Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 52 Staying Alone (recommendation ticket)

Jiang Baiman instinctively made the “Ah” mouth shape, but quickly closed it without making a sound.

She turned her gaze to the front again, and walked smoothly past a bush, and then said with a smile seemingly casually:

“I always think I might have one Hidden innate talent is to make people feel close and feel at ease around me. I am willing to say some of the backlog of distress in my heart.”

“It’s not something that must be strictly kept secret.” Shang Jianyao I don’t agree with Jiang Baiman’s statement, but because of this, I got rid of the situation created by the previous words.

“Haha, cracking a joke.” Jiang Baiman seemed to be thinking nodded, “In fact, everyone has gone through two distresses together, and you have exposed the secret of awakened. Therefore, each other has a reward Not bad trust. Have you ever heard such a sentence, the way to quickly close the relationship between two people is to let both parties share a little secret. Also, we can be considered in trouble.”

Just now, the serious Shang Jianyao laughed suddenly:

“How are you sure that this trust was not created by me with awakened ability?”

“……” Jiang Baiman carefully In retrospect, I found that this possibility could not be ruled out. After all, the scene where Shang Jianyao and the mechanical monk Jing Fa shook hands and said goodbye was really impressive. Moreover, Shang Jianyao also said that if a cyclical proof can be formed in the interpersonal interactions around him, The affected people can hardly detect the abnormality on their own. Only when they are separated from the corresponding environment can they find the wrong.

“haha, cracking a joke.” Shang Jianyao responded to her in Jiang Baiman’s way.

Jiang Baiman turned his head and gave him a blank look:

“I almost drew a gun, do you know?”

She retracted her gaze and said to herself :

“Although you are indeed cracking a joke, but I have to guard against similar situations… How many logical verifications are set up by myself?

“Well… the easiest way It is to record key information on paper and chip every day, and look through it before going to bed. In this way, if there is a contradiction, you can wake up immediately. I have to say that this thing in the diary is still very useful. “

“Awakened’s ability is not omnipotent.” “Shang Jianyao added.

Jiang Baiman didn’t say much, and continued to search for clues in this hilly area with Shang Jianyao.

About an hour later, she looked around. Circled:

“The surrounding area is too big, and the environment is also complicated. It is impossible to complete an effective search without 10-15 days if we just walk by two steps by step. “

Shang Jianyao did not speak, because he saw the group leader’s face still smiling, obviously there was a way.

Sure enough, Jiang Baiman turned his eyes to him, said with a smile:

“We go back to the hill where the emergency signal flare was set. “

Shang Jianyao’s heart moved and he vaguely grasped something.

Jiang Baiman continued:

“There must be a lot of relic hunters, Wilderness Wanderers, just inquire about intelligence from them, to see what large bandit groups or dangerous teams are haunting the surrounding area recently. “

Speaking of this, she showed the same smile that she had seen after severely injuring Jing Fa before:

“If you are the leader of the attacker team, you have done a lot of votes before. There is an abnormality in the place where the team was bought and sold and the traces of the team were deliberately erased. Will you send some unrelated people to the area where the emergency signal flare is launched to investigate the specific situation? Anyway, there will definitely be a large number of ruin hunters and wilderness wanderers passing by and mixing in it, no one can tell.

“At that time, if you can use this to grasp which big power is behind Black Rat Town, you can also make some targeted preparations in advance.”

Shang Jianyao suddenly realized:

“They will not send their core members to investigate, or even find people who vassalize them. The most likely thing is to directly hire real wanderers who live nearby.”

In this way, even if it is a trap, there will be no problems, just like no one can find a drop of water with a unique nature but no abnormal appearance in a lake.

After Shang Jianyao wanted to understand, he asked with a little doubt:

“Group leader, you should have thought about this a long time ago, why don’t we just stand there? ?”

“Where did those ruin hunters and wilderness wanderers come so quickly? It doesn’t make sense to wait there. It’s better to search for this thing with your familiarity.” Jiang Baiman rolled his wrist and looked Clicked on the black electronic watch, “The time is almost there, let’s go.”

When he returned to the hill where the emergency flare was fired, Shang Jianyao discovered that the previous search was actually leaning here—the two were slightly After changing directions, it only took ten minutes to walk to the destination.

In other words, Jiang Baiman did not think of related issues temporarily, but had planned for it, and even the search route was planned in advance.

After a few minutes of observation, Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baiman found the best location, climbed a tree, and monitored several roads leading to this hill.

Almost a quarter of an hour later, relic hunters and wilderness wanderers arrived one after another, towards the top of the hills.

They are all very careful, they are quite distinct from each other but they do not violate each other. After all, it is uncertain whether there are gains around the abnormal point. It is too stupid to fight first.

After another while, Jiang Baiman patted Shang Jianyao on the shoulder and pointed to the road on the left.

She didn’t speak, because she couldn’t determine how loud her voice was, so she could only use gestures.

Shang Jianyao then looked over and saw two sneaky cowering male wilderness wanderers.

They can’t tell the exact age from the outside. They have rough, chapped, dark-tanned skin, oily and greasy hair, messy ridges, and beards on their faces that have not been shaved for a long time. , The surface is stained with various stains of unknown origin.

One of them is wearing a dark blue sweater with holes. The inside is greasy to hard and the original color shirt is not visible. The outside is covered with waistless and obviously unfit black clothes. Army green rubber shoes. He had a metallic black pistol pinned to his waist and a long, flaky knife in his palm.

Shang Jianyao thinks this is very similar to the watermelon knife in the textbook.

Another old quilted jacket tightly wrapped in black, through the obvious big holes, you can see that the cotton inside is compressed in one piece, and the black hair is tight. He didn’t seem to have a gun. He had a sharply polished dagger on his waist, a baseball bat in both hands, and a dirty, extremely dry pocket on his shoulders.

“Yes, is there any problem?” Shang Jianyao asked in a low voice.

This is almost the same as the previous wilderness wanderers, but it is a bit more shabby.

“I…” Jiang Baiman made a voice, with a clear questioning meaning in his tone.

Shang Jianyao understood the meaning of the group leader in a second, and quickly said:

“A little bit lower.”

After two “debugging”, Jiang Baiman finally I suppressed my voice:

“Don’t you think the equipment of these two wilderness wanderers is too poor?”

“The poor equipment of the wilderness rover is not normal. Is it something?” Shang Jianyao asked rhetorically.

“Yes.” Jiang Baiman didn’t deny it, and while looking at the two wanderers, he said carefully, “The point is that there is a contradiction between their behavior and their equipment.

“Under normal circumstances, wilderness wanderers who only have a small pistol and a few cold weapons dare not rush to such an abnormal place in the first batch. As long as there is a fight, they have almost no ability to protect themselves.

“For this kind of wilderness wanderers, they will come back in half a day or even a day later to see if they can get some leftovers. At that time, the rivals are all similar people, they It will not be without resistance.”

Shang Jianyao heard slightly nodded:

“This is like a lot of animals, feeding on the rotting carcasses left by the hunting beasts .

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“In other words, there is a certain probability that these two wilderness wanderers were forced to come here? “

And who will be okay to force two incompetent wilderness wanderers to come and investigate the anomaly?

Jiang Baiman This is to embed the teaching in practice, hearing this said with a smile :

“Yes.

“Can you make them friendly and tell us directly about the situation?”

Shang Jianyao looked at the two wilderness wanderers getting closer and said frankly :

“If there is only one, it’s okay.

“If both are there, there is a high possibility that they will witness each other and cause the’inference’ to fail.

“If you separate, first affect one, and then get together to affect the other, you can also.”

Jiang Baiman made an “OK” gesture:

“This is simple.

“Change the gun. “

After that, she and Shang Jianyao exchanged grenade guns and assault rifles.

In the next second, Jiang Baiman jumped down suddenly and fell to the two wilderness wanderers In front of him.

After landing, she quickly raised her assault rifle and pointed coldly at the man wearing a ripped sweater with a pistol around his waist.

And almost at the same time, She turned her waist slightly, and kicked her right leg like a whip that was suddenly taut.

The kick was undoubtedly missed, but the man with the baseball bat scared the man back. He retreated and fell to the ground.

He glanced at the assault rifle in Jiang Baiman’s hand, gave up his companion without the slightest hesitation, and ran away without daring to roll back and bump his head.

Don’t pistol, the man holding the watermelon knife is always pointed at by the assault rifle, and he dared not move.

At this time, Shang Jianyao followed and said with a smile :

“Don’t be nervous.

“We are not malicious.”

He motioned to Jiang Baiman to lower his muzzle, and while the opposite man was at a loss, he said:

“You Look, you are here to search for information, and we are here to search for information.

“You are humans, and we are humans.

“So…”

The man’s expression gradually became vivid, and finally he smiled:

“Brother!”

shouted When he came up with this title, he glanced at Jiang Baiman subconsciously, and saw that the other party had put away the assault rifle and showed no hostility at all, so he trusted his reasoning and judgment even more.

“Brother ah!” Shang Jianyao learned from each other and greeted enthusiastically, “Who brought you here?”

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