Embers Ad Infinitum

Obviously, what Jiang Baimian cared about was also valued by others. Bai Chen pursed his lips and said:

"The sores have the ability to awaken humans or animals?"

In her opinion, "White Owl" was obviously the name of the giant white wolf.

It suddenly appeared in the mountains on the north coast last year and "took" a large number of ruin hunters away, causing them to commit suicide in different ways in the ruins of Wasteland 13. Before that, no one had ever seen anything like it. Bizarrely similar creatures.

The original guess of the "old tune team" was that the giant white wolf was mainly active in the ruins of Wasteland No. 13, so the outside world did not know of its existence. It was not until Wu Meng was sent to the mountains on the north coast to complete a certain task that it appeared in the ruins. In front of the world, but now, Wu Meng seems to mean that this is the aberrant creature he specially transformed into last year. Before, it was just an ordinary white wolf, so it was naturally not noticed by humans.

When ordinary animals become deformed and gain special abilities, it is most likely more difficult to awaken than humans. At least awakened people can often encounter them. It is not easy to find aberrant creatures with similar directions.

Therefore, Wu Meng, who can cause distortions in ordinary creatures, does have a high possibility of awakening humans.

"This may be one of the reasons why he is called a malignant sore." Jiang Baimian said hesitantly.

The next second, Shang Jianyao's face occupied her field of vision:

"Are you also influenced by Wu Meng?"

"I don't completely believe it, I just made some exchanges based on this possibility." Jiang Baimian did not glare at Shang Jianyao, but explained seriously.

Although Wu Meng was interrupted before he could finish his words, several members of the "Old Tune Group" felt it was necessary to pay attention to the possibility of being implanted with some kind of thinking by him unknowingly.

The suicides of the three ruin hunters had left a deep impression on them.

Because of this, Shang Jianyao's behavior of asking repeatedly as soon as he found something was wrong was a responsible behavior in this scenario.

However, based on Jiang Baimian's understanding of this guy, he knew that he probably still had the intention of ridiculing, joking, and teasing, but from the serious side, this was completely acceptable.

"It makes sense." The honest Shang Jianyao said one thing and agreed with Jiang Baimian's statement.

Long Yuehong, who was wearing the "Black Swamp Iron Snake" bionic smart armor, looked around and, while wary of possible accidents, joined the discussion team:

“Why can poisonous sores awaken animals and even humans?”

"Did you get it wrong? It's obviously harder for animals to wake up than for humans." The honest Shang Jianyao yelled.

Long Yuehong argued:

"I say this because Wu Meng has shown the ability to deform ordinary animals, but it has not been proven whether this can be extended to humans."

"Do you really believe it?" Shang Jianyao laughed.

"Stop, stop, stop!" Jiang Baimian quickly stopped the meaningless conversation between the two.

At this time, Bai Chen tried to answer Long Yuehong's question:

"The sores may have something to do with the 'New World,' but so does the awakening."

She made the inference based on the fact that the "awakened" will find the door to the "new world" in the "soul corridor".

After several members of the "Old Tune Group" were silent for a while, Jiang Baimian looked at the rows of bookshelves and said:

"I actually believe that Wu Meng can deform ordinary animals and awaken humans.

"But it's not that he implanted it in his mind, but that he thought of something."

Shang Jianyao suppressed his smile and rubbed his chin with the hand that was not holding the gun:

"Xiao Chong?"

"Yes." Jiang Baimian nodded gently and said, "He has Nightmare Horse and Sleeping Cat around him, as well as many 'high-level careless people'."

The former corresponds to aberrant creatures, and the latter is close to the awakened ones.

"And from Du Heng, the teacher's words can be inferred that Xiao Chong is what he considers to be the malignant sores and rotten flesh of this world." Bai Chen helped the team leader complete what she didn't say.

This is consistent with the element that Wu Meng, the poisonous sore, has a giant white wolf around him.

The only difference is that Xiao Chong was not sealed and had obviously more men.

Long Yuehong looked like she suddenly realized:

"No wonder the number of 'advanced heartless' and aberrant creatures in the Swamp No. 1 ruins is so terrifying..."

This may all be transformed by Xiao Chong unconsciously or consciously!

Long Yuehong sighed again:

"I thought this situation was related to the secret laboratory destroyed by Qiao Chu."

Shang Jianyao glanced at him, raised the corner of his mouth and said:

“It may not matter.

"Do you remember that there is also a secret laboratory in this ruins?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Baimian sighed and said:

"The relationship between 'Advanced Heartless', aberrant creatures and secret laboratories may be indirect..."

She paused and said:

"Those two secret laboratories may have brought about poisonous sores."

Hiss... Long Yuehong was speechless for a moment.

He vaguely felt that the team leader's guess might be the answer:

Creating "things" of the level of poisonous sores is in line with the positioning of a secret laboratory!

"But, these two secret laboratories do not correspond to which research institute..." Bai Chen raised his own question.

At least there is currently no evidence that the secret laboratories in Swamp 1 and Wasteland 13 originated from one of the nine major research institutes in the old world.

All the problems currently discovered by the "Old Investigation Team" point to the nine major research institutes, of which the Eighth Research Institute is the most suspicious.

"Bold assumptions, be careful to verify." Jiang Baimian smiled.

She then looked around:

"Okay, that's the end of the exchange. Take the time to find the city map and figure out where the Holm Reproductive Medical Center is."

Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong spread out a little and each looked for the corresponding map in the bookstore.

"They are all well preserved..." Jiang Baimian's eyes slid over the books, wanting to take them all out and read them all.

Studying old world books has always been a hobby of hers.

Unfortunately, she doesn't have this time now.

In less than five minutes, Bai Chen, who knew more about the various shops in the ruins of the city, found a map of the Fah region on an exhibition shelf not far from the cashier.

This region consists of three cities, and the current location of the "Old Tune Group" is called "Hom".

"The target location is three blocks away." Jiang Baimian, who originally wanted to study the map, could only stand behind Bai Chen and use his height advantage to look at it.

"The nearest route is like this, but it passes through the central area, so the risk is very high." Bai Chen looked at the map intently and said after careful consideration, "How about taking a detour from the outer area?"

Jiang Baimian shook his head:

“The outer area is likely to be patrolled by troops from the ‘First City’.

"That might be more dangerous."

Shang Jianyao immediately agreed:

"Yeah yeah.

"It's better to just go through."

"Why?" Long Yuehong tried to help Bai Chen.

Shang Jianyao replied sincerely:

"It saves time."

"..." Long Yuehong was speechless for a while, and then said "uh" in her heart.

Without knowing which route is more dangerous, saving time seems a strong enough reason.

This will allow the "old team" to better explore the target location, and also allow them to evacuate the ruins of Wasteland 13 more calmly, without having to rush.

After thinking for a short time, Bai Chen gave up his idea.

At this time, Jiang Baimian basically scanned the books in the area near the door, but did not find any that might contain valuable clues.

With Shang Jianyao as the leader, they left the bookstore and walked towards the Holm Reproductive Medical Center.

As soon as he left this neighborhood and entered a new place, Jiang Baimian suddenly looked at the second floor of the side house.

She felt that there were many weak bioelectric signals there, and they seemed to be combined into a whole, but also showed their independence.

Almost at the same time, a large amount of green poured out from an open yellow window on the second floor.

It seemed to be made up of countless small green translucent dots, and as soon as it hit the ground, it was swaying to support a figure.

Bang bang bang!

Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao pulled the trigger at the same time.

But the bullets they fired passed through the liquid green figure and failed to cause any damage.

Jiang Baimian thought for a moment, turned his head and shouted in a low voice:

"fire!"

Bai Chen, wearing the "Chameleon" bionic smart armor, disappeared from the spot.

When she appeared again, she was already close to the strange creature.

She raised the "Merker" biological prosthetic limb and aimed it at the target with her palm.

An instant later, a large stream of red flames spurted out, covering the figures composed of countless "green algae".

The figure shook violently for a few times, suddenly split apart, and wanted to flee in all directions.

But the flames did not go out and stayed on them until they were completely burned out.

In the end, nothing was left of the weird creature.

"What on earth is this? An aggregate formed by the distortion of some small creatures?" Long Yuehong whispered.

But I and others have measured it before, and there is no radiation here!

Jiang Baimian shook his head slowly:

"never seen it."

The "Old Tune Team" that could not come to a valid conclusion could only move forward with doubts.

They were not attacked again until they were about to leave the current neighborhood.

"Did you notice?" Jiang Baimian looked around, "Wu Meng didn't try to 'communicate' with us again."

She didn't sense any weak electrical signals.

Shang Jianyao smiled and said:

"Maybe the electrical appliances here are broken."

"Maybe..." Jiang Baimian was stunned for a moment and said, "Did there ever be a very strong electromagnetic storm here? The strange creatures before were born under this influence?"

No one could answer her.

Decades have passed, and no one can detect the corresponding traces at a glance without doing detailed research.

The "Old Tune Group" soon moved into the new neighborhood.

Bai Chen, who was walking sideways, observed the situation on his side, his eyes scanning various buildings that should have been decades old even in the old world.

This is a very historic street.

Suddenly, she saw a pale face on a glass.

There were several cracks on the surface of the face, and the muscles inside were brown, like large pieces of beef jerky.

"There is no human consciousness." Shang Jianyao also noticed that face.

Jiang Baimian frowned:

"The bioelectrical signals are also very weak, unlike humans."