Embers Ad Infinitum

be sold as junk.
After all, the products of the Old World’s technological advancement contained precious metals, including alloys that few factions could replicate.

As he spoke, Davis jolted.
“We also took away a phone on the corpse—the corpse that had the necklace in front of it.”

“Do you still have the phone?” Jiang Baimian tried her best not to show the delight in her eyes.

Davis nodded.
“We plan on selling it in First City.”

“Can you sell it to us?” Jiang Baimian smiled.

She didn’t choose to intimidate, deceive, or fool them.
After all, she had to pay attention to her image in front of so many people.

Upon seeing Davis hesitate, Shang Jianyao said sincerely, “You should’ve realized that we have experience dealing with such matters.
Frankly speaking, the danger level of such matters far exceeds your imagination.
It’s not something you can grasp.
Forcefully participating will only result in a wipeout.”

Davis was just about to say, “alright, no problem.
I’ll sell it to you” when Shang Jianyao continued, “Do you want to know what the final outcome will be if the necklace wasn’t thrown away?”

“What will happen?” Davis instinctively asked.

All the Ruin Hunters around looked at Shang Jianyao.

Jiang Baimian’s first reaction was to facepalm—no, to slap that fellow.
But after careful thought, she felt that it was a good thing to tell everyone the possible outcome.

As the Old Task Force—which was responsible for saving all of humanity—it was their duty to remind everyone not to randomly touch items related to the New World.

Every tragedy they reduced counted!

Shang Jianyao solemnly replied to Davis’s question.
“In the beginning, the abnormalities brought about by the necklace will only last for a short while before everything returns to normal.
But after such events repeat a few times, the danger will reach a critical point.
When the time comes, most of the people present will be infected with the Heartless disease.
Only a few will survive, just like when the Old World was first destroyed!”

Upon hearing ‘Heartless disease’—words that had traumatized all of humanity for decades—all the Ruin Hunters present gasped.
They were extremely glad that they had encountered a team that could deal with such matters.
Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Davis was terrified.
He quickly picked up the cowboy backpack beside him and took out a phone.
He then anxiously threw the phone to Shang Jianyao as if he were holding the Heartless virus or a hot potato.

“Take it—it’s free!” He tried his best to appear magnanimous.

The champagne-golden phone didn’t have any signs of damage, but it looked old.
Shang Jianyao played with it and smiled.
“Don’t worry.
It’s fine.”

With the Six Senses Beads still hanging from his feet, he could confirm the existence of the ‘darkness.’

Jiang Baimian took out a few 1-Oray notes and handed them to Davis.
She then smiled and said, “No, we advocate fair transactions.
We always pay on the delivery of goods.”

Upon seeing that Davis wanted to be polite, she added, “If you don’t accept it, I’ll return the phone to you.”

Startled, Davis quickly took the notes.

After asking for a while and finding no clues, Jiang Baimian returned to her jeep with Shang Jianyao and Genava.

As the Six Senses Beads only prevented his legs from walking and didn’t stop him from running upside down, Shang Jianyao tried to use his hands in place of his feet again, but he was glared at by Jiang Baimian.
He hastily put away the item.

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong had also listened in on their teammates’ conversation with Davis and roughly understood what had happened.
At this moment, the former looked around and suppressed his voice.
“Are we going to get Old Ge to restore the data in the phone?”

Jiang Baimian pondered for a moment and replied, “We’ll try again in the wilderness when we leave this gathering point after dawn.”

“Alright.” Genava believed that this was the most reasonable and safest choice after analysis.

Meanwhile, Shang Jianyao stroked his chin and muttered to himself, “From the looks of it, the ‘chaos’ on the cruise ship might really be related to a New World node.
I plan on transferring the aura in the Six Senses Beads or the Life Angel necklace to the Mind Corridor and taking one of them to the cruise ship to find the New World node’s exact location.”

Having comprehended by analogy, he had new ideas on how to deal with the cruise ship’s trauma.

He was no longer aiming to clear the psychological trauma.
Instead, he wanted to unveil the veil of chaos and find the truth!

Jiang Baimian nodded.
“There’s no problem with that train of thought, but I’ll still say the same thing: We’ll try again in the wilderness when we leave this gathering point after dawn and go somewhere deserted.
Besides, you’ve exhausted a lot of your mental energy.
You need sleep to recover.”

Shang Jianyao revealed a look of anticipation.
“When will dawn come…”

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