Squid Who Loves Diving

Chapter 384 A Small Price

“Maybe not every extraordinary item comes with a price?” Long Yuehong speculated on the reason.

Of course, he felt there was another possibility, which was that Shang Jianyao deliberately didn't mention it at the time.

Jiang Baimian shook her head:

“Theoretically, no.

“Since similar items are produced in the same way, they should follow the same rules.”

She wasn't too sure about this, after all, she hadn't figured out the essence of the "Mind Corridor" and Awakened's aura.

“It's also possible that the price attached to ‘Coward’ and ‘Destiny Pearl’ is too small to be noticed by Shang Jianyao,” Genava gave his analysis result.

Hearing this, Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and hit his left palm, saying with a suddenly enlightened tone:

“I understand why, the price attached to ‘Coward’ and ‘Destiny Pearl’ is insignificant to me, it didn't cause any impact at all.”

Jiang Baimian listened quietly and therefore had a new idea.

While tucking the falling strands of hair behind her ears, she said thoughtfully:

“‘Destiny Pearl’ is from the ‘Bodhi’ domain, Shang Jianyao can basically be sure to be in the ‘Zhuang Sheng’ domain, I remember that the manifestations of some prices in these two domains are very similar.”

She immediately gave an example:

“For example, mental problems.”

While Long Yuehong vaguely understood something, Bai Chen nodded slightly and said:

“Dimarco is very brutal and his emotional state is very unstable, which may come from the price he paid, which led to him having serious mental problems.”

“‘Destiny Pearl’ is just the solidification of his residual aura, its ability is not as good as the original, and the price must have been weakened a lot, and Shang Jianyao is a formal patient with a doctor's certificate.” Jiang Baimian said her judgment based on Bai Chen's analysis of Dimarco, "That little price, for Shang Jianyao, is like a hundred and fifty pounds of people weighing four or five pounds more, it is difficult for people who don't pay special attention to their weight to notice."

Long Yuehong weakly raised his hand:

“What about ‘Coward’?”

“Maybe the price attached to that kind of aura is also related to mental problems.” Jiang Baimian speculated thoughtfully.

Her core idea is that "Shang Jianyao has too many debts to worry about, so he ignores the price."

At this time, Shang Jianyao recalled and said:

“When I used ‘Coward’ at the time, I felt that my mental state was very good. Several of us were active in thinking, and each brought our characteristics to the extreme, successfully concealing it from Dimarco.”

“……” Jiang Baimian was stunned for a second and laughed out loud, “It seems that there is no need to think about other possibilities.”

The price attached to "Coward" may be multiple personality disorder, which makes the nine Shang Jianyaos feel like a fish in water, and they don't think there is any problem at all.

Shang Jianyao turned and looked at the "Blind Ring" placed aside, and said with a look of fear:

“It can actually make me lose my appetite.”

The function of this item is to make people lose their sight within a certain period of time and become blind, and the impact range reaches 130 meters.

Compared with the original, the place where it becomes weaker may be that it cannot work on multiple targets at the same time.

“The accurate description should be appetite…” Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said, “This might have miraculous effects when facing some Awakened in the ‘Mandala’ domain.”

To eat, or not to eat, that is the eternal question.

Ending this topic, Shang Jianyao took out the "Destiny Pearl" and pointed to it, which had dimmed a lot, and said:

“It shouldn't be used many times, it won't exceed ten.”

“Strive to keep two or three times for use on the main target.” Jiang Baimian felt very sorry - the "Destiny Pearl" is really quite easy to use.

Their main targets are Olei's granddaughter, Avia, and grandson, Marcus.

Investigating the cause of the Old World's destruction and the origin of "Heartless Disease" is the main task of their team, and eradicating the "Father" is just to eliminate hidden dangers and retaliate.

Mentioning the main target, Jiang Baimian looked at Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, and Genava and said:

“The ‘Father’’s matter has been resolved. Next, we have to live a secluded life for a while.

“Well, this is mainly to guard against the ‘Anti-intellectual Church’'s crazy revenge.”

Speaking of this, Jiang Baimian briefly mentioned some intelligence that Shang Jianyao had dug out from the "Father"'s memory:

“In dealing with us, because of the ‘Anti-intellectual Church’'s habits, the ‘Father’ has always been responsible for it alone. This can be regarded as a test of him by the higher-ups of the ‘Anti-intellectual Church’. If he can eliminate our hidden danger, then ‘Shepherd’ Buyong may consider lifting the suggestion on him and restoring his tampered memory to normal.

“In that case, he has the hope of entering the ‘Mind Corridor’.

“The point of what I just said is that those things we exposed before, with the death of the ‘Father’, are no longer under the control of the ‘Anti-intellectual Church’. We don't need to worry too much that they will use the ‘Wolf Den’, use Hugo Hotel, and use those people and places to launch revenge against us.”

“Did the ‘Father’ leave any paper records?” Long Yuehong asked cautiously.

“Yes, but he carried it with him and we got it.” Jiang Baimian pointed to the bag next to the "Blind Ring."

Inside was the "Father"'s personal belongings, including but not limited to: 75 Olei 12 Delacer banknotes, 7 Kass coins, a delicately crafted but very old wallet, a palm-sized notebook, five "Ralphie" candies, a pack of Flag cigarettes, a white mask without facial features, a "Red River" pistol, and nine bullets.

Jiang Baimian then added:

“Shang Jianyao confirmed through the ‘Father’s’ memory that he did not leave a backup record anywhere else.”

“That's good, that's good.” Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Baimian smiled, and then changed the subject and said:

“However, ‘Shepherd’ Buyong can browse other people's memories on a large scale without causing any disturbance.”

This information was obtained from the fake "Father" Guo Zheng, and the partial memories of the fake "Father" Sandel and the real "Father" Alex also proved this.

“In other words, ‘Shepherd’ Buyong should be able to determine that we did it by browsing the memories of the residents of those streets.” Jiang Baimian saw Long Yuehong's expression become serious, and comforted him again, “Fortunately, I had considered this in advance. When we evacuated, I asked you all to pass through those unmanned alleys with forks, just to interrupt ‘Shepherd’ Buyong's tracking.”

And the cameras in those places had been hacked by Genava.

After explaining the situation, Jiang Baimian concluded:

“The current focus of the ‘Anti-intellectual Church’ is still on inciting infighting within ‘First City’, and they are not a religious organization that can operate openly. Currently, they are being tracked by countless people. Therefore, as long as we reduce the frequency of going out, reduce the scope of activities, and don't run directly into them, there won't be any problems.

“In addition, our hibernation is also to wait for the situation in First City to start to become chaotic. When that happens, we will have the opportunity to contact Avia and Marcus.”

Seeing the team members nodding one after another, Jiang Baimian clapped her hands together and said:

“The operation was completed at noon, and everyone has consumed a lot. Let's eat something before discussing the things dug out from the ‘Father’s’ memory.

“Hehe, let’s just treat it as an internal celebration feast.”

“Yes, Team Leader!” Shang Jianyao replied very loudly.

After Long Yuehong and the others also responded, Jiang Baimian glanced at this guy:

“If I don’t let you have extra meals, what would you do?”

“I will play songs.” Shang Jianyao replied sincerely, “So hungry, so hungry, so hungry, I'm so hungry…”

As he spoke, he started singing.

Jiang Baimian quickly interrupted him and turned to ask Bai Chen:

“What are the specialty foods in the Qinggang Olive District?”

She hadn't had time to ask about this before.

“Fish, all kinds of fish cooking methods, fried fish, grilled fish, stewed fish, etc., etc.” Bai Chen replied calmly.

Long Yuehong looked blank:

“Can the residents of the Qinggang Olive District often eat fish?”

This didn't quite match his perception of the lives of the lower-class citizens.

Bai Chen glanced at him and nodded slightly:

“Yes.

“Because they eat the fish in the Red River.”

Long Yuehong was silent, not knowing what to say.

The Red River is severely polluted, with both radioactive materials accumulated from the destruction of the Old World and sewage discharged from upstream factory areas. Therefore, the fish in it have some problems and have generally undergone bad distortions.

If this type of fish is eaten for a long time, various diseases will inevitably come.

However, sometimes, people have no choice.

Starve to death in a few days, or die of illness in a few years, you have to choose one.

Bai Chen broke the brief silence and said instead:

“I remember that the black bread baked by a bakery called Demichel is not bad. Although it is made of rye, it is not that hard and rough, it is very fragrant and chewy.”

“Then black bread with coffee!” Jiang Baimian made the final decision.

Shang Jianyao immediately smiled and said:

“Celebrating that the ‘Father’ has been dead for one hour and twenty-eight minutes!”

“Celebrating that the ‘Father’ has been dead for one hour and twenty-eight minutes!” Genava imitated Shang Jianyao with a sense of ritual.

Jiang Baimian rolled her eyes and sighed quietly.