Embers Ad Infinitum

Vol 2 Chapter 7: "Buried"

anyone?

At this point in time, is there anyone in the ruins of the secret laboratory?

Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen glanced at each other, and similar thoughts flashed through their minds.

"'Unintentional'?" Jiang Baimian looked at Shang Jianyao and whispered a possibility.

Every night, the "unintentional" who was influenced by the monster in the secret laboratory would come to the ruins and linger for a long time?

Shang Jianyao shook his head:

"have no idea.

"Should I ask?"

Immediately he sang happily:

"Friend, friend, have you ever remembered me..." (Note 1)

Forced to make friends? Jiang Baimian found that since Shang Jianyao has explored the depths of the spiritual corridor, he can use singing to complete the "thought guidance", which has become even more powerful, making it impossible to guard against.

She thought about it and said:

"No hurry, let's dive in and take a look."

"Okay." Shang Jianyao was slightly disappointed.

He said sincerely:

"It's a pity that the little red belt is the 'Black Marsh Iron Snake', not the 'Chameleon', otherwise he can complete this task alone."

It's not like that, the "chameleon" bionic intelligent armor can't hide human consciousness, what if the one over there is an awakened? Long Yuehong is not stupid.

Jiang Baimian glared at Shang Jianyao:

"The two of us hide the fluctuations of consciousness and go over to see what's going on. Xiaohong and Xiaobai are behind."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao suddenly became excited.

Then, he bent his back slightly and walked to the ruins of the laboratory, sneakily as if he was playing a prank to scare Long Yuehong.

Jiang Baimian hurried to keep up, lest this guy make any more fools.

At present, the "Urban Intelligent Network Control Center" has only restored the power supply to the entire ruins, and has not activated the street light system. Therefore, at this moment, the places where the stars are not illuminated are dark, which is very suitable for the "Old Tuned Team" to approach covertly. That mysterious laboratory.

It didn't take long for them to arrive at the edge of the destination area, quietly entered a building, went up to the third floor, and looked ahead through the floor-to-ceiling windows there.

It is impossible to verify what the laboratory looked like. In the eyes of Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, only a large number of piled up concrete blocks and jagged steel bars are left.

The dust and stones sprayed out caused a visible disaster to the surrounding lawns and parking lots.

Further afield, the glass windows of buildings and cars were more or less damaged, and some had even burst open.

At this moment, three figures with messy clothes were carrying a canvas bag and were digging a pile of concrete with the shovel in their hands.

Obviously, "Panga Creatures" has sent people to search here, and there are traces of excavations everywhere, and those three people chose the most marginal place where secrets are most unlikely to be hidden.

"It's not an 'unintentional person'." Jiang Baimian quickly made a judgment, "It's not like someone from the company."

The employees of "Pangu Creatures" stationed in the ruins of Marsh No. 1 all belong to the operation team of the Ministry of Security. They have their own uniforms. It is impossible to wear anything like those three people.

Shang Jianyao's eyes lit up:

"Relic Hunter?

"What are they digging here at this point?"

Except for Qiao Chu, the mechanical monk Jingfa, the employees of "Pangu Creatures" and a few people, the general relic hunters should not know that there used to be a mysterious laboratory here.

So, how is it possible to come here specifically to dig things?

Compared to the place that has been bombed to ruins, there are too many places to harvest high-value items in the ruins of Swamp 1.

As Jiang Baimian watched intently, the three men dug a not deep but not shallow pit in the concrete pile on the edge of the ruins.

Then, they respectively took off their backpacks and took out something from it.

Under the dim starlight, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, who were some distance away from them, could not see clearly what it was.

After a few seconds, the three people threw the things in their hands into the pit, picked up the sappers again, and tried to push down all the surrounding concrete blocks.

Not to excavate items, but to bury something? Jiang Baimian frowned.

She made a decisive decision and said to Shang Jianyao:

"Go to 'chat' with them."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao couldn't wait.

He found a window nearby, jumped to the ground in two or three times, and went straight to the ruins of the laboratory.

Before the three noticed him, he said aloud:

"Don't be afraid, I have no ill will.

"I'm just curious what you guys are doing, come and ask.

"Meeting by chance means that there is a fate, and if you have a fate to meet each other over a thousand miles, you will naturally be friends when you meet."

The three men stopped filling the potholes by themselves, looked at each other, their expressions gradually softened, and they were no longer so vigilant.

They were all gray people, with messy, greasy hair, and unshaven faces, making it hard to see what they really looked like.

This is the standard Wilderness figure, perhaps also a Relic Hunter.

"You guys, what are you burying?" Shang Jianyao calmly walked to the side of the three and looked at the pothole ahead.

Jiang Baimian followed.

At this time, the concrete blocks had not completely filled the potholes, and vaguely, through the gap, the two of them saw what was buried:

It was a white bone.

Human bones!

"Murder and hide corpses?" Shang Jian Yaomo raised his chin and looked at the three men with bright eyes.

At this moment, he seemed like a professional detective.

The tallest of the three men quickly defended:

"Someone told us to bury these bones here."

"Others?" Jiang Baimian asked.

She was very clear that it was definitely not the three men who killed the person.

Because the corpse was so decomposed that only bones remained, and it was obviously not a recent death.

And if you want to kill someone and hide a corpse, throwing the corpse into the swamp is better than digging a hole in the ruins in the middle of the night, much better.

The man who spoke just now glanced at Shang Jianyao:

"We took on the hunter mission.

"At the time, I thought it was strange, why did you have to carry these bones to the Swamp No. 1 Ruins, buried them in this inexplicable place, and gave us the road map and how to bypass the guards, but he paid too much. ."

For some reason, Jiang Baimian suddenly remembered Shang Jianyao's nonsensical idea before:

"Deliberately made a sign of 'Dajiang City Yingcai Junior High School' and hung it outside a school to mislead those who came to explore."

Could it be that someone faked the scene and tried to mislead later excavators? Jiang Baimian looked at the three men and asked in a deep voice:

"What does the person who hired you look like?"

The three men posed a gesture of memory at the same time.

Then, their expressions turned painful.

"Can not remember."

"forgotten."

"It's very ordinary, I don't have an impression. Anyway, one third of the remuneration has been given, and the rest has been deposited in the guild. We only need to take a few photos and take them home to get it."

The tallest man patted his backpack.

There is a digital camera there.

It was loaned to them by the Hunters Guild.

"Sure enough." Shang Jianyao was very happy.

Jiang Baimian thought about it, first picked up the walkie-talkie, asked Long Yuehong and Bai Chen to come over, and then said to the three men:

"You take pictures now, and then you will dig things out for us to see."

"Yeah, you came here, dug a hole, buried things in it, and took pictures, which means you have completed the task. Any subsequent development has nothing to do with the task." Shang Jianyao followed suit.

What he said made sense, and the three men agreed one after another.

After taking the pictures, they waved their shovels and got the concrete blocks out again.

By the time Long Yuehong and Bai Chen arrived here, the three of them had already picked up the white bones outside the pothole.

Without careful observation, Jiang Baimian can confirm at a glance that this is not a complete corpse.

If nothing else, the skull is not here.

After carefully distinguishing for a while, Bai Chen said:

"Adult, only half a corpse."

The three men responded in unison:

"None of our business!"

"There were only so many bones when it was given to us."

"That's all we got!"

Corpse... What is the purpose of burying a corpse in the ruins of the Swamp No. 1 Relic Laboratory? While Jiang Baimian was thinking about it, Shang Jianyao suddenly pointed somewhere in the pothole and said:

"what is that?"

Beneath a pile of concrete blocks, there is a palm-sized, dark rectangle.

The tallest relic hunter glanced at it and said:

"The employer gave it to ~www.readwn.com~ to put it in the pile of bones when we buried it. We forgot to pick it up just now."

Shang Jianyao quickly looked at Long Yuehong, and said expectantly:

"Go get it."

Will it make a difference if I get it? Long Yue slandered with a red belly.

This is business, he did not refuse, jumped into the pothole, bent over and picked up the item.

By the dim starlight, he saw that it was a breastplate made of soft plastic.

Then, he turned over the badge and looked at the front of it.

Under the transparent plastic film, there is a yellow certificate.

A name is written on the surface of the certificate: