The guards hiding at the entrance of the Red Stone Collection saw the mask almost at the same time and recognized the jeep.
Their bodies stiffened for two seconds, following the dogma of vigilance, retracting their weapons, hiding themselves more concealed, and having no idea of saying hello at all.
Shang Jianyao was not surprised by this at all, got back in the car, and introduced Gnava:
"This is the folk customs here, do you want to wear a mask too?"
Gnava could not analyze the quality of this matter, so he could only use a vague answer:
"I'll think about it."
"He just needs to wear sunglasses." Jiang Baimian drove the jeep into the Red Stone Market and provided his own opinion, "I also have to change my clothes."
Gnava was still wearing the dark green military uniform.
And this belongs to Tarnan's robot guards.
"Is there a place for selling clothes here?" Because Shang Jianyao and the others were wearing masks, Gnawa didn't feel that changing clothes was discriminatory against himself.
"Don't be so particular, take off your jacket, just wear the shirt inside, and buy a few more sets to replace when you have the opportunity." Jiang Baimian said thoughtfully.
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly had a strange thought:
Will Gnava ask if you want to wear pants?
Fortunately, Gnava did not doubt this question, and moved his neck made of metal and said:
"Okay."
As he said, he took off his coat.
Well, there is still a difference between intelligent robots and ordinary robots, you don't have to ask about everything, you have to explain everything...... Jiang Baimian muttered secretly, found a familiar parking space, and parked the jeep.
Entering the Red Stone Collection, before Gnava could scan the layout and structure here, Shang Jianyao rushed to an advertising box originating from the old world and knocked it off.
As the voice echoed, the box door opened, revealing a member of the town guard holding a submachine gun inside.
His mask was lifted above his head, and he was a typical gray man.
"You are not cautious enough." Shang Jianyao pointed out.
He looked very familiar to both parties.
The member of the town guard replied slightly aggrievedly:
"I hide inside, and if I put on a mask, I won't be able to breathe."
"Yes." Shang Jianyao expressed understanding.
He asked instead:
"Who can get more high-performance batteries?"
The member of the town guard breathed a sigh of relief:
"Mr. Dimarco's butler, Ulrich, who is in charge of energy-related matters at the 'Visa Trading Company'.
"Also, Anhebas also has channels, maybe there is still stock."
The smuggling industry of high-performance batteries is divided into the energy sector, and although Anhebas has "contributed" a batch of arms to the merchants, it is actually closer to the energy businessman.
——He sells weapons to mountain monsters, also for the coal business.
"Very good!" Shang Jianyao smiled.
He then asked a new question:
"Who is the current sheriff and captain of the town guard?"
"Captain Tan Jie, Tan Jie." The member of the town guard replied truthfully.
"Oh, he." Shang Jianyao nodded happily, "I like the way he curses without an expression."
This...... Long Yuehong suddenly felt that Shang Jianyao's performance today was more exaggerated than before.
He couldn't help but mutter:
"What's wrong with him today?"
Jiang Baimian touched his ears and said solemnly:
"Maybe it's a performance-type business now."
"Uh......" Long Yuehong was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized.
This is all the pot of old-world episodes!
"I feel like he's home." Gnava gave his own evaluation.
"They are all his brothers." Jiang Baimian explained mindlessly.
Bai Chen whispered:
"The effect of old world entertainment materials......"
At this time, Shang Jianyao had already changed several topics, such as whether there were any "mechanical heavens" people coming over recently.
He finally asked:
"Who is the new bishop?"
The member of the town guard replied:
"Bishop Antoniola, looks strong."
Jiang Baimian took a few steps forward and asked:
"Did he come alone?"
"No." The member of the town guard shook his head, "There are also 'Bishop of Fear' His Excellency Saint Sigmund and other clergy, but they left after going to the island in the middle of the lake, which is the one you have been to."
"Did they get anything back? Has there been any change in the island in the middle of the lake?" Jiang Baimian mainly wants to ask this.
"I don't know." The member of the town guard thought for a moment and said that he was not clear, "We are not allowed to approach that island in any form anyway. What needs to be prohibited in this? There are fish people, how dare we go to the center of the lake?"
Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian asked about other things, and roughly grasped the current situation of Hongshiji.
In addition to the appointment of the new bishop, the most significant change is that Mrs. Teresa, Hervig's widow, has become a figure of a certain position here.
The arms dealer Lehman had also left, and it is said that his face was ashen when he left.
After the exchange, the "old tune team" went to the Kai'Sa Hotel and booked three rooms with cans, energy bars, and compressed cookies.
This is much more expensive than the last time they stayed, and the hotel owner explained:
"You are bringing the robot this time, you must need to charge it often, this is the electricity bill charged in advance."
This sentence hits the weakness of the "old tune group".
They have a lot of high-performance batteries waiting to be recharged!
——Gnava now only has a spare battery to use, and the military exoskeleton device has never been worn since Long Yuehong took it off last time.
…………
Hotel camp.
Jiang Baimian assigned an electronic card:
"Shang Jianyao and I are in the same room, Xiaobai and Xiaohong are in the same room, and Lao Ge is in your own room."
Long Yuehong and the others had long been accustomed to this plan and did not express any objections, only Gnava, hesitated, and asked:
"Are you two couples?"
"Cough......" Long Yuehong was choked by saliva and coughed.
Jiang Baimian looked at Gnava and smiled:
"Why do you think so?"
"Why should the opposite sex live in the same room if you are not a couple?" Gnava raised his own doubts.
Shang Jianyao smiled.
He patted Gnava on the shoulder:
"Lao Ge, your view is too pedantic.
"There are many combinations between human groups, and it is not only men and women who can be called couples, but also women and women, men and women, neither men nor women, half men and half women......"
He pulled further and further until Jiang Baimian glared at him.
"In addition." Shang Jianyao changed his mind, "Who lives in the same room with whom our 'old tune group' only depends on actual needs, think about it, which of the two of them can limit me? I slipped out in the middle of the night and did something bad, and they probably wouldn't even notice."
Hey, are you quite proud? Jiang Baimian was angry and funny.
Gnava thought for a moment:
"I understand this truth."
He asked again:
"Why do you have to sneak out in the middle of the night to do bad things?"
Shang Jianyao pondered for a few seconds and replied solemnly:
"Brain twitching."
Without waiting for Gnawa to ask what this meant, Jiang Baimian had already said with a smile:
"Lao Ge, you just asked so directly if it was rude for a couple to ask, look, it made them both uncomfortable."
Obviously, the only one who was uncomfortable was Long Yuehong, Bai Chen looked calm, and he didn't take it seriously at all.
Gnavana's slightly synthetic voice revealed a bit of sincerity:
"Actually, I know it's not too polite, but didn't you say it? Companions don't need to care so much. And I also want to improve the cognitive system of human society and your carbon-based people as soon as possible, so as to lay a solid foundation for personal survival and solo action in the future.
"This is also what you taught, see more, ask more, listen more, and experience more."
Jiang Baimian laughed:
"That's right, but you can change to a more polite way, for example, ask me in private, don't in front of them."
"That's right......" Gnava responded in a tone he had learned again.
Next, they went back to their rooms, rested for a while, and then gathered together to prepare dinner.
Among them, Gnawa's "food" is a high-performance battery that is being charged.
At this moment, they felt that there seemed to be some commotion on the other side of the hotel camp.
"What happened?" Long Yuehong looked out the door suspiciously.
Shang Jianyao even put down the things in his hand and walked out.
In the afterglow of the sunset, they saw a bunch of people gathered in the distance, not knowing what they were doing.
"I'll go take a look." Shang Jianyao knew and leaned over curiously,
Jiang Baimian, Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Gnawa looked at each other, closed the door, and followed them over there.
After the distance was closed, they saw the situation on the opposite side clearly:
There were forty or fifty young men and women over there, their faces were clean, and their clothes were tattered.
Long Yuehong glanced at it, and even saw old cotton shoes with drilled toes and a down jacket with several big holes.
These men and women ranged in age from fifteen or sixteen to twenty-three or four, and there were seven or eight people with guns standing around them, with relatively glamorous appearances.
The man who was suspected to be the leader among the gunmen was saying loudly:
"I know that you have suffered a lot in the past, otherwise you would not have been sold to me and become slaves.
"But now, your good days are coming!"
The forty or fifty young men and women listened with slightly numb expressions, but they seemed to be looking forward to it.
The slave trader continued:
"Think about it, if I hadn't found you a good place to go, I would let you stay in a hotel? This red stone collection is full of abandoned houses, where can you stuff you?
"Hehe, in two or three days, you will be able to enter the 'underground boat', where even the lowest servants can eat well, have free clothes, sleep at least six hours a day, and have doctors to see if they are sick.
"Although you will always live in the underground castle, you don't have to worry about the plague, you don't have to worry about robbers, armies and other wanderers, you don't have to be afraid of being attacked by wild beasts, if you behave well enough, you may be able to become a steward and be sent to the ground to do things......
"In short, you must train well and strive to become Master Dimarco's servant when the time comes......"
Listening to his story, the faces of the forty or fifty men and women gradually brightened.
There seemed to be some kind of light flashing in those pairs of black and white eyes.
The toes of their cotton shoes and the red and swollen fingers of their joints moved unconsciously.
And at this moment, there was only one sentence echoing in Long Yuehong's mind:
"Dimarco is a very brutal person."
(End of this chapter)