long night fire

"Are everyone here as friendly as you?"

The female voice sounded again in the quiet "night":

"I'm not as friendly as you might think if you forced your way into this house just now.

"In the 'New World,' avoid the starving, and don't touch the price of others."

"Isn't the 'New World' free of hunger and disease?" Shang Jian Yao was shocked.

The female voice was silent for a while and said:

"You have entered the 'new world' and should know what I mean by hunger."

"But I'm not hungry at all." Shang Jian Yao expressed doubts.

The dim light from the window on the second floor flickered, and the female voice said immediately:

"It seems that you still have your own body, and you haven't met any awakened or stronger ones."

"So it looks like it's a good thing to keep your body?" Shang Jianyao raised his hand and rubbed his chin.

"Not necessarily." The female voice did not answer in detail.

Shang Jian Yao's thinking jumped and changed the question:

"The core here is the tower?"

"Yes." The female voice paused and said, "All the executives live there."

There was unconcealable fear in her tone.

"That's it." Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and struck his left palm, "Then I have to go to the tower to register."

At the window on the second floor, the lights did not shake, and the sound did not come out.

After a while, the female voice said hurriedly:

"Don't ask any more, I can't answer you other questions."

"Who said that?" Shang Jianyao retorted, "I still want to ask whether your price is timid or vigilant. Don't you even know what your own price is?"

At the window on the second floor, the light shook violently a few times, but still no one appeared.

Shang Jianyao didn't seem to understand the other party's "exit order" at all, so he asked again on his own:

"Then why don't you turn off the lights? That way no one will know you're hiding in the room.

"Could it be that the darkness will swallow you up without the light?"

The female voice came from behind the window:

"The light is a manifestation of your spirit and consciousness, and it will only go out when you die."

Shang Jianyao suddenly realized, once again clenched his right fist and punched his left palm and said:

"No wonder the street lights are on wherever I go, and all the previous ones are off!

"I thought it was because the executives were hospitable and economized on electricity."

The female voice did not respond.

Shang Jian Yao asked again:

"Then what danger is hidden in the darkness here?"

"There is no danger." The female voice became more and more impatient.

Shang Jian Yao said "Oh":

"Is there day in that, it can't always be night, right?"

"There is no day." The female voice said quickly.

"Why?" Shang Jian Yao was puzzled.

The female voice was sharp again:

"I have no idea!"

She fell silent, only the light from the window showed that she was still there.

Shang Jian Yao asked a few more questions, but the other party didn't answer, so he waved his hand and said:

"Then I'm going to the tower, let's talk later."

He continued along the dark and silent street, and the street lamps followed his footsteps, one after another was turned on, and one after another was extinguished, and only one remained.

On the second floor of the building behind, the dim light has been silently illuminating the small area.

Shang Jian Yao walked a few steps and glanced at the tower, wondering what he was thinking.

Suddenly, he clapped his hands "snap" and said "to himself":

"I still remember what the tower looked like from the place where Yan Hu was imprisoned...

"Analysis should be able to determine which floor of which building...

"Do you want to visit Yan Hu first? Listen to how he describes the 'new world'?"

Shang Jian Yao was very active, and he did what he said, and immediately changed his route and walked in the general direction.

……

On the mountain road outside the Eighth Research Institute, Jiang Baimian parked the jeep in a hidden place beside the road.

She then looked at Shang Jianyao who was in the co-pilot position, thinking about what to do next.

The most critical point at present is that she has to establish contact with Shang Jianyao of "New World" as soon as possible to obtain corresponding feedback.

Without that information, it was difficult for her to determine the follow-up train of thought.

As for how to "contact" Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian had already planned.

At the beginning, Shang Jianyao had some communication with the sleeping Yan Hu!

Jiang Baimian exhaled, stretched out his spirit, and connected with Shang Jianyao's consciousness.

It suddenly became pitch black in front of her eyes, only a little light flickered in the distance.

The dim light gradually brightened and condensed into a street lamp, and Shang Jianyao, who was wearing gray camouflage, was standing under the lamp.

"Help me!" Shang Jian Yao waved his right hand happily.

Jiang Baimian was taken aback:

"Why are you shouting like that?"

It may be because of the thick barrier between the two parties, her voice seemed very low, so she repeated it with a higher volume.

Shang Jian Yao smiled and said:

"I'm imitating Yan Hu."

"..." Jiang Baimian said silently for a few seconds, "The mental state is not bad."

She wasted no time and immediately asked:

"Well, is what we speculated true?"

She didn't mention specific things, worrying that the monitoring of "sensitive words" would be triggered and Shang Jianyao would be hurt.

——The strong people of the "Salvation Army" who tried to reveal the secrets of the "New World" did not end well.

"Yes." Shang Jian Yao nodded seriously.

In the "new world", the awakened can absorb the target's human consciousness to supplement themselves.

Jiang Baimian couldn't help but sighed, and asked instead:

"Are there 'Heartless' in 'New World'?"

"I haven't encountered it before." Shang Jianyao replied truthfully.

From this point of view, those "unintentional people" who are like living dead belong exclusively to the real "new world"?Then I can only sneak into the investigation by myself... Jiang Baimian frowned slightly and said:

"Where do you think the secrets of the 'New World' are most likely to be hidden?"

"That tall tower! All the elders live in it!" Shang Jianyao replied excitedly.

The elders live in the tower of the "New World"... What about the real tower?Jiang Baimian's thoughts turned rapidly, without stopping at all.

At this time, Shang Jian Yao babbled:

"There are quite a few differences between here and reality. The towers are tall, there are lights everywhere, and the architectural style is not so uniform. There are classical buildings with the style of the Red River, there are ancient courtyards with gray earth, and high-rise buildings in the old world... "

The real small city belongs to the style of the ten or twenty years before the destruction of the old world, but there are no tall buildings.

"Hmm." Jiang Baimian didn't know how to comment on this.

Shang Jian Yao took the initiative to say:

"Each lamp here represents the spirit and consciousness of the corresponding awakened person, and it will not be extinguished unless it dies."

Having said that, he "cracked" his right fist and punched his left palm:

"I understand! At the beginning, there was only a little twilight in Yan Hu's place, and the whole person seemed to be lying in the dark, because his consciousness was close to dying!"

So that's the case... Jiang Baimian also nodded.

Shang Jianyao continued:

"I plan to go to Yan Hu first, visit him at home, and see what he will say."

Jiang Baimian frowned again:

"Yan Hu was imprisoned, aren't you afraid of offending his captors?

"That may be an executive."

Without giving Shang Jianyao a chance to find a reason, she put forward her own suggestion:

"You first go to Flora, Barnard and other friendly 'New World' powerhouses to clarify the corresponding situation and then think about what to do afterward."

Chapter 3 Communication

"But I don't know where they are." Shang Jian Yao sighed, "The place where Yan Hu was imprisoned can be inferred, as long as the spatial structure of the 'New World' is normal."

Jiang Baimian nodded slightly:

"It's not impossible to try to reason.

"At the beginning, you said that the place where the 'son of the old age' lived in Conimis should have a certain overlap with the tower. Using it as a reference, it can be calculated that the cafe where Flora and Barnard are located 'New World' location.

"Well, the premise is that the phenomenon of overlapping is closer to two sheets of paper pasted together than to other models."

Although Shang Jianyao and Gnawa entered Conimis for the second time, when they came to the luxury apartment where the "son of the year" lived, they did not see the phantom of the tower, but found that there were lights on every floor and every room However, based on their first experience, they can still make preliminary inferences—they entered Conimis before, and when they sensed the vortex emerging and expanding, they saw a hazy view in the direction of the luxury apartment. In addition, in the "New World", only the towers are lit with "lights" on every floor, and in the rest of the buildings, there are more or less windows ruled by darkness.

Shang Jianyao thought for a while and raised a difficulty:

"But Barnard and Flora can't be drinking coffee there all the time."

"We still have plenty of time, so we can wait patiently. Besides, there are bosses and other customers in the cafe. You can also try to 'make friends'." Jiang Baimian said in relief.

Shang Jian Yao shook his head:

"A lot of awakened people in the 'New World' are not friendly, and some are even starving. They want to eat when they see people."

Having said that, he changed the subject:

"Even if you want to make friends, you have to wait for someone to order, so as not to cause any surprises."

Jiang Baimian let out a "hmm":

"Since Flora and Barnard are friendly, the cafe they frequent should still have basic order, and you can try to contact the boss.

"In short, everything depends on your on-the-spot judgment."

She then added:

"You should figure out as soon as possible what to do with the physical body after the consciousness enters the 'new world', and what to do if you want the latter to also enter the 'new world'.

"I've moved your body outside the Eighth Research Institute now, I'm afraid I won't be able to make up for it after a long delay."

Shang Jian Yao was surprised:

"I thought you had wiped out the group of zombies."