Embers Ad Infinitum

Jiang Baimian was not surprised at all by Xu Liyan's question, and smiled secretly:

"Congressman Zhao has some problems in several manors outside the original city, and he wants to entrust us to solve them."

"I don't know what went wrong, but it sounds weird." Shang Jianyao added helpfully.

Although he always felt that Zhang Qubing was a pure lunatic, Xu Liyan magically believed that he would not lie to him about this kind of thing, because this guy was so crazy and decent.

So, he put down his hanging heart and asked instead:

"You don't make a living as a ruin hunter, so you still need to take on missions?"

"Let's make some extra money." Jiang Baimian knew that Xu Liyan was making insinuating remarks, so he simply explained.

This is really true.

At the beginning, the "Old Diao Group" just wanted to get extra funds for activities in the original city, and they could make good use of the Zhao family's network there to make extra money. After receiving Lehman's telegram, they I really just went there to make extra money.

"Sure? Do you want to go to the First City?" Xu Liyan asked thoughtfully.

"No." Jiang Baimian answered before Shang Jianyao could.

She said without changing her expression:

"Didn't there appear in the mountains on the north bank of the Red River a giant white wolf with strange abilities that can charm humans?

"As you know, our company's main research is biology. How could we let such a sample appear?"

She hinted in and out of her words that she and others were heading for the white wolf, but in fact, she didn't say so clearly in any word or punctuation.

Is "Pangu Creature" interested in the white wolf? Definitely is!

After receiving the telegram from the "Old Tune Team" and knowing that there is such a thing, will "Pangu Creature" send a team to try to capture it? definitely will!

But what does the dispatched team have to do with the "old tune team"?

Long Yuehong listened for a moment behind Bai Chen, feeling that if she and Xu Liyan were to change places, she would be misled in that direction.

It’s really cheating to death but not paying for it... If he hadn’t heard about the White Wolf last night, what excuse would the team leader have made? No, reason? Well, the fact that we are going to the First City cannot be revealed to Xu Liyan. Although he has secretly cooperated with the company, he still has not left the "Prime City" and is inextricably related to it... Long Yuehong scanned Xu Liyan looked at him with a look of surprise, and murmured a few words in his heart to express his sympathy.

At this time, Jiang Baimian secretly grabbed the back of Shang Jianyao's clothes with his left hand to hint to him not to talk nonsense and not to undermine himself.

"I have heard about that mission." Xu Liyan nodded and said, "My two advisors and Zen Master Jing Nian all agreed that the white wolf was very dangerous. Even if the 'senior hunter' took action, it would be ruined if he was not careful. Your own life, haha, with the strength of your team, this is not a big problem."

Jiang Baimian didn't want to continue this topic, so he pulled Shang Jianyao and hinted that he should use his unconstrained ideas to change the topic to another direction.

Shang Jianyao asked a question he had before:

"Which Zen master is lecturing now?

"Why do I feel that the mechanical monks all look the same and wear similar clothes? Can't they learn from the intelligent people and give themselves some characteristics? For example, the metal chin can be sharpened to make it more pointy for close combat. Can be used as a weapon..."

He poured out his opinions.

Bai Chen agreed very much with this and couldn't help but nodded.

As the team moved, they were much closer to the wooden platform. Xu Liyan looked at the mechanical monk giving the lecture and said with a wry smile:

"To be honest, I can't tell the difference. If he introduces himself as Zen Master Jing Nian, I will treat him as Zen Master Jing Nian. If he introduces himself as some other Zen master, I will treat him as some other Zen master. As long as he is not in Weedao It's okay if the city is 'sick'.

"Well, the one who lectures now is Zen Master Jing Nian."

Long Yuehong became curious and couldn't help but interject:

"Then how do the mechanical monks distinguish each other and accurately identify who the other person is?"

"Transmitting radio wave signals, verifying unique keys, etc., etc." Jiang Baimian tried to answer from the perspective of mechanical and electronic products.

As she said that, she suddenly remembered something:

"Did Zen Master Jing Nian say not to mess with him somewhere?"

According to widespread knowledge, mechanical monks have a weakness that makes them go crazy when touched.

Some of this comes from the price paid, and some comes from the imperfection of consciousness uploading technology.

Xu Liyan shook his head:

"He didn't say."

"This shows that his trigger point will not appear under normal circumstances." Jiang Baimian said "hmm" and stopped exploring.

As they spoke, they continued to follow the team, moving towards the wooden platform.

At this time, many people had already gotten the steamed buns, squatting or standing around to eat the porridge, making Shang Jianyao look envious.

None of them left, for the only requirement of the order of monks for distributing food was to listen to sermons.

This time you made porridge and steamed buns and left. It didn't matter, no one would stop you, but next time you would be on the blacklist and get nothing.

The mechanical monks can scan people's faces and store large amounts of data.

After chatting for a while, Xu Liyan glanced at the sky and said with a smile:

"My housekeeper recently collected a batch of animals that were hunted in the wilderness. Are you interested in coming to a barbecue party in the evening?"

Shang Jianyao's eyes suddenly lit up.

Then, he sincerely suggested:

"Some ingredients are not suitable for roasting."

Jiang Baimian smiled as if thinking:

"City Lord Xu, are you not afraid of causing unnecessary misunderstandings in the 'First City'?"

Xu Liyan laughed:

"Based on what happened last time, I reorganized the City Lord's Mansion and changed many people. The First City can only know the information I want them to know."

"Then it's better for us to be respectful than to obey." Jiang Baimian released his left hand that grabbed the back of Shang Jianyao's clothes.

Shang Jianyao was very happy, but the questions he asked were irrelevant:

"What happens to the 'fake' priest now?"

Xu Liyan's expression turned gloomy:

“Handed.

"I originally wanted to recruit him, but his ability is too dangerous. I'm afraid I will become his puppet before I know it."

This point also applies to Zhang Qubing, but he has no way to deal with it.

"Well, be careful." Jiang Baimian expressed his understanding.

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong also thought this was the best solution. Only Shang Jianyao was vaguely disappointed.

Xu Liyan was about to say something more when Shang Jianyao smiled:

"It's our turn!"

Xu Liyan turned sideways in confusion and found that he had arrived in front of the iron pots.

Jing Nian, who was preaching on the wooden platform, and the human servants who were distributing food all turned their attention to him at the same time.

They all know City Master Xu.

Those servants were even lent by Xu Liyan to Zen Master Jing Nian for help.

Obviously, they were quite surprised that City Master Xu was queuing up here.

Xu Liyan's face turned red and he was so embarrassed that he wanted to dig a hole nearby and bury himself in it.

A servant numbly handed over a bowl and gave two steamed buns. Xu Liyan took it blankly and watched as another servant scooped a spoonful of porridge into his bowl.

Don't tell me, there are quite a lot.

…………

The next afternoon, outside Weedao City.

The remodeled military green Jeep is running in the wilderness.

The person in charge of driving was Gnawa, who had blue eyes, was wearing a military uniform, and had a shiny metal frame. He had already rushed here from the Red Stone Collection and charged up the high-performance batteries.

For this reason, Jiang Baimian asked Bai Chen to make up a lot of Ole for Aunt Nan.

The passenger seat is Shang Jianyao, and in the back row from left to right are Jiang Baimian, the reserved Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.

They were all leaning back in their chairs, looking lazy.

"What's wrong with you?" Gennava was a little confused.

As his slightly synthetic baritone echoed, Shang Jianyao let out a burp that represented satisfaction.

"The barbecue party last night was very good." He spoke highly of Xu Liyan's hospitality, looking like a "brother".

Jiang Baimian then laughed and said:

"He also asked us to bring some raw meat and seasonings, but they can't be kept for too long. We have to deal with them in the next two days."

Gennava quite understood human beings' love for food and asked instead:

"Go directly to the First City next?"

Jiang Baimian responded:

"Yes, go directly to the First City!"

PS: I originally wanted to insist on more than one update, but yesterday I had a chat with the person in charge and producer of Mystery Animation, but I couldn’t write the code. Today I just relied on saving the manuscript. Alas, I can only do one update tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. , I hope everyone will understand. In addition, I would like to report to you that I will chat with the director of Mysterious Animation later, and the whole project will be launched. Yesterday, I mainly talked about the general direction of the world view, creative concept, etc., and it was quite congenial.