Embers Ad Infinitum

Vol 2 Chapter 67: "compass"

Chapter 67 "North Pointer"

An invisible lake waved with the wind on the left side of the vehicle, and buildings from the old world stood beside it.

Some of them have collapsed, some are abnormally dilapidated, and some of them are covered with already withered plants, and some of them fall down from time to time.

"This is Hongshiji?" Long Yuehong, who was driving, asked in surprise.

It has been a while since they left Yecao City and headed south. According to the general location provided by "Uncle Sun" Fei and the leader of the "Rootless" team, Fei Lin, and the route indicated by several relic hunter teams on the way, they barely found Nuhu Area, locked a larger area.

Then, based on the traces of human activities, they found the ruins of this city on the lake.

——In the absence of satellites to provide positioning and no guides, they can only rely on this stupid method. After all, Bai Chen only knows and understands Redstone Collection, and has never really come. Her area of activity was limited to between "Pangu Creature", "First City" and "White Knights".

This is also the normal state of most relic hunters and wilderness wanderers. Although they may live in no fixed place and live from relics, they are still limited to a certain area by intelligence, materials, connections, courage, and experience.

Bai Chen in the co-pilot's position was also a little puzzled:

"It looks like it has been abandoned for a long time."

"Those **** is still relatively fresh, indicating that there are many people here, even if it is not the Redstone Collection, you should know where the Redstone Collection is." Shang Jianyao in the back row said with a certain tone.

He was confident in the traces he found.

When starting from Yecao City, in order to collect materials for the military exoskeleton device, Jiang Baimian proposed to sell the extra car to the "Rootless" caravan.

Because Shang Jian Yao was holding the jeep and refused to let go, indicating that everyone was already a companion and had to abandon or give up. Therefore, the "old tune group" could only sell the bulletproof cross-country car given by Xu Liyan.

In order to improve the survivability of the Jeep and enhance everyone's safety factor, Jiang Baimian exchanged almost half of the materials, and asked Fei Lin to add bullet-proof glass and thicker armor to the car, and modified the electric engine.

——Of course, they would not prepare the food and ammunition needed for the journey. They directly reported it back to the company. Through Chen Xufeng, they got a large batch.

Official business must be done publicly!

Hearing Shang Jianyao's words, Jiang Baimian raised his hand to his nose:

"Go into the ruins, go around and see what you can find."

After speaking, she glanced at Shang and saw the book in Yao's hand:

"How are you looking?"

Before leaving, she took advantage of Shang Jianyao's "privilege" to borrow a number of relatively unpopular and disease-related books from the Yecao City Public Library.

"Very rewarding." Shang Jianyao watched Long Yuehong drive the vehicle towards the ruins of the city.

"Oh?" Jiang Baimian expressed curiosity in his tone.

Shang Jian Yao answered seriously:

"Learning medicine cannot save all mankind."

Jiang Baimian was a little at a loss:

"What do you mean?"

"Effective organization, the spirit of exploration, the courage of experimentation, scientific methods, and the inheritance of knowledge are the most important, and medicine is only one of the links." Shang Jian Yao talked freely.

"So, have you found a new way to deal with the disease island?" Jiang Baimian pointed to the point.

During this period of time, Shang Jianyao always talked with her about the "disease island" without shy, so she didn't help him avoid Bai Chen and Long Yuehong.

Shang Jianyao replied solemnly:

"No.

"We can only make persistent efforts in accordance with current ideas."

"Yes, keep this spirit of repeated defeats." Jiang Baimian encouraged.

Bai Chen looked at the construction ruins with cracked cement and steel reinforcement expenditure, hesitated for a moment, and gave his own suggestions:

"Actually, you can really have a small illness and feel the true appearance of the disease."

"I also considered this plan." Although Shang Jianyao's similar ideas have been rejected before, in fact, Jiang Baimian did not completely abandon this direction. "The main reason is that this guy is as strong as a cow and is not sick at all. If you are deliberately infected, the severity will easily go out of control. Hey, it’s really not possible. Just wait until you return to the company."

Long Yuehong opened her mouth, wanted to say something, but closed her mouth sensibly.

In the next second, Shang Jianyao spoke:

"Long Yuehong can catch a cold first, and then infect me."

"What's the difference?" Jiang Baimian cursed, "Okay, observe your surroundings."

At this time, the army-green jeep, which looked slightly old and tattered, drove into the ruins of the city that stretched far from the lake.

The similar ruins of the old world always make people unable to see the end at a glance, which is beyond imagination.

This place is very similar to the ruins next to the "Rootless" camp. A large number of buildings collapsed, the road surface sank, and nothing of value remained. It was desolate and extremely silent.

"In the old world, what a lively place this should be..." Long Yuehong remembered the scene after the "lights on" of the Marsh No. 1 ruins.

And that is not enough to restore one-tenth of the old world city scene.

"The decline of human civilization is sometimes faster and more thorough than we thought, and sometimes it is tougher and more tenacious than anyone thought." Jiang Baimian looked out the window at the city where he had been dead for so many years, and followed with emotion. One sentence.

Bai Chen made careful observations:

"These collapses and destructions have been around for some years, and they have not happened recently."

For how many years she is not a professional, she cannot judge.

"At least it ruled out the possibility that the Redstone Tower was destroyed recently. Well, the premise is that it is indeed the Redstone Tower." Jiang Baimian looked at the lifeless gray concrete, the messy bracing steel bars, and the weeds revealed inside. The glass **** and the rusty empty window frame passed by.

They walked around the ruins of this dead city for ten or twenty minutes, but they never found any trace of human settlement.

"It seems that I have gone wrong. Redstone is set in another place nearby." Long Yuehong who drove said his own judgment, "Such a big city ruin is not like a market town. They should come here often. Those traces were left after looking for valuable items."

Hearing his words, Shang Jian Yao suddenly became energetic, as if he had already determined that this was the Redstone Collection.

"Hey!" Long Yuehong knew what this guy's thinking was like, and couldn't help but complain.

Similarly, Jiang Baimian also grasped Shang Jianyao's "reasoning" process:

Long Yuehong's life is not good and his luck is not so good, so the route he chooses and the answers he gives often deviate from the correct one.

That being the case, when he said that this place does not look like a Redstone Collection, then it is probably a Redstone Collection!

Before Jiang Baimian had time to scold Shang Jianyao and defend Long Yuehong's self-esteem, his expression suddenly changed slightly, as if he couldn't laugh or cry.

She coughed and pointed to a tall building on the side of the road that hadn't completely collapsed but was extremely dilapidated and was obviously shelled:

"There are people inside."

"Yes!" Shang Jianyao agreed with a very positive attitude.

At the same time, they sensed the existence of human electrical signals and consciousness in that building, and the straight-line distance did not exceed 15 meters.

Long Yuehong's expression suddenly became a little complicated.

"Coincidence, coincidence." Jiang Baimian smiled and comforted, "Stop the car, Shang Jianyao and I will go in and ask the person for the way."

Shang Jianyao also comforted Long Yuehong:

"I am more sure of your importance to our team now.

"You are our compass!"

What compass, isn't it a compass? Long Yuehong had a problem subconsciously.

Suddenly, as a good friend of Shang Jianyao, he understood what this meant:

The compass is used to point to the right direction, and the north arrow is used to rule out the wrong route!

At this moment, his teeth are itchy.

"You have to be careful when Xiaohong hits you with a black gun in the back." Jiang Baimian pushed the door and got out of the car, and said Shang Jianyao.

Shang Jian Yao thought about it, walked out of the driver's car window, and said sincerely:

"You can tell me directly, don't like me to make jokes with this thing."

After speaking, he smiled and said:

"But I accept the premise that you beat me once when you practice fighting."

"Primary school-level radical method." Jiang Baimian passed by and commented.

Long Yuehong was silent for a few seconds before looking at Shang Jian Yao:

"I will work hard."

In the previous combat training, although he has been working hard to improve himself, his long-term self-awareness has allowed him to accept "Mediocrity", and there is no desire to win or lose.

After witnessing Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian entering the roadside building, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong each took their own weapons and got out of the car to monitor the surrounding area, including the roof of the building where snipers might exist.

After a while, when the two exchanged positions, Bai Chen suddenly whispered:

"Everyone has bad luck~www.ltnovel.com~ Long Yuehong was startled and smiled:

"Thank you."

In that building, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao quickly locked a room on the edge of the hall.

They then stepped lightly and crossed the area full of gray and white stones and glass fragments and arrived there.

After exchanging glances, Shang Jianyao walked around half a circle tacitly and guarded the other exit of the room.

Waiting for him to be in place, Jiang Baimian shouted loudly in the area where the people inside could not shoot:

"Come out, we have found you."

There was silence in the room with the wooden door closed, and nothing seemed to exist.

After ten seconds, the side door in front of Shang Jianyao opened silently.

A gray man in his twenties came out with a cat lying on his waist.

He suddenly stopped, raised his head, and saw a sunny smiling face: