It was not until Jiang Baimian and the others were completely out of sight that Bai Chen put away the "Orange" rifle and left the edge of the rooftop.
The next second, she and Long Yuehong turned their heads at the same time and looked at the slave market on Nanjie on the other side.
Amidst the noise from the west, Bai Chen withdrew his gaze and said to Long Yuehong:
"Let's go."
Long Yuehong nodded slightly, and followed Bai Chen back to the street.
Just when they were about to leave the area where the street lights were broken, they suddenly saw a dark street, in front of a certain store, a figure bent over, sneaking, not knowing what to do.
The man also seemed to have noticed the appearance of Bai Chen and Long Yuehong, and quickly turned around and looked over.
The next second, "he" ran away and quickly turned into an alley next to him.
"A thief?" Long Yuehong guessed doubtfully.
Bai Chen didn't answer him, walked to the place where the figure was just now, bent down and picked up a stack of papers.
…
East Street, inside a warehouse, the light from the outside shines in through the glass windows, making some things barely show their own silhouettes.
"What's your name?" Shang Jianyao asked the intelligence officer standing at the junction of light and dark with a smile.
"Chen Xufeng." The intelligence officer replied calmly.
Anyway, what he gave was not his pseudonym in Weed City, so don't worry about exposure.
"Jiang Baimian, see you in business." Jiang Baimian also briefly introduced himself.
Shang Jianyao frowned slightly:
"The name sounds familiar."
Without waiting for Chen Xufeng to respond, he took the initiative to ask:
"Do you know Chen Xianyu?"
"Ah? My dad!" Chen Xufeng was quite stunned.
This is really meeting an acquaintance!
Shang Jianyao suddenly smiled and said:
"495th floor?"
"That's right. I'm the youngest of the old Chen family." Chen Xufeng asked rhetorically, "You also live on the 495th floor?"
Business see Yao heavy head:
"I should have pinched your daughter in the face."
"What?" Chen Xufeng was a little at a loss.
"It's meaty." Shang Jianyao expressed his feelings, "About two years ago, Grandpa Chen often took her to the 'activity center' to play. Later, she went to elementary school, and she didn't see much."
"Two years ago? Ah, at that time, I had just been sent here, and my daughter-in-law had to go to work. I guess it could only be taken by the older generation. You know, the company's kindergarten was too early! "Chen Xufeng has roughly figured out the cause and effect.
Then, he said with "hate":
"How could you pinch her face? At that time, she was a five-year-old child."
"Grandpa Chen is also busy. If we are here, we will play games with her. Whoever loses will be pinched in the face or slapped on the palm." Shang Jianyao explained seriously.
"Is that so..." Chen Xufeng smiled and said, "We are ten years apart, right? Maybe I also bullied you when you were a child.
The two chatted happily, and felt more and more that each other was trustworthy and must be trusted.
Although Jiang Baimian can understand that Chen Xufeng has been away from home for two years and can't wait to learn about his parents' health, his wife's condition, and his daughter's growth, but he also knows that things are important now, so he interrupts the "friends" who have met in a foreign land:
"Brother Chen, have you figured out the reason for the disappearance of the previous group?"
"Hey, how can you call me brother? You are already the leader of a group, so why do you have to be at the D6 level? I'm still far behind." Chen Xufeng was a little flattered.
Jiang Baimian didn't go to refute, and asked with great enthusiasm:
"How old are you now?"
"D5, in charge of the intelligence network here, hehe, there are not many people." Chen Xufeng sighed with a smile, "After you have completed your tenure and transferred back, you should be able to upgrade to another level."
"Pangu Biology" is still quite generous to its expatriate employees.
"That's not much worse than D6." Jiang Baimian said with a smile, "Let's talk about business first."
"Well." Chen Xufeng took out a stack of documents and said in a reminiscent tone, "I didn't know that such a group came to Weed City before the company notified me. You should also know that we are two parallel lines. , no one cares about anyone."
"Yeah, if we didn't come with a mission, and we want to ask you for help, we have to send a telegram to the company and let the person above give the order." Jiang Baimian nodded in agreement, "I remember the last message that the group sent to the company. A telegram is that we have arrived at Weed City, hoping to find some old people who have experienced the destruction of the old world."
She suspected that the "old tune group" was an accident after contacting an old man.
Chen Xufeng nodded lightly:
"When I received the company's telegram, they had been missing for more than two weeks. Many clues had been broken, and there was no way to investigate."
"However, it's still a little rewarding." He changed the subject, "They were a group of five, three men and two women. With the mentality of trying, I asked someone to ask various hotels and hotels in the city to see if there were any during that time. There is no similar combination to stay, and as a result, I really asked!"
"Can't relic hunters be three men and two women?" Shang Jianyao asked back.
Chen Xufeng laughed:
"There are definitely similar teams out there, and we've had more than one piece of feedback.
"But after careful comparison and exclusion, I determined that the group stayed at the Miri Hotel, a very good one in Yecao City. The check-in time they registered was exactly the same as the time the company received the last telegram."
Having said that, Chen Xufeng added:
"The reason why the people at the Miri Hotel were so impressive is because the women in the group were beautiful and the men were handsome, and they were different from most of the relic hunters.
"Don't say, after the popularization of genetic improvement, when the young people of our company come out, it is really a beautiful landscape!"
"Have you done genetic modification too?" Shang Jianyao asked suddenly.
Chen Xufeng was stunned for a moment, and heaved a long sigh:
"Hey, I don't know what's going on. Maybe my parents and my mother were older at that time, or it may be a personal physical problem. The effect of my genetic improvement is not very good. The only advantage is that it is very ordinary. Others can't see it. It's too easy to remember faces, um, and there's some talent for camouflage, tracking."
"At least higher than 1.75 meters." Shang Jianyao sincerely relieved.
Chen Xufeng is about the same height as Jiang Baimian.
Really Long Yuehong's good friend... Jiang Baimian quietly rolled his eyes when he saw that no one was paying attention to him.
She interrupted the chat between Shang Jianyao and Chen Xufeng again, and took the initiative to say:
"The group chose to stay in a place like the Miri Hotel, which means that when they entered Wild Grass City, they didn't think there would be any danger, nor did they think there were hidden enemies."
Very reassuring, very upright.
"I think so too." Chen Xufeng returned to the topic, "According to this inference, their follow-up actions in Weed City should be relatively public, and there is a chance to trace them."
Holding the stack of documents, he continued:
"I found the insiders of the Hunter Guild and checked to see if a similar five-person team took over the task during that time.
"Feedback is no."
-Since the "old-fashioned team" didn't cover up their whereabouts, they certainly wouldn't deliberately divide into two or three teams when they took on the hunter's guild's mission.
Without waiting for Jiang Baimian to ask questions, Chen Xufeng took the initiative to say:
"But after finding out their registered hunter identities, they are already 'official hunters'.
"Hehe, guess, how did you find it?"
"I used my real name." Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation.
"..." Chen Xufeng was stunned for a moment, "Yes! They are quite abiding by the rules."
"This shows that their actions have not caused any danger, or they have eliminated all dangers, and they feel very safe." Jiang Baimian gave his opinion.
This increased the possibility of the group having an accident in Weed City.
Chen Xufeng did not comment, but instead said:
"I paid a little and got a photo of them registering as a hunter and all the missions they've done.
"You can go back and have a good look."
While speaking, he handed the stack of documents in his hand to Jiang Baimian.
"Okay." Jiang Baimian reached out and took it.
Chen Xufeng thought back and said:
"There are a few more clues I've investigated so far:
"One is that they went to the Bird Bar and had conflicts with several guests inside, but it didn't make a big fuss. This was the second night when they arrived in Weed City.
"The second is that they visited a certain high-ranking member of the local Hunter Guild. I only asked about this yesterday, who is yet to be investigated.
"The third is that they seem to have entered North Street, and a servant of the City Lord's Mansion who often comes out to buy has seen a similar combination.
"Four… "
Speaking of "four", Chen Xufeng's expression became quite solemn:
"According to the waiter at the Miri Hotel, they checked out by themselves.
"Two days before the company asked me to investigate."
"That is to say, in the past two weeks, they were active in Weed City, but they didn't return the company's telegram? The real disappearance time was not as long as we thought?" Jiang Baimian asked rhetorically.
Unlike them, the "old tune group" had its own radio station. According to the rules, they had to contact the company about once a week. Moreover, in the last few days of the second week, the company took the initiative to send telegrams to inquire about the situation.
"So it's very strange." Chen Xufeng answered in the affirmative.
Then, he frowned:
"Recently, someone told me that they had seen people suspected of Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei in the city. Well, those are the top two photos."
Under the current lighting conditions, Jiang Baimian couldn't see the photos at all, so he didn't look at them, and thoughtfully "talked to himself":
"I don't know if they are more like strangers, or someone is pretending to be them, or are they really able to move freely?"
"I can't be sure." Chen Xufeng didn't make a blind judgment.
"Are there any other clues?" Jiang Baimian sighed slowly.
"Not yet." Chen Xufeng shook his head.
Jiang Baimian gave a "hmm" and then asked:
"What happened to the library being burned at noon?"
Chen Xufeng said in a mocking tone:
"In the past two months, there have been many helpless guys in the city.
"It's those lunatics who preach that the old world was destroyed because of the pursuit of knowledge and taboos. They want to force everyone to stop reading books left over from the old world."
After talking about the main work and agreeing on the way of communication afterward, Shang Jianyao told Chen Xufeng about the current situation of the old Chen family, and then the two reluctantly waved goodbye.
Jiang Baimian took Shang Jianyao around a quarter of Weed City, and finally turned back to the alley where the "A Fu Gun Store" was located.
After returning to the rented room, they found that Bai Chen and Long Yuehong were each looking at a stack of papers.
"What is this?" Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
"Flyer." Bai Chen handed the paper in his hand to the team leader.
Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao looked at the paper at the same time and read the contents:
"Thinking is a trap, knowledge is poison...
"Don't touch the books anymore...
"Can't overturn the old world rebuke..."
A circle is also drawn on the word "returned", and a line is drawn out to indicate revision.
The revised words are:
"Heavy Rice"
"..." Jiang Baimian laughed dumbly, "They really practice their ideas perfectly."