Hearing Jiang Baimian's words, Long Yuehong felt both a sudden realization and as if she had fallen into a dream.
He couldn't help but look around again, completely unable to associate those "mindless people" who were seriously sweeping fallen leaves and wiping windows with the inherent image in his mind.
They are the same as their counterparts outside, fierce, irrational, full of aggression, and have a strong hunting instinct, as if they have degenerated to the stage when humans have just escaped from the beast state.
At that time, if someone told Long Yuehong that the "heartless people" here would sweep the floor, clean the windows, and maintain the lines, he would definitely scoff at it as a joke.
And now, this scene is so real before his eyes.
At a glance, the street lights in the distance are continuous and there are plenty of people, and I don't know how many "heartless people" returned to the street and came to the window after the city "lit up" again, doing all kinds of things.
They are no longer vicious, no longer regard Long Yuehong and others as prey, and complete their work "according to the rules" and seriously, making the whole city appear different from the previous prosperity.
At this moment, Long Yuehong felt that they seemed to be in another world, and the two sides could not establish contact without being able to establish contact.
As his thoughts turned, he heard Jiang Baimian sigh:
"It's like a silhouette projected from the old world from the past......"
"Why do they sweep the floor, wipe the windows, maintain the facades and streets?" Shang Jianyao asked suddenly.
Long Yuehong subconsciously replied:
"It may be some kind of instinct, this is what they did in the old world, and after becoming 'mindless', it solidified into an instinct......"
As he spoke, Long Yuehong's voice gradually lowered until it disappeared.
He also found that this explanation was untenable, because the old world had been destroyed for nearly seventy years, and the "mindless people" here did not know how many generations had passed, and there were still those who had lived and worked in the old world.
Finally, he forcibly added:
"That instinct has been passed down from generation to generation through the demonstration and teaching of my parents.
"The descendants of repairmen are still repairing equipment, and the descendants of cleaners are still cleaning the streets......"
Jiang Baimian laughed and said before Shang Jianyao spoke:
"Don't engrave all the messy things into your genes, this will cause your body to collapse.
"Teaching is indeed possible, but it is useful at most for simple, repetitive tasks."
Bai Chen was on guard and said thoughtfully:
"After many generations of reproduction, the current 'mindless people' have been able to learn more complex things? No, even if they can learn it, the previous generations won't, the corresponding technology must have been lost......"
"Someone may be teaching them and instilling some 'instincts' in them." Shang Jianyao withdrew his gaze and expressed his guess.
Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen thought of the weird and mysterious boy Xiao Chong before, and they couldn't refute Shang Jianyao's statement for a while.
During the discussion just now, they all walked several steps across the street, wanting to see the figures behind the bright windows more clearly.
A few seconds later, Long Yuehong looked at the "heartless people" who were sweeping the streets, repairing branches, and walking to other places in the distance, and said with emotion:
"This is the cityscape of the old world?
"This is how people lived and worked at that time?
"The night was so brightly lit back then, as if the stars were reflected on the ground?"
Because of these words, Jiang Baimian raised his head again and looked at the building opposite.
On each floor, more than one-third of the windows shine yellowish or whitish, and "people" come and go, or wipe the windows, or "watch" TV, or coax "children", or chop cutting boards.
At this moment, she seemed to have returned to decades ago, to the time when the old world was not yet destroyed, and smelled the breath of life.
His eyes kept moving upward, and Jiang Baimian's pupils suddenly dilated.
She saw a red dot shaking on the top of a tall building not far away.
This seems to come from a sniper rifle.
"Hide forward!" Jiang Baimian shouted, jumped and rolled to the side of the road, and hid in an open house.
With a snap, where she was standing just now, the hard ground splashed rubble.
Thanks to their previous experience, Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong did not doubt the team leader's orders at all, and each reacted immediately, with different actions and different postures, and quickly rushed into the street-facing house opposite the side door of the "Urban Intelligent Network Control Center".
With two snaps, two more bullets were fired from the top of different buildings and drilled into the ground.
After Jiang Baimian hid with his back against the wall in the room, he took off the walkie-talkie, pressed the button, and said in a hurried tone:
"There are snipers on at least three rooftops around.
"This style of coming to the source of the anomaly but not going in, but only ambushing around reminded me of a person.
"'Hyena'!"
This is the standard "hyena" bandit group style.
This is not to say that they are the only ones who like to use similar methods, but they are the most famous and probably the only one in the team that haunts the area and has at least three sniper rifles.
"This is too insidious, isn't it?" Long Yuehong held the walkie-talkie and blurted back.
The "Hyena" bandits actually didn't want to explore the anomaly, looking for something more valuable, and only planned to solve the withdrawn relic hunters.
"They are a group of bandits." Jiang Baimian responded with some amusement, "Fortunately, they should have been dazzled by the changes after the power supply was restored in the ruins of the city just now, and they didn't deal with us immediately."
"But we are also affected by the changes in the ruins." Bai Chen simply defended.
"It may also be that they climbed more than 20 floors and came out before they could catch their breath, and they still called, so we could use the elevator." Shang Jianyao sighed inexplicably, "It's a pity......"
Long Yuehong has a very tacit understanding:
"What's a pity?"
"It's a pity that I was attracted by the changes in the ruins at the time, otherwise I would have been able to dance them a Gold Coast swing hula dance first." Shang Jianyao's tone revealed obvious regret.
「…… I look forward to such a day in the future." Jiang Baimian held the walkie-talkie and said casually, "The most important question now is, how to get out of the ambush of the 'hyena'? They definitely don't just set up snipers."
"'Hyenas' have armored vehicles, heavy machine guns, and bazookas, and after using snipers to control our range of activities, they should send people over to sweep them." Bai Chen recalled all the news he had heard and calmly gave the most likely development.
"What should I do?" Although Long Yuehong was not too panicked, she still felt that she and others were very dangerous.
Without military exoskeleton devices, they could not dodge heavy machine gun fire within such a limited range, and neither grenades, rifles, or grenades could break through the thick armor.
If the military exoskeleton device is still there, you can try it with electromagnetic weapons.
Jiang Baimian was silent for a few seconds, and gave an order through the walkie-talkie:
"There must be no snipers on the upper floor of the 'City Smart Network Control Center', and the 'hyenas' don't dare to enter that area at all.
"So, we can go to the door and walk against the wall, which is their shooting blind spot.
"After finding the position in advance, when the armored vehicle came, Bai Chen shot the machine gunner as soon as possible and suppressed him briefly, if the fire control system of the armored vehicle was intact and the heavy machine gun could be manipulated in the car, then I will try to fire a 'thunder spear' at the shooting position, in short, the purpose is to create an opportunity for Shang Jianyao to get closer.
"Shang Jianyao, when the time comes, you can get to the bottom of the armored vehicle, where the distance from the people in the car is less than one meter, you can give full play to your abilities, and you don't have to worry about the threat of snipers."
Jiang Baimian named the attack on his electric eel-shaped creature prosthetic limb "Thunder Spear".
"Okay!" Shang Jianyao seemed to have wanted to do this for a long time.
Bai Chen also responded.
Long Yuehong listened quietly and said silently for two seconds:
"What am I doing?"
"You cheer me up." Shang Jianyao said seriously.
As soon as Shang Jianyao finished speaking, Jiang Baimian added:
"You are responsible for guarding the surroundings, what if it's not just armored vehicles coming?
"I'll give you the grenade gun later."
Long Yuehong immediately replied loudly:
"Yes, team leader!"
Jiang Baimian was about to say a few more words when he suddenly turned his head sideways and felt something.
"It's coming! On the right street, there is only one car." She quickly told Shang Jianyao and others the information, and found a pair of metal scissors from the room.
The four members of the "Old Tune Group" immediately returned to the door, moved against the wall, and went to different locations.
During this process, they exchanged some weapons to prepare for the next one.
Soon, the armored vehicle appeared on the corner of the street.
It has three large wheels on one side, the armor surface is painted in military green, there are doors on the side, and the front has dark bulletproof glass.
It was more than twice as large as an ordinary vehicle, with an iron-black heavy machine gun on top and something like an antenna erected on it.
Long Yuehong just glanced at it, and words such as "steel", "hard", "strength", "crushing", and "indestructible" appeared in her mind.
At this moment, a pleasant music quickly turned into the current street from far to near.
It was a big blue car with giant metal cans, its lights on, music playing, and spraying water into the street.
In the driver's seat of the big car, a "heartless person" wearing an old orange and white padded jacket sat there, operating the steering wheel with slightly dull movements.
His eyes were blank, and he had a black, painted headset hanging from his head.
The sprinkler truck that illuminated the road ahead drove fast and almost collided with the armored vehicle that came out of the side.
With a squeak, the "heartless" driver reflexively stepped on the brakes, causing the vehicle to get stuck there.
The driver of the armored vehicle had never encountered a similar situation and stopped the vehicle.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Baimian's eyes lit up and he shouted loudly:
"Chance!"
In the light and melodious sprinkler music, she took a step forward and pulled up her left arm.
The metal scissors in her hand were suddenly "entangled" by the crackling silver-white electric snake.
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