Embers Ad Infinitum

Long Yuehong's head flashed with excitement. With the help of the "Black Swamp Iron Snake" bionic smart armor, she jumped out of the hole and handed the badge in her hand to Jiang Baimian:

"Team leader, look!"

His unusual behavior attracted the attention of Bai Chen and Shang Jianyao, but due to the presence of outsiders and the place not necessarily being safe, they could only continue to monitor the people and things around them and not leave their posts without authorization.

Jiang Baimian took the badge, looked at it carefully, and his eyebrows suddenly moved.

Du Shaochong's name "Old Tune Group" is not unfamiliar at all. They have seen "Zhuang Sheng" in his dream, and Shang Jianyao completed the "acting", and this is suspected to be the identity of "Zhuang Sheng" when he was born!

Now, the mutilated corpse placed in front of the "Old Diao Group" belongs to Du Shaochong, the incarnation of "Zhuang Sheng"?

But the whole thing is also unspeakably weird:

A certain guy hired three ruin hunters and gave them some of Du Shaochong's bones and a badge identifying his identity. He asked them to take these things and follow the map's prompts to enter the Swamp No. 1 ruins and bury them all in a secret laboratory. the edge of……

This seems to be an attempt to mislead the excavators later, so the burial place is fake, the body may also be fake, and the nameplate also does not rule out the possibility of being fake.

As his thoughts flashed, Jiang Baimian lowered his right hand and placed the breastplate in the darkness where the starlight could not reach.

She calmly said to the three ruin hunters:

"What else did your employer give you?"

"No more." "Nothing else." "Just the bones and the sign." The three people answered one after another.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"It's so late and it's not very safe here. You'd better leave early."

Shang Jianyao heard the song and knew its elegant meaning, so he immediately said to the three relic hunters:

"Don't mention us when you go back, just pretend it didn't happen at all.

"Think about it. You did complete your task. You buried the bones and breastplates to the edge of the ruins, and took photos to prove it. Then you left without encountering anyone or any accidents on the way. Didn't happen."

"I understand." The three ruin hunters each showed a clear smile.

They put on their backpacks and engineer shovels, waved to the "Old Adjustment Team", and walked in the other direction of the Swamp 1 ruins.

After leaving the ruins of the laboratory, the tallest man shook his head suddenly.

He said slightly puzzled:

"Why do I feel like something is missing?"

"No." "It's normal." His two companions answered separately.

They all said that things went smoothly. They and others successfully buried the bones and signs at the predetermined place and completed the task without any problems.

"It seems I'm a little suspicious." The tallest ruin hunter let out a long sigh of relief.

After they left, Long Yuehong, who had calmed down, curiously asked Shang Jianyao:

"Is this equivalent to hypnotizing them into forgetting what just happened?"

"It's not forgetting, it's just ignoring it and finding a reason to deceive yourself." Shang Jianyao explained seriously, "'Deleting memory' means deleting the corresponding content in a physical sense, and 'hypnotic' forgetting means hiding the corresponding memory. , buried in a place where it is not easily noticed, and forgetting under 'thinking guidance' is probably equivalent to re-assigning the pointer, so that the keywords that can mobilize this memory point to other content."

The more he spoke, the more difficult it became to understand, and he was very professional.

Fortunately, Long Yuehong has learned this knowledge and can understand it.

"Team leader, what's wrong with that thing just now?" Bai Chen paid more attention to the item Long Yuehong picked up from the pothole.

Jiang Baimian raised his right hand and showed the badge to Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen:

"See for yourselves."

Shang Jianyao took one look and suddenly burst into tears:

"Xiao Chong, you died so miserably!"

Xiao Chong said, don't curse me... Jiang Baimian sometimes feels that Shang Jianyao is really easy to deceive.

Of course, this depends on which personality is presiding over the body.

"How could Xiao Chong's bones be so big?" She chose the most intuitive reason to deal with the guy.

"Yes." Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and left palm.

Long Yuehong couldn't help but curse:

The mysterious origin of Xiao Chong may involve the existence of "Zhuang Sheng". It's hard to say whether there are normal bones...

Bai Chen looked at the mutilated corpse on the ground, pursed his lips and said:

"Why would someone bury these bones here and want others to believe they belong to Du Shaochong?"

Shang Jianyao "recovered" his mood and said excitedly:

"I understand!"

You understand again... Jiang Baimian did not interrupt this guy to let his thoughts flow.

Shang Jianyao explained enthusiastically:

“This is a ritual, the art of being tired of winning.

“They buried Du Shaochong’s body together with his nameplate somewhere in the city where he had attended junior high school or even elementary school, and used corresponding principles to suppress the other party’s resentment and hatred.

"The bones are incomplete because the rest are buried in other places, places with the same meaning."

It's just as true... If Long Yuehong hadn't read a lot of old world entertainment materials, she might have been convinced by Shang Jianyao.

"So, who killed Du Shaochong, or in other words, made him have so much resentment and hatred?" Jiang Baimian followed Shang Jianyao's statement and asked with a smile.

Shang Jianyao shook his head:

"I don't know, it needs follow-up investigation."

Bai Chen was silent for a while, then slowly said:

"We are still not sure that the bones really belong to Du Shaochong. Maybe even the nameplate is fake and was forged later."

"And there is no way to test the DNA. There is no control sample, and the descendants of Du Shaochong can't be found for the time being." Jiang Baimian breathed out, "In my sense, these bones don't have any power."

She thought about it and said:

"I prefer to believe that the bones and the breastplate were buried here to mislead subsequent excavators, for example, people like us who are pursuing the truth about the destruction of the old world."

"If we believe that this is Du Shaochong and believe that he died in this laboratory, what will happen?" Long Yuehong made a bold assumption based on Jiang Baimian's suspicion and raised the question.

"At most I think 'Zhuang Sheng' is dead, but after he returns to the 'new world', isn't it normal for his incarnation to die?" Bai Chen tried to analyze.

Jiang Baimian stared at the pile of corpses for a while:

"We don't have any clues at the moment. Let's put away the bones and the breastplate first and study it later."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao was very enthusiastic.

They wrapped the bones separately and put them into their backpacks, and then searched the ruins of the laboratory for a while, but found no other clues.

Seeing that it was getting late, Jiang Baimian ordered to return.

The "old tune team" had just returned to the room in the building in the previous community when Shang Jianyao suddenly said:

"Quick, give me all the bones!"

His eyes were bright, as if he had thought of something interesting.

"What do you want to do?" Jiang Baimian asked suspiciously.

Shang Jianyao replied proudly:

“I plan to put these bones together, then hold the body and wear the badge, enter my ‘Sea of ​​Origin’, and see how Xiao Chong reacts to the gap.

"If there is, it means that this corpse does have a certain relationship with him!"

"Aren't you worried that it is indeed Xiao Chong's body?" Jiang Baimian asked after considering it.

Shang Jianyao chuckled:

"I figured it out."

Are you destined to die? Long Yuehong answered in her heart.

Shang Jianyao continued:

"It doesn't matter even if it's Xiao Chong's body. The fact that the gap still exists proves that Xiao Chong is still alive and nothing serious happened.

"Think about it, don't the mechanical monks also have corresponding corpses?"

Long Yuehong wanted to say, "It won't be a big deal," but after hearing the next sentence, she realized that it seemed to be the case.

The existence of mechanical monks proves that human beings can initially get rid of the limitations of the physical body.

"Then give it a try." Jiang Baimian had no other choice anyway.

Shang Jianyao happily put the bones together, and then they discovered that the skeleton was missing its head and half of its body.

Without hesitation, Shang Jianyao put on the breastplate, lay down next to the corpse, and hugged it sideways.

He then pinched his temples on both sides and quickly fell into a deep sleep.

In the "Sea of ​​Origin", Shang Jianyao's figure emerged.

He simultaneously manifested the breastplate and the corpse, and using his two selves as wings, he flew into the air, towards the deep gap that represented Xiao Chong.

However, nothing has changed there.

Since merging with the aura of Holm Reproductive Medical Center, Xiao Chong's gap seems to have solidified.

"Hey..." Shang Jianyao sighed and tentatively threw a bone into the gap.

The bone was an insubstantial object that he embodied. As soon as it left his "sea of ​​origin", it immediately disappeared without causing any ripples.

After many attempts without success, Shang Jianyao muttered to himself regretfully:

"Not from Xiao Chong?"

He then left his "sea of ​​origin" and returned to the real world.

…………

Somewhere in the ice field, inside the valley, green grass is growing, the land is fertile, and the temperature is like the south.

Luoden, the elder of Suimo City, lay on his bed and entered the "soul corridor".

He is an awakened person who has explored the depths and is currently searching for the door to the "New World".

He had already been to all the rooms originally controlled by Suimo City and had no sense of familiarity, so he could only try to open unfamiliar and untouched rooms.

After walking along the dark yellow thick carpeted corridor for a while, Roden finally saw a new room:

"131"