85_85558Chen Tie looked at Fan Xiaoqi's somewhat surprised and puzzled face, paused again, and then said: "That's because, whether it is in terms of numbers or individual combat strength, the disparity in strength between us and them is really too great!"

After hearing this, Fan Xiaoqi nodded admittedly, and then fell into thought.

"I agree to talk to them, but we have to have chips, right?" Cao Xuan spread his hands and asked Zhao Yu, who was sitting in the chair who first initiated this suggestion, with a puzzled expression.

"Chips...... I haven't thought of it yet. Zhao Yu touched the back of his head, tried to think about it, and then replied helplessly.

"Then you still ......" Cao Xuan was a little annoyed by Zhao Yu's answer above the idiot's head.

"Why don't we pay them some protection money, what do you think?" Nangong Wuxian asked tentatively with an expectant smile.

"Pay the protection fee?" Cao Xuan said with a stunned face and difficulty in confidence: "You can really think of it!"

"It's better to give them a beating than to pay them. Zhao Yu also said angrily.

"We're negotiating with them, not bowing to them and giving them the money. Chen Tie said with a dissatisfied face.

"Okay, what do you say?" Nangong Wuxian smiled embarrassedly and said casually.

"Gotta find a chance, find a good one, a clever one. In this way, it will be possible for us to make peace with them. Zhao Yu showed a serious look, thinking and saying.

"That's right, we can find a few brothers who have a good relationship with the 'Red Eagle Gang' and go to find out the information and see if there is a good chance to make peace with them. Cao Xuanzai nodded and said.

"Okay, just do as you say. Let's hope we're lucky not to run into them until we're okay with them. Nangong Wuxian said while lying on the bed, closing his eyes and resting.

Several other people, including Fan Xiaoqi, also stopped the discussion for the time being and went their separate ways.

In this way, in this slightly depressed, panicked, and somewhat happy state of mind, Fan Xiaoqi and a few fellow inmates spent another day.

The next morning, the two soldiers opened the door on time and took him to the training room.

A moderately built officer with a red beard was standing in the center of the practice room, smiling and waiting for Fan Xiaoqi's arrival.

The officer's surname was 'Liu', and Fan Xiaoqi didn't ask about the specific name. When he first taught Fan Xiaoqi, his attitude was originally very rash, but later, as he got to know Fan Xiaoqi step by step, he gradually found that Fan Xiaoqi was a very diligent and studious young man, and he was a good young man with good knowledge and good morals. Therefore, his attitude gradually changed from cold to enthusiastic, from rash to meticulous. He even had some faith in the words that Fan Xiaoqi had inadvertently said to him, 'I was wronged'.

Today, he is also waiting for Fan Xiaoqi's arrival with the same state of mind that a teacher treats students with excellent character and learning. Of course, from the special smile on his face, Fan Xiaoqi can also see that he still has another expectation for himself. That is, he is about to reach the second order of combat power, and the breakthrough is already close at hand.

"Sir Liu. Fan Xiaoqi bowed to Chief Liu and said politely.

"Oh, hehe. Chief Liu smiled back politely and said, "You...... It's been a lot of progress lately. ”

"Yes, then, thanks to the patient guidance and promotion of Chief Liu and other superiors, I have made progress today. Fan Xiaoqi also smiled politely and replied politely.

"Huh. After hearing this, Chief Liu smiled again, and then continued: "I think, if I hadn't miscalculated, you should have reached the critical moment of rushing to the second order combat power level now." ”

"Yes, several commanders have raised this issue with me. But ......" Fan Xiaoqi said this, retracted the smile on his face, and said with a helpless expression: "However, I don't know what's going on, I have worked hard, but every time it's a little bit worse, I can't break through." ”

"Oh, really?...... Actually, you don't have to be too nervous, whenever the combat power level is on the verge of a breakthrough, cultivators will always encounter a situation similar to yours. It was as if a group of charging soldiers, temporarily slowing down their attack, were gathering strength, waiting to break through the enemy's impregnable fortress. Once enough forces have been assembled, I think the breakthrough will be a breeze. Chief Liu, unhurriedly, explained patiently to Fan Xiaoqi in a concerned tone.

After listening to Chief Liu's explanation, Fan Xiaoqi felt as if a boulder that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time had been violently washed away by a clear and powerful spring. ”

Fan Xiaoqi, who was called, was more energetic and more energetic than he had trained before. During the training process of about two hours in the morning, he did no less than 3,000 '100-pound' weights, and countless "resistance training" to whip his body with a chain-thick iron whip. In the end, he was still the same as before, under the supervision of the soldiers, and went to the periphery of the 'Blackwater Island Air Prison' to carry out weight-bearing long-distance running training. Judging from the amount and intensity of training, he has improved by more than 30 percent compared to before.

During the rest of the evening, he also studied theoretical knowledge more seriously than usual, and practiced the inner strength and mental method. Under the enthusiastic guidance of several fellow inmates, he became more and more energetic, and almost practiced until dawn in one go.

Under this kind of frenzied study and cultivation, about another week passed. Just one morning a week later, Fan Xiaoqi woke up and felt that his body was much lighter and more sensitive than before. He quickly stood up, stretched out his hands and feet, and moved for a while. Subsequently, he finally determined that the feeling he had just felt was not an illusion, and from this he deduced that he had been raised to a second-order combat power. In the dream, I broke through to the second order of combat power!

In addition to the excitement, he couldn't help but ignore the rest of the other five inmates, and naughtily jumped and danced in the cell. It wasn't until he was yelled at in disgust by several people that he finally stopped his movements. Instead, you can vent your emotions by reading a book.

Although he was reading a book, what appeared in his eyes was not the words in the book, but a picture of joy and excitement in his fantasy when he successfully joined the special forces.

Time seems to have slowed down a lot all of a sudden. Twenty minutes, he felt like he had been waiting all morning. In the end, he finally looked forward to the soldiers who came to escort him to the training room for training.

After arriving at the practice room, he showed off to the newly replaced commander that he had just broken through. Although the commander felt that Fan Xiaoqi's behavior was a bit too abrupt, he took into account Fan Xiaoqi's always good performance and the irrepressible excitement he had just finished the level, and finally just matched Fan Xiaoqi's mood and smiled and congratulated him.

After that, under the guidance of his commander, Fan Xiaoqi once began a hard and exciting training. Two hours later, he once overfulfilled the amount of today's training, dragged his tired body, and returned to his cell with a heart that climbed the peak bravely and was not afraid of any challenge.

He originally thought that after entering the door, he would immediately continue to cultivate the inner strength and mental method. However, after entering the door, he was shocked to find that the five inmates were focusing on him with a little excited eyes.

So, Fan Xiaoqi thought for a while with a puzzled face, and then asked tentatively, "What's ......the matter?"

Several people looked at each other for a moment, and then almost at the same time showed mysterious smiles.

Then, Cao Xuan, who was holding a thick book in his hand, smiled at Fan Xiaoqi and beckoned, "Come here, come here, show you something good." ”

So, Fan Xiaoqi followed his call and walked over.

I saw that Cao Xuan was holding his own 'Anthology of Love Stories' in his hand at this time, and he had turned to the middle of the pages with mysterious patterns.

"What? Have you already found the answer?" Fan Xiaoqi asked, sitting next to Cao Xuan, a little incredulous.

"What do you say?" Cao Xuan looked at him with a mysterious smile and asked rhetorically.

At the same time, the other four inmates also gathered around Cao Xuan's side.

From their actions and expressions, Fan Xiaoqi finally understood the meaning of Cao Xuan's rhetorical question just now. So he said with a look of surprise: "Ouch! I really didn't expect you to find the answer to this problem so quickly." ”

So Cao Xuan smiled confidently and explained to Fan Xiaoqi: "Actually, this problem is not difficult to say. Look!" After speaking, Cao Xuan pointed to a few patterns on the book, and turned the pages, all the pages with the 'mysterious patterns' painted in front of Fan Xiaoqi. Then, he continued, "If we count all the lines of these patterns, except for these lines of different lengths and circles and rectangles, these lines of animal and plant patterns, and record them. Soon, you'll notice a strange phenomenon. Speaking of this, Cao Xuan paused intentionally, and looked at Fan Xiaoqi mysteriously.

The other four people next to him also looked at Fan Xiaoqi with the same expressions as Cao Xuan.

Fan Xiaoqi glanced back at them, then quickly rolled his eyes a few times, and thought for a moment. Then, with a slightly confident smile, he tentatively asked a few people, "Do they all make up the house numbers of some of the cells?"

But soon, Fan Xiaoqi was disappointed to find out that he had made a mistake from the unchanged smiling faces of several fellow inmates.

Cao Xuan smiled smugly, shook his head playfully at Fan Xiaoqi and said, "No, no." However, your conjecture and the actual situation have rubbed off a bit. ”

"Well, I'll admit I can't guess. Just tell me honestly!" Fan Xiaoqi shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.

"Hehe!

"Hey......hey"

The five inmates, seeing Fan Xiaoqi's helpless appearance, finally found in him a sense of satisfaction that matched their mental work.

So, while taking out a piece of paper from the sandwich of a certain two pages of the 'Anthology of Love Stories', and placing it in front of Fan Xiaoqi, he said calmly: "You see, the number of lines that make up these plant and animal patterns, if you count them. They can be just as good as 3 to 16 in a row, and they don't repeat the channeling. ”

Fan Xiaoqi cautiously took the piece of paper that Cao Xuan handed him, and then read it slowly: "Four, five, six......" Finally, he read sixteen in one breath, and none of them were repeated.

"So, ?......what do you mean," Fan Xiaoqi continued to ask suspiciously and curiously.

The five colleagues smiled smugly.

Subsequently, Zhao Yu took Fan Xiaoqi's question and replied: "Next, we only need to do one very simple thing. That is to put together the patterns to which these numbers belong, one by one. ”

"Oops!" Fan Xiaoqi suddenly shouted, and then said with a look of surprise and excitement: "Yes, why didn't I expect it?"

The five inmates smiled again. Then, Cao Xuan continued to take out a piece of paper from the mezzanine of two pages of the 'Anthology of Love Stories' and handed it to Fan Xiaoqi.

Fan Xiaoqi hurriedly took it and took a look. It was found that the dozen or so patterns represented from 4 to 16 were completely stitched together into a large local map of the 'Blackwater Island Air Prison'.

After thinking for a while, Fan Xiaoqi shouted excitedly again: "Ah! I can see it." This is the third floor of this big prison, the one in the southeast corner!"

"That's right. Cao Xuan nodded and said with a smile.

The other four were also like Cao Xuan, smiling and nodding.

"But ......" Fan Xiaoqi frowned slightly, and then looked at the 'map' newly spliced by the five inmates and said suspiciously: "However, there are at least a dozen cells drawn on this map." Where on earth would this 'mysterious mechanism' be hidden in one of these many cells?"

"We haven't thought of this yet. He Laosan replied with an honest face beside him.

"Really?" Fan Xiaoqi looked up at a few people with a little regret, and replied at the same time.

"Hehe, though we can't say exactly where these 'mysterious patterns' refer to the precise location of the 'mechanism'. But I think, based on this one discovery, if *Shi Yang Yun keeps his promises, he will use the association to give us some incentive policies, right?" Zhao Yu said with a confident smile while touching his chin