Embers Ad Infinitum

Shang Jianyao immediately agreed, patted his thigh and said:

"I almost thought the real culprits were not us."

It's as if you just heard that you attacked Eugene, turned him into a slave, and brought him back... Long Yuehong couldn't help but curse.

Of course, he had no intention of arguing with a mental patient on this issue, lest Shang Jianyao start repeating "Hey, I am only 1.75 meters tall after genetic modification."

——While chatting, Long Yuehong asked Shang Jianyao about the attack on Eugene, hoping to learn something from it.

Jiang Baimian ignored Shang Jianyao and said with a smile:

“The current state is pretty good, and basically no one will doubt us.

"I'm afraid that things will get bigger and bigger, and different forces in the city will start to fish in troubled waters and pursue their own interests, which will easily turn Weed Grass City into a powder keg and explode at any time."

Having said this, Jiang Baimian looked at Bai Chen without any apparent emotion:

"Use the 20 Orei you just received to buy food. Don't panic since you have food in your hands."

"Okay." Bai Chen, who was sitting on the stool in front of the table, nodded.

Jiang Baimian then took out the piece of paper from Chen Xufeng and handed it to Bai Chen:

"You guys take a look first."

Long Yuehong immediately stood up, picked up the stool, moved to Bai Chen's side, and browsed with her.

"Hypnosis, memory... no wonder..." At the end, Long Yuehong made a sound of sudden realization.

He also made fun of what hypnosis is.

"It seems that Lin Feifei and the others are indeed controlled by the 'anti-intellectual religion', rather than framed by someone." Unlike in the past, Bai Chen expressed his thoughts more actively.

"It's not completely ruled out. I can only say that the possibility is very low. It's not that coincidental." Jiang Baimian agreed.

Then, she considered it and said:

“Judging from the behavior of the ‘anti-intellectual religion’, they tend to go to extremes and like to cause big troubles.

"From this point of view, can we guess that they are gradually becoming more active in Weed Grass City, and besides the need to preach, they are also preparing to do something big?

"This has nothing to do with Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei from 'Pangu Creatures'. Normally, it is impossible to affect them unless..."

Jiang Baimian paused, and Long Yuehong blurted out:

"Unless they accidentally stumbled upon the 'anti-intellectual religion' plot?"

"It's also possible that there was an intersection from Weeda City, and Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei were involved," Bai Chen guessed.

Not to be outdone, Shang Jianyao expressed his thoughts:

"There is another possibility:

"When the 'Anti-Intellectual Cult' was distributing leaflets, they were bumped into by Lei Yunsong and the others, and a conflict broke out. They became angry and did not stop doing anything. They asked strong people within the sect to take action to save their face."

"How violent is this?" Jiang Baimian tactfully denied, "Although this is in line with the stupid setting of the 'anti-intellectual religion', it can be seen from their teachings that their chosen ones are quite smart. , so as not to create unnecessary complications.”

She looked around and said:

"The investigation is currently based on breaking the conspiracy and being involved in other incidents."

"Yes, team leader!" Long Yuehong responded with her head held high, happy that her idea was confirmed.

Jiang Baimian then reminded:

“Next, we will start dealing with this ‘anti-intellectual cult’ and hope to find them as soon as possible.

"No one can guarantee safety in this process. You'd better be prepared to prevent yourself from being hypnotized at any time, or losing important memories or gaining more memories than you should have."

Long Yuehong quickly asked for advice:

"Team leader, what should we do?"

Jiang Baimian smiled:

"Don't be too nervous. Look, wouldn't a person as strong as Eugene be dealt with quickly?"

"Team leader, as soon as you said 'look', I wondered if I was influenced by the 'reasoning clown' and mistook Shang Jianyao for you and you for Shang Jianyao..." Long Yuehong replied in a low voice. One sentence.

"Ah?" Jiang Baimian touched his metal cochlea.

Then, she smiled:

"Am I not Shang Jianyao?"

"Okay, I'm kidding." She calmed down and gave her own opinion, "You can prepare some small notes to keep close to your body and write down a few key memories in a way that others can't understand but you can understand. Go up and mark 'this shall prevail', and then take a look at it every once in a while to check your own status."

"Okay." Bai Chen agreed after thinking for a moment.

Jiang Baimian looked at her and suddenly remembered something:

"By the way, it was Odik who asked you, right? How? Relying on the influence of dreams?"

"Well, I didn't know when I fell asleep, and I didn't know I was dreaming. Fortunately, I found Shang Jianyao's paper-folded star, and I suddenly woke up." Bai Chen described briefly.

"It's not easy." Shang Jianyao commented.

Don't know what he is referring to.

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and added for him:

"This is the most difficult application of 'reasoning clown' under the current circumstances.

“It makes your subconscious mind believe that there is such a little paper star on your body, so it reflects it in your dream.

"In reality, matter cannot be fictionalized, so you can't touch it."

"What's strangest to me is that when I can't touch the paper-folded stars in reality, shouldn't the effect of the 'reasoning clown' be lifted?" Bai Chen was a little confused.

Shang Jianyao laughed:

“It’s simple, I added a triple effect, not a double.

"Do you remember what I said after you deduced that there was a little paper star in your pocket? That was also a 'reasoning'."

Bai Chen recalled:

"You mean 'it is very mysterious, involves supernatural power, and is an important prop. It cannot be touched or touched now'?"

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

He explained excitedly:

"The first effect is to make you think that the team leader and I are strangers and ignore the relevant memories.

"The second effect is that you are influenced by me, a stranger, and you think you have paper stars in your pocket.

"The third effect is to let you conclude that you can't touch the star now. In this way, after you fail to find it in reality, you still believe that it will appear in your dream."

"If I hadn't met Odik later, would this effect have never been removed?" Bai Chen asked.

Shang Jianyao shook his head:

"After you sleep, if you don't dream of anything or if you dream of something else, it will be relieved naturally."

Seeing that Bai Chen was relieved, Jiang Baimian began to summarize:

"It seems that Odik's awakening abilities include forced sleep and dream interference.

"Well, how did you feel in the dream?"

"Before I took out the paper-folded star, I felt a little hazy. It was almost like a normal dream. I knew who I was, but I didn't feel anything unusual about the changes in the surrounding environment." Bai Chen said truthfully.

Jiang Baimian said to himself thoughtfully:

"This is quite different from the real dream of Nightmare Horse."

"At that time, in the dream, I was very awake and felt that I was in reality." Shang Jianyao added enthusiastically.

Jiang Baimian nodded gently:

“Because it’s real enough, the hurt suffered in the dream will be reflected back into reality.

"Well, Oldick's ability to influence dreams and Nightmare Horse's ability should be different. One can be called 'real dreams', and the other can only be called 'dream manipulation'.

"It is true that Odik's dream ability is weaker than that of Nightmare Horse, but he also has the ability of 'forced sleep', which must not be underestimated."

As long as it is used within the corresponding range and with a gun, this is simply a BUG.

After discussing this matter, Jiang Baimian returned to the topic:

“The most important question now is, how should we find people who are ‘anti-intellectual religion’?”

"After the power outage, the people who were squatting behind them to distribute leaflets? Well, with the current situation in Weedao City, there should be a lot of patrols at night. They should not dare to come out..." Long Yuehong first put forward an opinion and then made his own decision Denied, "Go and search around the library? They might take advantage of the chaos to burn down the library again."

"After the library was burned once, it has been guarded by heavily armed city defense troops." Jiang Baimian has been in and out of the library several times, and he is quite familiar with this matter.

Shang Jianyao then showed a troubled expression:

“The information is not detailed enough.

"If we can figure out what the anti-intellectual religion's sacrament is, we can go to the corresponding stores and market to conduct research."

"...This is an idea." Jiang Baimian had to admit that mentally ill patients can always find directions that normal people would not think about. "You can either ask Odik or send a telegram to the company. Well, we have to do it ourselves. We have a radio transceiver, so we can’t rely on Chen Xufeng all the time. On the one hand, it’s easy for him to be exposed. On the other hand, there are too many intermediate links and it’s not timely enough. The critical moment may be delayed.”

She looked around and continued:

“Besides this, there is another direction.

"Think about it, if the 'anti-intellectual religion' wants to destroy knowledge, besides targeting books, one of the carriers of knowledge, which group will they target?"

"Teacher!" Long Yuehong, who had received formal education since childhood, reacted immediately.

Jiang Baimian nodded with satisfaction:

“Although in Weedao City, the regular school teachers all live on North Street and are relatively safe, we cannot forget some other people.

"In some settlements of wilderness wanderers, there are no public schools like Shuiwei Town, but some people hope that their children can at least be literate. Therefore, when they have a little spare time, more than a dozen families will join forces and each contribute. Order supplies and hire one or two part-time teachers to teach for a few months. After that, it depends on the actual situation.

"You have also seen that the living conditions of the citizens of Weed Grass City are better than those of most people in the homeless settlements in the wilderness, and the population is much larger. So there may be some children who cannot go to North Street to study, and the elders do not have time. Or families who are unable to teach, unite and hire a few teachers to provide short-term education?

"Are there some people who make a living specifically from this?"

Bai Chen immediately said:

"have.

"Many relic hunters themselves are illiterate. It is not that convenient to accept tasks in the Hunter Guild. It is a waste of time just to listen and ask. If such people have extra money and a certain amount of free time, there are often more than ten or twenty people gathered together. , hire a teacher to teach common words.

"In Weed City, this is called a 'temporary teacher'."

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

"Then let's visit these 'temporary teachers' separately to see if they have received any threats recently and where they came from."

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