long night fire

Smith and the others agreed and shook their heads one after another.

"Anyone on the night watch remembers not falling asleep," Smith said emphatically.

Jiang Baimian thought for a few seconds and said:

"Are you sure the cargo owner asked you to come here to complete the transaction?"

Who would come to Icefield for such a big deal?In addition to concealment, how inconvenient!

"We've double-checked," Smith replied.

Shang Jian Yao asked with concern:

"Did the owner pay your freight? That's the point."

"Have to pay half, and the rest will be paid on the return trip." Speaking of this, Smith suddenly showed a painful expression.

He frowned and panted:

"I, I don't remember the owner's appearance, identity and address..."

Jiang Baimian's heart skipped a beat when he heard that:

"Something actually happened last night, but you all forgot?

"Has the corresponding memory been deleted on a large scale?

"Also, this may be what the shipper refers to as 'receiving.'"

Smith and the others looked at each other, unable to answer.

Jiang Baimian didn't urge him, but started to think for himself:

According to our experience in dealing with the "anti-intellectual religion", large-scale memory deletion is the ability only available after the "spiritual corridor", and it affects nearly a hundred people at the same time, without leaving any traces, which shows that at least the "spiritual corridor" has been explored the deep kind...

A mysterious and sneaky large-scale material transaction... Both parties to the transaction did not want to reveal their identities, and used a very high level of power... involving certain sensitive materials, or people sitting in sensitive positions, or...

Thinking of this, Jiang Baimian suddenly had a suspect:

That faction is clearly located in the ice field, but has never made any transactions or replenished supplies, so that no one knows their exact location.

Eighth Research Institute!

Chapter 41 Where

With the number of awakened people owned by the Eighth Research Institute, it is completely reasonable to make such an exaggerated battle for a large transaction... However, this is mainly my personal guess, based on the fact that the ice field belongs to the Eighth Research Institute. With respect to the sphere of influence, it is right to push any problems to them first... Jiang Baimian, who lowered his eyes, looked at Smith and the others again, and asked:

"Have you confirmed the situation near the square?

"For example, are there a lot of driving marks?"

The area around the square is covered with snow, and it is impossible for a team of dozens of vehicles to appear and disappear "out of thin air". It will definitely leave evidence of the tires crushing the snow layer.

Smith smiled wryly and replied:

"If there were, we wouldn't be here in a daze, not knowing what to do.

"We wandered in the northern part of the gray soil, and we have seen awakened ones, and we have them ourselves."

What he meant was that there were no traces of other vehicles around the square, and the goods escorted by their "rootless" group seemed to have evaporated directly.

Shang Jianyao jumped up on the spot, using a military exoskeleton device to jump five or six meters high.

Then, during the time he was in the air, relying on the condescending advantage, he quickly inspected the situation around the square.

The snow covered the road, the street, and the surface of abandoned vehicles, making everything pure white.

On the pure white, except for the route of the "Rootless" convoy entering the ruins of the city, there are no traces of wheels at all, only a few human footprints.

This is obviously left by Smith and others looking for clues separately.

And they seemed to have been in the ruins of the city for several days, so that most of the original wheel tracks were covered by a snowfall a few days ago.

That is, there are indeed no emerging vehicle trajectories in the surrounding area.

when!Shang Jianyao fell back to the ground under a pair of slightly dull eyes.

He turned to Smith and asked:

"Are you sure it's the supplies that were missing last night?

"Will it be earlier?"

Smith thought about it for a while, and exchanged a few words with other "rootless people", shook his head and said:

"That's how we remember it."

He was not too sure about his answer, because since there is such a thing as large-scale memory deletion, there may be large-scale memory tampering.

"Even if the materials were picked up on the day Smith and the others arrived, the subsequent experiences are all fake memories, and the vehicles that transported the materials could not walk without a trace." Jiang Baimian refuted Shang Jianyao's guess.

Shang Jian Yao laughed:

"What I mean is that those wheel marks were not left by Smith and the others, but by the group of people who took away the supplies. Smith and the others actually arrived here earlier, and the corresponding tracks have been completely buried in several heavy snowfalls .”

"Although this is indeed possible, it is too complicated. It is not as simple, convenient, fast, and trouble-free as directly deleting memories on a large scale." Jiang Baimian said so, and he still turned on the military exoskeleton device. on the walkie-talkie, and commanded his teammates in the distance, "Old Ge, Xiaohong, Xiaobai, go to the intersection ahead, follow the tire tracks in reverse, and see where the vehicle is heading."

What she didn't say is that even if those people don't have the ability to delete memories on a large scale and only have the conditions for tampering, they won't make it difficult for them to forge a few days of memories. At most, after completing the "transaction", modify the Memories that involve an hour or two of experience.

People have a tendency to be lazy. When there is no obvious difference between the two options, no one will toss themselves.

Shang Jianyao just said it casually, and then forgot about it when he turned his head, chatting happily with Smith and others about the abnormality they felt might exist.

He even asked the other party what gasoline he likes to make perfume, and if there are any special dishes.

Finally, Jiang Baimian waited for Gnawa's reply:

"The traces of the vehicle are heading south, do you want to continue tracking?"

"Not for now." Jiang Baimian calmly gave the order.

She turns to Smith et al.:

"These vehicle traces should be your own."

"Without a car, how could they move so many supplies..." Smith once again expressed his confusion.

Even if the opponent used helicopters that were not very dependent on the venue, they would have to dispatch many helicopters in one go, without leaving any traces for no reason.

However, given the environment and weather of the ice sheet, it is barely enough to send people by helicopter for a short distance, and it is because I think I am not dying fast enough to transport supplies for a long distance.

"Could it be that the group's base is nearby?" Jiang Baimian was also thinking in this direction.

Before Smith waited for the "Rootless" to respond, Shang Jianyao smiled:

"The answer is simple, I know what's going on."

"Tell me." Jiang Baimian exhaled with the mentality that he would hear "magical ideas".

The so-called "magical thinking" is the abbreviation of the strange thinking of mental patients.

Shang Jianyao casually pointed to the snow on a street near the square:

"If it were me, after the main body of the convoy left, I would drive away while 'interfering with matter', manipulating the snow, and burying all the traces."

This... On the one hand, Jiang Baimian felt that this was a little absurd, just like the characters in the entertainment materials of the old world can fly up and pose handsomely because someone is blowing it with an electric fan. On the other hand, she After thinking and scrutiny, I think this is quite a possibility.

In addition to the relatively high mental consumption, this is more reliable than the previous guesses.

The only problem is that the awakened people in the "Last Man" field have the ability to "interference electromagnetic".

However, at least the other party is an awakened person who has explored the depths of the "spiritual corridor", and it is normal to have the ability to "interfere with matter".

Thinking of this, Jiang Baimian asked Shang Jianyao:

"How long can you keep manipulating the snow like this?"

If it can only last for less than an hour, then the "Old Tune Team" can use this square as a dot, draw a big circle outward, and circle around to find traces of the convoy.

Shang Jianyao looked at the trucks and RVs of the "rootless people", and estimated:

"Two or three hours."

This is difficult... Jiang Baimian frowned slightly.

The awakened person who is suspected of being able to delete memories on a large scale is likely to have explored more rooms than Shang Jianyao in the "corridor of the mind", and the time for insisting on manipulating the snow will naturally be longer. After all, since the latter entered the "corridor of the mind" In the depths, I was "obsessed" with going to room "506", peeking at "102" and "205", and never explored other rooms.

Drawing a circle based on the distance traveled by the convoy for two or three hours, the area covered is too wide, and the time spent and the power consumed are multiplied.

But as time dragged on, considering the weather conditions on the ice sheet, another heavy snow might fall.

Besides, the opposite side may not only send an awakened person at the level of the "spiritual corridor" to "take away" the supplies.

If it's really the Eighth Research Institute, with their abundance of awakened people, they can completely do this kind of thing.

Jiang Baimian suppressed the urge to use water to find traces, and decided to get clues from another direction.

She looked at Smith and the others and said:

"Where did you take this business?"

Although the owner's appearance, name, and image characteristics have been deleted, Jiang Baimian believes that the large-scale settlements set out by the "rootless" team involve the handling and loading of many materials and a lot of other things. Those who need to work hard and are quite difficult may not be willing to do it.

It doesn't affect anything.

Smith quickly replied:

"Gostberg."

This is a large settlement belonging to the "White Knights", near the ice field.

"Hmm..." Jiang Baimian silently memorized the name, and planned to go back there to see if he could find any clues.

At this time, Shang Jianyao comforted his good brothers:

"You don't have to worry about it, anyway, you can't remember the owner of the goods, so what's the difference between losing and not losing supplies?

"At most, it's a loss of half of the shipping fee. Just treat this trip as a public trip."

Although Smith didn't quite understand the old-world phrase of traveling at public expense, he still understood the meaning. He nodded and said:

"it's the only way."

Jiang Baimian thought for a while, then took advantage of the situation and asked:

"Do you know a human city that was turned into ruins more than ten years ago?"

She roughly described the situation where Shang Jianyao's father last appeared.

Smith suddenly smiled and said:

"I know!

"Before it was destroyed by 'Wuxin disease', we often sent supplies to trade there."

Having said that, Smith's expression became serious:

"Where do you want to go?"

"Yes!" Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation, "We are not outsiders, please tell me the specific location."

Smith frowned:

"I don't suggest you go."

"Why?" Shang Jian Yao asked.

Smith looked at him and Jiang Baimian separately and said:

"Many relic hunters tried to go there to hunt for treasure, but very few of them came back alive.

"It is said that there are 'no-heart disease' viruses all over there. As long as you enter, you may be infected. It is very easy to be infected."

Chapter 42 Corning Meath

Is there still a very serious risk of "unintentional disease" infection?Hearing Smith's words, Jiang Baimian raised his eyelids slightly.

Before that, she kind of ignored this aspect of the problem.

There are two reasons for this. One is that the special commissioner of the Eighth Research Institute, who was captured at the beginning, clearly stated that he and others entered that city, and quarantined them in advance to solve the crisis of "unintentional disease" sweeping the world again. The second is the chaos. In those cities where "unintentional diseases" broke out in the [-]s, the subsequent danger mainly came from the attacks of "unintentional people" and the strife of the same kind, rather than continuous infection.

Therefore, in Jiang Baimian's perception, as long as he doesn't go through the "isolation zone" made by the Eighth Research Institute and explore the ruins of the city, there will be no great danger.

But now, she found that the situation does not seem to be the case.