Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 830 Rendezvous

Cornimis, on the edge of the main city.

Gnawa and Shang Jianyao, who was wearing a military exoskeleton device, walked toward the outskirts from under a viaduct.

They did not return the way they came, and the latter also hid their human consciousness throughout the process to avoid being discovered by the members of the Eighth Research Institute summoned by the giant cat creature.

The reckless Shang Jianyao proposed a counter-ambush, but it was rejected by other Shang Jianyao before it entered the voting process, because they now did not know how many people from the Eighth Research Institute had been sent to Cornynmis. What is the strength?

Even if the "Vice Dean", "Professor Li" and other "New World" powerhouses are not brought here, sleeping here, sitting on one side, there are only two or three awakened people who have explored the depths of the "Soul Corridor". The "Old Tune Group" had a drink.

After walking a few steps in the deserted field, Shang Jianyao suddenly turned around and laughed.

"What's wrong?" As an intelligent robot, Gnawa has a very good temper.

"No, that's not the sentence." Shang Jianyao looked at Gennava, hoping that he could understand what he meant.

"What's not this?" Gennava expressed confusion.

Shang Jianyao replied with a sigh of relief:

"At times like this, what you should ask is, 'Why are you laughing?'"

Gnawa hurriedly searched this sentence in the database and suddenly realized:

"Do you want me to cooperate with you and recreate the classic scene?"

"Yes!" Shang Jianyao was persuasive, "A real person cannot be old-fashioned or rigid. He must keep pace with the times, fully grasp the corresponding customs and culture, and be able to accept the jokes thrown by his peers."

The chameleon-shaped Gnawa moved his neck up and down, following the good saying:

"Why are you laughing?"

Shang Jianyao laughed and said:

"I laughed at the stupidity of the people in the Eighth Research Institute, who didn't even wait and ambush us at several major exits from the city.

"Do they think we will definitely go back the way we came?"

"Maybe they just don't have enough manpower and can only choose the route most likely to block us." Gnawa analyzed the current situation.

Shang Jianyao said with a "tsk, tsk" smile:

“If it’s like what you said, their problem is that they only sent so few people to guard Cornimis.

“It’s not even enough to fill the gap between your teeth!

"Too arrogant."

Having said this, Shang Jianyao raised his right hand, rubbed his chin on the surface of the "Berserker" assault rifle, and said to himself:

"Maybe they thought that all the people who penetrated into the main city of Cornimis would not be able to come out, and would either die or become 'unintentional', so they simply didn't send anyone to block or ambush them.

"The big cat was following us just to confirm whether we had really entered the deepest part of the main city, the most dangerous area."

Gennava has some doubts about this statement:

"But nothing is absolute. There will always be people who enter the depths of the main city and come out alive, such as you.

"And people like you are probably not alone. It is normal for similar situations to occur three or five times over the years."

Shang Jianyao smiled:

"Then tell me, why can I come out intact?"

"The long night is blessed by the commander." This time, Gennava was very cooperative. "It could also be Namo Ayodoro Sanliu Sanbodhi, or it could be that no one has himself, and a new world is right in front of him."

Shang Jianyao nodded with satisfaction:

"So, even if there were people like me who came out alive before, it was most likely because they were blessed by Zhi Sui.

"Faced with the target of Zhi Sui's protection, how can the Eighth Research Institute dare to ambush rashly? Aren't you afraid of encountering the 'Doctor' being frightened by 'Yugu' again?"

Gennava completely understood what Shang Jianyao wanted to express:

"You don't need to care about those who die inside, but you don't care about those who come out alive, right?"

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao tapped his "Berserker" assault rifle with his chin instead of applauding.

He went on to say:

"The question now is, since there is no need to control it, why did the Eighth Research Institute send people over and let the big cat patrol?"

"It is difficult to complete the analysis without the necessary conditions." Gennava answered truthfully.

Shang Jianyao stopped laughing at the Eighth Research Institute and returned with Gnawa to a place where the sky was getting brighter and brighter.

As they approached the woods, they stopped one after another.

Gennava first, Shang Jianyao later.

"The meeting place has been changed..." Shang Jianyao sighed as he looked at the secret notes left by his companions.

Gennava turned his neck in a circle and then turned back in the opposite direction:

"Dabai and the others must have encountered something and had to move the camp."

"I missed it again!" Shang Jianyao said sadly, with a look of disappointment on his face, "If I had known, I would stay here in the woods today and let Lao Ge explore the main city of Cornimis by yourself."

While talking, he and Gnawa followed the mark's prompts and bypassed the woods from a distance, heading to the second scheduled meeting point.

In a hidden place in the mountains, they successfully reunited with Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.

After Jiang Baimian finished talking about the attack on himself and others, Shang Jianyao took out the small blue-background black-faced speaker that was put back into the jeep, and patted it with a pleased expression:

"You have done a great job!

"You are worthy of the title of a member of the old tune team!"

Before Long Yuehong and others could speak, he proposed extremely excitedly:

"Follow the traces now, follow the clues, and attack in reverse?"

"There's no rush." ​​Jiang Baimian raised his head and looked at the sky, "I'm always the most vigilant at the beginning. Besides, it's still getting brighter."

She turned to ask:

"Have you found anything in the main city?

"Did you do something that caused certain changes in the entire Cornimis?"

"Yes!" The merchants all recounted their previous experiences, and Gennava was responsible for checking for omissions and filling in the gaps.

The more Long Yuehong listened, the more solemn she became, and finally she concluded:

"There is an overlap between Cornimis and the 'New World'. The deeper you go, the more serious the overlap becomes?"

"That's almost it." Shang Jianyao guessed with great anticipation, "Maybe at the root of the problem, there will be a door to the 'new world', located on the dust instead of the door of the 'soul corridor'."

Bai Chen frowned and said:

"Conynmis has only been destroyed for more than ten years, and it has never shown any signs of having a door to the 'New World' before. At that time, or even earlier, there were rumors that there was an entrance to the 'New World' hidden somewhere in the dust. , this can’t be referring to Cornimis, right?”

"Who said there is only one door to the 'New World'?" Shang Jianyao said with a smile, "The disaster that destroyed Cornimis might have created another door to the 'New World'."

Bai Chen nodded, thinking that this situation was indeed possible.

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

"The team that originally investigated the cause of the destruction of the old world came to Conimis because there were certain problems here and there were quite important clues hidden there."

She was referring to the old team that Shang Jianyao's father belonged to.

"What's the problem, what's the clue?" Gnawa helped pick out the key points.

No one can answer.

Even Shang Jianyao just sighed and said:

"We can't find any survivors yet."

Having said this, he suddenly became excited again. He looked towards the main city of Cornimis and said:

"In addition to using nuclear bombs, how to solve the problem of overlap between Cornimis and the New World?"

"Get close to the source of the problem, concentrate all the power, and destroy the overlapping phenomenon?" Long Yuehong said tentatively.

Gennava reminded:

"The power we have now may not be enough."

"Well, you can consider going to the White Knights' sphere of influence first to fully charge the battery." Jiang Baimian looked at the sky again, "If the summer thunderstorm can be brought down to the main city of Cornimis, the problem will be It’s easy, I remember that there were weather weapons with similar principles in the old world, but unfortunately no force can make them now.”

She said "uh" and continued:

"Besides, if the electromagnetic environment of Cornimis is completely destroyed, it will be difficult for us to investigate what happened that year."

Today, deep in the main city of Cornimis, scenes from the past are constantly reappearing.

"Yes." Shang Jianyao chose to agree.

Jiang Baimian pondered for a moment and said:

"Actually, it is possible to get closer to the source of the problem without stimulating the vortex."

"How to do it?" Shang Jianyao's eyes lit up.

Jiang Baimian explained:

"At the edge of that area, when you met Flora and Barnard, they could neither see you nor hear you speak. They didn't even sense the corresponding human consciousness until you walked to the side. The man sitting in the library seems to be able to see you directly when you pass by, or to sense your human consciousness.

"To put it simply, I suspect that the closer to the source of the problem, the more obvious the overlap will be, and the easier it will be for the strong people in the 'new world' to observe the surrounding Cornynmis scene.

"In the beginning, you couldn't see or hear. You had to be close at hand to sense it. Later, you could see, hear, and sense it from a certain distance...

"So, if you had chosen to bypass the square at that time, there is a high probability that the man sitting in the library would not have been alerted. When you encounter similar projections in the future, you can also do this, but you will get closer to the source of the problem. Wherever you go, you have to be more careful, leave enough margin, and would rather take a detour than save effort."

"It makes sense." Gnawa said, "But when you reach the deepest place, this method may not work. There should be projections everywhere, and you can't get around it."

Jiang Baimian nodded gently and said:

"At that time, you should be able to intuitively sense the vortex and determine the source of the problem."

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao, who had put away the small speaker and the "Angel of Life" necklace, clapped his hands.

He also took off his military exoskeleton to save power.

After discussing this issue for a while, the "Old Tune Team" began to eat dry food and drink water to make physical and mental preparations for those who would follow the trajectory to find the Eighth Research Institute.

——Konimis is controlled by the Eighth Research Institute, so Jiang Baimian and others do not think that the previous attackers belonged to other forces.

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