There was silence in the square of Whale Island at first, then sobbing began to be heard from the crowd, and finally everyone burst into tears together.
Of the 4,811 time walkers in the academy, 4,139 are left at this time. Due to their participation in the defense line in the lower third area, almost everyone except the children was injured.
Of the 132 family members from City No. 10 who landed on the island, 19 were killed and 113 remained.
Likewise, everyone is hurt.
And Kunlun... everyone died in battle.
Qingchen stood silently in the square. He even couldn't bear to look at the skeletons of the Kunlun members. There were 631 skeletons there, and only the iodophor's body was still intact.
However, he saw that there was no flesh and blood on Iodine's neck, leaving only white bones. His hands were bitten with bloody flesh, but they were still tightly protecting his abdomen.
There are things he brought back with his life.
"It seems like he has something hidden in his abdomen," Lu Yuan said in a low voice.
Lu Yuan tried to take his hands away from the iodophor, but his hands were still tightly wrapped around him and he couldn't pull them apart at all.
Lu Yuan squatted next to the corpse, wiping his tears non-stop, crying and speechless.
This is the first time such a large-scale attrition has occurred in Kunlun, and has never been seen before.
Qingchen came over and whispered: "I'll do it."
As he said that, he bent down and raised Iodophor's arm. The arm that was originally tightly held loosened the moment Qingchen touched it.
Qingchen was stunned for a moment.
He knew that the iodophor had passed away, but the other party's body still had this reaction.
The 12 plug-in hard drives in the belly were given to Qingchen by the iodophor, so no one except Qingchen could take them.
It wasn't until Qingchen arrived that his body relaxed.
This was against medical common sense. Qingchen had heard before that some people had to see their loved ones before they could close their eyes after death. He always thought it was just some kind of coincidence or rumor.
Until today, he didn't believe that such a thing really happened.
Qingchen couldn't control it anymore. He took several deep breaths before he made up his mind to gently open the belly of the iodophor and took out the sealed bag.
Lu Yuan shouted to the Kunlun members on the island: "Come and help us collect the bones of our brothers and cremate them."
At this time, some time walkers in the college walked up to Qingchen and said, "Thank you, little dean, thank you. If you hadn't come to help us, we might have died."
"Thank you, little dean."
"Thank you, little dean!"
The time walkers came to Qingchen in groups to thank him. In that panic environment, Qingchen took the time walkers back to the lower third district.
Sometimes, before the time walkers could thank him, he would have returned to the depths of the city.
Those time walkers are not white-eyed wolves, they know very well what Qingchen has paid for them.
Qingchen looked at these people calmly: "Go back and rest."
Zheng Yuandong asked: "Qingchen, what happened in the past seven days in City No. 10?"
"Xiao San, there are still many people here who don't know what happened in City No. 10. Please tell them," Qingchen said calmly, while he sat aside, holding the sealed bag in his hand and looking at the ground.
The mistress was in the square summarizing what happened in the past seven days and making a battle report to review and see what shortcomings everyone had.
Zheng Yuandong listened quietly for a long time, and then shared the external intelligence he had learned with Qingchen: "Each army group fought in the north for six days. This time the war was larger than imagined. Everyone was ready.
There will be no rescue in City No. 10, so you have to find a way to save yourself."
"I understand," Qingchen nodded.
"The number of surviving time walkers far exceeds my imagination. I thought that in that kind of disaster, it would be good if a thousand people survived," Zheng Yuandong said softly from the side: "Thank you, Qingchen, thank you
and the help parents will provide them.”
Qingchen whispered: "Actually, if I had gone to find Iodophor and the others earlier, maybe Iodophor and the others would still have a chance to survive."
Zheng Yuandong shook his head: "If you did not save the time walkers in the academy, Iodophor is also obliged to save them, or he must save them. This is Kunlun's responsibility. The time walkers should have saved themselves, but they did not have that ability.
This is like a fire where the victim runs into the fire again to save his puppy. Can the firefighters give up the rescue because of the other party's stupidity? No, they have their mission, iodophors and iodophors
mission."
"If the roles were reversed, maybe it would be your turn to go to the PCE or the Transportation Bureau to get the hard drive, while the iodophor would take people away from the defense line again and again, and then work hard to bring the time walker teams back to the lower third area.
But do they have this ability? No, they cannot travel through the city as easily as you, nor can they remember so many refuge points."
Zheng Yuandong: "So the final result is that you can still get the hard drive, and iodophor will still die for those time walkers and children. This is the responsibility and destiny of iodophor. Of course, you have done a good job
He is also excellent at the tasks that each other should complete."
Qingchen remained silent.
"Don't think so much, Kunlun's responsibility is to protect these time walkers," Zheng Yuandong said: "If he knows that you have saved so many time walkers, Izumi Izhi will definitely be happy. No one in Kunlun will blame you, we have already
We must be mentally prepared and believe in our consciousness.”
In the square, Nangong Yuanyu and other students from the College of Agriculture kept walking among the crowd, handing out the chicken blood sprouts they had accumulated.
Many time walkers enjoy the tranquility of the rest of their lives after the disaster, and their bodies are so weak that they cannot even stand up, but everyone knows that they will experience another catastrophe in seven days.
Qingchen suddenly said: "We must change this world."
"Huh?" Zheng Yuandong looked at Qingchen.
Qingchen continued: "The Gods launched this war at all costs for their own interests, completely ignoring the tens of millions of lives in a city. Although other consortiums were restrained on the battlefield and unable to complete the rescue, in fact they
Just launching a few long-range small missiles would be enough to open the city wall and allow the refugees in the Lower Three Districts to evacuate, but they did not do so because they were worried that the rat tide would pass through those gaps and escape into the wilderness in advance. The problem in this world is no longer there.
It’s not just a consortium’s problem, it’s that the world is sick and needs healing.”
"You are already changing the world," Zheng Yuandong said.
"It's not enough," Qingchen seemed to have figured something out, stood up and said, "Please prepare equipment for me that can adapt to the hard drive in the other world. In addition, I need a huge office with 640 LCD screens. At the same time, I need
Watch the video data brought back by iodophor at 4x speed. I'm going to rest. Please wake me up when you're ready... In addition, I will provide as much of the Purple Orchid Star produced on Whale Island to Kunlun as possible, because of you
worth."
After saying that, Qingchen stood up and looked at Xiaosan: "Let's all go to rest. When we wake up, we will compile the list of the dead and build a monument for them on the island."
The mistress said: "I can count them now."
Qingchen shook his head: "You don't have to carry it, you have been working very hard these past seven days. Tomorrow, notify the Parents' Association that all time walkers in City No. 10 are going to land on the island and treat everyone's injuries with chicken blood sprouts. There will be a tough battle after we return.
Fight. Remember, everyone must sleep enough during these seven days. There will be no time to sleep during the next time travel."
After saying that, Qingchen turned around and walked towards the Agricultural College.
Zheng Yuandong pondered, and he suddenly felt that Qingchen had completed another transformation.
If a person is only dominated by emotions such as anger, sadness, etc., he cannot become a truly strong person.
Just now, Zheng Yuandong was worried that Qingchen would go crazy and continue torturing himself, but Qingchen didn't, he chose to rest.
So Zheng Yuandong knew that Qingchen had understood a truth. The fist that was withdrawn was not to admit defeat, but to fight out better.
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Countdown to 157:00:00.
Qingchen slept for a full 10 hours until he felt that his energy had been fully restored.
Sitting up from the recliner, Zard and Huan Yu were sleeping soundly while leaning on his left and right sides.
Zard tilted his head and drooled on his collar, while Huanyu lay on Qingchen's lap, drooling too.
This should still be Xiaoyu.
Qingchen couldn't imagine the scene of Dayu sleeping on his lap.
"Wake up," Qingchen patted the two of them.
"Wow, boss, you're awake!" Zard said: "Boss Zheng asked me to tell you that his side is ready and you can go at any time. In addition, the canteen Xiaozao is open to all time travelers in City 10 for free.
, everyone can eat whatever they want, and I can go get you whatever you want! Just in time, I’ll pack two portions of garlic crayfish for Xiaoyu in your name, he likes that!”
Xiaoyu swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Qingchen couldn't laugh or cry, this was nothing.
"Go and ask for whatever you want to eat. After you finish eating, give me a portion in the main teaching building," Qingchen stood up.
He came to the lecture theater prepared for him by Kunlun. At this time, the classroom had been renovated. The blackboard wall and the walls on the left and right of the classroom were neatly covered with 30-inch LCD screens, no more, no less, exactly 640
piece.
Lu Yuan waited and looked at Qingchen doubtfully: "Why do you need so many screens?"
"We'll find out later," Qingchen said: "Please number all the screens from 1 to 640, and then assign me 8 people to control fast forward, pause, and reverse. Thank you."
With that said, Qingchen walked alone to the last row of the lecture theater and sat down: "Let's get started."
All 640 screens lit up, and each screen contained surveillance images, playing continuously at four times the speed.
Qingchen's pupils narrowed, and he kept recording the images on each screen in his mind, and then used the memory palace to analyze them.
"Playing since 15 days ago."
"Screen No. 611 is adjusted to eight times speed."
"Screen No. 127 is adjusted to eight times speed."
"Screen No. 531 will be turned upside down for 48 hours."
"Screen 137 will be played upside down for 48 hours."
Time passes minute by minute.
Xiaoying said from the side: "There are no mice on these screens? Aren't we looking for mice? I looked at the screen Qingchen turned upside down, and there were no mice in it..."
Lu Yuan shook his head: "I can't tell anything yet. If we wait a little longer, maybe Qingchen has his own ideas."
At this time, Qingchen suddenly said: "Screen 137 pauses. The man in the brown coat on the screen used to go out at 7 o'clock on time every day, take the light rail train in screen 139, and go to work in the factory in screen 631. However,
, he has never gone out since the 21st day, help me mark that he was probably killed by a mouse at home, so he did not go to work."
The area where the man in the brown coat was located was the first person Qingchen found whose behavior was abnormal.
In the early stages of the rat tide, they would never appear on the streets, much less show up in road surveillance.
Therefore, if Qingchen wants to analyze where the rat tide first appeared, he must analyze the behavior of "people" to infer the movement of the rat tide.
What he is looking for in the surveillance is not rats, but people who suddenly disappear in the city.
"Rewind No. 141 to 36 hours, 32 minutes and 12 seconds ago. Please mark the character on the screen. He was also commuting to and from get off work normally 48 hours ago, as was his wife, but suddenly the couple stopped going out. "
"Rewind to 47 hours, 10 minutes and 31 seconds before No. 136. The woman in the video went to work in a strip club in the Fourth District every night, but she hasn't gone out for two days."
"No. 151..."
"No. 153..."
The expressions of the Kunlun members gradually became dull. It turned out that even if they couldn't see the mice, they could still find them.
They looked at the young man at the back of the lecture theater in disbelief, who was sitting so calmly in the back row, as if everything was natural.
"Little Eagle, mark the screens I marked on the map of city No. 10. I want to know where these people live."
Qingchen directed without emotion. Gradually, he directed eight operators by himself. Unexpectedly, all eight operators could not keep up with the speed and were in a hurry.
Xiaoying hurriedly checked the map. Sometimes, he could mark the map faster than Qingchen could find the information.
All the Kunlun members present felt a strong sense of oppression. They only felt that this kind of thinking ability was extremely terrifying.
Lu Yuan and Ni Ergou looked at each other silently, each seeing the horrified look in the other's eyes.
This was the first time Qingchen showed his brain's ability without reservation in front of outsiders.
When Qingchen directed the rewinding of the video, he could do so accurately to the second.
The operator only needs to input the time that Qingchen wants to rewind, and the screen will accurately freeze on the character Qingchen is looking for.
Lu Yuan and Ni Ergou simply couldn't figure out how someone could watch 640 surveillance videos at the same time and accurately find the information inside.
Moreover, what Qingchen has to do is remember all the people who have appeared on the screen.
Analyze the other party’s behavior trajectory.
Identify the other party’s abnormal behavior.
Qingchen talks about information very easily. The amount of information hidden behind the actionable trajectory analysis is extremely huge!
As Qingchen spoke out thousands of pieces of information, the map of city No. 10 in front of Xiaoying was marked with dense red dots.
As time passed in the surveillance video, more and more people died in the city. Lu Yuan and Ni Ergou could even feel the fear of the rat tide becoming more and more frequent.
It was as if Qingchen led everyone through the surveillance video brought back by iodophor, and then personally experienced the reproduction and invasion of a rat tide.
The monitoring time lasts from morning to afternoon.
After Qingchen had a few simple meals, the meal continued from afternoon to midnight.
Everyone is feeling the disappearance of humans one by one and the harm caused by the rat tide.
Be there!
The Kunlun members responsible for Qingchen's control have all changed. Only Qingchen has been sitting at the back of the lecture hall, working at the highest intensity as if he has no emotions.
Lu Yuan suddenly felt a sore nose and said: "If Iodophor knew that the video he brought back could turn decay into a miracle in Qingchen's hands, he would definitely feel that his death was without regrets... Their death was not in vain."
Qingchen would not let their death be in vain.
"Stop," Qingchen looked at the screens and said, "Xiaoying, put up the map of city No. 10 for me."
"Hey, okay," Xiaoying said excitedly.
He and three other Kunlun members each held a corner of the map and held it upright in front of Qingchen.
Everyone can see the dense red dots in the city, each red dot represents a dead human being, or more.
On that map, rats were scattered sporadically in the city, spreading outward with the fifth district as the axis.
The fifth area is the densest, so dense that the fifth area on the map is almost dyed red.
Only the lower three districts are still blank.
Now it will be clear where the rat infestation broke out.
"It started in the fifth area. They continued to encroach on the entire fifth area and turned it into the first granary. The Rat King should be there," Qingchen said.
"Will it move later?" Lu Yuan asked.
"The 80% probability is still there. After all, in City No. 10 yesterday, District 5 still had the most rats. I now feel that this rat tide has a clear division of labor, and it is more like the evolution of worker ants, soldier ants, and queen ants.
Such a power structure," Qingchen said: "And the 'ant queen' of this group will most likely lose many other body functions due to the need to evolve and reproduce. The meaning of its existence is to become the intellectual hub of the group, and then
Constantly breeding new populations of rats.”
Qingchen: "Of course, it does have a probability of moving to other places, so I need to continue to observe and monitor and find more clues."
What Qingchen didn't say was that he also saw Qingwen, Qingshi, and Lucky on the screen.
I also saw some people acting strangely on the screen.
But the first three people had little to do with this rat tide, so he didn't mention it to Kunlun, and those people at the back... Qingchen planned to find them all tomorrow.
Perhaps, you can also find some useful information through these people.
Qingchen stood up and walked out: "It's getting late. Let's go to bed early. Tomorrow we will find out the location of the Rat King...Thank you for your cooperation. See you tomorrow."
With that said, Qingchen left the lecture theater without looking back, without any hesitation.
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Five thousand words chapter, one more chapter at 11pm
