Listening to Jiang Baimian's explanation, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen gradually felt enlightened.
They had actually noticed many signs, but they hadn't thought about them deeply.
Jiang Baimian glanced at Shang Jianyao:
"Shouldn't you have guessed that there was something wrong with this plan?
"When I didn't speak and used actions to imply that you should hold a biscuit in your mouth to resist 'Naraka Path', didn't you understand very quickly?
"From such an important matter, I didn't make a sound, but when formulating the plan earlier, I didn't even lower my voice. You should have been able to notice the abnormality, and even guess that what was said at the time might not be what was actually going to be done."
Shang Jianyao didn't recall anything, and said directly:
"I thought you were afraid that using your voice to explain would make me often remember the corresponding content, making it difficult to avoid Jingfa's 'Telepathy'. After all, we don't know how large the effective range of this ability is.
"And if it's converted into actions and pictures, there will be a process of interpretation. Even if Jingfa can see that scene in my mind, he may not be able to understand what the real meaning is."
"...You're thinking too complicatedly." Jiang Baimian commented.
Bai Chen then echoed Shang Jianyao:
"I also thought you weren't making a sound at the time based on your understanding of Awakened. Although I've never heard of discussing an Awakened's abilities and discussing how to deal with him, which would allow him to 'hear' it, I can't rule out that possibility. I definitely don't know as much about this aspect as the big forces do."
"...You're thinking even more complicatedly than him." Jiang Baimian laughed and praised herself, "Could it be that my performance was truly impeccable?"
"I just didn't expect you to lie to us, I didn't think in that direction." Shang Jianyao immediately responded.
Bai Chen nodded, expressing agreement.
Jiang Baimian looked around again and changed the subject with a smile:
"So, going out for training can allow you to quickly accumulate experience and cultivate a tacit understanding with each other.
"In short, no matter what decision I make, you must believe that I will definitely not screw you over."
"Let's go, let's go meet up with Long Yuehong."
"Okay." Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen had completely understood what had happened and learned a lot from it.
Jiang Baimian looked again at the direction in which the Mechanical Monk Jingfa had escaped and sighed:
"Unfortunately, we couldn't destroy Jingfa's body and get the bionic chip inside.
"The corresponding technology is definitely worth studying and can help the company overcome many difficulties. Moreover, the Monastic Order likely has a certain understanding of the cause of the Old World's destruction. The 'Eternal Life Project' was one of the most important projects before the Old World's destruction, and those who can inherit this legacy are not simple."
Speaking of this, without waiting for Shang Jianyao to remind her, Jiang Baimian took the initiative to shake her head:
"Haha, these are all my beautiful fantasies.
"Actually, if I really destroyed Jingfa's body, I wouldn't dare to take his bionic chip. The Awakened's abilities are so strange and terrifying that carrying the bionic chip that bears his consciousness with you is simply suicide.
"This is good, this is good."
She then turned to look at Shang Jianyao:
"Let's go."
Shang Jianyao looked at the wheel tracks and silently turned his body and squatted down.
"Very meticulous, not letting us travel on our own, I can't catch up with the exoskeleton device." Jiang Baimian nodded in satisfaction, sat sideways on the energy backpack, leaving half the space for Bai Chen.
When the two were seated and grabbed the metal frame of the shoulder position, Shang Jianyao straightened his body, took big steps, and in the slight sound of metal friction, chased after the wheel tracks.
He didn't run at full speed, and the sound of footsteps was not very loud.
About a quarter of an hour later, Shang Jianyao left the sparse woodland and came to a gray-black wilderness.
This was the realm of rocks and weeds. The soil was hard, and there were many shallow wheel marks, making it difficult to distinguish them.
Using the "Comprehensive Early Warning System", Shang Jianyao saw the jeep in the distance.
Its side wheels were stuck in a muddy puddle the size of a pond, and the entire vehicle was tilted, threatening to sink at any moment.
However, two ropes connected it to a wild-looking gray off-road vehicle that had been pieced together.
This gray off-road vehicle's engine was buzzing, trying to pull the jeep out of the mud.
Long Yuehong, carrying an assault rifle, stood next to the car, chatting happily with a man and a woman.
"How is it, did you see the jeep? I sensed that there are quite a few people over there." Jiang Baimian pressed the shoulder of the exoskeleton device, stretched her neck, and looked towards the distance where Long Yuehong was located.
Shang Jianyao nodded:
"I saw it."
"Is Long Yuehong alright?" Bai Chen asked a question when he saw that Shang Jianyao's pace had obviously slowed down.
Shang Jianyao smiled:
"He's fine, he's even made some friends."
"Wow." Jiang Baimian made an interjection, "Let's go take a look."
Shang Jianyao then quickened his pace and ran towards the location of the jeep.
Thump, thump, thump, he deliberately increased the sound of his footsteps, so that Long Yuehong and the man and woman next to him could hear the sound from afar.
The man and woman and Long Yuehong turned their heads almost simultaneously and looked this way.
As soon as they saw that it was a Taihei black military exoskeleton device coming over, the faces of the man and woman changed abruptly, and without thinking, they each rolled back to the vicinity of the gray off-road vehicle.
At this time, the jeep had been pulled out of the small swamp by the pieced-together gray off-road vehicle.
Long Yuehong, on the other hand, had a happy look on his face and took a few steps to meet them:
"What's the situation?"
After shouting, he remembered something and hurriedly turned his head and shouted to the gray off-road vehicle:
"Don't worry, they're my companions!"
"Who are they?" Shang Jianyao had already run to the front.
At the gray off-road vehicle, whether it was the people inside or the man and woman outside, they were all highly nervous and on guard.
Long Yuehong quickly replied:
"I wasn't familiar with the road and drove the car into the mud. After they found out, they took the initiative to provide assistance.
"They are very friendly!"
Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen looked at each other and whispered with a smile:
"This doesn't seem like something ordinary wasteland wanderers would do..."
After speaking, she patted Shang Jianyao's shoulder:
"Let's also show our friendliness."
Upon hearing this, Shang Jianyao immediately stopped his footsteps.
After Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen jumped down from the energy backpack, picked up their respective guns, and prepared for defense, he walked to Long Yuehong's side and said loudly:
"Help me take off the exoskeleton device."
Seeing that Shang Jianyao was indeed removing the exoskeleton device, the group at the gray pieced-together car clearly breathed a sigh of relief.
They discussed it and had the man and woman who had been talking to Long Yuehong come over again.
The man looked to be in his early thirties, with a square face and rough, weathered skin.
He had black hair and brown eyes and was wearing what the Old World called formal attire, his back straight - of course, the formal attire had definitely been modified to facilitate movement.
Unlike the wasteland wanderers Shang Jianyao and the others had encountered before, his clothes, although old, with an inconspicuous patch, were not tattered at all.
The woman was in her twenties, also with black hair and brown eyes.
She was wearing a set of military green camouflage uniforms, and her features were okay, but her face had no expression at all, giving people a cold and indifferent feeling.
At the junction of her neck and clothes, there was a faint cyan-black tattoo.
The man and woman each carried an automatic rifle and held black pistols, stopping four or five meters away from Jiang Baimian and the others.
"Thank you for providing assistance!" Jiang Baimian shouted loudly.
"This is what every moral person should do." The man in his thirties responded calmly.
Jiang Baimian immediately showed a smile:
"On the gray earth, morality is a luxury, no, a rare item."
"We can't abandon morality just because the Old World was destroyed." The man was quite proud that he could adhere to morality.
Then, he asked loudly:
"Are you also going north of Moon Ruin Station?"
"Are you looking for someone?" Jiang Baimian raised her eyebrows slightly, "What's your name?"
The man answered frankly:
"Wu Shoushi, a mid-level Hunter."
He paused and added:
"It seems you don't know yet, a ruin of an Old World city has been discovered north of Moon Ruin Station, one that has never been discovered before."
A city ruin never discovered before? Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen couldn't help but look at each other.
Jiang Baimian frowned slightly:
"How do you know?
"The abnormality deep in the swamp only happened the night before last."
Wu Shoushi looked at his companion and did not hide anything:
"Someone entered that city ruin, discovered many things, modified a radio telegraph and transmitted the information back to the guild in Wildgrass City.
"You should be clear on what an undiscovered city ruin means."
Without waiting for Jiang Baimian and the others to answer, he gave the answer himself:
"Danger and opportunity!
"The items, information, and secrets there are enough to satisfy thousands of Ruin Hunter teams many times over, so you don't have to worry about each other's killings.
"In comparison, the dangers that already exist in the city ruins themselves are more direct and terrifying, and having more companions will give you more strength to fight them."
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