Embers Ad Infinitum

Hearing Shang Jianyao's description, Long Yuehong felt a chill and fear rising, and couldn't help but interrupt the other party:

“Stop, stop!

"Don't sound so scary, okay?"

"Help you deepen your memory." Shang Jianyao explained with a serious face, "When you meet him later, you will be able to react immediately."

"Don't, don't say that, it's better not to meet him!" Long Yuehong was simply afraid of Shang Jianyao's bad words, because he considered himself a child of bad luck and was worried about what his friends would say.

Shang Jianyao said "hmm", turned to look at Jiang Baimian in front of him, nodded sincerely and said:

"Thanks."

When he was describing just now, Jiang Baimian took the initiative to shine the flashlight backwards, which brought about very good results.

——Among the four of them, only Jiang Baimian held a flashlight in his hand. Because the others wanted to hold their weapons and complete the shooting as soon as possible, they just turned on the flashlight hanging on the armed belt and let it shine vertically on the ground, radiating a small area around it.

Jiang Baimian laughed and turned the flashlight forward:

“What you just said is pretty much what I guessed.

"Since the hallucinations we see do not originate from ourselves, they must come from the 'higher mindless being' who created the hallucinations, and with her intelligence being only slightly higher than that of a beast, it is impossible for her to process and process the information in too complex a manner.

"Therefore, it can be preliminarily judged that what we see is what she has encountered before, but there may be some simple displacement and reorganization.

"This is interesting."

After listening to the captain's words, Bai Chen said thoughtfully:

"That aura that makes people extremely frightened and makes them unable to stand still seems to really exist...

"I don't know where I met that 'Higher Heartless One'... and what the owner of that aura looks like..."

At this point, she and Jiang Baimian answered in unison:

"That mysterious laboratory!

"The one who made that huge roar!"

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped the side of the "Berserker" assault rifle with one hand, as if applauding.

"Thank you." Jiang Baimian responded angrily, and then, while sensing the surrounding electrical signals and observing the place illuminated by the flashlight beam, he organized his words and said, "Maybe the 'Higher Unintentional One' just came close. I even entered the laboratory through certain passages that normal people couldn't find, and felt the extremely terrifying atmosphere..."

"Where's the squirming flesh and blood?" Long Yuehong asked subconsciously.

Bai Chen thought about it and replied:

"It may be a failed product in the laboratory. However, the old world has been destroyed for almost seventy years, and it is impossible for a failed product to survive until now."

"Perhaps the 'Higher Heartless One' has seen flesh and blood exploded into mud, and usually catches squirming insects for food, so he combined the two together when creating hallucinations." Jiang Baimian tried to understand. The essence of that scene, "The wrinkled old woman and the baby's bones in the swaddling clothes should really exist, but it is not sure whether the former is still wandering somewhere in the ruins of the city.

"In short, either the old woman has more weird abilities, or her experience touched some of the instincts of the 'Higher Heartless One', leaving a very deep impression on her, and she naturally related what she saw and heard at that time. Used it in the illusion he created."

Bai Chen immediately guessed:

"That old woman was also a 'high-level careless person', but the child she gave birth to died in infancy? She kept holding the child's body in her arms and refused to admit it?

"This will definitely touch other 'higher mindless beings' who have reproductive and maternal instincts."

"But the problem is? The 'high-level unintentional person' should not have the ability to speak. Why can he say such words as 'You are disturbing Xiao Chong'? Is this the special thing about the 'high-level unintentional person'? What's more?" Yes, she doesn't seem to be able to give birth at her age, unless..." Jiang Baimian thought while thinking, and gradually found the answer.

At this time, Shang Jianyao was the first to laugh and said:

“Who hasn’t been young yet?

"Perhaps that old woman was only in her twenties when the old world was destroyed?

“At that time, she became a ‘careless person’ and her child died on the spot.

“This is also a huge blow to the unintentional person who has reproductive and maternal instincts, causing her to firmly remember the words she said when her child died.

"Afterwards, she held the child in her arms and while hunting, she whispered repeatedly:

"'You... made a noise... and rushed...'

“In this way, she kept repeating this sentence until the baby turned into bones and her own face was covered with wrinkles.

"To this day, she may still be somewhere in the ruins of this city, holding the swaddling clothes containing the baby's bones, and constantly whispering:

"'You... made a noise... Xiao rushed...'"

"Hey, don't use the tone of telling ghost stories to guess such a serious matter!" Long Yuehong felt chills all over his body when he heard this, and his ears seemed to be echoing with the words "You... made a noise... Xiao Chong..." talk.

"Don't you think this subject matter is very good?" Shang Jianyao felt very regretful.

"Aren't you afraid?" Long Yuehong asked with a slightly distorted expression.

Jiang Baimian interrupted the "dispute" between the two, nodded slightly and said:

“That’s pretty much what I thought.

"Okay, let's not discuss it anymore, just get a preliminary understanding of the situation.

"We leave the underground as soon as possible and return to the first floor. Then we will have plenty of time to review."

"Yes, team leader!" Long Yuehong suppressed her voice.

As they spoke, they had reached the end of the current aisle.

"Turn left." Jiang Baimian said without hesitation.

After turning left, go to the end and turn left again to return to the corridor where the entrance to the stairs is.

After giving the instructions, Jiang Baimian turned back subconsciously and looked to the right.

It leads to the depths of this floor.

"Oh, what a pity. I really want to find the underground computer room, restore the power supply to the ruins of this city, open the door of the mysterious laboratory, and see what secrets are hidden inside and what research is being done."

The voice quality of this sentence is not a female voice, but a slightly magnetic male voice.

Jiang Baimian quickly turned his head and gave Shang Jianyao a blank look:

"Oh, you also helped me dub the voice?

"Yeah, that's what I thought just now.

"Then can you guess what I'm thinking about now?"

Shang Jianyao replied seriously:

"I really want to blow Shang Jianyao's head off."

Before Jiang Baimian could respond, Bai Chen sighed helplessly:

"Team leader, we need to return to the first floor as soon as possible."

"I know, I know." Jiang Baimian glared at Shang Jianyao, "It's all this guy's fault, he's just a spoiler of the atmosphere. As for you, be serious!"

After saying that, she ignored Shang Jianyao and stepped into the left aisle.

Bai Chen, Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao followed closely behind.

In this corridor, some of the rooms on both sides are also open, and you can see the opposite aisle, and some are closed, and you don't know what is inside.

Jiang Baimian only sensed electrical signals and did not try to open all the closed doors to search for possible hidden secrets.

While walking forward like this, Jiang Baimian's eyes narrowed and he said sternly:

"hide!"

As she spoke, she rushed diagonally forward, rolled and hid in the next room.

Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Shang Jianyao completely believed her and immediately took evasive actions.

The first two jumped into the room next to them, and the closest thing to Shang Jianyao was a closed wooden door.

This didn't stop Shang Jianyao. He banged through the door and rushed in.

The next second, a grenade flew over from nowhere and landed where they were just now.

Boom! The surrounding doors were shattered, the ground was sunken and cracked, and the flames left scorched marks.

After this grenade, no more attacks came, and no one was seen.

Jiang Baimian, Bai Chen, and Long Yuehong continued to hide in their previous positions, not daring to come out rashly.

At this time, there was light shining in the room that Shang Jianyao crashed into.

Shang Jianyao saw a lit LCD screen, with some strange and unreal people moving around on it.

In front of the LCD screen, there is a black machine. A boy with black hair was sitting in front of the machine. Because someone broke in, he was so frightened that he dropped the handle and jumped behind a table not far away to hide.

Shang Jianyao's reaction was completely different from what the boy expected. He didn't make any attacks or dodges. He looked at the LCD screen carefully and said:

"What's this?"

The boy was stunned for a few seconds, and then answered fearfully:

"Yes, it's a game.

"It's a very old game... I couldn't find the virtual game cabin, so I can only play this..."

Shang Jianyao nodded:

"Is it fun?"

"It's quite fun." The boy replied subconsciously.

"How to play?" Shang Jianyao sat down and asked sincerely.

The boy observed for more than ten seconds, then timidly left the hiding place, slowly and weakly sat down next to Shang Jianyao, and picked up the handle.

"By the way, what's your name?" Shang Jianyao asked very politely.

The boy was about seven or eight years old. As soon as he got the handle, his whole fleshy face seemed to light up.

He replied casually:

"me?

"My name is Xiao Chong."

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