Chapter 227 Surrendering without a fight
The sun had already set in the west, and two bicycles dragged shadows, speeding through barren farmland and withered trees.
Riding and riding, Jiang Baimian suddenly made a gesture to signal Shang Jianyao to slow down.
Then, she rode to the side of the road, parked her bicycle, and picked some small branches that were still soft.
"What are you going to make?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.
Jiang Baimian, who was not wearing a mask, showed a malicious smile:
"Prepare to enforce the family law."
Shang Jianyao deeply agreed:
"Yes, Xiaohong has been a little drifting lately, and I have to let him know that the world is difficult."
Jiang Baimian said "heh" and pressed the branches to the back seat.
She didn't explain much, and turned into the driveway:
"Let's go."
When the sky was dyed the same color as fire, the two returned to the pier.
Seeing that they returned safely, Long Yuehong, who was wearing an exoskeleton device, breathed a sigh of relief:
"How is it, what did you find?"
"If you gain something, let's talk about it when you go back." Jiang Baimian looked up at the sky, "We have to hurry up, we can't wait for it to get completely dark."
At that time, the direction of the lake will be difficult to distinguish, and the fish people will be even more elusive.
Although the "Old Tune Team" has two humanoid radars that can sense the presence of enemies, this is after all the era of thermal weapons, and if the fishmen drive the boat, take advantage of the darkness to fire rockets in this direction every one or two hundred meters, it will be more troublesome.
In addition, Jiang Baimian was also reluctant to share the rather depressing exploration experience in this environment, so as not to affect the state of Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.
Bai Chen and Long Yuehong had no different opinions about her proposal, because the sun was really setting little by little.
After Bai Chen put down his bicycle and started the speedboat, Jiang Baimian sat down, took the branches he had picked before, and knitted things seriously.
"Team leader, what are you doing?" Long Yuehong is not lacking in curiosity.
"Enforce the family law." Shang Jianyao specially took off his mask so that Long Yuehong could see his sunny smile.
Jiang Baimian then smiled and said:
"It might come in handy later.
"If there is no battle with the fish-man, it is best not to fight."
Speaking of this, she paused for a moment and boasted:
"We are villains, we must learn to defeat without fighting."
Long Yuehong was confused for a while, not knowing what the relationship between weaving branches and surrendering without a fight had to do with soldiers.
At this time, Bai Chen, who was in charge of driving the speedboat, said in a low voice:
"It seems that they want to deceive the fish-man."
Perhaps the wind interference was not so strong, Jiang Baimian keenly captured this sentence, and said with wide eyes:
"How can it be called fraud?
"This is tactical deception."
"What's the difference between the two?" Long Yuehong said subconsciously.
Shang Jianyao helped make an "explanation":
"The latter statement sounds better."
"Well, you still sing and harmonize." Jiang Baimian glanced at them, "It seems that we really need to consider how to enforce the family law!"
While they were chatting and laughing, the speedboat followed the original route and rode the wind and waves towards Hongshiji.
It didn't take long for Jiang Baimian to braid a bracelet with half of the small branches.
"So you never forgot it." Shang Jianyao suddenly realized.
Jiang Baimian almost lost his temper:
"What a bad line."
"What do you mean?" Long Yuehong was dazed and curious.
Jiang Baimian explained casually:
"We found a branch bracelet in that temple, but we didn't dare to take it."
"Well, you can't just take things from that kind of place." Long Yuehong said that it should be like this.
After putting the branch bracelet on his left wrist, Jiang Baimian stretched out his left hand in front of Bai Chen and gestured:
"How is it, am I clever?"
Bai Chen responded flatly:
"Don't block me from sailing."
She paused and added:
"When I was seven years old, I made it up better than you."
"Can this be the same? When I was seven years old, I hadn't seen what real trees looked like, and I thought they were all similar to cotton." Jiang Baimian smiled indifferently.
The speedboat drove for a while, and the sky became darker and darker.
Seeing the lakeside in sight, Jiang Baimian frowned slightly.
Soon, Shang Jianyao spoke:
"There are a lot of people underwater."
"Heh, it's quite strict. It doesn't have to be a fishman, right?" Jiang Baimian replied with a smile, and said with a relaxed expression, "There are about thirty of them."
"So much?" Long Yuehong wasn't sure how much combat effectiveness her old antique could exert after entering the water.
At this moment, Jiang Baimian walked to the edge of the speedboat, faced the direction with the most fishmen, and raised his left hand.
She shook her wrist and said loudly:
"We went to the forbidden temple and got this item.
"You should know what your envoy took in the first place, and you should know how powerful he is.
"Do you want to give it a try?"
After saying that, she winked sideways at Shang Jianyao.
At this moment, the underwater fishermen were not very sensitive to the sounds outside, and could only barely hear the words "temple", "divine envoy", "powerful" and "terrifying".
This naturally reminded them of something, recalling the horrific performance of the divine messenger.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of fishmen suddenly lost their "senses" in their hands and could no longer paddle the water waves.
This made them sink a little in an instant, but they quickly relied on their legs to keep their balance.
With the facts in front of them, they couldn't help but not believe it, and fighting against an enemy as powerful as the divine envoy was something they didn't want to do and didn't dare to do.
Moreover, they had just experienced a war and lost a lot of population, and they definitely didn't want to die thirty or forty young men for no reason.
Those fishmen who realized the "lack of movement of their hands" quickly informed their companions of the situation through gestures.
Seven or eight seconds later, they dived down at the same time, away from this water.
Jiang Baimian immediately retracted his gaze and glanced at Long Yuehong, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen with a smile:
"I'll just say, surrender without fighting."
Long Yue is sincerely convinced.
Shang Jianyao proposed a new plan:
"If we tell them that it was the divine messenger we killed, would they also be scared away?"
"There is also a possibility of launching a suicidal charge." Jiang Baimian exhaled.
After this conversation, she confirmed one thing, that is, Shang Jianyao did not have any guilt or psychological burden because of killing the fish-man envoy.
Well, Shang Jianyao didn't want to kill himself at the time, if it weren't for the sudden change, he would have been ready to catch him...... Jiang Baimian canceled the scheduled psychological counseling session.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and when the sun was only half on the horizon, the speedboat returned to the Red Rock Dock.
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Hotel camp, in room "05".
Jiang Baimian shared his discoveries with Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.
Long Yuehong felt the wind blowing as she listened, and couldn't help but shudder.
Then, he glared at Shang Jianyao:
"When did you open the door?"
What made him feel cold was the winter night wind pouring in outside.
"A minute ago." Shang Jianyao expressed his thoughts, "I am simulating the environment for you at that time, so that you can be immersed."
"No need!" Long Yuehong said that she didn't want to be there at all.
When Shang saw that Yao had closed the door, he sighed instead:
"It sounds magical."
It's not scientific at all.
"Yes." Jiang Baimian exhaled, "Those powerful awakened people who have explored the depths of the 'Spiritual Corridor', and even the elders, the life forms are really curious. So many incredible things can happen around them, I really thought it might be haunted."
She looked around and said seriously:
"This also tells us that we can firmly believe that science can explain everything, but we must not directly treat things that cannot be explained and verified by science as non-existent or defined as errors.
"This is especially true today, when science is far from perfect.
"The spirit of science is to make bold assumptions, verify carefully, seek truth from facts, and not to hold on to the incomplete, be self-contained, and blindly reject it."
Slapping, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.
Jiang Baimian glared at him, looked at Bai Chen and said:
"What do you think?"
"When you return to the company, you must apply for the corresponding information." Bai Chen said calmly, "In this regard, the company definitely knows more than us, and the more we know, the safer our future investigations will be."
Jiang Baimian said "hmm":
"It's a pity that now that I'm outside, I can only get a response from the company if I encounter specific problems."
She continued:
"After this time, I can be sure that the vigilant sect will send strong people to explore the temple. Although we have a friendly relationship with Song Warning, after all, we are burdened with many secrets, so there is no need to meet with the strong people of the wary sect.
"Anyway, our main goal of going to the Red Stone Set has been achieved, and the only thing left is to collect the information of 'Mechanical Heaven', which can be completed soon, and when the time comes, we will leave directly."
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen had no objection, Shang Jianyao hesitated for a moment, but nodded.
Jiang Baimian breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile:
"While there is still time, we need to find out the real culprit who killed Hvig.
"You can't take other people's arms and don't do anything."
Bai Chen thought about it:
"Maybe we will have to reorganize the list of Herbig's enemies."
"Hmm." As soon as Jiang Baimian responded, he set his sights on the door.
Soon, Shang Jianyao also looked over.
After another ten seconds, the door was knocked on the door.
Shang Jianyao put on a monkey mask, opened the door, and found that the visitors were Song He, the warning man in a black cloak, and the dandy-style forensic doctor Weller from the public security office.
Entering the room, Song He looked at Jiang Baimian and the others, and said sincerely:
"I have a task I want to entrust to you."
"What?" Jiang Baimian asked suspiciously.
Song He glanced at Weller and said:
"We suspected that someone had betrayed information to the fishmen and mountain monsters to let them know about Bishop Renato's emergency transfer back to headquarters.
"Now, we have initially identified a suspect, and I hope you can secretly investigate."
Jiang Baimian nodded with understanding:
"Who is it?"
Song He sighed and said with a serious expression:
"Han Wanghuo."
(End of this chapter)