Chapter 819 Faith

Under the slightly dark sky, green buildings stretched out into the distance along the cracked road, like tombstones standing silently in a dead cemetery.

Shang Jianyao, who was wearing a military exoskeleton device, and Gnawa, who was wearing a "Chameleon" bionic smart armor, were walking side by side at a distance, with only the sound of wind in their ears.

Shang Jianyao turned his head, looked around through the helmet visor, and said enthusiastically:

"The dark sky, the abandoned buildings, the empty roads, one person and one robot walking together towards the unknown... This is how the doomsday scene in the old world entertainment materials..."

After two days of traveling, the "Old Adjustment Team" arrived at Konimis, and then according to the predetermined plan, they sent Shang Jianyao and Gnawa carrying the "Angel of Life" necklace into the area to conduct preliminary reconnaissance, hoping that Can figure out the root cause of the "unintentional" virus remaining here.

What did Gennava, who currently looks like a large chameleon, have to say:

"One more dog missing."

"That's right, without the dog, just the lonely man and the robot, it still lacks a little bit of the feeling of the wasteland." Shang Jian Yao admitted that he was wrong.

He immediately fell into deep thought:

"But I can't find the dog for a while..."

After a full twenty or thirty seconds, Shang Jianyao made a voice:

"Woof woof woof!"

"Now we are all alive!" he said with satisfaction.

Gnawa has already established a behavioral database of Shang Jianyao and has certain predictions about this development.

What he was more confused about was another question:

“Why did it take you so long to decide to pretend to be a dog?

"I thought you didn't care about the so-called face of this kind of relationship and could make a decision on the spot."

Shang Jianyao smiled and said:

"We were democratically consulting and voting to decide who would fill that role, and that took a little while."

"Understood." Gnawa enriched his business database.

Shang Jianyao looked up at the sky and said as if he had completely forgotten what topic he was discussing just now:

"Old Ge, have you ever felt that the closer you get to the main city of Cornimis, the darker the sky becomes?"

Cornimis is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the cold current from the south is blocked. The climate is much warmer than other places in the ice sheet. At this season, the snow has already melted, turning into a trickle, and the earth has grown. Light green, a scene of new life.

This should have been a very beautiful scene, but for some reason, this place is always gloomy, with little sunshine, making people feel depressing, like the end of the world is coming again.

Gnawa moved his metal neck up and down:

"have."

On the edge of Cornimis, where the "Old Tune Group" camped, the darkness was just equivalent to a cloudy day. Near the main city, it already felt like dark clouds.

"It seems it's not my hallucination. This dimness is related to the 'New World'." Shang Jianyao lowered his hand, wrapped around the "Angel of Life" necklace, and covered the metal skeleton with the other hand, holding the "Berserker" assault rifle.

He said quite happily:

"The next thing will be easy. We can just look for the darkest place. That is definitely the source of the problem!"

"Your reasoning is too taken for granted and lacks sufficient conditions." The honest Gnawa replied, "Maybe it's just going to rain heavily, maybe the entire city is in the same environment."

Shang Jianyao taught his companions confidently:

“Old Ge, have you forgotten our group’s motto?

"Bold assumptions, careful verification!"

"This is Dabai's mantra, not the motto of the group." Gnawa remembers it clearly.

Shang Jianyao, who failed to fool him, said "ha":

"Dabai is my role model!"

"That's no problem." Compared with before, Gnawa knew a little bit about what is enough.

He looked at the main city buildings getting closer and closer in front of him and reminded him seriously:

"Hey, you have to be careful, 'Wuxin disease' may infect you at any time.

"Why don't you let me come in for reconnaissance first, and then decide whether to find the source of the problem after understanding the general situation?"

Intelligent robots are not afraid of "unintentional mistakes".

"Because whether you detect anything useful or not, I will come in." Shang Jianyao seemed to be answering that this season is suitable for a spring outing.

Before Gnawa could say that you can wait until you have done preliminary reconnaissance before entering Konimis, Shang Jianyao added with a smile:

"And I'm not worried about getting infected."

Gnawa, wearing the "Chameleon" bionic smart armor, turned to look at this guy.

Shang Jianyao raised his right hand holding the "Berserker" assault rifle and said in a low voice:

"The long night is long, Si Ming bless you!"

He tried to shake the "Angel of Life" necklace wrapped around his left wrist, but gave up because that hand was paralyzed.

Gnawa's eyes flashed red for a few times, then he asked:

"Hey, do you think your father is still alive?"

Shang Jianyao was silent for a while and said:

"I always thought that he would not not come home for no reason. Something must have happened to him and I need to investigate."

Gnawa stepped across the cracked cement floor from years of freezing and drying, and asked a different question:

"Then do you think you can find your father's whereabouts or related clues in Cornimis?"

Shang Jianyao laughed:

“After joining the ‘Old Tune Group’, I carry this belief wherever I go.”

The red light in Gennava's eyes flashed a few more times:

"The emotions of you carbon-based people are indeed richer, more diverse and more subtle than those of us intelligent people."

He glanced at the dark sky ahead and the towering buildings in deathly silence, then asked:

"Where do you think the clue is most likely to be?"

Shang Jianyao smiled and said:

"The most dangerous place.

"Since the special correspondent of the Eighth Research Institute said that the disaster in Cornimis originated from the team investigating the cause of the destruction of the old world, then the center of the disaster must be at the place where they investigated the truth or the place where they last appeared."

"This is an idea." Gnawa affirmed at first, and then asked, "But what if it is just a slander from the Eighth Research Institute's special commissioner?"

Shang Jianyao turned his head and looked at his companion:

"Isn't this a good thing?"

Gennaval made a brief analysis and understood what Shang Jianyao wanted to express.

He was about to say something more when he suddenly detected something unusual.

"There are bloodstains there, no more than two weeks ago." Gnawa pointed to the intersection into the main city of Konimis.

Underneath a clump of weeds on the roadside, there were some traces of blackening.

Dangdangdang, one hand of Shang Jianyao was paralyzed, and he could only use the "Berserker" assault rifle to collide with the chest armor to create applause.

"I didn't even notice it." He was very honest and candid.

Even with the assistance of the "comprehensive early warning system" of a military exoskeleton device, and even though he has always been smart and smart, he is still no match for an out-and-out intelligent robot in similar detection.

"There are no corpses nearby, but there are certain signs of fighting. It was not too intense." Gnawa reported his findings and analysis results while inspecting.

"Yeah." Shang Jianyao nodded repeatedly, "What do you think the situation is?"

Gnawa's eyes flashed red twice:

“Neither gun was used by either party in the fight, and I think the most likely cause is internal strife between ‘unintentional persons’.

"There should be a small number of 'careless people' surviving in this ruins, but the remaining supplies seem to be insufficient."

After all, there were once hundreds of thousands of "careless people" in Cornimis.

"'Unintentional'..." Shang Jianyao was a little disappointed.

Then, he pointed to the city:

"Let's go to the most dangerous place!"

…………

The junction of the Western Mountains into Cornimis.

The Jeep of the "Old Tune Group" was parked in a forest, hiding itself with the help of natural protective colors.

Jiang Baimian stood on the front cover of the vehicle, holding a telescope and observing the distant villages, roads and the edge of the city.

——The main city of Cornimis is located in the west.

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen stood guard on one side, guarding against accidents.

After a while, Long Yuehong broke the wordless silence:

"Team leader, why didn't you stop Shang Jianyao?"

"This should be the one thing he insists on most besides saving all mankind." Jiang Baimian exhaled slowly.

She paused and said:

"Besides, since we have worked so hard to get here, the beings behind the scenes should not just watch us being killed by 'unintentional' people. People from the Eighth Research Institute can enter while carrying the corresponding items." , there is a high probability that we can do it too.”

Those existences refer to the big boss, "ghost aunt" and other officials.

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Baimian suddenly saw a black shadow flashing past in an abandoned village.

She had already expected the existence of "unintentional persons" and wild creatures in Cornimis and was not surprised. She simply informed Bai Chen and Long Yuehong of the situation:

"I saw a rather large black feline creature."

"Feline creature..." Bai Chen pursed his lips and said, "I also saw it in that ice and snow ruins, but the fur was whiter."

The ice and snow ruins where the "Rootless" team encountered.

Jiang Baimian suddenly frowned and said to himself:

"Isn't this too much of a coincidence..."

PS: The February update has been completed normally. Here is the belated Spring Festival leave, lol.

I have said before that when the quarantine is over, I will make up for the holidays that I did not have with my family during the Spring Festival. But just because I am free does not mean that my family is also free, so I have postponed it until March. During the Spring Festival last year and the year before last, I took ten days off, that is, ten days of single update. It is the same this year. According to the old rules, there is only one chapter per day from March 1st to March 10th, at 12 noon. Semi-updated, and will return to normal updating status later, thank you all.