Embers Ad Infinitum

In the evening, Jiang Baimian, who was crackling on the keyboard, glanced at the door from the corner of his eye, and found that Shang Jianyao and others had all left the office.

She took a long sigh of relief and stopped the movement of her hands.

Then, she took out a piece of white paper, picked up a pen, and wrote and painted according to her memory:

"Go out and turn right, walk all the way to the bottom and take the elevator...

"The button is 349...

"Get off the elevator, enter the square, when you see the flowers, turn left, No. 12, Area C..."

Soon, Jiang Baimian drew the map needed for the "homecoming battle".

After repeated confirmations, she packed up her belongings, took the map, and walked to the office door.

After going out, Jiang Baimian turned to the left.

After taking a step, she stopped and looked down at the map in her hand and the notes on it.

Her gaze solidified, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

Turned in the wrong direction!

She turned the wrong direction without realizing it!

The price of "road idiot" is still quite terrible... Jiang Baimian took out the absorbent fountain pen inserted in his pocket while turning his eyes, and added a sentence on the map:

"Whenever you turn a corner, I'd rather be slower than fast, stop and confirm more often."

Then, she chose the right direction and walked down according to the diagram.

...

Floor 495, Area C, No. 11.

After Long Yuehong entered the door, she found her mother Gu Hong, father Long Dayong, younger brother Long Zhigu, and sister Long Aihong each occupying a position and did not speak.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

Gu Hong let out a "hey" and asked instead:

"At our level, in the past year or two, are there a lot of people who have been infected with "No Heart Disease"?"

This has been several times, several!

"It's okay too." Long Yuehong said relievedly.

Long Dayong glanced at the door:

"I heard a lot of people say whether there is a'toxin source' at our level, and only people have been infected again and again without finding out."

"It may also be someone who did bad things that made our level a little unlucky." Gu Hong said of a guess when the seven aunts and eight aunts were chatting.

Hearing this, Long Aihong blurted out:

"Some people are suspecting that my brother and Yao are the'source of poison', hidden infections, ah..."

She suddenly realized that she had missed her mouth, so she hurriedly raised her hands and covered her mouth.

Long Yuehong was startled:

"anything else?"

Long Aihong glanced at her mother, then at her father, and said carefully:

"Some say you are the source of bad luck.

"Anyway, what they mean is that since you went out to perform tasks, the incidence of "innocent disease" at our level has obviously increased. It must be that you encountered something bad outside and brought it back inside the company."

This may be a "no heart disease" virus, or it may be material bad luck.

After seeing the words, Long Zhigu added obviously unconvinced:

"They also gave an example, saying that Uncle Shen and Aunt Ren got ‘innocent’ when you came back from a mission for the first time. This time they came back and changed to Uncle Zhang.”

Long Yuehong finally couldn't help refuting:

"But when we came back from the second mission, no one got ‘innocent disease.’ We were not inside the company in the previous outbreak of ‘innocent disease.”

When he said these words, he was actually a little frustrated, because Shen Du and Ren Jie's "no heart disease" obviously had a certain relationship with Shang Jianyao, and they were closer to some guys killing people.

"Yes!" Long Aihong's face lit up, "I will refute them like this tomorrow!"

At this time, Long Dayong glanced at the indignant Gu Hong and comforted his elder son:

"Don't go to your heart. The main reason is that the'innocent disease' has not disappeared. After generations, everyone can only see it in plain clothes. Once it happens, it will be very frightening. It is inevitable that some people will make mixed noises. After that, there will be no more When new cases appear, they will soon forget these things."

"I understand." Long Yuehong sat down hard and open-minded.

He pretended to be cheerful and said:

"The'unintentional' we encountered on the surface are not just one or two, and we haven't seen anyone infected."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that the expressions of his parents, brother and sister had become a little weird.

Uh... at this time, don't mention that there are more "unintentional people" outside, so that everyone wants to be crooked...Long Yuehong quickly understood what was wrong with her just now.

...

Floor 622, Area B, Room 59.

Bai Chen put the laptop that he had just sent out on the table by the window and opened it directly.

For her already D6, she usually eats in the cafeteria and goes to bed on time after turning off the lights. The energy ration is enough for her to play on the computer for two to three hours a day.

After drinking the cold water, Bai Chen played a funny show.

Although she didn’t understand many jokes in the old world, she couldn’t laugh sincerely, but just listened to the laughter at the scene and listened to the haha ​​in the later stage. She felt very calm, relaxed and kind. Unspeakable happiness.

Laughter echoed in the quiet room, and Bai Chen stared at the computer screen without focus.

After an unknown period of time, she stretched out her right hand, opened the drawer of the table, and took out the heavy part with some cracks.

Looking down at this part, Bai Chen's face gradually showed a smile.

She said to herself:

"I will listen to you this time, and go forward bravely, no longer bound by the past..."

...

Floor 495, Area B, No. 196.

The Shang Jian Yaos, who felt that their trauma was almost healed, once again entered the "corridor of the soul" and came to room "522".

With the experience of the previous two times, he was familiar with diving along the safest route to somewhere in the ruins.

Along the way, except for a few battles that inevitably occurred, it was calm and calm.

In those few battles, even the room owner who was not the awakened at the time could cope with it, rushing to move before other "unintentional" rushed to come, Shang Jian Yao naturally caught them, and solved them without any effort, even without any effort. How to make movement.

This also brought about a problem. Shang Jianyao discovered that because there was not much sound from one of the battles, unlike the room owner's experience at the time, a large number of "unintentional people" gathered from all directions, leading to the originally safe route. , There are several "unintentional people" wandering in a place where "unintentional people" shouldn't be encountered.

"Is this a kind of butterfly effect? ​​I quickly resolved the battle, leaving the ‘unintentional’ who should have been transferred to the place?" Shang Jianyao muttered to himself.

He quickly raised another question:

"Since this scene is a manifestation of the psychological shadow of the room owner, how can he who hasn't encountered the "unintentional" in this place know that if he had been careful before, there would be such a change?"

Shang Jianyao immediately laughed:

"It's very simple. There are rotting human limbs left here, indicating that there were'unintentional people' not long ago. When the room owner saw this, he must have been thinking, if it hadn't been for the previous battles to create a lot of movement, it must have happened again now. It's a fierce battle.

"This guess was remembered by his subconscious mind and became the hidden rule of this psychological shadow."

He persuaded his own Shang Jian Yao to stop staying, and proceed along the transfer route of the room owner.

It’s strange to say that according to the previous law, the number of "unintentional people" encountered by the room owner is getting less and less, but the quality is getting higher and higher. Later, there are even "high-level unintentional people" coming out. You can see Yao this time. After breaking through the limit of exploration last time and getting rid of the "higher unintentional person", he never encountered any powerful enemies.

He didn't even see the ordinary "unintentional" again.

"Does this mean that there are more dangerous creatures in this area, so that the'unintentional' don't dare to enter?" Shang Jianyao divided into ten, speaking the cowardly but very cautious one.

Shang Jianyao, wearing a deerstalker hat and a pipe in his mouth, nodded:

"It doesn't have to be a living thing."

He indirectly agreed with the cowardly Shang Jian Yao's guess.

"What should I do now?" asked Shang Jian Yao, who was wearing an enlarged version of his childhood clothes.

The eager Shang Jianyao answered without hesitation:

"Of course continue!

"The owner of the room who was not the Awakened at that time all survived, let alone us?"

"Then how do you know that the owner of the room did not encounter anything in this exploration, leaving a terrible hidden danger?" Cowardly and timid Shang Jian Yao asked rhetorically.

"Yes, yes." Another Shang Jian Yao echoed.

At this time, Shang Jianyao, who was holding a small speaker, said curiously:

"I'm thinking, if we act separately and one of them dies here, what will happen?

"In the end, there are nine remaining, and the personality is no longer sound, or can they still recover to ten, but each of them has more serious mental problems?

"Would you like to try it?"

His proposal received only one affirmative vote, and all other Shang Jian Yao opposed it.

After discussing for a while, the Shang Jian Yaos reunited, carefully following the transfer route of the room owner, and went deep into this area.

As he walked, a seven-story building appeared in front of him.

This building looks quite old, with large patches of green plants climbing on the wall.

Shang Jianyao took a closer look and found a signboard above the entrance of the lobby on the first floor, which read:

"Tieshan City Second Food Company"