Embers Ad Infinitum

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong each looked to one side and saw the stalls beside the road. Some were selling old-world style crystal, diamond, jade, and white jade jewelry, and some had LCD screens and laptops of different sizes. Some are canned food, clothes and other materials, and some are simply a collection of scattered debris.

"Contains old world entertainment materials..." Long Yuehong read out the contents of a paper sign.

It was not hung up, but was placed in front of one of the stalls.

This booth is mainly for repaired old world computers.

Hearing the words read by Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, who was driving, reminded him with a serious expression:

"It's best not to touch it."

"Why?" Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong asked at the same time.

Bai Chen recalled:

"When I was wandering in the wilderness, I met a very powerful relic hunter. He was about half the team leader."

"Hey, am I the standard of measurement?" Jiang Baimian was observing the lively street with great interest, and laughed.

Bai Chen did not respond to her ridicule, and continued:

"Once, while exploring the ruins of a city, he found a portable computer with no major problems except the battery.

"Later, he found someone to fix all kinds of minor problems, traded in a new battery that can be used, and finally started the computer..."

Because he wanted to avoid a pedestrian crossing the highway, Bai Chen paused before finishing talking.

Long Yuehong tried to make a guess:

"As a result, something terrible happened?

"There is some danger hidden in the old world entertainment material in that computer?"

"No." Bai Chen said truthfully, "After he found out the entertainment materials, he indulged in, and never explored the ruins of the city anymore. Relying on his past savings and contacts, he did some small business in the first city, barely able to sustain himself. He’s life, and even when he’s busy in the shop, he can’t do without that computer. He doesn’t want to do business well or expand the scale. He just wants to stay in front of the computer, keep clicking the mouse and pressing the keyboard."

Finally, Bai Chen concluded:

"He was originally a very ambitious and capable person, maybe one day he could get his own manor, but in the end, it was just like that."

Long Yuehong said twice:

"It's terrible, those old world entertainment materials."

Shang Jian Yao said enthusiastically:

"I want to challenge it to see if my will can overcome those old world entertainment materials."

During the discussion, Long Yuehong glanced at the group leader and found that her mouth was closed tightly, her cheeks were slightly bulging, and her body trembling slightly, as if she had to endure a smile and endure very hard.

The group leader should have been in contact with old world entertainment materials... As soon as Long Yuehong flashed such an idea, Jiang Baimian laughed, laughing so hard:

"Haha, Xiaobai, you look so cute that you are serious!

"Haha..."

Bai Chen pressed his mouth and did not respond.

Jiang Baimian put away his smile and said solemnly:

"But never let Shang Jian Yao touch those old world entertainment materials."

Only radio programs, music playlists, and year-end report performances have allowed Shang Jian Yao to produce so many moths. If he is exposed to rich and complete old-world entertainment materials, then what is it?

"You don't believe me?" Shang Jianyao protested.

"No, I don't believe in those old world entertainment materials. I'm afraid they will be contaminated by you." Jiang Baimian opened his eyes and said nonsense.

She thinks this should be the most persuasive "reason" for Shang Jian Yao.

Sure enough, Shang Jian Yao replied:

"You have to be thankful, now I am the arrogant and arrogant me."

"..." Jiang Baimian's eyes rolled up and he exhaled slowly.

The jeep drove for a while, and Long Yuehong saw someone set up a half-height platform by the roadside, holding a black-shell book, condescendingly preaching something to the surrounding crowd, and some people were holding other thick books, constantly Talk to pedestrians coming and going...

"There really are more religions here." Long Yuehong sighed with emotion in combination with the information obtained before.

Because the intelligent machines of "Machinery Heaven" do not believe in religion, and whether others believe in religion, many originally hidden sects have surfaced here, setting up churches, temples or pavilions to preach in public.

As for the "Melting Furnace Sect", an organization that can openly operate in the "Linhai Alliance", it has no scruples. It not only built a church and sent "devotees", but also directly turned itself into a "Linhai Alliance" many trading companies. , The team’s Tarnan service point.

Of course, another prerequisite for preaching is that there are objects that need to be preached, and Tarnan does not lack population.

——Before getting the information given by Han Wanghuo, the "Old Tune Team" thought that Tarnan was mostly robots. Humans were all caravans, hunters and trade representatives. They belonged to passers-by, and these people did not add up. There will be more, because I know that Tarnan is allowed to trade with the "machine paradise". Even if each family sends several caravans and hunters who are responsible for protecting them, the total population here does not reach a medium-sized one. The standard of settlements.

The reality overturned this cognition. Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao knew before they left the Redstone Set that there were a large number of local residents in Tarnan.

There are three sources of them:

One is some members of the caravan and their descendants.

Tarnan is controlled by the "machine paradise", private fights are forbidden, the public order is quite good, and there is a strong armed force. There is no need to worry about being attacked by the bandit regiment by other forces. For many people, it is simply a paradise.

In the chaotic era and the early days of the new calendar, this was even more attractive. At that time, many caravans and many city-state trading groups had personnel who stayed and settled either through formal channels or directly separated from their original influence. In this regard, anyway, such a well-maintained city ruins have too many unowned houses that can be taken as their own.

——At that time, the "Linhai Alliance" had not yet been established, and the "Mechanical Paradise" was trading with multiple city-states in that area. Later, these city-states outside the pollution zone were able to form states and then form alliances in the form of states. In fact, thanks to the help of "Machinery Paradise", this includes but not limited to dispatching robot volunteer teams and providing water purification technology. , Confronting "higher unintentional people" and so on.

The second is the wilderness wanderers in the surrounding area.

Such a peaceful and peaceful city where necessary supplies can be exchanged, so that every group who wanders here does not want to leave.

The third is the hunters of foreign relics.

Around Tarnan, including the Chilar Mountains, there are many ruins of cities, attracting many relic hunters. They inevitably found such a safe enough city, and after living in Tarnan for a period of time, a large part of them chose not to venture elsewhere and stayed in Tarnan to cultivate farmland. And explore the ruins of this area to survive, and established a local hunter guild.

Of course, the premise that the local hunter guild can be established is to sign a memorandum with the "machine paradise" to ensure that the various behaviors of the hunters are restricted, so that they will not actively disclose the existence of Tarnan to the outside world.

——The jewelry, electrical appliances and sundries on the roadside stalls were found from the ruins of the surrounding cities.

Earlier, Mins of Shifang Trading Company mentioned that Tarnan’s robots do not eat food and do not farm, resulting in very few fresh ingredients here. Everyone can only rely on canned food, biscuits and energy bars for their livelihoods, referring to “outsiders”.

Local residents have reclaimed farmland on this land, but because they are located in mountainous areas, the soil is barren, and many areas are still polluted and cannot be cultivated, so the food and vegetables produced are only enough for their own use.

The animals they feed are occasionally sold.

In other words, it is not impossible to buy flour, rice, vegetables and other materials in Tarnan, but it is more expensive and very uneconomical. Many caravans and relic hunters would rather go around to get them.

While talking, Jeep finally walked out of this lively street and entered a quieter area.

The street lights here are still bright, and Tarnan seems to have no shortage of electricity, but only a few houses reflect yellow or white light.

There are no people inhabited behind a large number of windows.

"I thought Tarnan was already lively and prosperous, and as a result, I didn't live in every room in the ruins of this city." Long Yuehong compared Tarnan with Yecao City.

"This is a semi-secret place after all." Jiang Baimian said casually.

Long Yuehong glanced left and right again, and suddenly said with emotion:

"Compared with the ruins of Marsh No. 1, this is a small city. Such a city is on the dust, and it must be everywhere.

"Before the destruction of the old world, it was mostly full of people, but it was still just a small city..."

Tarnan, which is not even one-fifth of a small city filled up, can be called lively on today's dust. How was the old world like UU reading www.uukanshu.com?

Shang Jian Yao immediately echoed:

"Yes."

He immediately said:

"So, do you want to follow me?"

"Read what?" Long Yuehong was a little dazed.

Shang Jianyao replied solemnly:

"In order to save all mankind, I volunteer..."

It was not Jiang Baimian who interrupted his words, but Bai Chen.

She stopped the car and was in front of a hotel.

This hotel is called "You Meng", and it is about two to three hundred meters away from the busiest street. It originally seemed to be a hotel in the old world, but it was repaired and remodeled later.

This is the place recommended by several smugglers in Hongshiji, saying that it is the most comfortable place to live.

After stopping the jeep in front of the hotel, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others walked to the front desk through the automatically rotating gate.

During this process, Shang Jianyao deliberately followed the revolving action of the door, seeing that he was about to turn back and was pulled back by Jiang Baimian.

Long Yuehong was also curious about the door that would revolve as soon as he or others approached.

This belongs to some applications in his field of expertise.

Sitting at the front desk of the hotel is a woman in her thirties. She is a grey earth, wearing a thick and colorful dress with a unique style. Her features are pretty good and her temperament is quite charming.

As she circumscribes her hanging hair, she smiled and said to the guest:

"Your choice is very wise. If you go to those places where no one lives in the city and find a room to sleep in, you are likely to encounter..."

Having said that, she paused, and said in a gloomy tone:

"ghost."

Shang Jian Yao was immediately excited:

"Where? Where?"

"..." The woman who looked like the hotel proprietress was dumbfounded.