Chapter 268 - : ‘Construction Work’ (2/2)
“Am I that stupid?” Long Yuehong protested.
Shang Jianyao glanced at him. “Sigh, I did genetic enhancement…”
“Stop!” Long Yuehong stopped him in time.
Jiang Baimian also chimed in. “As long as he isn’t affected by an illusion, Little Red is very reliable now.”
This was also the reason why they first set up the full-body mirrors and then planted land mines and dug traps. Otherwise, they might very well ‘remember’ the spots wrongly and step on them.
After some work, the Old Task Force completed the construction. They also erected a wooden sign with light bulbs beside the two full-body mirrors facing the mountainous area.
On the wooden sign were the words: “This road is blocked. Please take the northeast gate.”
The person in charge of the northeast gate was from the Clam Dragon Church. Zhou Yue personally guarded it.
“Phew, it’s done!” Jiang Baimian wasn’t only a commander. She also participated in the labor, but her focus was on monitoring the nearby electric signals of large creatures.
Without waiting for Shang Jianyao to speak, she turned to the jeep and said, “We’ll stay behind the jeep later. No matter what happens, try your best not to care. Didn’t Abbess Zhou say that the more one does, the more mistakes one makes, and true for the converse?”
Long Yuehong heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that. He felt like he had a sturdy fortress despite the enemy’s strength.
After everyone entered their designated spots, the four of them chatted from time to time.
There would be some strange questions and answers mixed in.
“When was the last time you peed the bed?”
“Five years old…”
This wasn’t because Shang Jianyao was deliberately making things difficult for Long Yuehong, but because he was regularly conducting identity checks.
With her previous experience and the corresponding intelligence, Jiang Baimian believed that the illusion created by the Superior Heartless came from him and not their own memories and emotions.
Therefore, if one’s companion became a fake one, they definitely wouldn’t be able to answer a relatively private question. Even if the questioner was distorted by the illusion and heard the information, they wouldn’t receive the right answer.
This could be used to prevent any malicious intent from approaching.
For this, Shang Jianyao prepared a hundred questions for Long Yuehong.
…
The sun gradually moved west, and the colors of the sky gradually turned warm.
Just as Jiang Baimian was about to make arrangements for the evening, a car drove out of the mountains and arrived at the intersection.
This was a dark-blue car with steel plates. The undercarriage was elevated, and the tires were large.
Shang Jianyao picked up the loudspeaker and whistled. “Handsome!”
This shout confused the people in the car as if they doubted this fellow’s sexual orientation.
After a few seconds, the door opened, and four people alighted.
One was a man whose right side had a small half of his skull shimmering with silver-white metallic light, and his forehead was embedded with irregular shrapnel. The other was a woman with a gentle and intellectual bearing. Her black hair was long and straight.
The second man wore a black priest robe from the Old World. He was almost Shang Jianyao’s height, and he had a gentle smile on his face. The last wore an earthen-yellow military uniform and a matching beret. His facial features were all standard Ashlandic, but his facial contours appeared relatively stiff.
They were the Ruin Hunter team that Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian, and the others had encountered at Mount Chilar’s water source.
“We can’t go through here?” asked the man—who had half of his skull metallic.
Jiang Baimian picked up another speaker. “Stand in front of the full-body mirror.”
Afraid that the other party wouldn’t accept it, she added, “This is to determine your authenticity and verify your identity. You should know what the Superior Heartless is best at.”
The four Ruin Hunters conversed with each other and nodded. They walked to the full-body mirror one after another and had their figures reflected for a few seconds.
The gentle and intellectual woman and the man in the black priest robe took the opportunity to straighten their hair.
“How should I address you?” Shang Jianyao asked through the loudspeaker.
“Bai Xiao,” replied a man with a mole under his left eye loudly as half of his skull shimmered with a metallic glow.
“Lin Tong.” This was the woman’s name. “A person who studies biology.”
Coincidentally, our company is called Pangu Biology… As Jiang Baimian muttered, the man wearing the black priest robe and a gentle smile also replied, “Lei.”
“Zhang Shaopeng,” said the man in military uniform.
Upon seeing that they had all looked into the mirror, Shang Jianyao raised a question before Jiang Baimian could. “What did we talk about at the last water source in the Mount Chilar area?”
The four of them looked at each other, and Bai Xiao replied, “We talked about the city ruins around Tarnan.”
Long Yuehong’s eyes suddenly froze.
Back then, they had never chatted with this Ruin Hunter team. They had only been warned that there was a Superior Heartless in the southwest mountains!