Chapter 158 Clues to the intersection (asking for a guaranteed monthly pass)
When Jiang Baimian heard this, he laughed heartily:
"You are full of confidence."
She then added:
"This is also a good thing, at least when we encounter difficulties, become depressed, and have no fighting spirit, you can still be full of confidence and infect the whole group.
"This is called idealistic optimism.
"Uh, have you ever said this?"
Shang Jianyao nodded:
"I don't mind if you quote."
Jiang Baimian gave him a blank look and walked out of the staircase.
She looked around and said thoughtfully:
"There may still be some 'anti-intellectual' believers in this courtyard. The person who warned Zeng Guangwang might also be hiding nearby."
Lin Feifei, who was "controlled", lived here, and Zeng Guangwang, who was warned and almost hanged himself, also lived here.
Before Shang Jianyao gave a "suggestion", Jiang Baimian sighed:
"It's a pity that I don't have a photo, otherwise I can ask the doorman.
"Door-to-door investigation is too labor-intensive and not something we can complete, and it is easy to startle snakes and bring accidents."
Shang Jianyao's eyes lit up, and he said quickly:
"I can draw the person who warned Zeng Guangwang and follow his description."
"Then forget it." Jiang Baimian remembered the paintings Shang Jianyao had painted and directly denied his self-recommendation.
She thought for a moment and said:
"Go to the Hunter's Guild and find Odick, he may be able to extract that person's image from Zeng Guangwang's dream."
"Hope." Shang Jianyao looked regretful.
The two went out of the door in Huangjiao Alley, turned to South Street, and walked towards the central square.
Just as they were about to turn to West Street, there was a sudden loud noise in front of them.
Boom!
Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao each made a conditioned reflex, one rolled and curled up behind the street chair, and the other crawled in place, pretending to be a corpse.
This is not to say that this can block bullets, but to avoid the sight of possible attackers in the future.
After the explosion, the central square became noisy, with screams, shouts, and hurried footsteps.
Seeing that there was no fierce battle, Jiang Baimian left the hiding place and looked at the place where the explosion occurred.
It was the Wild Grass City Public Library.
All the windows of the building were shattered, and black smoke and crimson flames were coming out of it.
The fire brigade not far away quickly rushed over and used various methods to extinguish the fire.
Several blood-stained people were carried out one after another, some were still moaning, and some were no longer moving.
Jiang Baimian glanced at Shang Jianyao who stood up with him, and a term appeared in his mind:
"Anti-intellectual religion"!
She retracted her gaze from the library, which was not too badly damaged, and habitually observed the situation around her.
Suddenly, her eyes stopped in one place.
At the junction of East Street and Central Square, a group of people who saw that the "alarm" had been lifted were watching.
At the edge of the group, there was a man in a black trench coat.
He put his hands in his pockets, almost as tall as Jiang Bai, with slightly messy short hair, and his whole body looked very thin, and his face was extremely pale, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness, or had not yet recovered.
As if feeling Jiang Baimian's gaze, he turned his head sideways and looked back.
His eyes were almost pure black, like an abyss that could bury people's souls.
The corners of the man's mouth curled slightly, revealing an indescribable smile.
Then, he squeezed into the crowd and disappeared from Jiang Baimian's sight.
"Did you see it?" Jiang Baimian was silent for a few seconds, then turned around and asked Shang Jianyao.
"I saw it." Shang Jianyao's arms had taken a running forward posture at some point, but his legs did not spread.
Jiang Baimian immediately smiled:
"I thought you would rush over and beat him up."
Shang Jianyao glanced at Jiang Baimian strangely and replied calmly:
"Can't catch up."
"It's okay, at least this way, it won't be exposed that you know he's a dangerous person." Jiang Baimian looked at the library where the fire was under control, and exhaled slowly, "I hope the books inside will not be lost much."
This is the hope of many children in Weed City.
Simply teaching literacy is enough to be a "temporary teacher", but if you want to learn more, you definitely can't do it without books.
Jiang Baimian didn't say any more, took Shang Jianyao, walked into West Street, and entered the Hunter's Guild.
She was thinking about how to leave a message for Odic if she couldn't find Odic in the hall, when she found that the "senior hunter" was sitting in the edge area where she and Shang Jianyao usually liked to stay, not knowing who she was waiting for.
"We have new clues." Jiang Baimian walked over and said with a smile.
"I have it too." Odick, who was wearing a thick woolen coat, stood up.
"Are you waiting for us?" Jiang Baimian suddenly understood.
"You should wait at the door, so we can see it at a glance." Shang Jianyao enthusiastically came up with an idea.
Odick ignored him and said directly:
"I have already asked which senior official of the local guild has seen Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei."
Ask out? I'm afraid I found it out by dream ability...... Jiang Baimian asked calmly:
"Who?"
"Cui En, Vice President Cui Eun, who is in charge of hunter affairs." Odic pointed to the stairs leading to the second floor, "I'll take you to see him."
Jiang Baimian was not in a hurry to mention the trench coat man, and winked at Shang Jianyao to get ready.
Then, they went up to the second floor together, in a small room with only a long table and a few chairs, and met Cui En, the vice president of the local hunter guild.
He was tall and thin, with a big nose and sparse hair, but it was still black.
Shang Jianyao looked at it carefully for a while, and suddenly asked:
"Have you dyed your hair?"
Cui En opened his mouth, forgetting the language that had been organized.
After a few seconds, he proudly touched his hair:
"No."
"That's right......" Shang Jianyao seemed to be a little regretful.
Jiang Baimian deeply suspected that he regretted not being able to recruit hair dyeing business for his brother Feilin, the leader of the "Rootless" business group.
Odick wasted no time and broke the strange silence:
"I communicated with President Cui just now, he met Lei Yunsong, Lin Feifei and them almost a month and a half ago."
Trien trusted Odick, and there was no bodyguard by his side, he pointed to the chair opposite the long table and said:
"Sit down."
When Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao quickly sat down, Cui En sighed and said:
"I didn't want to mention this matter, it has no value, it will only bring unnecessary trouble and involvement, and as a result, Odick somehow found out."
"About a month and a half ago." The vice president recalled, "It was one morning, and my assistant told me that someone wanted to visit me about a big assignment. I was fine, and my assistant said they looked a bit backgrounded, so I agreed.
"Then, I met Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei in the office.
"They actually don't have a big task to talk about, the purpose is to understand the 'mechanical paradise'."
"'Machine Heaven'?" Jiang Baimian was slightly surprised.
This is a powerful force that completely controls intelligent robot production technology and many factories, located at the southern end of the Old Mountain Range.
It is relatively mysterious, and transactions with the outside world are mainly handled by the robot army, and no other forces have entered their actual control area.
——"Pangu Creature" is at the northwest end of the Old Mountain Range.
"Yes." Cui En replied a little puzzled, "I don't know why they want to know about 'Mechanical Heaven', and they are willing to pay a lot of money for this. Unfortunately, I have no contact with 'Mechanical Heaven', even though the hall is full of 'Mechanical Heaven' products, but the president and the local president are in charge of the corresponding affairs, so I can only let them try to find a relationship to go to North Street to visit the president."
The president of the local hunter guild is the city lord Xu Liyan.
"No wonder...... Jiang Baimian solved a doubt in his heart - why Lei Yunsong, Lin Feifei and they entered North Street.
They went to the city lord's mansion to ask for a meeting with Xu Liyan, the city lord and president of the hunter guild.
Cui En picked up the white porcelain teacup in front of him and took a sip:
"I haven't seen them since, but I can be sure that they left North Street afterwards.
"Because I was worried that this matter would cause unnecessary trouble to the president, I told my assistant and relevant clerks not to leak this news, and I don't know how Odic found out."
Obviously, Trien was haunted by Odick's sudden grasp of this secret.
At this time, Odick nodded slightly, implying that Jiang Baimian and the others Cui En did not lie.
Jiang Baimian then looked at Cui En and said with a smile:
"We got a rough idea.
"I'm really bothering you, President Cui."
"It's okay, if I can investigate Liu Dazhuang's death clearly, I will even express my gratitude." Cui En got up and sent Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others out of the room.
When he got outside and walked towards the stairs, Jiang Baimian smiled, looked ahead and said:
"Re-exchange the primary information?"
"Yes." Odick did not refuse.
Jiang Baimian said "hmm":
"We found a 'temporary teacher' who was threatened by the 'anti-intellectual religion'."
She omitted the cause and effect, described Zeng Guangwang's address and experience, and focused on mentioning that after the library explosion, there was a man in a trench coat with a similar image in the crowd of onlookers.
"This style ......" Odick's face gradually became solemn, "very much like the 'Priest' who was active in the 'First City' before."
Shang Jianyao's expression suddenly became excited.
Jiang Baimian glared at him, asked him to restrain himself, and then said to Odick:
"It's your turn."
Odick looked at the stairs in front of him and was silent for a moment.
"I didn't come to Wild Grass City by chance, I was invited.
"I tracked down Liu Dazhuang's death, not because I happened to meet him, nor because he was an intelligence dealer."
Speaking of this, Odick stepped into the stairs and left a sentence:
"He is secretly serving the city lord."
Hearing this, Jiang Baimian suddenly felt that all the clues were intertwined in his mind, and it seemed that he was not far from outlining the answer.
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