In the faint echo of the reading in Shuiwei Town, Long Yuehong opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say, she only felt that the feeling was extremely complicated and difficult to describe in words.
None of the four spoke, as if they were listening intently, until the jeep drove out of the gate and ran into the distance.
"What are they reading? I didn't hear it very clearly." Jiang Baimian glanced in the rearview mirror, his tone slightly annoyed.
"The bright moonlight in front of the bed." Shang Jianyao repeated the beginning of "Quiet Night Thoughts".
"That's right......" Jiang Baimian sighed for a while, but he didn't say any more words.
She drove the car seriously, letting the jeep drive quietly on the hard-to-distinguish roads crisscrossing the swamp.
When he was completely out of this area, Bai Chen looked ahead and said to himself:
"Part of the reason I wanted to be a full member of the company was that it would allow me to borrow a lot of books."
"It's okay......" Long Yuehong, who has lived inside the "Pangu Creatures" since she was a child, didn't think there was anything special about this, "In the ruins of the city in the old world, there are no books or libraries?"
Bai Chen's gaze seemed to be far away:
"Yes, in the beginning, there were many, but at that time, I was not yet born.
"Later, many books were moved by big forces and some people, and the remaining part was used as firewood that was easy to light by relic hunters and wilderness wanderers, and was gnawed and torn by rats and other animals.
"There may still be a lot of books in the ruins of cities that are not explored much, but those places are too dangerous."
After a short silence, Shang Jianyao jumped and asked:
"Are you literate?"
"Well, my father and mother taught me. After they died, they left me a good teacher." Bai Chen's expression gradually softened, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised invisibly.
But her eyes were a little divergent, as if she had woken up from a dream in the middle of the night, sitting on her knees, looking out the window without focus.
Jiang Baimian glanced sideways at Bai Chen and continued to look ahead.
She said with a smile:
"Can you communicate louder?
"Is this bullying my bad hearing? I wonder if you are talking bad about me behind my back."
Long Yuehong's heart moved, and she muttered in a low voice:
"We all said it in front of you."
"We all said it in front of you." At the same time, Shang Jianyao responded to Jiang Baimian's "accusations".
Long Yuehong was suddenly a little happy:
"Haha, how is it? Do I understand you very well? can keep up with your thinking!"
"How do you know that I didn't mean to let you keep up?" Shang Jianyao did not back down.
"Yes, when you go out to train, you have to pay attention to the team atmosphere, it must be serious and lively, otherwise it is easy to be overly tense, and it won't take long to crush yourself." Jiang Baimian commented casually, "Okay, let's not talk about this, let's discuss Mayor Tian's experience, and see what useful things can be summarized from the details he described, uh, mainly about the destruction of the old world."
Shang Jianyao seemed to have thought about it for a long time, and immediately said:
"'Heartless' are mainly found in larger cities, and there are almost no in rural and small towns."
"The destruction of villages and towns looks more like a combination of war and geological catastrophes." Bai Chen added.
Jiang Baimian nodded slightly:
"War and geological catastrophes may be equated.
"It is possible that geological weapons appeared before the destruction of the Old World, but of course, this needs to be confirmed by exploring the ruins of certain cities to find corresponding information."
Hearing this, Long Yuehong thought and said:
"What does the emergence of 'heartless' have to do with war?
"Did their appearance lead to war, or did the war induce their appearance?"
"I can't answer this, I don't have enough information and intelligence." Jiang Baimian smiled and said, "This will be the main direction of our old tune group's work in the future."
She looked down the road, pulled the steering wheel, continued to ask questions, and guided the team members to think:
"Why do you think 'mindless people' first appeared mainly in big cities, and almost non-existent in rural areas and small towns?"
"Cities are more densely populated? Is this an important transmission condition?" Shang Jianyao replied based on the definition of the city in the textbook.
Bai Chen said from another angle:
"The city is more important, so is it the main goal?"
"It's possible." Jiang Baimian did not deny it.
Although they couldn't come to a conclusion, they all broadened their thinking and had a clearer idea of the information that needed to be investigated and collected in the future.
The jeep was not fast or too slow, and Jiang Baimian asked another question:
"What do you think of the guy the relic hunters are looking for?
"It's the black-haired and golden-eyed one that the townspeople of Shuiwei Town have encountered."
Long Yuehong hissed:
"It feels like he's strange, not only from a mysterious origin, but also as strange in itself.
"Normally, no one can gain the love of a group of people at the same time when they first meet, that is a man and a woman!"
"Actually, I'm a little curious, curious about what he looks like and how attractive he is." Jiang Baimian replied with a smile, "However, what you said is right, this is indeed quite strange. As for those who can create strange phenomena, my first reaction is to classify them as awakeners."
"Why?" Shang Jianyao blurted out.
Bai Chen did not show any doubts about the term awakener, obviously knowing that there was such a kind of person.
Jiang Baimian let go of the accelerator slightly, slowed down a little, and said:
"In addition to having strange and terrifying abilities, the Awakened may also exhibit strange and different things from normal people. Well, this kind of performance is the same as their ability, and the probability of being the same with each other is not too high."
"Such an awakened person appeared in the Kuronuma Wilderness, it must not be just for survival." Bai Chen looked out the window and looked into the depths of the swamp, "Maybe he was looking for something...... There may be many secrets hidden in the depths of the swamp."
Jiang Baimian nodded:
"Indeed. Forget it, not to mention, our route will not pass north of Yuelu Station. Besides, it is too dangerous to take two novices to participate in this obviously unusual thing, and I can only find an opportunity to report it to the company.
"Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, you can take a break.
"Ah, ha, Bai Chen, don't rush to sleep first, tell me how to go next......"
"......" Bai Chen glanced at Jiang Baimian, a little suspicious that this was still not the unusually reliable team leader before.
In this way, the jeep passed through the Kuronuma wilderness, and by nearly noon, it stopped at a concrete intersection overgrown with weeds.
"This is the first point of this field training." Jiang Baimian opened the door and went out, pointing to the left side of the jeep.
Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong followed out of the car, followed the team leader's fingers, and looked over.
There was a fork in the road that sloped downward, and the concrete floor was cracked by clumps of weeds and plants, leaving almost no place intact.
The left side of this road was originally suspected to be a field, but it has been swamped up for most of it, and the rest is covered with many different varieties of plants; On the right, there are three buildings enclosed in an open square, one of which has collapsed, and the rest is covered with creepers and other plants.
At the end of the road there is a large square, on both sides of which are more four-, five-, and six-story buildings, but there is also a very large and quite tall bungalow.
Some of them also collapsed, and the rest were mixed with green, making it difficult to distinguish them from each other.
At the end of the square was the iron-black folio gate that allowed four Jeeps to pass in parallel, and the gate was completely open, revealing rows of houses that did not look like residences.
Behind these houses, where Shang Jianyao and others could not see, several brick-red or gray-black "chimneys" rose from the ground and rose into the air, which was quite spectacular.
Their exterior walls are inlaid with iron-black, very rudimentary staircases. The higher the place, the sparse the green vegetation in the gaps.
After Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong observed for a while, Jiang Baimian explained:
"In the future, our group will inevitably enter the ruins of cities in the Old World, especially those that are rarely visited or have not yet been discovered, which will be quite dangerous.
"So, you have to adapt to this kind of place in advance and accumulate some experience."
"But this doesn't look like a city." Long Yuehong couldn't help but say.
Jiang Baimian laughed:
"You have to start with the lowest difficulty.
"This was once a steel factory, and the kind with a complete social structure inside was equivalent to a miniature city. You see, the buildings on the side of the road are hospitals and radio stations.
"Well, this place has been visited many times by relic hunters, and the valuable things are basically gone.
"Your tasks today are mainly twofold:
"One is to get some food here, whether it's to find something that others haven't found, or to target the beasts that haunt here.
"The second is to draw a complete map and mark all the key points.
"How is it, simple, right?"
Neither Shang Jianyao nor Long Yuehong answered, because with their experience, they could not judge whether this was easy or difficult.
Jiang Baimian looked at the steel factory again:
"There are often relic hunters here, if you encounter them, you must learn how to deal with them, how to get along, and how to exchange information and supplies."
"Team leader, didn't you say that the valuable things here are basically gone? What are those relic hunters doing?" Long Yuehong asked a question with a slight surprise.
Jiang Baimian laughed and said:
"Isn't there a saying? There are still three pounds of nails in a rotten ship, let alone such a big steel factory?
"If you don't gain anything else, come here and look for it, maybe you can move back to something useful.
"There were relic hunters who dug up the ground, took down a section of the main water pipe, and then pulled it back to get some food."
Seeing Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao nodding slightly, indicating that there was no doubt, Jiang Baimian turned his body and said:
"Then let's get started.
"Bai Chen and I are watching the car here. If you encounter trouble that you can't solve, send a signal for help, and if you need guidance, go back within two kilometers and use the walkie-talkie."
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PS2: Recommend a book, "Dayu Tianxing", a book of poetry and food to subdue demons and exorcise demons
(End of this chapter)