Chapter 337: Fluctuations

"Woo~~~"

At night, the steaming desert is fiery red, and the fine golden sand on the entire desert seems to be steamed red by the heat emitted from the ground.

Blazing rays of light, like boiling dragons of light, kept rising from the desert, distorting the space at the same time, and there was no regularity.

The rumbling sound was endless, and after the sand light blasted into the sky, it suddenly became extremely heavy, and quickly landed towards the desert and exploded.

The girl with different pupils on the outskirts of the desert, with a strong man transformed by the Heavenly Star Turtle, watched the changes in the Steaming Spirit Desert, but did not dare to move forward, let alone enter the desert.

"Mother said that in the direction of the Steaming Spirit Desert, I felt an extremely vast hegemonic fluctuation, but at night this desert is so terrifying, can there really be a strong person who can survive in it? Looking at the appearance of the Steaming Spirit Desert, there seems to be no difference from before, which shows that the opportunity has not been touched. Far away from the terrifying desert, the girl with different eyes thought secretly in her heart.

At this time, the girl with different pupils who was ordered to come to check on the Steaming Spirit Desert did not know that the vast domineering intent that Luo Ying sensed in the desert was issued by Chen Feng.

Although the Remnant Spirit Sect was wiped out by the Guiding Star Sect, after the war, the Guiding Star Sect monks tried their best to still find no trace of Chen Feng.

Such a blow can be described as quite heavy for the old demon woman Luo Ying, but after the big duel, the old woman's situation is not very optimistic, and it is impossible to go out in person to find Chen Feng, who does not know where he fled to.

A big war came down, and the ancient remnants of the wind matter. It was not dealt with immediately, and the old demon woman Luo Ying ordered the people not to enter the revealed sighing cave. The retreat began immediately.

In the eyes of the girl with different pupils, Luo Ying didn't even know how long it would take for the Dao to come out this retreat, which was bound to have a great impact on the Star Sect, which also suffered heavy losses.

However, Luo Ying's old demon woman was in retreat, including the girl with different pupils, a small number of people from the Star Sect. While worried, he was also secretly relieved.

Luo Ying's old demon woman was already moody, coupled with the relationship between being injured and being engaged in by Chen Feng. Become more sensitive.

Even in the Star Introducing Sect, some female cultivators called Luo Ying's old demon woman her mother, but standing in front of her, she didn't even dare to come out.

"Old Five. Looks like we'll have to wait until dawn. After the Steaming Spirit Desert calmed down, I went in again. Seeing the surging sandstorm light in the sky in the Steaming Spirit Desert because of the increasingly hot relationship, the girl with different eyes said to the giant man with a look of fear.

The girl with the different pupils who took a strong man out of the Remnant Spirit Mountain Range was far more than just checking the reason for the outbreak of the vast hegemony in the Steaming Spirit Desert, but also to inquire about Chen Feng's news everywhere.

It's a pity that the girl with different pupils is still a step late, if she can reach the edge of the Steaming Spirit Desert earlier, it is impossible to say that she may find the pillar of light caused by the ancient teleportation array.

It's not just Luo Ying's old demon woman. Even the girl with different pupils who had studied Chen Feng's behavior in the past did not give up hope of finding him.

In the eyes of some people who have a relative understanding of Chen Feng. As long as he doesn't leave the thousands of mountains, it may not take much time for him to show signs somewhere.

What the girl with different pupils didn't know at this time was that the trace of Chen Feng he was looking for had already left the Steaming Spirit Desert at this time, and with the strange power of the ancient teleportation array, he had reached the Silent Sea in the southwest of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

At night, the sea is quiet, and the many islands are set against the backdrop of the moonlight, giving people a sense of starry.

Although the entire Mujing Sea is only a very small existence on the boundary star, if you are in the sea area, you will know that the sea area is almost endless.

There are thousands of islands large and small in the Makujing Sea, and they are extremely far apart, and if you look at the entire sea from the sky, some islands have a charm at night, while others are dead and lifeless.

Although the Ten Thousand Law Temple, as one of the nine major sects of the Ten Thousand Mountains, occupies the vast Mujing Sea, it is not prosperous everywhere.

In particular, the sea area is not as close as the mountains, and the islands are far from being closely connected with the mountain gates, but give people a sense of scattered chaos.

Chen Feng and Big Face Girl, the spatial coordinate point of landing, is on the periphery of the Mujing Sea, as if it is a small abandoned reef island.

"Ding Dong!Ding Dong!Ding Dong~~~"

In the cave in the depths of the reef island, the sound of water droplets dripping from the stone wall on the top of the cave is quite crisp, and the blue light of the waterhole on one side makes the cave have some light.

The cave is not too wide, it is not a deep shape, but like a small hall carved out of the depths of the island, almost in a sealed state, except for a waterhole, there is no way out to the outside.

"Ah~~~"

Chen Feng, who had rolled down next to the ancient teleportation array stacked on both sides, snorted twice in pain as if he had suffered a serious impact.

Even the big-faced girl who consumed a lot of money couldn't stand up, almost turned into a ball, and it took several turns in the cave to unload the momentum, and the last one lay on her back on the ground of the cave like a big word, constantly panting.

The ancient teleportation array disk stacked on both sides is obviously different, the ancient teleportation array disk used by Chen Feng and the big-faced girl has a faint aura scattered on the top, but the array disk that is somewhat damaged on the bottom side has almost no trace of brilliance, as if it has been chiseled by someone.

"Hurry up and act, you can't stay here for a long time, otherwise you will notice a strange strong person, and you will not be able to find it through careful deduction." Chen Feng was the first to come back to his senses and wanted to struggle to get up.

Hearing Chen Feng's words, the big-faced girl who had just relaxed a little in her heart quickly stood up.

Because of the relationship between the great depletion of spiritual power and spiritual power, the big-faced girl who got up even shook a little, but she still held on to the feeling of dizziness, came to Chen Feng's side, and helped him up.

"Leave me alone for now, hurry up and wrap those two arrays around with puppet wire, or it won't be long before we are found and exposed." Although Chen Feng was anxious, he looked at the situation in the cave.

The big-faced girl didn't annoy Chen Feng's command. Instead, he walked towards the teleportation array disk stacked on top of each other on both sides, first using the spirit seal to close the operation of the array disk that brought the two of them here, and then he was already struggling to hold the array disk. Start quickly winding with fine light couple wires.

Seeing that the big-faced girl's small arms were moving quite quickly, Chen Feng took a deep breath with a little emotion, and then his eyes fell on a corpse in the corner of the cave.

Even though the corpse had been decomposed, judging from the remaining skeletons, Chen Feng also guessed that this person was an old man before his death, and he was quite powerful.

"I'm afraid this guy has been badly wounded, and his bones are broken. The right wrist is even more poisoned, and it seems that he should have been dead for a long time. "A skeleton was found to have almost all of it through fine cracks, and the right wrist bone was located. There was an obvious black glow, and Chen Feng said lightly.

"Do you want to take that skeleton with you?"

The big-faced girl who worked hard asked Chen Feng.

"A broken skeleton is worthless, the waterhole in this cave. Most likely, it is a passage to the outside world. Let's go from here later, pay attention to use your gluttonous spirit base to absorb the breath of both of us, and don't leave any clues for others. Chen Feng's eyes flickered slightly.

It didn't take long for the big-faced girl to wrap up the two-sided array plate and put it away, and even the storage bag next to the skeleton was picked up by her.

In the process of walking towards Chen Feng, He Nianshi's big mouth sucked slightly. Soon the faint aura emitted by the unconscious of the two of them was drawn into their mouths.

"Gone!"

Supporting Chen Feng's big-faced sister. After scanning the cave and finding nothing of value, he jumped into the pool with Chen Feng.

"Goo!Goo~~~"

The two people who jumped into the circular waterhole did not make a splash, but after a few bubbles in the waterhole, their bodies completely sank into the undercurrent leading to the outside of the island.

Although there were no monks in the spatial coordinates chosen by Chen Feng and the big-faced girl, the landing of the two was not smooth, but suffered a great impact.

In the process of the overlapping of the two teleportation array disks, if it weren't for the big-faced girl protecting Chen Feng's broken body that had recovered on the surface, I am afraid that he would not have been as simple as just rolling out of the teleportation platform.

The ancient teleportation array disk in the island cave mansion was not in a state of opening at all.

Even the vague aura was the same as the ancient teleportation array that brought Chen Feng and the big-faced girl here, and the two of them were forcibly selected teleportation landing points.

The amount of power accumulated in the transmission process could not be vented, and all of it was borne by the big-faced girl.

After entering the pool, the big-faced girl just pulled Chen Feng and did not swim, but under the drive of the dark tide current, she rose towards a sea surface on the periphery of the reef island.

"Bang!"

It wasn't until Chen Feng and the others were pushed out of the sea by the undercurrent that the big-faced girl took advantage of the situation and released an inconspicuous rope and carried him behind her.

"Whew~~~"

In the process of flying quickly, instead of releasing her breath, the big mouth kept her mouth in a state of extracting the breath of the two of them, leaving no breath residue on the surface of the sea.

"Go a little farther and walk around the periphery of the sea, there is really no good place, so let's go ashore, and put your whole mask on your face later, so as not to attract the attention of others. While Chen Feng looked at the sea area, he commanded to the big-faced girl.

"The stiffness of your body has already disappeared, I believe that in a short time, even if you can't recover your mobility, your physical function will gradually improve, should we find an opportunity to join the Ten Thousand Laws Concept?"

On the other hand, to be able to land on such a deserted reef island as Wanfaguan without danger, the big-faced girl is also glad that the two of them are lucky.

"Don't worry, such a big sect is not so easy to bluff over, we have to find a place to settle down first, and then look at the situation, this sea area seems to be vast, but the distribution between the islands is very scattered, even if you go a little farther from here, it will not be too easy to find a place to rest." Feeling that the big-faced girl was also very tired at this time, completely supporting him and plundering, Chen Feng couldn't help sighing.

"Can you still move, I'm afraid it won't work to fly like this, even at night, it's easy to be discovered, if someone really notices the fluctuation of the teleportation drop just now and comes over, we will still be exposed." "The big-faced girl was starry in the sky, while sweeping on the sea. asked Chen Feng.

"I didn't practice this magic power, but I just wrote down the artistic conception of a strong man when he used it. And now that my spiritual elements have been sealed, the spiritual power outside my body has long been exhausted, and it is difficult to take you to space jump. Chen Feng was a little weak to speak.

"Your mind has not been greatly affected by the injury now, as long as the artistic conception is released, I will use spiritual power to fuse it, even if it can't achieve the desired effect, it is much faster than relying on flying now. "The big-faced girl consumes too much spiritual power in the short term. The body is a little tight.

"You can try it, but if it doesn't work, don't force it. After Chen Feng spoke, he closed his eyes and quickly released a strange artistic conception.

The spirit element in the big-faced girl's body was running rapidly. Not only did there not be a trace of superfluous leakage, but Chen Feng's artistic conception was guided to his body.

At this moment, while the big-faced girl was surprised in her heart, her perception of the vast space changed.

Conduction through a spatial medium. The big-faced girl who also closes her eyes. There is even a sense of confusion in the perception of the space of the Mujing Sea.

Some islands seem to be close or far away in He Nianshi's senses, and some seem to be out of order, and the distances that cannot be reached in a short time seem to be able to be reached with one step.

"Turning towards the islands on the outskirts of the Mujing Sea that may be settled, you have to be a little faster, this magic power of turning stars consumes spiritual power. It's also a big burden for spiritual sense, especially if you still use my artistic conception. I'm afraid it will be more difficult. Chen Feng passed on to her through the artistic conception of merging with the big-faced girl Lingyuan.

"There seems to be a cultivation gathering place on that coast, let's go to that heaven and earth now, with our two raw faces, suddenly appearing in the sea area, it is easy to be interrogated, and this sea area may be the inner gate of the Ten Thousand Laws Concept, not the monks of the Ten Thousand Laws Concept, it is too conspicuous. The big-faced girl pointed at Lingyu with two fingers in her right hand, constricting Chen Feng's artistic conception and experiencing the strangeness of spatial changes.

"I didn't realize that this woman can be so reliable before!" Chen Feng secretly sighed in his heart.

"I'll turn!"

The figure of the big-faced girl carrying Chen Feng suddenly swirled, and her mind even showed the excitement of a little woman, and the figures of the two had disappeared into a sea area.

The sea breeze with a slightly refreshing breath blew, and after Chen Feng and the others disappeared without a trace, there was no trace of the breath of the two of them.

Not long after the big-faced girl moved out of the city, several monks had already gradually approached the abandoned reef island from the southern sea in the depths of the Makujing Sea.

"Whew~~~"

The figure of a middle-aged man, almost in a few flashes in a row, landed on the reef island from a distant location.

"Senior Brother Xuchi, did you sense something?"

A woman in a blue skirt turned into a flying rainbow, and after the middle-aged man, the second one came to the reef island.

"Strange, I obviously felt the fluctuation of Senior Sister Lan Xuan's ancient teleportation array disk before, but ......" The middle-aged man stood on a huge reef and looked towards the entire abandoned reef island, as if he wanted to find something abnormal.

"Did you feel the traction of Senior Sister Lan Xuan's teleportation array disk before, but the spatial traction coordinates that were not fully opened disappeared not long after. The blue-robed woman saw that six more people had come to Reef Island one after another, so she asked a few people strangely.

A little old man with a dark face shook his head, and a pair of inverted triangular eyes even observed the expressions of several other people: "I only faintly sensed the traction of some ancient array disks, but the spatial coordinates seem to be in the depths of tens of millions of mountains, and I can't be sure where it is, this is the first time such a thing has happened, even if Senior Sister Lan Xuan encountered difficulties before, she had never pulled us." ”

If Chen Feng and the big-faced girl were still there at this time, they would be able to sense the danger of the eight monks coming to the reef island, although the cultivation of the eight people was only in the Middle Heaven Realm, they each had an extraordinary background, even if they didn't have to do it deliberately, they also faintly exuded a strong sense of oppression.

"The fluctuation of the spatial traction coordinates, the release time is so short, who can be sure where it is, Senior Sister Lan Xuan has always traveled alone, and rarely returns to the sect, I'm afraid there is nothing she can't deal with. A graceful woman didn't seem to deal with the young woman in red who was killed by Chen Feng, and her tone even revealed a faint sarcasm.

The middle-aged man who was the first to arrive at Reef Island had a slightly strange expression: "The first place to release the spatial coordinates and pull the fluctuations, if I am not mistaken, it should be the area of the Steaming Spirit Desert." But not long ago, Senior Sister Lan Xuan should have returned to Mu Jinghai, didn't any of you pick her up?"

I heard the middle-aged man mention the steaming desert. The other seven all showed frightened expressions, obviously very wary of the Jedi in the depths of the Nanming Mountain Range.

"I don't know if anyone has been brought to Senior Sister Lan Xuan, but if she is really dragged to the Steaming Spirit Desert, I am afraid that my life will have to be buried there, since Senior Sister Lan Xuan wants to pull people, she must have encountered a situation that she can't deal with, and I don't want to go to the Steaming Spirit Desert for the rest of my life. "A young man with a sharp-beaked monkey's cheeks. He shrunk his neck, with a frightened expression on the surface, but stared at the eyes of the other people. But there is a faint distrust hidden.

Even within the same sect, the monks do not necessarily trust each other, especially in the case of the ancient teleportation array disk with nine sides, between the people who hold the array disk. It is easier to have suspicion and suspicion.

"So to speak. None of you have been introduced to Lan Xuan before?" the middle-aged man seemed to feel the different thoughts of the other seven people, and asked clearly.

The middle-aged man, who received the response from the seven people, had a contemplative look on his face a little more intense, and even let go of his spiritual sense, and went deeper into the reef island, and began to investigate the sea surface on the outskirts of the island.

"Not only is there an undercurrent around this reef island, but there are no spiritual veins, and it has been abandoned for a long time. Even the outer disciples will not come here. A thoughtful young man noticed the strangeness of the middle-aged man. Reminded him.

It is not necessary for the young man to remind him, the eight people on the island are all considered to be highly qualified monks of the Ten Thousand Law Concept, and they all have some understanding of the situation in the entire Mujing Sea, even if this abandoned reef island is inconspicuous, the middle-aged man cannot be said to be unfamiliar.

However, after carefully inspecting the island and the sea surface for a period of time, the middle-aged man's eyes changed slightly, and he did not hide it at all, staring at the small piece of sea that the big-faced girl rushed out with Chen Feng before.

Following the middle-aged man's gaze, the other seven people began to carefully perceive the small piece of sea.

"It's just an undercurrent, is there anything unusual around this abandoned island?" said the young man with the sharp-beaked monkey's cheeks, squinting slightly.

"Follow me......"

The middle-aged man didn't see any movement under his feet, but his body showed a rapid momentum, attacking towards a piece of sea in the distance.

"Boom~~~"

Just as the middle-aged man entered the water with a spiritual light, the other seven monks on the island also followed one after another, taking advantage of the middle-aged man's rush into the dark tide and entering a whirlpool on the sea.

"Bang~~~"

Facing the undercurrent and going upstream, it didn't take long for the middle-aged man to rush out of the waterhole in the cave below the reef island with seven people.

Looking at the situation in the cave, not only the middle-aged man was slightly surprised, but even the other seven people who followed up all had different eyes, obviously discovering and coming to this place for the first time.

"I didn't expect that such a cave had been dug out under this reef island, and I had never heard of it before!"

The others had different thoughts about the graceful woman's actions, but the middle-aged man looked at a circular carved pattern on the top of the cave.

"No wonder there was a faint fluctuation of the Ancient Teleportation Array just now, is it because of the fluctuations emitted by this engraved pattern?" The blue-robed woman followed the middle-aged man's gaze and also found the inscription of the Ancient Teleportation Array Disk.

The middle-aged man just frowned and pondered, and did not immediately reply to several people.

"This skeleton should have been a Zhongtian Realm monk before his death, but he has been dead for too long, and it is difficult to identify his identity if there is any information left in the cave. The little old man with a black face, after coming up to observe the bones closely, said a little absent-mindedly.

Although the discovery of the cave under the abandoned reef island surprised several people, the fluctuations from the previous Lan Xuan teleportation array returning to the Mujing Sea also made a few people have some suspicions.

If Lan Xuan really returned, then where did she go at this time, this ancient teleportation array disk has nine sides, and the monks who have the teleportation array disk to obtain the Ten Thousand Law Concept have to use the other coordinates that have the array disk and are in the Curtain Quiet Sea Region to come back.

In particular, the appearance of the stone carving pattern of the ancient array plate above the cave house is easy to arouse the suspicion of several people.

"Could it be that Lan Xuan, who doesn't return to the sect often, has already mastered the way to come back unknowingly without using other people's arrays?" Staring at the stone carving pattern on the top of the cave, I thought secretly in my heart.

Among the eight people, only the young woman in red had the ancient teleportation array disk. The middle-aged man with a little understanding faintly felt that the array plate pattern engraved on the top of this cave was slightly different from Lan Xuan's teleportation array disk.

However, even the middle-aged man is not sure whether the young woman in red has hidden her dissent.

The sound of the dripping water in the cave mansion has no remnants of the monk's breath except for the damp breath.

"It doesn't matter if Lan Xuan comes back or not. Changing the location of the ancient teleportation array without permission is also a violation of the rules handed down by the sect, this skeleton and the stone carving pattern of the ancient teleportation array disk. I'll bring it back to the sect master, presumably everyone shouldn't have any objections, right?" Seeing that there was nothing of value in the cave mansion, the graceful young woman looked at the other seven people.

Although the graceful woman's words made several people dissatisfied. But it didn't show it to face.

"It's weird. It is better to make a conclusion after careful investigation, if Senior Sister Lan Xuan is back, she shouldn't need such a ......" Although the blue-robed woman was suspicious, there were no clues to support the current situation.

At this time, the big-faced girl who was moving with Chen Feng on her back had already fled in a sea area, and she didn't even stay in the Mujing Sea. Directly inland, quite far from the coast.

In a dense forest with towering ancient trees, a roar was heard. It seemed that the big-faced girl and Chen Feng who came out of the air did not land calmly, but appeared out of thin air with the wind and glow, and hit the ground and the ancient trees respectively.

"Damn, is it finally here......"

The figure crashed into Chen Feng, who couldn't hug the giant tree with ten people, and at the same time as the sawdust flew and the tree body cracked, the giant tree was deeply trapped into a large font, which was quite funny.

And the big-faced girl who was almost unconscious blasted the ground into a big pit.

After a while, until the explosion dissipated, Chen Feng's figure trapped in the giant tree did not move, as if he was stuck.

"If you don't die, make a sound, hurry up and get me out of the room, and if you hear it, there is no ......" Chen Feng, who had regained some consciousness a little, used his mind to roar at the big-faced girl who fell to the ground.

"I'll get up soon, you wait, now my spiritual power and mental consumption are extremely great, it's very uncomfortable......" The big-faced girl was not annoyed, she struggled weakly in the earth and rock pit, and seemed to feel a little distressed about Chen Feng, wanting to get him out of the embarrassing predicament as soon as possible.

"Forget it, just know that you can't do anything good, let's breathe for a while, you are now the only combat force in our small ~~~ organization, if there is any emergency, you have to rush up." Chen Feng pretended to be blunt.

"Click!click~~~"

Although she was extremely tired, the big-faced girl still struggled to get up and pulled out Chen Feng's funny figure trapped in the giant tree, making the giant wood fall straight to the slag.

"You're all right, are you?"

I don't know what Lu Dao is, since the big-faced girl felt that Chen Feng's body stiffness disappeared and regained its activity, it seemed to be different from before, but she didn't know what the reason for Lu Dao.

"Pity my crippled body, you are so seriously injured, try hitting the big tree and see if it will be okay?" Chen Feng muttered with a dissatisfied face, as if he had lost face, but there was a little obscene discoloration hidden in his eyes.

"Not far from this mountain forest, there is a small mountain village, maybe we can go there and settle down first, I was too tired to catch you before......" The big-faced girl gasped and looked at the puppet silk belt that had been removed from her hand because of the slippage.

"Since you are tired, let's rest in this mountain forest first, with the current state of the two of us, if we go out and meet a monk with bad intentions, we must be killed, take out all the spiritual essence and pills in my storage bag, and give me some too. Chen Feng glanced at the big-faced girl, as if he didn't want to see her.

"Do you think that everyone is like you, specializing in killing people, looting treasures and stealing things?" The big-faced girl reached out and pulled around in Chen Feng's storage bag, but she was not polite, although she was deliberately squeezed by the man in front of her, she did not mean to be angry and his general knowledge.

After a while, there was already a small pile of things in front of the two of them.

Seeing that the big-faced girl was extremely hungry, grabbing the unrefined spirit essence and stuffing it into her big mouth, Chen Feng couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

"Big-faced girl, you don't care about others if you eat it, this is something I finally get, isn't it distressing to eat other people's?" Until the big-faced girl's mouth was stuffed with spiritual essence, Chen Feng finally couldn't help but show a trace of black lines on his face.

"I'm tired and hungry, I'll feed you some......" The big-faced girl didn't speak very clearly, grabbed a handful of spirit essence and stuffed it into Chen Feng's mouth, as if she knew his monster physique.

It is impossible for ordinary monks to devour the spiritual essence like this, because of the conflict of medicinal properties, something big will happen.

However, the big-faced girl with a gluttonous body has no scruples in this regard, which is one of the reasons why her broken flesh can be reborn so quickly.

"Save a little, these spiritual essences have not been refined, although the spiritual power is purer than the elixir, but it lacks the medicinal properties that have been blended, and it will be a great waste to eat it raw. Chen Feng, who was fiddled with by the big-faced girl and stuffed a mouthful of essence, said vaguely and painfully.

"What I need is spiritual power, if you want to pursue medicinal properties, then I can spit out some medicinal paste for you, the spiritual essence that I eat, the medicinal properties will soon be fused and digested in the stomach, and sometimes the effect will be better than alchemy. He Nianshi only showed an embarrassed look until this time.

"Forget it, it's good for me to eat these spiritual essences, and it's also very good to use spiritual energy to cultivate and cultivate divine consciousness......" Hearing the big-faced girl's words, Chen Feng said weakly with a slight discomfort in his stomach.

In less than half a pillar of incense, the spirit essence and elixir that were taken out in front of the big-faced girl were eaten by the two of them, and there was not a piece of Ye Er left.

Judging from the monster-like physique of the two, they are a bit like husband and wife, and they are indistinguishable.

"It's over, it's over~~~ This is something that has been accumulated with great difficulty, if it goes on like this, I will be bankrupted by this woman sooner or later!" Seeing that the big-faced girl was still unsatisfied, and found out the storage bag that the other monks had snatched, Chen Feng couldn't help but wail in his heart.

(The first update, there will be more later, there will be three chapters and 10,000 eight outbreaks today, everyone has to vote.) (To be continued......)