“This might be called the unity of knowing and doing.” Long Yuehong echoed the team leader.

He wanted to laugh every time he saw those leaflets.

Jiang Baimian retracted her gaze from the leaflets and glanced at Shang Jianyao, who hadn't spoken. She casually asked:

"What are you thinking about?"

"I'm wondering what their Eucharist is." Shang Jianyao's expression was very serious.

Jiang Baimian wasn't surprised at all. She chuckled and said:

"Maybe they aren't a religious organization at all.

"Besides, the Eucharist of such a brainless organization definitely isn't high-quality."

"Sigh..." Shang Jianyao sighed with regret.

Bai Chen watched the team leader throw the leaflets back onto the table and said thoughtfully:

"First City also had similar organizations. Their slogans were 'Brains are useless,' 'Stupidity is a blessing,' 'Giving up thinking is saving the world'..."

"People believe that?" Long Yuehong asked in surprise.

Although he had already seen examples, he still found it incredible.

Compared to this, the "Life Ritual" cult, which imparted infant care knowledge and advocated natural childbirth, was far superior.

Jiang Baimian sighed with a smile:

"Having experienced the destruction of the Old World, years of war, and repeated famines and epidemics, the people on the graylands are willing to grab anything that looks like a life-saving straw. At least it makes them feel like there's still some hope for the future."

Long Yuehong was speechless for a while. He wanted to say something, but couldn't organize the right words.

"I wonder which Ruling God they believe in, or do they not believe in anyone?" Bai Chen said instead.

"I haven't encountered similar organizations." Jiang Baimian shook her head and looked at Shang Jianyao with a smile, "It's better if you don't mix with such organizations. If you get 'infected' by them and lose your mind, it'll be troublesome."

"I can be their common brain, the only brain." Shang Jianyao said seriously.

"You have aspirations!" Jiang Baimian joked and distributed the materials in her hand to the team members. "Take a close look. We should discuss serious matters."

As for the organization that promoted the idea that knowledge is poisonous and one shouldn't read books, they didn't have any conflicts of interest, so there was no need to pay too much attention to them.

After everyone had finished flipping through the materials, Jiang Baimian repeated what Chen Xufeng had said, and finally said:

"Where do you think we should start investigating from?"

Bai Chen looked at the materials in his hand and thought:

"The tasks they've taken are all relatively common types. There's nothing special about them. For now, I don't see anything worth further investigation."

"Yeah, yeah." Long Yuehong agreed before remembering something. "Bai Chen is an 'Intermediate Hunter'!"

He had discovered this when he registered his hunter identity in the afternoon.

--When you first join the Hunter's Guild, you are a 'Novice Hunter.' When your credit score reaches 100, you become a 'Formal Hunter.' After that, you need to accumulate 1,000 points to become an 'Intermediate Hunter.'

This couldn't be satisfied by one or two large tasks like collecting Qiao Chu's information. Every "Intermediate Hunter" must have completed dozens or hundreds of tasks, and their experience was definitely rich.

"I registered my hunter identity seven or eight years ago." Bai Chen explained simply when he saw the team leader and Shang Jianyao looking over.

"You were eighteen or nineteen back then?" Jiang Baimian asked back, laughing self-deprecatingly, "Every time, I feel like you're younger than me."

"Maybe it's because of your height." Shang Jianyao helped "explain."

Jiang Baimian glared at him:

"Don't talk if you can't say anything nice."

She then asked Bai Chen:

"Did you use your real name when you registered your hunter identity?"

"No." Bai Chen shook his head. "That wouldn't be very convenient for many things. It's easy to be exposed, and it's not like the clerks at the Hunter's Guild can't be bribed."

"That's good." Jiang Baimian nodded with relief. "You've been clever since you were young! Hmm... If you want to take on tasks to earn money in the future, you'll do it. 'Intermediate Hunters' can take on many more tasks."

She, Shang Jianyao, and Long Yuehong were all "Novice Hunters" with zero credit points, so they couldn't take on tasks that required sufficient credit.

"Okay." Bai Chen nodded slightly.

Jiang Baimian turned to look at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

"Which clue do you think is more valuable?"

She considered this to be education through discussion and was trying to start a brainstorming session.

"The fifth one—the one about Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei still appearing in Weed City." Shang Jianyao answered without hesitation, "As long as we find them, the problem can be solved easily."

"Then, how should we find them?" Jiang Baimian asked with a smile.

Shang Jianyao seemed to have thought about this question long ago:

"Find a place to print out their photos, distribute them throughout the city, and ask if anyone has seen them."

As a graduate of the Department of Electronics, although he hadn't touched a computer much, he still knew about photocopying and printing.

"..." Jiang Baimian laughed when she heard this. "A very direct method. It will definitely be effective, but there are two problems. One is that the cost is too high. We don't have that many supplies to support it. The second is that it's very easy to alert the enemy, causing Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei, who might still be alive, to be brutally silenced. Moreover, such a big commotion might attract the attention of Weed City's upper echelons, bringing about bad changes. Think about it. Chen Xufeng's understanding of Weed City is definitely above ours, right? He didn't use this wide-net approach, so there must be great concerns."

She "Hmm"ed and continued:

"The problems of excessive cost and too much commotion are easy to solve. We can post a missing person task at the Hunter's Guild and use food as a reward. This is very common, and no one will feel that something is wrong. At the same time, there's no need to print or copy photos. Just scan and upload them to the Hunter's Guild and let those who are willing to take on the task remember their features.

"However, the efficiency definitely won't be that high, and there's no way to avoid alerting the enemy."

At this point, Jiang Baimian sighed and chuckled:

"If it weren't for fearing the consequences, alerting the enemy wouldn't be bad. By alarming the grass and startling the snake, it'll be easier to discover its tracks."

After listening to these analyses, Long Yuehong felt that he had learned a lot and muttered to himself:

"How can the team leader's brain work in such a roundabout way?"

Seeing Jiang Baimian looking at him, he quickly expressed his opinion:

"Team Leader, where do you think we should start investigating from?"

Jiang Baimian immediately laughed:

"Can't you think for yourself first?"

"My opinion is similar to Shang Jianyao's." Long Yuehong quickly indicated that he wasn't thinking nothing.

"I don't believe you." Jiang Baimian replied with a smile, "His thinking can't be followed by ordinary people."

Long Yuehong had no choice but to add:

"Go to the Flying Bird Bar and look for people who have had conflicts with that 'Old Tune Team.'"

"This is one line." Jiang Baimian affirmed first, then shook her head. "However, Chen Xufeng will follow up on this. He's a local, so it's more convenient for him than us. Hopefully, he'll gain something. Uh... the North Street line is too broad, making it difficult to investigate. Besides, we can't enter North Street now unless we take on that short-term mercenary task..."

After excluding them one by one, she laughed:

"There's only one line left that's relatively clear: the local Hunter's Guild high-ranking member whom Lei Yunsong and his team visited."

"But we don't know who it is." Long Yuehong frowned.

This still required Chen Xufeng to conduct further investigation.

Jiang Baimian's smile remained unchanged.

"We don't know, but we can analyze it.

"That 'Old Tune Team' came to Weed City to find old people who had experienced the Old World. Then, why did they suddenly visit a high-ranking member of the Hunter's Guild? Is he such an old man, or does his family have such an old man?

"Go to the Hunter's Guild tomorrow and find out which high-ranking members there are and compare their conditions one by one. If there aren't any that fit, ask Chen Xufeng to get the family information of these high-ranking members and confirm whether their elders are still alive.

"After narrowing down the target..."

At this point, Jiang Baimian smiled even more brightly and looked at Shang Jianyao:

"It's your turn to make 'friends,' or recognize a godfather, godmother, godgrandpa, or godgrandma."

Long Yuehong, who wasn't very clear about the various details of the "Life Ritual" related events, was stunned.

"Okay." Shang Jianyao's eyes lit up slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Bai Chen nodded almost imperceptibly and "muttered" to himself:

"It's the end of New Calendar 46. The previous chaotic era was about twenty years ago... Those under seventy haven't truly experienced the destruction of the Old World..."

Those under seventy, even if they had experienced the destruction of the Old World, wouldn't remember what they had encountered because they were too young at the time.

In the current living environment of the graylands, very few people can live to seventy.

"That's about it." Jiang Baimian clapped her hands lightly. "Take a close look at the photos and remember their appearances. What if you encounter them as soon as you go out tomorrow?"

"Would that be considered good luck or bad luck?" Shang Jianyao asked.

"That depends on the situation at the time." Jiang Baimian understood what Shang Jianyao meant and resisted the urge to look at Long Yuehong.

If it's considered good luck, then they probably won't meet. If it's considered bad luck, then they might encounter them directly.

Long Yuehong didn't want to get involved with Shang Jianyao's good luck or bad luck, so he lowered his head and looked at the photos:

Lei Yunsong looked twenty-seven or twenty-eight, with sword-like eyebrows and a good appearance, but his eyes were relatively small, giving people the feeling that they weren't fully open;

Lin Feifei looked a little older than Lei Yunsong, with long hair, an oval face, a gentle temperament, and a faint black mole in her eyebrows;

Lu Jiqi was in his early thirties, masculine and handsome, with thin lips and bronze skin;

Yun He seemed to have been ravaged by the vicissitudes of life, with a rather gaunt face, looking more like a surface dweller than a Pangu Biology employee, and a old scar on his chin;

Wei Yu had a baby face and looked quite likable, and according to the information, his height was 1.66 meters...

Looking at the photos, Long Yuehong suddenly said:

"They should all be married, with spouses and children..."

Jiang Baimian "Hmm"ed and said with a sigh:

"That's why we can't be reckless and can't alert the enemy..."