Embers Ad Infinitum

Shang Jianyao jumped up and down, checked the vents, and tried to open the door, but to no avail.

The whole room suddenly became as if made of steel.

"Is he locked up?" The reckless Shang Jianyao was a little dumbfounded.

The vicious Shang Jian Yao was so angry that he slapped the wall and laughed loudly:

"Do you still need to ask?

"I knew that if a single-celled creature like you and a few guys with low IQs dominated the body, there would definitely be problems, but I didn't expect retribution to come so quickly!

"How dare you come in so carelessly in a room that is obviously weird!"

"Theoretically speaking, we are all strong in the 'New World'. No one can lock us up easily. Moreover, what's the point of locking us up? Even if they want to suck our consciousness and spirit, wouldn't they? Do you have to fight with us?" Honest Shang Jianyao muttered a few words.

The vicious Shang Jianyao said "ha":

"Don't you know how deep and troubled the waters of the 'New World' are?"

"Okay, okay, let's stop arguing." The calm and rational Shang Jianyao stopped the internal strife, "The most important thing now is to find a way to get out. Although we won't have to worry about mental exhaustion for a while, it will be serious if we are trapped here. Affects the progress of our exploration of the 'new world'."

Having said this, he looked up at the fluorescent lights that were brighter than before and said:

"That one doesn't seem to have left yet..."

A "New World" powerhouse like him alone shouldn't be able to support such a bright light.

"Maybe he is hiding in a corner of the room, waiting for us to make any mistakes and stab him in the back." The honest Shang Jianyao said.

The reckless Shang Jianyao expressed his dissatisfaction:

"How is that possible? I just checked every place here with a broom."

"What's the point of such an inspection?" The vicious Shang Jianyao jumped on the spot a few times, "You can easily avoid it."

What he meant was that the owner of the room could have jumped rope to avoid being touched by the broom.

"One hundred and fifty-six, one-hundred-and-fifty-seven, one-eight-one-nine-twenty-one..." Shang Jianyao, who was seeking novelty and novelty, performed enthusiastically, without any consciousness of being behind bars.

Within "Pangu Creatures", projects such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek that require minimal demand are children's favorite games, followed by activities such as rope skipping that use only a small amount of materials.

Shang Jianyao, the most affectionate and youngest person, asked worriedly:

"Then how should I check so that nothing is missed?"

"This is simple." Pudu Zen Master Shang Jianyao said with a smile, "Concentrate your concentration, forcibly materialize a bomb, and then detonate it directly in the room, causing indiscriminate damage. In this way, no matter who is hiding here, It’s impossible to carry it through silently.”

"Indiscriminate harm..." The vicious Shang Jianyao frowned.

The honest Shang Jianyao then asked:

"What about ourselves?"

"You will be hurt too." Zen Master Pudu raised his right palm and pronounced the Buddha's name, "If I don't go to hell, who will?"

Before some colleagues could scold him, he added:

"This is a spiritual bomb that comes from ourselves. We are standing in the center of the storm, and the damage we have received is definitely the slightest."

The calm and rational Shang Jianyao thought for a while and said:

"What if the person who was invisible before has gone out, but stayed outside the door?"

Because the distance is very close, the corresponding light will not be reflected in the corridor, but will stay in the room.

If this is the case, Spirit Bombs won't have much effect.

The merchants fell silent when they saw Yao.

After a while, the reckless Shang Jianyao said urgently:

"We can't sit still and wait for death!"

"Then what do you want?" The vicious Shang Jianyao now found that this guy was even more annoying than the calm and rational one.

"Find a way to break out of the door." The reckless Shang Jianyao replied, "We are all strong in the 'New World'. There is no reason why he can trap us so easily."

The calm and rational Shang Jianyao smiled and said:

"The buildings here were built by senior officials. The walls and doors themselves must be extremely strong. We can only consider starting from the connections and weak points.

"But before making such an attempt, I have one more suggestion."

"What proposal?" Honest Shang asked whenever he asked.

The calm and rational Shang Jianyao answered very confidently:

"Ask Dabai if he has any good ideas."

"Yes, yes." The agreeable Shang Jian Yao immediately agreed.

The rest of Shang Jianyao had no objections to this.

…………

In order to keep his energy high, Jiang Baimian forced himself to sleep.

This is thanks to the fact that she has become an awakener.

In a daze, she seemed to have returned to the company, living peacefully with her parents, brother-in-law and others.

Suddenly one day, everyone around her became "careless" one after another.

She finally escaped from the underground building, only to find that the entire earth had become a paradise for "careless people", and human civilization was completely destroyed.

Huh... Jiang Baimian opened his eyes and woke up.

The nightmare just now was still lingering in her mind.

She was stunned for a while and said to herself:

"I want to investigate the cause of the destruction of the old world and the origin of 'innocent disease'. I just hope that our next generation will no longer have such a sharp sword hanging over their heads, so that the tragedy of the destruction of the old world will never happen again..." "

When she was a child, she heard her father talk too much about the destruction of the old world, the horror of "mindless disease" and the tragic experience of mankind, and then she slowly came up with the idea of ​​investigating the cause of the destruction of the old world and the origin of "mindless disease".

When she came into wider contact with the civilization of old humans, this idea truly deepened into a dream or ideal.

She didn't want future generations to be frightened anymore, and she didn't want the once-splendid civilizations to be cut off.

She calls herself a half-folklorist, and she wants to experience the local customs and customs wherever she goes, which is also based on her love for human civilization.

Most of the human beings whom she had never met before were indeed strange to her, and she had no specific concepts. However, the children around her, the heroic, graceful, or full of idealistic poetry and songs in the books, and the scientific knowledge that condensed human wisdom, all stood out to Jiang Bai. Mian has a clear image in his heart.

Jiang Baimian breathed out again.

She stood up and stretched her body.

Then, she communicated with Shang Jianyao at the agreed time, helped him find a place to urinate in the morning, and gave him a nutritional injection.

After doing all this, Jiang Baimian gave him a simple meal with compressed biscuits and energy bars.

During the process, she muttered to herself silently with some emotion and confusion:

"Every day I think about it, and every night I dream about it...

“This dream came at the right time and helped me solidify some ideas.

"But, wouldn't it seem too coincidental?"

As his thoughts turned, Jiang Baimian turned his gaze to the closed dark door and considered the questions he would explore later:

Since only one-tenth of the "unintentional people" are there at night, what will the scene be like during the day?

Jiang Baimian felt that by hiding human consciousness and relying on military exoskeleton devices and other equipment, there was still hope of sneaking into the small city in broad daylight.

At this moment, her head throbbed several times.

This is a familiar sign of "unintentional illness".

Fortunately, the throbbing pain subsided quickly.

Jiang Baimian immediately woke up and understood that this was Shang Jianyao looking for him.

She quickly walked back to Shang Jianyao, landed on one knee, and extended her spirit.

Soon, she "met" Shang Jianyao.

"I'm locked up!" Shang Jianyao got straight to the point.

Jiang Baimian's mouth twitched slightly:

"Tell me more specifically."

When she heard Shang Jianyao say that she recklessly entered the target building and that weird room, she almost raised her hands and covered her face.

After calming down, she said thoughtfully:

"Your situation is a bit like Yan Hu's experience..."

Confined somewhere in the "New World", unable to move freely.

"That's different. I can still return to the dust, as long as I choose the person to pray to." Shang Jianyao disagreed with Jiang Baimian's statement.

Jiang Baimian chuckled:

"You haven't tried it yet, how can you be so sure?

"What if the elders ignore you?"

"They started in chaos and finally gave up!" Shang Jianyao's thoughts jumped to nowhere, "Furthermore, Yan Hu was Yehu Zen back then and proclaimed himself a god. He probably didn't know that praying to Zhi Sui could temporarily return to the earth."

"Then who is giving him a 'blood transfusion' to maintain his consciousness?" Jiang Baimian said with a "haha" smile.

Before Shang Jianyao could argue any more, she nodded:

"Don't act rashly for now. Wait until night, and I will find an opportunity to get close to the corresponding building in reality. I will fire a few grenades at it and see what happens."

The building corresponding to the place where Shang Jianyao was trapped is the lamp on the outermost edge of the tower.

Although Jiang Baimian could not reach there yet, the remaining distance did not affect her long-range attacks at all.

"That's very dangerous." Shang Jianyao said with concern.

"You also know? Don't be so reckless in the future!" Jiang Baimian warned, "After bombing that building, I will evacuate immediately. With the help of a military exoskeleton device, if I walk purely in a straight line, those' The unintentional ones shouldn't be able to catch up with me."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shang Jianyao suddenly felt that the lights in the room were dimming a lot.

That fluorescent lamp is no longer as bright as before!