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So, they drove a jeep, made a small half circle, and entered Taicheng from another place.

The further you walked towards Renhui Hospital and No. [-] High School, the more serious the road damage was, and the more tragic the collapse of buildings on both sides.

In the end, it was difficult for vehicles to move, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao had no choice but to push the door down, put on a military exoskeleton device, climb over many obstacles, and head to Renhui Hospital.

Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, and Gnawa stayed where they were, waiting for help.

Not long after, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao arrived at the block where Renhui Hospital is located.

At a glance, they found that it was almost razed to the ground.

Obviously, the missile attack is indeed here as the main target.

"The clue is broken..." Shang Jianyao made a disappointed voice.

Jiang Baimian was also disappointed for a while, feeling the taste of failure.

She collected herself and said to Shang Jianyao:

"Go to Taicheng No. [-] High School again."

The distance between the two places is not too far, otherwise the member of the scientific expedition team would not have strayed into it in a hurry.

The result is self-evident, Taicheng No. [-] Senior High School was also razed to the ground.

"Aren't they afraid of offending 'Zhuang Sheng'?" The reckless Shang Jianyao expressed his amazement at the courage of the Eighth Research Institute.

Jiang Baimian exhaled and said:

"Should be involved in 'New World' disputes."

She waved her palm covered with metal skeleton, sighed and said:

"Let's go, go back."

After getting on the jeep, Jiang Baimian fell silent. Although Long Yuehong was secretly happy, she didn't dare to say anything at this moment.

While the jeep was driving back, Jiang Baimian suddenly raised his head and said thoughtfully:

"I'm thinking, it's impossible for Ding Ling's husband's scientific expedition team to all die in Renhui Hospital, right?

"Since someone can escape and enter Taicheng No. [-] Senior High School by mistake, there should be other survivors. Well, there is a certain probability."

"Yes." Long Yuehong didn't understand why the team leader suddenly discussed this topic, but he felt that there was nothing wrong with this reasoning.

Jiang Baimian looked at the front windshield and said:

"Where will the survivors go after they escaped from Renhui Hospital and passed the stage of panic?"

Bai Chen, who was driving, and Gnava, who was in the back row, said at the same time:

"Go back the same way, leave Taicheng, and seek rescue."

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"But obviously, they failed to leave Taicheng."

At this time, Shang Jianyao laughed:

"Maybe they lost the Buddhist 'token' at Renhui Hospital and found that they couldn't find the way out, so they wandered around the edge of the city, collecting food and looking for an exit."

This... Long Yuehong suddenly discovered that this was really a direction of investigation.

Chapter 198

Bai Chen followed Shang Jianyao's train of thought and said:

"The person who may have the Buddhist 'token' died in the vegetative rehabilitation center of Renhui Hospital. The survivors either didn't know why they and others could enter Zhentai City, or they guessed it, but they dared not go to Renhui again. The hospital, I hope to use other methods to get out of here."

Jiang Baimian gave a "hmm" and said in an enlightening tone:

"Human beings are all path-dependent. Survivors who escaped from Renhui Hospital and got rid of the initial panic will most likely choose to evacuate along the most familiar path.

"When they got to the edge of the city, they should have found that the exit was missing, buried by the scene caused by landslides and ground fissures.

"Then, where is the corresponding exit, or which part of the city's edge the survivors return to?"

Gnava was the first to answer:

"If this group of people really belongs to the scientific expedition team that Ding Ling's husband Ji Qiang is in, then according to the information we got earlier, they came from the southwest just like us."

This is the news that the "Old Tune Group" found at the rest stop of the "Salvation Army" where they met the monks from the "Ascetic Ministry".

Long Yuehong felt her heart move, and blurted out:

"Did they enter Zhentai City from where we entered the city?

"Where did you return?"

The honest Shang Jian Yao sneered:

"Did you forget that we didn't come here so smoothly?

"I encountered a fault zone in the middle. Thanks to the military exoskeleton device, Lao Ge and Dabai, I didn't make a detour and entered the city directly from that direction."

Why put me side by side with military exoskeleton devices and Lao Ge?It’s as if I wasn’t wearing a military exoskeleton at the time... Jiang Baimian suspects that Shang Jianyao is slandering his own strength comparable to intelligent robots and military exoskeleton devices, and there is evidence.

Long Yuehong admitted her mistake slightly annoyed:

"Yes."

He then made a suggestion:

"Then let's go back to the fault zone and see where we can enter the city through the detour?"

Jiang Baimian shook his head and said:

"It doesn't need to be so complicated.

"Think about it, from the logic of a normal person instead of Hey, what will you do when you return the same way and find that the exit is destroyed and insurmountable?"

Long Yuehong took a breath, calmed down, thought for a moment and said:

"That must be another intersection to leave the city. How can there be only one exit in such a big city?"

To this extent, his thoughts gradually became clear:

"When they find that every exit cannot leave the city, they should choose the one that looks the most promising, try to build roads and bridges, and cross the chasm. At the same time, they will look for nearby supermarkets and other places to collect food."

The paving and bridge building he mentioned are not paving roads and bridges in the true sense, but referring to a series of behaviors such as blowing up obstacles and laying baffles to pass through ravines.

"So, what we need to do now is to go around the edge of the ruins of Taicheng and look for places with traces of paving and bridge building. The survivors are probably nearby, and there is a certain probability that they are still alive." Jiang Baimian took Long Yuehong Then he gave the order.

The citizens of Taicheng died instantly when the old world was destroyed. It seems that no one survived, and the food here is not consumed at all.

Of course, in the past few decades, when there is no electricity for most of the time, many foods have already rotted and are no longer suitable for humans, but those that can be preserved for a long time, represented by canned food, are enough to support a team with few people left to survive for two years. to three years.

Hearing this, Bai Chen turned the steering wheel and let the jeep drive to the edge of the city.

At this time, Shang Jianyao, who took "saving all human beings" as his mission and hated evil like an enemy, said bitterly:

"Without the missile attack from the Eighth Research Institute, we would have found it much easier to find someone."

Although those missiles were mainly aimed at Renhui Hospital and Taicheng No. [-] Senior High School, they would inevitably go elsewhere, which might destroy the traces of the survivors who paved roads and built bridges.

"It's not confirmed that it's the Eighth Research Institute." Jiang Baimian retorted casually, "This is just our speculation, and we think the possibility is very high. It cannot be ruled out that someone else did it."

Shang Jianyao, who switched his personality, laughed and said:

"Anyway, their base is somewhere in the ice sheet, just right on it.

"Let's just assume that they did it. For them, they have done so many bad things, and it doesn't hurt if one more thing is missing."

With that said, Shang Jian Yao became excited:

"It's like the destruction of the Buddhist holy land can also be pushed on their heads!"

Hearing these words, Long Yuehong turned her head to look in the direction of Taicheng No. [-] High School, and her emotions became very complicated in an instant.

After all, this Buddhist holy land did not escape the fate of being razed to the ground.

Fortunately, Shang Jianyao didn't ridicule him, saying that he has a crow's mouth and a straight iron mouth, a good and bad spirit, but put this pot on the head of the Eighth Research Institute.

That's right, it was indeed they who did it. They fired missiles and destroyed Renhui Hospital and Taicheng No. [-] High School!Long Yuehong gradually became convinced that this matter was done by the Eighth Research Institute.

The area covered by Taicheng is not small, and many roads were seriously damaged. It took the "Old Tune Team" a whole morning to go around the edge.

Except for the unrecognizable places that were accidentally bombed by missiles, there are no traces of paving roads and bridges at the rest of the exits.

"There is a problem with our reasoning? Which link is wrong?" Long Yuehong looked away in disappointment.

He preferred to believe that the missile had destroyed the lead.

Jiang Baimian smiled:

"It's okay, the previous reasoning itself was based on several assumptions, and it's normal to make mistakes.

"Didn't I always say it? Bold assumptions, careful verification, and now we have ruled out at least some possibilities."

"Is there no other survivors, only one escaped from Renhui Hospital and entered Taicheng No. [-] High School?" Bai Chen asked himself.

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:

"It is also possible that other survivors encountered accidents halfway, and lost their lives one after another before trying to build roads and bridges."

"That's troublesome." It was Gnava who made the evaluation.

Because of this, trying to find traces left by survivors in Taicheng, which was bombed by missiles, is no less than looking for a needle in a haystack, and it is possible everywhere.

"Yes, yes." Shang Jianyao echoed, "Those survivors may have happened on the way to escape from Renhui Hospital and return to the exit, or they may have encountered accidents while looking for another exit."

Jiang Baimian pondered for a while and said:

"Do your best to obey fate.

"We are using the stupid way now: leave Taicheng, go back to the fault zone, and then drive over from the only option to detour, drive to Renhui Hospital, and see what we can find on the way.

"If there is still no harvest, then report to the company tomorrow that the target site has been destroyed, and at the same time inform the company that we will return."

"Okay!" Long Yuehong replied very simply.

He suddenly felt that the action had momentum.

About two hours later, the "Old Tune Team" circled back to the edge of Taicheng according to the scheduled plan.

When the buildings that were still standing there came into their eyes, the pupils of Jiang Baimian and others dilated at the same time.

On the surface of a gray-yellow high-rise building, a window and the surrounding walls were dyed red.

Even from a distance, this is very conspicuous.

The "Old Tune Group" actually visited this entrance before, but they only checked for traces of paving and building bridges, and never looked at the corresponding buildings from the direction of entering the city.

"It was splashed red with paint." Gnava made a slightly synthetic voice after a few seconds.

If it is blood, unless it has just been put on for a short time, otherwise it is impossible not to oxidize and not turn black.

Bai Chen thought about it and said:

"It feels like a distress call..."

When some wanderers in the wilderness are trapped in a certain place, because they don't understand words, or are not sure whether people who may pass by understand words, they often choose to use colors such as bright red and purple to attract attention.

Long Yuehong's heart moved:

"Those survivors did it?

"They enter the city from here, thinking that people who come later will also enter the city from here."

So I chose to make a distress signal here.

Clap, clap, Shang Jianyao applauded Long Yuehong in a rare way.

Jiang Baimian thought for a few seconds and said:

"Go and have a look, be careful.

"Prepare according to the standard that you may encounter a 'New World' node or a powerful deformed creature or a high-level 'Mindless One'."

Not long after, the "Old Tune Team" arrived under the building. Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, and Bai Chen put on military exoskeleton devices, and Long Yuehong and Gnawa put on the bionic smart armor.

Then, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong went to the opposite building and found a suitable position for sniping and fire cover.

Gnava stayed downstairs, guarding Jeep on the one hand, and preparing to pick up his teammates on the other.

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, who were fully armed, climbed up the stairs and successfully reached the 32nd floor where the "red" window was located.