Hearing Jiang Baimian's words, a look of surprise flashed on Song He's face.
The other party asked a very strange question, and it had a clear point, as if they wanted to explore something.
As a vigilant sect clergy in a remote corner, although Song He has rich life experience and sufficient experience, his vision is ultimately limited to such a small place as Hongshiji, and at most it involves some personnel changes and doctrinal disputes in the sect, and he knows almost nothing about the ruins of the city across the mountain.
In the rush of thoughts, Song He smiled bitterly:
"Frankly, I have only met Dimarco's great-grandfather Monteis, and at that time, I was just a small person, hehe, and now, in short, no more than five contacts with him.
"From time to time he would leave the ark and come to the surface, to different places, and I don't know where he went.
"Later, he converted to our sect and believed in the year of the Zhisui, and never left the 'underground boat' again until his death.
"The same is true for his sons and grandsons, that is, Dimarco's grandfather and father."
Perhaps because he had stayed in the Red Stone Collection for too long, he needed to preach to believers in the Red River language from time to time, and Song He occasionally brought the grammatical characteristics of this language in his speech.
Uh, where did he convert to your sect and believe in the year of the Zhisui, he was subdued by the dead...... Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and said:
"What kind of person was Dimarco's great-grandfather Monteith?"
"Proud to the point of arrogance, majestic to the point of being impersonal, and the gaze is very deterrent." Song He replied calmly, "I just said his specific personality, I don't have much contact with him, I don't know him very well, compared to me, you might as well ask the old servants and guards of the ark to look through Montese's collection, maybe he has the habit of writing diaries?"
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"Who is a serious person......
His follow-up words were interrupted by Jiang Baimian:
"If Monteith hides a secret, he certainly won't record it in his diary unless he wants to tell others at the right time and in the right way."
"What if he has compulsive writing in a diary?" The honest business saw Yao and got up.
Song He's expression did not change, and his tone was still gentle:
"I'm just proposing a direction for the investigation."
"Understood." Jiang Baimian said sincerely, "Thank you."
Then, she took her leave, took Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong, and walked to the door.
Seeing that the aisle was close at hand, she suddenly turned around and asked inadvertently:
"Did your church send someone to check the collection of books in the 'Underground Boat'?"
After the establishment of the Ark Management Committee, the "Old Tune Group" actually did not let go of the underground collections of books, but at that time they did not know that there was a Buddhist holy place in the ruins of Tieshan City next door, and they were not very interested in what kind of person "Dimarco" was and what experiences he had, and the focus was mainly on the part of the books about eschatology.
——The ancestors of the Dimarco family were fanatical lovers of apocalypse, and an underground boat was specially built for this purpose, so the family's collection of books would naturally not lack corresponding content.
Song He's eyes moved slightly, and he nodded lightly and said:
"Sent a few clergy because the collection of 'Underground Boat Underground' contains a lot of technical information and valuable books related to the civilization of the Old World, which is very important for the future of the Redstone Collection and for mankind to welcome the arrival of the new world.
"This is the wealth left to us by our ancestors, the old calendar mankind."
Speaking of this, Song He changed his mind:
"However, we didn't take any solitary copies, we just copied them."
He also meant that if there were many of the same books, the vigilant sect would take away one or two of them.
"Hmm." Jiang Baimian nodded slowly, "Did you find any noteworthy records?"
Song He shook his head.
…………
Inside the ark, on the second basement floor, in the previous reception room.
The "Old Tune Group" has brought in Ulrich, the former steward of the boat.
"What kind of person was the first owner of the ark, Mr. Montes, Dimarco's great-grandfather?" Jiang Baimian asked straight to the point.
Ulrich recalled for a few seconds, then pondered the language:
"He died before I was born, but my grandfather, a deacon he appointed, mentioned him to me.
"His personality is very similar to Dimarco in all aspects, but he is not so manic and tyrannical."
That's because he hasn't been locked up in the ark for many years, can't go out, and his psychology is completely distorted...... Long Yuehong explained in his heart.
"What about the situation outside of personality?" Jiang Baimian asked.
Ulrich looked at Shang Jianyao, who was still wearing a monkey mask:
"He was once a believer in an ancient religion in the Old World, and he often carried the "Holy Book" of that religion with him, and Dimarco and his father and grandfather always wore the costumes of the Old World clergy, which was directly or indirectly influenced by him.
"But he eventually believed in the old man, joined the sect, and found peace in the last few years of his life."
That's because the same person has a consistent aesthetic inclination towards clothing...... Long Yuehong replied in her heart again.
Religion...... Classics...... Jiang Baimian muttered silently.
Bai Chen asked:
"Is that Sacred Book still in the library, the one that Montessori often carries with him?"
"Yes, the sect just took away a few other holy books." Ulrich is quite sure.
Because Shang Jianyao had reached the point where he was drowsy and barely supported, Jiang Baimian, who didn't need to worry about defering from the topic, said "hmm":
"Do you know which books Mr. Monteith reads most often? Did he leave a diary?"
Ulrich shook his head:
"He's not a person who likes to record.
"Moreover, he, Dimarco's father, grandfather, and even Dimarco himself hate others to pry on their privacy and never let people know their reading preferences."
Jiang Baimian was silent for a few seconds, and then asked:
"By the way, the family autobiography we read last time is still there, right?"
It was an autobiography written by the DiMarco family before the destruction of the old world, and the "Old Tune Team" mainly flipped through the parts about the end and the ark before, and found that it was indeed the ancestor who was too fanatical to think about building an underground boat instead of getting any news in advance.
This time, Jiang Baimian decided to go over it again, and took a closer look at the boy who had skipped it before and swept it roughly several times.
"Yes." Ulrich replied calmly.
…………
It is located in the library on a certain floor of the underground boat.
Ulrich picked up a dark red cover of the "Holy Scriptures" placed on the middle desk and handed it to Jiang Baimian:
"This is the one that Mr. Monteith often carries."
While Jiang Baimian took it with one hand, he looked at the surrounding bookshelves and felt that this place was more like a library than a library.
"You can go back and rest." She said to Ulrich.
Ulrich did not insist on staying here because he did not know whether he was suitable to participate in the next thing.
When Ulrich left the library, Jiang Baimian said to Long Yuehong, Bai Chen and Shang Jianyao:
"I read this "Holy Book", you re-read those volumes of the Dimarco family autobiographies, hey, if you are seriously dizzy, just sleep on the bookshelf for a while."
"Okay." Shang Jianyao said with his eyes closed.
He slowly slid to the ground and fell asleep on the spot.
It's really informal...... Long Yuehong muttered and picked up a copy of his autobiography that Ulrich had sent to the desk.
Time passed quietly, accompanied only by the slight rustling sound of flipping books.
I don't know how long it took, but Jiang Baimian saw the part about hell and the devil in the "Holy Scriptures".
Suddenly, she noticed that someone had written a paragraph in dark blue ink in the blank space at the bottom of a certain page.
The words composed of the Red River text are:
"I woke up from the darkness, and the devil opened his eyes."
For some reason, this straightforward sentence with slightly sloppy handwriting made Jiang Baimian feel a chill down his spine.
She quickly flipped through the back part and didn't find a new "annotation".
In the entire "Holy Book", there seems to be only such an extra little "content".
"Look at this." Jiang Baimian greeted Long Yuehong and Bai Chen over, while making a guess, "After the destruction of the old world, the words left by Montis when he first woke up in the ark? He had already figured out what abilities he had gained at that time, and his mood was complicated and difficult to contain, so he wrote this sentence, feeling that he had become the devil?"
Long Yuehong was about to get up and walked towards the team leader, her eyes suddenly swept to the last sentence of her autobiography:
"In order to develop the family's construction business, the eldest son Montis was sent to the neighboring city of Tieshan to participate in the bidding ...... for the renovation of the old city."
Long Yuehong's pupils dilated and blurted out:
"Team leader!
"Monteith has been to Iron Mountain City! Before the destruction of the old world!"
There is really a connection between the two!
(End of this chapter)