Chapter 15: Just a Word(1/2)
Looking at the shopping mall-style building where Yan Hu was imprisoned, the reckless Shang Jianyao said happily:
"This is exactly where you can find it without any effort!"
"But the fact is that we have never tried to find Yan Hu at all." The honest Shang Jianyao refuted his colleagues.
The reckless Shang Jianyao was justified:
"We've considered this!"
Without giving other merchants a chance to refute, he pointed to the mall and said:
"Let's go now."
"Are you crazy?" The vicious Shang Jianyao blurted out, "Do you know what's going on inside? Don't implicate us even if you want to die!"
The reckless Shang Jianyao made a statement:
"We have Xiao Chong's tiger skin now. Who dares to stop us and who doesn't give us some face?"
"How do you make sure that the one who detained Yan Hu was not a certain Zhisui?" The vicious Shang Jianyao first asked back, and then considered that he had become a minority, he made a suggestion in a good voice, "Even if you want to go in and find out about the situation of the building, you have to find a few friendly 'New World' powerhouses nearby to inquire about the situation of the building."
The reckless Shang Jianyao sneered:
"You are timid!
"It's safe to find other 'New World' powerhouses nearby? They might be the guardians of this building!"
While speaking, he took a big step and rushed to the place where Yan Hu was imprisoned.
"You brainless guy, I think you can do whatever you want with Xiao Chong's tiger skin?" The vicious Shang Jianyao could no longer control himself.
With his strength to resist, Shang Jianyao broke his left foot and completed the flat fall.
"coward!"
"Silly x!"
"Calm down, two."
...
Shang Jianyao and others began a fierce internal struggle, which was reflected outside that he was obviously alone, but sometimes he trotted, sometimes rubbed against the wall, sometimes he stood upside down, sometimes crawled, sometimes holding the street lamp pole, and was unwilling to move forward, just like there were many invisible enemies in front of him fighting with him.
Finally, the reckless Shang Jianyao, who had a strong momentum during this period, and his consenters won the final victory.
Shang Jianyao swaggered to the shopping mall-style building, walked in with his head held high and his chest held high.
With a bang, a lamp inside the building lit up with his arrival, sprinkling pure white light.
This is indeed a large shopping mall, with straight ladders, escalators, places where you can see the dome at a glance, and areas where you can stack layers.
Shang Jianyao casually glanced at the layout here and walked towards the escalator in front of him easily and naturally without too much observation.
The escalator had electricity, and he was slowly moving up.
…………
In a small city, in a building.
Jiang Baimian resisted the urge to raise his hand and rub his eyes.
As an awakened person in the field of "Broken Mirror", she confirmed that the "intentional people" just now were not her own hallucinations, and that it was true that they disappeared before her.
Concentrating on his mind, Jiang Baimian continued to observe and try to confirm.
In this process, she was also "examining" the activities of those "unintentional people", trying to distinguish which ordinary people and which have the ability of awakened people.
What puzzled her was that the "unintentional" people currently appearing were doing specific things, and there was no so-called "supervisor", which made her unable to see who has a higher status.
After a long period of observation, Jiang Baimian analyzed the work of those "unintentional people" and divided this into two major categories:
One is to maintain the integrity and normality of the power supply lines, and the other is to ensure the living of the current ethnic group and improve the surrounding environment.
Thinking of this, Jiang Baimian's heart moved:
"The latter type is the need for these 'intentional people' survival, and is a follow-up product of the core work...
“That is, someone implanted the corresponding thinking on them to ensure the normal operation of the power system…
“Does this mean that there are some important items hidden in this area where the tower is located that require electricity to maintain?”
The reason Jiang Baimian used items rather than machines was because she remembered that the reason why the ruins of Swamp No. 1 had been supplied with electricity for decades was that Xiao Chong wanted to play games.
Although game consoles are also machines, there is still a certain difference between them and the machines that Jiang Baimian subconsciously think of.
As his thoughts turned, Jiang Baimian saw several "unintentional people" coming.
She immediately held her breath and focused.
Like before, those "unintentional" disappeared without a trace as soon as they crossed an invisible boundary on the way to the area around the tower.
…………
"New World", in the mall where Yan Hu was imprisoned.
Shang Jian Yao walked in the darkness and watched the lights light up one after another and went out step by step.
According to his previous speculation and calculations with Jiang Baimian, he knew that Yan Hu was on the fourth floor, where there was only a light that was so weak that it was about to go out.
Not long after, Shang Jianyao arrived at his destination and saw a gray-white roller shutter door sealing the entrance.
"Nothing happened." The reckless Shang Jianyao glanced around and smiled proudly, "I'll just say, who dares to stand in front of Xiao Chong's friend?"
Others choose to remain silent.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Shang Jianyao slapped the roller shutter door vigorously.
"Is there anyone? Is there anyone?" he shouted loudly as he slapped.
After shouting many times, he shook his head in disappointment:
"Is Yan Hu deprived of his senses? He didn't even respond..."
When he was just shooting the door, he noticed that the situation here is indeed very similar to his previous experience:
The doors seemed to be welded to the wall, and the walls were indestructible!
In other words, he cannot break in violently.
The vicious Shang Jianyao responded coldly to his colleagues:
"You're so noisy that you've suppressed a lot of noises."
"Yes!" Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and said with his left palm.
He calmed down and pressed his ear against the roller shutter door.
In the silence, Shang Jianyao heard a tiny and weak voice:
"Save me..."
"It's really you, Yan Hu!" Shang Jianyao responded with great excitement, which was very meaningful to meet an old friend in a foreign land.
"Save me..." Yan Hu's call for help was as quiet as a mosquito.
Shang Jianyao rubbed his chin and said with a smile:
“I can’t open this door now.
"If you want to save you, you may have to fully understand the causes and consequences of the matter and find out where the problem lies."
The rolling shutter door seemed to have some kind of shielding effect. Logically speaking, Yan Hu was weak and hungry, approaching coma, and would instinctively try to extract the human consciousness around him, but Shang Jianyao had no feeling at all.
After Shang Jianyao repeated the words several times, Yan Hu finally responded:
"Who are you...know me?"
"I've seen your body on the island of the heart of the lake." The honest Shang Jianyao never lie, "I have to know what happened to you to find a way to save you."
For Yan Hu, under the current circumstances, even if a dead horse has to be treated as a living horse, not to mention that the other party has expressed his attitude and is willing to help him.
Even if this is a trap, he will jump in without hesitation.
So, he forced himself to cheer up and said intermittently:
"I entered here, and not long after, I suddenly became stupid and couldn't think about anything.
"Then, there was a voice that asked me to come here, and I came over in a daze and was locked up in this room.
“At the beginning, I was too eager to draw a large amount of my believers to feed on their consciousness and supplement their own consumption, which led to them either dying or becoming, ‘unintentional’, and unable to provide me with food.
"Later, whenever I was about to starve to death, someone would provide me with some food, so that I could not die or live, and always remain in this state of weakness."
"Who is providing you with food?" Shang Jianyao asked.
"I haven't seen it before, I don't know who it is." Yan Hu replied angrily.
Shang Jianyao changed his perspective:
"Who made you stupid?"
"I don't know." Yan Hu's tone was filled with hatred that could not be concealed.
To be continued...