Dinner was not very pleasant in the steamer's dining room. Qin Qi didn't look very natural, he shook the goblet in his hand, and with a reluctant smile, he carefully caught every word that came out of Luo Fangshi's mouth, and whenever he combined these words in his mind, it took him a long time to accept. Rofonzi was talking about his marriage to Law Zhilan. From the wedding banquet to the guest invitation, I have to say that this old man's requirements are a bit harsh, in Luo Fangshi's opinion, with his current status, if his daughter's marriage can't catch up with the state banquet, his reputation is definitely worth a slander. Thinking of Qin Qi's strong family background, he didn't have the slightest concern, Luo Zhilan couldn't listen to it on the side, she reminded her father from time to time, but he refuted it with the reason of three obedience and four virtues, Luo Zhilan wondered why his father, who had lived abroad for decades, still had such deep traditional thoughts in his bones, and he often taught himself a lesson, but he didn't dare to quarrel with his father in the restaurant, and gradually stopped talking. However, Liang Juncai, who was sitting next to Qin Qi and came to set up the table, did not say anything about this, but just asked Luo Fangshi about it, of course, flattering words were indispensable.

These were inevitably a little strange in Qin Qi's opinion. Liang Juncai is a friend that Qin Qi met in the club, not a deep friend, this Liang Juncai is not a talkative person in the club, he usually sits alone at the table drinking and reading books, even if someone invites him, he always refuses. Today he seems to be a different person. Talking and laughing more than once, he also chatted with Luo Fangshi very openly, it stands to reason that he should be more familiar with Qin Qi, but what Liang Juncai has said to Qin Qi from the time they met just now is no more than three sentences at most, and he seems to be very interested in Luo Fangshi's affairs.

Luo Fangshi did not have a good impression of Liang Juncai, and his response was mostly perfunctory. In addition to Qin Qi and Luo Zhilan's marriage tonight, there was one other thing that caught his attention, and that was the foreigner sitting at a table diagonally opposite him. The foreigner's face was a little haggard, his golden hair was combed all back of his head, and his temples were a little white, especially the deep knife marks on his face, even the suit and leather shoes could not hide his wild temperament. Luo Fangshi couldn't sit still. He took out a pen, wrote a few words on a note, asked the waiter to deliver it to the foreigner, and then said goodbye to everyone in the room, picked up his cane and left the restaurant with light steps. The foreigner took the note and looked at it, his expression was surprised, and he immediately looked around, and without even a cane, he limped towards the gate.

At this time, Liang Juncai obviously couldn't sit still, he chatted with Qin Qi without a few words, put his hand under the table, and no longer wanted to chat with Qin Qi and them, so he found a reason to go to the toilet and left the restaurant, and at this moment, only Qin Qi and Luo Zhilan were left on the table. Luo Zhilan was quite happy to see his father's absence, and Qin Qi looked at the back of Liang Juncai leaving, his heart was full of doubts, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw a golden thing under Liang Juncai's seat. He leaned down and picked it up to see that it was actually a bullet! Qin Qi frowned, quietly put away the bullet, turned around and asked Luo Zhilan: "Xiaolan, did your father bring anything valuable when he went back this time?" ”

Besides, after this Liang Juncai left the restaurant, he did not follow Luo Fangshi, but walked to the stern of the boat sneakily alone. At this time, there was no one on the stern deck, it was so empty, Liang Juncai looked back at his back, and after feeling safe, he took out a silver dagger from his arms, the dagger was engraved with runes, he took a deep breath, stretched out his left hand, spread out his palm covered with knife marks, closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and slashed heavily on the palm with the dagger, dark red blood came out of the slit. He dripped blood on the dagger, and the blood flowed down the runes, glowing red, and at this time, looking along the stern of the ship, a black fog in the sky not far away drifted towards Liang Juncai, and when the thick fog touched the deck, he immediately turned into a man in black squatting on the deck wearing a black cloak. The man in black slowly straightened his waist, a face with a metal mask was revealed, black mist wanted to spread from the man in black, the place where he was standing had already formed a thick layer of ice, Liang Juncai's face was pale, looking at the man in black in horror, and the dagger in his hand slipped quietly.

The man in black stretched out his scarred, withered hand like a crocodile's claw to pinch Liang Juncai's neck, with a metallic accent, and said to him: "I hope you can give me good news this time, I can't stand your stupidity anymore." ”

"Lord, master," Liang Juncai said tremblingly, "I, I found you, the person you want..."

The man in black let go of Liang Juncai's neck, leaned back a little, and said, "Really? Hahahahahaha..."

From behind the mask came a wolf-howling laugh.

"Where is he?"

"He's—he's on this boat, but, but, there's a man and a woman with him."

"Huh?"

"One is his daughter, and the other is his son-in-law." Liang Juncai added.

The man in black was stunned for a moment, unable to see his face due to his mask, but from the two eye holes of his mask, a pair of red eyes could still be seen turning left and right, dotted with green light.

After a while, the man in black put his hands on Liang Juncai's arms and said, "Well done, you will get paid soon, but, until everything is over, I hope that you can still help me do one thing, and after that, you will be free." ”

"That's... that's my pleasure, master." Liang Juncai said in horror.

"You go..." said the man in black who put his head to Liang Juncai's ear and spoke softly. Liang Juncai got close to the man in black, felt the extreme cold, and his body trembled involuntarily. After a while, he stopped shaking, and his eyes only looked straight ahead, and a stream of red liquid flowed down the edge of his cheek and hit the deck, instantly turning into a reddish-brown mist.

At this time, Raffonzi was standing on the bow of the ship, leaning against the railing, and the flame of the cigarette in his mouth flickered and extinguished, like a lighthouse on the sea to guide the passing ships. The foreigner just now had already walked to the bow of the boat, stopped, and asked tentatively, "Li Tongyi?" ”

"Lance Gladstone?" Rofonzi also responded.

"It turns out that it's really you, Li Tongyi, my friend." Lance immediately stepped forward and opened his hands, and Luo Fangshi couldn't suppress his excitement and hugged Lance. It's been about 20 years since the last hug.

"Why are you here, Lance, aren't you supposed to give orders to your men at your desk? I remember when we came back from Undersea City, you said to me, 'I'm not going to go out with the troops anymore, I'm going to command those guys in the office like my commander.' 'What's wrong?' Don't you even want to do this? Rofonzi said.

Lance sighed, he patted his thigh with his hand, and said, "I don't want to leave the army either, but this leg of mine is injured, and I retired from the army less than two years after you and your wife left, and then also moved to the United States, and now I am a sheriff in a small town, and I came here for a vacation." ”

"How can your leg hurt? You're already in the office, what injury can make your retirement so bad? Luo Fangshi asked puzzled.

"Do you remember those men in black?" Lance said.

Hearing the three words of the man in black, Luo Fangshi couldn't help but get nervous, he took a few deep puffs of his cigarette and threw the cigarette butt into the sea. "How's it going?"

"They're not dead, they're alive," Lance whispered.

"How is that possible?" Rofonse immediately denied Reims' words. "They are all crushed under the temple, how can they still be alive, besides, we have blown up the entrance to the underwater city, and they can't get out alive."

"I know all of this, but, my friend, I saw them with my own eyes, and they came to me." Lance's expression became very solemn. "They also attacked the British Museum."

"The British Museum? Do they want to..."

"Li Tongyi, my friend, they want that compass." Lance said, "The man in black in the mask, he still wants to know where you are. That time I detonated a grenade and escaped, but my foot was crippled and I couldn't move. I hid somewhere and wrote a letter of resignation to my superiors, then went to the bank and withdrew all the money, fled to the United States, and never returned to England.

With that, Lance looked up at the sky and closed his eyes. Then he turned around and continued: "I have been trying to tell you about this for more than ten years, I hope you can take precautions, and now seeing you like this, I think you should be doing very well." But, my friend, I think it won't be long before the man in black will be able to find you, and I'd suggest you hide like me. ”

Ronfonse patted Lance on the shoulder, casting a sympathetic and grateful look. He said, "Lance, you don't have to worry about me, since we left Egypt, my wife and I have moved to the United States and changed our names. My current name is Raffonzi instead of Lee Tongyi. I guess that's why you can't find me. ”

"I see? "By the way, my friend, I noticed that there are three young people around you, who are they?" ”

"Oh~ That lady is my daughter, and the one sitting across from me is my son-in-law, his name is Qin Qi, and the other one is his friend."

"Your son-in-law? Could it be that he—" Lance was a little excited when he heard Rofonzi's words.

"Lance," said Raffonse unhurriedly, "we have said we would keep this secret and not tell anyone, and I have kept it a secret for twenty years. I don't want to tell him about it yet, but when the time comes, he'll know. Although the compass was discovered by Dr. Lehnert, Dr. Leitner gave it to me, and Qin Qi has been following Mr. Qin for so many years. Anyway, I'm already planning to give the compass to Qin Qi, it's better to give him this thing. ”

"Dr. Lightner is dead." Lance answered.

"What's going on? How could he have died? "Rofonse can't accept this fact." Didn't he also flee to the United States? ”

"He's in a similar situation to me, except he's not that lucky. The men in black found him and killed him. ”

Hearing this, Rofonzi had to think about his own situation. Although he has been living safely for almost twenty years, some days have been quite peaceful. Now that the other two people who have come into contact with the compass have suffered one accident after another, he feels that it is time to give up the compass for the sake of his future life.

"Lance, can you do me a favor?" Rofond rekindled a cigarette. "Since the man in black wants a compass, you can help me hand over the compass to the British government, and then release the news, so that we don't have to live incognito."

"But Dr. Lightner said that the compass cannot be given to the man in black." Lance reminded Rofoncius, "He said that if the Man in Black got it, it would do us no harm, but it would harm our descendants. ”

"That's just Dr. Leitner's guess, what he saw in the temple is just a record, how can the past be relevant to our future?" Raffonzi argued.

"My friend, Dr. Leitner, said that it was not the past, that it could be another world, our future world."

"Even so, there's nothing we can do to stop him." "You and I will die, and my daughter will not be able to bear such a task," said Ralphonse. Let the mission end with me. ”

Seeing the pained and frustrated expression of Rhaffonsh, Lance did not say anything more, he hugged this friend of his, and then said, "Well, where is the compass now?" ”

"In my cabin."

After Qin Qi found the bullet, he pulled Luo Zhilan everywhere to look for Luo Fangshi. He felt that Liang Juncai's appearance was not so simple as a coincidence, Liang Juncai was fiddling with a pistol under the table just now, and followed Luo Fangshi out, it must be for some treasure or something. The two of them first went to Rofonzi's bedroom, but no one was inside, and when they were about to walk from the stairs to the aft deck, Liang Juncai suddenly appeared at the top of the stairs. At this time, Liang Juncai was obviously different from just now, his eyes were red, his face was pale, the left side of his face was full of red blood, his steps were stiffly dragged down, and his trembling hand was holding a revoltable pistol, pointing at Qin Qi and Luo Zhilan. Luo Zhilan screamed when she saw this, and Qin Qi immediately pulled Luo Zhilan back.

"Liang Juncai, are you okay?" Qin Qi asked softly, he was afraid that his words would anger Liang Juncai.

"It's okay, I'm feeling great." Liang Juncai smiled and deducted the hammer at the same time. "I've never felt this good."

"Can you put the gun down, then? That's not polite, isn't it? Qin Qi stretched out his hand and tried to take his pistol.

"Put your hands down!" Liang Juncai shouted. His expression was agitated, and the blood on the left side of his face kept falling down his shoulder, making people feel sick to watch. Qin Qi immediately retracted his hand.

There was a kind of silence at the top of the staircase, and Qin Qi and Liang Juncai were looking at each other...... Soon, Liang Juncai raised his gun and pointed it at Luo Zhilan, his eyes flashing with a fierce light.

"I know you won't listen to what I'm telling you to do, but I know there's a way to make things easier, and I hope you don't blame me, because her father made it himself."

After that, Liang Juncai pulled the trigger, and the bullet rushed out of the barrel of the gun, shooting through Luo Zhilan's right shoulder, Luo Zhilan fell beside Qin Qi, her expression was extremely painful, and she could only call Qin Qi's name softly.

"You ・・・・・" Qin Qi helped Luo Zhilan and looked at Liang Juncai angrily.

"I'm sorry," Liang Juncai was very emotional, his expression was both frightened and excited, he pointed the pistol at Luo Zhilan again, and said: "My master needs you to come to him and let me kill this woman, but I know that after killing this woman, you will not listen to me, so I hope you can be obedient." ”

As he spoke, Liang Juncai took a step down, took out the dagger just now from his arms, and threw it to Qin Qi.

"Do as I want, or I'll make this woman have another hole in her body."