long night fire

Because he was still desperately swallowing food so as not to choke to death, his face was contorted, his eyes turned white slightly, tears and snot flowed down his nose, there was nothing that could be called handsome at all.

This made him extremely angry, and he raised his arms distractedly, ready to attack Jingfa with a grenade launcher and an electromagnetic weapon at the same time.

At this moment, Jingfa turned his body around and said in that unique, icy electronically synthesized voice:

"Let's play cards together."

The price he paid was so high, and his mental distortion was so severe, that he didn't play cards silently and intently, but decided to combine the two "hobbies" into one, and pulled Qiao Chu together!

While the mechanical monk was speaking, Qiao Chu once again saw countless slightly blurred figures, and once again strongly felt that he was very hungry and had to eat something.

Fortunately, he still has food in his mouth, and he still has something to eat, which makes him not so "hungry" at the initial stage, and he can be distracted to do something.

Qiao Chu quickly raised his left hand to cover the goggles of the metal helmet.

He suddenly became extremely depressed. Even though he thought he was very hungry, he didn't want to eat or do anything.

No longer choked, he let go of his left hand and looked at the mechanical monk who came over with a poker.

That kind of depression seemed to be contagious, and Jingfa suddenly felt that everything had become meaningless, and everything was just an illusory dream.

In the incomprehensible frustration, the dark mechanical monk seemed to have realized something, sat down cross-legged suddenly, put his hands together, and said in a low voice:

"Namo Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi, all conditioned dharmas are like dreams and bubbles..."

Qiao Chu immediately relieved himself, stretched his waist and abdomen, and relied on the military exoskeleton device to jump directly into the air.

A stream of white air gushed out, pushing him sideways into the stairwell.

After landing, Qiao Chu raised his arm and aimed the grenade launcher at the mechanical monk in tattered robes and red cassock.

Jingfa is still reciting the scriptures in a low voice, as if he has fully realized it.

Looking at the loaded grenade, Qiao Chu realized that it was not the kind with high-explosive performance, and he hesitated in his heart.

——Because the preset enemies are "higher mindless" and deformed creatures, not robots, he didn't change the grenade before acting.

And this kind of grenade, one or two rounds probably won't be able to destroy the mechanical monk.

This will actually help the opponent get rid of the depressed state, and the same is true for electromagnetic weapons.

It may not be possible to replace the grenade on the spot. Qiao Chu can't make the already depressed people more depressed, and has been depressed. Once he fails to grasp the moment when the mechanical monk's depression just ends and makes up for a new round of control, the situation will become very bad.

After thinking about it for two seconds, Qiao Chu pursed his lower lip and decided to give up this opportunity.

He turned around and ran to the stairs, pressed the handrail, jumped down, and landed steadily on the next floor.

In this way, Qiao Chu used the ability of the exoskeleton device to jump down from floor to floor in the hollow of the stairs, and soon left the seventeenth floor and went straight to the ground floor.

At this time, the mechanical monk Jingfa finished chanting and raised his head again.

On his black metal face, the mechanical prosthetic eye glowed red like blood again.

In the next second, Jingfa jumps directly into the stairwell from sitting cross-legged in a posture that surpasses the human body structure.

He imitated Qiao Chu's method, holding down the handrail, turning over and jumping off.

……

Hearing Du Heng's words, Jiang Baimian did not hesitate, and turned his head to Shang Jianyao and others:

"We leave immediately."

After giving the order, she nodded to Du Heng:

"Be careful.

"I hope to see you again."

Du Heng smiled and said:

"At that time, I hope you have enough important news, intelligence or information to trade."

He glanced at Shang Jianyao again:

"It's not a good thing to work hard to improve one's awakened ability. The cost will never be remedied. You can measure it yourself."

Before Shang Jianyao could respond, Du Heng stood up, bowed his waist, and jumped towards the place where Xiao Chong disappeared in the shadow of the tree.

"Let's go." Jiang Baimian looked away.

Shang Jianyao nodded, straightened his body, held the "Berserker" assault rifle, trotted and hung at the end of the team according to the previous tactical formation.

Soon, they reached the side fence.

Long Yuehong, who was in charge of the left side, quickly glanced outside, and suddenly met a pair of cloudy, bloodshot eyes.

"Unintentional"...Long Yuehong was startled, instinctively raised her assault rifle, and took a step aside.

On the street outside, lights shone on the tops of long metal poles, each illuminating an area.

According to Long Yuehong's knowledge, these should be street lamps from the old world, and at least half of them are still working normally.

The "unintentional man" was standing under the street lamp obliquely ahead, wrapped in a shriveled blue jacket, wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the same color, holding a broom and an iron dustpan.

There were some wrinkles on his face, his skin was very rough, there was no light of wisdom in his eyes, he just stared blankly at Long Yuehong and the others, showing no signs of attacking.

Such a scene made Long Yuehong a little surprised, and she stopped trying to pull the trigger.

The "unintentional person" quickly lowered his head and cleaned up the fallen leaves accumulated by the roadside.

Seeing this scene, Bai Chen and the others suddenly had some inexplicable guesses.

"Go out first." Jiang Baimian quickly came to his senses, and quickly climbed over the metal fence.

Under the cover of their companions, Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, and Shang Jianyao left the "Urban Smart Network Control Center" and returned to the street outside.

"He's cleaning fallen leaves..." Long Yuehong couldn't help looking at the "unintentional man" who had no tendency to "hunt".

Jiang Baimian raised his head and looked at the opposite side:

"Look there."

Following the direction her chin pointed, Shang Jianyao and the others saw a tall building.

At the bottom of the tall building are houses located on the street, and there are several glass windows on each floor above which reveal bright light.

Those glows seemed to form a halo around them, which inexplicably made Long Yuehong feel a little warm.

Among them, behind some windows on the lower floors, there are many figures moving around.

Some of them seem to be holding babies, pacing back and forth by the window, some are wiping the glass seriously with rags in their hands, some are sitting on the sofa by the window, holding something unknown, staring blankly at the opposite wall The LCD screen on the...

The ones Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and the others could barely see clearly were all wearing old and messy clothes, their movements were dull, and their eyes were sluggish. They were obviously "unintentional people".

On the LCD screen watched by the "unintentional person", the picture is colorful, with landscapes, figures, text, and boxes, but the overall picture is frozen without any change.

But this does not prevent the "unintentional person" from watching very intently.

Jiang Baimian was silent for two seconds, and said in a complicated tone:

"It is these 'unintentional people' who 'maintain' the city on a regular basis...

"Whenever the lights come on, they become like normal people..."

Chapter 84 Silhouettes of the Old World

Hearing Jiang Baimian's words, Long Yuehong felt suddenly enlightened and fell into a dream.

He couldn't help but looked around again, completely unable to connect those "unintentional people" who were earnestly cleaning fallen leaves and wiping windows with the inherent image in his mind.

On the way to the "Urban Smart Network Control Center", the "Old Tune Team" has encountered "unintentional people" in the ruins. They are just like their counterparts outside, fierce, irrational, aggressive, and have a strong desire to hunt. Instinct seems to have degenerated to the stage when human beings just got rid of the state of beasts.

At that time, if someone told Long Yuehong that the "unintentional people" here would sweep the floor, clean the windows, and maintain the wiring, he would have scoffed at it as a joke.

But now, this scene was so realistically played out before his eyes.

At a glance, there are endless street lights and shadows in the distance. I don't know how many "unintentional people" returned to the street after the city was "lit" again, came to the window, and did various things.

They are no longer vicious, and they no longer regard Long Yuehong and others as prey. They "follow the rules" and earnestly complete their work, making the whole city more prosperous than before.

At this moment, Long Yuehong had the feeling that they seemed to be in another world. The two sides lived in peace, but could not establish contact.

As his thoughts turned, he heard Jiang Baimian sigh:

"It's like a silhouette projected from the past from the old world..."

"Why do they sweep the floor, clean the windows, and maintain the exterior walls and streets?" Shang Jianyao asked suddenly.

Long Yuehong answered subconsciously:

"It may be some kind of instinct. This is what they did in the old world. After they became 'mindless', they solidified into instinct..."

As she spoke, Long Yuehong's voice gradually lowered until it disappeared.

He also found that his explanation was untenable, because the old world has been destroyed for nearly 70 years, and the "unintentional people" here have changed for countless generations, and there are still those who used to live and work in the old world.

Finally, he forcibly added:

"That instinct, through the demonstration and teaching of parents, has been passed down from generation to generation.

"The descendants of the repairmen are still repairing equipment, and the descendants of the cleaners are still sweeping the streets..."

Jiang Baimian laughed, and said before Shang Jianyao said:

"Don't carve all the messy things into your genes, it will cause your body to collapse.

"Teaching is possible, but it's only useful for simple, repetitive tasks."

Bai Chen guarded her surroundings and said thoughtfully:

"After many generations of reproduction, the current 'unintentional people' have been able to learn more complicated things? No, even if they can learn, the previous generations will not be able to. The corresponding technology must have been lost..."

"Someone may be teaching them and instilling some 'instinct' in them." Shang Jianyao retracted his gaze and expressed his guess.

Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen simultaneously thought of the weird and mysterious boy Xiao Chong from before, and couldn't refute Shang Jianyao's statement for a while.

During the discussion just now, they all took a few steps to the opposite side of the street, wanting to see the figures behind the bright windows more clearly.

A few seconds later, Long Yuehong looked at the "unintentional people" who were sweeping the street, repairing branches, and going to other places in the distance, and said with emotion:

"Is this the urban scene of the old world?

"Is this how people lived and worked back then?

"At that time, the night was so brightly lit, as if the stars were reflected on the ground?"

Because of this sentence, Jiang Baimian raised his head again and looked at the opposite building.

On each floor, there are more than one-third of the windows showing yellowish or whitish light, and "people" come and go, or clean the windows, or "watch" TV, or coax "children". ", or chopping the cutting board, although no sound came out, Jiang Baimian intuitively felt "lively" and "vigorous".

At this moment, she seemed to have returned to decades ago, when the old world was not destroyed, and smelled the breath of life.

As his eyes moved up and down, Jiang Baimian's pupils suddenly dilated.

She saw a red dot shaking on the top of a tall building not far away.

This appears to be from a sniper rifle.

"Hide forward!" Jiang Baimian shouted, jumping and rolling to the side of the road, and hid in an open house.

With a snap, gravel was splashed from the hard ground where she was standing just now.

Thanks to their previous experience, Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen, and Long Yuehong did not doubt the order of the team leader at all, and each responded immediately, using different actions and postures, and quickly rushed into the "city intelligence" In the house facing the street opposite the side entrance of the "Network Control Center".

With two pops, two more bullets were shot from the top of different buildings and penetrated into the ground.

After Jiang Baimian hid in the room with his back against the wall, he took off the walkie-talkie, pressed the button, and said in a hasty tone:

"There were snipers on the roofs of at least three nearby buildings.

"This style of coming to the source of the anomaly but not going in, just ambush around, reminds me of a person.

"'hyena'!"

This is standard "Hyena" bandit style.

This is not to say that they are the only ones who like to adopt similar methods, but among the teams that haunt the surrounding area and have at least three sniper rifles, they are the most famous one, and probably the only one.

"Isn't this too insidious?" Long Yuehong blurted out while holding the walkie-talkie.

The "Hyena" bandit group actually didn't want to explore the anomaly and look for more valuable things, but only planned to deal with the evacuated relic hunters.

"They are a bandit group." Jiang Baimian responded with some amusement, "Fortunately, they should have been dazzled by the changes after the power supply was restored in the ruins of the city just now, so they didn't deal with us immediately."

"But we were also affected by the changes in the ruins." Bai Chen simply argued.