At this moment, Jiang Baimian once again realized the fact that the deeper one delves into the "Sea of Origin," the greater the price to pay.
She even suspected that the process of overcoming each island of fear was the process of amplifying one's own price.
Jiang Baimian immediately gave up discussing the idea of "nine me's" with Shang Jianyao, lest she deepen his understanding of it.
As the saying goes, don't let the magic in the mind world map onto reality.
She pondered for a moment and asked:
"What else?"
Shang Jianyao looked towards the door:
"Need to experiment."
Jiang Baimian understood the unspoken meaning, immediately opened the door, walked into the open space of the hotel camp, and distanced herself from Shang Jianyao.
In this process, she silently counted her steps and kept moving in a straight line.
Before long, Shang Jianyao called out:
"Right here."
Jiang Baimian stopped, turned around, and raised her hands to signal.
Was she asking if this was the boundary of the "hand action loss" range?
--Her senses told her that there was no one else around, so there was no need to worry about secrets leaking.
Seeing Shang Jianyao nod, she roughly calculated:
"Close to twenty meters!"
This surprised her a little. Compared to before, this was an increase of almost fifty percent. Coupled with the ability to simultaneously affect the changes of nine people, the "hand action loss" ability was enough to play a vital role in a hot weapon battle.
This was simply a qualitative change.
At least, this was the case for the "hand action loss" ability.
Jiang Baimian began to walk back until Shang Jianyao called her to stop.
"Affectation?" she asked.
At this time, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen noticed the movement outside, left their rooms, and watched their experiment.
"Yes!" Shang Jianyao answered loudly.
Slightly equal to ten meters...sure enough, it's a fifty percent increase...Jiang Baimian continued to walk back, and then Shang Jianyao called her to stop for the third time.
At this time, the two were about six meters apart.
"Besides the change in range, what else?" After the experiment, Jiang Baimian asked in a low voice.
Long Yuehong had already guessed something, and was surprised, excited, and happy for Shang Jianyao when he heard this:
"You overcame 'Disease' Island?"
"Can't say overcame, but rather survived." Shang Jianyao was factual.
He continued:
"'Affected Person' can still only do one-on-one, but it seems that a longer-lasting state of affectation can be added to the target. This affectation should be the kind that often occurs in his life and will not be too obvious."
"How long can it last?" Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
Since Shang Jianyao had already revealed almost all of his abilities in the group, she didn't need to try so hard to hide them for him.
"Haven't tried it." Shang Jianyao said these words while his eyes swept across Long Yuehong's face.
Long Yuehong instinctively took two steps back.
"I think it can be measured in hours." Shang Jianyao withdrew his gaze and spoke his speculation.
Jiang Baimian turned and asked:
"What about 'Reasoning Clown'? Can it expand the range of influence using electronic products like Tan Jie?"
"I'll give it a try." Shang Jianyao seemed to have considered this issue a long time ago, and walked to his bed with great interest, picking up the small blue and black speaker.
This was a multi-functional product from before the Old World was destroyed, capable of recording.
Seeing Shang Jianyao turn on the speaker and switch to recording mode, Jiang Baimian silently raised her hands and covered her ears.
Bai Chen did the same, and Long Yuehong not only did that, but also retreated to the door, looking like he would leave the room at any moment.
Soon, Shang Jianyao signaled that they could lower their hands.
He pointed the small speaker at Jiang Baimian and played the previous recording:
"You are a member of the 'Old Task Force,' and I am also a member of the 'Old Task Force';
"You are very capable, and I am also very capable;
"Therefore..."
Jiang Baimian listened quietly, smiled, and said:
"Which direction are you trying to mislead me? Half-siblings, bah, siblings?"
"No effect." Shang Jianyao shook his head with a heavy expression. "I melted my will into the voice and recorded it, but after playing it, I can't feel that will."
"Maybe after a relatively complex conversion, the will gradually dissipated? It must be played before the will completely dissipates to be useful?" Jiang Baimian made a reasonable guess.
After another round of experiments, they confirmed one thing, that no matter how much they hurried, as long as they recorded and stored it first, and then played it, there would be no effect.
Thinking of Tan Jie using a megaphone to complete the "remote provocation" at the time, Jiang Baimian suggested:
"Try using a megaphone?
"No need to record, no need to store, just convert directly, maybe you can play the sound before the will dissipates.
"If it still doesn't work, you can make 'friends' with Tan Jie and learn some experience from him."
Shang Jianyao nodded:
"First, you need a megaphone."
"That's simple." Jiang Baimian smiled.
Before long, the "Old Task Force" of four entered Redstone Town and came to the Security Department.
This time, Han Wanghuo was not out.
His left arm was bandaged above the elbow because of an injury, looking bulky.
"You?" Seeing Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, and the others enter the Security Department, Han Wanghuo stood up and greeted them.
Because of their shared battle experience, Jiang Baimian, wearing a monk's mask, smiled casually:
"Here to collect the balance."
If she previously thought that Han Wanghuo was deliberately establishing a "knight" image, then now she felt whether it was deliberate or not was no longer important.
As a security officer, being able to stand at the forefront of the defense line, being able to resist the invasion of subhumans regardless of life and death, was undoubtedly a "knight."
Hearing Jiang Baimian's words, Han Wanghuo said with a slightly embarrassed expression:
"Have to wait two more days.
"But it will be soon. We have already cleaned up the battlefield and confirmed that many mermen and hill giants died this time, and they should not be able to launch a new round of attacks in a short time.
"After the reconnaissance team sends back the final results and both sides exchange prisoners, we can transfer the exoskeleton device to you."
Shang Jianyao immediately comforted:
"No need to rush.
"If it really doesn't work, you can use Tan Jie as collateral."
"..." Han Wanghuo didn't know what expression to make or how to respond.
Jiang Baimian coughed and helped "explain":
"He means, is Tan Jie okay?"
"A little sick afterwards, but not too serious." Han Wanghuo replied.
Jiang Baimian deliberately didn't continue the topic and smiled:
"We seem to have made a lot of contributions in this war, can we add a little extra reward?"
The team leader is smiling like a profiteer...Long Yuehong couldn't help but mutter.
He was referring to the tone.
Bai Chen had seen many similar profiteers in his past wandering wasteland and relic hunter life.
"This, maybe, not very..." Han Wanghuo wanted to say that the Redstone Town defense team should not accept this kind of after-the-fact price increase behavior, but he sincerely believed that this relic hunter team had made vital contributions in the war, and what they got was indeed different from what they paid.
Jiang Baimian interrupted him and said with a smile:
"Three requirements: First, borrow us a speedboat from the town defense team; second, give us two or three megaphones; third, help us collect information about 'Mechanical Paradise.'"
Uh...Han Wanghuo was quite surprised.
These three requirements were not only not excessive, but also very simple, and belonged to conditions that he could agree to without having to discuss with other powerful figures in the town defense team.
Resisting the urge to ask "Won't this be too little?" Han Wanghuo thought for a moment and said:
"No problem, when do you want them?"
"It's best to give me the megaphone today, the information within a week, and the speedboat when we notify you." Jiang Baimian had already prepared her plan.
Han Wanghuo rummaged around in the Security Department and found a slightly old blue and white megaphone.
"Give you one first, and the rest will be given to you with the exoskeleton device." He paused and reminded, "It is difficult for humans to compete with mermen on the water."
When Song He, Shang Jianyao, and Long Yuehong interrogated the mermen, security personnel recorded the corresponding content next to them, so Han Wanghuo knew about Lake Heart Island--he established many formal procedures for the Security Department.
"Is that so?" Shang Jianyao suddenly became interested.
You want to fight the mermen in the water? Jiang Baimian glanced at him, turned and walked out of the Security Department.
After buying the ingredients and returning to the hotel camp, Shang Jianyao took the megaphone, looked around, and couldn't wait to ask:
"Who's coming?"
Long Yuehong subconsciously took a step back, only to find that Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, and Bai Chen's gazes were all on him at the same time.
"Uh..." A bit of bitterness appeared on his face.
Can't let the two ladies be the test subjects...Shang Jianyao can't remotely "mislead" himself...Long Yuehong's thoughts churned for a while, took a breath and said:
"I'll do it."
Soon, there was a distance of more than thirty meters between him and Shang Jianyao.
Shang Jianyao raised the megaphone, his eyes instantly becoming deep:
"Look:
"You have always been very vigilant and don't like taking risks;
"And the customs of Redstone Town are to promote vigilance and hiding;
"Therefore..."
His voice echoed through the megaphone in the hotel camp.
--In order to prevent people from gleaning the secrets of the "Old Task Force" from these words, he used the most common conditions.
Long Yuehong's expression didn't change much after listening.
When he came back, Jiang Baimian asked eagerly:
"Do you feel anything? What do you feel?"
"I just suddenly feel that the people of Redstone Town are very close." Long Yuehong examined himself.
"My purpose is to make him think of himself as a resident of Redstone Town." Shang Jianyao interjected.
"Ah?" Long Yuehong suddenly woke up.
Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully:
"The effect is much worse.
"It seems that borrowing a megaphone can indeed increase the range of influence of your 'Reasoning Clown,' but the corresponding effect will diminish. Well, Tan Jie's 'provocation' didn't make that merman Awakened directly rush out either."
Shang Jianyao recalled and added:
"And you can only choose one target."
"Very good, you can still improve later." Jiang Baimian said with a smile.
She then looked at Long Yuehong and Bai Chen:
"I have to get a telegram and report the matter of the sleeping 'god' to the company to see what information or suggestions the higher-ups can give."
"Ah?" Long Yuehong was a little stunned.
Jiang Baimian immediately "Heh"ed:
"Did you think I was really so reckless? Saying go and going!"