Embers Ad Infinitum

Black Marsh Wilderness, in a mountain in the northeast.

Gao Yuan, the leader of the Wildfire Bandit, was nestled in the room with the stove, tightly wrapped in a fur coat, roasting the fire while turning over the sweet potatoes on the coals.

"This **** winter!" He shook his legs, expressing his strong dissatisfaction with the weather.

With the resources he has, he can actually enjoy the treatment of turning on the air conditioner and blowing warm air, but he feels that with the conditions on the mountain, it is not as comfortable as a coal stove.

Gao Yuan, who was so invigorated by the cold wind that had penetrated into the room, couldn't help but think of his experience in a powerful city a few years ago—the place where the top group of people lived in winter was as warm as early summer, and they only had to wear a pair of clothes. single coat.

Gao Yuan had inquired about it at the time, and was confused by a series of terms. He only knew that the heat came from the hot water from the large boiler. They flowed along the pipes and flowed in different areas of the room, bringing a fairyland-like warmth.

After he returned to the place he called Copper Mountain, he tried to remodel his residence, but unfortunately he failed miserably. He could only plan to go to a certain city and kidnap a few people who could do it.

At the same time, he also thought that when he was old and no longer suitable to be a robber, he would bring his accumulated resources, a few children and beautiful female slaves to settle in a big power. .

That's comfortable and stable.

Just as Gao Yuan was roasting sweet potatoes, his deputy Chi Qingliu slammed his door.

"Boss, boss!" Chi Qingliu shouted as he patted.

Gao Yuan stood up, adjusted his posture, and asked majestically:

"What's up?"

He is now less and less like the leader of the robber, but closer to those city lords and governors.

As for the Wildfire Bandit, they go out to loot a few times a year, plundering the population and enriching the miners. The focus is entirely on the copper mountain.

There are rich copper mines here!

If it weren't for the remoteness of this place to a certain extent, the harsh environment to a certain extent, and a sufficient distance from the major forces, Gao Yuan would not think that a band of robbers like himself could dominate the mountain and become a small force.

Of course, he is an Awakener himself, and the bandit group later recruited several Awakeners. This is also one of the important reasons. Otherwise, even if they don't worry about the expansion of the big forces, they will encounter the fire of other bandit groups.

Every year, when the "rootless people" drove their cars to take away the copper mine, Gao Yuan was both happy and scared.

He was happy that those copper mines had exchanged a lot of resources, but he was afraid that which strong or not small force suddenly became greedy, or knew the situation on the copper mountain side and made up his mind.

Chi Qingliu, who claimed to be a military adviser, responded to Gao Yuan's question loudly:

"Guys found a good thing!"

"Come in." Gao Yuan looked at Chi Qingliu who opened the door and asked in a deep voice, "What?"

Chi Qingliu was a man in his early thirties. He was an awakened man recruited by the Wildfire Bandit after discovering the copper mine.

Hearing the boss's question, Chi Qingliu waved to the door:

"Bring it in."

Several robbers carried hunting nets and brought in items.

It was a small speaker with a blue background and a black surface.

"That's it?" Gao Yuan raised his eyebrows.

Chi Qingliu hurriedly explained:

"This should be a prop involving the awakeners of the 'Spiritual Corridor'.

"After a few of them met, they cried, laughed, sang and danced like crazy. Fortunately, they were woken up in time by the people next to them, so they didn't freeze to death in the snow."

Involving the props of the "Soul Corridor" awakener... Gao Yuan became solemn.

This is good stuff!

If he hadn't been to cities with great powers before and had contact with some nobles and businessmen, he wouldn't even know what a "spirit corridor" was or what props were.

"Where did you find it?" Gao Yuan asked.

One of the robbers smiled:

"Boss, this winter, there is nothing to do, except eat, sleep with women, gamble for money, and people are panicking.

"We went out of the mining area today and planned to go to the nearby river, dig out the ice, and go fishing. On the way, someone slipped down the hillside and found this thing in the ruins of a village.

"As soon as we touched it, we were out of control, and thinking about what you said, it should be a good thing."

Gao Yuan nodded:

"Put your things down, and you go out first."

He thought about it and added:

"Don't worry, it's really useful, and you won't lose your rewards."

Only then did the robbers happily exit Gao Yuan's room, leaving behind the small speaker wrapped in the net.

When they were gone, Chi Qingliu looked at the prop on the ground and said to himself curiously:

"What's this thing capable of..."

"You have to try it before you know it." Gao Yuan recalled the knowledge he heard. "The price of it should be to make the person you meet go into a crazy state. With me watching, you won't have any problems."

What is it that I won't have any problems? Chi Qingliu was stunned for a moment before realizing that the boss meant to let himself test the ability of that item, after all, ordinary people couldn't use the item.

He secretly took a breath, cursed in his belly, squeezed out a smile and said:

"good."

Seeing him walking towards the small speaker with a blue background and a black surface, Gao Yuan moved in his heart and said:

"Wait a moment."

"Huh?" Chi Qingliu turned his attention to the boss.

Gao Yuan walked towards him, passed him, and moved away from him.

Seeing that the boss left the room and opened a distance of twenty or thirty meters from himself, shivering in the cold wind, Chi Qingliu asked blankly:

"so far?"

"Be careful, you can't go wrong!" Gao Yuan responded loudly, "Don't worry, you won't die if you enter a state of madness, I have time to wake you up!"

Chi Qingliu gritted his teeth, did some psychological construction, and squatted down slowly.

He stretched out his hand to the small speaker with a blue background and a black surface. Following his knowledge of old world electronic products and the method of using props taught by the boss, he spread his breath and pressed the switch.

Suddenly, the loudest voice broke out:

"Come on, be happy, there's a lot of time anyway

"Come on, love, there is a lot of desire anyway..."

This song spread throughout the small mining area, and every robber who heard it smiled unconsciously, twisted his body, and became happy.

They set their sights on their women or companions, and in their eyes are the yearning for love and the burning desire.

"Come on, wandering, there are plenty of directions anyway.

"Come on, pretend, there's a lot of scenery anyway..." (Note 1)

Gao Yuan suddenly had an impulse, turned his body, and ran out of the mining area.

He wants to go wandering.

He's going to pretend.

A large number of robbers followed their boss and left the mining area, preparing to wander far away.

The place suddenly became empty, and only Chi Qingliu was left to dance to the music.

boom!

With a gunshot, Chi Qingliu fell down.

Wearing a military exoskeleton device, Bai Chen put away the "Orange" rifle and followed Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong into the Tongshan mining area.

All four of them wore earplugs, which blocked the singing.

After turning off the small speakers and tidying up the scene, Jiang Baimian took off his earplugs and looked at Shang Jianyao and said:

"Why make things so troublesome and design so many links?

"With our strength, we can visit our door openly and openly."

Shang Jianyao smiled, pointed to the small speaker and said:

"As a member of our team, this time it's his turn!"

After he explored the depths of the "Spiritual Corridor", he transformed his beloved small speaker with his own breath and made it a prop.

Jiang Baimian was speechless.

Long Yuehong looked around and asked the team leader:

"Why do we have to deal with the bandits?"

"To save the miners here!" Shang Jianyao answered first.

Jiang Baimian sighed and said:

"Come and get some supplies."

"Our supplies are enough to go back to the company, but we have to calculate the usage of high-performance batteries." Bai Chen responded.

Jiang Baimian laughed:

"It's not enough, we're not in a hurry to go back to the company."

"Ah?" Long Yuehong's first reaction was that the team leader wanted to defect.

However, what Shang Jianyao said was groundless, and he believed that Jiang Baimian would not be so impulsive.

Jiang Baimian pointed to the south and said:

"I plan to go back to the company and go to the ruins of Marsh No. 1 to confirm whether it is Dajiang City or the last Buddhist holy place.

"The written materials collected by Wang Beicheng and the others did not clearly indicate the name of the ruin in the old world. We can only find it ourselves."

Moreover, she suspected that the company might have concealed this information, so after hearing Shang Jianyao say those things, she made a decisive decision and planned to take advantage of this training to explore the ruins of Swamp No. 1 again.

"But we didn't bring much equipment this time." Long Yuehong said hesitantly.

Because it was just training and the focus was on survival in the wild, the "Old Tune Team" only applied for a military exoskeleton device and a set of Black Marsh Iron Snake bionic intelligent armor this time, and Long Yuehong had to admit that he was suffering from the equipment Insufficient fear.

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"Enough, one for each of you, I and I don't need it for the time being."

"Yeah." Bai Chen nodded.

At this time, Shang Jianyao became fascinated leisurely:

"Maybe Xiaochong hid there again."

Note 1: Quoted from "Itching", Huang Ling