Embers Ad Infinitum

Neither Jiang Baimian nor Shang Jianyao knew what Zhang Lao's expression was under the gray-white deep-bottomed aluminum pot. They could only watch him tremblingly lift his right hand and try to press his chest to the left.

However, this movement was not completed. Old Zhang had just pressed his hand against the clothes, stopped for two seconds, and then slid down again.

His voice seemed to be a little lower, and his speaking rate was a little faster as always:

"The simple thing about brain control is that the man behind the scenes who once destroyed the old world hopes that humans will remain in this state and will never be able to rebuild a real civilization, so they secretly controlled a large number of people, including the major forces. The upper level makes them lose their enterprising spirit, forget their previous ideals, stop working hard for the recovery of all mankind, and become fallen people.

"Eencephalography was the culprit that caused the'innocent disease' at the beginning, and they still play a role in many places to this day, contributing to the removal of the human beings who have discovered secrets behind the scenes."

"However, many of the'innocent' patients we have encountered are ordinary humans, and there is no possibility of discovering the secret of brain control." Even in the face of the veteran soldiers of the "Salvation Army", the honest Shang Jian Yao still should To refute is to refute.

Lao Zhang and others had obviously considered this question, had already figured out the reason, and replied without stumbling:

"You guys, you are too young, this is called mixing up the water!

"If you just eliminate people who know the secret of brain control, you will easily be found wrong, and you must also turn some ordinary people into ‘unintentional ones’ in order to confuse the water and make things less obtrusive.

"In the old world, there is an old saying that goes like this:

"The best way to hide a needle is to throw it into the ocean."

"It's difficult to find it out," the honest businessman commented on Yao.

Zhang Lao took a breath and said in a suppressed voice:

"In short, you have to find two aluminum pots to wear as soon as you have not been controlled by your mind. Without aluminum pots, iron, copper, and stainless steel pots can also be topped. Only in this way can you maintain your independent thinking. Ideal purity will not be corroded by a little bit of benefit and a little bit of enjoyment.

"This is a lesson learned! How many'Salvation Army' soldiers were born to death in order to save all mankind, throwing their heads and blood, and fearing nothing, but when the situation improves, it deteriorates.

"They are all controlled by the brain!"

Zhang Laoyue said that the more he was heartbroken.

"Right, right, right!" Shang Jianyao seemed to have found a bosom friend, "It must be so, otherwise they won't be so easy to abandon their previous ideals and forget their vows."

Those have been tempered in blood and fire without fading.

Jiang Baimian tried to interrupt the conversation between the two people several times, but they couldn't join in the communication between the old and the young.

Zhang Lao nodded his head so much that the aluminum pan on his head was shaking:

"It seems that although you have only been here for a few days, you have also seen some ugly phenomena.

"Well, Hong Guangming is the one who gave you the pass, right?"

"Right." Shang Jianyao didn't hide it.

Zhang Lao waved his hand, and his emotions became agitated:

"That old boy Hong Guangming, I scolded once and pointed at him!

"When he was still under my hand, how simple and enthusiastic a kid, when he saw that there were children with wild wanderers who could not eat enough, he secretly divided his share of food in half.

"Once, we were surrounded by a group of people who only knew how to burn, kill, and pillage at that time. In order to cover the evacuation of the large forces, he stood up and asked for a break, and almost died there.

"That's it, is he scared? No! Still charging forward again and again. You have seen that he has lost an arm and a leg one after another. Fortunately, we found and seized a lot of mechanical prostheses at the time, and we were good at it. Only if the surgeon in this area joins the team, he can live to this day.

"Now, if you don't say that you can eat enough, at least no one will starve to death under normal circumstances. If you don't say that you can dress well, at least no one will be frozen to death. How can he become like this?

"After I found out, I thought about it for a whole year and didn't understand it. Later, I learned the secret of brain control, and I only understood it after putting on this aluminum pot.

"Hey……"

"Hey." Shang Jianyao followed with a sigh.

After encountering a rare friend, Zhang Lao finally became less vigilant. He thought for a while and said:

"Don't you want to ask us about any suspicious people we encountered while walking around during the martial law?

"Follow me to the nursing home and ask one by one."

Although he was still worried that Shang Jian Yao and the others were spies trying to break into the anti-secret control organization, he thought that he was just taking them to ask about martial law-related matters, and that nothing else was involved, and he felt that there was no problem.

Jiang Baimian was overjoyed and was about to agree. Shang Jianyao already said firmly:

"no?"

"Why?" The gray-white aluminum pot concealed Zhang Lao's puzzled and surprised expression.

Shang Jian Yaoyi sternly replied:

"Now is the period of martial law, we cannot leave the hotel without permission.

"You and your old comrades have the right to go out for a walk. We don't. We can't rely on you to stand in front and ignore the regulations.

"In that way, what is the difference from a fallen man who uses power for personal gain?"

At this moment, two words popped up in Jiang Baimian's mind:

All righteous, two sleeves breeze.

The latter word doesn't really match the scene, but it fits well with the previous one.

Old Zhang was stunned for a few seconds and said:

"Good job! If everyone in the new generation of the Salvation Army is like you, that's good."

It may not be good for everyone to have a mental illness... Jiang Baimian only felt that Zhang Lao's words were full of grooves.

After a pause, Zhang Lao took the initiative and said:

"Then I will go back to the nursing home to help you ask, then record the answer and take it to the hotel."

"Thank you." Jiang Baimian said in a hurry.

She thought about it, then added:

"By the way, ask what noteworthy things your old comrades have encountered in the past three days. What is not normal, um, it does not matter if it is not noteworthy. As long as it does not happen very often, record it."

"Very meticulous." Zhang Lao was very knowledgeable and praised.

He immediately said:

"I will go back now, and strive to send the content I asked before 10 o'clock in the evening."

Shang Jianyao waved his hand enthusiastically:

"Good voyage!"

After watching Zhang Lao disappear at another exit of the hotel parking lot, Jiang Baimian took Shang Jianyao back to the small building along the normal route.

The hotel manager, Shen Kang, stood by the door, pacing in place, and when they saw two people coming in, he asked quickly:

"Lao Zhang is gone?"

"Let's go." Shang Jianyao replied quite positively.

Shen Kang breathed a sigh of relief, and then said:

"Lao Zhang is confused and has war trauma syndrome. He can no longer distinguish reality from illusion.

"Many of their generation have bad habits, some are alcoholics, and their opinions are conservative. Just like they lived decades ago, they don't believe anything.

"Think about it, how normal is it to be able to believe in brain control and wear an aluminum pot on your head every day?"

He was referring to Mr. Zhang's mental problems both inside and outside of his words.

"Indeed." Shang Jianyao nodded in agreement.

Jiang Baimian glanced at him in surprise, but did not speak.

"You are still sober." Shen Kang was very pleased.

Shang Jianyao immediately pointed to himself:

"I have a mental problem, why do you believe it?"

"..." Shen Kang was circumvented in.

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In the evening, it was announced on the radio that the people would be evacuated tomorrow.

"If the nuclear warhead is taken away and sent to a certain force, I don't know what will happen..." Long Yuehong said with a little worry while looking forward to leaving Wubei early tomorrow morning.

Honest Gnawa replied:

"There should be no significant difference between staying in the hands of the'Salvation Army' ~ www.readwn.com ~ both lack the ability to manufacture on a large scale, and most likely it is only used for deterrence.

When Shang Jian Yao was about to join the discussion, he suddenly heard someone shouting outside the window:

"That kid and girl in the afternoon, I have collected what you want!"

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao glanced at each other and opened the window. Sure enough, they found that Zhang Lao was standing in the parking lot in the white-washed "Salvation Army" black uniform, wearing an off-white aluminum pot with a deep bottom. Take a stack of paper, keep shouting loudly.

Between three and two, the two of them "rapidly descended" to Mr. Zhang.

"I have asked them one by one, and they have all been recorded on the paper. Don't worry, there is no omission, including my own."

Shang Jian Yao and Jiang Baimian quickly and sincerely thanked them.

"Hurry up and see what is wrong." Zhang Lao handed out the paper.

Jiang Baimian took the material, took off the torch hung on the waist belt, and browsed on the spot.

The information recorded on the paper is in an artificial order. Each person contains two parts. One is whether he has encountered a suspicious person during the martial law, and the other is what normal and rare things have been encountered in the past three or four days.

Shang Jian Yao approached Jiang Baimian and went down with her one by one.

"There is no effective information..." Shang Jianyao sighed disappointedly when he was about to finish the search.

Jiang Baimian didn't say much, and turned his attention to the last page.

This page only records feedback from one person, that is, Mr. Zhang himself:

"Zhang: 1. Only the soldiers responsible for martial law were encountered along the way; 2. The day before yesterday afternoon, a hotel guest's antihypertensive medicine was stolen, and he failed to take the medicine in time. Hypertension developed rapidly and the condition was very serious. He was sent to the hospital for rescue. For two days."

He suffered from hypertension and was sent to the hospital for two days... Jiang Baimian's heart moved and slowly raised his head.