Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 27: Emptiness

Looking at the flyers in Shang Jianyao's hands, Jiang Baimian's mental quality was a bit dumbfounded.

While waiting for Bai Chen and Long Yuehong to take their place, she had anticipated various possibilities after opening the door, but she never expected to see this familiar and unfamiliar thing.

"Lei Yunsong and their disappearance are related to the group of lunatics who preached poisonous knowledge?" Jiang Baimian muttered to himself, full of doubts.

Just a minute ago, there seemed to be no connection between the two!

"They gave up thinking?" Shang Jianyao's rhetorical question was rather abrupt, like a mathematical proof without intermediate steps.

"...At present, it is possible." Jiang Baimian thought for a few seconds before nodding slightly.

She then added another sentence:

"This is just a guess for the time being. We can't determine whether this flyer was accidentally left by Lin Feifei and the others, or it was placed on purpose to mislead investigators."

"As long as one of the members of that organization can be found, the problem will be solved." Shang Jianyao gave his plan quite seriously.

"Then you can get in, go to the party, eat and drink, gather clues and find the truth?" Jiang Baimian helped Shang Jian Yao to complete the whole plan.

This sounds a little absurd, like a child playing home, but with Shang Jian Yao's ability, everything is possible.

"With their IQ, I can be the one who distributes food." Shang Jianyao glanced at the flyer in his hand, raised his right arm, and wiped the corner of his mouth.

When Jiang Baimian laughed, he reminded:

"Illiteracy does not mean low IQ."

"Those who believe this argument must be very easy to deceive." Shang Jianyao was quite confident.

"That's true. To be a member of this organization, they are all people who have been screened and are easily deceived. Well, they should also be easily frightened and guided." Jiang Baimian nodded slightly and turned to smile. "You don't worry about cheating their organizers, because they are so easy to cheat that they save food?"

"Too much!" Shang Jian Yao was immediately filled with outrage.

Jiang Baimian groaned for a few seconds and said:

"Speaking seriously, be careful.

"Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei are certainly not stupid. There is no doubt about that, but why do they get mixed up with such a group of people?

"I'm worried that if you really want to get in, IQ will be pulled to the overall level of that organization.

"This is not a joke, the abilities of the awakened are quite strange and terrifying."

"Pollution is mutual." Shang Jianyao responded solemnly.

Jiang Baimian was speechless for a while.

She immediately walked to the window, opened a piece of glass, and waved to Bai Chen and Long Yuehong below, indicating that they no longer need to be fully alert.

Then, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao searched the room again, but failed to find more clues.

Immediately afterwards, they opened the opposite room with tools.

——This is also the place where Lin Feifei's residence is suspected.

This room is very messy, all kinds of objects are everywhere, emitting a faint musty smell.

In comparison, the only table has the cleanest surface, mainly containing books, paper, and a pen with scotch tape wrapped around the middle.

During the inspection, Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian found that most of the books were stamped by the Yecao City Public Library, and the few books were damp, dirty, old and tattered. They did not know where to collect them. Come.

It didn't take long for them to determine what kind of people lived in this room:

A simple family consisting of parents and a child. The father seems to be doing physical work. The mother helps people to sew clothes at home. The child is eleven or twelve years old and is self-learning.

"Such people shouldn't believe in those lunatics." Jiang Baimian made the final conclusion.

In other words, this is not the target room, you can leave.

Shang Jian Yao nodded, suddenly walked to the table and picked up the pen.

"What are you going to do?" Jiang Baimian gave up the idea of ​​guessing Shang Jianyao.

"Certify homework." Shang Jian Yao said without looking back.

"...Time may not be too late. If you miss the follow-up clues, the investigation may be interrupted." Jiang Baimian did not directly use the authority of the team leader to call Shang Jianyao back, but laid out the facts and reasoned.

Shang Jian Yao thought for a while, nodded and lowered his body, and quickly wrote a few words on the paper.

In just a few seconds, he put the pen and turned back.

Jiang Baimian turned his body, looked towards the table, and saw four more upright words on the paper:

"study well"

Jiang Baimian suddenly chuckled.

When she left the room and locked the door again, she "muttered":

"It will scare them."

"Fear is also a motivation." Shang Jianyao said calmly.

"..." Jiang Baimian squinted at this guy, "hiss", "Don't always make your thinking so complicated."

While they were talking, the two left the building and came to the entrance to the courtyard in Huangjiao Lane.

There is also a sentry box here with an old man wrapped in a dark blue old cotton jacket.

There are many wrinkles on his face, his skin is as rough as orange peel, but his hair is not sparse at all, not even white.

This makes it impossible to judge his age from his appearance.

No need for Jiang Baimian's orders, Shang Jianyao walked over and shouted with a smile:

"uncle."

The old janitor was busy putting the military green cotton cap in his hand on top of his head, and muttered:

"Don't shout so affectionately, just say what you have, and give money if you have any questions."

Shang Jian Yao calmly repeated the words "You are a man and I am also a man".

The old man's eyebrows became active at once, and he raised his fingers and said diagonally:

"Here, there are a lot of that building."

Shang Jian Yao did not correct the opponent's "reasoning deviation" and took out Lin Feifei's photo and said:

"Have you seen this person?"

"I have seen it." The old man's voice became louder, "Don't think about it, don't think about it, she didn't sell it."

Having said this, he lowered his voice:

"I suspect she is the mistress of a noble master in North Street. A man will come to her every few days."

"How do you know?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.

The old man smiled:

"I live in the same building with her, or on the same floor, how can I not know?"

"Do you know Lao Zheng?" Shang Jianyao changed the question somehow.

The old janitor at Hongluo Lane said that Lao Zheng told him most of Lin Feifei's affairs.

The old man froze for a moment:

"I am Old Zheng."

"Ah, that's all right." Shang Jianyao returned to the subject, "Is she living in the room near Huangjiao Lane?"

"Yes." Old Zheng was very sure.

Shang Jianyao continued to ask:

"What does the man who always find her look like?"

"That can't be said. He wore a hat, a collar, and a mask on his face every time. He was sneaky, he looked like he had an identity and didn't want to be exposed." Old Zheng recalled Said, "He is quite tall, uh... he looks a few centimeters shorter than you."

Shang Jian Yao turned to ask:

"Have you seen this woman in the photo today?"

"I've seen it, it looks like early eight o'clock." Old Zheng laughed. "She was wearing a mask and the baseball cap was low. People who are not familiar with her will definitely not recognize her, but she goes in and out every day. I can be sure that it is her only by the outline."

Obviously, this old man paid special attention to Lin Feifei.

"Where did she go?" Shang Jianyao asked.

Old Zheng shook his head:

"how could I know?

"I saw her walking towards South Street with a large bag of things.

"It's a black travel bag..."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Baimian was extremely sure that Lin Feifei had moved.

Whether or not Liu Dazhuang dies, she will transfer.

After asking a few more details, Shang Jianyao took out a bag of compressed biscuits and handed it to Lao Zheng.

"Young man, know how to be human!" Old Zheng stretched his eyebrows and exaggerated.

After leaving the yard, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen, and Long Yuehong met in a secluded corner of Huangjiao Alley.

After listening to the retelling of the group leader, Long Yuehong spoke in surprise:

"Even the organization that stuffed leaflets everywhere?"

No matter how he looked at it, he felt that the organization couldn't make it to the table, and it had a funny breath.

"Not sure yet." Jiang Baimian said thoughtfully, "but no matter what, you have to contact Chen Xufeng and ask him to send a telegram back to the company and ask for information about similar organizations. Next, we may encounter those groups. Crazy, it’s better to prepare early. Um...you will walk around in a while, don’t rush to ask if anyone has seen women carrying black travel bags, the key point is to observe the relic hunters and see if they can find out What clues come. Shang Jianyao and I went to leave information for Chen Xufeng."

"Yes, group leader." Bai Chen and Long Yuehong replied.

Because of environmental restrictions, they are not too loud.

Just as Jiang Baimian was about to exhort a few more words, Long Yuehong suddenly asked with some doubts:

"When Lin Feifei left the yard, he knew how to pretend. Why was he seen his face when he was'waiting' for Liu Dazhuang?"

This is a bit unreasonable.

As soon as he finished speaking, Long Yuehong noticed that Shang Jianyao brushed the ground and looked at him. He felt a little guilty, and always felt that he had asked another stupid question.

Jiang Baimian froze for two seconds, then smiled:

"That's right, you can notice this.

"Next time you can think more deeply, put yourself in that environment and see what decisions you will make."

After the praise, she explained:

"If you are an ordinary relic hunter, when UU read www.uukanshu.com to Hongluo Lane and ask the surrounding shop owners if they have met Liu Dazhuang, what questions would you ask?"

Long Yuehong thought carefully for a few seconds, then said carefully:

"I will ask, have you ever seen someone more suspicious?"

Jiang Baimian smiled:

"Is that a kind of pretty woman who is suspicious of someone waiting on the side of the road, or is it suspicious of a person with a hat pressed very low, wearing a mask and unable to see his face?"

Long Yuehong suddenly realized:

"In that case, too much disguise is a feature, which is easy to remember."

"Yes. Besides, in a short period of time, besides us, who would ask if you have seen a woman like Lin Feifei?" Jiang Baimian added with a smile.

Then, her tone became meaningful:

"But not necessarily afterwards." </div>

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