Chapter 255 Scientists who don't look like scientists
Gu Bo is a thin and small old man, his gray hair is already a little thin, and his dark brown eyes are still bright.
He was wearing a black tweed shirt and holding a silver metal thermos cup in his hand, pointed to the opposite side of the desk and said:
"Sit, sit."
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen nodded politely, pulled away the chair, and sat down.
"What's wrong with you?" Gu Bo's gray dialect has a bit of an accent, which is completely different from the local dialect.
Based on this, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen judged that the local president of the Hunter Guild was the first or second generation of Tarnan townspeople from other areas.
"President Gu, we have something we want to ask you." Long Yuehong replied politely.
Gu Bo laughed:
"Shouldn't this be a task that should be released first, so that I can decide whether to accept it based on the reward?
"News or intelligence is valuable."
"......" Long Yuehong was speechless for a while, and could only secretly sigh that he was worthy of being a senior hunter and local president, and he loved one line of work.
Bai Chen responded calmly:
"You can listen to our questions before deciding how much to ask for compensation, which can be done without going through the guild."
Gu Bo unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup and took a sip:
"I, an old man with old arms and legs, aren't I afraid that you will regret not paying me?
"At that time, don't make a fuss if you can't eat mutton, and get beaten instead of getting paid."
Seeing that Gu Bo was getting more and more outrageous, Long Yuehong suddenly missed Shang Jianyao a little.
At times like this, he will definitely be able to bring the topic to the horizon.
"A local 'chief hunter' is still afraid of this?" Bai Chen looked at Gu Bo and asked rhetorically.
Long Yuehong inquired about Gu Bo last night and learned that he was originally a "senior hunter", and after becoming the president, he was also awarded the honorary title of "chief hunter".
"Heroes don't mention the courage of the past." Gu Bo laughed at himself, "People, when you get older, your body is not very smart."
Just kidding, he restrained his expression:
"Tell me, I'll see what the problem is and then decide how to do it."
Long Yuehong took out an absorbent pen and a palm-sized notebook, and asked while posing to record the contents:
"President Gu, do you still remember Maximian?"
"Huh?" Gu Bo looked dazed.
Long Yuehong quickly picked up the key points and gave a hint:
"In the early days of the new calendar, the person who offered a reward from 'Mechanical Heaven'."
Gu Bo fell into memories, and after a while, he said:
"He, it's been decades, what do you ask him for?
"Do you have clues about him, are you his descendants?"
You have a lot of associations...... Long Yue scolded and explained simply:
"We want to see the 'source brain' and hope to come up with something that 'Mechanical Heaven' is interested in."
"Then you might as well accumulate metal minerals and make a large transaction with 'Mechanical Heaven', then maybe there will be some chance." Gu Bo felt that the young man's whim was completely unrealistic, "This search for Maximian has been going on for decades, and maybe everyone is dead."
"We are only responsible for this direction." Bai Chen's words blocked Gu Bo's advice.
Gu Bo unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup again, sucked his saliva, and moistened his throat:
"Then I'll just say it, I don't need your compensation. I didn't find any clues at the beginning, this person is definitely not in the Chiral Mountains, and even if he is, it is probably in the belly of some beast or some 'heartless person'."
"What kind of person is he? How was the bounty announcement of 'Mechanical Heaven' written in the first place?" Long Yuehong recorded Gu Bo's answer while asking further.
"What kind of person is he?" Gu Bo recalled, "There was a photo at the time, and there were some descriptions...... This person is more than 1.80 meters tall, his body is very strong, his hair is golden, his eyes are light blue, his nose is big, he looks okay, he said he has done genetic optimization......"
In some places, genetic improvement is also known as genetic optimization, and this is a technology that made breakthroughs before the destruction of the old world, but later it was interrupted by the vast majority of human power, and only the "Pangu creatures" and the "White Knights" continued to move forward and improve on this path, making it mature enough.
In Long Yuehong's rapid record, Gu Bo continued:
"I think he's more like a warrior than a scientist, but the Bounty Announcement of 'Mechanical Paradise' deliberately emphasizes his identity.
"Except for this, that announcement has nothing valuable, it just says that if you find this person, 'Mechanical Heaven' can meet your requirements, and it does not involve the arbitrary requirements of 'Mechanical Heaven' life and death and ability to complete."
Give me an army of robots, and I'm going to save the world...... Hearing the arbitrary request, Long Yuehong couldn't help but simulate Shang Jianyao's thinking.
However, after thinking about it, he felt that this idea was too ordinary and did not have enough sense of business.
At this time, Bai Chen asked:
"I only said I found this person, but I didn't mention why?"
"No." Gu Bo shook his head.
"Is there an emphasis on protecting certain things or tracking the whereabouts of certain data?" Bai Chen asked.
"No, I just said that I would try to ensure the survival of the target." Gu Bo was still a little impressed by this.
If there were these requirements, he would have changed the direction of the investigation and would not have reached a dead end all the way.
"Take note of this." Bai Chen told Long Yuehong.
Based on her experience, this can be preliminarily judged: the focus of the "Mechanical Paradise" bounty Maximian is on this person, or what he has done, rather than the information about the items that may exist on him.
She and Long Yuehong asked a few more questions, but because it had been many years, Gu Bo couldn't remember very well and couldn't provide more information.
After taking a polite farewell and leaving the Hunter Guild, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen walked in the direction of the "Furnace Sect", preparing to meet with Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao to discuss what to do next.
As she walked forward, Long Yuehong was slightly shocked to find that there were still many street stalls on the side of the road, and the ground floors of the houses on both sides, except for those with signs of "So-and-so Chamber of Commerce" and "So-and-so Grocery Store", were all closed and unmanned.
He walked to a stall with some curiosity and asked the stall owner:
"Why don't you use the shop facing the street to bask in the sun and rain here?"
Because he had been to Wild Grass City, he knew the concept of street-facing shops.
And he remembered that there was such a piece of information provided by the Red Stone Collection:
In Tarnan, ownerless houses can be occupied by themselves, and if they are not used for a long time, they cannot apply for property rights from intelligent robots.
The owner of this stall is a rough-skinned woman, in her thirties, with a slightly tanned face.
She said in a rather lame gray language in the direction of the red stone collection:
"I have to repair and clean up by myself, how can I have so many materials to stick in?
"Anyway, no matter whether the robot is setting up a stall on the side of the road or not, I will hold a big umbrella when it rains, and I can also use electric lights for free."
At the end, she pointed to the street lamp above her head.
Uh, once you own the store and apply for power supply, do you need to pay a fee? Long Yuehong nodded somewhat understandingly.
Because he asked the other party, he was embarrassed to turn his head and left, squatted down, and looked at the stall owner's goods.
There are books left over from the old world, the paper has turned yellow, jade and diamond jewelry, and scattered old world miscellaneous items.
After thinking about it, Long Yuehong asked Bai Chen who was squatting with him:
"If you want to give it to female elders, which one do you think is better?"
"You, Mom?" Bai Chen easily interpreted the true meaning of Long Yuehong.
Because it would be strange for "you" and "mother" to be connected, she deliberately paused in the middle.
"Yes." This is not something to be ashamed of, Long Yuehong admitted it calmly.
At this moment, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, who had left the Furnace Church, saw their teammates here, and quickly moved closer and squatted down in their respective positions.
After asking Long Yuehong's request, Jiang Baimian smiled:
"I can specially approve you to exchange some materials for jewelry, and deduct them from the contribution points when I go back."
Bai Chen pointed to a green jade bracelet and said:
"At your mother's age, you might like this kind more.
"Although it doesn't look so good now, it will get more and more moisturizing after wearing it for a long time.
"A few female relic hunters I knew before had to wear it themselves because they couldn't sell it, and later found that it was quite good-looking."
"Yes, yes, yes." When the stall owner heard Bai Chen say this, he quickly echoed.
Jiang Baimian didn't have much research in this area, and he preferred shiny diamonds, so he didn't give any opinions and set his sights on those books.
She found that Shang Jianyao had already picked up a book and was reading it intently.
What are you looking at? Jiang Baimian buried his head curiously and aimed at the cover of the book in Shang Jianyao's hand.
Soon, the title of the book came into her eyes:
"Actor's Self-Cultivation"
"......" Jiang Baimian wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say.
After some bargaining, they exchanged a can for the jade bracelet and a can for four books - the remaining three were all picked by Jiang Baimian.
After a simple and boring lunch, the "Old Tune Group" didn't go out because there was nothing else to be busy with, and after taking a nap, each occupied a chair (sofa) and looked at the books they had just bought.
Leisurely time always flies quickly, and seeing that evening is approaching, there is suddenly some noise in the distance.
"What happened?" Long Yuehong looked in the direction where the sound came from and muttered to herself in confusion.
"Go and take a look." Jiang Baimian felt that it was time to move his body.
The group of four immediately left the "Dream" hotel and walked towards Binhe Avenue.
It didn't take long for them to discover the source of the noise:
Hunter's Guild.
At this time, the noise had subsided, but there were still many people gathered there, and their expressions were a little solemn.
Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and the others stepped into the guild and saw the task frozen on the big screen at a glance:
「…… Investigate the matter of the 'higher mindless people' in the southwestern mountainous area......"
Didn't Gnava send the Robot Guard to solve it? Jiang Baimian moved his gaze suspiciously, and quickly found a line of description:
「…… Ten members of the Robot Guard lost contact ......"
(End of this chapter)