Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 70: intelligence

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Hearing An Ruxiang's question, Jiang Baimian took precautions in advance, glared back at Shang Jianyao, motioned him not to speak, then pursed his lower lip and said to An Ruxiang:

"He was sleeping on the side of the road when we met him.

"As soon as we were about to wake him up, his face suddenly contorted, his body twitched a few times, and he completely lost movement.

"He, he just died like that."

Speaking of this, Jiang Baimian suddenly felt that he described himself like a fantasy, and suddenly felt a little uneasy, and quickly added:

"I said that, do you believe it

"No, I mean, you have to trust us."

Frankly speaking, if she hadn't experienced it herself, she wouldn't have believed it with her own eyes. After all, there are very few aberrant monsters with such strange abilities in the dust, and Jiang Baimian was transferred to the "Security Department" less than three times. In the past few years, there are not many tasks, not too many, and the distorted creatures encountered are of a fairly common type.

An Ruxiang's indifferent and indifferent face changed as early as the beginning of Jiang Baimian's description, and her expression gradually became more complicated and could no longer be concealed.

Although Jiang Baimian couldn't interpret what all the other's micro-expressions meant, he directly felt the intense, rich, and uncontrollable sadness.

She hadn't seen An Ruxiang a few times, but she had already judged that the other party was a very reserved type and never revealed her feelings. Now, for the first time, she saw An Ruxiang's expression, which was out of control.

An Ruxiang took a deep breath and said:

"I believe.

"Because we have encountered similar things after entering the ruins of this city.

"If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, I'm sure you wouldn't be able to make up such an experience."

Her voice was low and hoarse, as if trying to suppress something.

The man next to her had an expression of sadness and fear.

Jiang Baimian gave an "um", without saying any words of condolences, and instead asked:

"What exactly happened to you?"

An Ruxiang raised her hand and wiped the corners of her eyes, her expression returning to indifference:

"We drove into this ruined city from a road deep in the Everglades.

"We don't plan to explore what secrets are hidden here, we just plan to scavenge the edge of the ruins and find some valuable items to go back.

"Just when we got a bunch of supplies, Xiaoguang, one of our teammates, suddenly fell asleep. He fell asleep like he fainted while carrying a box of thick clothes.

"We thought he had a sudden illness and didn't wake him up right away.

"As a result, when we confirmed that he was just asleep, his face with his eyes closed suddenly twisted, as if something extremely terrifying had happened.

"And then, he died."

Jiang Baimian wanted to say, "Forcibly falling asleep seems to only be aimed at one target at a time", but looked at An Ruxiang's eyes and forcibly restrained the urge.

An Ruxiang continued:

"After Xiaoguang died, we were terrified.

"We are not afraid to fight the 'unintentional' and the monsters head-on, but this kind of attack that doesn't know the reason, doesn't know how to prepare, and doesn't know whose turn will be next is really scary and shattering.

"We decided on the spot to evacuate the ruins of this city, anyway, the harvest is enough.

"Who knows, we feel like we've been fascinated by ghosts, and we feel strongly that there is something very precious on the corner of the street ahead and must be obtained.

"We just passed by and saw an 'unintentional'.

"She is a female, aged between seventeen or eighteen to twenty-five or sixteen. You know, the age of the 'Mindless One' is difficult to identify purely by appearance.

"She is more neatly dressed than the two 'intentional ones' we encountered when we were looking for items, her clothes were not so dirty, her face was fairly clean, but her eyes were still cloudy and bloodshot.

"Well, she was wearing a white, shriveled down jacket.

"At that time, we felt that the very precious thing that must be obtained was on this 'unintentional person', so we speeded up and got ready to shoot.

"Who knows, a large number of 'unintentional people' have appeared, and they seem to be ambushing nearby.

"It's a trap!"

Speaking of which, whether it was An Ruxiang or the man next to her, they couldn't control themselves to show a little bit of fear.

"Then what?" Jiang Baimian asked after making no judgments or guesses.

An Ruxiang took another deep breath:

"When the ambush 'Mindless One' appeared, our feeling of being fascinated by ghosts disappeared, and we no longer felt that there was something very precious in that special 'Mindless One' that must be obtained.

"Fortunately, only some of those 'unintentional ones' have guns, and some of them use guns as iron rods, probably because they don't have bullets.

"In short, we hid in time and didn't die in the first wave of shooting, and the next thing was a fierce battle.

"Originally, we would have died there after fighting off multiple 'intentional ones', but God favored us. A mechanical monk in a red cassock suddenly rushed over and was extremely tyrannical. Attacks all female 'unintentional'.

"I can feel that he is also full of malice towards me."

Jiang Baimian finally couldn't help it and blurted out:

"Pure Law?"

This mechanical monk repaired himself and came to join in the fun of the newly discovered ruins

"You know him?" An Ruxiang asked in surprise.

"I have dealt with each other." Jiang Baimian replied briefly.

Qiao Chu, who did not stop them from communicating, listened quietly beside him, and seemed to want to obtain useful information.

An Ruxiang didn't ask any more questions and returned to the topic:

"With the addition of the mechanical monk, we found an opportunity to escape. After the guard stone took the initiative to break, he covered us to leave.

"We have an appointment for a meeting place and time. As a result, hehe, he always said that he is a punctual person, but this time he is definitely going to be late..."

At this time, Shang Jianyao took a few steps forward and said seriously:

"Probably because he wasn't wearing a watch."

An Ruxiang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed:

"Yeah, when his precious watch was ambushed, the strap broke and fell there."

Smiling, An Ruxiang raised her hand and wiped her eyes.

After a few seconds, she said in a hoarse voice:

"At that time, it was still dark, so we looked for a place to hide for a while, and when all the movements subsided, we went around in a circle and rushed to the meeting point. As a result, we met you before we arrived."

"You didn't make those gunshots before?" Jiang Baimian sighed thoughtfully.

She immediately cursed herself:

"Really, why have I been ignoring things these days, my thinking is not rigorous enough.

"It may be that Qiao Chu said that the one who created the real nightmare was a nightmare horse, so the direction of my thinking was limited to the aberration monster.

"Judging from what happened to An Ruxiang and the others, it is very likely that there are distorted 'mindless ones' in the ruins of this city, and they are very special, with strange abilities, and rare in the outside world.

"In addition to monsters, there is also the possibility of distorting the 'unintentional' who can force people to sleep."

She said these words to Bai Chen, Long Yuehong and others, and also reminded An Ruxiang to be careful of similar distorted creatures.

Bai Chen nodded and said:

"In the 'First City' and its affiliated forces, this kind of 'Mindless One' is called the 'Higher Unmindful One'."

Long Yuehong heard another burst of fear.

After listening to this conversation, An Ruxiang took a breath and said:

"I have said everything that I should say, and I believe it will inspire and help you to some extent.

"Can you tell me where Shou Shi is now?"

Jiang Baimian turned around and pointed to the street where he came:

"Go past here, turn right, and the only closed door on the right side of the street.

"However, this street is more dangerous, there are many 'unintentional people', you'd better go around."

"Thank you." An Ruxiang and the man responded at the same time.

At this time, Shang Jianyao took a few steps forward and took out the neatly folded paper:

"On him."

"His hunter badge." Jiang Baimian also took out Wu Shoushi's relic hunter badge.

An Ruxiang stretched out her hand to take it, instinctively unfolded the piece of paper, put it in front of her eyes, and swept it under the moonlight that was not so faint now:

"I owe Ruxiang a can of beef;

"I owe Ah Gang two payments, equivalent to a large bag of compressed biscuits;

"I owe Zhang the lame half a bowl of oil;

"Olank owes a pistol, ten bullets;

"I owe Xiaoguang a meal of meat;

"I owe a flower like fragrant fragrance..."

The corner of An Ruxiang's mouth pulled back, but her mouth was tightly pursed and not opened.

This made her expression a little weird, and something seemed to reflect the moonlight in and around her eyes.

Jiang Baimian and the others did not speak, waiting quietly for her to recover.

After a while, An Ruxiang sighed and said:

"thanks.

"Don't give me the rest of the items."

After speaking, she turned her head to the side and said to the man next to her:

"Gang, let's go to Shou Shi."

"Okay." The man replied in a deep voice.

An Ruxiang didn't linger any longer, and she didn't say goodbye. She hurried to the farther street, planning to make a circle to avoid danger.

"The most important information just now is that forced sleep should only target one person at a time." Jiang Baimian withdrew his gaze and reminded the team members.

At this moment, Qiao Chu, who was wearing a helmet and covering a black metal skeleton, suddenly asked:

"Who is the pure law?"

"A mechanical monk who is also an 'awakened'..." Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and others scrambled to tell Qiao Chu the information they had learned about the purification method before, and finally said, "The price he paid was the increase of lust. ', and because of uploading consciousness, he became a mechanical creature, lost the ability to satisfy his desires, his psychology became extremely distorted, and he hated women very much."

"Hate women..." Qiao Chu repeated without asking any more questions. He pointed to the front and said, "Go ahead, go around and that's the destination."

Shang Jianyao and the others held their weapons again and trotted.

An Ruxiang, who entered another street, suddenly slowed down her pace, raised her hand in confusion and rubbed her temples.

"What's wrong?" the man beside her asked strangely.

An Ruxiang replied with a solemn expression:

"Don't you think there is a problem? Just now, we lost our vigilance and even wanted to follow the person wearing the exoskeleton device.

"At that moment, I forgot about Shou Shi, I just wanted to please that person."

The man beside An Ruxiang frowned gradually:

"yes.

"I, you know, what I like is women, I was thinking just now, thinking, if it was him, it seems not bad...

"This... is too weird, isn't it?"