Embers Ad Infinitum

The 417th floor of the underground building.

Long Yuehong glanced at her watch and confirmed the time. Instead of going to her grandparents' house, she went straight to the activity center.

Sure enough, he caught sight of his grandfather, Long Yixuan, holding a thermos cup, chatting with a group of middle-aged and elderly employees, while his grandmother Zhong Zining was further back, playing cards with his neighbors.

When she was in college, Long Yuehong was particularly envious of her grandfather and grandmother's life:

The grandson has almost grown up in his entire generation, and he is about to retire. His physical condition is not bad. Except that he cannot go to the surface, he can arrange his daily life freely.

Moreover, after so many years, they each have a certain rank, although they are not very high, but the advantage is that they don't need to help the children anymore, they are enough for daily use, and they can improve their meals from time to time.

Carrying the bag of fruit, Long Yuehong sat next to grandma Zhong Zining and said with a smile:

"Did you win?"

These retired and semi-retired old employees play very small cards and focus on entertainment. They even split a contribution point into ten parts, which are first recorded and then settled.

Zhong Zining complained:

"Not a few wins."

Although it was a complaint, the old lady with a lot of white hair still had a smile on her face and muttered:

"Why do you bring fruit again? You are about to get married and have a baby soon, so you have to save some flowers, you know?"

As the saying goes, the youngest son, eldest grandson, and the lifeblood of the old lady, as the first born of the third generation of the Long family, Long Yuehong has always been favored by her grandparents, and she has a very good relationship with them. .

Long Yuehong smiled and explained:

"This is Xiaobai asking me to honor you two."

He had already told his grandparents that his unregistered wife was called Bai Chen.

Of course, Bai Chen, who was a wanderer in the wilderness at heart, had no self-awareness when his parents passed away earlier. Long Yuehong always eats and drinks when he goes to his grandparents' house, and he also doesn't have the habit of bringing gifts. There is Jiang Baimian, a researcher of old world folklore and a model child of "Pangu Creatures", who will give their young couple a few words from time to time.

Long Yuehong was deeply inspired and linked this to a certain lyric in the song sung by Shang Jianyao:

People do not blame!

Zhong Zining said "Oops":

"Xiao Bai, this girl is too polite."

As she said that, the smile on her face grew brighter.

At the same time, she took out a few fruits and distributed them to the card friends:

"Taste, taste, my granddaughter-in-law gave it to me."

There was an unconcealed smugness in her voice.

What if your grandchildren are assigned objects as soon as they reach age? My eldest grandson's daughter-in-law has a high rank, contributes a lot, and knows how to honor the elderly!

Grandma is so generous today... Long Yuehong muttered in her heart.

Inside "Pangu Creatures", fruit is not something that ordinary people can often eat. Long Yuehong remembers that every time her grandparents exchanged fruit, they would hide it tightly, not to mention outsiders, even her own parents were few. Here, only when the younger generation has passed, will they find it out and say something like "Eat it quickly, if you don't eat it, it will be broken" and so on.

Seeing that the neighbors around the poker table stopped and ate the fruit, Long Yuehong said chattingly:

"I chatted with Xiaobai about your grandmother's and grandpa's names before I got off work today. She felt that it was completely different from my parents, my mother, my brother and my sister."

Zhong Zining smiled and said:

"You have to ask your great-grandfather, great-grandmother, great-grandfather, great-grandmother.

"They're all Old World educated and probably like the name.

"Hey, before your father was born, your great-grandfather and great-grandmother passed away. We can only make do with one."

Although I already knew that Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Zeng died early, every time I heard it, Long Yuehong couldn't help but sigh - even if it moved into the ground, "Pangu Creature" was not so easy in the chaotic era and the early days of the new calendar.

After chatting about the name, Long Yuehong started the topic according to the strategy he discussed with Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao, and Jiang Baimian.

In front of everyone at the poker table, he took out the multi-child and multi-sun talisman, and asked expectantly:

"Does it really work? I think it's relatively new, not something your generation asked for."

Zhong Zining replied indifferently:

"I used to wear it at that time, and it's already worn out. It was only after your father said you were going to get married that I specially asked someone to paint it.

"It's very smart. I only had five children when I wore it at the beginning, and none of them died. Your mother didn't want them, so there were only three."

Long Yuehong immediately asked:

"Who drew it?"

Seeing his grandma cast a suspicious look, he followed the plan and said with a smile:

"I have a colleague who said that if there is a spirit, he also wants one."

Zhong Zining suddenly realized, expressed understanding, and even a little proud:

"It's just the Mu family in Area B on our floor.

"What kind of Taoist priests are their ancestors, and they can make all kinds of talismans."

It doesn't sound like a problem... Long Yuehong sighed in relief.

He immediately remembered one more thing:

The Eternal Years Sect is also a Taoist priest!

Zhong Zining continued:

"Your colleague really wants it, you will lead him to this floor tomorrow, and I will take him to ask.

"If you ask your relatives who are close by blood, the best results."

"Okay, okay!" Long Yuehong tried her best to keep her calm.

The conversation just now is actually a routine, designed by Jiang Baimian himself, the purpose is to push Shang Jianyao out, and let him, as a colleague of Long Yuehong, openly meet the man who painted many children and grandchildren, be good." communicate".

If Long Yuehong's grandmother is really weird, the many children and many grandchildren are directly derived from her, and there is no other person. With such a foreshadowing, Shang Jianyao can come to visit the old couple confidently and calmly. Problems are solved invisible.

The biggest advantage of this method is that Long Yuehong's every move is normal enough, and there is no doubtful place, and Shang Jianyao will take over in the follow-up to isolate him from trouble.

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Level 495, Block B, No. 196.

Shang Jianyao lay on the bed, pinched his temples, and entered the "Soul Corridor".

Urged by Jiang Baimian, he planned to break through the second psychological shadow in the "506" room as soon as possible, so that he could become an awakener who explored the depths of the "Spiritual Corridor".

"Soul Corridor", in room "506".

Shang Jianyao appeared at the door of a house.

Surrounded by similar buildings, they form a small community.

People coming and going wear different colors and all kinds of clothes, but these are relatively old, and some even have a lot of patches.

Different from the white coats in the first psychological shadow, once people here meet, they will say hello and chat a few words, they seem to know each other, and the situation on each floor of the "living area" of the underground building of "Pangu Creatures" similar.

The calm and rational Shang Jianyao observed for a while and walked to a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses who passed by.

"Are you off today?" He greeted casually.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled:

"Just go home for dinner.

"You are?"

Shang Jianyao is not guilty at all:

"I just came back from out of town, and the wind and rain are blowing, and my whole body is about to deform."

"Oh." The man wearing the gold-rimmed glasses felt guilty for a while, feeling that it was his fault that he didn't recognize the other party.

Implanting good thinking, Shang Jianyao chatted casually:

"I was sent to the Third Research Institute."

"Isn't that very south?" The man wearing gold-rimmed glasses was surprised.

Obviously, he had heard of the Third Research Institute.

Shang Jianyao smiled:

"Yeah, they're all at the beach.

"If you don't believe me, the Third Research Institute is now called 'Mechanical Paradise'. Almost all of the robots I have encountered are intelligent robots."

"It's normal, they were originally researching artificial intelligence there." The man with golden eyes felt that there was no problem.

Shang Jianyao covered his gloomy eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly:

"I heard people from them say that the later the research institute number is, the more high-end and valuable the research project is."

"It's a meaningless guess. We are similar to the research of the Second Research Institute, but there are certain differences in the direction. Who can say that it must be higher-end and more valuable than the other party?" The middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses commented on this statement. scoffed.

"Yeah!" Shang Jianyao responded in a tone of approval.

After chatting for a while, he turned to the old lady who was enjoying the shade outside a building.

Although the old lady had a lot of white hair, she was very energetic. At this time, she was sitting on a bench under a tree, looking at the pedestrians around.

"Who are you?" The old lady noticed Shang Jianyao's approach.

Shang Jianyao grinned:

"I am the person sent by the Third Research Institute to visit your research institute.

"I want to know, are you really the first research institute established in the old world?"

The old lady looked at this guy for a while with the eyes of a fool:

"Did you remember wrong?

"We are here at the Fourth Research Institute!"

"How is that possible? Could it be that the people above gave the wrong information?" Shang Jian Yao Qiqing put on a show~www.readwn.com~ During this process, he laughed secretly:

"It turned out to be the Fourth Research Institute."

He immediately frowned:

"Where is the danger here?

"The second psychological shadow described in the guide doesn't seem to be like this...

"Could it be that I used an unconventional technique in the first psychological shadow and took the initiative to receive an anesthetic injection, so I jumped directly to the third psychological shadow?"

The calm and rational Shang Jianyao looked around solemnly, looking for places that might be dangerous.