Chapter 823 Therefore Knowing
A faint mist filled the darkness, as if hiding something.
Shang Jianyao and Gnawa each held their weapons and walked forward silently, not turning on the searchlight function for the time being.
The night vision capabilities of military exoskeleton devices and intelligent robots are currently sufficient.
After walking like this for a while, Gnava's head hidden in the "chameleon" bionic intelligent armor suddenly turned 360 degrees, and the red light in his eyes flashed rapidly.
"What's wrong?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.
Gnava replied in a slightly synthesized voice:
"I always feel like something is following us."
Shang Jianyao was in an uproar:
"Lao Ge, you actually said 'feeling'!"
"In this case, shouldn't you directly analyze what percentage of the possibilities there are?"
"As an intelligent robot, the words must be precise and the reconnaissance must be pragmatic."
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After Shang Jianyao finished speaking in a clear order, Gnawa replied in a smooth voice:
"When I entered the fog, the electromagnetic disorder became more serious, and my reconnaissance range and reconnaissance ability were greatly suppressed.
"In such cases, I sometimes can't even tell if the information I get comes from an illusion."
"I understand." Shang Jianyao changed his attitude just now and expressed his understanding.
He took advantage of the situation and said:
"When I was in the café, I secretly tried to use the communication system embedded in the exoskeleton device to communicate with Dabai, but I didn't get a response at all."
"At that time, we can do it." Gnava gives objective facts.
"What about now?" With the help of the communication system, Shang Jianyao's voice entered Gnawa's audio processing program.
Gnava quickly replied:
"It's still relatively clear, but it has also been disturbed to a certain extent."
He relied on the communication system to respond.
At the same time, he reminded Shang Jianyao:
"An environment with electromagnetic disorders to this extent is not suitable for staying for too long, otherwise it will cause indelible damage to your body."
Carbon-based people are more fragile than silicon-based people.
"Give me two more hours." Shang Jianyao said.
Gnava was a little surprised for a moment—this was his simulated emotion, because such an answer was beyond what was covered by the Shang Jianyao's behavior database.
"You didn't actually say that the long night is long, and life blesses you." Gnava said he couldn't understand.
Shang Jianyao said sincerely:
"It's not like you have to explore it this time, and then you can't come in again.
"I clock in and out of work every day at 8 a.m. and 12 noon, and Xiaohong is so envious that she is about to cry.
"Moreover, there is no need to worry too much about how much electromagnetic radiation will affect the body, and with the protection of certain devices, it is not a big problem.
"The blessing of 'Siming' must be used for important things, such as preventing 'unintentional disease', and cannot be wasted because of such small details."
"This is indeed an idea." Gnava also sincerely suggested, "But you don't need to add something learned from old-world entertainment materials without a few words, which won't be very helpful for communication."
Shang Jianyao smiled and said:
"It's not to help communicate, but to liven up the atmosphere, old guy, you're too serious, it's sloppy."
"What is Balabalabara?" Gnava was no stranger to old-world entertainment materials, but he still couldn't understand what such a sentence meant.
"Simply put, it is." Shang Jianyao replied seriously, "I haven't thought about what to say later, so let's replace it with 'Bala Ba La Ba La' first."
Gnava fell silent for a moment.
At this time, Shang Jianyao seemed to remember the key points of the discussion:
"Lao Ge, you just said that you feel like something is following us?"
"Yes, but I'm worried that this is just false information that I misled by environmental influences." Gnava said as he turned his head and scouted the situation around him.
The head of the "chameleon" bionic intelligent armor in this belt is almost twisted into hemp rope.
Fortunately, Gnawa turned back in reverse.
Shang Jianyao said:
"Just pretend to have it, I see how long he can follow.
"According to the current situation, we are getting closer and closer to the root of the problem, and the further we go, the more trouble there will be."
What he meant was that if something really followed him and others, the "environment" might be able to help solve it.
"Yes." Gnava no longer dwells on this issue.
On my side, one is an intelligent robot, with excellent anti-attack ability, and is not afraid of "unintentional disease" infection and most awakening abilities, and the other is "long night, blessed by life", what is there to be entangled in?
After walking forward for about ten minutes in the fog and darkness, Shang Jianyao and Gnawa passed through the intersection and entered the next street.
The reason why they did not go left or right was because they found that the bones in front of them had increased significantly.
- In the areas they passed before, perhaps the "heartless ones" needed food, or perhaps the ice creatures had been there, and the corpses were almost completely emptied, leaving only traces of fighting, gunfire, and blood splatters.
And here, the corpses on the street and on the side of the road are like sandbags, placed horizontally and vertically on the ground.
They basically turned into white bones, covered with clothes of different styles, colors, and degrees of decay.
Gnava quickly started a simple scout:
"Some of these bodies died from the attack, and some of them cannot see the cause of death for the time being."
Shang Jianyao nodded and said seriously:
"This is the core area of the 'heartless disease' outbreak?
"It was too chaotic at that time, and the 'heartless people' killed each other, making it difficult to calm down?
"And those who escaped did not dare to get too close to the root of the problem, and would rather starve to death than enter this area to collect food?"
Gnava analyzed for a while:
"This is a guess, but there are too many possibilities."
"Hmm." Shang Jianyao did not refute.
He turned on the searchlight of the military exoskeleton device, and with the help of the yellowish light, he checked the bones one by one.
His focus is primarily on clothing, objects, and the possible height of the bones.
Gnava knew what he was looking for, didn't say a word, and followed quietly, guarding against accidents.
As they walked, the two of them saw a street light in the distance at the same time, like a servant welcoming guests.
"Another 'new world' projection?" Shang Jianyao whispered excitedly.
"Yes." Gnawa believes this is the most likely scenario.
Shang Jianyao did not speed up his pace, and roughly swept the bones along the way according to the original rhythm, and did not find any humans suspected of being from the "Pangu creatures".
Then, he and Gnava saw clearly the area illuminated by the street lamp:
Near the side of the road, there was a densely branched street tree, next to the street tree was a wooden brown bench, on the brown bench sat a famous twenty-seven or eight-year-old man, his hair was neatly combed, he was wearing a gray formal suit with black stripes, and a pair of relatively small round-rimmed glasses.
At this time, the man was leisurely reading a newspaper with the light of the street lamp.
"Wu Meng!" Shang Jianyao shouted happily.
That man was Wu Meng, who was sealed in the ruins of Wasteland No. 13.
His projection actually appeared here.
Shang Jianyao immediately turned his head sideways and said to Gnava with emotion:
"I really met an old acquaintance in a foreign land."
"Barely yes." Instead of using specific probabilities, Gnava chose ambiguous words that were closer to human habits.
Wu Meng obviously couldn't hear Shang Jianyao's greeting just now, but the experienced Shang Jianyao decisively gave up the "Berserker" assault rifle he was holding and took out the little jade Buddha.
The turquoise light then lit up and rushed around silently, making the fog seem to have subsided a lot.
Wu Meng raised his head and looked at Shang Jianyao and Gnava through the pair of small round-rimmed glasses.
He slowly smiled:
"You guys......"
He still uses the Red River language.
"It's us." Shang Jianyao asked curiously, "Aren't you sealed in the ruins of Wasteland No. 13, why do you still appear in the 'New World'?"
He seemed to take the previous speculation as the real situation, and took it for granted that Wu Meng was now a reflection from the "new world".
Wu Meng's expression became slightly colder:
"If I don't rely on the 'New World', what will they use to seal me?"
"Oh, so that's how it is." Shang saw Yao and suddenly realized.
Without waiting for him to open his mouth to ask again, Wu Meng folded the newspaper in his hand and said with a smile:
"I know, you want to inquire about many things, but I'm not going to answer you.
"I can only remind you, don't go any further, there is a danger that you can't deal with now."
As soon as Wu Meng's words fell, the area illuminated by the street lights distorted.
After this scene flashed a few times, it completely returned to the darkness permeated by light mist.
"Why was the projection of the 'New World' destroyed after just a few words?" Shang Jianyao was extremely aggrieved.
This was the case when he communicated with Flora and Barnard before, and it was the same when he was talking to Wu Meng now.
Gnava speculated:
"There may be some kind of force preventing the people of the 'New World' from communicating with the people of the Ash Earth."
"Just like what happened to the earliest 'New World' powerhouses of the 'Salvation Army'?" Shang Jianyao put away the little jade Buddha, raised his right hand and pressed down the armor on his left chest.
"Yes." Gnava felt that these two things were essentially the same, but in different forms.
He suggested to Shang Jianyao:
"Are you going back now?"
"Why do you want to go back?" Shang Jianyao was very surprised.
Gnava replied:
"Didn't Wu Meng just say not to go any deeper, there is a danger ahead that we can't deal with?"
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"Wu Meng also said that the more dangerous it is, the more risky it is.
"He may be hinting that we should continue to move forward, well, he can't say it clearly when that kind of power stops it!"
Gnava was about to speak, but suddenly his head turned again:
"I feel like I'm being followed by something again."
Bang!
Shang Jianyao, who had been preparing for the early and dark days, used the grenade launcher of the exoskeleton device to fire a flare at the rear.
Under the sudden explosion of light, wearing a helmet, he saw through his goggles that there was a black feline similar in size to a cheetah on the balcony of a building in the distance.
The creature's turquoise eyes were stabbed into a line by the flare.
(End of this chapter)