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Chapter 88 The End of the Song
The high roofs, the empty rooftops, and the female voices of lamenting melodiously.

Jiang Baiman listened quietly for a while, then looked around the dead and dark city around, and said with a sigh:
“This song is pretty good.”

Without waiting for Shang Jianyao to respond, Jiang Baiman continued:
“Go on. The lights are off. I don’t know what will happen again. We must always monitor Jeep and armored vehicles.

“If it is a negligence, if they are wiped out, then facing the danger will be more troublesome.”

She is not worried about whether there will be vehicles to rush tomorrow morning, because there seems to be a lot of cars that can be driven in the ruins of the city.

“Yes, the leader!” Long Yuehong replied like a conditioned reflex.

Jiang Baiman glanced at Shang Jianyao again:

“Turn off the speakers, otherwise it is easy to become a target.”

Shang Jianyao did not refute, he squatted down, picked up the small blue speaker with a black background, turned it off, and threw it into the tactical backpack.

The surrounding area suddenly became extremely quiet again, only the high wind was hunting.

When the four members of the “Old Tune Team” went to the top of the stairs, Bai Chen couldn’t help turning his head and glanced at the city scene that was constantly unfolding into the distance.

Those buildings were hidden in the darkness, no sound came out, and no rays of light appeared.

“Team leader, do you think this looks like a tombstone?” Bai Chen asked softly when he retracted his gaze.

Jiang Baiman looked back and was silent for a moment:
“Well, those buildings are like the tombstones of the old world, pieces of tombstones…”

Before she finished her voice, Shang Jianyao asked:
“What is a tombstone?”

There is no cemetery inside “Pangu Bio”, and each dead employee only has a line of text carved on the corresponding wall.

“It’s…” Jiang Baiman organized the language, “Forget it, I will explain to you later.”

She immediately walked into the stairs and turned on the flashlight.

This time, they can no longer take the elevator and can only trot down all the way.

Fortunately, their physical fitness is quite good, and three of them have been genetically modified. Therefore, when they returned to room 805, they were only panting a little, not very tired.

Jiang Baiman and Shang Jianyao separately checked the room again and confirmed that no dangerous creatures had broken into it.

“Bai Chen, take a break with Long Yuehong. I am in charge of monitoring Jeep and armored vehicles. Shang Jianyao pays attention to the streets outside.” Jiang Baiman took the flashlight and returned to the living room.

“en.” Bai Chen kept watching the team leader come to the restaurant window and set up the “Orange” rifle, before thinking about it, “The place where the explosion happened just now seems to be the mysterious laboratory Qiao Chu said.” /p>

Jiang Baiman didn’t look back, but watched downstairs intently:

“That direction, that location, the probability is.

“I don’t know if Qiao Chu’s mission is to destroy there, or because he was entangled by the mechanical monk Jing Fa. Due to various accidents, this big explosion…”

Shang Jianyao looked at the place where the flames and air currents were rising just now, and said seriously:
“I guess it’s the previous possibility.”

“A conclusion drawn from the situation of the Eighth Research Institute described by Du Heng?” Jiang Baiman asked subconsciously.

Shang Jianyao shook the head:
“I just counted how many cars there were on the side of the road.

“The result is odd.”

“…” Jiang Baiman sipped, “I shouldn’t have discussed issues with you so seriously.”

Long Yuehong hasn’t spoken since he left the rooftop. At this moment, he looked at the ruins of the city that was flooded with darkness outside, and said in a slightly erratic tone:

“Leader, I understand a little bit why you want to investigate the old world annihilation, why you like to dig out the past history from the ruins of the city…”

Jiang Baiman listened quietly, and said with a smile:

“Just understand.”

Long Yuehong wanted to say something more, but he didn’t know how to express it, so he could only continue to stare at the silent city with many dangers hidden, and then said:
“What will happen next?”

“Who knows?” Jiang Baiman still stared at the Jeep and the armored vehicle, “I just hope that all changes will not be affected. I only hope that Qiao Chu will be driven out of the ruins of the city by Jing Fa, or that the two sides fight each other. I’m all seriously injured. In short, let’s just keep it till dawn and drive away.”

“Team leader, it seems unlucky for you to say that.” Shang Jianyao replied casually.

Jiang Baiman was angry and helplessly said:
“We have all bad luck so many times, things will be reversed. It is time for extreme sorrow turns to joy.”

Hearing the words “bad luck”, Long Yuehong felt a guilty conscience and touched his mouth.

I don’t know if Jiang Baiman’s words are really valid. In the next few hours, in the entire city ruins, although there were occasional explosions, gunshots, and roars, they did not spread to the tunnel direction.

By the middle of the night, the place was completely silent.

Time passed by one minute and one second, the sky gradually lit up, and buildings broke free from the darkness, showing their own posture.

But in the eyes of Jiang Baiman, Shang Jianyao and the others, they are more and more like tombstones, or faded tombstones in dark or grayish white or earthy yellow.

“Let’s go.” After breakfast quickly, Jiang Baiman gave the order.

This time, she asked Bai Chen and Long Yuehong to sit in an armored vehicle and take turns driving, while she and Shang Jianyao are in charge of the jeep.

The morning light was shining, and they did not return along the original road of the tunnel because the road was too twisty and dangerous. Without Qiao Chu who was familiar with the situation, the vehicle would easily get stuck in the swamp.

Moreover, Jiang Baiman suspects that some sections of the road over there simply cannot bear the weight of armored vehicles.

According to An Ruxiang’s statement and the traces left by the hunters of the relics, they took a small half circle north and left the ruins of the city on a relatively better road.

On the way, they did not forget to collect some watches, LCD screens, sunglasses and various useful metals, and even found two barrels of suitable oil for the armored vehicles.

While driving, Jiang Baiman squinted his eyes and said to Shang Jianyao in the passenger position:

“There is a motorcade in front, dozens or hundreds of people.”

She tone barely fell and she has come to her senses.

“About a hundred people, this is the Wang Beicheng action team.”

It was a team sent by “Pangu Biology” to investigate the anomaly here.

Sure enough, they soon saw armored vehicles and other things, and they saw Captain Wang Beicheng of the 23rd brigade.

Wang Beicheng was also surprised at meeting Jiang Baiman and the others again. He straightened the gray black beret on top of his head, glanced at the armored car behind the Jeep that did not belong to the company, and said to Jiang Baiman:
“Didn’t you go to Qifeng Town?”
“Why are you here again and got an armored vehicle?”

More importantly, it seems to have entered the newly discovered urban ruins earlier than them.

“Haha, accident, accident.” Jiang Baiman laughed dryly.

She immediately became serious, and talked about how she and the others were charmed by Qiao Chu and entered the ruins of the city from the trail.

This includes “Urban Wisdom Network Control Center”, mysterious laboratory, “higher unintentional”, nightmare horse, Xiaochong, Du Heng, Galoran, the last big bang and other related information.

Here, Jiang Baiman only concealed the awakened knowledge provided by Du Heng and the place where Shang Jianyao’s ability played a role, and cleverly linked the reason for their escape from Qiao Chu’s charm with the “higher unintentional” and the boy Xiaochong. together.

From a certain perspective, this is actually the truth.

Wang Beicheng listened, his expression became serious, and finally he said sincerely:
“Thank you so much. If we hadn’t had this information, we would havetily entered, and I don’t know how many people will die!

“Moreover, the ‘higher unintentional’ and aberrant creatures there are definitely more than the ones you encounter. It’s still dangerous if we rely on our action team, even if we have a certain understanding in advance.

“I will immediately send back the information to request reinforcements.

“Next, we should only establish a stronghold on the edge of the city…”

Jiang Baiman waved his hand:
“What you are going to do has nothing to do with us.”

Wang Beicheng glanced at the armored car again, rubbed his hands, and hesitated to say with a smile:

“Can you support Brother Brother?”

For them, one more armored vehicle and one heavy machine gun will add considerable battle strength.

Jiang Baiman laughed:

“No problem.

“But we have a lot of things in the armored vehicles. Jeep alone will definitely not be able to take away. You have to help us transport them back to the company. I have a list.

“Also, the heavy machine gun of that armored vehicle is also our spoils of war, which should be considered as a contribution.”

For them, it is still convenient for them to hurry on the earth.

Wang Beicheng took a breath like a toothache:

“Good.”

Bid farewell to the Wang Beicheng brigade, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen returned to the jeep.

Jiang Baiman said while driving and looking thoughtful:

“Since I met Wang Beicheng and the others, it means that there should be no danger on this road, and I won’t run into Qiao Chu again.

“Shang Jianyao, you can remove the effect of your’inference clown’.”

Shang Jianyao is playing with a pair of black sunglasses, sometimes putting it on and sometimes taking it off.

Hearing the command of the team leader, he smiled and said:
“There are many couples who come to love freely in the company.”

Jiang Baiman froze for a moment, and the jeep’s speaker was patched:

“Yes, how can I think that the distribution is true love?”

Shang Jianyao immediately turned his head and said to Bai Chen:
“Humans can also be trusted and depended on.

“After the past few days, do you think we can protect your back?”

Bai Chen was startled, and his eyes flickered uncontrollably.

At this time, Jiang Baiman interrupted:
“Why are these words so familiar?

“You plagiarized what I said!”

“This is called quotation.” Shang Jianyao responded solemnly.

Bai Chen heard them arguing, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.

Shang Jianyao looks at Long Yuehong, who is a little bewildered, smiling and said:

“Biological organ transplantation, nerve reconstruction, artificial uterus.”

“…” Long Yuehong’s facial muscles twitched a few times and resisted the urge to beat Shang Jianyao severely.

Can’t beat it after all.

Before recalling, he realized that he had been unconsciously influenced by the “inference clown”, and he blurted out with a little fear:

“Do you usually mislead me with ‘inference clown’?”

Shang Jianyao didn’t turn his head back, and said directly:

“You are not worthy.”

“…” Long Yuehong didn’t know whether he should be lucky or sad.

Jiang Baiman finally couldn’t stand it, and said to Shang Jianyao:
“You sleep for a while, and then it’s your turn to drive.

“Huh, I finally got rid of the mess here.

“Next, there can be no more delays, and the goal is to Qifeng Town!”

Shang Jianyao hearing this, squeezed his temples, put on sunglasses, leaned against the back of the chair, and closed his eyes.

…………

In the depths of “Hall of Stars”, at the top of the silver ladder, in front of the gray stone gate.

Shang Jianyao glanced at the three grooves above, with one hand in the pocket, the other hand out, and pressing on the door.

Inside the groove, the white light rises up and converges into three illusory stars.

Among them, the white light representing the “inference clown” is much brighter than the other two groups.

In the next second, the white light showing the words “hypocritical person” quickly brightened, and it quickly became equivalent to “inference clown”.

After a short period of solidification, the heavy stone gate vibrated gently and slowly moved back.

As the gap in the door gets bigger and bigger, Shang Jianyao sees the scene clearly.

It was an illusory “ocean” that was beyond the horizon, with glimmers sliding gently on the water.

“The Sea of ​​Origins”.

…………

After Jiang Baiman drove the Jeep out of the depths of the swamp, he woke up Shang Jianyao:
“It’s your turn.

“Next, let us have a smooth journey!”

Shang Jianyao eyes opened, took off the sunglasses, and went around the driver’s seat neatly, swapping positions with the team leader.

When he sat down, he saw the endless gray and black wilderness in front of him, with few clouds in the sky and bright blue.

“The weather is really good.” Shang Jianyao nodded, first put on sunglasses, and then took out the small speaker from his tactical backpack.

See Jiang Baiman looking over, he moved his body, said with a smile:

“How can I drive without music?”

When Bai Chen and Long Yuehong looked over one after another, Shang Jianyao rang the speaker.

A cry of exhaustion followed:

“Get up, hungry and cold slave…

“Get up, the suffering people of the whole world…”

In the passionate and generous singing, Shang Jianyao waved his hand:
“Go!”

Before the words fell, he kicked the accelerator to make the Jeep gallop across the wilderness and drive into the distance.

(End of Part One)

Note 1: Quoted from “Internationale”, you can refer to the version of Tang Dynasty Band.

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