Long Yuehong remained stunned and bewildered:
“What scared away?”
Shang Jianyao opened the car door and got out, explaining with a "disappointed" tone:
“Didn't we notice someone spying on us in the dark before? We waited for a while, but they didn't come over.
“So, Big White wanted to pretend to sleep, lure them to attack, and find an opportunity to catch them and study their special abilities, um, if they really are that special ‘Advanced Heartless One’.
“Who knew you'd come up with your own plan and scare them away!”
As Shang Jianyao spoke, Jiang Baimian also got out of the jeep.
“The team leader didn't say that…” Long Yuehong carefully recalled the previous situation and turned his pleading gaze towards Jiang Baimian.
He found it absurd. He just boasted in front of Little White, how could he scare away an "Advanced Heartless One"?
If the other party really had the ability to "predict," they shouldn't confuse the bragging plan with a real, potentially implemented plan!
Bai Chen and Genaeva, although a little puzzled earlier, seemed to have woken up now.
Before Jiang Baimian could answer, Shang Jianyao said excitedly:
“Read between the lines! Understand? What does it mean to read between the lines?
“What kind of person is Big White? Don't you know? Full of, uh, a clever mind, how could he simply let go of anomalies? Especially since we all felt that hidden gaze.
“You have to learn to understand the implied meaning and have a silent understanding with us.”
Is this the joking Shang Jianyao, or the Shang Jianyao seeking novelty and strangeness, actually playing the role of Little Red's elder, teacher… Jiang Baimian glared at Shang Jianyao, cleared her throat, and said:
“Don't listen to Wei's nonsense. I was just thinking of observing a little longer before going to bed, in case something unexpected really happened.”
So what Wei said was true… Team leader, you even deceived your own team members in order to deceive the enemy… Long Yuehong suddenly remembered what happened when facing the mechanical monk Jingfa.
That time, Jiang Baimian planned a fake scheme, successfully ambushing the mechanical monk Jingfa by deceiving the team members.
Seeing Bai Chen also showing a recalling expression, Jiang Baimian hurriedly added:
“And this matter can't be said.
“Do you still remember the mechanical monk Jingfa? He showed outstanding ‘hearing’ at the time, mastered our ‘plan,’ and also, when we were trapped in the ‘Crystal Consciousness Church’ in Sikaluo Temple, didn't we experience seeing what others saw and hearing what others heard?
“Based on my understanding of Buddhist scriptures, and the fact that there is a Buddhist sacred site here, the anomalies should all be related to this. I suspect that the special ‘Advanced Heartless One’ has the ability not of ‘prediction,’ but of ‘divine ears’ and ‘divine eyes’.
“Um, I started to suspect it after Little Red mentioned that Lao Ge could monitor 24/7, and I could sense bioelectrical signals, and that hidden gaze instantly disappeared.”
“Um.” Bai Chen and Genaeva both expressed their agreement.
Long Yuehong thought about it seriously and felt it made sense.
So, the bragging I just did was heard by that "Advanced Heartless One," and it directly scared them away? Long Yuehong suddenly realized and found it funny.
However, he still had a little doubt:
“Team leader, that's just an ‘Advanced Heartless One,’ why can they understand what we say and understand the meaning of it? This is completely different from ‘prediction’ which can take effect through dangerous intuition.”
Even if the "Advanced Heartless One" regained a certain amount of intelligence, they should only be able to understand relatively simple words, just like the ones following Xiao Chong.
Jiang Baimian nodded slightly and said:
“Since it's a special ‘Advanced Heartless One,’ then there must be something ‘special’ about it. Maybe they are also possessed by something, and the other party acts as a ‘translator’."
“You can't underestimate ‘Advanced Heartless Ones’ too much.” Shang Jianyao spoke up for them, "If Xiao Chong's subordinates evolve once more, they might be able to understand more complex words.”
I think the team leader's situation is more likely. This is not only a Buddhist sacred site, but also something once possessed Liu Lu… Long Yuehong muttered while expressing the corresponding content in a more euphemistic way.
The Shang Jianyao who switched personalities did not insist on his own opinion, but said regretfully:
“What a pity, the trap didn't work, and we didn't catch him.”
“Forget it, forget it, let's go to sleep.” Jiang Baimian exhaled and said, "He shouldn't come again tonight.”
The rest of the "Old Task Force" members had a similar judgment on this point.
…………
The night passed without incident. At 9:30 a.m. the next day, the "Old Task Force" arrived at the Tieshan City Second Food Company half an hour early.
The gate here was still in a collapsed state.
Jiang Baimian and the others quickly searched the food company in a quarter of an hour and found that there was no difference from yesterday's situation.
Then, Shang Jianyao took out the medical record original and the small jade Buddha in turn and tried, but no changes were triggered again.
“Did we really enter a hallucination yesterday?” Jiang Baimian muttered to herself regretfully, "Is this the ‘You Gu's’ purpose?”
While she and Long Yuehong and others were sighing, Xu Datong and Li Shouyi's dark-colored vehicle drove over.
“How is it, did you find anything?” Xu Datong asked kindly and enthusiastically.
When others are enthusiastic, Shang Jianyao is naturally more enthusiastic:
“No!
“But the lack of findings just shows that we entered a hallucination yesterday!”
Hallucination… This is a good explanation… Jiang Baimian had an idea and said:
“We caused a change in the hallucination, allowing the employee introduction column I mentioned before to be completely reproduced…”
She told everything she experienced yesterday, but concealed the small jade Buddha and pushed all the problems to the hallucination.
Finally, she guessed:
“The reason why we, not you, encountered the hallucination may be that we carry a medical record from the ruins of the Lianhe Steel Factory in Changhe City, which is another Buddhist sacred site.”
“No wonder…” Xu Datong suddenly realized, "However, what you saw in the hallucination doesn't seem to have any value.”
Jiang Baimian first shared the contents of the medical record with the other party, and then said:
“We are looking for the connection between the two.”
She didn't mention her team's guess last night, which was too terrifying and lacked evidence.
“Thank you so much.” Xu Datong said sincerely, "I don't know if there is anything we can help with?”
Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:
“You mentioned before that you collected several hard drives from the ruins of Tieshan City and restored the data inside. Some of the information you organized and gave us before came from here. Can you copy the entire database to us now?”
“What we gave you was already carefully selected by us, and we thought it was a bit useful. The rest is miscellaneous and worthless.” Xu Datong felt it was meaningless.
Jiang Baimian cleared her throat and said with a smile:
“To be honest, I also have the identity of a folklorist and have a great interest in the living environment of the Old World, and those miscellaneous contents are likely to contain details in this regard.”
Xu Datong glanced at her and chuckled:
“Okay.”
He then asked a "Salvation Army" member in the car to take out a portable computer.
Genaeva, without giving way, walked over with "firewall" and "antivirus software" and copied all the data.
“Lao Ge, do some simple screening of those data now.” Jiang Baimian issued an order in front of Xu Datong and others.
“The first keyword is Changhe City.” This time it was Shang Jianyao who spoke.
The "Old Task Force" had done similar screening of the Tieshan City intelligence they had mastered before, and everyone was very skilled.
“There are only a few business-related content, which is meaningless.” Genaeva quickly gave the result.
Bai Chen immediately said:
“The second keyword, Montius.”
This is the name of the first owner of the "Underground Ark." He once participated in the old city renovation bidding in Tieshan City and awakened the ability of the "Bodhi" domain after the destruction of the Old World.
“None.” Genaeva replied.
“The third keyword, foreign businessman.” Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said.
Genaeva quickly completed the search:
“There are several news reports from foreign chambers of commerce, which do not involve Montius and old city renovation.”
Next, the "Old Task Force" used keywords such as "old city renovation" to do more screening, but there were no gains. Xu Datong, Li Shouyi, and others watched patiently.
As time passed, Jiang Baimian paced back and forth:
“Keyword, foreigner.”
Genaeva started searching again.
After a few seconds, he said in a slightly synthetic voice:
“Found it.”
“What is it? Shang Jianyao excitedly surrounded him.
Genaeva looked up at Jiang Baimian and said:
“There is a post from a local forum in Tieshan City with the theme of condemning unjust law enforcement.
“Someone mentioned in this post:
“Before, a foreigner drove without a license and hit a pedestrian into a vegetative state, but was not sentenced and only paid a sum of money.”
A foreigner drove without a license and hit a pedestrian into a vegetative state? Long Yuehong's pupils dilated, and the hairs on his back stood up instantly.