After bypassing an abandoned mine, Jiang Baimian saw that no one was around and animals rarely appeared, so he asked Bai Chen to slow down the car and find a shelter to stop.

"Lao Ge tried to repair the phone and extract the data. We put on the bionic smart armor and military exoskeleton device to guard against accidents." Jiang Baimian gave the order.

When his teammates were ready, Gnawa started working.

After a while, he raised his metal head and said in a slightly synthetic voice:

"Only part of it can be recovered."

To be able to do so is to burn some incense... Long Yuehong muttered in her heart.

Under normal circumstances, it is likely that no data can be repaired.

Jiang Baimian, who was always vigilant, nodded:

"What are they? Tell me a little bit."

Gnawa's eyes flashed red:

“First, the owner of the mobile phone made a call two hours before the destruction of the old world, and the number was labeled ‘Express Company’;

"Secondly, forty-five minutes ago, he received a cross-country long distance call. The number was not marked, but it was definitely from 'Xinyuan'..."

"Xinyuan"... Jiang Baimian's heart moved when he heard this.

Children born within "Pangu Creatures" have a certain understanding of the continental layout before the destruction of the old world. They know that the country "Xinyuan" is dominated by Gray Earth people and is located in the northeast of this land.

Its territory was roughly north of today's "Salvation Army" and included part of the current ice sheet.

The reason why Jiang Baimian has a subtle feeling is because "Xinyuan" belongs to one of the few countries in the northernmost part of the Gray Earth Continent.

This naturally reminded her of a place in the north, a hospital in the north, a company in the north, and even Icefield Taicheng.

Gnawa continued:

"Third, there is an address information stored in the mobile phone memo:

"Renhui Hospital, Taicheng, Sinwonpurang Province..."

"Taicheng? Renhui Hospital?" Long Yuehong blurted out.

These two names are so familiar to him!

Taicheng is the next destination of the "Old Tune Group". The No. 1 Senior High School there is one of the five holy places in Buddhism, and the hospital where Fan Wensi and Li Jinlong's vegetative son was sent to participate in new treatments is probably called Renhui. !

——The latter comes from part of the data recovered from the mobile phones of Fan Wensi and Li Jinlong. The couple most likely rented a home in Harborside near Renhui Hospital at that time and wanted to take care of their son nearby.

"It turns out that Renhui Hospital is in Taicheng..." Bai Chen found that things were connected.

Both Changhe United Steel Plant and Icefield Taicheng, where Fan Wensi and Li Jinlong lived, are among the five holy places of Buddhism.

Shang Jianyao rubbed his chin:

"But why is the Buddhist Holy Land in Taicheng the No. 1 Senior High School and not Renhui Hospital?"

"There may be some hidden secret in this..." Jiang Baimian replied simply, looking at Gnawa with an excited look, "Is there anything else behind the address information?"

"There should be, but that part of the data has been completely damaged. At present, we can only judge that the address information was written after the cross-country long distance was connected." Gnawa said truthfully.

Jiang Baimian began to analyze by himself:

“After taking the cross-country long distance call, I wrote down such an address, and after a few dozen minutes, I called the courier company again…

"That cross-border long-distance call requires the owner of the mobile phone to, um, find a certain item and send it to Renhui Hospital in Taicheng, Sinwonpurang Province?"

She added "find out" because it took forty-five minutes for the owner of the phone to call the delivery company.

"What kind of item could it be?" Long Yuehong asked herself doubtfully.

As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian said in unison:

"The cross pendant?"

This item is placed in front of the corpse of the phone owner!

"It's very possible." Bai Chen nodded.

The basis of her judgment was that the item was quite strange and seemed to be connected to the "New World". It would be understandable if it had something to do with the Buddhist Holy Land.

Shang Jianyao suddenly said excitedly:

"Get that cross pendant back?"

Suddenly, Jiang Baimian slapped his shoulder with his right hand:

"Do you think you can't die soon enough?"

She paused and said seriously:

"Today's gain is mainly to find another direction for our actions in Taicheng.

"All clues so far point to the past."

"Yeah." Long Yuehong nodded first, and then asked, "Before going to the ice field, why don't you go to ruins No. 9 and see what else you can find in that room?"

Jiang Baimian pondered for a while and said:

"No need for the time being. Ruins No. 9 must be very dangerous, and all the valuable items to us should have been taken out by Davis and the others."

Phew, Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief quietly.

What he just did was advance before retreating.

Then, Gnawa told the rest of the repaired data one by one, but there was nothing that made people dazzle or shudder.

——As an intelligent person, he certainly knows how to focus on the key points first.

After finishing the data restoration, Shang Jianyao couldn't wait to take the "Six Senses Pearl" and "Angel of Life" necklace and fell into a deep sleep.

He first got the scent of the two props in the "Soul Corridor", then followed the old routine, moved his limbs, grew new ones, and entered the "912" room in a rather weird posture.

Last time, he went back to the first day he boarded the cruise ship. This time, the time naturally jumped to night, and most of the passengers and crew fell into a state of chaos and madness.

Shang Jianyao wore the "Angel of Life" necklace, held the "Six Senses Pearl", and sunk his consciousness into the latter.

A "darkness" different from the night suddenly appeared before his eyes.

It is almost void, swaying gently, as if contracting and expanding silently.

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao applauded himself.

There is indeed a "New World" node on this cruise ship!

He immediately left the room and started searching in the direction where the "darkness" was getting thicker.

Along the way, he encountered aggressive Chaos from time to time, but he avoided them in advance by relying on his sensitivity to human consciousness and his agility.

After several failures, Shang Jianyao finally came to a door.

Behind the door is a "darkness" so rich that it looks like ink.

Shang Jianyao made a careful distinction and burst into laughter:

"Captain's cabin..."

As he spoke, he raised his non-paralyzed left foot and kicked open the door.

Inside the door, the captain was kneeling on one knee "as usual", looking at the ceiling, begging for love with an aria, nothing "abnormal".

But in Shang Jianyao's "eyes", all the "darkness" came out of his body.

In his body!

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