Embers Ad Infinitum

Floor 495, Area C, No. 11.

This is the "big room" that Long Yuehong moved to for her parents.

Compared with the one they lived in before, there are two additional small bedrooms here, allowing Long Yuehong's younger brother and younger sister to finally have their own space.

As soon as Long Yuehong opened the door, she saw her mother, Gu Hong, knitting a sweater with a stick while listening to the radio. Her father, Long Dayong, was sitting next to her, tapping her feet to the music that echoed in the room.

The radio program at this time is bedtime music.

After Long Dayong and Gu Hong noticed the rotation of the lock cylinder, they turned their attention to the door at the same time. One was planning to curse, the other was preparing to cooperate.

When they saw clearly that it was Long Yuehong at the door, the two of them immediately stood up.

Gu Hong put down the needle in her hand and smiled uncontrollably:

"You're back?

"It's been a long time to go out. In the past few months, I've been afraid that people from the "Security Department" will come to me. I won't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything..."

As she spoke, Gu Hong fell silent, her eyes slightly red.

She is a fair, middle-aged woman. She had permed her hair into big waves during the Chinese New Year, which made her look quite fashionable.

Long Dayong quickly said:

"What are you talking about? Isn't this a good time to come back?"

He is just over 1.7 meters tall and is of a relatively strong and muscular type.

Gu Hong quickly adjusted her mentality, walked towards the place where the cabinets were placed, and said:

"During the Chinese New Year, I changed some yarn and knitted a dress for you. Let me try it on to see if it fits you."

Long Yuehong closed her eyes and said with a smile:

"It's spring now."

"It's thin and can be worn in spring. Besides, in our company, how can spring, summer, autumn and winter be so clearly distinguished?" Gu Hong rambled and opened the cabinet door.

Long Yuehong pulled up a chair and sat down, looked around and said:

"Where are Xiao Ai and the others?"

He asked about his brother and sister.

"As I get older and my wings become stiffer, I no longer love my home. I can't see anyone until the lights are turned off!" Gu Hong complained.

Long Yuehong had nothing to say about this, because at this age, he didn't like to stay at home. He would rather squat in the street corner with Shang Jianyao and Yang Zhenyuan, listen to radio programs, and talk about random topics.

He smiled and said:

"This is a good thing, maybe we'll fall in love."

Gu Hong, who had just taken out a new sweater, was startled for a moment and said hesitantly:

"Ah, by the way, the daughter of the old Zhang family used to like you quite a lot. Years ago, she kept asking when you would come back, but your father and I couldn't tell for sure. Later, she seemed to have someone."

Although Long Yuehong was mentally prepared, she still couldn't help but feel a little sad.

He smiled and sighed:

"Let nature take its course in this matter."

He is now very convinced that the mission of the "Old Tune Team" is dangerous, and he feels that he has been harming her by falling in love with another girl before quitting completely.

But when he thought about dying accidentally during the mission, and he was still a person who had never even had his first love, he felt unwilling to do so.

"Let nature take its course..." Gu Hong repeated the word and looked at Long Yuehong suspiciously, "Did you receive any blow outside?"

Long Yuehong was speechless for a while, then raised his hand to show off the muscles on his arm:

"This is called having more experience and a mature mentality."

Gu Hong glanced at him and threw her thin sweater at him:

"I'm more eloquent than before..."

Long Yuehong stopped talking back, took off her coat with a smile, and tried on the sweater under the watchful eyes of her parents.

…………

In the "Sea of ​​Origin", Shang Jianyao swam for a long time, but there was still a vast ocean in front of him.

Not only was he not disappointed, he even smiled.

This means he finally made it to the third island.

——Every time before, he would return to the original island after swimming a certain distance, but now, he has left the corresponding range.

As soon as he thought, the green night pearl appeared on Shang Jianyao's head.

At the same time, he transformed into nine again, and manifested a loudspeaker and other things to directly test the changes in his abilities.

After the unremitting efforts of nine businessmen using themselves as experimental subjects, they came to a preliminary conclusion:

The range of the ability of "The Reasoning Clown" has been expanded to between eight and ten meters, and the number of targets that can be affected simultaneously has been increased to nine. However, due to the great differences between many targets, if they are not targeted themselves, one-on-one or one-on-one If the rhetoric is formulated in two places, but collective conditions are extracted, the effect will not be so ideal.

Similarly, after using a loudspeaker to increase the range, the number of objects that can be affected also becomes nine, but the targets must be concentrated within a three-meter radius, and the corresponding effect will plummet.

The effective range of "Hypocritical Person" is close to fifteen meters, and it can target nine people at the same time. Other changes are not much.

The usage distance of "Missing Hand Movements" has been increased to thirty meters, and different targets can be missing different movements without uniformity.

This is the result of Shang Jianyao's test in the spiritual world, and there must be a certain difference between it and the situation in the real environment. After all, "wishful thinking" can come true here, but the essence will not change.

After finishing this matter, Shang Jianyao felt tired, so he withdrew from the "Sea of ​​Origins".

…………

After opening his eyes, Shang Jianyao saw that the street light outside the room was still on and had not been extinguished.

He picked up the brass key and left Room 196 amid the soft music coming from the radio. He put his hands in his pockets and slowly walked towards the "Activity Center" in Area C.

At this time, it had not been long since the lights were turned off, and there were not that many employees in the "Activity Center". There were only two tables of people playing cards and teenagers gathered in the corner chatting.

Shang Jianyao found a place where no one was around, pulled out a chair, sat down, and watched everything quietly.

What reached his ears were the sounds of arguments and laughter, and what caught his eye were faces with different expressions and sets of clothes of similar styles.

Everything is so alive.

Shang Jianyao watched silently, his expression unchanged, calm and gentle.

After a minute or two, Chen Xianyu, the director of the "Activity Center", noticed his presence and walked over with a slight stagger.

"I thought you guys died outside." The gray-haired old man joked with a smile.

Shang Jianyao glanced at him and smiled:

"I saw Chen Xufeng."

This is the intelligence agent of "Pangu Creature" lurking in Weedao City, and he is also Chen Xianyu's youngest son.

Chen Xianyu's eyes suddenly opened wide:

"ah?

"Then the damn boy is still alive, right?"

Shang Jianyao's expression became serious and he slowly shook his head.

Chen Xianyu's eyes suddenly lost their luster.

"I lied to you." Shang Jianyao smiled again.

"..." Chen Xianyu was stunned for a moment, then hummed, "Let me just say, he is going to die outside, will the security department notify me?"

Without giving Shang Jianyao a chance to speak, he asked calmly:

"How is he doing now?"

He asked very vaguely, because he knew that his younger son's overseas assignment was classified as confidential, and many details could not be revealed even if he wanted to.

"It's good. I'm about to be promoted to employee level again." Shang Jianyao also gave a vague answer.

Chen Xianyu obviously relaxed a lot and sat next to Shang Jianyao with a smile:

"I've been away for several months this time, and it seems I've been to a lot of places."

"They are all very interesting places." Shang Jianyao looked at the group of employees playing cards and said with a smile.

Chen Xianyu glanced at the teenagers in the corner and chuckled:

"Really? The homeless settlements I went to back then were each worse than the last."

Shang Jianyao responded sincerely:

"You must have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering beauty."

"Where...where did you learn these words?" Chen Xianyu was angry and happy.

Shang Jianyao thought for a while and said:

"My boss, Ms. Jiang Baimian."

After the two chatted for a few words, the card games ended one after another. The employees took advantage of the street lights in the corridor to go out, laughing and rushing to their homes and different public toilets.

Soon, the entire "activity center" became empty and quiet, just like the coming night.

Shang Jianyao slowly stood up, waved goodbye to Old Man Chen, and returned to Area B.

Seeing Room 196 getting closer, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the surveillance camera on the ceiling.

There was no movement there, just the iconic red light.

Shang Jianyao immediately made a face at it.

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