long night fire

"Old Ge, tell me, what is hidden in the depths of the Eighth Research Institute?" Shang Jianyao always made the topic jump and change illogically.

Gnava, wearing the "Chameleon" bionic smart armor, moved his metal-cast neck left and right:

"do not know."

"Doesn't this make you make bold assumptions and carefully verify it?" Shang Jianyao persevered.

He has always been patient and persistent.

Regarding this issue, the "Old Tune Group" has actually discussed several rounds internally and put forward many conjectures, none of which can be falsified so far.

They currently prefer three answers:

One is the real reason for the high success rate of awakening in the Eighth Research Institute;

The second is the secret of "darkness" - this is speculated from the saying that after the destruction of the old world, the Eighth Research Institute became the running dog of darkness;

The third is related to the "New World". As for which aspect is related, there is currently no clue to judge.

Gnawa didn't want to discuss topics that had nothing to do with this operation with Shang Jianyao near the main city of Coning Meath, and, until new information was obtained, there would be no difference between this and the previous internal brainstorming sessions. the difference.

He called up Jiang Baimian's behavior database, and simulated the team leader's response to this situation. Then, he chose the most suitable one from the "threat of violence" and other options, tilted his head slightly, and pointed in one direction:

"what is that?"

"What?" Shang Jian Yao followed excitedly.

In the next second, his brows behind the mask frowned:

"Why didn't I find anything?"

"I made a misjudgment." Gnava quickly apologized.

Shang Jian Yao looked away in disappointment.

He continued to walk in the direction of the main city of Conimis, and was quiet for several minutes.

Seeing that the sky is getting darker and the buildings are more and more dense, the dead land is in sight, Shang Jianyao suddenly said:

"I always feel that I have overlooked some important information in Professor Qin's 'Sea of ​​Origin'."

"It's normal, 'Fate Link' just helps you mobilize all the memories, and you still have to do the screening and viewing, but manpower is sometimes poor." Gnava thinks this is no problem.

"But you smart people don't know." Shang Jian Yao looked envious.

He went on to say:

"But this feeling of ignoring important information didn't exist a few days ago. I just woke up when I entered Conimis."

He described it strangely, but Gnava understood what he meant:

"Do you think there was some kind of hidden intervention that caused you to ignore some important information?"

"Yes." Shang Jianyao speculated enthusiastically, "It may be a hint, let me directly skip the hint of the corresponding memory."

Gnava held the chameleon's head on his head, and the red light in his eyes flickered twice:

"There were other awakened beings there at the time. He hid in the dark and exerted influence on you?"

It's not impossible either.

The assassin might have been on the sidelines for a while, and even sat in the crimson off-road vehicle with Gittes's male body.

Shang Jian Yao shook his head:

"I think it's a problem with that part of the memory.

"They have their own hints."

"Just the memory fragments of certain things can hint you silently?" Gnawa's current model of the awakened person does not support this situation.

"Yes." Shang Jian Yao said longingly, "I'm afraid this is the power at the age level."

"There are other explanations." Gnava analyzed, "It is also possible that Professor Qin was affected in advance, and the corresponding memory fragments were disguised to escape your screening. You were aware of a little weirdness or It was incongruous, but I didn't pay attention to it, and I didn't suddenly recall it until today."

Bang bang pong, Shang Jianyao slapped the armor on his chest with his right palm covered with metal bones:

"It turns out it can still be like this!"

He acted as if he wasn't the one who used the "Fate Pass" to evoke all of Professor Qin's memories.

Without waiting for Gnava to respond, he said enthusiastically again:

"What would the hidden part of the memory be about?"

"Darkness or the dean." Gnava quickly built a model and came to a conclusion, "The power of the Eighth Research Institute must be more than those of the 'New World' powerhouses, and Professor Qin, as a quasi-higher-level, should not be against himself. I don't know anything about the most influential person, but when you checked his memory with the 'Fate Pass', you didn't get any information about it."

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao once again completed the applause in the same way as before.

Honestly, he is good at picking, and quickly asked another question:

"Then why is the memory related to the specific location of the Eighth Research Institute not hidden?"

"Maybe I don't know how to go back after hiding Professor Qin." Shang Jianyao answered himself.

Gnava poorly raised more possibilities:

"Either only that part of the memory can hide itself with the power of suggestion, or the person who influenced Professor Qin in advance was not from the Eighth Research Institute. He wanted us to find the Eighth Research Institute, but he didn't want us to know certain things..."

During the exchange, they officially entered the main city of Koning Meath.

Looking at the vehicles piled up in disorder on the street in front of him, Shang Jianyao suddenly said "Oops":

"How can we discuss what Professor Qin remembered?

"You have to focus on this mission itself!"

The red light in Gnawa's eyes froze for two seconds.

"It's all my fault." Shang Jianyao has always had the spirit of self-criticism.

He glanced left and right and said:

"Go to the residence of Esther's mistress and children first."

This is what they promised Gittes, and they will do it.

When making plans in advance, Jiang Baimian prioritized this matter before exploring the secret of the "son of the old age".

This is because, if you first arrive at the luxury apartment where the "son of the old age" lives, no one can predict the subsequent development. Maybe Koningmis will disappear and enter the "new world" as a whole. "There is no chance to fulfill Este's last wish.

"Okay." Even if Shang Jianyao didn't take the initiative to propose, Gnava would remind him.

As an outsider, Esther's residence in Coning Meath obviously cannot be close to the core area, but is located in the north of the main city.

It was also an apartment. The dark blue building had a sense of shape, but the plants and broken glass everywhere made it look extremely dilapidated.

"It hasn't reached the place where the 'New World' overlaps with Conimis and the projection appears..." Shang Jianyao said with some disappointment.

"This is a good thing. After quickly getting what Esther wants, we can concentrate on finding the residence of the 'Children of the Year'." Gnava's eyes flashed red a few times and said, "If the disaster at the beginning It came very suddenly, and the old team might be scattered in or around the residence of the 'Children of the Year'."

Shang Jian Yao was silent for a while and said:

"It may also become an 'unintentional person' wandering to other places and dying in a corner of the city."

Hearing this, Gnava looked around by turning his neck and turning back:

"Did you notice anything wrong?"

"What?" Shang Jian Yao asked excitedly.

Gnava replied in a deep, slightly synthetic voice:

"The last time we came to Cornimath, we could find some fresh traces of the 'Mindless' haunting along the way.

"Not at all this time."

They have even encountered "unintentional people" with abnormally high levels of strength before.

Chapter 97 Experience

After listening to Gnawa's answer, Shang Jianyao suddenly raised his right hand holding the "Berserker" assault rifle, and whispered a Buddha's name:

"Namo Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi."

"What do you mean?" Gnava asked sincerely.

He knew that this was the mantra of Buddhism, but he didn't know why Shang Jianyao used this place.

Shang Jian Yao sighed and said:

"It may be that the ripples we caused last time caused the 'unintentional ones' here to die."

Gnava, with the chameleon head on his head, moved his metal-cast neck up and down:

"There is a certain probability."

Shang Jianyao then pointed his gun at the run-down apartment in front of him and said:

"go in."

Based on the detailed information provided by Gittes, he and Gnava quickly found Esther's home in Corning Meath.

It is located on the top floor of the apartment. It is connected by two houses. The living room is very spacious, but there are only a few single sofas scattered here and there, a coffee table covered with sundries and some cabinets on the edge of the wall. , There are all kinds of toys scattered everywhere on the ground.

This includes lots of building blocks.

Some of them are stacked into fortresses, some are turned into animals, and some are not yet completed, and the corresponding components can be seen around.

Dust accumulates everywhere here, visible to the naked eye.

Gnava looked at it with red light in his eyes for a while before saying:

"There is no hospitality function here, and it has become a playground for children."

It can be seen that this was the original subjective wish of Esther or his mistress.

They didn't think about entertaining guests at home, and they didn't even want to put more sofas.

"They should love those two children very much..." Shang Jianyao suddenly said this.

Gnava recalled his daughter and fell silent for a moment.

In silence, his gaze swept every corner of the living room, and finally landed on a photo frame on the coffee table.

There are two children in that photo, the older one is a boy, four or five years old, with a slightly fat body, and his blond hair is combed in a way that looks like an adult. He looks awkward and disgusted, and he seems to be reluctant to take pictures. The first one was a girl, about one or two years old, with blond hair tied into pigtails, clear and ignorant blue eyes, and a carefree, sweet and lovely smile.

Compared with other ruins, many things here have only been destroyed for more than ten years and no relic hunters dare to enter, and many things are still quite intact, as if sealed in place by time.

Gnava stared for a while before saying:

"The occupant should never have returned."

"Why do you say that?" Shang Jian Yao asked abruptly.

"One is that there are no traces of biological activity here, and the other is that when a disaster breaks out, everyone in the city should become 'unintentional'." Gnawa explained dutifully.

Shang Jian Yao shook his head and said seriously:

"'Heartless' also knows to go home."

Gnawa did not refute, but just followed this logic to analyze:

"There is no sign of 'unintentional persons' in the living room, unless they entered and exited directly through the windows of several bedrooms."

"Check it out and you'll know." Shang Jianyao walked into the living room with the "Berserker" assault rifle in his hand, and went to the deep rooms.

Every scene he and Gnawa saw had a quiet but gray feeling, and it seemed that the masters really never came back.

Looking at the big bed protected by the fence and the teddy bear on the big bed, Shang Jianyao was silent for a long time.

Gnava stared for a while before saying:

"They were supposed to be walking or playing outside, not at home..."

Judging from the fact that many vehicles collided together on various roads in Coning Meath, the disaster broke out during the day.

However, Shang Jianyao and Gnawa's last judgment was that when the residents of Conimis first became "unintentional", they could not calm down, and large-scale killings occurred among each other.

Shang Jian Yao didn't speak, walked to the bed, picked up the teddy bear and the diamond necklace from the nearby cabinet, and stuffed them into the empty backpack behind Gnava.

Then, he walked back to the living room, found a block box, dismantled the fort into small pieces, and put it in.

Again, this ended up in Gnava's backpack.

After finishing these things, Shang Jianyao looked around and said in surprise: