long night fire

Chapter 9 True and False

In the patio of the compound courtyard, there are water tanks and green plants, and the air is fresh and slightly humid, making Shang Jianyao seem to have come to the wilderness outskirts from the super-large settlements such as the original city.

"Hey, at a time like this, I should lie on the roof of the jeep and look at the stars while being scolded by Dabai for crushing the solar charging panel. Lao Ge is responsible for patrolling alone..." Shang Jianyao started talking to himself while examining the situation in the courtyard.

This is one of the daily routines of the "Old Tune Group".

The patio of the courtyard house didn't look unusual. Shang Jianyao even poked his head into the water tank, but didn't find any clues.

"Bah, bah, there's really water!" He straightened up suddenly, and pulled his head out of the water tank.

After wiping his face, he walked towards the main door.

The gray wooden door was ajar but not locked.

Dong dong dong, Shang Jianyao, who came in over the wall, knocked politely, but didn't push the door open immediately.

After knocking three times in a row, he said with relief:

"Since you don't respond, I'll take it as your acquiescence!"

He didn't wait any longer, stretched out his right palm, and pushed open the door of the main room.

Inside the door seems to be a living room, the layout is so ancient that Shang Jianyao couldn't help but sigh:

"Live zombie!"

After finishing speaking, he took two steps back, went back to the door, looked up, and said in a low voice:

"It's not a cultural relic protection unit..."

It was a term he had picked up from old world entertainment material.

The situation in the living room is indeed quite old. There is a table facing the door, and a pair of mahogany chairs are placed on the left and right, and two rows of old-fashioned chairs are placed in the room below them mixed with wooden tables.

"Is this part of the film and television base?" Shang Jian Yao suddenly became interested.

While praising the "New World" sparrow, although it is small, it has all internal organs, while walking around the living room, looking for the source of the slight movement before.

Did not see the slightest fear!

After a while, Shang Jianyao sat down on the grand teacher's chair on the left side, looked at the two lanterns at the door that were lit by him, and said to himself in disappointment:

"No problem..."

Before he finished speaking, his voice stopped abruptly.

He turned his head slightly and focused on listening.

In the left side room, low crying sounds seemed to be absent.

Woo, woo, woo...

Shang Jian Yao stood up without a sound, and crept closer to the place where the sound came from.

As soon as he came to the door, the light inside came on in a flash.

The two lanterns outside were then extinguished.

"Hey!" Shang Jian Yao sighed.

Inside the door is a light representing his consciousness.

He no longer hid his figure, twisted the handle, and opened the door in front of him.

The layout of the wing room is fairly normal, with two bookcases, a table by the window, a bed opposite, and a chair and a stool randomly placed on the open space.

The style of these furniture is also suitable for the courtyard, but the shape is not old-fashioned.

Shang Jian Yao glanced around, his eyes resting on the table in front of the window.

There is a picture frame there.

Shang Jian Yao walked over, and with the help of the light, he could clearly see the details of the photo in the frame.

The above is a fairly young woman, not pretty, but with a sweet smile and a braid casually.

Shang Jian Yao looked at it for a while, then suddenly clenched his right fist and punched his left palm and said:

"I remember, we know this woman!

"That genius scientist Lin Sui!"

At the beginning, Shang Jianyao saw Lin Sui's character interview in the shadow of the ruins of Tieshan City in room "522".

"She also has a room here..." Shang Jianyao "suddenly realized", "But why is there no light and no one, and why hasn't she returned after going out? What are the crying and other movements coming from?"

After asking themselves a few words, they fell into silence.

After a few seconds, Shang Jianyao began to rummage through boxes and cabinets, looking for clues.

Gradually, he came to the bookcase.

Shang Jianyao glanced at it and found that there were various kinds of books, most of which were very professional.

He couldn't help but raised his right hand to cover his face, as if he was afraid of being blinded by the light of knowledge.

After reading the title of the book, he silently turned to the bed, not even interested in opening it.

……

Based on his previous induction, Jiang Baimian sneaked into the night and approached the place where some "unintentional people" lived.

This inevitably went around some circles, but the general direction was right, and the result was no problem.

Finally, she arrived at her destination, hid in the shadows outside the window, and peeked at the situation inside the building.

Two "unintentional persons", a man and a woman, were lying on the bed, asleep like normal humans, and there was nothing wrong with them.

Jiang Baimian withdrew his gaze and dived to other places.

After such a round of reconnaissance, she found that the "unintentional people" she could sense all kept the human habit, sleeping on the bed, closing the windows, and locking the door.

In some houses, bags of rice, flour and boxes of canned food, biscuits, and energy bars are piled up messily.

This made Jiang Baimian suspect that the Eighth Research Institute installed rails in the tunnel to deliver supplies to the "unintentional people" in this small city.

She was not in a hurry to name and eliminate these "unintentional people", because nine out of ten targets were still missing.

With this in mind, Jiang Baimian decided to break away from the real "new world" and inform Shang Jianyao of all the abnormalities he discovered.

Perhaps this can promote the other party's exploration in the spiritual "new world", and the harvest there may help Jiang Baimian solve some real mysteries.

Of course, the premise is that the two places are closely related.

Relying on the military exoskeleton device, Jiang Baimian stayed away from the place where those "unintentional people" lived.

Then, without accident, she confirmed that she was lost again.

With a lot of experience, she swished up a telegraph pole, stood on the top, and looked around.

With the help of starlight and night vision function, Jiang Baimian quickly identified the direction to the entrance and exit of the tunnel.

"We have to go around two streets, pass through several intersections, and turn quite a few turns..." Jiang Baimian felt a heavy heart the more he assessed the route back.

She could already foresee that she would get lost many times.

Suddenly, Jiang Baimian, who had been ill for a long time and became a good doctor, had a countermeasure.

She's going to go in a straight line.

When you meet a wall, you climb over the wall, when you meet a house, you go to the house!

This can effectively avoid mistakes in selection. Coupled with the positioning function of the equipment, Jiang Baimian felt lost once at most.

After deciding on the plan, she immediately took action, slipped quietly from the pole to the ground, and ran towards the first house cautiously.

She suddenly stretched out her right hand and pressed it against the wall, intending to use her strength to jump directly to the roof of this low-rise building.

But to Jiang Baimian's surprise, the wall she pressed with her right palm was empty, empty, as if there was nothing there!

This made it impossible for her, whose center of gravity had changed, to pull her body back, and her whole body involuntarily fell forward and hit the wall.

She penetrated directly and turned into a ground gourd.

Jiang Baimian had undergone genetic modification and was wearing a military exoskeleton device, so he quickly stopped the uncontrollable rolling, and the carp stood up straight.

She turned around and looked at the wall with a look of surprise and suspicion.

Thinking that this is the "new world" of reality, and the electromagnetic environment is quite chaotic, Jiang Baimian couldn't help but have a guess:

"The tall towers and houses that Hey and I saw are not the real appearance of this small city. Everything here has been distorted, forming a large illusion, where real and fake are intertwined?"

To confirm, Jiang Baimian walked back to the wall just now, and gently stretched out his right palm.

Her right palm pierced the whitewashed stone wall as if through the air.

Jiang Baimian stepped forward step by step, his whole body was also worn out, and he returned to the place where he fell just now.

"There is a 'broken mirror' in charge of hallucinations in Zhisui, and it's normal that there are such weird things in the real 'new world'..." Jiang Baimian muttered silently.

She thought for a while, and stretched her right hand towards the wall again.

She wants to slow down this time, and calmly experience the feeling of penetrating through the false wall.

Silently, Jiang Baimian's palm pressed against the surface of the wall, but he didn't go any further.

It's not that she doesn't want to, it's that she can't do it.

The wall is hard and cold, so there is no false appearance!

……

Jiang Baimian, who was walking in a straight line, took a while to return to the tunnel, and closed the heavy iron black door again.

She skillfully sat cross-legged next to Shang Jianyao's body, stretched out her spirit, and touched the other's consciousness.

After the uninspiring cutscene, Shang Jianyao waved at Jiang Baimian:

"I have something to tell you!"

"It just so happens that I have it too." Jiang Baimian's heavy heart relaxed a bit.

Then, she exhorted:

"When it comes to the rules and secrets of the 'New World', use code words as much as possible. If you can't use it, just change it and use other things as metaphors."

"It has nothing to do with the secret of the 'New World', I entered Lin Sui's house..." Shang Jianyao recounted his experience here, "But I didn't find anything of value, and I didn't find any strange movements. source."

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:

"Tell me about the books in Lin Sui's room."

Shang Jian Yao showed a troubled expression:

"Can't remember.

"Uh, I'm trying to manifest it, you can see for yourself."

Because it was a communication at the level of consciousness, he walked directly back to the room with the bookcase, and while looking at it, he appeared "in front of Jiang Baimian's eyes".

Jiang Baimian scanned it and said thoughtfully:

"Lin Sui is also very interested in research related to human consciousness..."

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"I'm also very interested." Shang Jianyao said that there is nothing strange about this, "It's just that those books look very professional, I will study again when I have time."

Jiang Baimian didn't care about his response at all, and said to himself:

"Combined with the information we collected before, I suspect that the awakening of human beings and the forbidden area of ​​gods are both the product of scientists in the old world studying the mysteries of consciousness.

"Well, the real direction of the Eighth Research Institute is likely to be the mystery of human consciousness, rather than how to awaken it. The latter is a by-product. Lin Sui has been confirmed as a young scientist of the Northern Company, a member of the major project committee, and his name appeared in Hom In the academic lecture on the frontier field of genetic research in the Reproductive Medical Center, Mr. Du Heng, who is suspected to be the dean of the Eighth Research Institute, was juxtaposed with Mr. Du Heng, and he was probably one of the key researchers of the Eighth Research Institute.

"I originally suspected that she was one of the 'Deputy Dean', 'Charlie', and 'Doctor', and lived near that tower, but I didn't expect you to find her home on a street far away from the core area, and saw her photo."

She didn't mention "Professor Li" because Lin Sui's surname was Lin, and even if the other party wanted to call himself by a code name, he would at most use "Professor" instead of deliberately adding a fake surname.

"Not necessarily." The honest Shang Jianyao retorted, "Maybe this compound does not belong to Lin Sui, but the owner is another researcher in the Eighth Research Institute who has a crush on her."

He approved of Jiang Baimian's guess about the front part.

Jiang Baimian thought about it seriously and said:

"It's not impossible."