Embers Ad Infinitum

Seeing that the general's residence was not far away, Long Yuehong suddenly became a little nervous:

"What if General Phocas suddenly turns against him?"

After informing Phocas of the information obtained from Aviya and taking the captive to the other party's house, the "Old Tune Team" seemed to have little use value.

In this case, whether he wants to kill people and silence him, or withdraw his promise and eliminate hidden dangers, Phocas may turn against him.

With the current strength and status of the "Old Tune Team", it is difficult to compete with Forkas at his home court, and we cannot pin our own safety on the opponent's conscience.

Jiang Baimian had already considered this issue, nodded, turned sideways and said to Shang Jianyao:

"You can get off the car later, find a place to hide, and collect your consciousness.

"If we fail to come out, you will find an opportunity to evacuate in half an hour. In the future, you will take people from the company to avenge us."

Shang Jianyao is the only awakened person among the four members of the "Old Tune Team". He can hide his consciousness so that Phocas cannot sense it.

Others, no matter how well they are hidden, are directly exposed by the presence of human consciousness.

Shang Jianyao is not pretentious:

"good."

He then asked a question:

"Which song do you want to listen to then?"

Jiang Baimian gave him a blank look:

"When you are so serious, you rarely get sick before and make jokes like this."

She then smiled:

"Because you're too worried?"

Shang Jianyao fell silent.

Oh, you still have such a side... Long Yuehong imitated the tone of the team leader in her heart.

This made him very happy, feeling that he had not mistaken Shang Jianyao as his friend. Even if he was ridiculed all the time, he still believed that he had good intentions or was just joking.

At this time, Bai Chen had parked the car in a relatively quiet place where no one came and went.

Shang Jianyao pushed open the side door with his uninjured right hand and walked out carrying a tactical backpack.

After he straightened up, he was silent for two seconds and took out a photo from the inner pocket of his clothes.

"Ask me if you have seen him." Shang Jianyao handed the photo in his hand to Jiang Baimian.

Jiang Baimian had seen this photo before and knew that the gentle man in his thirties was Shang Jianyao's father who had been missing for many years.

She didn't ask any more questions, closed her mouth tightly and nodded.

After Shang Jianyao disappeared on the roadside in a few steps and climbed onto an unknown tree, Bai Chen restarted the jeep and mentioned casually:

"I thought he would say, if you don't come out in half an hour, I will rush in and save you."

Jiang Baimian smiled:

"He knew very well that if he relied on himself alone, he would definitely fail to save others and be arrested instead.

“In comparison, it is a better choice to go directly to Ms. Kangna and contact the company.

"At this time, I chose to rush in and die together. Although my companions are deeply affectionate, it seems too brainless. I don't want to die in frustration and no one will avenge me."

Bai Chen didn't speak anymore and stared ahead, seemingly driving the car intently.

Not long after, Jeep arrived at the back door area of ​​the general's mansion.

Jiang Baimian raised the prisoner with one hand and said to Long Yuehong, who was wearing a military exoskeleton device:

"You guard the car here while Xiaobai and I go in."

"It's me and you." Long Yuehong subconsciously suggested.

Jiang Baimian looked at Bai Chen with a smile:

"It's Xiaobai you need to convince, not me."

Long Yuehong glanced at Bai Chen, who was also wearing a military exoskeleton device but had already pushed open the door to get out of the car and walked towards the back door of the general's mansion. Seeing that the other party had no intention of discussing with her, she had no choice but to wisely shut her mouth.

Phocas had already made arrangements. Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen led the captives through the ajar back door, and were led by a silent attendant into an unoccupied room on the first floor.

There are surveillance cameras and multiple radios installed here, but there is no sign of Focas.

The silent attendant took out a military walkie-talkie and handed it to Jiang Baimian.

When Jiang Baimian became familiar with the buttons, Phocas's voice came from the other end of the intercom:

“You can wake up the prisoner and start questioning.

"Once he uses his ability, I will stop him."

Now Phocas has completely hidden his consciousness. Even if Kaa wakes up and makes a range attack, he will not be able to affect him because he is not included in the target group.

Jiang Baimian could also think of this, and immediately took out the medical kit from the tactical backpack, prepared a new needle, and injected it into the target's body.

After waiting for a while, her and Bai Chen's eyelids suddenly drooped, and their bodies fell limply towards the ground.

But in an instant, Kaa, who pretended not to wake up and secretly used "forced sleep", fell into coma again.

Immediately afterwards, intense music sounded in the room, waking Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen from their divergent dreams.

After several similar cycles, Kaa finally realized that he could not get out of trouble for the time being.

He couldn't find the guy who made him unconscious and couldn't use his abilities against him.

"What do you want to ask?" Kaa gave up trying and looked up at Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen.

Jiang Baimian went straight to the point:

"Why do you and the organization behind you want to prevent others from investigating the cause of the destruction of the old world?"

Kaa raised his chin slightly and said:

"To prevent this world from being destroyed again."

He had a haughty attitude, with obvious pride.

"What?" Jiang Baimian did not expect such an answer.

Bai Chen carefully observed Kao's micro-expression, trying to figure out whether he was lying just now.

Kaa said with an attitude of "you guys are so ignorant":

“The investigation into the cause of the destruction of the old world will trigger something, causing the world that has finally recovered from the disaster to be destroyed again.

"It has taken us humans decades to gradually reduce the impact of 'unintentional disease' and environmental pollution, have a more stable source of food, re-establish a preliminary order, and allow civilization to continue. How can we go Destroy it?

"All of this is still so fragile and cannot withstand the slightest bit of trouble."

"So, you can kill a large number of innocent people without changing your expression?" Jiang Baimian did not directly ask what would be triggered, but raised a new question from the side.

Kaa sneered:

"Most of them are not innocent, they are all people who ignore the survival of human civilization and investigate the reasons for the destruction of the old world for their own curiosity or some kind of benefit.

“The rest, I can only say that they were unlucky and happened to know secrets they shouldn’t know, or appear in places they shouldn’t.

"Compared to the entire dusty land and human civilization, a few dozen or dozens or hundreds of people alone are just dead if they die.

"Once disaster strikes again and order disappears again, more than just this few people will die? By then, humans may not be able to continue civilization."

Although he knew that the other party had some strong words, Jiang Baimian had to admit that this group of people had their own beliefs, and in a sense, the logic of their behavior was also valid.

Of course, combined with the information provided by Avia, such rhetoric may be used by someone or a few people to brainwash the captives in front of them, and it may not be true.

The former emperor of the "Primary City", Aure Ubis, said:

It is possible that some people in the Eighth Research Institute are still alive, but have undergone some terrible changes and become the lackeys of darkness, and need to be careful.

At the same time, the former chief scientist of the Third Research Institute believed that those guys from the Eighth Research Institute had caused a big disaster.

Judging from his appearance and age, the man in front of me should have been born after the destruction of the old world. He was not one of those who survived the Eighth Academy. There is a high probability that he has not undergone terrible changes... He is more like a thug deliberately trained by those people. ...Jiang Baimian pondered for several seconds and said:

"What you said is completely baseless. What can be triggered by the investigation into the cause of the destruction of the old world?"

Kaa sneered again:

"I didn't really believe it until ten years ago, when a certain group of people investigated the cause of the destruction of the old world and made some gains, and found a certain city in the north.

"That city is a settlement independent of the big forces. It and the surrounding area have a population of hundreds of thousands. There are many strong people and they control many resources that can be traded.

“As a result, ‘Wuxin Disease’ broke out again overnight, and the city was destroyed and turned into ruins.

"If we hadn't controlled it properly and isolated it in advance, the entire dust would have been affected."

This made Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen subconsciously silent. Their hearts felt heavy and the air seemed to freeze.

After a long while, Bai Chen blurted out and asked:

"Are you from the Eighth Research Institute?"

"Yes, I am the special commissioner of the Eighth Research Institute." Kaa admitted frankly, and he seemed to be very proud of this status.

Sure enough... Jiang Baimian exhaled slowly and deliberately changed the subject without asking according to common sense:

“I know that before the destruction of the old world, various countries jointly established nine secret institutes.

"Among them, the third research institute is focusing on artificial intelligence, and the other research institute is on 'immortal human beings'. So what is your eighth research institute?"

Kaa fell silent and thought for a while before saying:

"The awakening of humanity."

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