After Lin Qiye meditated for a long time, his body was soaked with night color. Countless insects and ants crawled out of the earth, surrounded him for a moment, and then burrowed into the earth in an orderly manner.
Since no clues have been found near the fishing village, maybe you can use [Starry Night Dancer] to communicate with the nocturnal creatures nearby and see if you can find something different in other places.
I don't know how long it took, but Lin Qiye seemed to have noticed something. He stared at his feet and let out a light sigh...
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fishing village.
An Qingyu held the cigarette in his hand. After hesitating for a moment, he took a tentative puff.
"Cough cough cough..."
He coughed violently.
"What? You don't know how to smoke?" Seeing An Qingyu's embarrassed look, Chen Gou couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and let go of the last trace of guard in his heart.
This is a child who is ignorant of the world!
"First time." An Qingyu coughed for a long time, then slowly put down the cigarette and smiled helplessly.
"If you don't know how to smoke, it's better not to smoke. It hurts your lungs."
"By the way, Uncle Chen." An Qingyu asked casually, "Do you smoke every day?"
"Absolutely. I'm a long-time smoker. I feel uncomfortable if I don't smoke half a pack a day."
"Then where do you usually get your cigarettes?"
"There is a canteen at the west end of the village. I usually go there to buy cigarettes. What's wrong?"
"Oh, it's nothing, I just thought that if there is a canteen, I can buy something to drink...Uncle Chen, do you have any change at home that you can give me in exchange?"
"Yes, please wait a moment."
Chen Gou stood up, went back to the room to search for a while, walked out with a few crumpled banknotes, and handed them to An Qingyu.
"How do you want to change it?"
An Qingyu's eyes fell on those banknotes, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he soon regained his composure. While touching his pocket, he scratched his head in embarrassment, "I'm sorry, Uncle Chen, I just touched them."
I checked my pocket and found that I brought some change. I’m really sorry for bothering you..."
Chen Gou was stunned for a moment, "It's okay, it's okay."
"Uncle Chen, I'm going to bed first. You can rest early."
"okay."
An Qingyu walked back to the room and locked the door behind her back. The gentle smile on her face gradually faded, and her expression became more solemn than ever.
"Qingyu, what did you find?" Jiang Er asked worriedly when he saw An Qingyu's appearance.
"I have some ideas, but I still need to verify them." An Qingyu walked to the window of the room, quietly opened the window, and turned back to Jiang Er and Jia Lan and said, "You stay here, I will go out...
Remember, don’t let your guard down and stay awake at all times, this place is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface.”
"good."
An Qingyu swayed, climbed out of the window, and disappeared into the night.
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The sky is getting brighter.
Baili Pangpang, Shen Qingzhu, and Cao Yuan, who were sitting at the entrance of the village, couldn't help but yawn when they saw Jialan and Jiang Er walking in the distance.
"You guys came so early?" Jia Lan asked in surprise when he saw this.
The corner of Baili's fat mouth twitched slightly, "Don't mention it, we sat here all night..."
Jiang Er's eyes swept over the frustrated three people, and he said with some uncertainty: "You guys...won't be able to stay overnight as a family, right?"
The three of them turned their heads silently and looked into the distance at the same time, as if they had not heard Jiang Er's question.
Just as a few people were chatting, a figure stepped out of nothingness. Lin Qiye stood in front of everyone holding the handle of the [Zhan Bai] knife. He glanced around and asked with some doubts:
"Where's Qingyu?"
"He went out alone last night and hasn't come back yet." Jiang Er pursed his lips, worry flashing in his eyes.
Going out alone?
Lin Qiye raised his eyebrows.
An Qingyu is not a reckless man who just goes out for a walk when he has nothing to do. Since he left Jialan and Jiang Er behind and took the initiative, it means that he must have found some key clues...
"Don't worry, Qingyu is our [Yemu] vice-captain. What could happen? I'll probably be back soon." Baili Pangpang saw Jiang Er's expression and comforted him.
Lin Qiye nodded, "Then let's start first and talk about what you have discovered."
Baili Pangpang cleared his throat and recounted everything they saw and heard last night as well as Shen Qingzhu's guesses.
"More than fifty years ago?" Jiang Er's expression was very shocked, but after thinking carefully for a moment, she still said dubiously, "Indeed... all the items here have a sense of age, and there are almost no modern electronic equipment or magnetic fields.
It seems to be much cleaner than the outside world.”
"But I still can't understand, we just walked along a coastline, how could we inexplicably go back to more than fifty years ago?" Cao Yuan frowned.
"Indeed, if this is really time travel, it would be too easy." Baili Pangpang agreed.
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment and said: "The theory of time travel does not make sense."
Others looked at him doubtfully.
"Last night, I tried to leave this fishing village." Lin Qiye raised his head and said calmly, "No matter which direction we go from, no matter what means we use, we can't leave this fishing village even half a step. If we really just
Simply going back to the past, there is no reason why we can only stay in this fishing village."
"Qiye is right, this is not time travel."
At this moment, a voice came from a distance. An Qingyu was slowly walking from the village, dressed in plain clothes.
"Qingyu, what did you find?" Seeing An Qingyu coming back, Lin Qiye's eyes lit up.
An Qingyu walked up to everyone, pushed up his glasses, and said, "When the fisherman handed me cigarettes last night, I discovered the clue. That brand of cigarettes was discontinued many years ago, and it is impossible to buy them in modern society.
That's right.
Later, I checked the villagers' coins, and then I was sure that there was something wrong with the timeline here.
So I immediately planted 'fish seeds' for the rats here and tried to leave the fishing village in different directions. The result was the same as Qiye's test. No matter what method I used, I could not leave the fishing village...
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Therefore, the most fatal problem arises."
An Qingyu spread his palms, with a half-burned cigarette quietly placed in his palms, and said with a serious expression, "If this fishing village is completely closed, then these materials that have been discontinued and have a strong sense of the times will
, where did it come from?
In such a large fishing village, the total necessities of kerosene, rice, noodles, and vegetables are not a small amount. I have already visited the only small shop in this fishing village. The stock of goods in it is only enough for the village to consume for five days at most.
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So how did these things appear when there was no way to contact the outside world or purchase goods?"