An infinite lake ripples in the wind on the left side of the vehicle, and next to it stands buildings from the old world.
Some of them have collapsed, some are dilapidated, and some are covered with withered and yellowed plants, falling down from time to time.
"This is the Red Stone Collection?" Long Yuehong, who was driving, asked in surprise.
According to the approximate location provided by "Uncle Sun" Sun Fei and the leader of the "Rootless" team, Feilin, and the route pointed out by several relic hunter teams on the way, they barely found the Nuhu area and locked a large area.
Then, based on the traces left by human activities, they found the ruins of the city on the lakeside.
——Without satellites to provide positioning and no guides, they could only rely on this stupid method, after all, Bai Chen only knew and understood the Redstone Collection, and had never really come. Her former activity area was limited to "Pangu Creatures", "First City", and "White Knights".
This is also the norm for most relic hunters and wilderness wanderers, although it is possible to live in a fixed place and live from ruins to ruins, but they are still limited to a certain area by intelligence, materials, connections, courage, and experience.
Bai Chen in the passenger seat was also a little puzzled:
"It seems that this place has been abandoned for a long time."
"Those shit are still relatively fresh, which means that there are many people active here, even if it is not the Red Stone Collection, you should know where the Red Stone Collection is." Shang Jianyao in the back row said in a certain tone.
He was confident in the traces he had found.
When departing from Wild Grass City, in order to collect supplies in exchange for military exoskeleton devices, Jiang Baimian proposed to sell the surplus car to the "Rootless" caravan.
Because Shang Jianyao was holding the jeep and refused to let go, it means that everyone is already a companion and must not abandon or give up, so the "old tune team" can only sell the bulletproof off-road car given by Xu Liyan.
In order to improve the survivability of the jeep and enhance everyone's safety factor, Jiang Baimian exchanged almost half of the materials and asked Feilin and the others to add bulletproof glass and thicker armor to the car, and modified the electric engine.
——Of course, they would not prepare the food and ammunition needed for the journey themselves, so they directly reported it back to the company, and through Chen Xufeng, they got a large batch.
Business has to be done!
Hearing Shang Jianyao's words, Jiang Baimian raised his hand and pressed his nose to it:
"Go into the ruins and look around to see what you can find."
After saying that, she glanced at the book in Shang Jianyao's hand:
"How are you looking?"
Before leaving, she took advantage of Shang Jianyao's "privilege" to borrow a batch of relatively unpopular books related to diseases from the Wild Grass City Public Library.
"It's very rewarding." Shang Jianyao watched Long Yuehong drive the vehicle towards the ruins of the city.
"Oh?" Jiang Baimian's tone expressed curiosity.
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"Studying medicine cannot save all mankind."
Jiang Baimian was a little dazed for a while:
"What do you mean?"
"Effective organization, spirit of exploration, courage to experiment, scientific method, knowledge transmission are the most important, and medicine is only one of the links." Shang Jianyao talked eloquently.
"So, have you found any new ideas to deal with the 'disease island'?" Jiang Baimian pointed to the point.
During this time, Shang Jianyao always discussed the "Disease Island" with her without hesitation, so she didn't help him avoid Bai Chen and Long Yuehong.
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"No.
"I can only continue to work hard according to my current ideas."
"Yes, maintain this spirit of repeated defeats." Jiang Baimian encouraged.
Bai Chen looked at the ruins of the building where the cement cracked and the steel bars were spent, and hesitated for a moment, but still gave his own suggestion:
"Actually, you can really have a minor illness and feel the true appearance of the disease."
"I am also considering this plan." Although he has vetoed Shang Jianyao's similar ideas before, in fact, Jiang Baimian did not completely give up this direction, "The main reason is that this guy is as strong as a cow, and he doesn't get sick at all.
Long Yuehong opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she closed her mouth rationally.
In the next second, Shang Jianyao spoke:
"You can let Long Yuehong catch a cold first and then infect me."
"What's the difference?" Jiang Baimian scolded, "Okay, observe the surroundings."
At this time, the slightly old and tattered military green jeep drove into the ruins of the city that stretched far away from the lakeside.
The similar ruins of the old world always make people see no end at a glance, and the size is beyond imagination.
This place is very similar to the ruins next to the "Rootless" camp, a large number of buildings have collapsed, the road surface has sunken, nothing valuable remains, it is desolate and extremely silent.
"What a lively place this must be in the old world......" Long Yuehong remembered the scene after the "lights were on" at the ruins of Swamp No. 1.
And that's not enough to restore one-tenth of the old world cityscape.
"The fading of human civilization is sometimes faster and more complete than we think, and sometimes it is more resilient and tenacious than anyone thinks." Jiang Baimian looked out the window at the city where he didn't know how many years he had been dead, and sighed.
Bai Chen made a detailed observation:
"These collapses and destructions have been going on for some years, not recently."
How many years it is, she is not a professional and cannot judge.
"At least the possibility that the Redstone Collection has been destroyed recently, well, the premise is that this is indeed the Redstone Collection." Jiang Baimian looked at the lifeless gray concrete, the messy steel bars, the glass slag revealed in the weeds, and the rusty hollow window frames passing by in front of him one by one.
They circled around the ruins of this dead city for more than ten or twenty minutes, but they never found any trace of human settlement.
"It seems that I went wrong, the red stone is in another place nearby." Long Yuehong, who was driving, expressed his judgment, "Such a big city ruins don't look like a market town. They should have come here often to find valuable items, which left those traces."
Hearing his words, Shang Jianyao suddenly became energetic, as if he had already determined that this was the Red Stone Collection.
"Hey!" Long Yuehong knew what this guy's thinking was like, and couldn't help but complain.
Similarly, Jiang Baimian also grasped Shang Jianyao's "reasoning" process:
Long Yuehong's fate is not good, and his luck is not very good, so the route he chooses and the answers he gives often deviate from the correct one.
In that case, when he said that this place was not like a red stone set, then this was probably a red stone set!
Before Jiang Baimian had time to scold Shang Jianyao and maintain Long Yuehong's self-esteem, his expression suddenly changed slightly, as if he couldn't laugh or cry.
She coughed and pointed to a high-rise building on the side of the road that had not completely collapsed but was extremely dilapidated, and it was obviously a high-rise building that had been shelled:
"There are people inside."
"Yes!" Shang Jianyao echoed with a very positive attitude.
They also sensed the presence of human electrical signals and consciousness in that building, and the straight-line distance was no more than fifteen meters.
Long Yuehong's expression suddenly became a little complicated.
"Coincidence, coincidence." Jiang Baimian smiled and comforted, "Stop the car, Shang Jianyao and I will go in and find that person to ask for directions."
Shang Jianyao also comforted Long Yuehong:
"I am now more sure of your importance to our group.
"You are our compass!"
What compass, isn't it a compass? Long Yuehong subconsciously had a question.
In an instant, as a good friend of Shang Jianyao, he understood what this meant:
The compass is used to point in the right direction, and the north needle is used to rule out the wrong route!
At this moment, he was a little itchy.
"You have to be careful one day when Xiaohong shoots you in the back." Jiang Baimian pushed the door and got out of the car, and said a word to Shang Jianyao.
Shang Jianyao thought for a while, walked out of the driver's window, and said sincerely:
"You can tell me directly, you don't like me joking about this."
After saying that, he smiled and said:
"But the premise I accept is that when you practice fighting, you beat me once."
"Elementary school level excitement." Jiang Baimian walked past him and commented.
Long Yuehong was silent for a few seconds, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:
"I will work hard."
In the previous fighting training, although he had been working hard to improve himself, his long-term self-awareness made him accept "mediocrity" and did not have the desire to win against anyone.
After watching Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian enter the roadside building, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong took their weapons and got out of the car to monitor the surrounding area, including the roof where there might be snipers.
After a while, when the two exchanged places, Bai Chen suddenly said in a low voice:
"Everyone has bad luck."
Long Yuehong was stunned for a moment and smiled:
"Thank you."
In that building, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao quickly locked a room at the edge of the hall.
They then walked lightly and crossed an area of gray stones and glass shards to get there.
After exchanging glances, Shang Jianyao tacitly circled half a circle and guarded the other exit of the room.
When he was in place, Jiang Baimian shouted loudly in the area where the people inside couldn't shoot:
"Come out, we've found you."
There was silence in the room with the wooden door closed, and it seemed that nothing existed.
After more than ten seconds, the side door in front of Shang Jianyao opened silently.
A gray man in his twenties shook his waist and got out.
He suddenly stopped, raised his head, and saw a sunny smiling face:
"I found you!"
The "ice moss" in Shang Jianyao's hand had already hit the man's forehead.
The man immediately raised his hands, acting very tame:
"I lost."
Hearing this, Shang Jianyao was a little surprised:
"Why do you say you lost?
"We're not in the game."
The man who was pointed to his forehead with a gun replied calmly:
"This is the rule of our Red Stone Collection, and it is also the doctrine of our sect."
"Sect?" Shang Jianyao's eyes suddenly lit up, "Is your doctrine hide and seek and hide and seek?"
The man was stunned for several seconds before repliing:
"No, it's always vigilant and always hiding."
Shang Jianyao thought for a moment and asked:
"What's the difference between this and what I said?"
(End of this chapter)