Embers Ad Infinitum

At this moment, Long Yuehong felt as if his thoughts were frozen.

He seemed to be in a different world from his companions, watching their mouths open and close from a very close place and from a distant perspective, but could not hear any sound.

The next second, he found that Shang Jianyao had taken out the "Six Senses Pearl" and held it in his left hand.

Almost at the same time, Long Yuehong heard the team leader's voice.

This seemed to come from the sky, breaking the frozen silence.

"What did you do to Xiaohong?" Jiang Baimian asked Shang Jianyao angrily and funny.

Shang Jianyao replied sincerely:

"In order to make the environment match his words and create the most appropriate and appropriate atmosphere, I temporarily deprived him of his hearing."

"..." The five fingers of Long Yuehong's right hand made a clanging sound.

"Pay attention to the occasion!" Jiang Baimian scolded and said helplessly to Long Yuehong, "You continue."

Long Yuehong calmed down, glanced at Bai Chen and said:

"In short, if the target is an awakened person from the 'Bodhi' realm who possesses 'Fate Communication' or an awakened person from the 'Last Man' realm who can read other people's memories, then it is entirely possible for him to track us all the way to where we are in the Red Giant Wolf District The probability of tracking the safe house to this current room is not small."

Jiang Baimian nodded:

“This is indeed a situation that requires vigilance.

"But there's no need to be too nervous. Obviously, 'Nightmare' is quite afraid of Teacher Du Heng or Xiao Chong, otherwise, 'it' wouldn't have sent its minions to look for us after a whole day.

"And the safe house we rented in the Red Giant Wolf District is very close to where Xiao Chong lived before. Teacher Du Heng also appeared in that neighborhood. If the 'nightmare' is really as powerful and terrifying as what we analyzed, then 'it' There should be some sensation.

"In this way, after 'its' minions track the area, they will definitely not dare to be reckless. They will definitely test or observe again and again to confirm that there is really no problem before continuing."

When Jiang Baimian first chose to prepare a safe house in that neighborhood, he considered using Xiao Chong and Du Heng, who had been active nearby, as a deterrent.

Gennava agreed with Jiang Baimian:

"The target started looking for us yesterday morning. If he has a 'fate link' or can read other people's memories, and there are no accidents along the way, he should have been able to locate us before yesterday evening and launch an attack at night.

“And that didn’t happen.

"So, either he doesn't have one of these two abilities, or the 'nightmare' behind him is really worried that Xiao Chong or Du Heng is still lurking in that area."

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao applauded Gnawa.

"Why don't you deprive him of his hearing? Uh, don't interfere with the electromagnetic signals he receives?" Long Yuehong said angrily.

Shang Jianyao replied confidently:

"Lao Ge won't be nervous or scared."

Sure enough, you just wanted to scare Xiaohong... Jiang Baimian made a "cut" sound in his heart.

“I can simulate the emotion of this,” Gnawa emphasized.

Without giving Shang Jianyao and others a chance to discuss the emotions of intelligent humans, Jiang Baimian turned his attention to Long Yuehong.

Long Yuehong organized her words and continued her analysis:

"In terms of covering up his own whereabouts, if the target has the ability to 'predict' while possessing 'fate communication', then he should be able to vaguely see that we will target his residence, so he will take advantage of the situation to set up a trap and deliberately expose his whereabouts.

"If the target can make certain modifications while looking through other people's memories, then those people Shang Jianyao asked either truly believed that they were the target's accomplices and found opportunities to report the situation afterwards, or their corresponding memories have been We were unknowingly modified and told Shang Jianyao that the situation was not consistent with the reality. After being guided step by step, we went to the place preset by the other party, which was most likely a trap.

"Based on the results of current observations, post-reporting can be basically ruled out.

"Well...if the target doesn't have the abilities I just mentioned, it can only be said that he never considered that he would be exposed, so he didn't cover it up accordingly."

Bang bang bang, this time it was Jiang Baimian who applauded.

She smiled and praised:

"Not bad, the ideas are clear, laid out layer by layer, and nothing is missed."

After speaking, Jiang Baimian concluded sternly:

“These are two situations that need to be focused on prevention.

"Okay, next is the analysis of February's 'Dawn' field."

Bai Chen took the initiative to speak:

"The influence of dreams in the 'Dawn' realm can allow people to recall the images they have seen in their dreams, and Odik has done this.

"This is similar to 'Fate Communication' and 'Looking through Memories', but it is restricted by the environment and occasion. It can be treated as a weakened version..."

"Judging from Boss Ugo's ability, they can also enhance their sense of smell, which is also a powerful tool for tracking." Jiang Baimian added a little help, "However, when we change the disguise, we pay attention to changing the odor on the body surface."

This is done with the help of expired perfume, mosquito repellent and certain strong-smelling vegetation, insects and animals.

In this way, the "Old Tune Group" analyzed from "Bodhi" in January to "Double Day" in July.

"Based on the abnormality in the target's eyes, it is possible that he is in the field of 'Shuangri' or 'Si Ming', including the one from 'Dawn' just now." Shang Jian Yao rubbed his chin.

The fields of "Double Sun" include "eyes" and "vision", while "Dawn" is related to visual abnormalities.

Shang Jianyao met an awakened person in the "Si Ming" field before, but the price was that he could not move his eyes.

Hearing this, Long Yuehong frowned slightly and said:

"Not really.

"If the price is to have bigger eyes and smaller eyes, it will never be like this at the level of the 'soul corridor'."

In his opinion, at least one eye must be unable to open and the other cannot be closed to qualify as a "soul corridor" level.

"No." Shang Jianyao shook his head and smiled, "I'm referring to the anomaly of always wearing sunglasses."

"Isn't it to cover up the features of big and small eyes?" Bai Chen asked Long Yuehong.

Long Yuehong's mood immediately improved.

"If it is just to cover up the characteristics of the big and small eyes, wouldn't brown plain glasses be a better choice? At least at night, they will not be so conspicuous." Shang Jianyao raised the "Six Senses Pearl" to his eyes, pretending that it was half a pair of glasses.

Jiang Baimian nodded gently and said:

"This would explain why the target still wears sunglasses at night.

"The price may be that he is afraid of the sun. Once he enters the 'soul corridor' level, he will be afraid of ordinary lights."

Therefore, sunglasses must be worn at all times unless entering an area without street lights.

Jiang Baimian then said:

"But the problem is that the awakened ones in the 'Double Sun' realm don't seem to have the ability to track.

"Well, this may be because we have encountered too few. Maybe some of them can see things that are invisible under normal circumstances and can follow the clues and find us."

"This is another situation that needs to be focused on prevention." Gnawa, who was once the mayor of Tarnan, summed up the situation.

Long Yuehong turned to say:

"It's unlikely that they are in the field of 'Command'. The abilities they display seem to be only related to life-sustaining instincts such as breathing and heartbeat."

No one objects to this.

After discussing November's "Broken Mirror", the "Old Tune Team" finally completed this marathon-like brainstorming session.

They listed several situations that were most consistent with the current situation or most threatening to themselves and made certain plans.

Phew, Jiang Baimian breathed out, looked out the window and said:

“There is another point that we cannot ignore.

"Odik saw two people, one on the left and one on the right. There may be more than one 'nightmare' minions we need to deal with."

This is still treating the "picture frame" in the middle as a "nightmare".

"But we have no clues about that person at all." Gnawa's analytical skills were helpless.

Make bricks without straw!

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"So I plan to visit Odike again."

"Odik will only repeat those two sentences..." Long Yuehong didn't think there was anything else he could dig out.

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

“Inquiry is certainly fruitless, but observation is not.

"In addition to feeding him the thoughts implanted in him, I wanted to see if he would behave differently than before.

"People who went crazy in the 'nightmare' might unconsciously imitate some of the things they perceived at the time, or they might be infected by the corresponding 'madness' and leave traces."

"This is a direction..." Long Yuehong was convinced.

Jiang Baimian immediately made arrangements:

"Here and I, Xiaohong, Xiaobai, you find an unoccupied room to hide in, secretly monitor what's going on here, be careful and avoid everyone on the way.

"Lao Ge, you stay here, take control of those cameras, and be prepared for possible attacks."

Several members of the "Old Tune Team" quickly responded:

"Yes, team leader!"

…………

Red Giant Wolf District, Odik's home.

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao met Lauris again.

"Where's Odike?" Shang Jianyao asked with concern.

Jiang Baimian smiled and added:

"We came here to do a follow-up visit to see if the effect of the treatment has weakened and whether it needs to be consolidated or improved."

"Understood." Lauris was very grateful. "Odik went to the Hunters Guild and wanted to see if there were any less dangerous tasks that he could take on. He should be back soon."

"Then why didn't you go out?" Shang Jianyao was very curious.

Although Odik is a high-level hunter, a large part of his income is used to help church members in need. It is unlikely that Lauris will be a full-time wife like a noble lady.

Lauris glanced at Shang Jianyao:

"It's Sunday and I'm a teacher at a public school."

"Oh..." Shang Jianyao suddenly realized.

Jiang Baimian tried to bring the topic back on track:

"Mrs. Lauris, we want to know if Odik has shown any abnormality in the past few days that is different from before? Well, it's not necessarily abnormal, it may be behavior or habit."

"Except for sometimes repeating those few words, being irritable and excited..." Lauris recalled talking to herself.

After a few seconds, she pointed to the coffee table, cabinets and various furnishings in the living room and said:

"He also likes to tidy up more than before. Everything must be arranged neatly and symmetrically."