Chapter twenty
It was not until Jiang Baimian and others completely left their sight that Bai Chen put away the "orange" rifle and left the edge of the rooftop.
The next second, she and Long Yuehong turned their heads at the same time and looked at the South Street slave market on the other side.
In the noise coming from the west, Bai Chen withdrew his gaze and said to Long Yuehong:
"Let's go."
Long Yuehong nodded slightly heavyly, followed Bai Chen and returned to the street as usual.
Just as they were about to leave the area where the street lights were broken, they suddenly saw a figure bent over the dark street, in front of a shop, sneaky, not knowing what they were doing.
The man seemed to have noticed the appearance of Bai Chen and Long Yuehong, and quickly turned around and looked over.
The next second, "he" ran away wildly and quickly turned into an alley next to him.
"Thief?" Long Yuehong guessed in confusion.
Bai Chen did not answer him, walked to the position where the figure was just now, bent down and picked up a stack of paper.
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On East Street, inside a warehouse, the light outside shines through the glass window, making some things barely show their own outlines.
"What do you call it?" Shang Jianyao smiled and asked the intelligence officer standing at the junction of light and darkness.
"Chen Xufeng." The intelligence officer replied frankly.
Anyway, what he gave was not his pseudonym in Wild Grass City, so there is no need to worry about being exposed.
"Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao." Jiang Baimian also briefly introduced himself.
Shang Jianyao frowned slightly:
"This name sounds familiar."
Without waiting for Chen Xufeng to respond, he took the initiative to ask:
"Do you know Chen Xianyu?"
"Ah? My dad!" Chen Xufeng was quite shocked.
This really happened to meet an acquaintance!
Shang Jianyao immediately smiled and said:
“Floor 495?”
"Yes, yes, yes. I am the youngest one in the Chen family." Chen Xufeng asked back with a funny look, "Do you live on the 495th floor?"
Shang Jianyao's focus is:
"I should have pinched your daughter's face."
"What?" Chen Xufeng was a little confused when he heard it.
"It's chubby." Shang Jianyao expressed his feelings, "About two years ago, Grandpa Chen often took her to the 'activity center' to play. Later, she went to elementary school and never saw her much."
"Two years ago? Ah, at that time, I was just sent here, and my wife had to go to work normally. I guess she could only take turns to take care of the older generation. You also know that the company's kindergarten was too early!" Chen Xufeng roughly clarified the cause and effect.
Then, he said "hately":
"How could you pinch her face? At that time, she was a five-year-old child."
"Grandpa Chen is also busy. If we are here, he will play games with her. Whoever loses will be pinched in the face or slapped in the palm of his hand." Shang Jianyao explained seriously.
"That's it..." Chen Xufeng smiled and said, "We are ten years away from each other, right? Maybe I have bullied you when I was a child, and I will report you back to you."
The two chatted happily, and felt more and more that they were trustworthy and had to trust each other.
Although Jiang Baimian could understand Chen Xufeng's two years away from home and could not wait to understand his parents' health, his wife's condition and his daughter's growth, he also knew that the matter was important now, so he interrupted the "friend" who met an old friend in a foreign land:
"Brother Chen, have you figured out the reason for the disappearance of the group before?"
"Hey, how can you call me brother? You are all the team leader of the same group, so you have to be at level D6, right? I'm still far from it." Chen Xufeng was a little flattered.
Jiang Baimian didn't refute and asked in a favorable manner:
"What level are you now?"
"d5, the intelligence network here, haha, there are not many people." Chen Xufeng sighed with a smile, "When the period of time is over and after the transfer is completed, he should be able to upgrade to another level."
"Pangu Biology" is quite generous to external employees.
"That's not much d6," Jiang Baimian said with a smile, "Let's talk about the main business first."
"Yes." Chen Xufeng took out a stack of information and said in a memory tone, "Before the company notified me, I didn't know that such a group came to Yecai City. You should also know that we are two parallel lines, and no one has to worry about each other."
"Yes, if we didn't come with a mission, we would like to ask you for help, we would have to send a telegram to the company first and ask the people above to give orders." Jiang Baimian nodded and agreed, "I remember the last telegram sent by that group to the company said that they had arrived in Wild Grass City, hoping to find some old people who have experienced the destruction of the old world."
She suspected that the "old tuner group" was an accident that happened after contacting an old man.
Chen Xufeng nodded gently:
"When I received the company's telegram, they were missing for more than two weeks, and many clues have been cut off and they cannot be investigated at all."
"However, there is still some gain." He changed his mind, "They are a five-person group, three men and two women. With a try-making attitude, I asked someone to ask the hotels and hotels in the city to see if there were any similar combinations to check in during that time. As a result, I really asked!"
"Can't the ruin hunter be three men and two women?" Shang Jianyao asked back.
Chen Xufeng laughed:
“There must be similar teams, and we have received more than one feedback.
"But after careful comparison and exclusion, I was sure that the group stayed at the Miri Hotel, a very good family in Wild Grass City. Their check-in time was exactly the same as the time when the company received the last telegram."
Speaking of this, Chen Xufeng added:
"The reason why the people at Miri Hotel are impressed is that the group of women are beautiful and handsome, and they are not very similar to most ruin hunters.
"Don't say, after the popularization of genetic improvement, when the young people in our company came out, it was a beautiful scenery!"
"You have also done genetic improvement, have you?" Shang Jianyao asked suddenly.
Chen Xufeng was stunned for a moment and sighed long:
"Hey, I don't know what's going on. Maybe it's because my parents were older at that time, or maybe it's because of personal physical fitness. My genetic improvement effect was not very good. The only advantage is that it's very ordinary. It's not easy for others to remember their faces after seeing them. Well, there are some talents in disguise and tracking."
"It is at least 1 meter 75 higher." Shang Jianyao comforted sincerely.
Chen Xufeng is about the same height as Jiang Baimian.
What a good friend of Long Yuehong... Jiang Baimian rolled his eyes quietly when he saw no one paying attention to him.
She interrupted Shang Jianyao and Chen Xufeng's chat again and said actively:
"That group chose to stay in a place like Miri Hotel, which means that when they entered the Wild Grass City, they did not feel any danger, nor did they think there were any hidden enemies."
Very reassuring and very open and upright.
"I think so too." Chen Xufeng returned to the topic, "According to this inference, their subsequent actions in Wild Grass City should be relatively open, and they have the opportunity to track down."
He took the stack of information and continued:
"I looked for the insiders of the Hunter Guild and checked whether there were similar five-person teams that took over the task during that period.
“The feedback is not.”
——Since that the "old commissioning team" did not cover up its whereabouts, they would definitely not deliberately divide into two or three teams when they took on the mission of the Hunter Guild.
Before Jiang Baimian could ask questions, Chen Xufeng took the initiative to say:
"But they found out that they registered hunter identities are already 'official hunters'.
"Haha, guess how did you find it?"
"I'm using my real name." Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation.
"..." Chen Xufeng was stunned for a moment, "Yes! They are quite abide by the rules."
"This shows that their actions have not caused any danger, or that they have eliminated all the dangers, which makes them feel very safe." Jiang Baimian gave his own opinion.
This has greatly increased the possibility of the group's sudden accident in Wild Grass City.
Chen Xufeng did not make any comments and instead said:
“I spent some money and got photos of them when they registered for the hunter and all the tasks they had done.
"You can take a good look when you go back."
While speaking, he handed the stack of information in his hand to Jiang Baimian.
"Okay." Jiang Baimian reached out and took it.
Chen Xufeng thought about it and said:
“There are several clues I have found:
"One is that they have been to the Asuki Bar and have had conflicts with several guests inside, but they have not made a big fuss. This is what they did the next night when they arrived in Wild Grass City.
"The second is that they have visited a senior executive of the local Hunter Guild. I asked about this matter yesterday, and who is still to be investigated.
"Third, they seemed to have entered North Street. A servant who often came out to buy from the City Lord's Mansion had seen similar combinations.
"Four……"
Speaking of the "Fourth", Chen Xufeng's expression became quite solemn:
“According to the waiter at Miri Hotel, they checked in their own room.
“Two days before the company asked me to investigate.”
"In other words, they were active in Wild Grass City in the past two weeks, but they had not replied to the company's telegram? The real time of disappearance was not as long as we imagined?" Jiang Baimian asked back, thinking.
The "old commissioning team" is different from them. It has its own radio station. According to the rules, it has to contact the company almost once a week. Moreover, in the last few days of the second week, the company took the initiative to send a telegram to inquire about the situation.
"So it's very strange." Chen Xufeng gave an affirmative answer.
Then, he frowned:
"Since recent times, someone told me that I have seen people suspected of Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei in the city. Look, they are the two photos at the top of the photos."
Under the current lighting conditions, Jiang Baimian couldn't see the photos clearly, so he didn't look at them, and started to "talk" thoughtfully:
"I don't know if it's a stranger who looks more like, or someone pretending to be them, or if they can still move freely?"
"It's not certain." Chen Xufeng did not make a blind judgment.
"Is there any other clue?" Jiang Baimian breathed slowly.
"Not yet." Chen Xufeng shook his head.
Jiang Baimian said "yes" and asked instead:
"What's going on when the library was burned at noon?"
Chen Xufeng said in a mocking tone:
"In the past two months, there have been more people in the city who don't want to help you.
"It is the madman who preached that the old world was destroyed because of his pursuit of knowledge and committed taboos. They wanted to force everyone to stop reading books left over from the old world."
After chatting about the main work and making an appointment for communication afterwards, Shang Jianyao told Chen Xufeng about the current situation of the Chen family. Then, the two waved farewell reluctantly.
Jiang Baimian took Shang Jianyao and walked around a quarter of the Wild Grass City, and finally turned back to the alley where the "Afu Gun Shop" was located.
After returning to the rented room, they found Bai Chen and Long Yuehong looking at a stack of papers.
"What is this?" Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
"Flyer." Bai Chen handed the paper in his hand to the team leader.
Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao looked at the paper at the same time and read the content above:
"Thinking is a trap, knowledge is a poison...
"Don't touch books anymore...
"We cannot re-destroy the old world and re-responsible..."
The word "re-return" also draws a circle and leads a line outward to indicate revision.
And the revised words are:
"Heavy Rice"
Chapter completed!