Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 57: Exchange information

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Shang Jianyao and others were the captain of the 23rd Brigade whom they met outside Black Rat Town. He was in his thirties, wearing gray-black clothes and a nameplate with two more stars.

"Wang Beicheng." He extended his right hand to Jiang Baimian.

Jiang Baimian also stretched out his hand and shook it:

"Jiang Baimian."

"I've heard the name for a long time." Wang Beicheng smiled and retracted his hand.

He is about the same height as Shang Jianyao, and his facial features are of a handsome type, but he is very tanned and has a gray feeling.

"I hope it is a good reputation." Jiang Baimian said modestly, and then introduced Shang Jianyao and others, "This is a member of our 'old tune group'."

Wang Beicheng was not arrogant at all, and greeted Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao, and Long Yuehong in turn.

Then, he turned his attention to Jiang Baimian again:

"To be honest, we were all surprised to hear that you applied to form a new 'old tune group'. This is one of the most dangerous tasks, and you don't need it at all."

Hearing "one of the most dangerous tasks", Long Yuehong's face turned pale involuntarily.

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"This is my personal pursuit. On top of the dust, there are still some idealists."

"Sometimes, you are purely enviable." Wang Beicheng half-smiled and half-sighed, "Unfortunately, people like us, who have wives and children, can no longer be self-willed."

The chat between the two ended here, and Jiang Baimian began to talk about his own experience, hoping that his colleagues on the opposite side could get useful information from the story.

She first mentioned hearing a roar on the first night in the wild, suspecting that something abnormal happened north of Yuelu Station, then skipped the battle with the wilderness bandit wearing an exoskeleton device, and didn't even talk about Shuiwei Town. In my experience, I only clicked a little on the road to encounter the Black Marsh Iron Snake, and successfully killed it - the skin of the Black Marsh Iron Snake is on the roof of the jeep, which can be seen at a glance.

After telling the "pre-plot", Jiang Baimian directly talked about the trip to the ruins of the steel factory, and repeated the information provided by Harris Brown, the bald relic hunter, in its entirety - except that the words may be different, there is no change in the content. .

Wang Beicheng listened very attentively, and the polite smile on his face gradually disappeared.

Next, Jiang Baimian cut the topic into the purification method of mechanical monks.

At the beginning, she truthfully recounted the conversation between Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and Jingfa, emphasizing the supernatural power of "He Xintong", which is suspected to be an awakened person's ability.

But when it comes to Jingfa catching up and relying on the ability of the "hungry ghost" to control the four of himself, Jiang Baimian concealed Shang Jianyao's performance without a trace, and only said that he judged that Jingfa hated women not because of "eternal life". "The technique is flawed, but due to the mismatch between his lustful nature and his physical state, which leads to a psychological distortion, and then deliberately angered him, causing him to start violence uncontrollably, and then seize this opportunity to put his left hand. The index finger was inserted into a certain interface on Jingfa's neck, and the high-voltage current stored in the electric eel-type prosthesis was used to destroy the opponent's main control system and body structure.

Here, Jiang Baimian deliberately revised the facts, not mentioning that because he was worried that Jingfa had an emergency backup system and redundant body structure, he only wanted to invade the internal information network of the mechanical monk through the "gold finger" and directly control the other party.

Then, she omitted the intermediate process and grafted the subsequent ending here-because Jingfa has an emergency backup system and redundant body structure, he still escaped from the jeep after being severely damaged and was not destroyed on the spot.

"If it were me, even if I was leading a battle group, you might not be able to do well." After hearing about the mechanical monk, Wang Beicheng couldn't help but sigh, "A battle robot plus real human wisdom plus the ability of an awakened person, It's just a big killer."

"This is also forced by pressure. Otherwise, we will be violated by a mechanical monk and raped to death. Where does this make sense?" Jiang Baimian laughed at himself, "After we got rid of the purification method, we thought about the black rat. Zhenlai, used the radio transceiver here to transmit the information obtained to the company. On the way, when sleeping in the wild, I met two strange people, one called Du Heng, who claimed to be an antiquarian and a historical researcher, and the other from the original city, called Galoran, a self-proclaimed Taoist..."

Her point is not to say how strange these two people are, but to draw out some of the information on the Awakened that she obtained that time.

After that, it was the "Old Tune Team" who arrived at Black Rat Town and found that the place had been slaughtered, so they searched the scene and fired an emergency flare.

Jiang Baimian did not conceal the results of his own investigation and pointed out the suspicion of the "hyena" bandit group.

Near the end, she talked about a real nightmare, but did not mention that Shang Jianyao relied on the ability of the Awakened to break free. She only talked about good luck. At that time, she happened to meet the night shift, and Long Yuehong and Bai Chen found out that something was wrong and promptly Shake wakes her up with Shang Jianyao.

In the end, she connected the real nightmare with the anomaly north of Yuelu Station, and talked about her guess.

"This is indeed a bit like some kind of Awakener's ability..." Wang Beicheng, who was nearly a round older than Shang Jianyao and others, recalled what he had seen and heard, and said hesitantly, "When I was young, I followed the action group and participated in a major force. During a large transaction between the two, I happened to meet a sect called 'Dawn Morning Star', who both feared dreams and used them. At that time, the cultist I communicated with was an awakener, calling himself a 'Dream Keeper', thinking that he was serving people Fight from being swallowed up by nightmares. He described a nightmare situation, kind of like what you guys are talking about."

Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and the others looked at each other and asked Wang Beicheng:

"He didn't show you his abilities?"

"No." Wang Beicheng shook his head, "This may have something to do with my vigilance."

Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and asked:

"Which executive do they worship?"

Wang Beicheng already knew that Shang Jianyao and the others had obtained information related to the age-keeping from the mechanical monk Jingfa, so he did not hide it and replied calmly:

"It's 'Dawn'.

"The god in charge of February.

"They call this Zhi Sui the light that shines into the dream."

Having said that, Wang Beicheng glanced at the already dim sky:

"Is there any other information?"

"No." Jiang Baimian smiled slightly, "My mouth is dry."

Wang Beicheng suddenly laughed:

"I won't talk about being polite. It's getting dark, you guys can find a place to camp and rest. Me? I have to arrange a few reconnaissance teams to go out to find out information based on the information you provided as soon as possible. This can't be a waste of time.

"Ah, by the way, it's best to be under the watchful eye of your night-time companion when you sleep, so that you can be woken up in time if something goes wrong."

He didn't mention whether it would make sleep uncomfortable. Above ashes, things like that are no problem at all, and every seasoned person knows that life is better than shame, better than embarrassment.

"Don't worry, we have experience." Jiang Baimian waved his hand, took Shang Jianyao and others to bid farewell to Wang Beicheng, and returned to the jeep stop.

After finding a good place and finishing the tent, Long Yuehong finally couldn't hold back her doubts and asked:

"Team leader, why are you hiding the exoskeleton device?"

It is their internal consensus to hide the secret of Shang Jianyao, and there is no need to say more.

"This needs to be said too much. It's not necessary. Maybe it has to involve the affairs of Shuiwei Town." Jiang Baimian replied indifferently.

"Didn't we already discuss that we should report the situation of Shuiwei Town, but we didn't mention the specific location, only mentioned that we met their hunting team in the wild?" Bai Chen, who was less emotionally fluctuated, asked with a little concern.

Jiang Baimian laughed and said:

"Don't worry, you have to wait until you go back to the company and report it according to the procedure.

"What's the use of telling Wang Beicheng their team? Instead, it adds to the risk of leakage."

"It's nothing if it leaked?" Bai Chen didn't quite understand.

Jiang Baimian sighed slightly, then pointed at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong with his chin with a smile:

"Tell me about the attitude of the internal staff towards the wilderness wanderers."

Shang Jianyao, who was in charge of vigilance, did not cover up:

"A little bit of exclusion, afraid of absorbing too many wilderness wanderers and reducing rations in all aspects."

"Yeah, although we don't have enough manpower, everyone thinks that we can live on now anyway, and there will be more and more newborns in the future, so there is no need to absorb a large number of wilderness wanderers." Long Yuehong rolled her eyes. Chen said in a low voice.

Jiang Baimian immediately spread his right hand to Bai Chen:

"Did you hear that

"If you only sporadically absorb the best of the wilderness wanderers like you, and use your experience, knowledge and abilities, the internal employees do not object, and even understand very well, but if you absorb the wilderness wanderers from the entire settlement, everyone It's not very acceptable.

"Although the combat teams and action teams of the Ministry of Security have been active outside for a long time and know the situation in various settlements, they may not have no sympathy, but they are also human beings. influence of speech.

"If they leaked the news of Shuiwei Town to relatives and friends before the board of directors made a decision, and let everyone start discussing this matter, it would easily have a negative impact."

Bai Chen still doesn't understand:

"Can ordinary employees influence the decision of the board?"

In her opinion, such high-level people will not be influenced by the public opinion at the bottom.

Jiang Baimian said with a smile:

"You are still more used to the wilderness wanderer, and you are not very comfortable with some things in the company.

"'Pangu Biology' is not too small, but not too big. Which board member has no relatives and friends who are ordinary employees? Moreover, internal stability is also very important, which will directly affect the combat team and operations. The state and position of the brigade.

"If there are all kinds of negative public opinions, even if the board of directors insists on absorbing the entire Shuiwei Town, the details of the plan will definitely be different:

"Whether it is to be treated as a formal employee, or treated as a peripheral vassal force, whether to do a certain split and send someone to manage it directly, or like the Black Rat Town, there is a big difference."

Bai Chen stopped talking, lowered his head slightly, and thought carefully about Jiang Baimian's words.

In her experience of wandering in the wilderness, the superior and the powerful have the absolute right to speak.

At this time, Long Yuehong muttered:

"But I still think that's just one reason."

Because he is used to it, his voice is not low when he talks to himself.

"Maybe the team leader is afraid that Wang Beicheng will use our exoskeleton device." Shang Jianyao deliberately glanced at Jiang Baimian and said with a smile.

Jiang Baimian's eyebrows are slightly raised:

"I'm afraid of him?"