An invisible lake swayed with the wind on the left side of the vehicle, and beside it stood buildings from the old world.
Some of them have collapsed, some are abnormally dilapidated, and some are covered with yellowed plants, falling down from time to time.
"This is the Red Stone Collection?" Long Yuehong, who was driving, asked in surprise.
They had left Weed City and headed south for some time. According to the approximate location provided by "Uncle Sun" Fei and the leader of the "Rootless" team, Fei Lin, and the route indicated by several relic hunter teams on the way, they reluctantly found Nuhu Lake. area, locking a larger range.
Then, based on the traces left by human activities, they found the ruins of this city by the lake.
-With no satellites to provide positioning and no guides, they can only rely on this stupid method. After all, Bai Chen only knows and understands the redstone set, and has never really come here. Her former activity area was limited to "Panga", "First City" and "White Knights".
This is also the norm for most relic hunters and wilderness wanderers. Although they may live in no fixed place and follow relics, they are still limited to a certain area by intelligence, materials, connections, courage, and experience.
Bai Chen, who was in the co-pilot position, was also a little puzzled:
"This place seems to have been abandoned for a long time."
"Those feces are still relatively fresh, which means that there are a lot of people moving here. Even if it's not a redstone collection, you should know where the redstone collection is." Shang Jianyao in the back row said with a certain tone.
He was confident in the traces he found.
When leaving from Weed City, Jiang Baimian proposed to sell the extra car to the "rootless" caravan in order to gather supplies in exchange for military exoskeleton devices.
Because Shang Jianyao was holding the jeep and refused to let go, indicating that everyone was already a companion and had to abandon or give up, so the "old tune group" could only sell the bulletproof off-road vehicle that Xu Liyan presented.
In order to improve the jeep's survivability and enhance everyone's safety factor, Jiang Baimian exchanged almost half of the supplies, and asked Fei Lin to add bulletproof glass and thicker armor to the car, and remodeled the electric motor.
- Of course, they didn't prepare the food and ammunition needed for the journey. They reported it directly to the company. They got a large batch of them through Chen Xufeng.
Public affairs have to be public affairs!
Hearing Shang Jianyao's words, Jiang Baimian raised his hand and touched his nose:
"Go into the ruins, look around and see what you can find."
After speaking, she glanced at the book in Shang Jianyao's hand:
"How does it look?"
Before leaving, she took advantage of Shang Jianyao's "privilege" to borrow a batch of relatively unpopular books related to diseases from the Weed City Public Library.
"It's very rewarding." Shang Jianyao watched Long Yuehong drive the car to the ruins of the city.
"Oh?" Jiang Baimian expressed curiosity in his tone.
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"Study medicine cannot save all mankind."
Jiang Baimian was at a loss for a while:
"What's the meaning?"
"Effective organization, the spirit of exploration, the courage to experiment, the scientific method, and the inheritance of knowledge are the most important, and medicine is only one of the links." Shang Jianyao talked eloquently.
"So, have you found any new ideas for dealing with 'disease islands'?" Jiang Baimian pointed to the point.
During this time, Shang Jianyao always discussed the "disease island" with her without hesitation, so she didn't help him avoid Bai Chen and Long Yuehong.
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"No.
"It can only be done according to the current thinking."
"Yes, maintain this spirit of repeated defeats and repeated battles." Jiang Baimian encouraged.
Bai Chen looked at the ruins of the building with cracked cement and spent steel bars, hesitated for a while, but gave his own advice:
"Actually, you can really have a small illness and feel the real appearance of the disease."
"I have also considered this plan." Although Shang Jianyao's similar idea has been rejected before, in fact, Jiang Baimian did not give up this direction completely, "The main reason is that this guy is as strong as a cow, and he does not suffer from minor illnesses at all. , If the infection is deliberately infected, the severity can easily go out of control, hey, it really doesn’t work, let’s talk about it when we go back to the company.”
Long Yuehong opened her mouth, she wanted to say something, but she closed her mouth rationally.
The next second, Shang Jianyao said:
"Long Yuehong can catch a cold first, and then infect me."
"What's the difference?" Jiang Baimian scolded, "Okay, look around."
At this moment, the army green jeep that looked slightly old and tattered drove into the ruins of the city that stretched far away by the lake.
The similar ruins of the old world always make people see no end at a glance, and the size is beyond imagination.
This place is very similar to the ruins next to the "Rootless" camp. A large number of buildings collapsed, the road sunk, and nothing of value remained. It was desolate and extremely silent.
"What a lively place in the old world..." Long Yuehong recalled the scene after the "lights on" of the ruins of Marsh No. 1.
And that's not enough to recreate a tenth of the old-world urban scene.
"The decline of human civilization is sometimes faster and more thorough than we imagined, and sometimes it is more tenacious and tenacious than anyone thinks." Jiang Baimian looked out the window at the city that had been dead for many years, and sighed with emotion. one sentence.
Bai Chen made a careful observation:
"These collapses and devastations are years old, not recent."
She is not a professional and can't judge how many years.
"At least it ruled out the possibility that the redstone set was destroyed recently. Well, the premise is that this is indeed a redstone set." Jiang Baimian looked at the lifeless gray-white concrete, the messy steel bars, and the weeds. The shards of glass and the rusted hollow window frames swept past one by one.
They wandered around the dead city ruins for ten or twenty minutes, but never found any trace of human settlement.
"It seems that I went wrong. The red stone collection is somewhere else nearby." Long Yuehong, who was driving, expressed his judgment, "Such a ruined city doesn't look like a market town. They should come here often. Searching for valuables left those traces."
Hearing his words, Shang Jianyao suddenly became spiritual, as if he had already determined that this was the Red Stone Collection.
"Hey!" Long Yuehong knew what this guy's thinking was like, and couldn't help complaining.
Similarly, Jiang Baimian also grasped the "reasoning" process of Shang Jianyao:
Long Yuehong has bad luck and bad luck, so the route he chooses and the answers he gives often deviate from the correct ones.
In this case, when he said that this place does not look like a redstone set, then this place is likely to be a redstone set!
Before Jiang Baimian had time to scold Shang Jianyao and defend Long Yuehong's self-esteem, his expression suddenly changed slightly, as if he was a little dumbfounded.
She coughed and pointed to a high-rise building on the side of the road that, although not completely collapsed, was extremely dilapidated, and was obviously also bombarded:
"There's someone in there."
"Yes!" Shang Jianyao agreed with a very positive attitude.
At the same time, they sensed the presence of human electrical signals and consciousness in that building, and the straight-line distance did not exceed fifteen meters.
Long Yuehong's expression suddenly became a little complicated.
"A coincidence, a coincidence." Jiang Baimian smiled and comforted, "Stop the car, Shang Jianyao and I went in to find that person and ask the way."
Shang Jianyao also comforted Long Yuehong:
"I am now more sure of your importance to our group.
"You are our compass!"
What compass, isn't it a compass? Long Yuehong had a problem subconsciously.
In an instant, as a good friend of Shang Jianyao, he understood what it meant:
The compass is used to point in the right direction, and the compass is used to rule out the wrong route!
At this moment, his teeth were a little itchy.
"You have to be careful that one day Xiaohong will shoot you with a black gun in the back." Jiang Baimian said Shang Jianyao while pushing the door to get out of the car.
Shang Jianyao thought about it for a while, walked out of the driver's window, and said sincerely:
"You can tell me directly that you don't like me joking about this."
After speaking, he smiled and said:
"But the premise I accept is that when you practice fighting, you beat me once."
"Elementary school-level aggressiveness." Jiang Baimian walked by and commented.
Long Yuehong was silent for a few seconds, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:
"I will work hard."
In the previous fighting training, although he has been working hard to improve himself, his long-standing self-awareness has made him accept "mediocre", and there is no need to win whoever wins or loses.
After watching Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian enter the roadside building, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong respectively took their weapons and got out of the car to monitor the surrounding area, including the roof of the building where there may be snipers.
After a while, when the two exchanged positions, Bai Chen suddenly whispered:
"Everyone has bad luck."
Long Yuehong was stunned for a moment and smiled:
"thanks."
In that building, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao quickly locked a room on the edge of the hall.
They then lightly walked across the area with many gray-white stones and glass fragments, and arrived there.
After exchanging glances, Shang Jianyao tacitly circled for half a circle and guarded the other exit of the room.
When he was in place, Jiang Baimian shouted loudly in the area where the people inside could not shoot.
"Come out, we have found you."
The room with the wooden door closed was silent, as if nothing existed.
After more than ten seconds, the side door in front of Shang Jianyao opened silently.
A grey man in his twenties squatted and got out.
He suddenly stopped, raised his head, and saw a sunny smiling face:
"Got you!"
The "ice moss" in Shang Jianyao's hands had already touched the man's forehead.
The man immediately raised his hands and behaved very tamely:
"I lost."
Hearing this sentence, Shang Jianyao was a little surprised:
"Why do you say you lost
"We're not playing again."
The man who was holding a gun to his forehead replied calmly:
"This is the rule of our redstone set and the teaching of our sect."
"Sect?" Shang Jianyao's eyes suddenly lit up, "Is your teaching hide-and-seek, hide-and-seek?"
The man was stunned for a few seconds before replying:
"No, it is always vigilant and always hiding."
Shang Jianyao thought about it for a while, and then asked:
"What's the difference between that and what I said?"