Embers Ad Infinitum

Hearing the boy's answer, Shang Jianyao suddenly turned his head and looked at him.

After staring silently for two or three seconds, Shang Jian suddenly laughed and turned his attention to the LCD screen in front of him again.

"So you are Xiao Chong." He asked enthusiastically, "Then do you know an old lady wearing a dark-colored thread hat? An old lady with a wrinkled face and wearing a long black woolen skirt."

Xiao Chong carefully manipulated the controller, played the game, and answered casually:

"I know you.

"She was a good person. When she was still alive, she would always guard the door for me and not let others disturb me.

"Hey, I told her that I like to play games quietly and read various books. I don't want other people to disturb me, and she really did that."

Shang Jianyao looked at the game screen without understanding and said:

"Can she understand what you are saying?"

"Don't you understand?" Xiao Chong thought the other party's question was strange.

"Yes." Shang Jianyao nodded, actually agreeing with the little boy's statement, "After she died, there will be no one to guard the door for you?"

"Yes..." As soon as Xiao Chong answered, he closed his mouth and focused on the game in front of him.

Shang Jianyao saw that the scene seemed to become a little more intense.

After the sudden "battle" was over, Xiao Chong continued:

“There are also several uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters who are helping me guard the door.

"They also do regular cleaning and maintenance, and take me out to ride horses so that I can breathe some fresh air. Ah, have you seen my cat? I picked up a stray cat and gave it a pond. Fish, isn’t it amazing?”

"Is that your cat?" Shang Jianyao patted his thigh, "The one that looks like it has no fur?"

"Yes, yes, that's a special breed, you can't discriminate against it." Xiao Chong nodded frequently.

"But it always makes me sleep." Shang Jianyao complained.

"It likes to play pranks." A clear smile appeared on Xiao Chong's fleshy face. "When it comes back, I will tell it not to let you sleep."

"Do you still understand cat language?" Shang Jianyao was very curious.

"I don't understand, but it is very smart and can understand human speech." Xiao Chong replied.

Shang Jianyao immediately adjusted his sitting posture to make himself more comfortable.

"Then what do you usually eat?" he asked instead.

Xiao Chong suddenly fell silent and looked sideways at him.

Under the flickering light of the LCD screen, the fleshy face was in varying light and dark, with floating shadows.

Shang Jianyao looked at Xiao Chong without admitting defeat, very calmly.

Xiao Chong quickly returned his attention to the game:

"I eat very little. Sometimes it's canned food, sometimes it's birds, mice, bugs they caught, frozen meat, wild vegetables, and sometimes it's fish I raise myself."

"You are so young, wouldn't eating it raw be bad for your stomach?" Shang Jianyao seriously discussed this academic issue.

Xiao Chong said with a "hehe" smile:

“I taught them how to bake and cook.

"Isn't it awesome?"

"Awesome!" Shang Jianyao clapped.

When he applauded like this, Xiao Chong felt embarrassed:

“They actually know how to use lighters, I just told them that they can use fire to bake and cook things.

"Would you like some?"

Shang Jianyao is not unreasonable at all:

"What's there?"

"I don't know. Look at what they brought back. I'm not picky about food, really!" Xiao Chong emphasized.

Shang Jianyao thought for a while, raised his hand to wipe the corners of his mouth, and forcibly changed the topic:

"How long have you been here?"

"I don't know." Xiao Chong thought about it for a moment, "I don't have a calendar. Anyway, it's been a long, long time since the old lady turned from an aunt to a grandma."

"Has staying here affected your health?" Shang Jianyao asked with concern.

Xiao Chong frowned:

"You're so annoying, don't ask such questions."

Without waiting for Shang Jianyao to respond, he said happily:

"Actually, isn't it nice to be a child all the time? You don't have to think about many things, you don't have any worries, you just have to play games and read books, and there are no parents to interrupt or control your play time."

Shang Jianyao was silent for a moment and said:

"Don't you miss them?"

Xiao Chong pursed his lips for a few seconds:

"Yes I do.

"What's the use? They'll be dead long ago."

Shang Jianyao fell silent and didn't speak for a while, while Xiao Chong played the game seriously and didn't care about his strange behavior.

I don’t know how much time passed, but Shang Jianyao looked at the LCD screen in front of him and said:

"Why is there electricity here?"

"They specially pulled a line from the underground computer room. Hehe, I guided you!" Xiao Chong was very proud.

Shang Jianyao thought for a while, looked at the fancy game screen, and picked up a handle next to the black machine:

"How to play this?"

Xiao Chong's eyes suddenly lit up:

"Come, let me teach you.

"This button is for jumping, this button is for rolling, and this button is for blocking. After blocking, you can counterattack..."

…………

In the corridor.

After waiting for a long time, Jiang Baimian returned to his original position without finding any signs of the second wave of attacks.

She carefully sensed the electrical signal and said loudly:

"Come out, the attackers have left."

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong left their original hiding places one after another and walked cautiously to Jiang Baimian.

"This place is very weird. We must leave as soon as possible." Bai Chen did not hide his thoughts.

Long Yuehong looked around and said:

"Where's Shang Jianyao?"

Jiang Baimian was also puzzled:

"There is obviously an electric signal here...

"No, there are two groups of electrical signals that are almost overlapping.

"Shang Jianyao was forced to sleep?"

This was the most reasonable explanation she could come up with based on environmental factors and previous encounters.

If he hadn't been controlled, Shang Jianyao, who was still alive, shouldn't have had no response at all.

Long Yuehong knew Shang Jianyao better and said slightly nervously:

"It could also be that he has encountered a 'danger' and is staring at the 'danger'. Whoever blinks first and speaks first will lose."

"Shang Jianyao will do this, I believe it, but why does 'Danger' spoil him?" Jiang Baimian said as he stepped closer to the wooden door with a humanoid hole.

As she got closer, she saw a light flickering inside.

"Maybe it's the 'reasoning clown' ability..." Bai Chen lowered his voice and said.

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

"No matter what the situation is, rescue people first."

Shake awake when it's time to wake up, and interrupt the "blink-free game" when it's time to interrupt.

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong immediately followed the training content and covered the team leader.

Jiang Baimian raised his hand first, shot through the hole in the door into the floor tiles inside.

As the banging sound echoed, she hit the door lock position, bounced back from the clicking sound, and leaned against the side wall to avoid the attack.

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen were at diagonal positions, aiming inside. If there is any movement, they will shoot immediately.

However, there was no sudden gunfire in the room, and no figure other than Shang Jianyao flashed, only a strange and strange hitting sound could be heard vaguely.

Looking at the flickering light leaking out of the room, Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen became increasingly confused about Shang Jianyao's current situation.

Without wasting any time, Jiang Baimian rolled into the room under the cover of two team members.

She immediately jumped behind a table, looked through the gap, and looked at the situation far away from the door.

The first thing that caught her eyes was Shang Jianyao with a focused expression and a seven or eight-year-old boy. Then there were two handles, a black machine, an LCD screen with one side lit up, and finally the strange things that changed from time to time on the screen. picture.

Jiang Baimian's eyes suddenly solidified.

She had imagined many outrageous scenes just now, but the scene in front of her was still beyond her expectation.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Baimian asked loudly without raising his head.

"Playing games." Shang Jianyao said without looking back.

Jiang Baimian's mouth moved slightly and he stood up with unusual vigilance, but nothing changed in the room.

When Long Yuehong and Bai Chen saw this, they slowly came closer and were both shocked and speechless by the scene in front of them.

"...Is it fun?" Jiang Baimian deliberately chose a less sensitive question.

"Fun!" Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation.

Jiang Baimian's expression was dull for a moment, and then bloomed into a smile:

"Who is this person next to you?"

"He?" Shang Jianyao stared at the characters in the game with bright eyes, "My new friend."

Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen did not relax their vigilance because of this, and still maintained their attitude of being able to dodge and attack at any time.

What a joke, in such a city ruins, under such a building, even if an adult man claiming to be a ruin hunter appears, it is suspicious and must be guarded against, let alone a little boy who is only seven or eight years old.

How did he survive?

At this time, Shang Jianyao continued to introduce:

"His name is Xiao Chong."

Xiao Chong... Long Yuehong was stunned for a moment, and then felt a cold air emerging from his tailbone, rising rapidly, and going straight to the top of his head.

The hair on his body exploded, and the whisper of the "old woman" seemed to echo in his ears again:

"You... made a noise... Xiao Chong..."

At this moment, Long Yuehong almost pulled the trigger.

Fortunately, the next second, Shang Jianyao said sadly and angrily:

"Hey, he died again.

"Xiao Chong, I have to leave. See you again when you have the chance."

Xiao Chong turned around, his face full of disappointment:

"Would you like to stay a little longer? No one has played games with me for a long time.

"They will never learn."

Jiang Baimian was wondering if this was a common dream or hallucination, when he suddenly sensed several electrical signals approaching.

"Be careful!" she warned quickly, holding up the grenade gun with one hand.

While Long Yuehong and Bai Chen were on guard, Shang Jianyao looked at Xiao Chong and said thoughtfully:

“How about you follow us out and play games at our place?

"Just a breath of fresh air."

Xiao Chong thought for a few seconds and smiled:

"OK!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Baimian discovered that the electrical signals that were approaching first stopped moving forward and then moved away.

This... Jiang Baimian carefully closed his mouth and said no more.

Xiao Chong took out a red schoolbag from nowhere and put the black machine, game controller and other items in it.

Wearing a set of yellow clothes, he quickly put on his schoolbag, looked up at Shang Jianyao who had stood up and said:

"Let's go."

Shang Jianyao glanced twice and suddenly smiled:

"You look like scrambled eggs with tomatoes."

"..." Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen were all speechless.

They never expected that Shang Jianyao would say such words to such a strange little boy in such a scene.

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