Chapter 319

Apparently, he had grasped Su Bei's personality traits, forcing Su Bei to "help". However, Jiang Tianming didn't know that this was exactly what Su Bei wanted. He liked teammates who were proactive and could find excuses for him to help.

"Don't worry." Su Bei said with a half-smile, "You will definitely be able to get to the island."

Wu Mingbai started digging a tunnel after Jiang Tianming made the decision. But he found a problem after a while: "No, I can't keep the lake calm while digging a tunnel."

Wu Mingbai frowned and said this, with some regret in his eyes. In fact, since he obtained the power of the guardian god, he has been more confident in his own strength than ever before. However, he did not expect that he would encounter difficulties not long after that.

The lake outside the island is very deep, and digging a tunnel underneath is not an easy task. And he can't dig too deep, otherwise it will easily touch the facilities below, and then they will be discovered.

Seeing the slight ripples on the water, everyone immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. The people on guard here were not blind, and if there were abnormal ripples on the water, even if it was dark, they would definitely notice it, and they would definitely guess that someone was playing tricks.

"Then what should we do? Let's try another method." Qi Huang raised his eyebrows and looked at the time. "It's still half an hour before the next ship arrives. Use this half an hour to think about how to get on board."

Mu Tieren looked at Su Bei and said, "Didn't Su Bei just say that this method doesn't work?"

"Su Bei is probably saying that the method we originally thought of doesn't work." Qi Huang also looked at Su Bei, asking for his opinion.

Seeing their still bad luck, Su Bei threw up his hands and said, "None of them work. Let's find a new way."

After thinking for a while, he added: "If you can't think of it, I suggest you use the old method. Although you may fail, luck is the thing that will eventually turn bad times into good times."

With their current luck, they would fail no matter what they did, unless Jiang Tianming could come up with a foolproof method. Otherwise, the best way was to fail once. Use up this bad luck, and then their luck would naturally return to normal.

Of course, there is another simple method, which is for him to directly transfer the luck of these people back. However, Su Bei would naturally not do such a meaningless thing that consumes mental energy.

Hearing his answer, Jiang Tianming showed a thoughtful expression and decided to let things take their own course: "Let's split up into two groups. You continue to dig the tunnel, and the rest of us will go and attract their attention."

It was already dark, and the ripples of the lake were not noticeable. As long as they could attract all those people's attention, they would be able to create enough space for Wu Mingbai to perform.

Su Bei raised his hand at the right time: "I'll stay here. I'll warn you in advance if there's any danger."

The reminder here is of course to remind Wu Mingbai that when digging the tunnel, Wu Mingbai needs to pay full attention. With him reminding him, many risks can be avoided. Jiang Tianming nodded and agreed with his opinion.

The two sides split into two groups. The situation in Subei was peaceful, while Jiang Tianming's side was in chaos. They were very efficient. Within ten minutes of separation, the dock was in chaos.

Even from a distance, Su Bei could vaguely hear someone shouting "Catch them for me". The protagonists' unparalleled ability to stir up trouble was finally put to good use at this moment, perfectly attracting all the attention of the enemy.

I don't know how long Wu Mingliang will have to dig the tunnel, but I think it will take a long time. Su Bei took out a small stool and a fishing rod from the storage space and started fishing on the spot by the lake.

Wu Mingbai, who took a break from digging the tunnel, looked up and observed his surroundings: ""

He looked at Su Bei and the fishing rod in disbelief: "Why would you bring a fishing rod with you when you go out on a mission?"

"More than that." Su Bei put the fishing rod aside and took out a deck of poker cards, a chess board, and a few comic books from the storage space...

As Wu Mingbai stared in amazement, he smiled smugly at the entertainment props piled up like a mountain in front of him and said, "You know, I'm more afraid of being bored."

This is no longer a matter of being afraid of being bored, this is purely a matter of being idle and having nothing to do. Wu Mingbai showed a speechless expression, and I was too lazy to be weird, so I complained directly: "If you are afraid of being bored, then you should participate more. If you join them in making trouble, you won't be bored anymore."

Su Bei has his own logic for this: "I like watching plays, not acting in them."

There was no point in persuading Wu Mingbai, so he decisively withdrew his sights and continued digging the tunnel, while Su Bei continued fishing, and at the same time kept an eye on the other's compass of fate above his head in case of emergency.

"Hold on, quickly!" Suddenly, Su Bei quickly put away the fishing rod and reminded Wu Mingbai beside him. The pointer above his head suddenly moved to the right, which was enough to show that something was going to happen.

Logically speaking, he should have just cast an invisibility talisman on the opponent and everything would be fine, but Su Bei couldn't touch the opponent rashly at this time, otherwise a shock might cause the secret passage that Wu Mingbai had just built with great difficulty to collapse.

In such a dangerous place, even with strong and reliable classmates by his side, Wu knew that he couldn't completely immerse himself in his mission. He immediately reacted, put away his supernatural power and stood still: "What's going on?"

Su Bei shook his head to indicate that he didn't know either, and then casually slapped an invisibility charm on him. Seeing that the pointer on Wu Mingbai's head returned to the left, he lazily said, "Don't say I didn't help. This thing is worth a fortune."

Before Wu Minglai could say anything, two men suddenly appeared near them. One of them said in confusion: "I just felt that there is indeed someone here."

"They ran away!" said another person angrily. "Let's go. They must have disappeared."

After saying this, he pulled his companion and disappeared in a flash.

Su Bei and Wu Mingbai looked at each other, and stood there motionless in tacit understanding, counting the stars. When the invisibility talisman was about to expire, Su Bei even gave himself and Wu Mingbai another one each.

Ten minutes later, the two people reappeared at the place where they just disappeared. The person with the teleportation ability shook his head: "It seems that they have really left. Let's not waste time here."

The other man nodded as well, and the two of them walked off toward the dock this time.

Su Bei and the other man waited for another five minutes, and confirmed that they had no signs of returning, before they lifted their invisibility. Wu Mingbai was a little hesitant: "I didn't expect them to have this skill. Should we move to another place to continue?"

"No need. If they could continue to check this place, they wouldn't have left just now." Su Bei shook his head. "Whether the skill has a CD or they can't keep scanning one place, staying here is the best choice."

The analysis made sense. Wu Mingbai didn't waste any more time and quickly built the underground passage. Perhaps because her pregnancy had recovered, they didn't encounter any more incidents. When the passage was completed, Wu Mingbai took out a prop that looked like a rooster's comb and pressed it hard. The next second, a rooster suddenly cried from a distance away from them.

Subei: ""

Is this prop so magical? The prop is clearly at their current location, but the sound it makes sounds like it comes from far away. But I have to say it is very practical. Even if someone suspects that there is something wrong with the chicken's call, they will be led to a farther place by the sound instead of directly following the sound to find their hiding place.

Soon, Jiang Tianming and others left their pursuers behind and came one after another. When everyone arrived, Wu Mingbai pointed at the cave entrance in front with his toes and said, "This is it, let's go."

After saying that, he jumped in first, and the others followed closely behind him, jumping into the cave entrance with confidence. With an Earth Elementalist, they would be able to leave even if the tunnel collapsed in the middle.

"Let there be light." Looking at the dark and bottomless tunnel, Lan Subing used [Word Spirit] to light the lamp so that they could walk faster.

After walking through the long tunnel and reaching the end, Jiang Tianming suddenly asked, "Do you know where the exit leads to?"

Everyone stopped in their tracks, and the air was dead silent. After a while, Wu Mingbai coughed and said, "I didn't speak up on the other side, so no matter where we are, we won't be exposed. We just need to go up when no one is around."

He almost forgot about it just now, but fortunately he took precautions when digging the tunnel and did not dig it straight through.

Hearing this, Su Bei released his spiritual power to feel it, and quickly said: "There is a person up there, and it looks like this tunnel leads to someone's bedroom. Also, I remind you that the person up there is already asleep."

If they fell asleep, they certainly couldn't expect the other party to go out in a short time, but they couldn't stay here for too long. If they could avoid skipping classes, of course it would be best, but now some of them still had the illusion of a quick victory.

The Iron Man suggested: "Can we continue digging and dig the tunnel to another place?"

"Not very good." Wu Mingbai sighed, "A lot of the underground space on this island is occupied, and I only found this one way. The place leading to the ground may be safer, and the underground place is likely to be defended."

Lan Subing quickly figured out a plan: "If there's only one person, we can sneak up first, and then I'll use the [Word Spirit] to control him."

"Just let him sleep forever." Jiang Tianming nodded.

Wu Mingbai controlled the soil above and silently dissolved it into a big hole. Lan Subing went up first and used his special ability: "Sleep."

After she confirmed that everything was fine, everyone followed her up and saw the environment above clearly. This was a bedroom. A man in his thirties was sleeping on the bed. He had a pink slicked-back hair. Su Bei knew without a second thought that he was Li Shu's relative. He couldn't be his father at this age, so he was most likely his uncle or something like that.

"How do we find Li Shu next? Have you checked which room Li Shu lives in?" Qi Huang asked with his arms folded.

Jiang Tianming shook his head: "No, let's split up. I, Bing, and Mingbai will form a group, and the remaining three of you will form a group. If anyone finds Li Shu, please post a message in the group."

Although no one questioned it, he still explained the reason for the grouping: "If someone discovers our whereabouts, among the three of us, Ah Bing and I can use our special powers to temporarily control them, and then take us underground to escape. As for the three of you, Su Bei has the invisibility talisman, and Qi Huang can take people to fly and escape. Because the invisibility talisman is safer, you, squad leader, are also assigned to this group."

To be honest, Su Bei actually had some opinions about this grouping. One side of the group was the three original protagonists, which meant that the distribution of shots would be unfair. Jiang Tianming's side would definitely have more shots than his side.

Of course, this is not what Su Bei cares about. He has never cared about the number of lenses. As long as there are effective lenses, it's enough.

That's right. Obviously, with this grouping, they won't have many effective shots. Intelligence and Li Shu are unlikely to be on their route. Su Bei estimates that at least half of their trip will be spent as a runner-up. What's the point?

This kind of plot does not involve the main plot, and it does not matter if there are no effective shots. Although Su Bei is a little concerned about his popularity now, he does not mean to force himself. The absence of one or two events is nothing to him. How could his popularity drop drastically because of these one or two events?

What really made him unhappy was that, not only was he just a runner-up, but he wasn't running easily. Qi Huang and Mu Tie Ren were both characters who had been strengthened in the previous plots, but they didn't show much strength. If nothing unexpected happened, they might have a lot of fighting scenes next.

There were no effective lenses, and no way to take advantage of the situation easily. It can be said that Su Bei had stepped on all the landmines that he did not want to step on.

But there was no reason to refuse, he lowered his eyes and quickly thought about what to do next. Since the Qihuang team was not what he wanted, and Jiang Tianming's team could not go, then he would just open a new team.

This was not their first mission, so they opened the door and left the room, splitting up. Su Bei prepared in advance and gave Qi Huang and Mu Tie Ren an invisibility charm each: "One charm can make you invisible for ten minutes, please use it at the critical moment."

After the two men put away the invisibility charm like a treasure, he pretended to wipe his eyes, rubbed his fingers a few times, and made a gesture to ask for money: "I spent a lot of money to watch this show, would you consider giving me some money back?"

Qi Huang promised without hesitation: "If you are really willing to sell, I will take as many as you have."

You know, Su Bei's invisibility talisman is recognized as being useful. Although no one knows where he got so many invisibility talismans with such powerful effects, the fact that he can never be discovered by anyone is enough to illustrate its effectiveness.

Qi Huang was not short of money at all. If Su Bei was really willing to sell, it would be a great benefit to her. Not to mention her, even her family would definitely be willing for her to buy more.

"You're still better off dreaming." Su Bei refused without hesitation. Although this thing is almost a zero-cost, high-profit transaction, but as one of the few trump cards in his hand, of course he has to maintain the proper sense of mystery.

Hearing his words, the Iron Man couldn't help but laugh and said, "Didn't you want us to pay just now? Why are you refusing to pay now?"

Su Bei's logic was clear, and he was not confused by his substitution of concepts. Although his voice was still lazy, his words were very sharp: "I just want to make up for the losses, but I don't intend to pay more."

"You're right." The Iron Man frankly admitted his mistake and changed the subject, "Where should we go next?"

This is indeed a problem. Su Bei looked up at the villa, which looked a bit complicated. "They are going down, so let's go up. After we finish visiting this villa, we will go to other villas."

Just now, Wu Mingbai said that there are many underground facilities on this island. Su Bei estimated that if nothing unexpected happened, the secret of the Li family was in these underground facilities. If they went up, they might not see anything, and the author probably would not let them find Li Shu at the beginning.

As expected, after walking around and finding nothing, and almost being seen by someone who got up in the middle of the night to drink water, the three of them left the villa.

The effect of standing on the island and looking around is completely different from standing outside the island. From inside the island, you can see that this place is not prosperous. There are no shops, no greenery, and even few street lights.

But there is a patrol team, a team of five people, wearing uniform uniforms, patrolling the island tirelessly along fixed routes.

After observing for a while and getting familiar with their route, the three men walked out from the shadows behind the house.

"The guards are so strict, are they hiding some secret?" Qi Huang frowned and mocked, but she didn't know that what she said casually was actually the truth.

The wooden iron man shook his head: "It's normal for such a big island to have a patrol team. Besides, we just did those things outside the island..."

Without further ado, he pointed to one of the villas and said, "That villa looks the most luxurious. If Li Shu has a high status on the island, he would probably live there."

"Maybe, let's go check it out first..." Before he could finish his words, Qi Huang's eyes suddenly widened.

Following her gaze, I saw fifty or sixty children, led by a man, rushing out of a house. These children all had pink hair and were obviously from the Li family. The oldest was about thirteen or fourteen years old, and the youngest was only four or five years old.

Qi Huang was shocked and murmured to himself: "Are you crazy? Why are there so many?"

Although they had known from the data that the Li family was very fertile, more than fifty peers were too many! Moreover, these children all had pink hair. The Li family's genes were so strong that the children inherited their dominant genes.

Of course, it is also possible that those who did not inherit are not on this island, but if that is the case, it means that there are more children of this generation than what they see now, which will only shock Qi Huang even more.

The wooden iron man was also stunned, but he was concerned about another point: "How could so many children come out of that one bungalow? Is it a spatial supernatural power?"

"There is a basement, right?" Su Bei looked at the group of children thoughtfully and answered casually.

When he learned that the Li family was particularly fertile, he felt something was wrong. Such a special setting must have a purpose in a comic event. And now it seems that his speculation was correct. Either these children have problems, or the people who gave birth to the children have problems.

But no matter which one it is, there is only one way to find out: "Why not go to this bungalow and take a look"

Qi Huang and Mu Tieren had no objection, they also wanted to go in and explore, to see what room required these kids to come to the room in the middle of the night.

However, even though they had made the decision, the three of them did not leave immediately. Instead, they all stopped where they were and watched the dozens of pink-haired kids return to their rooms.

They were all sent to a two-story factory building, which looked very simple, like the kind of factory apartments used to accommodate workers next to the factory. However, unlike factory apartments, this was not a single room, but a large shop with all the rooms connected.

In other words, it's even more shabby than a factory apartment.

Fifty or sixty children living in a two-story large shop is equivalent to nearly thirty children sleeping on one kang, and it is not certain whether there are partitions in the middle.

Are you crazy?

Although it is not good to let a group of children live in individual rooms, it is definitely wrong to let them live in such a large dormitory! Shouldn't children live with their parents? Even if they need to be raised together, the environment can be a little better. The Li family is not short of money. Even if more than 50 people live on the third floor, they will not be so surprised. More than 50 people living on two floors is really too much.

Qi Huang frowned. She had never lived in a tube-shaped building, let alone this one. Her eyes were full of confusion: "Although it is said that it is not easy for a large family with many children to be noticed, but these accommodation conditions..."

"Because there are too many." Su Bei looked at the wooden iron man, "Your uncle can make so many intelligent parts, so he must not take it very seriously, right?"

That's right, the Iron Man nodded, but retorted: "How can a blood-related child be the same as a part that has been artificially given life?"

"It seems that they are almost intelligent, and they created themselves. The children are the same as the parts." Unexpectedly, Qi Huang stood on Su Bei's side. "In this case, I'm afraid they don't regard these children as their own flesh and blood, but as objects that can be replaced at any time like parts."

Su Bei gave a more appropriate example: "Like the Kingdom of Ants."

"Ah! That's it!" Mu Tieren and Qi Huang nodded vigorously at the same time, thinking that Su Bei's example was really on point.

If the Li family always behaves like this, giving birth to countless children in one nest, wouldn't that be like the queen of ants? Children born in such an environment are like those worker ants, who are ignored and left to fend for themselves, which is the norm.

But soon the wooden iron man thought of an inappropriate point in this example: "No, ants have almost no training costs after they are born, but human children are different. It takes a lot of energy and material resources to raise them. However, this rough way of raising children can make them live in such a crowded place. Their food and clothing must not be exquisite, let alone education..."

At this point, he looked at the house with concern: "Can the children living here really grow up normally?"