Embers Ad Infinitum

Gu Bo is a thin and small old man, his gray hair is already a bit sparse, and his dark brown eyes are still fascinating.

He was wearing a black woolen shirt and holding a silver metal thermos cup in his hand, pointing to the opposite side of the desk and saying:

"Sit, sit."

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen nodded politely, pulled out the chairs, and sat down.

"What's the matter with you?" Gu Bo's dusty language has a little accent, which is completely different from the local dialect.

Based on this, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen judged that the local president of the Hunter's Guild was the first or second generation of Tarnan townspeople from other regions.

"President Gu, we have something to ask you." Long Yuehong replied politely.

Gu Bo laughed:

"Isn't this supposed to post the task first and let me decide whether to take it or not depending on the reward?

"Information or intelligence is valuable."

"..." Long Yuehong was speechless for a while, she could only secretly sigh that she is worthy of being a senior hunter and local president, doing her work and loving her.

Bai Chen calmly responded:

"You can listen to our questions first, and then decide how much to get paid. This can be done without going through the guild."

Gu Bo unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup and sucked his mouth.

"My old arms and legs, aren't you afraid that you will regret not paying you?"

"At that time, don't make a mess if you don't eat mutton, and get a beating if you don't get paid."

Seeing Gu Bo talked more and more outrageously, Long Yuehong suddenly missed Shang Jian Yao.

At this time, he can definitely bring the topic crooked.

"A local'chief hunter', would he still be afraid of this?" Bai Chen looked at Gu Bo and asked back.

Long Yuehong inquired about Gu Bo last night and knew that he was originally a "senior hunter". After becoming the president, he was awarded the honorary title of "chief hunter".

"The hero doesn't mention the bravery back then." Gu Bo laughed at himself, "Huh, when you get older, your body is not so good."

Just kidding, he restrained his expression:

"Let's talk about it, I will decide what to do after seeing the problem."

Long Yuehong took out a water-absorbent pen and a palm-sized notebook, put out the contents of the record, and asked:

"President Gu, do you still need Maximian?"

"Huh?" Gu Bo looked blank.

Long Yuehong quickly picked up the key points and made a reminder:

"In the early days of the new calendar, the person who offered a reward for'Machinery Heaven'."

Gu Bo fell into the memory, and it took a long time before he said:

"He, it's been decades, what do you ask him to do?

"Do you have any clues to him, it's his descendants?"

Your old associations are also quite rich... Longyue Red Belly sneered and simply explained:

"We want to see'Source Brain', hoping to come up with something that'Mechanical Heaven' is interested in."

"Then you might as well accumulate metal minerals and make a big deal with the'Machinery Heaven'. Maybe there is still a chance." Gu Bo felt that the young man's whim was completely unrealistic. "It's about Maximian. It’s been decades, maybe people are dead."

"We are only responsible for this direction." Bai Chen's words blocked Gu Bo's exhortation.

Gu Bo unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup again, sucked in his mouth, and moistened his throat:

"Then I'll just say it directly, and you don't need to be paid. I didn't find any clues at the beginning. This person is definitely not in the Chilar Mountains. Even if it is, it is probably a beast or some'unintentional'. in stomach."

"What kind of person is he? How was the reward announcement for'Machinery Heaven' written?" Long Yuehong asked further while recording Gu Bo's answer.

"What kind of person is he?" Gu Bo recalled, "There was a photo at the time with some descriptions... This man was more than one meter and eighty meters tall and he was very strong. His hair was golden yellow, his eyes were light blue, and his nose was light blue. It's too big, it looks okay, it's said that it has been genetically optimized..."

In some places, genetic improvement is also called genetic optimization, and this is a technology that achieved a breakthrough before the destruction of the old world, but later it was discontinued in most of the human powers, and only "pangu creatures." And the "White Knights" continue to move forward and improve on this road to make it mature enough.

As Long Yuehong quickly recorded, Gu Bo continued:

"I think he is more like a soldier than a scientist, but the reward announcement of'Machinery Heaven' specifically emphasizes his identity.

"Except for this, that announcement has nothing of value. It only says to find this person.'Mechanical Paradise' can satisfy one of your requirements. It does not involve any requirements that the'Mechanical Paradise' can survive and be capable of fulfilling."

Give me a robot army, I want to save the world... Hearing any request, Long Yuehong couldn't help but imitate Shang Jian Yao's thoughts.

However, after he changed his mind, he felt that this idea was too common, and he didn't have enough business opinion.

At this time, Bai Chen asked:

"I just said I found this person, but didn't mention why?"

"No." Gu Bo shook his head.

"Does that emphasize protecting certain things or tracking the whereabouts of certain materials?" Bai Chen asked.

"No, I just said to try to ensure the target's survival." Gu Bo was still a little impressed.

If there were these requirements, he would change the direction of the investigation at first, so that he would not go into a dead end all the way.

"Make a note of this." Bai Chen exhorted Long Yuehong.

Based on her experience, this can be preliminarily judged: The focus of the reward for Maximian in the "Machinery Paradise" is on this person or what he has done, rather than the item information that may exist on him.

She and Long Yuehong asked a few more questions, but because it was so many years later, Gu Bo couldn't remember it clearly and couldn't provide more information.

After leaving the Hunter's Guild politely, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen walked towards the "furnace sect" and prepared to meet Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao to discuss what to do next.

As he walked forward, Long Yuehong was a little surprised to find that there were still many stalls on the roadside, and the bottom floors of the houses on both sides were closed tightly except for those with the signs of "So and So Chamber of Commerce" and "So and So Grocery Store". , No one operates.

He walked to a stall with some curiosity and asked the stall owner:

"Why don't you use the shops facing the street, it's sun and rain here?"

Because he had been to Yecao City, he knew the concept of street shops.

And he remembered one piece of information provided by Redstone Collection:

In Tarnan, the ownerless house can be owned by itself, and it is impossible to apply for property rights to the intelligent robot without long-term use.

The stall owner is a rough-skinned woman, in her thirties, her face is a bit dark.

She said in rather crappy grayish language in the direction of the redstone set:

"This has to be repaired and cleaned up by myself. How can I put so many supplies in?

"Anyway, whether the robot is setting up a stall on the roadside or not, I will hold a big umbrella when it rains, and I can use electric lights for free."

At the end, she pointed to the street lamp above her head.

Uh, once you occupy a store and apply for electricity, do you need to pay? Long Yuehong nodded somewhat clearly.

Because he asked the other party, he turned his head in embarrassment and left, squatted down and looked at the goods of the stall owner.

There are books left over from the old world, the paper has turned yellow, there are also jade, diamond jewelry and scattered old world debris.

After thinking about it, Long Yuehong asked Bai Chen who was squatting down:

"If you want to send a female elder, which one do you think is better?"

"You, mother?" Bai Chen easily interpreted Long Yuehong's true meaning.

Because it would be strange that "you" and "mum" were connected together, she paused deliberately in the middle.

"Right." This is not a shameful thing, Long Yuehong admitted it calmly.

At this moment, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, who had left the furnace church, saw their teammates here, and quickly moved closer, looking for positions to squat down.

After asking Long Yuehong's request, Jiang Baimian laughed:

"I can grant you some supplies for jewelry, and deduct it from the contribution point when you go back."

Bai Chen pointed to a green jade bracelet and said:

"At your mother's age, you might like this better.

"Although it doesn't look so good now, it will become more and more smooth after wearing it for a long time.

"Several female relic hunters I knew before could not sell this item, so I had to wear it myself. Later I found out that it looked pretty."

"Yes, yes, yes. UU reading www.uukanshu.com" the stall owner heard Bai Chen say so and quickly agreed.

Jiang Baimian didn't have much research on this aspect, and he preferred brilliant diamonds, so he didn't comment, so he turned his attention to those books.

She found that Shang Jian Yao had picked up a book and was reading it intently.

looking at what? Jiang Baimian lowered his head curiously, and aimed at the cover of the book in Shang Jianyao's hand.

Soon, the title of the book caught her eyes:

"Actor's Self-cultivation"

"..." Jiang Baimian wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.

After some bargaining, they exchanged one can for the jade bracelet, and exchanged one can for four books-the remaining three were picked by Jiang Baimian.

After having a simple and boring lunch, the "old tune group" did not go out because there was nothing else to be busy, so the four members did not go out, took a nap, each occupied a chair (sofa), and read the book they just bought. .

Leisure time always flies quickly, seeing the evening approaching, there is suddenly a little noisy in the distance.

"What happened?" Long Yuehong muttered to herself puzzledly, looking at the direction of the sound.

"Go and see." Jiang Baimian felt it was time to move his body.

A group of four people immediately left the "You Meng" Hotel and walked towards Binhe Avenue.

Before long, they discovered the source of the noise:

Hunter Guild.

At this time, the noise had subsided, but there were still many people gathered there, and their expressions were a bit solemn.

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao stepped into the guild, and they saw the task frozen on the big screen at a glance:

"...Investigate the'higher unintentional people' in the southwest mountainous area..."

Didn't Gnawa send a robot guard to solve it? Jiang Baimian looked down in doubt, and quickly found a line of description:

"...Ten Robot Guard members have lost contact..."