Embers Ad Infinitum

As soon as Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao returned to their room on the third floor, Long Yuehong asked curiously:

"Team leader, where is the information fed back by Mr. Zhang?"

He found Jiang Baimian empty-handed.

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"We just looked through it below and found nothing worth paying attention to."

As she spoke, she took out the folded stack of paper from her pocket.

"Yes, yes." Shang Jianyao nodded in agreement.

Long Yuehong was disappointed for a while, but also inexplicably relaxed:

"There are no valuable clues..."

He looked at the stack of papers in Jiang Baimian's hand and considered whether to waste time browsing through it again.

Compared with Jiang Baimian, he was inferior to Jiang Baimian in terms of his meticulousness, acumen and logical ability. If the other party couldn't find the problem, he probably had no hope.

In other words, the team leader has verified that there are no problems with the information, so there is no need for him to waste time on it.

While Long Yuehong was hesitant, Gennava said directly:

"A wise man will always make mistakes. I think it's better to pass the information around."

"Yes." Bai Chen agreed.

Long Yuehong suddenly regretted it and felt that she should not hesitate.

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao applauded Gnawa.

Jiang Baimian also nodded and smiled:

“I am not a wise man, and mistakes are inevitable. Only by reading more, asking questions and communicating more can we effectively avoid omissions.

"This is called giving full play to collective wisdom."

If she didn't think it was necessary to show the stack of information to the team members, she wouldn't have taken it out at all.

Several pages of information were quickly split and given to Bai Chen, Long Yuehong and Gennava.

After just a simple scan, the honest Gnawa raised a question:

"This is very suspicious:

"Two days before the martial law, a hotel guest suffered a rapid onset of illness because his antihypertensive medication was stolen, and he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment."

"What?" Long Yuehong blurted out.

Bai Chen pursed his lips and composed the following words:

"This is very similar to what we expected:

"The person who got the nuclear warhead was accidentally 'hit' in a weak point. It took him two to three days to recover. He missed the opportunity to leave the city and was trapped in Wubei under martial law."

Moreover, the "Gray Earth Hotel" is full of outsiders, which makes people even more suspicious.

"Not bad, very sharp." Jiang Baimian praised and said with a smile, "I thought the same thing when I watched it before, but on the way back, I met the hotel manager Shen. He told me and Hey, that because of the drop The unlucky guy who was smuggled into the hospital after taking medicine has not completely escaped danger and is still receiving treatment. Such a person has neither the time nor the ability to hijack the broadcast."

"Indeed." Long Yuehong nodded.

From this perspective, the suspicion of that unlucky guy can be ruled out.

Shang Jianyao raised his hand and rubbed his chin:

“But you can’t say that he doesn’t have any problems at all.

"What if he is the person in the middle? Because he was accidentally hospitalized, the corresponding 'line' was disconnected, so it took the person who hijacked the broadcast two or three days to locate what was wrong with him and find a way to get it back. Nuclear warhead, but the best time to leave the city has been missed.”

Jiang Baimian thought for a while, nodded gently and said:

"That makes sense."

She then pointed at Shang Jianyao and made a joke:

"This means that a fool may gain something after all his worries."

Without giving any chance to Shang Jianyao to refute, Jiang Baimian looked at the floor and said:

"That unfortunate guy used to live in Room 214. Did you sense that there was human consciousness there?"

Shang Jianyao sketched out the layout of the entire building in his mind and spent some time confirming the orientation.

"No." He shook his head.

He turned to Jiang Baimian:

"And you?"

This refers to the result of sensing bioelectrical signals.

Jiang Baimian also discerned for a while before saying:

"No."

"It seems that that person is indeed still in the hospital." Bai Chen cast his gaze out the window where the lights were not so bright, "But we can't rule out the possibility that he is the middle link."

She turned back and looked at Jiang Baimian:

"Did you ask about the whole thing? Maybe there is a devil hiding in some of the details."

Jiang Baimian said "Hmm". Guest 214 had been out for a long time that day, and when he came back, he was no longer in good condition. He seemed to have run out of antihypertensive medicines. He said that he found that the antihypertensive medicines and many items in the room were missing. And Fei, after being attacked by a thief, got angry and his blood pressure soared that he could no longer control it and had to be taken to the hospital for emergency treatment.

"Captain Ding was so foresight when he asked us to keep people under guard before." Long Yuehong was secretly speechless after hearing this.

Isn't the thief at the "Gray Earth Hotel" exaggerating?

The "old tune team" never encountered such a thing when they first stayed in a hotel in the city.

Of course, the main reason is that Bai Chen is considered a "local snake" and the hotels he finds are relatively reliable, and the boss secretly controls them very strictly.

Regarding Long Yuehong’s evaluation, Jiang Baimian only corrected one thing:

“Not prescient, but speaking from experience.”

The "Prime City" has no requirements for settlement. At most, it will not grant you citizenship. The benefits of citizenship in the "Prime City" are actually very minimal. Therefore, many ruin hunters use this city with the most convenient supplies as their base to expand their business to the surrounding areas. Expand and explore various ruins, and as the saying goes, rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests. If they were not forced to have no choice, the possibility of committing crimes unscrupulously in the "base" would indeed be low.

The "Salvation Army" also has no requirements for settlement, but it controls outsiders very strictly. Many ruin hunters often cannot replenish the supplies they want, and their daily lives feel very unfree.

In this case, once they find that there is no hope of joining the "Salvation Army", they often choose to go elsewhere and never return in the future.

Since I will never return in the future, it is logical to take advantage of others and find opportunities to get some benefits.

As for other areas of the "Salvation Army" settlement, control is strict and order is good. It is difficult for these relic hunters to have a chance. Only in places like the "Gray Earth Hotel", where there are many outsiders, it is inevitable for management staff to make oversights. Anyway, their bottom line is It is to prevent the chaos from leaking out and affecting the official members of the "Salvation Army".

Bai Chen thought for a few seconds and said:

"I am increasingly suspicious that the person in room 214 is the middle link.

"He was out for so long that day, probably to meet with defectors, give supplies, and take away nuclear warheads."

Hearing this, Shang Jianyao's eyes lit up:

"As soon as he drove back, he found that his antihypertensive medicine had been stolen. He was so angry that he went to the hospital and has not come out until now.

"Is it possible that the person who hijacked the broadcast has not yet obtained the nuclear warhead, and that item is still hidden in the trunk of the vehicle of person 214?"

"There is a certain probability." Gnawa gave his analysis results.

Jiang Baimian thought about it and said:

"Hey, go find Manager Shen, guide his thinking, and ask him to tell you which vehicle the resident in room 214 has.

"We'll go check it out when it gets darker at night."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao became excited.

…………

Near early in the morning, the "old transfer team" bypassed the hotel security personnel who had become friends with Shang Jianyao and found the vehicle of the guest in room 214.

This is a black off-road vehicle with a modified trunk.

Although Bai Chen didn't know much about electronics, after tinkering for a while, he still opened the trunk of the vehicle without Gnawa providing much help.

The alarm was not triggered.

Bread, biscuits, instant noodles, various cans, a box of bullets, and two rifles were revealed under the light of the flashlight.

"No..." Shang Jianyao couldn't hide his disappointment.

Although Commissioner Huang said that it was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, in Jiang Baimian's opinion, no matter how small it was, it would not be too exaggerated and would only be as big as a high-performance battery.

Technological breakthroughs in the old world are breakthroughs, and they certainly haven’t reached that level yet!

Jiang Baimian felt that the nuclear warhead must have weighed one or two hundred kilograms. It would be difficult to hide an item of this size in such a big place like the trunk.

As the flashlight swept, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong finished inspecting the front part of the vehicle.

"No." They gave the result at the same time.

Jiang Baimian exhaled slowly and said:

"Well, the whole thing seems to be just a coincidence

"Go back and rest."

…………

After returning to his own small room, Jiang Baimian lay on the bed.

She closed her eyes and listened to Shang Jianyao humming a song while quickly going through what happened today in her mind.

Suddenly, she felt a little guilty.

As a "road freak", she was not sure whether she had made a mistake in the direction and misnumbered the "house number" when she sensed Room 214 based on the architectural layout map she had sketched in her mind.

It seems, maybe, maybe there is a mistake... I sensed the room opposite... After some careful identification, Jiang Baimian wanted to rub his head in embarrassment.

Isn't this too embarrassing?

Fortunately no one found out.

Fortunately, she was lying on the bed now.

Since she was sure she had mistaken the room, she would definitely have to make up for the reconnaissance and immediately turned her attention there.

The next second, Jiang Baimian opened his eyes.

In room 214, there are bioelectric signals that are highly suspicious of humans!