Embers Ad Infinitum - Chapter 375
    Posen opened a crumpled paper bag and found a small piece of oat bread and dusty thumb bacon inside.
    With joy in his heart, he raised his head and glanced at Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao. Seeing that they didn’t pay attention to themselves, he wiped the bacon and stuffed it into his mouth.
    Then, ignoring the complex and unpleasant smell around him, he bit on the small piece of oat bread.
    Perhaps because he was afraid that the food would be snatched away, he gobbled it up, and soon choked himself.
    However, he was an experienced scavenger, skillfully took down the tin-white water bottle he had picked up before, and took a few sips.
    At this moment, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao are looking for possible clues from the piles of garbage.
    Those garbage packed in bags and sorted into categories are relatively pleasing to the eye, allowing them to inspect efficiently, while the various types of garbage are mixed directly into the bucket, and the wet and sticky environment of fermentation is stacked, some of which are already Rotting, the taste is very touching.
    Hearing the sound of Posen drinking water, Jiang Baimian wearing a gas mask turned around and looked at the scavenger.
    He was in his forties, his eyes were blue, his face was full of wind and frost, and the pale yellow beard around his mouth was messy and messy, stained with a lot of debris and drops of water.
    After completely swallowing the food that was choking him, the scavenger raised his left hand and wiped his beard.
    Jiang Baimian noticed that his hand was shaking slightly and unconsciously.
    After thinking about it, Jiang     Baimian took off the rubber glove of one hand and took out a picture from his pocket:
    “Do you know this kind of cigarette?” It
was a picture of the banner cigarette taken by Genawa.
    Posen screwed the lid of the kettle and pointed at himself with his left finger:
    “Are you asking me?”
    “Yes.” Jiang Baimian replied in the affirmative.
    She was about to say that she could pay a little bit of remuneration. Posen had already looked at the photo carefully and said:
    “This is a flag cigarette. Its filter is short and useless. It has almost no taste.”
    Compared with other cigarettes in the city at the beginning, the flag cigarette has a very short taste and is close to soil smoke. Filters that have little effect are famous.
    “Have you smoked?” Shang Jianyao asked curiously.
    Perhaps the two of them didn’t snatch the food they found. They belonged to the type that can get along with each other in peace. Posen was no longer as alert as before, and said with a smile:
    “I can occasionally find some cigarette butts in the garbage room, all brands have As long as they are not wet, I will pick them up, look for a fire to light them, take a
    few sips, and feel the taste. “If I can find some food that day to fill my stomach, it will be even better. “
    Posen has found that the two people in front of him have different goals and they don’t seem to be in competition.
    Hearing picking up cigarette butts and smoking, Jiang Baimian’s eyes brightened, and he asked patiently:
    “You know all kinds of cigarette brands.” ? “
    I have smoked some before, and there are often discarded old newspapers in the trash room with advertisements for all kinds of cigarettes.” “Posen said proudly, “I know words!” “
    Jiang Baimian asked immediately:
    “Then where did you find the flag cigarette butt?” “
    Pawson recalled:
    “That time I went to the Green Olive District to sell all kinds of things I picked up. I picked them up on the road when passing by the port. I was looking forward to it. The result…”
    As a result, the customers of Banner Cigarettes I would smoke a few cigarette butts before discarding it. Coupled with the short filter tip design that has no filtering effect and cannot block certain ingredients, the residual smell is almost zero.
    Jiang Baimian was a little disappointed suddenly, and asked like a confirmation:
    “You Didn’t find this kind of cigarette butts in these blocks? “No.
    ” Posen shook his head affirmatively.
    Jiang Baimian then thought:
    “Then which buildings have you been to in the past week?”
    She planned to use the method of elimination.
    Posen thought about it carefully:
    “Guide Building, Hearst Apartment…”
    he said, and pointed with his right finger.
    Jiang Baimian found that his right hand also had some problems, which was not so handy.
    After writing down the name of the building of the Posen Newspaper, Jiang Baimian stood up, walked out of the garbage room, and took out the walkie-talkie in a quiet place nearby.
    “Guide Building, Hearst Apartment… put it in second place, and prioritize other buildings on the list.” She gave orders to Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Genava.
    After getting a positive reply, she put away the walkie-talkie and went back to the garbage room just now.
    At this time, Shang Jian Yao and Posen had a very happy conversation.
    “Are you looking for something? Don’t worry, there are still several hours before the garbage truck will come.” Posen comforted his new friend.
    “Yeah.” Jiang Baimian nodded, then squatted down again, putting on the rubber glove.
    Posen rummaged through all kinds of rubbish, looking for food and valuable items, and he laughed and said:
    ” Some interesting things are often found here.
    “In the previous winter, I found a bag in an opaque bag What are your clothes, guess what? “
    Shang Jianyao replied cooperatively:
    “Coat, quilted jacket?” “
    ” No, no. Posen shook his head.
    He smiled and said:
    “There is a pair of dark blue socks, a pair of black leather boots, a pair of silk underwear, a pair of black trousers, a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black formal suit. They are the kind that nobles like to wear the most, and They are all very new and there are no traces of stitches.”
    “This sounds a bit weird.” Jiang Baimian’s thoughts turned, and he probably understood what was going on.
    A certain nobleman learns the style of Redstone Ji’s forensic dandy Weller and comforts other people’s wives. As a result, others go home early and block him in the house.
    He didn’t care about putting on his clothes, climbed out of the window, and fled hurriedly in the state of “the emperor’s new clothes”.
    Afterwards, he either met the entourage guarding nearby, or found the sheriff in the name of being robbed, or followed other people’s clothes to dry.
    The wife was afraid that the clothes and shoes left by him would be discovered by her husband, so she hurriedly put them in the bag, took them down in the name of taking out the garbage, and threw them into the garbage room.
    Posen was about to respond when he found an apple that was mostly rotten.
    His eyes lit up and he put it in the linen pocket he had brought.
    After doing this, Posen smiled and said:
    “Yes, I can imagine a love story.
    “Unfortunately, I dare not sell that suit in the Golden Apple District and the Red Wolf District. I can only give it away. To the Green Olive District, but also changed a full 5 Ore.
    “That month was really wonderful…”
    Shang Jian Yao listened with relish and expressed his opinion:
    “That suit is worth at least 50 Ore.”
    “50? At least 200!” Posen retorted.
    Jiang Baimian glanced at him, nodded slightly and said:
    “You seem to have some education?”
    “I am a citizen.” Posen emphasized, “I once joined the army.”
    “Then how did you become a scavenger?” Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
    Posen was silent for a moment and said:
    . “I used to be our camp the most accurate marksmanship, stand a lot of credit, and later in a war where the right arm was injured, the action is not so flexible, they left the army
    ,” I A lot of farmland was allocated at that time, and I lived a good life in the southern suburbs for several years. Until that year, the weather changed drastically and the grain output dropped sharply. The Senate refused to help us…
    “Afterwards, I could not bear the debt. You can only sell the field to an aristocratic master and enter the city by yourself…”
    Jiang Baimian deliberately asked:
    “Then why don’t you go to be a relic hunter and go to the wasteland on the north bank to seek a living?
    ” “At your age, the fuel tank should be paid It’s a bit oily. “
    Posen revealed the bitter smile:
    ” found that high interest debt can not afford to day, my left hand began to tremble from time to time a few.
    “I can’t use a gun with both hands…”
    After a brief silence in the garbage room, Shang Jianyao asked seriously:
    “Then you hate the Senate for not helping you?
    ” “Hate those nobles who took the opportunity to provide usury and merge Is your land? “
    Posen expression changes a few times, slightly lower his head, looking at the ground and said:
    ” hate, how could I not hate?
    “Hum, Jasper, Paris… died one after another, only to exchange those lands, but in the end it was in the hands of the nobles who took no risks in the war.”
    Suddenly, he lifted his head, slightly showing He growled bitterly:
    “We citizens, one after another died, and we have the current’prime city’, but they just want to deprive us of our land and send us to those factories!
    “Slaves in those factories. ” , Most of them will not survive for three years! “
    After listening quietly, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao looked at each other.
    For the first time, she felt so truly the internal contradictions of the “First City”.
    …………
    Alpha Building, in the attached garbage room.
    Bai Chen and Long Yuehong also wore gas masks, and Gnawa searched for all kinds of trash.
    There are a large number of companies, chambers of commerce, and apartments for employees. They were originally not on their checklist today, but the situation reported by Jiang Baimian made them abandon the Gade Building and Hearst Apartments.
    “It’s really a test of patience.” Long Yuehong almost used a needle in a haystack as a metaphor.
    Bai Chen glanced sideways at him and said,
    “It’s such a place where it’s almost impossible to find clues. Only the real’priest’ can be careless.
    ” “Hurry up . You have to find this place before the garbage truck arrives. “While
    she was talking, she didn’t stop at all.
    As unofficial personnel, they must avoid crowded trash when they are looking for trash, so as not to start off the grass. At the same time, they must rush to the garbage truck to remove the trash. Otherwise, who knows where the rubbish comes from when the trash is mixed together.
    “Okay. “Long Yuehong endured a little nausea, and continued to work.
    In this respect, Genawah did not have any discomfort at all. As
    time passed quickly, Long Yuehong picked up a thin plastic bag and dumped the garbage in it. On the ground.
    His gaze swept away, and his eyes suddenly solidified.
    There were several short filter cigarette butts in the pile of garbage.
    This is the cigarette butt of the banner cigarette!
    Long Yuehong subconsciously raised his head, looked out of the garbage room, and looked at the foot of the building. The Alpha Building is 27 stories high.
    PS: At the beginning of the month, I ask for a monthly pass~ I should not have the energy to write a monthly summary in the past few months. Everyone is considerate, laugh