The sun was already setting in the west, and two bicycles dragged their shadows, speeding between the desolate farmland and the trees with withered leaves.
As they rode, Jiang Baimian suddenly made a gesture, signaling Shang Jianyao to slow down.
Then, she rode to the side of the road, parked her bicycle, and picked some small, relatively soft branches.
“What are you going to weave?” Shang Jianyao asked curiously.
Jiang Baimian, without her mask, revealed a malicious smile:
“Preparing to execute family law.”
Shang Jianyao deeply agreed:
“Yes, Little Red has been getting a little cocky lately. He needs to know how difficult life is.”
Jiang Baimian “Heh”ed, and pressed the branches onto the back seat.
Without much explanation, she got back on the bike and said:
“Let’s go.”
When the sky was dyed with sunset colors, the two returned to the dock.
Seeing them return safely, Long Yuehong, wearing his exoskeleton device, breathed a sigh of relief:
“How was it? Did you find anything?”
“There’s a little something, let’s talk about it when we get back.” Jiang Baimian looked up at the sky, “We need to hurry, we can’t wait until it’s completely dark.”
At that time, it would be difficult to distinguish directions on the lake, and the Fishmen would be even more elusive.
Although the "Old Task Force" had two human-shaped radars that could sense the presence of enemies, this was, after all, the era of hot weapons. If the Fishmen drove boats, taking advantage of the night, and launched rocket launchers from a hundred or two meters away, it would be quite troublesome.
In addition, Jiang Baimian was not very willing to share the rather creepy exploration experience in this environment, lest it affect the state of Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.
Bai Chen and Long Yuehong had no different opinions about her suggestion, because the sun was indeed setting little by little.
After Bai Chen parked the bicycle and started the speedboat, Jiang Baimian sat down, took the branches she had picked before, and began to weave something seriously.
“Team Leader, what are you doing?” Long Yuehong was also curious.
“Executing family law.” Shang Jianyao deliberately took off his mask so that Long Yuehong could see his sunny smile.
Jiang Baimian then laughed:
“It might come in handy later.
“It’s best to avoid fighting with the Fishmen if possible.”
Speaking of this, she paused and boasted:
“We are the big villains, we must learn to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
Long Yuehong was confused, not understanding what the relationship was between weaving branches and subduing the enemy without fighting.
At this time, Bai Chen, who was in charge of driving the speedboat, said in a low voice:
“It seems she wants to deceive the Fishmen.”
Perhaps the wind interference was not so strong, Jiang Baimian keenly caught this sentence and widened her eyes:
“How can you call it deception?
“This is tactical deception.”
“What’s the difference between the two?” Long Yuehong said subconsciously.
Shang Jianyao helped to "explain":
“The latter sounds a little better.”
“Okay, you guys are singing in harmony.” Jiang Baimian glanced at them, “It seems I really need to consider how to execute family law!”
As they talked and laughed, the speedboat sailed along the original route, riding the waves towards Redstone Town.
Before long, Jiang Baimian had woven a bracelet with half of the thin branches.
“So, you’ve never forgotten it.” Shang Jianyao suddenly realized.
Jiang Baimian almost choked:
“What terrible lines.”
“What do you mean?” Long Yuehong was both confused and curious.
Jiang Baimian casually explained:
“We found a branch bracelet in that temple, but we didn’t dare to take it.”
“Yes, you can’t take things from that kind of place casually.” Long Yuehong said that’s how it should be.
After putting the branch bracelet on her left wrist, Jiang Baimian stretched out her left hand to Bai Chen and gestured:
“How is it? Am I not dexterous?”
Bai Chen replied calmly:
“Don’t block me from driving the boat.”
She paused and added:
“When I was seven years old, I weaved better than you.”
“How can this be the same? When I was seven years old, I hadn’t even seen what real trees looked like, and I thought they were all like cotton.” Jiang Baimian smiled indifferently.
The speedboat sailed for a while longer, and the sky became even darker.
Seeing the lake shore in sight, Jiang Baimian frowned slightly.
Soon, Shang Jianyao said:
“There are a large number of people underwater.”
“Heh, still so rigorous. It’s not necessarily Fishmen who are coming, right?” Jiang Baimian said with a smile, and said with a relaxed expression, “There are about thirty or so.”
“So many?” Long Yuehong was not sure how much combat power his old antique could exert after entering the water.
At this moment, Jiang Baimian walked to the edge of the speedboat, faced the direction with the most Fishmen, and raised her left hand.
She shook her wrist and said loudly:
“We went to that forbidden temple and obtained this item.
“You should know what your envoy took back then, you should know how powerful he was, you should also be very clear.
“Want to give it a try?”
After speaking, she turned her head and winked at Shang Jianyao.
At this moment, the Fishmen underwater were not very sensitive to the sounds outside, and could only barely hear words such as "temple", "envoy", "powerful" and "horror". At the same time, through the shaking water waves, they saw the branch bracelet on Jiang Baimian's wrist.
This naturally made them associate with certain things and recall the envoy's performance, which could be described as terrifying.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of Fishmen suddenly lost "feeling" in their hands and could no longer wave the water.
This caused them to sink a little instantly, but they quickly relied on the movement of their legs to maintain their balance.
The facts were in front of them, they couldn't help but believe it, and they didn't want to or dare to fight against an enemy as powerful as the envoy.
Moreover, they had just experienced a war and lost a lot of population, and they certainly didn't want to die for no reason for thirty or forty young and strong men.
Those Fishmen who experienced "missing hand movements" quickly informed their companions of the situation through gestures.
Seven or eight seconds later, they simultaneously dived down and moved away from this area of water.
Jiang Baimian immediately retracted her gaze and glanced at Long Yuehong, Shang Jianyao, and Bai Chen with a smile:
“I told you, subdue the enemy without fighting.”
Long Yuehong was sincerely convinced.
Shang Jianyao then proposed a new plan:
“If we tell them that we killed the Fishmen envoy, would they also be scared away?”
“There is also the possibility of launching a suicidal charge.” Jiang Baimian breathed a sigh of relief.
After this conversation, she was sure of one thing, and that was that Shang Jianyao did not have any guilt or psychological burden because he had killed the Fishmen envoy.
That’s right, on the battlefield, lives are at stake, unless you accidentally kill your own comrades, you don’t need to worry too much. Well, Shang Jianyao didn’t want to kill him at the time. If it hadn’t been for the sudden change, he would have been ready to capture him alive… Jiang Baimian cancelled the scheduled psychological counseling session.
The sky became increasingly gloomy, and only half of the sun remained on the horizon when the speedboat returned to the Redstone Town dock.
…………
In the hotel camp, in room "05".
Jiang Baimian shared the discoveries during the exploration with Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.
As Long Yuehong listened, he felt a cold wind blowing and couldn't help shivering.
Then, he glared at Shang Jianyao:
“When did you open the door?”
What made him feel cold was the winter night wind blowing in from outside.
“A minute ago.” Shang Jianyao expressed his thoughts, “I’m simulating the environment at the time for you, so you can immerse yourselves in it.”
“No need!” Long Yuehong said that he didn’t want to immerse himself in it at all.
After Shang Jianyao closed the door, he turned to sigh:
“This sounds so magical.”
Not scientific at all.
“Yeah.” Jiang Baimian also breathed a sigh of relief, “The life forms of those powerful Awakened and even the Ruling Gods who explored the depths of the ‘Mind Corridor’ are really curious. So many incredible things can arise around them. At that time, I really felt that there might be ghosts.”
She looked around and said solemnly:
“This also tells us that we can firmly believe that science can explain everything, but we must never directly treat things that science cannot currently explain or verify as non-existent, or define them as wrong.
“This is especially true today, when science is far from perfect.
“The spirit of science is to boldly hypothesize, carefully verify, and seek truth from facts, not to cling to the old and refuse to change, be complacent, and blindly reject.”
Clap clap clap, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.
Jiang Baimian glared at him and looked at Bai Chen:
“What are your thoughts?”
“When we get back to the company, we must apply for the relevant information.” Bai Chen said calmly, “In this regard, the company definitely knows more than us, and the more we know, the safer our subsequent investigations will be.”
Jiang Baimian “Hmm”ed:
“It’s a pity we’re out here now, and we can only get a response from the company when we encounter specific problems.”
She continued:
“After this, I can be sure that the Vigilance Church will send strong people to explore the temple. Although we have a friendly relationship with Alert Song and the others, we are carrying a lot of secrets after all, and there is no need to meet the strong people of the Vigilance Church.
“Anyway, our main goal in Redstone Town has been achieved, and only the collection of ‘Mechanical Paradise’ information is left, which will be completed soon, so let’s leave directly when the time comes.”
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen had no objections, and Shang Jianyao hesitated for a moment before nodding.
Jiang Baimian breathed a sigh of relief and smiled:
“While we still have time, we must find the real murderer who killed Hevig.
“We can’t take their arms and not do anything.”
Bai Chen considered it:
“We may have to re-sort through that list of Hevig’s enemies.”
“Yeah.” Jiang Baimian had just responded when she turned her gaze to the door.
Soon, Shang Jianyao also looked over.
After another ten seconds, someone knocked on the door with a咚咚咚sound.
Shang Jianyao put on his monkey mask and opened the door, only to find that the visitor was Alert Song He, wearing a black cloak, and Weller, the playboy-like forensic doctor from the security station.
After entering the room, Song He looked at Jiang Baimian and others and said sincerely:
“I have a task I want to entrust to you.”
“What is it?” Jiang Baimian asked in confusion.
Song He looked at Weller and said:
“We previously suspected that someone was selling information to the Fishmen and Mountain Monsters, letting them know that Bishop Renato had been urgently transferred back to headquarters.
“Now, we have preliminarily identified a suspect and hope you can conduct a secret investigation.”
Jiang Baimian nodded in understanding:
“Who is it?”
Song He sighed and said with a serious expression:
“Han Wanghuo.”