“Huh? What did you say?”

It was Shang Jianyao, not Jiang Baimian, who asked, touching his ear.

This made Bai Chen's body stiffen for a moment. Then, she pushed the door open, walked in, and said nothing more.

At the same time, Jiang Baimian turned her head and glared at Shang Jianyao.

"Helping you with voice acting," Shang Jianyao said sincerely.

"Although I didn't really hear what Little White said, I can guess! You, you ruined the whole atmosphere and feeling!" Jiang Baimian said with heartache, "What a great opportunity to cultivate team spirit!"

As she spoke, she opened the door and entered the room.

After closing the door, her expression changed, and she looked at Shang Jianyao with a smile:

"Maybe you missed a chance to be slept with by Little White because of that.

"In that situation, if you had said something warm or heroic, she might have been so moved that she would have asked me to switch rooms."

Shang Jianyao shook his head seriously:

"Inappropriate."

"Oh, you even know that?" Jiang Baimian sized up Shang Jianyao.

Shang Jianyao replied earnestly:

"She doesn't like dancing; we're not suitable."

"..." Jiang Baimian didn't know if Shang Jianyao was joking or genuinely thought that way.

She had no choice but to use his own spear against his shield:

"I thought you were going to say that lovers would only affect your mission to save all of humanity."

"A one-night stand and a lover are different," Shang Jianyao explained in a tone that suggested she might have comprehension problems.

"...You make the distinction quite clearly." Jiang Baimian felt that she couldn't gain the upper hand in such a topic, so she quickly changed the subject, "Is the effect of your 'Reasoning Clown' stronger than before? Eugene was so afraid after becoming your 'slave' that it was as if he had really been trained for a long time. Also, your tactics don't seem to be limited to 'What happens to you, happens to me' anymore; you're not just looking for common ground, right?"

"I could do that before, but it has to be a fact closely related to the target that has already happened. Different facts lead to different reasoning results, which may not favor me. I have to choose, or actively create," Shang Jianyao answered the latter question first.

As for the former, his answer was:

"I don't know why Eugene became like that.

"It wasn't so powerful when I used it on the bodyguards and drivers."

Jiang Baimian sat on the lower bunk and pondered:

"That's true. You used it three times tonight, and the earlier effects weren't so exaggerated.

"Perhaps... the effect of 'Reasoning Clown' is also related to the target's own understanding?

"Eugene has been capturing and training slaves for a long time. In his mind, he must have a recognized 'standard' for a truly qualified slave. When he considers himself your slave, he begins to regulate his behavior according to this 'standard'. When he sees you, he becomes fearful, trembling, and dare not resist?

"If it were someone else, even if they considered themselves your slave, they wouldn't act so exaggeratedly, because they simply don't know what a qualified slave would look like. They can't be lifelike in the details; they just obey to a lesser degree."

Shang Jianyao thought for a moment and said:

"Possible."

Jiang Baimian gave an "Mm" and continued:

"This is equivalent to adding a self-hypnosis after being influenced by 'Reasoning Clown,' so the effect is surprisingly good."

Speaking of this, she laughed:

"In a sense, this is called reaping what you sow.

"What do you think, will Eugene never train a slave that fully meets his own 'standard' in his whole life? In the end, the most perfect slave who meets his 'standard' is himself?

"Interesting, really interesting..."

"Life is always full of a sense of destiny, at this moment..." Shang Jianyao began to use a magnetic broadcasting voice.

"Stop, don't say it!" Jiang Baimian immediately interrupted him to avoid any unlucky words.

Shang Jianyao sat down on the stool at the table with some regret.

After two seconds, he suddenly said:

"Eugene mainly manufactures slaves. Who buys them?"

Jiang Baimian sighed:

"I've already thought about this. Don't ask yet; let Little White say it herself.

"This may be related to why she wants to undergo genetic modification..."

After a moment of silence, Jiang Baimian looked at Shang Jianyao and said seriously:

"Remember what you have to do?"

"Review. Every task must be reviewed," Shang Jianyao replied proficiently.

"Not bad." Jiang Baimian's eyebrows relaxed, "Think back from the beginning. Do you think there are any loopholes left that are easy to be traced?"

Shang Jianyao thought and said:

"The bodyguard who was initially influenced by 'Reasoning Clown.'

"At the side door of the nightclub, the lights were occasionally bright and occasionally dim. Although I was wearing a baseball cap, he was much shorter than me, at most 1.7 meters. It's possible that he saw my face.

"In retrospect, he will also realize that he was influenced, exposing my 'Reasoning Clown' ability to a certain extent."

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"That's right."

She then laughed:

"When I created chaos by shooting, my first few shots were aimed at him. He should be completely dead."

When Shang Jianyao was talking to that bodyguard, she had already remembered the other party's appearance and characteristics.

"It's just that Eugene, those bodyguards are trained professionally. They always block his body, so I couldn't aim at a suitable position, otherwise it wouldn't be so troublesome." After Jiang Baimian sighed, she said to Shang Jianyao, "Continue."

Shang Jianyao followed the process and scrutinized the details:

"When we ran to the parking lot, it was too easy to attract attention and become suspicious people afterward."

"We ran so fast, and we were wearing baseball caps. There weren't many streetlights either. No one could see our faces clearly." Jiang Baimian smiled, "When I ran, I deliberately kept my back bent low, which would create a visual illusion for the witnesses and give a wrong description of our height."

"Isn't it to win against me?" Shang Jianyao was a little surprised.

In order not to be caught up by Jiang Baimian, he also used a similar running posture, which was faster.

"Do you think I'm also mentally ill?" Jiang Baimian retorted unhappily, "At that time, our clothes were also inside out. The image characteristics are basically different from the daytime."

As for the nightclub, in that kind of lighting and environment, they didn't dance closely with anyone and always pressed down on their baseball caps, so it was impossible for them to be seen, at most being remembered as two people.

Shang Jianyao continued:

"After that was the driver, but there wasn't much light in the parking lot, and I deliberately kept a certain distance from him. He shouldn't be able to see my face, but he may have exposed my 'Reasoning Clown' ability.

"I told him that there was more than one traitor among the bodyguards. When those bodyguards found out that he was still in the parking lot and went over aggressively, he was likely to shoot under stress, triggering a new round of fighting..."

"This was handled well. It's okay for the ability to be exposed, as long as it's not linked to you." After Jiang Baimian praised him, she said, "That driver hid too fast. I couldn't lock onto him, otherwise I could have eliminated him on the spot."

She then asked:

"When you were hiding in the car, weren't you afraid that there would be Awakened Ones around Eugene, or that he himself was an Awakened One, and that they would sense someone in the car in advance?"

The situation was urgent at the time. Since Shang Jianyao had confidence, she didn't ask any more questions.

Shang Jianyao was quite calm:

"Awakened Ones should be able to disguise themselves so that they are not sensed by other Awakened Ones."

"What if they directly see your figure or hear your footsteps?" Jiang Baimian asked with a lot of research spirit.

"The disguise will fail as long as the other party can confirm your existence through the five senses," Shang Jianyao replied truthfully.

"That's pretty amazing..." Jiang Baimian commented.

She didn't ask what would happen if Eugene's group could sense electrical signals, because that was almost impossible.

In the Ashlands, only Pangu Biology and White Knights can stably genetically modify and produce corresponding serums. Only Pangu Biology can do genetic modification with a non-low success rate.

The gene modification that can sense electrical signals is a secret project developed by Pangu Biology. The technology is not even mature, and it is completely unique.

Of course, Jiang Baimian was not sure about this either. She was not sure whether places like the Eighth Research Institute had similar technologies.

Shang Jianyao continued the review, skipping the part about why he didn't shoot Eugene as soon as he got into the car, and talked about the aftermath:

"The traces that might have been left in the car were blown up by you...

"On the way back, you also kept a distance from us, so that the people we met wouldn't think there were three of us...

"In places without surveillance, we had already removed the disguise. It was difficult for witnesses to link us to what happened there..."

Jiang Baimian listened quietly and nodded slightly:

"That's about it. The biggest problem is that you didn't directly shoot Eugene, but tried to capture him alive. This brought many variables and made things more complicated. Fortunately, there were not many accidents, and they were all resolved."

After criticizing him, Jiang Baimian looked at Shang Jianyao suspiciously:

"Besides wanting to capture him alive, did you have any other purpose?"

Shang Jianyao was silent for a while and said:

"Wanted to scare him."

"..." Jiang Baimian didn't know where to start scolding.

Just then, there was noise coming from everywhere outside.

Jiang Baimian immediately got up, walked to the table, and looked out the window.

At this time, the power had not yet gone out, and the streetlights on each street were on, allowing Jiang Baimian to see two or three city defense soldiers in olive-green uniforms carrying submachine guns entering the alley in front and questioning passersby.

The direction of the city gate was also brightly lit, and there seemed to be many people there, with the clamor like boiling water.

"Eugene's slave-catching team wants to enter the city completely, search for the murderer themselves, and save the boss?" Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully.

This was her initial judgment based on the current situation.

Then, she laughed:

"It's quite a big fuss."