Embers Ad Infinitum

The highest arena, the security check area of ​​the noble box.

Long Yuehong once again followed the disguised Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian as a servant and bodyguard.

Seeing that the entrance was still some distance away and there was no one around, he suddenly thought of a question and hurriedly lowered his voice and said:

"Team leader, I think we overlooked one thing."

"What?" Jiang Baimian stopped and pretended to scold the servant.

Long Yuehong looked around again:

“Our action plan is missing a very important part, which is how to evacuate if it fails.

"You don't think you can succeed, do you?"

As the saying goes, "Don't worry about winning, think about defeat first."

Once things develop not as expected, corresponding measures must be taken. You cannot panic, act blindly, or just surrender.

Jiang Baimian smiled:

"Faced with an awakened person who must be at the 'soul corridor' level and good at illusions, and surrounded by many nobles and their bodyguards, do you think we can escape if we fail?

"Even if Lao Ge can enter the arena, he will probably be affected."

"Ah..." Long Yuehong's face turned pale instantly.

Shang Jianyao further added:

"Unlike the previous dealings with the 'Higher Heartless' and Di Marco, this time we are in the open and the most dangerous enemy is in the dark, and there is no other helper."

Long Yuehong's thoughts were spinning, and she forced a smile on Jiang Baimian:

"Team leader, you must have thought of a way, otherwise you wouldn't be taking such a risk."

This is not the time to fight for your life!

Jiang Baimian nodded gently and said:

"The method is very simple. As long as you are sure of failure, immediately raise your hands, hold the back of your head, and squat down."

"Huh?" Long Yuehong sketched the corresponding picture in his mind.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something wasn't right.

Shang Jianyao immediately smiled and said:

"You can also shout out:

"I surrender! I surrender!"

"..." Long Yuehong finally understood what kind of scene Jiang Baimian just described.

He asked in disbelief:

"Team leader, are you kidding?"

Jiang Baimian shook his head seriously:

“No, this is the best option after weighing the pros and cons.

"When there is a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and the enemy, it is too dangerous to try to escape by relying on brains, skills and experience, and the possibility of success is extremely low.

"Actually, if this was not an awakened person at the 'spiritual corridor' level who is good at illusions, there would be no other options. For example, destroy the building structure under the noble box in advance, such as taking hostages, etc., etc., and now these None of them can be used, because we have no way of distinguishing what is true and what is false, whether we have done it, and whether we have done it successfully.

"Compared with resistance that is likely to cause casualties, surrender may be the best way to preserve ourselves."

"But, doesn't this mean that you have given up your life?" Long Yuehong still couldn't understand.

"No, no, no." Shang Jianyao shook his head and said, "Going to prison is the beginning of the story. When the time comes, we will say that it was General Phocas who asked us to do it, and let people from other forces take action."

"General Phocas is really unlucky to have met you for eight lifetimes." Jiang Baimian laughed and cursed.

Seeing that nobles were gradually passing by and entering the stands through security checks, she stopped being pretentious and quickly explained:

"Did we do anything in the First City that the nobles would kill quickly? Except for those who secretly favor the 'anti-intellectual religion', there should be no one who must let us die. When we are caught, we will quickly explain that we have killed them. The true 'priest' has a deep hatred for the 'anti-intellectual religion'. In this way, anyone who jumps out to target us is suspected to be a supporter of the 'anti-intellectual religion'.

"This is one point. The more important point is that we are members of the 'Pangu Creatures'. There is no need to hide it when the time comes. We can tell them directly and tell them everything we know. After losing the value of intelligence, the company will send people to do it again. Negotiations, I think they would be happy to exchange us for something else.

"There are many similar things among big forces. Generally, if a spy is caught and the other party has not caused any big problems, they will tend to use it for trade, such as exchanging for one of their own people who was caught."

Long Yuehong was stunned when she heard this. She didn't expect that there were such unspoken rules among the big forces.

But when he thought about it carefully, he felt that this was normal.

As a major force, they naturally have a relatively equal negotiating position.

"But in this case, wouldn't we have betrayed the company?" Long Yuehong thought of another question.

Jiang Baimian laughed:

"Others don't know, and other big forces don't understand some things about the company?

"In the past few years, more than one or two of the company's field staff have been arrested. Where is the company's entrance? Wilderness Wanderers and small forces don't know. How can the 'Prime City' and the 'White Knights' be concealed?" Decades?

"As for internal matters, how many secrets do we know? None, right?

"As for the investigation into the cause of the destruction of the old world, we have only reached the stage of contacting the descendants of Orei, and we don't know much about the First City."

Long Yuehong probably understood what the team leader meant:

Problems that you can explain yourself will not harm the company.

"So, our biggest losses are the items we carry with us, the 'Destiny Bead', the 'Blind Ring', Wu Meng's recording, and Xiao Chong's boos. These four items are still acceptable." Jiang Baimian said Summarize.

"But, but..." Long Yuehong still felt that it was not so safe to be captured without mercy, "Many of the nobles in the 'Primary City' secretly believe in 'Mandala' and are members of the 'Holy Desire' sect. I, I I’m afraid they’ll do something bad.”

"Then you made a profit?" Shang Jianyao laughed.

Then, he showed a solemn expression:

"Not necessarily, the other person may not be a woman."

Long Yuehong shivered inexplicably.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

“This is also a situation that needs to be prevented.

"On the one hand, if we are caught, we will immediately declare that we have cooperated with General Phocas and helped deal with the anti-intellectual religion. In short, we will use the tiger's skin as a banner; on the other hand, Xiaobai has the letter I left for her. , confessed two things, one was to go back to the safe house if nothing could be done, send a telegram to the company, and ask them to send a representative to negotiate for the redemption, and the other was to use the contact information left behind to find an elder from the 'First City' for help. I have a deep friendship with someone in the company, so I probably wouldn’t dare to release someone privately, but to ensure our safety during detention, we should not shirk it, after all, there are many excuses and reasons.”

After hearing this, Long Yuehong felt a little relieved.

He exhaled and said:

"Team leader, why didn't you tell me earlier? What kind of letter did you have to write?"

Have you watched too many Old World dramas?

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"With Xiaobai's temper, otherwise, would she be willing to stay outside as a backup?"

"Yes." Long Yuehong asked no more questions, followed Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao to the security checkpoint, and passed smoothly.

…………

There were already many people in the noble box, but Ole's grandson Marcus was not included.

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao found their seats and sat down, observing who was around them.

During this process, Shang Jianyao took out the portable recording device and pretended to be bored and played a song.

The songs he plays are all normal Honghe dialect songs. The sound is not too loud and can be heard by people around but not too noisy.

This is to allow the owner of the "virtual world" to adapt to the existence of singing and become numb to it.

Amidst the music, Shang Jianyao sometimes chatted with Jiang Baimian, and sometimes nodded hello to the nobles nearby.

After a while, five minutes before the start of the gladiatorial match, Marcus, with light blue eyes and a slightly horizontal face, entered the box with four bodyguards and walked towards his own room.

Like last time, he always smiled and nodded to every noble he met, including Shang Jianyao.

After watching him sit down, Jiang Baimian estimated the distance and nodded to Shang Jianyao.

What she meant was that at this distance, there should be no problem with the current volume.

Shang Jianyao listened to the song for another few dozen seconds, pretended that he wasn't too satisfied with this one, and started to change it.

Long Yuehong subconsciously held her breath, and her heartbeat accelerated slightly.

Once you start playing the song that sewed up the boos from Xiao Chong, there’s really no turning back!

Soon, a cheerful song rang:

"Dog woof woof

"Cat meow meow

"Birds chirping

"The mouse squeaks..." (Note 1)

The nursery rhyme-like lyrics echoed with a somewhat funny feeling, and the children booed in the background music that no one noticed.

"Shh...

"Shh...

"Shh..."

Some nobles thought the lyrics were funny and glanced at Shang Jianyao and the others, as if they wanted to ask what the title of the song was.

Some of them came earlier, drank a lot of water, and were planning to go to the bathroom before the official competition, but now they all stood up.

"But there is a sound

"Nobody knows

"What does the fox call..."

Amidst the singing, one by one the nobles walked to the bathroom.

Note 1: Quoted from the Norwegian song "The Fox Crying", by the Ilvisak Brothers