Regarding Lehman's warning, Shang Jianyao showed no shame, but seriously proposed:
"If you join too, there will be more than four of us."
When he said this, he looked back at Jiang Baimian, very eager to try.
Knowing that he was asking for instructions on whether to "make friends", Jiang Baimian thought for two seconds and shook his head.
There is no need for this yet.
After leaving the area where Lehman and his men lived, the "Old Tune Team" and a group of four people were preparing to go to their next destination:
The "low building area" located near the lake in the ruins of the city.
One of Hwigg's confidants, Buzz, lived in this area, and he experienced the robbery of arms throughout the process.
Before leaving the hotel camp, because Shang Jianyao wanted to go to the toilet, they went back to rooms "05" and "06".
As soon as he opened the door, Jiang Baimian saw a piece of paper floating lightly to the ground.
It is slightly larger than a palm and has a row of gray clay texts written on it:
"Don't meddle in other people's affairs!"
"There are no typos." Shang Jianyao picked up the paper with a surprised expression.
"Not everyone is anti-intellectual." Jiang Baimian took the paper and looked through it several times in the winter sun.
When Bai Chen and Long Yuehong finished solving their personal problems and walked out of the room, she handed over the piece of paper and asked with a smile:
"What do you think?"
"Is it to prevent us from investigating the cause of Hervig's death, or to prevent us from looking for the robbed arms?" Long Yuehong followed the method taught by the team leader and began to analyze step by step, "If it is the latter, it means that the group of robbers is likely to be inside the Red Stone Collection, otherwise, they would have withdrawn to other places long ago and only sent one or two people to negotiate the sale, there is no need to threaten us at all. If it's the former, I think it's too rushed? We haven't found any clues yet, so it's better to warn Han Wanghuo of the public security office to threaten us."
Slapping, Shang Jianyao who came out of the toilet applauded warmly and expressed his appreciation.
This applause made Long Yuehong a little happy and quite uncomfortable.
"Not bad." Jiang Baimian smiled and praised, "In terms of analytical problems, you are considered an introductory one."
After saying that, she looked at Bai Chen:
"What do you think?"
After washing his face, Bai Chen, who was not yet wearing a mask, frowned slightly and said:
"I think it's a bit strange.
"It's too early...... It's not necessary, right?"
She meant that it was not yet to the point where she needed to warn herself and others.
Jiang Baimian smiled:
"Indeed.
"There are only four of us in total, and there is only one 'intermediate hunter' among them, and we haven't found any useful clues, so why threaten us in a hurry?
"Didn't the arms dealer Lehman also say it just now? With our 'strength', it is better to give up the task as soon as possible."
Snap, Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and slapped his left palm:
"I understand!"
"What do you understand?" Jiang Baimian asked angrily and funny.
Shang Jianyao said solemnly:
"They must have seen through our disguise and know that we are the 'World Salvation Team' sent by the ultimate villain 'Pangu Creatures'.
"They are afraid of our strength and dare not fight with us, so they can only give some warnings fiercely."
Jiang Baimian let out a long breath:
"You think too highly of us."
She deliberately used honorifics.
Then, she said casually:
"Even if data is exchanged regularly between the various branches of the Hunter Guild, it will take some time for the matter of Weed City to reach here.
"Moreover, the Wild Grass City Branch of the Shang Jianyao Brotherhood should still be operating normally, and no outsiders know what we have done."
As a genetically modified person who can sense electrical signals, Jiang Baimian is very sure that there is no such thing as a wiretapper in rooms "05" and "06" and the surrounding area.
"The ultimate villain and saving the world are not connected......" Long Yuehong muttered.
Without giving Shang Jianyao a chance to refute, Jiang Baimian "complained":
"Really, it interrupted my thinking.
"Well, since you warned us without unnecessary threats, I can initially think that this is actually a kind of protection."
"Protection?" Long Yuehong was shocked.
Jiang Baimian explained with a smile:
"The detailed description is: Seeing that we are too weak, we are afraid that we will not be able to bear the consequences of being involved in the whirlpool, so we are given a warning in advance to stay away from right and wrong.
"Uh, in addition to this, there are two possibilities: one is that the contradiction has intensified to a certain extent, and the addition of any foreign forces will cause the balance to tilt, and they have to take some precautions, but judging from Teresa's reaction and her choice, this may be very low; If this is possible, even if we don't speak out about the threatened, someone will inevitably come to inquire and investigate, and at that time, the clues will be sent to the door by themselves."
Long Yuehong was impressed for a while, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart:
Hey, I was only 1.75 meters tall after genetic modification, and I don't know how far the difference between her brain and the team leader is, uh, she has been genetically modified, there is no comparison, no need to compare......
"If it's the first possibility, why protect us?" Long Yuehong asked.
Shang Jianyao rushed before Jiang Baimian and replied seriously:
"Because I am 1.85 meters tall and look good......"
"Stop!" Jiang Baimian stopped the reverse chanting.
She said with a smile:
"Maybe it's because we didn't disguise ourselves when we first entered the Red Stone Collection, and at first glance we looked like gray people, no, gray whisperers."
Long Yuehong looked at the "warning letter" in her hand in astonishment and found that there was only gray text on it, no Honghe language.
He nodded thoughtfully:
"So that's how it is......"
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The "low building area" of the ruins of the city where the Red Stone Collection is located is composed of three or four storey buildings with courtyards and walls.
Before the destruction of the Old World, there was another name here, but it has been forgotten and no one mentions it anymore.
In the entire redstone collection, it is estimated that only Dimarco or the information left by his family in the "Underground Boat" is still remembered.
According to Teresa's description, the "Old Tune Team" found the ancient tree that was hundreds of years old and had been struck by lightning at least twice.
There is also a three- or four-story small building with a yard and a wall behind the side of the ancient tree.
Jiang Baimian got out of the car, walked to the door, and rang the doorbell.
After nearly a minute, a male voice came from inside the trunk of the ancient tree, which seemed to be dead:
"Who are you looking for?"
Before that, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao had already set their sights on it.
"We are relic hunters who took over the arms robbery." Bai Chen, who was sitting in the driver's seat and facing the ancient tree, replied loudly, "Mrs. Teresa asked us to come over."
"Wait a minute." The male voice inside the trunk was silent for a while.
After waiting for another two or three minutes, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao looked at another building with a yard and walls.
The wall there abruptly lifted a wooden plank, revealing a large hole.
Behind the big hole is not a garden, but a deep passage.
In the next second, a man crawled out of the big hole.
He was wearing a metallic iron black mask, and his flaxen hair was messy, as if he hadn't combed it for a long time.
As soon as he stood firm, he saw a monkey mask with grinning teeth.
Shang Jianyao rushed over with a whoosh.
"Stop! Distance is our friend!" The man wearing the iron mask was startled and quickly took a few steps back to the side.
"Is your mask bulletproof?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.
"No." The man wearing the iron mask replied blankly.
"Okay." Shang Jianyao was a little disappointed.
At this time, Jiang Baimian had already moved over:
"You're Buzz."
"Yes." Buzz nodded.
"You were the one who spoke just now?" Jiang Baimian asked.
"Yes." Buzz wondered if the other party had an ear problem.
Jiang Baimian suddenly became very interested:
"You dug a lot of tunnels and connected many nearby places together?"
"This is what I learned from the Gray Whisperer." Buzz is quite proud, "There are tunnels everywhere, exits everywhere, and no one can block me! I can even go around the back of the enemy and shoot them from places they can't imagine."
"Good way." Jiang Baimian praised, "With the geological structure and soil conditions here, it should be more difficult to dig tunnels."
"We have machines from 'United Industries'." Buzz took the opportunity to ask, "Do you want it? If you get to the war-torn area that needs to dig tunnels, you can exchange a lot of things."
"First of all, we have to wait for us to get back the arms and get the corresponding rewards." Jiang Baimian responded with a smile, "Besides, in real war-torn areas, you may encounter ground-penetrating bombs and thermobaric bombs at any time, and hiding in underground fortifications is not necessarily a good thing."
She stopped chatting and asked seriously:
"Have you seen what those robbers look like, do you know where they come from?"
Buzz shook his head:
"They were all wearing masks, hoods and sunglasses."
Speaking of this, he suddenly sneered:
"This can actually tell some questions.
"If it is a foreign robber, if you rob it and run away, why do you need to do such a strict disguise?
"They wear a hood because they don't want others to see what their hair color looks like......"
Shang Jianyao interjected:
"This can also be achieved through hair dyeing, I can introduce you to a professional team, but it is a relatively distant ......"
Jiang Baimian interrupted him:
"It seems that you have a suspicious target."
"It must be those gray whisperers!" Buzz said resentfully, "Afterwards, I chased the wheel trail with a few people all the way, and found that they went south, and after leaving the ruins of the city, they went around to the east!"
After saying that, he roughly explained what the lower east side meant:
The Dimarco family's "underground boat" and the church of the vigilant sect are north of the ruins of the city; Most of the people of the Red River are in the lake area to the west; The Grey Whisperers are mainly hidden in the buildings in the ruins of the city; To the south is the territory of mixed-race children.
——The park corresponding to the Red Stone Set is located in the west of the middle.
"That's right......" Jiang Baimian was noncommittal, "Besides these, what else did you find?"
"No." Buzz shook his head again, "Eh...... There were nine people involved in the robbery, their height was not distinctive, and there were seven or eight ...... ambushed around."
After asking some more details, Jiang Baimian replied simply:
"We will investigate at the Grey Whisperer."
Saying goodbye to Buzz and getting into the jeep, Long Yuehong sighed:
"It seems that those arms are really likely to have been robbed by the Gray Whisperer......"
When Jiang Baimian heard this, he looked forward and chuckled:
"Strict disguise does not necessarily hide the characteristics of the Gray Whisperer, but may also be the hair color and eye color of the Honghe people."
(End of this chapter)