long night fire

That being the case, Shang Jianyao can do whatever he wants.

With the physique of a genetically modified person, even without sleep for a night or two, he is still full of energy.

When Shang Jianyao was concentrating on repairing the speaker, Long Yuehong looked into the distance while guarding the outside.

Although there is only the eighth floor here, he can still see the lights of the entire city spreading out piece by piece like stars.

——Although he hasn't seen the star-studded night, at least he has seen the photos and can make corresponding associations.

After watching this for an unknown amount of time, he finally sighed:

"It's so beautiful..."

In addition to beauty, he felt that such a scene contained a certain unique taste, but he couldn't describe it.

After a while, Long Yuehong said sincerely:

"It's a pity that this place is too short. If you can go to a high place to see it, it must be more beautiful."

Hearing these words, Jiang Baimian stood up and walked to the French window.

She stared for a long time, smiled and said:

"Would you like to try it on the roof?

"While it's quiet, 'everyone' is being polite."

"Okay." Long Yuehong immediately responded.

"Are you going?" Jiang Baimian turned around and asked about Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen.

"Yes." Bai Chen knew that now was the time to relax a little.

"I'm almost ready." Shang Jianyao stood up and stuffed all the messy things back into the tactical backpack, holding only the small speaker with a blue background and black surface in his hand, "I don't know if the long-lasting battery can still work." use."

"Let's go, let's go, come back and try again." Jiang Baimian urged.

They quickly took the elevator to the top floor, then climbed the stairs, opened the door, and entered the rooftop.

Before reaching the edge of the bust wall, they saw the scene around the building:

One lamp after another is densely distributed in all directions, emitting a yellowish or whitish light.

Some of them are located on the side of the road, some come from different buildings, and some are erected on high places. They are not only like lighthouses in the boundless ocean, each illuminating an area, but also like bright stars flowing slowly in the night sky.

And near these lights, there are either people flickering or vehicles passing by, making them more lively.

"It's really spectacular..." Long Yuehong once again expressed her sincere emotion.

Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and the others did not speak, but stood on the edge of the roof, looking at the scroll with ecstasy.

They are so exhausted that they can't find the right words to describe it.

After an unknown amount of time, Shang Jianyao suddenly took two steps back and squatted down.

"At this time, I have to add a song..." He put down the speaker, continued to tinker, and started debugging.

At this moment, from the direction of the "City Smart Network Control Center", there was another desolate roar that shook the sky.

The roar was still reverberating, and Jiang Baimian saw bright flames erupting from the corresponding position.

"Boom!"

A deafening explosion followed, drowning out all movement.

The gray-white airflow gathered quickly and rose upwards like a giant mushroom.

This made the building where Jiang Baimian and the others were located couldn't help but tremble.

Shang Jian Yao subconsciously stood up, walked to the side of his companion, and looked at that place.

When the tumbling flames and airflow expanded, the lights in that area flickered a few times and then went out one after another.

This includes the building where the "Urban Smart Network Control Center" is located.

Immediately afterwards, in the entire city, whether it was the street lamps on the street or the illuminated building glass, they all went out area by area.

After just a few seconds, the city became extremely dark, with only faint moonlight and starlight making the row upon row of buildings faintly visible, like a monster hiding in the depths of a nightmare.

And those figures moving behind the windows, those "unintentional people" busy outside, and those vehicles driving on the road were also engulfed by the dense night and could no longer be seen.

The ruins of the entire city fell into dead silence again.

Shang Jianyao and the others stared blankly for more than ten seconds, feeling inexplicably heavy.

They didn't know how to express such emotions, so they could only continue to stare.

After a while, they subconsciously lowered their heads and looked towards the bottom of the building.

In the faint light, an "unintentional person" crawled out of a window.

Her hair was all white and disheveled.

She climbed with difficulty, jumped down, and quickly disappeared into the shadow of the building, like an old ape.

Long Yuehong seemed to have been hit, and took two steps back as if not daring to look any further.

Crack, he kicked Shang Jianyao's speaker on the ground.

The speaker suddenly made a buzzing sound.

The four members of the "Old Tune Group" instinctively turned their heads and looked over.

Almost at the same time, a sad and melodious female voice came out from the speaker:

"Reminiscing about the past...

"I can't forget the painful lovesickness..."

On the empty rooftop, in the boundless darkness, in the dead city, the singing voice was like weeping, twiddling upwards and reverberating among the quietly standing Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chenjian.

Note 1: Quoted from Wan Fang, "New Love"

Chapter 88 曲终

On the high roof, on the empty terrace, the sad female voice is melodious and melodious.

Jiang Baimian listened quietly for a while, then looked around the dead and dark city around him, and said with a slight sigh:

"It's a pretty good song."

Without waiting for Shang Jianyao and the others to respond, Jiang Baimian continued:

"Go down. The lights are out, I don't know what will happen, we have to monitor the jeep and armored vehicles at all times.

"If they are negligent and they are all gone, it will be even more troublesome to face danger."

She wasn't worried about whether there would be any means of transportation to go on the way tomorrow morning, because there seemed to be quite a few cars that could drive in the ruins of the city.

"Yes, team leader!" Long Yuehong replied reflexively.

Jiang Baimian glanced at Shang Jianyao again:

"Turn off the speaker, or it will be an easy target."

Seeing that Yao did not refute, Shang squatted down, picked up the small speaker with a blue background and black surface, turned it off, and threw it into the tactical backpack.

The surroundings suddenly became extremely quiet again, only the wind from above was whistling.

When the four members of the "Old Tune Group" walked towards the stairs, Bai Chen couldn't help but look back, and looked at the city scene that was constantly unfolding into the distance.

The buildings were hidden in the darkness, no sound came out, and no light emerged.

"Team leader, do you think this looks like a tombstone?" Bai Chen asked softly when she looked away.

Jiang Baimian looked back and said in silence for a moment:

"Well, those buildings are like tombstones of the old world, one by one..."

Before she finished speaking, Shang Jianyao took the initiative to ask:

"What is a tombstone?"

There is no cemetery inside "Pangeon", and each dead employee has only one line of text carved on the corresponding wall.

"That's it..." Jiang Baimian organized his words, "Forget it, I will explain to you later."

She immediately walked up the stairs and turned on the flashlight.

This time, they could no longer take the elevator and could only trot down all the way.

Fortunately, their physical fitness is quite good, and three of them have undergone genetic modification, so when they returned to room 805, they were only slightly out of breath and not very tired.

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao checked the room separately to make sure that no dangerous creatures had broken in here.

"Bai Chen, you and Long Yuehong take a break. I'm in charge of monitoring the jeeps and armored vehicles. Shang Jianyao pays attention to the streets outside." Jiang Baimian returned to the living room with a flashlight.

"Yeah." Bai Chen watched the team leader come to the window of the restaurant, set up the "Orange" rifle, and then said thoughtfully, "The place where the explosion happened just now seems to be the mysterious laboratory that Qiao Chu mentioned."

Jiang Baimian didn't look back, and watched the downstairs intently:

"That direction, that location, the high probability is.

"I don't know if Qiao Chu's mission is to destroy that place, or because of being entangled in the mechanical monk's purification method, due to various accidents, this big explosion was caused..."

Shang Jianyao looked at the place where the flames and air flow rose just now, and said seriously:

"I guess it's the former possibility."

"The conclusion drawn from the situation of the Eighth Research Institute described by Du Heng?" Jiang Baimian subconsciously asked.

Shang Jian Yao shook his head:

"I just counted how many cars were on the side of the road.

"The result is odd."

"..." Jiang Baimian spat, "I shouldn't have had such a serious discussion with you."

Long Yuehong hasn't spoken since he left the rooftop. At this moment, he looked at the ruins of the city flooded by darkness outside, and said in a slightly erratic tone:

"Team leader, I understand now why you want to investigate the reason for the destruction of the old world, why you like to dig out the past history from the ruins of the city..."

After Jiang Baimian listened quietly, he smiled gratifiedly and said:

"As long as you know."

Long Yuehong wanted to say something more, but she didn't know how to express it, so she could only continue to stare at the dead city where many dangers were hidden, and said instead:

"What's going to happen next?"

"Who knows?" Jiang Baimian was still staring at the jeep and the armored vehicle, "I just hope that all the changes will not be affected, I only hope that Qiao Chu was driven out of the ruins of the city by Jingfa, or that the two sides fought to their respective limits , are all seriously injured, in short, let us stay here until dawn, and drive away."

"Team leader, it seems unlucky for you to say that." Shang Jianyao replied casually.

Jiang Baimian was angry and said helplessly:

"We have all been unlucky so many times, and things are always reversed, so it's time for extreme luck."

Hearing the word "unlucky", Long Yuehong felt guilty for no reason, and touched her mouth.

I don't know if Jiang Baimian's words were really effective. In the next few hours, although there were explosions, gunshots, and roars from time to time throughout the ruins of the city, they didn't spread towards the tunnel.

By midnight, it was completely silent here.

Time passed by, the sky gradually lit up, and the buildings broke free from the darkness again, showing their own figures.

But in the eyes of Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others, they are more and more like tombstones, or faded tombstones that are deep black, grayish white, or earthy yellow.

"Let's go." After quickly having breakfast, Jiang Baimian gave the order.

This time, she asked Bai Chen and Long Yuehong to sit in the armored vehicle and take turns driving, while she and Shang Jianyao were in charge of the jeep.

In the morning light, they did not return along the original tunnel road, because the road was too tortuous and dangerous. Without the guidance of Qiao Chu, who was familiar with the situation, the vehicles could easily get stuck in the swamp.

Moreover, Jiang Baimian suspected that some sections of road over there could not bear the weight of armored vehicles at all.

According to what An Ruxiang said and the traces left by the relic hunters, they made a small half circle to the north and left the ruins of the city by a relatively better road.

On the way, they did not forget to collect some watches, LCD screens, sunglasses and various useful metals, and even found two barrels of oil suitable for the armored vehicle.

When it was driving, Jiang Baimian narrowed his eyes, and said to Shang Jianyao, who was in the passenger seat:

"There is a convoy coming in front, dozens or hundreds of people."

As soon as she finished speaking, she woke up.