Embers Ad Infinitum

The "old tune team" was already very good at finding city maps, and soon obtained several copies from suspected newsstands.

But the problem is that the size of these maps is quite limited. They only identify important things such as main roads, landmark buildings, tourist attractions, reputation restaurants, and medical facilities. They cannot identify every community or building.

In other words, it is impossible to find Harbor Home from these maps.

However, this was not difficult for Jiang Baimian. She thought about it briefly and said:

"Look for Renhui Hospital. Since Fan Wensi and Li Jinlong are here to accompany their son for treatment, the rented place will not be too far from the hospital. We will look around with Renhui Hospital as the center."

Things will be much easier when you have something to refer to.

"good."

"Um."

"no problem."

"Okay!"

Long Yuehong and others responded one after another.

Soon, Gnawa located the location of Renhui Hospital.

There's no way a carbon-based person could be faster than him.

"Let's go!" Shang Jianyao, who was sitting in the driving position, waved his hand energetically.

The next second, he asked shamelessly:

"Lao Ge, how to go?"

"Go straight to the second intersection and turn left..." Gnawa took on the role of intelligent navigation.

Although he was sitting on the right side of the back row, this did not prevent him from observing the scene in front.

Seeing the jeep starting to move forward, Long Yuehong said worriedly:

"I don't know what dangers are hidden in those three places..."

"Maybe you will meet a strong person or monster at the 'New World' level!" Shang Jianyao said in a threatening tone.

Gnawa didn't know whether he was being cooperative or honest:

"What if we really meet him?"

Hiss, the specifications of Taicheng, a Buddhist holy land, are obviously higher than the previous three. It is really possible to encounter enemies related to the "New World"... Long Yuehong secretly took a breath, but was unwilling to show fear in front of Bai Chen. , I could only hold on, so that my face only changed slightly.

"We definitely can't defeat him. Except for Lao Ge, no one here can stop the infection of 'Wuxin disease'." Shang Jianyao sighed exaggeratedly, "And the blessing of 'You Gu' is gone."

Before Long Yuehong looked at Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao switched personalities and added seriously:

“Only a strategic deterrence plan can be implemented.

"If the enemy related to the 'New World' is in Taicheng, once we encounter it, we will tell him as soon as possible:

"As long as all four of us become 'careless', Lao Ge will use the command to activate the nuclear warhead in the trunk, drag him to death together, and bury him in Taicheng!"

This... Long Yuehong thought this plan was too exaggerated at first, but after thinking about it carefully, she found that it might actually work.

He began to suspect that the person behind the scenes who had gone to great lengths to obtain nuclear warheads for his team was just to deal with a similar situation.

Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully:

"The prerequisite is modified to be as long as any one of the four of us is infected with the 'Wuxin Disease'."

Her meaning is very clear: to tie the lives and deaths of several carbon-based people in the "Old Tune Team" together to prevent them from being defeated individually.

"No problem." Gnawa accepted the order.

As an intelligent robot whose duty is to serve mankind, it is necessary to execute the plan of mutual destruction when necessary.

At this time, Shang Jianyao sighed again:

"The premise is that we have time to communicate and the other party can also communicate."

"No plan is perfect." Jiang Baimian is more open-minded in this regard.

Then, she looked in the rearview mirror:

"Before we entered Zhentai City, didn't we also report the general situation to the company?

"The company has confidence in us, so a long paragraph can be condensed into: 'Take your belongings and rush forward!'"

Shang Jianyao turned his head to look at the team leader, smiled and said:

"You are very open-minded in this regard. Why do you have such a serious fear of death?"

"Because I have confidence and feel that I can survive in most situations." Jiang Baimian has long thought about this issue.

Her third island of fear has yet to make any progress.

The chat between the two successfully eased the tension in Long Yuehong's heart, and he held Bai Chen's left hand and moved it.

Then, he felt that Bai Chen's backhand grip became slightly stronger.

In this way, the jeep of the "old tune group" started running rampant in Taicheng along the streets and sidewalks.

On the way, they did not get off the car and did not collect any supplies.

time is life!

More than half an hour later, after bypassing several completely blocked blocks, Jiang Baimian and others saw the building complex with the sign "Renhui Hospital".

The outpatient building is written at the front, with a total of seven floors, and the innermost is an inpatient building with more than 20 floors. Between the two, there are towering trees and dense green plants, as if there is a small garden.

There is also a nine-story building on the far right side of the garden, with no designated use.

At this moment, the building complex does not seem to enclose a garden, but rather seems to be built directly in the forest, showing a posture of nature swallowing up civilization.

"Namo Ayodoro Sanyao Sanbodhi." Pudu Zen Master Shang Jianyao announced the Buddha's name.

"This is not a Buddhist holy land!" Jiang Baimian mercilessly exposed the fake monk's unprofessionalism.

Zen Master Pudu had a kind face:

"Fan Wensi and Li Jinlong's sons are likely to be related to our Buddha."

Jiang Baimian couldn't defeat him and gave the order directly:

"Okay, go around Renhui Hospital and check the names of the surrounding communities, and go around in circles."

The search lasted for nearly an hour. Finally, the "old transfer team" found Gangwan Home less than one kilometer away from Renhui Hospital.

This is a rather old residential area.

Old means that it has been in the old world for some years.

This can be seen from the fact that most of the buildings in the community are no more than ten stories high and have corresponding architectural styles.

As for the exterior walls, everyone is pretty much the same now:

The same dilapidation, the same mottled appearance, and the same many green plants crawling around.

"Now here comes the problem. There are about seven or eight buildings in this community. We don't know how much time it will take to find them one by one." Shang Jianyao said with a smile.

Jiang Baimian showed an expression of "Are you stupid?":

"First go to the place that manages the information of the residents in the community. It seems to be called the property management department.

"As long as the data on the computer storage device there can be recovered, we can extract the corresponding information."

Gnawa moved his metal neck up and down:

"Zhentai City has not suffered any damage. There should be no physical damage to the storage device. I can directly read the data on it."

This is really "reading".

The property in Harbor Home is quite easy to find. It is located in the three-story building on the left hand side of the entrance.

There is a front desk here, behind which sit two corpses with decayed clothing, and piles of white bones scattered in different places around it.

Bai Chen looked around slowly and said with a solemn expression:

"I feel like the dead people here in Taicheng are all very strange."

She organized her words and continued:

“Many people died suddenly while they were doing their own thing, without struggling, resisting, or being attacked.

"for example……"

She pointed to the two corpses at the front desk, and then added:

"There are also corpses sitting quietly in many vehicles on the street. Some were thrown out of the window or were in different postures. The cars all had signs of collision. I suspect they died while driving, and the vehicle lost control and crashed into a car. group, which results in a change in their posture or position."

Jiang Baimian nodded, pointed at the piles of bones covered with rags and said:

"These are the same, they should be walking and suddenly die and fall to the ground."

Long Yuehong felt horrified and muttered to herself:

"If you were just infected with 'Wuxin Disease', it wouldn't be like this..."

The "mindless" have biological instincts and can even use some tools.

"This shows that we are getting closer to the truth about the destruction of the old world." Shang Jianyao said with a smile.

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

"Old Ge, you study the computer at the front desk, and we'll check the body."

After a while, Shang Jianyao and others did not find any valuable clues. After all, the deceased had been dead for decades, and the "old tune team" lacked the corresponding trace trace analysis equipment.

Gnawa, on the other hand, successfully "read" the data on the storage device and found the names of Fan Wensi and Li Jinlong.

"Building 5, 403, shared with others.

"Exactly which room they live in needs to be investigated on site."

Jiang Baimian glanced at the corpse next to him, sighed and said:

"Let's go."

Not long after, they found Building 5 of the community and kicked open the door of 403 - the lock was so broken that it couldn't be used.

After a simple investigation, Jiang Baimian and others eliminated other rooms one by one based on the characteristics of the clothes in the wardrobe and the condition of the bones in the house, leaving only the one in Beiyang.

The beds here are covered with white dust covers, indicating that the occupants have gone away and will not be back for a while.

This is consistent with the situation when Fan Wensi and Li Jinlong went home to celebrate the New Year in despair.

Several members of the "old tune team" wearing gloves searched different parts of the small room.

Jiang Baimian went directly to the old-fashioned brown desk by the window, reached out and opened the drawer.

What caught her eyes was a stack of yellowed documents.

The top one appears to be an agreement to volunteer for some kind of medical treatment.

PS: Ask for double monthly tickets at the end of the month~