"Why did Montis write a 'price' at the end, and it's still a question mark?" Long Yuehong looked at the book Bai Chen showed him and others, and said incomprehensibly.
Bai Chen didn't answer his question, but just pointed out a fact:
"When writing the word 'price', Montes was obviously very emotional, and the pen was very heavy, the ink stains were slightly exposed, and there were traces on the other side of the paper."
"Price..." Jiang Baimian whispered the word, constantly making various assumptions in his mind and denying them.
Shang Jianyao made a mocking voice:
"What's so exciting about 'Price' that it needs to be written so hard
"I really don't know!"
Hearing this guy's words, Jiang Baimian's heart moved, and he looked around and said:
"Could it be that Montis had no idea at the time that there was a price to pay for the ability
"So much so that after he found that his emotions became more and more difficult to control, combined with the knowledge of mysticism, he suspected that he had paid the price unknowingly..."
The esoteric book where Bai Chen found the word "price" was about the devil.
Several of its chapters refer to mortals selling their souls in exchange for power, money, bodies, or beauty from the devil.
"But didn't you say that the voice of 'one price, three gifts' reverberates in the Hall of Stars? As an awakener, it is impossible for Montis not to hear or not know..." Long Yuehong expressed her own opinion Opinion.
He originally wanted to use businessman as an example to enhance his persuasion. After all, this guy's brain is already abnormal and he knows the price, but after thinking about it, he decided not to get burned.
As soon as Long Yuehong finished speaking, Jiang Baimian said with a more serious expression:
"What if that was the case? Did Montes really not know the price of awakening
"Didn't his awakening pass through the 'Hall of the Stars'
"Or, at that time, the Hall of Stars didn't exist yet?"
While Bai Chen and Long Yuehong were startled, Shang Jianyao slammed his right fist and left palm:
"I understand!"
"What do you understand?" Jiang Baimian asked suspiciously.
Shang Jianyao said solemnly:
"The destruction of the old world is because the promotion of the Awakened is chaotic and disorderly, like Brownian motion, which leads to a continuous increase in entropy, and finally reaches a critical point, and the symbol of chaos 'innocence' broke out.
"After the destruction of the old world, the seniors built the 'Hall of Stars', 'Sea of Origins', 'Spiritual Corridor' and 'New World', brought the awakening into management and gave it order."
This brain hole is quite good... What entertainment materials have you watched recently! Jiang Baimian glanced at Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, whose eyes were blank, and cleared his throat:
"The reason behind this phenomenon is not necessary to discuss for the time being, what we need to confirm now is:
"Montis didn't know that there was a price, because he didn't have the 'Hall of Stars' when he woke up, or because he had been to Iron Mountain City, the Second Food Company, and received some kind of 'blessing', so much so that Bypassing the Hall of Stars and completing the awakening, is it equivalent to smuggling?"
Long Yuehong had no way of judging which might be right, so he had to say in the spirit of empirical evidence:
"Let's flip through the books here again to see if there are any words left by Montis. If not, the answer to the question may be in the ruins of Tieshan City."
"Well..." Jiang Baimian nodded slowly, "Let's find out all the relevant books and take a look, including religion, mysticism, supernatural power research, unsolved mysteries of the world, novels in the corresponding fields..."
This is not a small project. Seeing that noon is approaching, the "Old Tunes Group" has not completed even one-tenth of it.
"Huh, you can't abuse yourself like this." Jiang Baimian stretched out, "When you see the murlocs come back, take out some supplies, and ask a dozen or twenty residents of the Ark to help with the preliminary screening. They don't need to know words. , just pick out the books with annotations and notes."
Ah... Long Yuehong resisted the words that came to her lips.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Shang Jianyao looked "wronged", "Otherwise, the task is at least half completed now."
Jiang Baimian laughed twice:
"I underestimated the difficulty."
I can’t say that I’m too eager, my mind is full of finding the next book with Montes’s “annotations”, forgetting that I can ask someone to help with this, right
Shang Jianyao didn't care about Jiang Baimian's explanation.
"What to eat for lunch?"
…
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the "Old Tune Team" followed the smuggling team organized by the "Underground Ark" to the shore of the Nu Lake.
There is an abandoned pier in the middle of nowhere, far from the Redstone Set.
It has been repaired by the Ark Stewardship Council to moor the ships it has acquired.
After loading the boxes containing cans and medicines onto a small cargo ship, Bode, who directed the operation, hurriedly invited Jiang Baimian and others to go up.
In the sound of the steam turbine turning, the small cargo ship painted brown swayed in circles of water and sailed into the depths of Nu Lake.
After seven turns, the ship arrived at a desolate island in the middle of the lake.
This island is not big, and it is far from the island in the center of the lake where Yan Hu is sleeping. It can be seen to the end at a glance, and it is connected to the lake reflecting the sun.
"Let's wait on the island." The freckled Bode pointed to the rocky island in front of him.
Without waiting for Long Yuehong and others to ask, he simply explained a few words:
"We have to watch out for the murlocs to turn their faces.
"On the lake, in the water, we are not their opponents at all, and they refuse to leave the Angry Lake and come to the shore to trade with us, so they can only choose such an island as the meeting place, in your gray language, it is, It's a compromise.
"Although this island is not too big, it can build fortifications to resist attacks from ships. Once the murlocs are really malicious, we will stick to it and send telegrams to ask for support.
"When the time comes, using the drone we got more than half a year ago to cooperate with the Awakened should be able to snatch us out."
Yes, the ordinary guards in the past are now in good order... Jiang Baimian secretly praised and asked on this topic:
"What's the attitude of those awakened ones?"
She was referring to the Awakened beings that DiMarco kept.
"Two are very active and have now been absorbed into the management committee. There is no way, their abilities are very useful to us." Bode answered truthfully, "The rest are unwilling to take on management responsibilities, but we They were also treated very well.”
Indeed, if the management committee does not have enough strength, it will be overthrown sooner or later... Jiang Baimian, who left Gennavar as the temporary president of the "underground ark", also had the idea of deterring those who were awakened. She thought that she could not rely solely on vigilance against the church.
At this time, Shang Jianyao was bored waiting, exerting force on his waist and abdomen, and played standing long jump.
He jumped directly from the edge of the cargo ship to the island, without leaving the board.
Bode and the others all saw their foreheads jump.
Is this a monster
Seeing this, Jiang Baimian did not delay any longer, and jumped to the board of the boat in small steps and walked onto the island.
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen followed closely.
After another quarter of an hour, the fish people drove a wooden boat and arrived at the trading location.
They actually collected all kinds of ships scattered in the lake, and their ancestors handed down the corresponding repair techniques, but due to the lack of resources such as gasoline, steel, batteries, etc., many ships either could not be repaired at all, or they could not be repaired.
In comparison, old wooden boats are more suitable for them.
Looking at the grayish-black faces with faint rays of light, the protruding white and black eyes and the gills from the bottom of the ears to the neck, Long Yuehong felt dizzy and felt that she had face blindness. disease.
For a while, he could only remember those murlocs by his height, shortness, fatness and thinness.
The tall murloc at the head glanced around, suddenly jumped two steps back, and landed on the shore, getting closer and closer to the lake.
When the rest of the murlocs were in a commotion, he raised his palm covered with gray and black scales, pointed at Jiang Baimian and the others, and said in Honghe language:
"who are they
"There have been so many transactions before without them!"
In order to dispel the vigilance of the fish people, the smuggling team organized by the Ark Management Committee was as consistent as possible every time. If anyone really couldn't participate at that time, they would rather have one less person.
Huh, these murlocs were forced to believe in "Yougu" by life, and they were vigilant to a certain extent... Jiang Baimian looked sideways at Bode and motioned him to deal with it.
Before Bode could explain, Shang Jianyao laughed:
"We are the honorary chairman of the Ark Management Committee, and the behind-the-scenes bosses of the smuggling business.
"Don't worry, if you really want to deal with you, you can do it already, why wait until now?"
This is not very convincing words, even Bode and others feel that there are many loopholes.
They thought that the murlocs would definitely not believe it, and they hurriedly put Shang Jianyao behind, trying to use the rhetoric prepared by President Ulrich to defuse the murlocs' vigilance.
-Bode and others knew that Jiang Baimian and the others were very powerful, and blocking Shang Jianyao was not for fear of the murlocs turning their faces, but to resolve conflicts and avoid conflicts, lest they fail to achieve their intended purpose.
But at this time, the fish-man headed took the initiative to come back, looked at Shang Jianyao, nodded and said:
"you're right."
Although the other murlocs did not speak, they supported the leader with their actions.
While Bode and others were surprised, Jiang Baimian said thoughtfully:
"We are here this time to exchange materials for information."
"What information?" The head murloc was full of doubts.
Jiang Baimian said sternly:
"In your tribe, how long did the first group of people who landed on Huxin Island waited for the divine envoy, and where did they wait?"
The head of the murloc's eyes seemed to bulge even more, and he blurted out in amazement:
"What are you asking this for?"
Jiang Baimian moved in his heart, changed the question, and asked anxiously:
"How are they doing now?"
The head murloc was silent for a few seconds, and said in a fearful tone:
"They, they, have 'innocence'."