After the world fell into darkness, it became bright again.
Qingchen was still in the middle of the night in City No. 10, as if he had just presented the bouquet of flowers to Zhang Wenqi's mother yesterday.
He looked back at the building behind him, hoping that the mother could feel Zhang Wenqi's feelings.
Return countdown 168:00:00.
It is another seven-day cycle, which means that the inner and outer worlds are once again closely connected and intertwined with each other rapidly.
Qingchen took out his mobile phone and called Jiang Xue: "Hey, Aunt Jiang Xue, have you arrived at school successfully?"
Jiang Xue: "Everything went well, but what happened was very absurd. We passed through an iron gate at Kunlun Bookstore... To be precise, the iron gate did not open, so we went straight through." Xiaoying said
, it was done using the forbidden object ACE-004's Eye of True Sight. You have to ask Zheng Yuandong yourself for the specific details. We passed through the iron gate and arrived at an island. We don't know where the island is.
The island seems so big that you can’t see the edge at a glance.”
Qingchen asked immediately: "When you arrived there, was it day or night?"
Jiang Xue: "At night."
Qingchen asked: "Where is the moon?"
Jiang Xue: "Dongfang, it feels like it will sink into the sea soon."
It is the end of the lunar calendar now, the moon rises in the west and sets in the east, and the island Jiang Xue and the others are on is about to see dawn, which means that the island is to the east of the mainland, probably in the Pacific Ocean.
But the island won’t be particularly far away. If it was particularly far, it would be daytime there.
Qingchen asked again: "What's the approximate temperature on the island? Is it warm or cold?"
Jiang Xue recalled: "It's obviously an island, but it's not very warm. I feel like it might be 5 degrees at night? It's only a little warmer than Los Angeles."
Qingchen stood on the long street thoughtfully: "Then it should be an island between 35 and 45 degrees north latitude. Going further south or further north, it is difficult to stay in this temperature. If the island time is
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the distance in a time zone at 40 degrees north latitude is 15 times 111 kilometers times c0s40, which is equal to 1275.39 kilometers. The distance between the island and the Beijing time zone is about 6377 kilometers..."
A time zone is 15 degrees, and 111 kilometers is the distance of one degree on the equator.
You know, the straight-line distance between the capital and the island country Tokyo is only 2,478 kilometers. In other words, this island is really in the Pacific Ocean, and it is still far away from the island country.
Qingchen was confused. He hadn't heard of any huge island there.
etc……
Hawaii is about 7,500 kilometers away from Beijing, and the closer one is Midway Island in North America.
In other words, if the information conveyed by Jiang Xue is correct, then the school in Kunlun is only more than a thousand kilometers away from Hawaii.
That is the distance from Beijing to Shanghai.
But now the islands in the Pacific, regardless of whether they are inhabited or not, all belong to their own country. This thing was shamelessly divided up by the great powers in the 19th century.
Where can such an island be found in Kunlun?
Well, even if Kunlun can use inexplicable means to create a huge island.
Then the question comes again. Now that the entire earth is monitored in real time by satellites, Kunlun builds a school on an island. Will it not be discovered?!
Why can Kunlun hide an island under the eyes of the whole world?
Qingchen was filled with doubts...
He really can only ask Zheng Yuandong for the answer to this matter. This is no longer within the scope of science, and science does not care about this matter.
Of course, it was not only him who was confused, but also Jiang Xue. What she couldn't understand was how Qingchen could determine the approximate location of the school from just a few words...
Qingchen said on the phone: "Aunt Jiang Xue, take good care of them at school, and I will go there soon."
Jiang Xue said: "Well, you must pay attention to safety and don't worry about the damage to the villa. Our cash flow during the day is still very healthy."
Qingchen was stunned for a moment: "Oh, there's no loss. The insurance company will pay for it. It's just a normal fire."
In fact, as long as you check carefully, you will find explosives in the villa.
However, Kunlun is the organization responsible for inspection and definition, and Qingchen is sure that Kunlun will insist that this is an ordinary fire.
Therefore, he should still be able to make some money from this.
The only thing that needs to be noted is that the North American Time Walkers are becoming more and more active on the world stage, and have even begun to extend their hands to the Inner World Federation and the Outer World. I am afraid there will be conflicts in the future.
After hanging up the phone, Qingchen did not leave the city immediately, but walked to the caramel bar on the first floor of Leiming Building.
He restored his appearance because he was worried that the underground Lao Shen would think someone was invading and detonate underground explosives.
He also knew that this caramel bar was a membership-only bar and was not open to the public. The bar was filled with plainclothes agents from the Secret Service.
However, as soon as Qingchen walked into the bar, everyone who was chatting stopped and looked at him.
The bartender behind the bar was wearing a white shirt and a black vest. He looked excited, but because of discipline, he did not dare to say a word.
Dozens of people in the bar looked at Qingchen silently, even a little affectionately, which made Qingchen feel a little embarrassed...
"What's wrong?" Qingchen didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
When everyone saw him speaking, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief. A middle-aged man stood behind the bar and said, "Director Qingchen... you are finally back!"
Now Qingchen is no longer a secret agent in the Secret Intelligence Department, but the only deputy director.
In fact, before Qingchen appeared, the position of deputy director of the Secret Intelligence Department did not exist at all. The director was a shadow, and those below the director were secret agents. Below the secret agents were falcons, and below the falcons were informants.
There are few levels and the structure is streamlined.
The person who originally set up this structure for the Secret Intelligence Service was Qing Zhen, the ancestor of the Qing family. According to this ancestor's concept, what intelligence agencies need is rapid response capabilities.
The more levels of redundancy there are, the more processes a piece of information needs to be transmitted.
The more deputy directors there are, the more fights for power and profit there will be.
Intelligence itself is a race against time, so in the Secret Service, the shadow is the supreme authority, and everything can be decided with a single word.
Many people worry that the shadows of various generations have so much power in the Secret Service that it will lead to a power imbalance, so a deputy director is needed to balance power.
But Qing Zhen doesn't think it's necessary. This is a powerful violent organization, and power should be concentrated without intrigues.
Therefore, in the Qing family, the chief officers of each army have absolute say. This approach has the hidden danger of power imbalance, but Qing Zhen believes that the head of the family who can stand out from the many shadows will be able to control everything.
He believed that the head of the family who emerged from the shadows to fight must be the most powerful person in the family.
And now, the Secret Service has a deputy director.
Everyone knows that Shadow set up this position not to find someone to compete with him for power, but to smooth the transition of power.
Transitioned into Qingchen's hands.
In the past, Secret Service would give shadows to the next generation. This was an unspoken rule.
But Qingchen is not a shadow now, and most people don't even know that he is a shadow candidate, so it is definitely taboo for active shadows to do this.
But no one from the top to the bottom of the intelligence agency said anything, as if it was natural for Qingchen to take over.
They only recognize Qingchen now.
The middle-aged man at the bar said: "Director Qingchen, we are under the responsibility of Lao Shen, pretending to be customers in the caramel bar to protect underground information. Everyone has been waiting for you here for almost a month, Lao Shen only said that you
I will definitely come, but I didn’t say when.”
Qingchen asked: "What's the matter?"
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment: "It's nothing, it's just that you brought Chief Qingmu and his subordinates out of A02. This is so admirable!"
The bartender said: "Not only that, the shadow boss also issued an internal announcement a few days ago, saying that you killed Kamishiro Yunhe in City No. 22, and also captured Kamishiro Jingcheng, one of the ten permanent attendants... That is
Shi Chang Attendant!"
The middle-aged man said: "Now Jindai Jingcheng is imprisoned in the pig pen of the Southern Military Region. Jindai sent someone to exchange him, but the shadow boss did not agree."
This incident was so sensational and so frustrating.
In fact, Qingchen only needed to rescue those intelligence personnel, which was already a miracle in itself, and now he has captured the ten permanent servants...
If they weren't afraid of appearing uneducated, all the intelligence officers here would want to say "f*ck" or "awesome".
Qingchen asked with a smile: "These are what you should do, is there anything else?"
The middle-aged man suddenly said: "The shadow boss said that you will not come back yet, but we will wait for the day when you come back."
"Okay," Qingchen nodded. He suspected that these people were rehearsed by Shadow, for fear that he would run away and never come back...
If it were anyone else, Qingchen wouldn't guess like this, but it was Shadow, and he could understand whatever operation it made.
At a certain moment, Qingchen thought that there was a group of people waiting for him in the Secret Service, and it would be a lie to say he was not proud.
But he really can't come back yet.
When he comes back, he will be involved in the Qing clan's factional struggle.
Instead of standing in the light and being a target, it is better to wait in the dark for the clouds to rise and fall.
