Embers Ad Infinitum

"Really?" Long Yuehong blurted out.

He didn't feel surprised, but frightened.

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao applauded for someone unknown.

Gittes glanced at them and didn't quite understand why they had such a reaction.

You want to ask, but you look like you want to plug your ears when you hear useful clues.

Knowing that this group of people was mysterious and strange, she suppressed her doubts and recalled:

"That clone is the man you met in the mountains where you helped Esther escort the goods. He was hunting a wild beast at that time.

“He was about to say hello when he suddenly felt short of breath, his vision went dark, and he was about to suffocate to death.

"When he was about to pass out, the feeling suddenly disappeared and the person disappeared.

"In the past few years, Esther's men have discovered traces of human activities in the mountains and forests around the winery many times."

"Why must it be traces of human activities rather than the activities of 'unintentional people'?" Honest Shang Jianyao asked when he had questions.

Kittis answered very simply:

"not sure."

This left Shang Jianyao with no chance to ask further questions.

"Thank you, this information is very important to us." Jiang Baimian thanked Kittis on behalf of the "Old Tune Group" and ended the topic.

After leaving Jitis' house and walking towards the Jeep, Long Yuehong looked at Jiang Baimian and asked hesitantly:

"Team leader, what should we do next?"

Jiang Baimian pondered for a moment and said:

"No matter what, we have to go look for it in the mountains of Gitisti.

"If it were something else, in the face of these successive coincidences, I would definitely ask you to hide as far away as possible and not to mix in randomly, but this involves the future of the company and everyone's safety, and we must take this risk. "

"Yes." Long Yuehong agreed wholeheartedly.

He rarely made a decision before seeing Bai Chen's reaction.

Bai Chen followed and said:

"Maybe that's why those coincidences happened to us."

"This is fate." Shang Jianyao looked expectant.

Gennava moved his metal neck:

"This reminds me of an old saying:

"Although there are thousands of people, I will go."

This made Long Yuehong feel a little excited for no reason.

After reaching an agreement within the group, Shang Jianyao and others didn't delay any longer. Taking advantage of the early darkness, they headed straight for the mountain full of mines they had visited before.

When he arrived near the moonshine brewery in Esther, Jiang Baimian opened the door and got out of the car, and said to the team members:

“We divided into two teams and entered the forest to search.

"Lao Ge, follow Xiaobai and Xiaohong, bring Feika, and pay attention to their situation at all times."

"No problem." As an intelligent person, Gennava is not afraid of the ability of the "Command Order" field to affect breathing and control the heart.

——Qin Ke belongs to the awakened person in the "Si Ming" field. The "Old Tune Team" inferred from the elder's story in Suimo City and the experience of Ji Tisi's clone.

With Lao Ge beside Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, Jiang Baimian was quite relieved and stopped rambling. He adjusted the preset content of the auxiliary chip and led Shang Jianyao, no, followed Shang Jianyao, and entered the right side. Mountain forest.

The two symbolically held "Berserker" assault rifles and walked through the trees step by step.

This is a deep mountain, and cold-resistant plants such as red pines stand one after another, almost blocking the sky, making the light extremely dim.

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao both had outstanding eyesight. While carefully observing the front, they carefully sensed the human consciousness and bioelectrical signals around them.

In such silence, time passed by minute by second. After half an hour, the two discovered some traces left by human activities.

It is unclear whether this is a normal human being or an "unintentional person".

Following the traces, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao changed their route and headed closer to the cliff.

There are abundant vegetation there, and there are almost no natural roads.

"There are no snakes here." Shang Jianyao kicked the grass in front of him, his mind jumping to nowhere.

Jiang Baimian had long been accustomed to this state and said casually:

"There may not be aberrations that produce relatively cold-tolerant varieties..."

Before she finished speaking, she looked sharply, pointed her gun forward and said:

"There's a cave there."

Behind the trees, beside a lot of weeds, and on the green rock wall, there is a dark cave.

It's quite secluded, not only in the middle of an inaccessible mountain forest, but also with rock outcroppings that block view from most directions.

If Jiang Baimian hadn't kept the idea that there was a high probability of having some clues here and made repeated observations, he might have missed it.

"There is no human consciousness." Shang Jianyao responded immediately.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"There is also no bioelectrical signature consistent with human characteristics."

As she spoke, she held the "Berserker" assault rifle with her left hand and used her free hand to remove the flashlight hanging from her armed belt.

She was not in a hurry to enter the cave, and she also stopped Shang Jianyao from jumping in directly. She stood seven or eight meters away from the cave entrance and looked inside.

The part of the cave illuminated by natural light contained more traces of human activities. Jiang Baimian stepped closer and turned on the flashlight, illuminating the darkness deep inside.

Suddenly, she stopped.

She saw a white corpse sitting on the stone wall deep in the cave.

The bones were covered with tattered dark black robes.

"Isn't this Qin Ke?" Shang Jianyao said.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Jiang Baimian answered very cautiously.

Shang Jianyao suddenly raised his voice:

"You died so miserably!

"We're late!"

Jiang Baimian ignored the noise around him and gave the order directly:

"Go in and check it out."

Shang Jianyao couldn't wait and jumped into the cave with a swish.

Jiang Baimian followed him slowly, guarding against possible accidents.

"The time of death was more than two years..." Shang Jianyao came to the corpse and squatted down.

Jiang Baimian nodded gently without interrupting his feedback.

"The bones are not broken..." Shang Jianyao reported sentence by sentence.

Finally, he picked up something from the crack of the stone next to him:

"There is a voice recorder."

Recorder... Jiang Baimian's forehead jumped.

This made her think too much.

"The item itself does not contain the power of the awakened person. As for the content inside, it is currently impossible to determine." Shang Jianyao inspected it dutifully.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"Let Lao Ge listen to it first."

After searching in the cave for a while and finding no other clues, the two informed Gennava, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen to meet in the cave.

Gnawa's autopsy results were similar to Shang Jianyao's, but it was confirmed that the deceased belonged to the Gray Earth race.

The probability of encountering a Gray Earth person within the sphere of influence of the "White Knights" is already very low, and there is no other possibility for a Gray Earth person's corpse to appear in this deep mountain forest. Based on this, the "Old Adjustment Team" initially determined that this is Ji The person Tisi's clone originally met.

And that person is suspected to be Qin Ke, the former great elder of Suimo City.

"Lao Ge, please go to the front of the team and listen to the contents of this recorder. When you get back to the car, tell us if there is any hidden power." Jiang Baimian asked Shang Jianyao to hand over the recorder. Gave it to Gnawa.

"No problem." Gnawa never shied away.

In this way, the "old tune team" left the mountain forest one after another and returned to the place where the jeep was parked.

After sitting back in the car, Gnawa handed the recording pen back to Jiang Baimian:

“No abnormal fluctuations were found.

"I have transcribed the corresponding content into my storage module."

Gnawa paused, his eyes flashing red and said:

"The recorded words are a bit like the screams of a madman, but they also reveal very important information, information that can answer your questions."

Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, and Shang Jianyao straightened their backs immediately.

Jiang Baimian took a breath and nodded to Gnawa calmly.

Gnawa started playing what he had transcribed.

This is absolutely safe.

The blank part mixed with the zizzing noise quickly passed, and a slightly hoarse male voice sounded:

"I am Du Heng, there are some things I must record:

“All the people in charge can’t believe it!”

When the eyelids of several members of the "Old Tune Group" twitched, the sound suddenly stopped, followed by a long "blank" that seemed to have no end.

"There will be more later." Gennava quickly gave a reminder to prevent Shang Jianyao from being impatient.

After another minute or two, the male voice sounded again:

"I am Du Heng, and I know some very scary things..."

At this point, the sound disappeared again, and only the movement of Zizi proved that Gnawa had not stopped playing.

Jiang Baimian raised his eyes and looked at Gnawa next to him.

Gnawa explained:

"The result of my analysis is that Qin Ke, who calls himself Du Heng, wanted to record again and again but was interrupted by something.

"What you heard is actually made up of several recordings."

Just as Gnawa said, several recordings were played one after another that had no follow-up and sounded like a lunatic raving:

"I am Du Heng, I may not live long..."

"I am Du Heng. The end has never ended. The destruction of the old world is just the beginning!"

"I am Du Heng, I am not Du Heng..."

Just when Long Yuehong was considering whether to urge Lao Ge to fast forward, the slightly hoarse male voice sounded with fear:

"I am Du Heng, and the dust I see is a large pasture.

“What is raised here is food for senior citizens!

"The bosses feed on human consciousness!"