Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 750: Each Dream (End of Part)

After removing the storage device from the desktop computer and walking out of the room with the "red" window, Shang Jianyao turned his head and looked at the closed wooden doors around him.

He didn't try to open it, and withdrew his gaze, following Jiang Baimian, who was carrying a dark green rucksack and wearing a military exoskeleton device, going down the stairs.

When they returned to the jeep, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen also received the signal to return.

After a while, Long Yuehong, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle, finally read the letter left by Lu Fuxing.

He sighed sincerely:

"Fortunately we didn't go to the Vegetative Rehabilitation Center of Renhui Hospital, otherwise the group would have been wiped out, uh..."

He "uh" thought that Gnawa might not die.

In short, the horror of the Renhui Hospital Vegetative Rehabilitation Center exceeded his imagination. Just by entering different rooms, you may encounter different dangers, and it seems that there is no way to prevent it.

In response to Long Yuehong's sigh, Jiang Baimian nodded slightly and said:

“It’s a blessing in disguise in a way.”

Although she and her team members attached great importance to the Vegetative Rehabilitation Center of Renhui Hospital, believing it to be more dangerous than Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School, and put it at the end to explore, after reading the letter left by Lu Fuxing Finally, she felt that she had underestimated the risks she might encounter.

Just by pushing open the wooden door and entering a room, you may go crazy, become a vegetative state, suffer from "unintentional illness", or commit impulsive suicide, without any warning in advance and no abnormality can be detected!

This is extremely scary for any team.

Even if the "Old Tune Team" has awakened people at the "soul corridor" level, intelligent robots with non-carbon-based organisms, and powerful humans who have undergone genetic modification and biological prosthetic transplantation, there is a high probability that they will have to pay one or two to get there. The problem can only be discovered after several lives.

Of course, Jiang Baimian suspected that the anomalies in different rooms were related to the corresponding "New World" nodes.

They connect different parts of the "new world" and naturally produce different effects.

The "Old Tune Group" has two props, the "Six Senses Bead" and the "Angel of Life" necklace, which can sense the nodes of the "New World".

In other words, it is still possible for the "old investigation team" to detect the problem in advance and avoid those dangerous rooms, but Jiang Baimian is not too sure about this. After all, she cannot be sure about the conditions of the Vegetative Rehabilitation Center of Renhui Hospital. The essential question is whether there are multiple "new world" nodes.

In that kind of dangerous environment, once the prediction is wrong, it is not the case, and the group destruction is really possible.

After a brief silence, Jiang Baimian, who had read through all the documents, began to summarize:

“Currently, all clues point to the Eighth Research Institute.

"Before the destruction of the old world, they extensively collected vegetative people and conducted a very dangerous experiment, which seemed to be touching the forbidden area of the gods.

“This is likely to have brought about the outbreak of ‘careless disease’, leading to the destruction of the old world, and at the same time, their organization suffered some kind of influence and became a lackey of darkness, trying to erase the corresponding clues.

"Their No. 2 base seems to be the origin of all problems, if Fan Wensi, Li Jinlong's son Li Hui, and Jiang Xiaoyue were transferred there."

Shang Jianyao responded with a frustrated look:

"But we don't know where the Eighth Research Institute is hidden."

After speaking, he turned his head to the side, looked at Gnawa, and asked expectantly:

"Old Ge, is it really impossible to calculate the specific longitude and latitude coordinates of the Eighth Research Institute from the ballistic trajectory?"

"If enough data is collected, it is possible, but it was discovered too late." The honest Gnawa extinguished Shang Jianyao's hope.

Jiang Baimian then said:

“Furthermore, I suspect that the missile base and the headquarters of the Eighth Research Institute are not the same place.

"When a normal research institute is being built, how can it build so many missile silos?

"A reasonable inference is that after the destruction of the old world, the Eighth Research Institute took control of several secret missile bases and kept a large number of people in captivity to maintain them.

"Well, the protective measures at those missile bases may be stricter, and we cannot rule out the possibility that the Eighth Research Institute later moved its headquarters to a similar place.

"The next direction of our investigation is to find out where the Eighth Research Institute is, and then let the company and the Salvation Army surround it and strangle it.

"But before that, I need to go back to the company to rest and collect more information."

"Yes, yes." Long Yuehong was the first to agree.

"What about these documents and suicide notes?" Shang Jianyao, who values emotions, asked with concern.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"I originally wanted to stay a few more days. There was a missile strike here. The Salvation Army observation station near here should have noticed it. By then, the Salvation Army would probably send a team to search all the way to look for any abnormalities. , just give the things to them.

“But we have that nuclear warhead on board, and there may be problems if we meet the Salvation Army in such a sensitive place.

"So, return now, find an opportunity to make a photocopy of all the documents, and then give this backpack, along with the documents and suicide note inside, to Ding Ling when you leave the Salvation Army's sphere of influence."

"I think this plan is pretty good." Bai Chen expressed his opinion.

Shang Jianyao thought for a while, sighed and said:

"That's all we can do."

Jiang Baimian stopped talking and said to Bai Chen who was driving:

"Return now."

As the jeep gradually moved away from Taicheng, Jiang Baimian couldn't help but turn his head and look out the window.

That relic of the old world has truly become a ruin, with a large number of buildings collapsed and only some of them surviving, like tombstones erected in a cemetery.

The summer wind blows, and in the environment of the ice field, it is warm and peaceful, but not hot enough.

…………

After many days of trekking, the "ascetic monks" followed Palanga step by step to the vicinity of Taicheng.

Looking at the collapsed buildings and the scorch marks left after burning, they remained silent for a long time, motionless.

After several minutes, Palanga sighed:

"The omens have appeared, and the catastrophe is coming."

…………

On the shabby road in Yunshan on the border between the "Salvation Army" and the "First City", Jiang Baimian drove a jeep and headed beyond the high mountains with the help of the artificial intelligence navigation Shang Jianyao.

"Why did you just give your backpack to Ding Ling and then leave?" Shang Jianyao expressed deep regret that he couldn't stay with Ding Ling.

Jiang Baimian said "ha":

"I don't want to see other people sad."

The honest Shang Jianyao said after careful consideration:

"Indeed, that's not polite."

Long Yuehong, in the middle of the back row, held Bai Chen's right hand and looked forward:

"Go straight to the company next?"

"Yes." Jiang Baimian nodded.

Of course, supplies and power would have to be replenished many times along the way, otherwise they would not be able to survive the "Pangu Creature".

"When the time comes, Lao Ge, just stay somewhere in Weed City or Black Swamp Wilderness, and watch the nuclear bomb..." Jiang Baimian rambled.

Gnawa did not object:

"no problem."

Shang Jianyao quickly gave two instructions:

“Be sure to keep an eye on it!

“I don’t know which occasion it will come in handy in the future.

"This time we didn't spend it on blowing up Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School and Renhui Hospital. We can give some people a surprise in the future."

Why do you feel so sorry? Jiang Baimian cursed.

During the chat, Long Yuehong suddenly said:

"I discussed it with Xiaobai last night. When I get back to the company, I will go to the Order Supervision Bureau to register, and then I will invite relatives and friends to dinner at home.

"Team leader, can you come?"

As for Shang Jianyao, he would definitely not miss the opportunity to have fun and earn money at the same time, and Long Yuehong would not fail to invite him.

Jiang Baimian laughed while driving:

"I have to think about what gifts to give you."

"No need for gifts." Bai Chen said.

"Yes, yes." Long Yuehong agreed.

Then, he sighed again:

"This is just like a dream..."

Shang Jianyao sneered:

"Is this your dream?

"Find a partner, start a family, have a few children, and eat meat every day?"

"Yes." Although Long Yuehong was embarrassed, she bravely admitted it.

Seeing that Yao didn't embarrass him, Shang turned back to look at Bai Chen and said:

"What about your dream?"

Bai Chen organized the following words:

"There are companions who can trust your back, and there are partners who can face death hand in hand."

Long Yuehong held her hand tightly.

Shang Jianyao took advantage of the situation and looked at Gnawa:

"Lao Ge, where is your dream?"

Gnawa's eyes flashed red a few times and said:

"I already have a certain understanding of what it is to be human, and the next step is to find the meaning of being human."

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

He asked Jiang Baimian again:

"And you?"

"Me?" Jiang Baimian laughed and said, "Of course I want to figure out the reason for the destruction of the old world and the origin of 'Wuxin Disease', and find a way to eliminate the sharp sword hanging over the head of mankind."

Shang Jianyao withdrew his gaze and said to himself:

"As for me, the dream is..."

"No one wants to ask you!" Jiang Baimian was angry and funny.

Shang Jianyao straightened his back and finished speaking forcefully:

"Save all mankind!"

Jiang Baimian rolled her eyes at him and opened the requisitioned small speaker with blue background and black surface that was placed next to him.

The song she had been listening to in recent months started playing:

"Do you still remember the dream you had when you were young?

"Like a flower that never fades

"Accompany me through the wind and rain

"Look at the impermanence of things in the world.

"Look at the vicissitudes of life..." (Note 1)