"Why did Montis finally write a 'cost' and add a question mark?" Long Yuehong looked at the book that Bai Chen showed him and others, and said without much understanding.

Bai Chen did not answer his question, but only pointed out a fact:

"When writing the word 'cost', Montis was obviously excited. He wrote very heavily, and the ink stains were rendered a little, and there were traces on the other side of the paper."

"The price..." Jiang Baimian whispered this word, constantly making various assumptions in his mind, and denying them.

Shang Jianyao made a mocking voice:

"What's so exciting about the 'cost' that you need to write it down so hard?

"I really don't know!"

Hearing this guy's words, Jiang Baimian's heart moved and looked around and said:

“Will Montis not knowing at the time that it was a price to get the ability?

"So much so that after he found that his emotions were becoming increasingly difficult to control, he combined his knowledge of mysticism and suspected that he had paid the price unconsciously..."

The mysterious book that Bai Chen found the word "price" is about the devil.

Several of its chapters mention that mortals sell their souls and exchange them for strength, money, body or beauty from the devil.

"But didn't you say that the 'Hall of Stars' has been echoing the sound of 'one price, three gifts'? As an awakened person, Montis cannot not hear it, I don't know..." Long Yuehong expressed his opinion.

He originally wanted to use Shang Jianyao as an example to enhance his persuasion. After all, this guy's mind is no longer normal and he knows the price. But after thinking about it, he decided not to cause trouble.

As soon as Long Yuehong finished speaking, Jiang Baimian spoke with a more serious expression:

"What if this is the case? Montis really doesn't know the price to be awakened?

“Has his awakening not passed through the ‘Hall of Stars’?

"Or, there was no 'Star Hall' at that time?"

While Bai Chen and Long Yuehong were shocked, Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and hit his left foot:

"I see!"

"What do you understand?" Jiang Baimian asked suspiciously.

Shang Jianyao said solemnly:

"The destruction of the old world was caused by the chaos and disorder of the Awakened Promotion, like Brownian movement, which led to the continuous increase in entropy and eventually reached the critical point, and the symbol of chaos erupted, "heartless disease".

"After the destruction of the old world, the stewards learned from their mistakes and built the 'Star Hall', 'Sea of ​​Origin', 'Spirit Corridor' and 'New World', which incorporated awakening into management and gave it order."

This idea is pretty good... What entertainment information have you read recently! Jiang Baimian glanced at Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, who were confused, and cleared his throat and said:

"The reasons behind this phenomenon are 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 'Star Hall' when he woke up, or because he had been to Tieshan City and visited the Second Food Company, he received some kind of 'blessing', so that he bypassed the 'Star Hall' and completed his awakening, which is equivalent to smuggling?"

Long Yuehong had no way to judge which one might be right, so he had to say in an empirical spirit:

"Let's look through the books here again to see what Montis has left behind. If not, the answer to the question might be in the ruins of Tieshan City."

"Well..." Jiang Baimian nodded slowly, "Let's find out all the relevant books, including religion, mystics, supernatural power research, unsolved mysteries of the world, novels in the corresponding fields..."

This is a big project. Seeing that noon is coming, the "old commissioning team" has not completed even one-tenth of it.

"Huh, you can't abuse yourself like this." Jiang Baimian stretched, "When you saw the fishman come back, take out some supplies and ask more than 20 ark residents to help with the preliminary screening. They don't need to know words, just pick out books with annotations and notes."

Ah... Long Yuehong resisted the words that rushed to her mouth.

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Shang Jianyao looked "wronged", "Or the task would have been at least half completed now."

Jiang Baimian laughed dryly:

"I underestimated the difficulty."

I can't say that I'm too anxious, and I'm all over my mind to find out the next book with Montis' "annotations". I forgot that I can ask someone to help me, right?

Shang Jianyao didn't care about Jiang Baimian's explanation at all. He had already thrown his emotions behind his head and touched his stomach and said:

“What to eat for lunch?”

…………

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the "Old Transfer Team" followed the smuggling team organized by the "Ark Underground" to the shore of the Lake.

Here is an abandoned pier located in a remote area far from the Redstone Set.

It has been repaired by the Ark Management Committee to moor the ships it has obtained.

After moving the boxes containing canned and medicines onto a small cargo ship, Bode, who was directing the operation, quickly invited Jiang Baimian and others to go up.

In the sound of the steam turbine rotating, the small cargo ship painted in brown swept through circles of water and drove towards the depths of the angry lake.

After turning around, the ship arrived at a desolate island in the middle of the lake.

This island is not big, far from comparable to the island in the middle of the lake where Yanhu sleeps. It can see the end at a glance from front, back, left and right, and connect with the lake water reflecting the sun.

"Let's go to the island to wait." Bode, with freckles, pointed to the rocky island in front of him.

Before Long Yuehong and others could ask, he explained a few briefly:

"We have to be wary of the fish-man turning against each other.

"On the lake and in the water, we are no match for them at all. They are unwilling to leave Lake Nori and come to trade with us on the shore, so they can only choose such an island as a meeting place. In your silly words, it is a compromise method.

"Although this island is not too big, it can build fortifications to resist attacks from the ship. Once the fishman is really malicious, we will stick to it while shooting a telegram to request support.

"At that time, we should be able to snatch us out with the drone we got more than half a year ago," he said.

Yes, the ordinary guards at the time are now in order... Jiang Baimian praised secretly and asked on this topic:

"What are the attitudes of those awakened people?"

She refers to the awakened people raised by Dimarco.

"There are two very positives who have now been absorbed into the management committee. There is no way to do anything about them. Their abilities are very useful to us." Bode answered truthfully, "The rest are unwilling to assume management responsibilities, but we also give high treatment."

Indeed, if the management committee does not have enough strength, it will be overthrown sooner or later... Jiang Baimian was the interim president of the "Ark of the Underground" and had the idea of ​​intimidating those awakened people. She believed that she could not rely entirely on vigilance to the church.

At this time, Shang Jianyao was bored and tried hard to play a standing long jump.

He jumped directly from the edge of the cargo ship to the island, without leaving the board.

Bode and others all saw their foreheads hopped.

Is this a monster?

Seeing this, Jiang Baimian stopped delaying and jumped to the boat board in small steps and walked onto the island.

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen followed closely behind.

After almost a quarter of an hour, the fish people arrived at the trading location while riding a wooden cruise ship.

In fact, they collected various ships scattered in Nu Lake, and their ancestors passed down corresponding repair techniques. However, due to the lack of gasoline, steel, batteries and other resources, many ships either cannot be repaired or cannot be driven after repair.

In comparison, the ancient wooden boats are more suitable for them.

Looking at the gray-black faces with faint light, looking at their protruding white, black and white eyes and the gills below their ears to their necks, Long Yuehong felt dizzy and felt like he was face blindness.

For a moment, he could only remember the fishmen by his height, fatness and thinness.

The tall fishman in the lead glanced around and suddenly jumped two steps back, landed on the shore, getting closer to the lake.

When the other fishman was in agitation, he raised his palm covered with gray and black scales, pointed at Jiang Baimian and others, and said in Honghe:

"who are they?

"They didn't have them in so many transactions before!"

In order to dispel the fish people's vigilance, the smuggling team organized by the Ark Management Committee tried to be consistent every time. If anyone really couldn't participate at that time, they would rather have one person missing.

Wow, these fishmen were forced to believe in "Yougu" by life, and they were alert to a certain extent... Jiang Baimian turned his head and looked at Bode, signaling him to deal with it.

Before Bode could explain, Shang Jianyao laughed:

“We are honorary president of the Ark Management Committee and the boss behind the smuggling business.

"Don't worry, if I really wanted to deal with you, I could have done it long ago, why wait until now?"

This is not a very convincing statement, even Bode and others feel that it is full of loopholes.

They thought that the fish people would definitely not believe it, so they hurriedly blocked Shang Jianyao and tried to use President Ulrich's prepared words to resolve the fish people's vigilance.

——Bode and others knew that Jiang Baimian and others were very powerful. They stopped Shang Yao from seeing him not because he was afraid of turning against him, but in order to resolve conflicts and not create conflicts, so as not to achieve the predetermined goal.

But at this time, the leading fishman took the initiative to walk back, looked at Shang Jianyao, nodded and said:

"you're right."

Although the other fishmen did not speak, they supported the leader with their actions.

Bode and others were surprised, and Jiang Baimian said thoughtfully:

"We are here this time to exchange materials for information."

"What information?" The man in the head was full of doubts.

Jiang Baimian said seriously:

"How long did the first group of people who climbed the island in the middle of the lake wait for the messenger in your tribe? Where did they wait?"

The head fishman's eyes seemed to be even more powerful, and he blurted out in surprise:

"What do you ask about this?"

Jiang Baimian's heart moved, changed the problem, and asked anxiously:

"How are they now?"

The man was silent for a few seconds and said in a tone full of fear:
Chapter completed!