Embers Ad Infinitum

"Look at this!" Long Yuehong shouted with a trembling voice.

Bai Chen and Gnawa cast their gazes over, focusing on the cigarette butts with short filters.

"Flag cigarettes." Gnawa said with a red light in his eyes.

Hearing his words, Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief.

Just now, he was worried that he had identified the wrong item and was happy in vain, but now he no longer has this worry - Gnawa must have said this after strict analysis and comparison.

Bai Chen didn't say anything, but already reached out and started rummaging through the pile of garbage.

Soon, she picked out many items, including the wrapping paper of "Ralphie" candy, the empty outer packaging of tissue paper, and the residue of hand-ground coffee.

"Preliminary judgment is that he is the real 'Father'." Bai Chen raised his head and looked at each other with Long Yuehong and Gnawa.

An uncontrollable smile appeared on her face.

After repeated failures, repeated disappointments, and wasting energy again and again, the "Old Tune Team" finally caught the fox tail of the real "priest"!

Really caught it!

Long Yuehong couldn't hide the joy on her face and said quickly:

"Hurry up and get the team leader and Shang Jianyao over."

In about ten minutes, Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian arrived and saw the "evidence".

Shang Jianyao immediately smiled and sang:

"Hey, I really miss you..."

"Stop!" Jiang Baimian stopped his performance and said with an obvious smile, "It's not time to celebrate yet. Once you catch the real 'priest' or kill him, I allow you to show him or his body in front of Let’s sing for five minutes!”

"I also want small speakers and Lao Ge to sing together, with three-dimensional surround." Shang Jianyao put forward his request.

Jiang Baimian took a breath, looked around and said:

"Now we can only say that we have achieved initial results. The next thing we need to consider is how to find the real 'priest' from this building."

"Pretend to be a peace officer and check every house?" Long Yuehong looked at the 27-story Alpha Building again.

There are a large number of companies, chamber of commerce employees and people renting apartments.

Bai Chen shook his head:

"I'm afraid that won't work.

"I suspect that there are a large number of 'puppets' in the building. They usually work and live like normal people, but as soon as an abnormality is discovered, they immediately transform into real 'priests'."

"Yes, this is unavoidable." Jiang Baimian gave a simple example, "For example, when we knocked on the door of this house and used the excuse of investigating a case to see if there was a real 'priest', people across the street or diagonally Behind the peephole in the opposite room, there might be a pair of eyes watching all this quietly, and then reminding the real 'priest' in the agreed way."

Gnawa analyzed the answer accordingly:

"Excluding similar methods, there is only one option left.

"Let the real 'priest' come out on his own."

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao applauded the smart man Lao Ge.

The red light in Gnawa's eyes flashed a few times.

Jiang Baimian then laughed and said:

"We had to create a situation where the real 'priest' had to come out."

…………

At two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and Gennava sneaked into the Alpha Building in disguise and entered an empty room on the third floor.

Shang Jianyao walked to the window, cleared away the tables, chairs and benches, and did some processing on the marble floor.

Immediately afterwards, Gnawa dropped a sack on his back and poured half of the contents onto the vacant area.

These are all flammable and smoke-producing things.

Jiang Baimian immediately put on a gas mask, struck a few matches, and threw them at the pile of items.

Gradually, sparks began to spread, and black smoke quickly filled the air.

It didn't take long for the flames to become fierce and rise upwards, but because there was a deliberately placed isolation zone around them, they did not spread outward.

The thick smoke soon triggered the alarm on the ceiling.

The sound of woo quickly echoed throughout the Alpha Building.

Gnawa, who had already hacked into the surveillance system here, lifted the flamethrower and sprayed flames into the air outside the window, while letting the corresponding screen play scenes edited from old world entertainment materials, making the surveillance personnel believe that the fire had taken shape, and the fire was close to the building. The local firefighting force cannot solve the problem.

Just as the "Old Tune Team" expected, a voice soon shouted from the public address system in the building:

“If there is a fire, everyone must evacuate in an orderly manner!

"Be careful, don't take the elevator!

"Those on higher floors can go to the rooftop to wait for fire rescue."

The sound spread to every corner of the Alpha Building, causing company employees and apartment residents to hurriedly enter the stairs and go down.

Those who got out the fastest saw steaming flames and black smoke billowing from a window on the third floor, and were convinced that a fire really broke out.

On the rooftop of the building opposite the Alpha Building, Long Yuehong held an "Orange" rifle and used the fixed scope on it to observe everyone rushing out of the main entrance of the building.

Opposite him, Bai Chen was in charge of the back door area.

Long Yuehong was a little nervous and apprehensive when he was on his own for the first time, but as he was no longer a novice, he knew how to deal with such emotions.

He took two deep breaths in succession, but did not relax his surveillance of the main entrance area of ​​the Alpha Building.

In the midst of the chaos, Long Yuehong's eyes suddenly lit up.

The figure sandwiched among a group of people fits the characteristics of a true "priest":

He is about the same height as the team leader, has heavy dark circles under his eyes, looks quite tired, and walks slightly forward.

He is in his mid-twenties, wearing black clothes and pants, and has short black hair. He is closer to a gray earth race, but his facial features are deeper. When walking, he consciously uses the surrounding buildings and people to avoid people from high altitudes. sniping everywhere.

Long Yuehong chased this person with her eyes while using the walkie-talkie to make a report:

"Target appears, target appears, heading toward Hearst's apartment."

After shouting like this, Long Yuehong relaxed a lot and tried wholeheartedly to target the person suspected of being the real "priest".

At this moment, following the team leader's instructions, he did not give up monitoring the main entrance area of ​​Alpha Building, and he caught sight of another person with the corner of his eye.

The man was also in his twenties, wearing black clothes and pants, with short black hair. He was between 1.75 and 1.80 meters tall. He had heavy dark circles under his eyes and his expression was full of exhaustion. At this time, he was burying his head slightly, leaning forward and walking quickly in the other direction.

Except that his appearance is not very similar to the previous one, he also meets all the characteristics of a true "priest"!

Isn't this... really a "priest" too stubborn? Long Yuehong couldn't help but use the vocabulary learned from old world entertainment materials.

He quickly used the walkie-talkie to tell the team leader the new discovery:

"Another suspected target appears! Leave in the opposite direction of Hearst's apartment!"

He just hoped that the captain and the others could split up in time and block both of them.

The current situation made him wonder whether to shoot or snipe.

Not to mention that the two people were consciously looking for cover to prevent snipers from far away. Just because there must be a puppet and an innocent person among them, Long Yuehong was a little unable to take action.

…………

The man who was going to Hester's apartment reached the intersection, suddenly turned around, and walked towards the Red Giant Wolf area.

At this moment, a figure wearing a dark green military uniform jumped out of the alley next to him.

He is 1.9 meters tall, with a silver-black metallic luster all over his body. He is the intelligent robot Gnawa.

Looking at the target who was suspected to be a real "priest" in front of him, Gnawa lived up to Shang Jianyao's repeated instructions and played his pre-recorded voice:

"You now have two options:

"One, follow me to that alley; two, get beaten up by me and then dragged to that alley."

The eyes of the target who was suspected to be the real "priest" suddenly solidified.

…………

In the opposite direction of Hearst's apartment, another suspected target hurried toward a cafe and appeared to want to walk through it and leave through the back door.

Suddenly, there was a bang and a bullet hit in front of him.

He rolled on the spot and hid in the mailbox next to him.

Then, he saw Shang Jianyao with a sunny face and sunglasses.

"Hey, I really miss you..." A song sounded in time from Shang Jianyao's tactical backpack.

…………

Noticing that both sides seemed to be blocking the target, Long Yuehong breathed out again and informed Bai Chen of the situation.

At this time, the thick smoke on the third floor began to fade, and there were no more flames.

Bai Chen did not relax because Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian and Gnawa's actions were relatively smooth, and kept monitoring the backdoor area.

Another group of people escaped from there.

Inside, there is a figure wearing a string hat, always with his head lowered, his walking posture is quite forward, and his steps are slightly frivolous.

Bai Chen's heart moved and he focused his attention completely. Then he saw the obvious dark circles on the other side's face and the tired look that was hard to conceal.

"Another suspected target appeared at the back door." Bai Chen calmly made the report.

Fuck... At this moment, there was only one thought swirling in Long Yuehong's mind.

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