long night fire

"It's not something that must be strictly kept secret." Shang Jianyao didn't agree with Jiang Baimian's statement, but because of this, he got rid of the situation created by the previous words.

"Haha, I'm just kidding." Jiang Baimian nodded as if thinking, "Actually, everyone has gone through two crises together, and you exposed the secret of the awakened one, so we have a fairly good trust between each other. Have you ever heard the saying that the way to quickly bring two people closer is to let both parties share a little secret. Also, we are friends in need."

Shang Jianyao, who was serious just now, suddenly laughed:

"How can you be sure that this kind of trust wasn't created by me with the Awakened ability?"

"..." Jiang Baimian thought about it carefully, and found that this possibility could not be ruled out. After all, the scene where Shang Jianyao and the mechanical monk Jingfa shook hands to say goodbye was really impressive, and Shang Jianyao also said that if you can A circular proof is formed in the surrounding interpersonal interactions. The affected people can hardly detect the abnormality by themselves. Only when they are out of the corresponding environment can they find out that something is wrong.

"Haha, I'm just kidding." Shang Jianyao responded to her in Jiang Baimian's way.

Jiang Baimian turned his head and gave him a blank look:

"I almost drew a gun, you know that?"

She retracted her gaze and said to herself:

"Although you are indeed joking, I also have to guard against similar situations...Set up a few logical verifications by yourself?

"Well... the easiest way is to record key information on paper or in a chip every day, and read it before going to sleep. In this way, if there is a contradiction before and after, you can wake up immediately. I have to say that things like diaries Still useful."

"The abilities of the awakened are not omnipotent." Shang Jianyao added.

Jiang Baimian didn't say any more, and continued to search for clues in this hilly area with Shang Jianyao.

After almost an hour, she looked around and said:

"The surrounding area is really too big, and the environment is also complicated. It is impossible for the two of us to walk step by step, and it is impossible to complete an effective search in less than ten days and half a month."

Shang Jianyao didn't speak, because he saw that the team leader still had a smile on his face, and he obviously had a solution.

Sure enough, Jiang Baimian cast his eyes on him, and said with a smile:

"Let's go back to the hill where the emergency flare was placed before."

Shang Jian Yao's heart twitched, and he vaguely grasped something.

Jiang Baimian continued:

"I'm sure you'll meet a lot of relic hunters and wilderness wanderers there, so I'll just ask them for information and see if there are any large bandit groups or dangerous teams appearing in the surrounding area recently."

Speaking of which, she showed the same kind of smile that she had after severely injuring the purification method:

"If you were the leader of the raider team, and you saw an abnormality in the place where you had done a big deal before and deliberately erased the traces of the team, would you send some unrelated people to investigate the area where the emergency flare was launched? Situation? Anyway, there will definitely be a large number of relic hunters and wilderness wanderers past and mixed in, and no one can tell the difference.

"At that time, if we can use this to grasp which major force is behind Black Rat Town, we can also make some targeted preparations in advance."

Shang Jianyao suddenly realized:

"They won't send their core members over to investigate, and they won't even find someone who is a vassal of them. The biggest possibility is to directly hire real wanderers who are active in the nearby wilderness."

In this way, even if it is a trap, there will be no problem, just like no one can find a drop of water in a lake that is unique in nature but has nothing unusual in appearance.

After Shang Jian Yao figured it out, he asked with a little doubt:

"Team leader, you should have thought about this a long time ago, why don't we just guard over there?"

"Where did those relic hunters and wilderness wanderers come so fast? It's meaningless to wait there. It's better to take you to familiarize yourself with the search." Jiang Baimian turned his wrist and looked at the black electronic watch, "The time is about the same Alright, let's go."

After returning to the hill where the emergency signal flare was fired, Shang Jianyao discovered that the previous search was also leaning towards this side. After the two changed their direction slightly, they arrived at the destination in just 10 minutes on foot.

That is to say, Jiang Baimian did not think of relevant issues on the spur of the moment, but premeditated, and even the search route was planned in advance.

After observing for a few minutes, Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian found the best position, climbed a tree, and monitored several roads leading to this hill.

After another quarter of an hour, relic hunters and wilderness wanderers arrived one after another, heading towards the top of the hill.

They are all very careful, and they are clearly separated from each other but they do not invade each other. After all, it is uncertain whether there will be gains around the anomaly, and it is too stupid to fight first.

After a while, Jiang Baimian patted Shang Jianyao on the shoulder and pointed to the road on the left.

She didn't speak, because she couldn't be sure how loud her voice was, so she could only use gestures.

Shang Jianyao then looked over and saw two furtive and cowering male wilderness wanderers.

They can't tell the exact age from their appearance. What they have in common is that their skin is rough, chapped and tanned, their hair is greasy and messy, their beards haven't been shaved for an unknown period of time, and their surfaces are stained with dirt from unknown sources. Various stains.

One of them was wearing a dark blue sweater with holes, inside was a greasy and stiff shirt that couldn't see the original color, on the outside was a waist-length, obviously ill-fitting black clothing, and under his feet were army green rubber shoes.A black pistol gleaming with metallic luster was pinned to his waist, and he held a long, blade-like knife in his palm.

Shang Jianyao felt that this was very similar to the watermelon knife in the textbook.

The other was tightly wrapped in an old black cotton jacket. Through the obvious big holes, one could see that the cotton inside was compressed together, turning black and tight.He didn't seem to have a gun. He had a sharpened dagger around his waist, a baseball bat in both hands, and a dirty, extremely shriveled pocket on his shoulder.

"Yes, what's the problem?" Shang Jianyao asked in a low voice.

This is almost the same as the wilderness wanderers who came here before, only a little more shabby.

"I..." Jiang Baimian uttered a voice, with an obvious questioning tone in his tone.

Shang Jian Yao Miao understood the meaning of the team leader, and said quickly:

"A little lower."

After two "adjustments", Jiang Baimian finally suppressed his voice:

"Don't you think the equipment of these two wilderness wanderers is too poor?"

"Isn't it normal for wilderness wanderers to have poor equipment?" Shang Jianyao asked.

"Yes." Jiang Baimian didn't deny it, and while looking at the two wanderers, he said carefully, "The point is that there is a contradiction between their behavior and their equipment.

"Under normal circumstances, wilderness wanderers with only a small pistol and a few cold weapons dare not be the first to rush to such a place where abnormalities occur. As long as there is a fight, they have almost no ability to protect themselves.

"For this kind of wilderness wanderer, they will come back half a day, or even a day later, to see if they can find some leftovers. At that time, the competitors are all similar people, and they will not be helpless .”

Shang Jian Yao nodded slightly when he heard it:

"It's like a lot of animals that feed on the rotting carcasses left behind by the beasts of prey.

"In other words, there is a certain probability that these two wilderness wanderers were forced to come here?"

And who would force two incompetent wilderness wanderers to investigate the anomaly?

Jiang Baimian put the teaching into practice, and said with a smile:

"right.

"Can you make them friendly and tell us the corresponding situation directly?"

Shang Jianyao looked at the two wilderness wanderers who were getting closer, and said frankly:

"If there's only one, no problem.

"If both are present, there is a high possibility that they will witness each other, causing the 'reasoning' to fail.

"If they are separated, first affect one, and then get together to affect the other, that's fine."

Jiang Baimian made an "OK" gesture:

"It's easy.

"Change the gun."

After finishing speaking, she and Shang Jianyao exchanged grenade guns and assault rifles.

In the next second, Jiang Baimian jumped down and landed in front of the two wilderness wanderers.

After landing, she quickly raised her assault rifle and pointed coldly at the man in the ripped sweater with a pistol pinned to his waist.

And almost at the same time, her waist turned slightly, and her right leg kicked out, like a suddenly tightened whip.

There was no doubt that the kick missed, but the man with the baseball bat was so frightened that he backed up and fell to the ground.

He glanced at the assault rifle in Jiang Baimian's hand, gave up on his companions without hesitation, and ran away into the distance without daring to turn back.

The man with the pistol pinned and the watermelon knife was pointed at by the assault rifle all the time, and he didn't dare to move.

At this time, Shang Jianyao jumped down and said with a smile:

"do not worry.

"We have no ill will."

While motioning Jiang Baimian to lower his gun, he said while the man opposite was at a loss:

"You see, you are here to search for information, and we are also here to search for information.

"You are human, and we are human.

"so……"

The man's expression gradually became vivid, and finally he showed a smile:

"Brother!"

When he called out this title, he subconsciously glanced at Jiang Baimian, only to see that the other party had put away his assault rifle and showed no hostility, so he believed in his own reasoning and judgment even more.

"Brothers!" Shang Jianyao imitated the other party and greeted him enthusiastically, "Who asked you to come here?"

Chapter 53 "The Hyena"

The man with the watermelon knife let out an "hey":

"Don't mention it, they were all forced here by the old bat. I kept telling him to wait a day, but he just wouldn't listen!"

Subconsciously, Jiang Baimian wanted to ask who the old bat was, but after opening his mouth, he closed it rationally.

In fact, Shang Jianyao also planned to ask this question, but his logical reasoning ability told him that this would definitely damage the "brother relationship" between the two parties and make the other party feel suspicious—since they are brothers, how could they not know who the old bat is? ?

He laughed:

"Old bat...why is he in such a hurry?"

"What can he do? Wasn't someone urging him over there!" Holding a watermelon knife and holding a black pistol, the man rubbed his greasy, bristly hair and said with a sad face, "Those guys will kill if they say a bad word. Who dares to be perfunctory..."

"Those guys?" Shang Jian Yao deliberately showed a puzzled expression, "I haven't been back for a long time, and something happened?"

Although he wanted to directly ask who those guys were, he held back his temper.

The man carrying the watermelon knife was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect that the brother opposite hadn't been back for a while.

A few seconds later, he sighed again:

"Forget it, we haven't even slept in our burrows since the 'Hyenas' came! Several old people froze to death at night."

When he said "hyena", he looked around instinctively, as if afraid of being overheard.

"Hyena"... Shang Jianyao turned his head and looked at Jiang Baimian to see if the experienced team leader had heard of this nickname.

Jiang Baimian's expression was a little more serious, and he nodded thoughtfully.

"Fuck 'hyena'!" Shang Jianyao deliberately swears.

The man carrying the watermelon knife seemed to want to curse a few more words, but in the end he didn't dare, and said disgruntledly:

"He has no mother."

Having said that, the man who couldn't tell the exact age from his appearance recalled:

"I was a teenager at the time, and Hyena hadn't become a bandit yet.

"I heard that his mother was eaten by a group of people who came here from nowhere."

Seeing Yao's brows and eyes moving slightly, Shang blurted out and asked:

"Did the Ratman do it?"

He knew from Jiang Baimian that the residents of Black Rat Town were called "rat people" by the surrounding humans.

This is also a discriminatory term.

"No." The man with the watermelon knife shook his head, "The group of ratmen have been here for decades. They came here before I was born, and they are good at collecting and digging. Eat, not the kind that wander around."

Shang Jian Yao was silent for a few seconds and said:

"What are the Hyenas doing here?"

"That's right, what was found at Yuelu Station. The old bat asked, and the 'Hyena' people don't know, and they are sending people to investigate." After the man carrying the watermelon knife said the word "investigation", suddenly Remembering my mission, I suddenly became frowning again, "I don't know what's abnormal here. If I don't report the results today, the 'Hyena' people might throw me to feed the dogs."

"Dog?" Shang Jian Yao subconsciously asked.

The man carrying the watermelon knife spit out:

"'Hyena' has a very vicious dog, just like his own son!

"He always said we were useless, one-on-one no one won his dog, it might as well feed it to the dog."