It wasn't until Jiang Baimian and others were completely out of sight that Bai Chen put away his "orange" rifle and left the edge of the rooftop.
In the next second, she and Long Yuehong turned their heads at the same time and looked at the South Street Slave Market on the other side.
In the noise coming from the west, Bai Chen retracted his gaze and said to Long Yuehong:
"Let's go."
Long Yuehong nodded slightly heavily, followed Bai Chen, and returned to the street the same way.
Just as they were about to leave the area where the street lights were broken, they suddenly saw a figure bent over on the dark street, in front of a certain store, sneaky, not knowing what they were doing.
The man seemed to have noticed the appearance of Bai Chen and Long Yuehong, and quickly turned around and looked over.
In the next second, "he" ran away and quickly turned into an alley next to him.
"Thief?" Long Yuehong guessed suspiciously.
Bai Chen didn't answer him, walked to the location where the figure was just now, bent down and picked up a stack of paper.
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On East Street, inside a warehouse, the light from the outside shines through the glass windows, allowing some things to barely show their own outlines.
"What do you call it?" Shang Jianyao smiled and asked the intelligence officer standing at the junction of light and darkness.
"Chen Xufeng." The intelligence officer replied calmly.
Anyway, he didn't give him a pseudonym in Wild Grass City, so he didn't have to worry about being exposed.
"Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao." Jiang Baimian also briefly introduced himself.
Shang Jianyao frowned slightly:
"This name is a bit familiar."
Without waiting for Chen Xufeng to respond, he took the initiative to ask:
"Do you know Chen Xianyu?"
"Huh? My dad!" Chen Xufeng was quite stunned.
This is really an acquaintance!
Shang Jianyao suddenly smiled and said:
"495th floor?"
"Yes, yes. I am the youngest of the old Chen family." Chen Xufeng asked funny, "You also live on the 495th floor?"
Shang Jianyao nodded heavily:
"I should have pinched your daughter's face."
"What?" Chen Xufeng was a little confused when he heard this.
"It's meaty." Shang Jianyao expressed his feelings, "Almost two years ago, Grandpa Chen often took her to the 'activity center' to play, and then she went to elementary school, so I haven't seen her much."
"Two years ago? Ah, at that time, I had just been sent here, and my daughter-in-law usually had to go to work. Chen Xufeng roughly clarified the cause and effect.
Then, he said "hatefully":
"How can you pinch her face? At that time, she was a five-year-old child."
"Grandpa Chen is also busy, if we are here, we will play games with her, and whoever loses will be pinched in the face or slapped in the palm." Shang Jianyao explained seriously.
"That's right......" Chen Xufeng smiled and said, "We are ten years apart, right? Maybe I also bullied you when I was a child, and I reported it one after another."
The two chatted happily and felt more and more that they were trustworthy and must be trusted.
Although Jiang Baimian could understand that Chen Xufeng had been away from home for two years and couldn't wait to understand his parents' health, his wife's condition and his daughter's growth, he also knew that things were important now, so he interrupted the "friends" who met in a foreign land:
"Brother Chen, have you figured out the reason for the disappearance of the previous group?"
"Hey, how can you call me brother? You are all the leader of a group, why do you have to be D6 level? I'm still far from it." Chen Xufeng was a little flattered.
Jiang Baimian didn't refute, and asked very proudly:
"What level are you now?"
"D5, in charge of the intelligence network here, hehe, there are not many people." Chen Xufeng smiled and sighed, "After completing the years and transferring back, I should be able to be promoted to another level."
"Pangu Bio" is quite generous to expatriate employees.
"That's not much worse than D6." Jiang Baimian said with a smile, "Let's get down to business first."
"Hmm." Chen Xufeng took out a stack of information and said in a reminiscence tone, "Before the company notified me, I didn't know that such a group came to Weeds City, and you should know that we are two parallel lines, and no one has to care about anyone."
"Yes, if we don't come with a mission, we want to ask you for help, we have to send a telegram to the company first and let the people above give orders." Jiang Baimian nodded and agreed, "I remember the last telegram sent by the team to the company said that they had arrived in Wild Grass City, hoping to find some old people who had experienced the destruction of the old world."
She suspected that the "old tune team" had an accident after coming into contact with an old man.
Chen Xufeng nodded slightly:
"When I received the company telegram, they had been missing for more than two weeks, and many clues had been cut off, making it impossible to investigate."
"However, there is still some gain." He changed his mind and said, "They are a group of five, three men and two women. With the mentality of trying, I asked people about various hotels and hotels in the city to see if there were any similar combinations during that time.
"Can't relic hunters have three men and two women?" Shang Jianyao asked rhetorically.
Chen Xufeng laughed:
"There must be similar teams, and we got more than one piece of feedback.
"But after careful comparison and exclusion, I determined that the group stayed at the Misato Hotel, a very good one in Wild Grass City, and their check-in time was exactly the same as the time the company received the last telegram."
Speaking of which, Chen Xufeng added:
"The reason why the people at the Misato Hotel were impressed was because the women in that group were beautiful and the men were handsome, which was different from most of the relic hunters.
"Not to mention, after the popularization of genetic improvement, as soon as the young people in our company come out, it is really a beautiful landscape!"
"You have also done genetic modification, right?" Shang Jianyao asked suddenly.
Chen Xufeng was stunned for a moment and sighed long:
"Hey, I don't know what's going on, maybe my father and mother were older at that time, or it could be a personal physique problem, the effect of my genetic improvement is not very good, the only advantage is that it is very ordinary, it is not easy for others to remember faces when they see it, well, also, there is some talent in camouflage and tracking."
"At least taller than 1.75 meters." Shang Jianyao sincerely comforted.
Chen Xufeng's height is about the same as Jiang Baimian's.
What a good friend of Long Yuehong...... Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Jiang Baimian quietly rolled his eyes.
She interrupted the chat between Shang Jianyao and Chen Xufeng again, and took the initiative to say:
"That group chose to stay in a place like the Misato Hotel, which shows that when they entered Weed City, they didn't think there would be any danger, and they didn't think there were any hidden enemies."
Very reassuring, very upright.
"I think so too." Chen Xufeng returned to the point, "According to this inference, their subsequent actions in Wild Grass City should also be relatively public, and there is a chance to track them down."
He took the stack of materials and continued:
"I found the insiders of the Hunter Guild to see if there were any similar groups of five that had taken over the mission during that time.
"There is no feedback."
——Since the "old tune team" did not cover up their whereabouts, they would definitely not deliberately divide into two or three teams when they took on the task of the Hunter Guild.
Without waiting for Jiang Baimian to ask, Chen Xufeng took the initiative to say:
"But when I found out their registered hunter status, they were already 'official hunters'.
"Hehe, guess what, how did you find out?"
"I used my real name." Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation.
"......" Chen Xufeng was stunned for a moment, "Yes! They are quite well-behaved."
"This shows that their actions have not caused any danger, or they have eliminated all dangers, and they feel very safe." Jiang Baimian gave his own opinion.
This increased the possibility of that group having a sudden accident in Wild Grass City a lot.
Chen Xufeng didn't make an evaluation, but said instead:
"I paid some money to get a photo of them when they registered as a hunter and all the tasks they had completed.
"You can take a good look when you go back."
As he spoke, he handed the stack of materials in his hand to Jiang Baimian.
"Okay." Jiang Baimian stretched out his hand to take it.
Chen Xufeng thought about it and said:
"There are a few more clues I have investigated so far:
"First, they went to Asuka Bar and had a conflict with a few customers inside, but they didn't make a big fuss. This was the second night after they arrived in Wild Grass City.
"The second is that they visited a certain high-ranking official of the local hunter guild. I only asked about this yesterday, who exactly needs to be investigated.
"Third, they seem to have entered North Street, and a servant from the city lord's mansion who often came out to buy has seen a similar combination.
"Four ......"
Speaking of the "four" one, Chen Xufeng's expression became quite solemn:
"According to the waiter at Misato Hotel, they checked out the room by themselves.
"Two days before the company asked me to investigate."
"In other words, in the past two weeks, they have been active in Weed City, but they have not returned to the company's telegram? The real disappearance time is not as long as we think?" Jiang Baimian thought and asked rhetorically.
According to the rules, they have to contact the company almost once a week, and in the last few days of the second week, the company took the initiative to send a telegram to inquire about the situation.
"So it's strange." Chen Xufeng gave an affirmative answer.
Then, he frowned:
"Recently, someone told me that I had seen people suspected of Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei in the city, well, they were the top two in the photo."
Under the current lighting conditions, Jiang Baimian couldn't see the photo clearly at all, so he didn't look at it, and "talked to himself" thoughtfully:
"I don't know if it's strangers who look like them, or if someone is pretending to be them, or if they can indeed move freely?"
"I can't be sure." Chen Xufeng did not blindly judge.
"Are there any other clues?" Jiang Baimian exhaled slowly.
"Not yet." Chen Xufeng shook his head.
Jiang Baimian said "hmm" and asked instead:
"What's going on with the library being burned at noon?"
Chen Xufeng said in a mocking tone:
"In the past two months, there have been more helpless guys in the city.
"It is those madmen who preach that the old world was destroyed because of the pursuit of knowledge and taboos, and they want to force everyone to stop reading the books left over from the old world."
After chatting about the main work and agreeing on the way to communicate later, Shang Jianyao told Chen Xufeng about the current situation of the old Chen family, and then, the two waved goodbye reluctantly.
Jiang Baimian took Shang Jianyao around a quarter of the weed city, and finally turned back to the alley where the "Ah Fu Gun Shop" was located.
After returning to the rented room, they found Bai Chen and Long Yuehong each looking at a stack of papers.
"What is this?" Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
"Flyer." Bai Chen handed the paper in his hand to the team leader.
Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao looked at the paper at the same time and read the content:
"Thinking is a trap, knowledge is poison......
"Don't touch books anymore......
"You can't go back to the old world and take revenge......"
The word "heavy fall" is also drawn in a circle, leading a line outward, indicating revision.
The revised words are:
"Heavy rice"
"......" Jiang Baimian laughed dumbly, "They really practice their ideas perfectly."
(End of this chapter)