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"In three days, at two o'clock in the afternoon, we will have a baptism ceremony. If you come to attend, you will officially become a member of the sect.

"Hehe, remember, two o'clock in the afternoon is the sacred time of the sect, and the daily prayers should be arranged at this time as much as possible.

"There is no time limit for our ordinary Mass. High Mass and Baptism can only be between two and three in the afternoon."

"What's the baptism ceremony like?" Shang Jianyao asked enthusiastically.

Li Zhe pointed to the door of the mass room:

"It's similar to ordinary mass, but the baptized people can't wear their own clothes, they have to strip and wrap themselves in the red bath towel in the church.

"The longer who can stay in the mass room, the more favored he will be."

Jiang Baimian listened with gusto, interrupted and asked:

"Then what's different about High Mass?"

"Only once a month, in addition to the ordinary mass, there is a hot bath and a group dance in praise of the gods." Li Zhe simply explained.

After talking about joining the church, Jiang Baimian talked about the purpose of the "Old Tune Group" coming to Tarnan:

"We have some things that we want to see the 'Source Brain', and ask it directly. I don't know if 'Dedicated', have you impressed the 'Mechanical Paradise', so that we can get permission?"

After listening quietly, Li Zhe sighed and said:

"I've been in Tarnan for so many years..."

Having said that, he pointed to the outside of the church:

"Those people in the town have stayed here longer, and the caravans that come and go also represent certain forces, but no one has seen the 'Source Brain', and most of them don't even know the existence of the 'Source Brain'."

Li Zhe's implication is:

I have no way.

Seeing this, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao couldn't force him to do so. After exchanging a few pleasantries, they took their leave and left.

As an associate member of the "Forge Sect", Shang Jianyao performed a dance to the holy emblem representing the "Scorching Gate" before turning around.

Li Zhe was quite satisfied with this.

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The Tarnan Hunters Guild is also on the busiest "Riverside Boulevard", located in the middle.

The layout inside is very similar to the Hunters Guild in Wild Grass City. There are also multiple tables with corresponding electronic products to assist hunters in receiving and handing in quests.

The only difference is that the hunter's guild here is not too big, there are not many clerks, just three, and because there are machines to do it for you, it seems quite leisurely, and you can even be distracted and in a daze.

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen walked up to a round-faced female staff member, and looked inside through the empty glass panel below.

"Hello." Long Yuehong took the initiative to speak.

The staff member raised his head abruptly, with blank eyes remaining in his eyes.

"What's the matter?" She waited for a while before asking in gray dialect.

What she uses is not a dialect, but a language similar to that of the Red Stone Collection.

Long Yuehong had already discussed it with Bai Chen, and said bluntly:

"We want to visit President Gu Bo."

"Ah, let me ask for you." The staff member picked up the black phone in a panic and dialed a number.

After the call was connected, she said a few words, "hmm" twice, then raised her head, and said to Long Yuehong and Bai Chen:

"President Gu told you to go there, room 201 on the second floor."

Uh... that's all right?So simple?Long Yuehong was a little surprised.

He still remembered that when he was in Wild Grass City, he wanted to meet some high-ranking members of the Hunter's Guild for a reason.

It may be that the guild here is not large in scale, and there are not so many rules and division of interests?Long Yuehong is becoming more and more used to thinking about the information contained in these differences, although he often can't think of the answer.

After exchanging glances with Bai Chen, they walked towards the stairs.

Chapter 141 A Scientist Not Like a Scientist

Gu Bo is a thin and small old man, his gray hair is a little thinning, and his dark brown eyes are still full of energy.

He was wearing a black woolen jacket, holding a silver metal thermos cup in his hand, pointed to the opposite side of the desk and said:

"Sit, sit."

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen nodded politely, pulled out the chairs, and sat down.

"What's the matter with you?" Gu Bo's gray earth language had a slight accent, which was completely different from the local dialect.

Based on this, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen judged that the local president of the Hunter's Guild was the first or second generation of Tarnan townspeople and came from another area.

"President Gu, we have something to ask you." Long Yuehong replied politely.

Gu Bo laughed:

"Isn't this the task that should be released first, and let me decide whether to accept it or not depending on the reward?

"Information or intelligence is valuable."

"..." Long Yuehong was speechless for a while, and could only secretly feel that she was a senior hunter and local president, who did what she did and loved what she did.

Bai Chen calmly replied:

"You can listen to our questions first, and then decide how much to ask for. This can be done without going through the guild."

Gu Bo unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup, took a sip of water and said:

"I am an old man, am I afraid that you will regret not paying me?

"At that time, don't make a fuss if you can't eat mutton, and get beaten if you don't get paid."

Seeing that Gu Boyue's words were getting more and more outrageous, Long Yuehong suddenly missed Shang Jianyao.

At a time like this, he would definitely be able to bring the topic upside down.

"A local 'chief hunter', still afraid of this?" Bai Chen looked at Gu Bo and asked back.

Long Yuehong inquired about Gu Bo last night, and knew that he was originally a "Senior Hunter". After becoming the president, he was also awarded the honorary title of "Chief Hunter".

"A hero doesn't mention his bravery." Gu Bo laughed at himself, "Man, when you get old, your body doesn't look very good."

Just kidding, he restrained his expression:

"Tell me, let me see what the problem is and then decide what to do."

Long Yuehong took out an absorbent pen and a palm-sized notebook, and while posing to record the contents, she asked:

"President Gu, do you remember Maximian?"

"Huh?" Gu Bo was at a loss.

Long Yuehong quickly picked up the key points and made a reminder:

"At the beginning of the new calendar, the person who was offered a reward by 'Mechanical Paradise'."

Gu Bo was lost in memory, and he said after a while:

"He, it's been decades, what do you ask him to do?

"Do you have any clues about him, are he his descendants?"

You have a lot of associative power... Long Yuehong sneered, and explained simply:

"We want to see the 'Source Brain', hoping to come up with something that the 'Mechanical Paradise' is interested in."

"Then you might as well accumulate metal minerals and make a big deal with 'Mechanical Paradise', maybe there is still a chance." Gu Bo felt that the young man's whim was completely unrealistic, "It's about Maximian. It’s been decades, maybe everyone is dead.”

"We are only responsible for this direction." Bai Chen blocked Gu Bo's persuasion with one sentence.

Gu Bo unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup again, took a sip, and moistened his throat:

"Then I'll just say it directly, and I don't need any reward from you. I didn't find any clues at the time. This person is definitely not in the Qilar Mountains. Even if he is, it is probably a beast or a 'mindless person'." in stomach."

"What kind of person is he? How did the reward announcement of 'Mechanical Paradise' be written?" Long Yuehong asked further while recording Gu Bo's answer.

"What kind of person is he?" Gu Bo recalled, "There was a photo at the time, and there were some descriptions... This person is more than 1.8 meters tall, with a strong body, his hair is golden yellow, his eyes are light blue, and his nose is skewed. It's big, it looks okay, it's said that it has been genetically optimized..."

In some places, genetic improvement is also called genetic optimization, and this is a technology that has made breakthroughs before the destruction of the old world, but it has been discontinued in most human forces, and only "Pangaean creatures" And the "White Knights" continue to move forward and improve on this road, making it mature enough.

In Long Yuehong's fast recording, Gu Bo continued:

"I think he's more like a warrior than a scientist, but the reward announcement of 'Mechanical Paradise' deliberately emphasized his identity.

"Except for this, there is nothing valuable in that announcement. It only says that if you find this person, 'Mechanical Paradise' can satisfy one of your requirements, and it does not involve the life and death of 'Mechanical Paradise' and is capable of fulfilling any requirements."

Give me an army of robots, I want to save the whole world... Hearing any request, Long Yuehong couldn't help imitating Shang Jianyao's train of thought.

However, after changing his mind, he felt that this idea was too ordinary, and he didn't have enough business sense.

At this time, Bai Chen asked:

"I only said that I found this person, but didn't mention why?"

"No." Gu Bo shook his head.

"Is there any emphasis on protecting certain things or tracking the whereabouts of certain materials?" Bai Chen asked.

"No, I just said try to ensure the survival of the target." Gu Bo still has a little impression of this.

If there were these requirements, he would have changed the direction of the investigation at the beginning, so as not to go all the way to a dead end.

"Remember this." Bai Chen reminded Long Yuehong.

Based on her experience, this can be preliminarily judged: the focus of the "Mechanical Paradise" bounty on Maximian is this person, or what he has done, rather than the material that may exist on him.

She and Long Yuehong asked a few more questions, but because it had been many years, and Gu Bo couldn't remember clearly, he couldn't provide more information.

After politely leaving the Hunters Guild, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen walked in the direction of the "Melting Pot Sect", preparing to meet Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao to discuss what to do next.

As they walked forward, Long Yuehong was a little surprised to find that there were still many street stalls on the side of the road, and the ground floors of the houses on both sides, except for those with the signs of "such-and-such chamber of commerce" and "such-and-such grocery store", were closed tightly. , unmanned.

He walked to a stall curiously and asked the stall owner:

"Why don't you use the shops facing the street, where you are exposed to the sun and rain?"

Because he had been to Wild Grass City, he knew the concept of shops facing the street.

And he remembered that there was such a piece of information provided by the Redstone Collection:

In Tarnan, unowned houses can be owned by themselves, and they cannot apply for property rights to intelligent robots if they are not used for a long time.

The stall owner was a rough-skinned woman in her thirties with a tanned face.

She said in a rather crappy gray earth language that was oriented towards the red stone collection:

"This has to be repaired and cleaned up by myself, how can I have so many materials posted in it?

"Anyway, no matter whether the robot is setting up a stall on the roadside or not, I will hold up a big umbrella when it rains, and I can use electric lights for free."

At the end, she pointed to the street lamp above her head.

Uh, once you occupy a store, you need to pay a fee to apply for power supply?Long Yuehong nodded with some understanding.

Because he asked the other party, he turned away embarrassedly, squatted down, and looked at the stall owner's goods.

There are books left over from the old world, the paper has turned yellow, as well as jade and diamond jewelry and scattered old world sundries.

After thinking about it, Long Yuehong asked Bai Chen who was squatting down:

"If you want to send a female elder, which one do you think is better?"

"You, mother?" Bai Chen easily deciphered Long Yuehong's true meaning.

Because it would be strange to connect "you" and "Mom", she deliberately paused in the middle.

"Yes." This is not something to be ashamed of, Long Yuehong admitted it frankly.

At this moment, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, who had left the Furnace Church, saw their teammates here, and quickly moved closer, each finding a place to squat down.

After asking Long Yuehong's request clearly, Jiang Baimian laughed:

"I can specially approve some supplies for you to exchange for jewelry, and you will deduct them from your contribution points when you go back."

Bai Chen pointed to a green jade bracelet and said:

"At your mother's age, you might prefer this.