The United Nations rescue centre is located on Lapa Island, the administrative centre of the Bath Islands, a much more inhospitable island not much smaller than Tobuai with fewer than 500 inhabitants, the population of a village on the bustling mainland.

The rescue center is only a temporary headquarters here, and there are not many personnel stationed, mainly all the supplies that have been brought in in the early stage are stored here.

Because they were able to receive free supplies, including fuel and food, and the island's residents were happy to go out to sea to help in their fishing boats, Petru's boat was not stopped when it sailed into the Gulf of Ahure.

Lapa Island is a bird's paradise and BirdLife International has designated it as a key bird sanctuary. There is a deafening restlessness in the air on the island, which is the ubiquitous chirping of birds, people who have lived on the island for a long time do not hear this sound, and think that this is a quiet place outside the world, but people who have just arrived on the island will be very unaccustomed to this kind of white noise, just like sitting in a café for a long time and not hearing the noise around them, but those who have just entered find it very noisy.

Only the coal boss became cheerful as soon as he landed on the island, as if a wanderer far from his hometown had returned to his hometown and met a friend he hadn't seen for many years.

But after flying a full circle around the island, he returned to Aoki's head with great interest, complaining that not one of the thousands of birds on the huge island could understand him.

Aoki laughed and said that you are a bird that speaks human language, of course they can't understand it, so can't you speak some bird language? The coal boss said that it was not a matter of language, but of intelligence, and that the birds here clearly belonged to the uncivilized group and could not understand what he was trying to say.

They were received by people from the rescue center and briefed them on the latest developments in the search and rescue efforts – nothing at all.

The people here actually know less information than Aoki and Su Huilan, because they haven't read Captain Church's diary, and they don't know what happened to the research ship.

Aoki's identity is only Su Huilan's assistant, and Petru is just the captain of the fishing boat they paid for, so the two of them basically don't speak, and only Su Huilan has the main communication.

Su Huilan did not tell the people in the rescue center about the captain's diary and nautical charts, and no one could guarantee that there was no problem with the people inside.

Petru quietly tells Aoki and Suhui Lan that there is also a tabp on Lapa Island, but it is not as large and complete as it is on Tubuai Island.

Aoki decided to take a look, and Su Huilan agreed. But Petru did not know how to get to this place from the pier in the Gulf of Ahure, the whole island is close to forty square kilometers, and it is not easy to find this place on two legs.

They had a light lunch on the island, refueled the boat, and left Ahure Bay. Petru drove his boat around the island of Lapa for half a circle, and found a small bay where he could barely anchor and moor his boat.

Petru lowered a raft from the boat, and the three of them went ashore on the raft. After walking about five kilometers, we came to the Tab he was talking about.

It's okay if you haven't seen the Tabs on the island of Tubuai, but after comparison, you will find that the Tapp on the island of Lapa can only be regarded as a ruin.

It is full of shrubs and weeds, unlike the entire hillside of Tubuai. If an unintentional person passes by, he will never find any pattern in the scattered exposed brown stones.

Su Huilan walked around, shook her head at Aoki and said, "There are no spiritual power fluctuations here, but judging from the distribution of these stones, they are indeed similar to that tab. ”

Aoki approached a bare stone and listened with his ears on it, as if there was something in the stone. After listening for a while, he straightened up, took a deep breath, and said, "There are still some things, but they are very faint, like a dying old man." ”

Su Huilan frowned, closed her eyes and felt it carefully, and then gave up and said, "Sure enough, you are better than me." ”

Aoki smiled: "It's not that I'm strong, it's just that we use different methods." ”

"Do you have any other secrets?" Su Huilan said curiously.

Aoki said, "What do you think is the source of Tabu's spiritual power?" ”

Su Huilan said: "There is not a single grass on the slope of Tubuai Island, judging from the topography, it is likely that there is radioactive material underground, and it is this substance that releases spiritual energy at the same time as radioactivity. ”

Aoki said, "You have a point. Regardless of whether it is radioactive or not, the vegetation on the ground will be affected. You feel whether the stone has the spirit or not, but I feel whether the spirit of the plant is affected. ”

"You can already feel the spiritual power of plants?" Su Huilan asked in surprise, "This is the legendary Great Dream Mentor Realm!" ”

"I've just learned, and I don't know any big dream mentors." As Aoki spoke, he felt the endless greenery emanating from the wicker in the backpack he was carrying.

Su Huilan casually picked a wildflower next to her, put it to her nose and sniffed it, and finally gave up her efforts to feel the spirit of the plants and trees.

She suddenly glared at Petru and asked, "Without the guidance of spiritual power, how did you find this place?" ”

Petru explained: "It's a coincidence. I followed the map, but did not dock at Ahure Bay, and after choosing the island, I happened to find this place. The other islands didn't go so well, some of them were marked on the charts, but I couldn't find the tab. ”

Su Huilan picked up a stone and thought, "Maybe it's not a radioactive element, otherwise, even if it decays, it won't be covered with vegetation so quickly." ”

"Maybe there was no radiation a thousand years ago!"

"It's not far from the island of Tubuai, and the environment is not very different, assuming that Tab is a contemporaneous project, it is impossible for the decay period to be so different."

"Whether radioactive or not, the gradual decay of spiritual energy is certain. I wonder how strong these towers were when they were first built, and how strong were the abilities of the wizards at that time? ”

Aoki sighed and asked Petru: "Is the Tabri you found, the one on the island of Tubuai the most complete and powerful?" ”

"There were at least two or three of them that were about the same as Tubuai, but they were inhospitable and uninhabitable, so I only lived on one of them for a while, and then I chose Tubuai." There is also an island, and the tabb on it exudes the strongest spiritual power. But ......"

"But what?"

"It's a ghost island. The first time I found the area on the map, there was no island, and I found it when I returned. Tabb is right in the center of the island, where there is a hot spring, possibly a volcanic crater. I tried to go into the water once, and found that there was a strong spiritual power underwater, but I couldn't feel it on the shore, maybe my awakening level was not enough. ”

"Crater?" Aoki and Su Huilan thought of the inverted pyramid at the same time, as if it was also embedded in a mountain pass.

"I'm not sure. Anyway, the mental power in that water was so strong that it almost made me faint. I didn't dare to stay long, so I left. Later, I went there again, but it seemed that there were people on the island. I didn't know who it was, so I didn't dare to come closer. ”

Su Huilan looked at Aoki: "Do you want to go and see?" ”

Aoki said, "Go, of course I want to go." ”