Soul of Burning Steel

After an unknown amount of time passed, Lisa finally came to the center of the Kronos Mountains, the largest gathering place for dragon people, near the 'Iron Mountain City'.

This ancient city built in the valley did not know why it got this name, but now it has indeed been built into an iron barrel-like defense line by the vigilant dragon people. It can be seen that all the places that are convenient for defense around Iron Mountain City are now All kinds of simple fortresses and arrow towers have been built, and a small army composed of thousands of demon hunters patrols around these defensive buildings at any time, guarding against possible demons and flying dragons.

On the fourth day after the disaster began, there were still many dragon people flocking to the city from all directions, most of them were women and children. They were arranged to enter the center of the city, a huge hole leading to the ground, and there were already tens of thousands of them. The dragon people took refuge in it, and apart from the demon hunters and organized adult males, there were basically no residents living in the entire city.

When Lisa saw the valley described by her father in front of her, she suddenly realized that she had arrived at her destination. She subconsciously clenched the certificate for entering the refuge, and her eyes turned red.

But now is not the time to be sad, so she pulled herself together, Lisa took another step and ran towards the entrance of the valley.

But something beyond her expectation was that there was a checkpoint at the entrance of the valley, and a long line had been lined up several times. Some people were allowed to enter, but some were rejected and sent to the outside of the valley. A temporary gathering point.

"The shelter is almost full, and the voucher is useless."

At this time, a demon hunter who was patrolling nearby passed by. He noticed a young girl of the same clan staring at the team of thousands of people in a daze, so he stopped kindly and explained: "Although Iron Mountain City The elders have been digging shelters and stockpiling food for so many years, but this is also limited, for the survival of our dragon people, we can only let better people go in first."

"What is better?"

Lisa asked subconsciously.

"Of course it's the demon hunter, followed by young dragonmen who can awaken, and young children who haven't reached the age of awakening. The family members of the demon hunter are also considered priority."

The demon hunter in black leather armor looked at Lisa and nodded with a smile: "Aren't you already awakened? The power of blood is very strong, and you are still a child. You can definitely enter."

"...But, those who can't get in..."

"...Some people always have to sacrifice. At this time, there is no way to pay attention to feelings."

The patrolling demon hunter sighed. He squatted down, patted Lisa on the shoulder, and urged: "Come on, little girl, those big monsters may come over at any time, this place is very dangerous."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and continued his task, and the dragon girl joined the team after being silent for a while.

The line was very long, and it was still growing. Almost everyone was silent, and occasionally a few children could be heard crying. There are men and women in the team, there are middle-aged people in their prime of life, and children in the arms of their mothers, but the old people are the only ones who don't. Lisa saw that many old people did not join the team, but voluntarily walked to the gathering place outside the valley.

"At the moment of life and death, you can still be so calm, and there are no troublemakers in the team. The nature of your dragon race is really orderly."

In the girl's mind, Balrog's evaluation came, and Syndicate said in a rather emotional tone: "Although it is still very primitive, if you give you time, you should be able to grow into a prosperous civilization... It's a pity, this one It's hard to get through."

Having said that, Syndicate couldn't help but shook his head. Recently, the astronomical changes above the Kronos Mountains have been relatively rare, but this does not mean that the battle between the legendary powerhouses has stopped-in fact, the battle between them The battle became more intense and it was impossible to hold back, just to prevent the aftermath from causing damage, so everyone stayed away from the world of Kronos.

——Whether it is a demon or a five-color dragon occupying this world, the dragon people will no longer have the opportunity to develop, and the civilization represented by the golden aircraft may not be a good person, except for that lord, who even a demon like me The adults who are willing to forgive win the war, and the dragons have a glimmer of future.

In fact, there is another possibility, that is, the victory of the dragon gods of the dragon people, expelling all the invaders from the outside world - but Syndicate is not optimistic about this, after all, if the situation is really bad, the demons and five-color dragons are likely to come back again. team up.

While Lisa was still silent and Syndicate was thinking about the situation in the sky, the long line turned quickly, and after a while, it was the dragon girl's turn.

"Child, put your hands on the crystal plate."

In the checkpoint, an old dragonman who was protected by two heavily armed demon hunters, with white horns on the top of his head, but visible electric arcs surged all over his body, called Lisa softly, and pulled her out of contemplation. wake. Seeing the white crystal plate that had been placed in front of her eyes, Lisa quickly stretched out her hand and pressed it.

A warm touch that didn't look like crystal appeared in the girl's palm, and before she could react, the old dragon said again: "Use your full strength to instill the power of your blood into this stone slab."

"Full strength?"

Because she was in a daze before, Lisa didn't think too much at this time. Before the Balrog reminded her, she subconsciously used her true full strength-suddenly, the surrounding air crackled, accompanied by blue The arc danced, and a fine and regular grid emerged from the dragon girl's whole body. Due to the activation of the current, the grid complied with Lisa's will and condensed into a thick pillar of lightning, which submerged into the crystal when she pressed it. hands on the board!

boom! With a loud bang, the cyan light exploded, and the originally colorless crystal plate used to test the strength of the blood in the dragon body underwent the changes of 'blue', 'green', 'red', 'purple' and 'black' in an instant. , and then the people behind Lisa were shocked to the point of dismay, and under the stunned gaze of the old dragon man, they were blasted into pieces by the rioting electric current in an instant!

"Ah... this, I'm sorry!"

After Lisa realized it, she immediately realized that she had caused trouble—the blood power in her body may not be much more than that of ordinary demon hunters, but because of the optimization bonus driven by the current, she can use all her strength to Make a dozen or dozens of copies of ordinary people. It is precisely because of this that the test crystal board will be destroyed in an instant.

"……sharp."

After all, the old dragon man has seen a lot. He is a senior demon hunter who has gone through thousands of hunts but can still live to old age. Of course, he knows what kind of current intensity is needed to destroy the extremely durable test stone... If In other words, it's not so strange that this level of blood power appeared in a genius demon hunter, but what appeared in front of him was a little girl in her early ten years!

"It's so strong!"

"The captain of the demon hunting team in the village doesn't seem to be so powerful..."

"At such a young age, the future is limitless."

The dragon people in the team behind Lisa also began to discuss, this powerful power is really eye-catching, and the owner is so young, it is indeed very attractive. But at this moment, a rather loud voice sounded: "Hey, isn't this Shenmue Village, the daughter of the Black family? She is that rare pure-blooded person!"

This suddenly made many doubtful people suddenly realize.

"It's pure blood... no wonder."

"It wouldn't be surprising if it was a pure-blooded person, but it's rare even for a pure-blooded person to have such power at such a young age."

This sentence also awakened the old dragonman who was still in doubt, he looked at Lisa who was a little at a loss in the discussion among the crowd, and then said in a gentle voice: "Go in, child, you can enter the refuge. "

Afterwards, he nodded and asked a demon hunter who was protecting him to take Lisa to the refuge, while he himself stayed where he was, waiting for a new test crystal plate

Lisa was taken into the underground shelter by a demon hunter in a daze. Not far away, in a camp that was very close to the test level, a middle-aged dragonman who had been paying attention to the test situation frowned. , turned around and said to the others behind him: "Have you seen it? The power of that little girl?"

"I see." "Very strong, very pure." "It is well controlled, even I feel ashamed." "Stronger than the previous purebloods."

The people sitting in the camp were all middle-aged or elderly dragonmen, and they all had obvious electric power flowing through their bodies, which proved that they were all powerful demon hunters.

"But it's a little strange... Although this little girl looks like a pure blood, logically speaking, it is impossible for her to awaken at this age."

After a brief moment of emotion, one of the demon hunters said with some doubts: "The earthquake three hundred years ago caused us to lose the most important method of awakening pure blood. People like us with impure blood have become able to awaken, but there is still no way to take the initiative to awaken pure blood."

"That's right, most of the pure-blooded people have awakened a part of themselves occasionally when they are about to reach adulthood, but even this part is still very strong... That little girl has awakened so much blood power at such a young age, I I feel that with her talent, there might be a 100% possibility of awakening."

The other elder nodded. As senior members of the Iron Mountain Demon Hunting Team and city elders, the reason why they have been waiting here is to wait for an awakened pureblood like Lisa to appear.

"The prophecy says that when the dragon god wakes up from his long sleep, the fire of doomsday will come again..."

The middle-aged dragonman who was observing at the beginning paused for a while, and he pondered: "Now, it should be the so-called doomsday disaster, countless strange monsters appear out of thin air, the sky changes, and most of the dragonman villages outside Iron Mountain City are all destroyed, which is enough to prove that the prophecy is true."

"Then, the next sentence..."

When he said this, he kept silent, but all the elders and demon hunters in the camp did not speak, because they already knew what the next sentence was.

—Only pure blood.

Only the holder of the purest blood can save the dragon people from this catastrophe.

"This is the only pure-blooded person we found. We must meet this little girl."

On the other side, Lisa was taken into the underground shelter by the witcher guards.

The entrance of the refuge is a bit like a mine. The huge hole is directly opened on the mountain wall. After entering it, you can see a spacious avenue more than 20 meters wide. There are fluorescent moss on both sides of the road that emit light and provide light. The road is inclined Extending downwards, there seems to be no end in sight, and one after another, new dragonmen are guided by several demon hunters to go deep into it.

After following the road for tens of meters, you can see two forks on both sides, leading to the distance. A voice came from the fork in the road. Seeing Lisa's puzzled expression, the hoarse witcher with a huge scar on his throat explained: "Here are the two shelters on the first floor. There is a second floor...a total of five floors of shelters, and the food reserves can accommodate about 20,000 people for about half a month."

Although it sounds inconspicuous, it is already an unimaginably huge project for the dragon people who are still in the era of primitive city-state villages. Lisa couldn't help but feel very shocked. There are more than 400 people, 20,000 people, that is 50 villages..."

"There are only fifty... There are nearly a thousand dragonman villages in the entire mountain range."

The demon hunter who led the way shook his head and stopped talking, while Lisa also walked forward silently. The two walked for a long time, and even turned into a fork in the road. In the dim light of fluorescent moss, she didn't know what kind of secret passage she was taken into. Gradually, even Lisa felt a little wrong: according to the previous Judging by the speed, she should be deeper underground than the fifth-floor shelter.

Where exactly is this place? What is this leading dragon man going to do?

However, before Lisa, who was already on guard, could post a message, the demon hunter who led the way spoke in advance and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't worry, I have no malice towards you. It's just that the elders want to see you and need a Just a quiet and safe place.”

As they said that, the two of them took a Balrog, and they came to a huge rock door. This young demon hunter stepped forward and pressed his hand on the rock door with a flashing electric arc. Immediately, lines like circuit boards emerged. After finishing these things, he turned his head to look at Lisa, and sighed: "Don't be so wary... At this time, the dragon people will not harm the compatriots..." Speaking of this, he Looking at the girl's height and chest, he shook his head again: "Don't think so much...you just stay here, and the elders will come to see you later."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head, leaving Lisa, who was a little embarrassed, to stay in front of the rock portal that was gradually opening, and disappeared in the light of fluorescent moss.

"What... I will grow taller and bigger in the future! Just like my mother!"

Lisa blushed slightly, and complained angrily, while the Balrog remained silent.

In the final analysis, Lisa was still a child, even if she was taken into the secret passage deep underground for no reason, she didn't think there was anything wrong, she just followed the instructions, and the Balrog didn't make a sound to stop her, It has known for a long time that when Lisa reveals her excessive power, she will definitely be noticed by the high-level dragon people.

——Maybe, it is a special refuge room specially used to protect especially cherished talents?

Syndicate thinks this guess is very possible. After all, this place is already deeper underground than the fifth-floor refuge room, at least hundreds of meters deep underground. Let’s not talk about how the dragon people made such an incredible project. Depth, as long as you are prepared for earthquake resistance, as long as the legendary strongman does not directly break out a decisive battle above the shelter, then this place is definitely safe.

At least it is safer than any place on the surface.

Stimulated by the blood power of the previous demon hunter, the rock gate has been completely opened. The Balrog urged Lisa to go in quickly, and the dragon girl was also a little curious about what was inside, so she entered it neatly.

However, when Lisa passed through the door, she found that the rock door did not seem to be all made of stone... In the corner of the door, in a place that seemed to be knocked often, there was a layer of The rock has been worn away, and it can be vaguely seen that there is a layer of silver unknown substance under the outer layer of stone.

Kind of like steel? But why was it covered with a layer of rock? Lisa didn't think much, just entered the gate like this, and what she saw next made that trace of doubt completely fade away.

"It's a mural! I've seen it before. The Great Elder used to like to paint this thing in his house the most!"

What appeared in front of Lisa was a long underground corridor, and on both sides of this spacious corridor with a width of 10 meters, there were countless clear murals—for some reason, although there was no obvious light source in the entire corridor, there were It was unexpectedly bright, as if the entire corridor itself was glowing.

Lisa curiously found the original place of the mural, and then began to look at it from the beginning, but to the girl's disappointment, these murals did not draw any patterns related to dragon people, it described another kind of dragon. Scenes of living creatures that are similar to people but very different.

At the beginning, it was the scene of this strange creature living in the water. This is a race with a fish tail, no horns and no legs, but otherwise exactly the same as the dragon people. They are pure aquatic life. They live by planting aquatic plants, raising shellfish and grazing fish. They gradually develop civilization in the water and use some kind of strange sound waves to talk. Under the guidance of an unknown sage, they Even created words.

"Strange, where is there so much water... the largest lake in the mountains is not so vast."

Lisa muttered to herself, she continued to look at the second mural, the Balrog didn't take it seriously at first, but then, it became serious, and through the visual sharing with the girl, it looked at the delicate murals. murals.

After creating the language, the fishtail race made rapid progress. They quickly sensed the energy dissociated in the water and realized the most basic magic. With spells to control water currents and seabed gravel, these mermaids built villages and cities in the gentle deep sea area, and they even learned how to use crystal and metal to make tools. With the heat of submarine volcanoes and vents, they learned forging and refining for the first time, which immediately accelerated the development of this race again.

They melted the gravel, extracted its elements, and created a translucent material that seemed to resemble the crystal plates used to test the draconian blood. By engraving runes on this translucent or even completely transparent material called glass, mermaids are developing faster and faster in magic energy technology. Because of the advancement of materials, huge cities on the seabed first appeared, accompanied by With the merger of forces, countries are also established. The powerful magical power even allowed the mermaids to tame the giant beasts in the sea, completely making themselves a species without natural enemies. Until finally, the beloved mermaids of the deep sea ascended for the first time, leaving their deep-sea homes and coming above sea level.

They saw the sky, the land, the forest, the beach, the birds flying in the sky, the beasts walking on the land... They saw a whole new world. With the help of magic, the mermaid transforms itself into a posture that can act on land. Lisa couldn't help but let out a low voice in this posture - because that posture is almost exactly the same as that of a dragon except for the absence of a tail and two horns!

But the girl didn't have time to feel emotional, she couldn't wait to continue to look at the next mural: after the mermaid reached the ground, she noticed that the metal on land decayed very slowly, and there were even many strange mineral veins on the surface that couldn't be found at the bottom of the sea , so the entire mermaid civilization was divided into two parts, a colony on land and a huge city in the sea. But with the passage of time, the level of civilization has increased, and most of the mermaid population has come to the surface, but they still retain their love for the sea, because that is their hometown.

Lisa just watched a scene, but the Syndicate became more and more frightened—the dragon girl actually couldn’t understand the details in the murals at all, but she, the great demon, could. She could clearly see that the mermaid civilization was coming. In the second millennium to the surface of the earth, they have already created a floating city that can freely float in the sky with the help of developed magic energy. After another few hundred years, they can already enter and exit the void!

The original submarine glass building, later the anti-corrosion deep-sea metal city, and the floating city suspended in the sky with the power of runes... As long as you have a little common sense, you can know that this is an advanced civilization with the peak of mana technology! But this civilization is inextricably linked with the primitive dragon people today!

Halfway through the mural, Lisa is still obsessed with the content, but Syndicate found that the material of the surrounding passages has changed a lot... The outermost portal is rock, and as it goes deeper, the material of the passage gradually changes from stone to stone. material, turned into metal, and finally turned into the crystal-like wall today, and only Lisa, who is not sensitive to these things, did not notice it.

——This is not a refuge dug by the dragon people at all... This is the relic of an ancient civilization!

After realizing this, Syndicate immediately felt that many things could be explained. You must know that such a huge project of the underground shelter is not easy even if it is entrusted to the devil, and the mere population and strength of the dragon people , this task cannot be accomplished at all.

But now is not the time to think about these things, one dragon and one Balrog continue to look back.

At this time, the content of the murals changed a lot.

The mermaid civilization has been able to enter and leave the void. Their crystal spaceships can resist the influence of space-time turbulence, and sail slowly in the multiverse. They tried to explore many worlds, but they failed because of the rejection of the world. But these optimistic guys Never discouraged, always exploring the void. This period of time was the golden age of mermaids. Countless people worked hard to go far away, leave their hometowns, and explore unknown areas. Magic energy technology developed like an explosion. Void spaceships were replaced in just a dozen years. For nine generations, everything is heading for glory.

Everything is up to that day.

The mural is nearing its end, and Lisa and Syndicate are looking at the content with great concentration. When the girl saw this mural, she couldn't help but exclaimed: "Ah! Yes, it's the Dragon God!"

"Gu Long!" The Balrog also said in a deep voice, "That's it!"

Appearing on the mural is a giant silver dragon wandering in the void. It has wide wings and thunder is blooming all over its body. However, the condition of this ancient dragon is obviously not good, and there are pursuers behind it. The mural here does not draw the chasing soldiers in detail, but uses messy lines to scribble a layer of mysterious darkness... This layer of darkness covers most of the void, and has been chasing behind this silver dragon. . The silver dragon asked the mermaid civilization for help, but for some reason, the mermaid civilization agreed decisively.

Thus, the war began.

This is an extremely tragic war. Under the attack of darkness from all over the multiverse, both the silver dragon and the mermaid civilization are retreating step by step. They stopped exploring the outside world and concentrated on starting the war. In the beginning, the mermaid civilization was a disastrous failure, but as time went by, they were able to fight the unknown darkness inextricably, and the silver dragon's fighting power was beyond imagination. , actually really blocked the invasion of darkness.

However, the mermaid civilization is still too young after all, they accidentally exposed the coordinates of their mother world in a small-scale defeat, and the darkness will naturally not let this opportunity go, it brazenly invaded the mother world of the mermaid civilization , and destroyed the ecological balance of the world with extremely powerful destruction magic. But this dark force was also defeated by the furious mermaid civilization and the silver dragon.

But this is only revenge after all, not victory... The world whose ecological cycle has been completely destroyed has begun violent crustal changes, the sea has been swallowed by endless deep valleys that have been cracked on the surface, and the whole world has turned into a dead desert under the volcano and smoke. Even after paying a heavy price, the mermaid civilization was unable to maintain the existence of the world in such an environment, and the entire civilization and the world were gradually being destroyed.

Until the silver dragon descended into the world and connected himself with the whole land.

The last mural is that the giant dragon created a huge mountain in the vast desert where the sea was once turned into. It shared its blood with the last mermaids, turning them into the appearance of the current dragon people, making them They can live in the world where the ocean disappears, and then the giant dragon, who was also severely injured, sleeps in the desert until the end of the mural.

"Oh my god..."

Seeing this, both Lisa and Syndicate were so shocked that they couldn't speak. No matter how they thought about it, they couldn't imagine that the origin of the Dragon Man was so tortuous and incredible.

The Balrog finally understands why Lisa always involuntarily wants to find the sea that she has never seen before, and no one has described it... because it is the real blood, and their entire race was born hundreds of years ago. Or the life that lives in the sea. But the original sea has been evaporated into a desert, and the former city was pressed into the depths of the earth's crust by natural disasters. The ruins can only be seen hundreds of meters below the mountain range, just like the underground passage they are in now.

And just when Lisa blinked her eyes, not knowing how to express her feelings, footsteps came from the other side of the corridor.

"Have you finished reading, Lisa?"

The elders of Iron Mountain City were approaching, and the leader was the old dragon man who had started the blood test. He looked at Lisa who was still in shock with gentle eyes, and said softly: "This is the blood of our dragon man." Origin... the origin of us Chronos. To protect ourselves from the darkness among the stars, our ancestors made a pact with the dragon gods to fight against a common enemy."

"Those alien invaders in the sky are peeping at the power of the Dragon God, but they don't know that they are not the real enemies of the Dragon God at all... The darkness is coming, and before such a doomsday disaster, everything is just a joke."

The old dragon man raised his head, he stretched out his hand, and a ball formed by a blue electric arc slowly emerged in the palm of his hand. He pressed the ball into the mural, and suddenly, both sides of the entire corridor, and even Up, down, left, and right began to change violently. Under Lisa's surprised eyes, all the exquisite murals on the crystal wall disappeared and began to become transparent, and the entire corridor began to deform violently with an unknown force, and finally into a square hall.

"Here is, it was the watchtower that the Kronos civilization used to monitor the void, a city made of steel and crystal... Hence the name Iron Mountain City."

Accompanied by the words of the old dragon man, chaos like snowflakes began to appear in the entire crystal hall, but soon, the snowflakes dissipated, and an incomparably clear picture appeared in front of Lisa's eyes—it was above the ground, belonging to Ke. Views of the Rhonos Mountains! It is even constantly focusing, projecting its field of vision high into the sky, straight into the sky!

This crystal hall can actually directly observe the scene in the void!

Above the clouds, in the void beyond the world, frightening energy flashes are flickering wantonly. In the turbulence of time and space, the war between super life forms is still going on, and the dim light of decay can be seen penetrating through the talisman. Wen's barrier, you can also see invisible fluctuations smoothing out the invasion of frost, and the sun-like brilliance stands in the center, no matter what kind of attack it is, it can't shake its figure... Several light spots shining like stars are forming With the dark starry sky as the background, the rapid movement and flickering, they have been fighting for several days, but for this level of life, as long as the vitals are not damaged and the energy source is not blocked, then even if it is fighting for dozens of days, A few years, hundreds of years is not a problem.

Ordinary people would be attracted by this brilliant light of battle, but Lisa keenly noticed that when all the super life forms were busy fighting, the surrounding stars were gradually changing. dim. I don't know when, the turbulence of time and space became more and more violent, and the light of the stars emitted by the world became weaker and weaker, as if a layer of black mist was spreading, enveloping the entire void in his arms.

In the end, a layer of darkness that covered the stars suddenly appeared, swallowing all the star spots that were fighting before into his belly!

At this point, the starry sky was as black as ink, without any flickering of the previous brilliance.

"Houlong—————"

On the surface, there was an angry dragon roar. The silver dragon raised its head and stared at the starry sky above it. Its pupils seemed to be burning with flames. The ancient dragon vibrated its wings and controlled the thunder and magnetic field, wanting to fly into the sky. Fighting against the eternal enemy, but just as it was about to fly into the sky, break through the barrier of the world and enter the void, a silver chain that looked like metal suddenly emerged from the air, pulling the ancient dragon back again. earth!

And with the trembling of this chain, the entire Kronos world trembled slightly. It was not a shaking in the physical sense, but a shaking that came from the heart of every creature: as if, as long as the chain When the chain is broken, the whole world will be completely destroyed, and there will be no possibility of rebirth.

"Lisa?"

The old dragon man sighed, he turned his head, stared at the silent dragon man girl who kept her head down, and said softly, "What's wrong with you?"

"Why... I don't understand this at all..."

After seeing the murals, Lisa, who kept her head down and didn't know what she was thinking, muttered to herself in a low voice. Suddenly, she raised her head and said loudly to the old dragon man: "Why tell me?" What about me? Why do you want me to know this?! I don’t understand at all! What about the mermaid civilization, what about the origin of the dragon people... the battle between the dragon god and the darkness, etc., I don’t understand anything——Why tell me, Why did you tell me now?!"

"why tell you?"

The old dragon man repeated this sentence, and he smiled wryly: "Because it's only you."

Next, the elders of the dragon people said in unison: "Only you can help the dragon god and cut off the chain of steel that connects the world."

"That's something only you, who possesses the purest blood of the Dragon God, can do!"

"Houlong—————"

Above the surface, in the middle of the desert, the silver dragon is still trying to take off, but no matter how many times it tries, because of the shackles of the silver chain, it still cannot rise to the sky and enter the void.

Gu Long's eyes were full of anger and unwillingness, and the purple-red light flickered in the depths of the dragon's pupils, but it didn't dare to break free from this chain, and it didn't even dare to try to destroy it.

Because that was the covenant it made with a civilization that had devoted all of its own race and world to help itself hundreds of years ago.

This chapter is too long, ten minutes late.

I will not write in detail, speed up the plot of the dragon girl, and get into the theme as soon as possible.

It has been said that Lisa's plot is the main line and the foreshadowing, which is very important. Why do people always say that water is boring? I have reminded you two chapters in advance, why don't you read my chapter and say it...