Embers Ad Infinitum

Long Yuehong's words echoed in the library, like thunder exploding in the hearts of Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen.

The first owner of the "Underground Ark", Montes, who is suspected of being Di Marco, has actually been to Iron Mountain City!

To Jiang Baimian's surprise, he did not go there during the chaotic era, but before the destruction of the old world.

Jiang Baimian stood up, walked to Long Yuehong, and took the autobiography in his hand.

After watching it several times, Jiang Baimian said to Long Yuehong and Bai Chen with surprise on her face:

"Let's find out when Montes came back, where he has been and what he has done in Tieshan City."

The three of them buried their heads again and flipped through the volumes of autobiographies.

This time, they didn't even filter the punctuation marks consciously.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Baimian and others finally extracted all the content about Monteith in the autobiography.

At the time when his autobiography was written, he was not the head of the family, but just the eldest son in line of succession, so his various activities did not occupy much space and were only occasionally mentioned when recording other things.

Regarding Montes's participation in the old city reconstruction tender in neighboring Tieshan City, this family autobiography does not explain whether it was successful or not, but Jiang Baimian judged that Montes did not participate in other family affairs until more than a year later. It should be that the bid was successful and he stayed in Tieshan City for a long time.

"Montis was then assigned to be responsible for the construction of landmark buildings in the city until the destruction of the old world... This shows that he left Tieshan City a few years before the destruction of the old world...'Tieshan City Second Food Company' was in the old world There is something weird about the world?" Jiang Baimian made a reasonable guess.

The city corresponding to the ruins of the Red Stone Collection was an economically developed place in the old world. It is mentioned in the autobiography that labor costs are very high and efficiency is reduced. The construction of various large-scale projects is no longer rapid. Therefore, several landmark buildings need to be repaired. year is normal.

"And the 'Underground Ark' was built many years before he went to Tieshan City, and it obviously has nothing to do with the weirdness of the Second Food Company." Bai Chen felt that things still couldn't be truly connected.

After discussing for a while, Jiang Baimian turned his wrist and looked at the electronic watch, covered his mouth and yawned:

"It's a bit late. Let's go back to bed and continue tomorrow morning."

She felt that there were too many books here to complete the battle in one battle. Since some progress had been made, it was better to have a good rest, recuperate and fight again tomorrow morning.

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong glanced at the sentence written by Montes or someone else in the "Holy Scripture". Seeing that they couldn't think of new ideas for a while, they agreed with Jiang Baimian's suggestion.

Jiang Baimian walked a few steps to the side, bent his back, grabbed Shang Jianyao with his left hand, and directly lifted Shang Jianyao, letting him lean on her and accept support.

This guy has no intention of waking up.

Long Yuehong, who had wanted to volunteer to help, suddenly had an idea and closed his open mouth again.

The group of four people returned to the second underground floor and came to the two rooms that Ulrich had arranged for people to tidy up.

This is between two people. Jiang Baimian specifically requested it to ensure that each other can take care of each other.

"You guys should go back to your room and rest. Try not to get up at night. If you really need to, wake the other person up and never act alone." Before parting, Jiang Baimian gave a habitual reminder.

The bathroom for the double room is outside.

"Okay." Bai Chen agreed.

"Yes, team leader." Long Yuehong's heart was beating fast when she answered.

Although this kind of grouping has been a long-standing habit of the "Old Tune Group" and everyone has adapted to it. They are very familiar with it and there is nothing to be embarrassed about. However, Long Yuehong still feels that today is different from the past.

The mentality is different.

And since he recovered from his injury, he has never slept in the same room as Xiaobai.

——On the way back to "Pangu Creatures" from the First City, and on the way from "Pangu Creatures" to Red Stone Collection, the "Old Tune Team" only occasionally went to settlements to replenish supplies. They never stayed in a hotel or rented a room, and they didn't even rent a room. No tents were set up, and they were all in groups of two, taking turns sleeping in the jeep.

Under the eyes of "all eyes", there is no doubt that this does not feel like sleeping in the same room.

Long Yuehong originally thought that after everyone grew up, the team leader would re-adjust the groups and no longer match men and women, so that everyone would not feel uncomfortable all the time. After all, the situation of one old leading the other young no longer existed, and he could barely afford it. Considering Shang Jianyao's responsibility, Jiang Baimian seemed to have forgotten this matter and never mentioned it again.

Long Yuehong didn't take the initiative to help Jiang Baimian support Shang Jianyao just now because she was suddenly afraid that the other party would remember to adjust the group.

After entering the room, Long Yuehong turned her head and looked at Bai Chen:

"Which bed are you sleeping on?"

"It's all the same." Bai Chen took off the tactical backpack behind him and threw it on the bed on the right.

"Oh." Long Yuehong walked to the left side of the bed and sat down.

At this time, he saw Bai Chen take off his coat.

Although this was a common sight before, Bai Chen was also wearing a long-sleeved camouflage T-shirt underneath, so it was impossible to expose anything, but Long Yuehong still felt uncomfortable for some reason. She cleared her throat inaudibly and looked to the side.

"Aren't you going to wash up?" Bai Chen took out the toiletries.

"Oh." Long Yuehong stood up suddenly and rummaged around.

Can openers, iron combs and other items popped out from time to time, only to be taken back again.

After finishing these things, they all lay down on the bed. Long Yuehong opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling shrouded in darkness, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

He didn't know when he fell asleep, and it was already midnight when he woke up.

Perhaps because she had been a little nervous, Long Yuehong felt the need to urinate more obviously.

He heard Bai Chen's long breathing, obviously sleeping soundly. He didn't want to wake her up, so he had to toss and turn, trying to hold it in.

He lay on his side for a while, on his back for a while, and then on his side for a while in the other direction, constantly adjusting his posture to find the least uncomfortable state.

Suddenly, he heard a rustling sound from Bai Chen's side.

"Are you awake? I want to go to the bathroom." Bai Chen said.

"Okay." Long Yue turned over and sat up with a flushed face.

The two teamed up, took their weapons, left the room, and went to the next door.

"You go first." Long Yuehong pointed to the bathroom door in a gentlemanly manner.

Bai Chen didn't refuse and walked in quickly.

As her figure disappeared from sight, Long Yuehong suddenly felt that the wind in the corridor was cold and cold, and only a few wall lamps were turned on and were dim.

He suddenly remembered the situation when he fought against Di Marco - in the eerie and unspeakable atmosphere of terror, he felt like he was invaded by a ghost and had difficulty controlling his body.

Doesn't Dimarco still have some aura left, existing in a ghost-like state, floating in the "underground ark"? The more Long Yuehong thought about it, the more scared she became. She always felt like someone was watching her secretly.

He turned his eyes, slowly turned his body sideways, and looked back cautiously.

The next second, he saw a pair of eyes.

Eyes peeking out from behind a monkey mask.

Long Yuehong calmed her racing heart and asked:

"Why don't you have a voice?"

"It will disturb others." Shang Jianyao explained in a suppressed voice.

"..." Long Yuehong couldn't care less, "Why did you wake up?"

"I need to go to the toilet after sleeping for too long." Shang Jianyao said confidently.

"Why are you alone, team leader?" Long Yuehong asked with a frown.

"With such a small distance, she can just rely on induction and doesn't need to get up at all." Shang Jian Yaohun replied nonchalantly.

He turned to ask:

"Did you find anything in the library before?"

"Yes." As soon as Long Yuehong answered, Bai Chen walked out of the bathroom and said, "It's your turn."

"Wait a minute, let's talk about what we found first." Shang Jianyao took off his monkey mask with a curious look on his face.

The panicked Long Yuehong took a breath, gritted her teeth, and decided to finish speaking quickly.

"I'll do it." Bai Chen walked between him and Shang Jianyao.

"Okay." Long Yuehong was inexplicably happy.

When he finished urinating and washed his hands and came out, Bai Chen told Shang Jianyao the general situation.

Shang Jianyao rubbed his chin and said to himself:

"Montis thought he was possessed by the devil? Didn't he know it was an awakening?"

"He probably hadn't been exposed to related concepts at that time." Long Yuehong expressed her opinion.

Shang Jianyao didn't answer and hurried into the bathroom.

…………

The next morning, after having breakfast, the "Old Tune Group" came to the library in the "Underground Ark" again.

Shang Jianyao did not look through Monteith's "Sacred Book" or the autobiographies of the Dimarco family. He looked at Ulrich and asked sincerely:

"Are there any occult books here?"

"There are some," Ulrich replied. "Although Mr. Monteith is a devout believer and does not like occultism at all, some of his fathers and ancestors were interested in this and moved backup books to the Ark."

"Take me to see it." Shang Jianyao said bluntly.

After listening to the conversation between the two, Jiang Baimian said thoughtfully:

"Do you suspect that after Montes thought he was possessed by the devil, he tried to find the source and solution from the occult?"

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

He was refreshed and in good condition in the morning, and there was no sign of mental damage.

Soon, he, Ulrich, and Long Yuehong moved back three stacks of occult books.

After Ulrich left, the four members of the "Old Adjustment Team" divided their work and worked together, each responsible for inspecting a part of it.

After flipping through the pages, Long Yuehong discovered something:

Some words and sentences in the book were underlined with a blue-black pen.

He immediately reported the situation, and Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen successively said that similar situations existed in the books in their hands.

After comparison, they found that the underlined words and sentences were related to spirit, soul, and spirituality.

This involves different occult theories including etherism, animism, etc.

As the investigation deepened, Bai Chen found new clues at the end of a certain book.

The blue-black pen wrote a word in the blank area with very heavy strokes:

"cost?"