When the countdown ended, Cheng Lin seemed to hear a subtle buzzing, and then the whole world became quiet.
The white light that filled the room dissipated, and outside the window was still the starry night in the suburbs of the northern provincial capital in July.
Cheng Lin stood up and came to the window full of expectations, looking out.
"According to the routine, the temperature outside should be rising now..."
Cheng Lin thought to himself and looked out curiously.
The previous two times started with the destruction of the world by sky fire. I don’t know if this is still the case this time.
[After half a month, you have started a new round of civilization deduction with full expectation]
[You come to the window, open your eyes and look out, but find that nothing happens]
Cheng Lin: "..."
What's the meaning?
Has the routine changed?
He was slightly surprised, and vaguely realized that this deduction might not be moving forward according to the timeline of the last two times.
Maybe a new route will be opened.
It's just that even if you want to open a new direction for civilization, there will eventually be some changes.
Cheng Lin ignored the information in his head and still stood quietly in front of the window waiting.
After dozens of seconds, he finally vaguely discovered a problem.
"Why does the moon move so fast..."
Cheng Lin raised his head, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, and stared at the stars that had been accompanying the earth beneath his feet since many years ago.
The moon is not very bright tonight, and it will become full in the middle of the month in a few days.
The star, which was covered with a veil in Cheng Lin's eyes, was moving at a speed beyond his awareness.
[You stood quietly in front of the window for a long time, and finally found that the moon was moving abnormally fast. You frowned and thought, what does this mean? However, the result of thinking tells you that it only means that the day is about to dawn]
After this message appeared, the moon's lateral movement speed increased again, almost like a curved progress bar across the sky, and it came to an end in a few seconds.
【Its daybreak】
A distance that should have taken hours was covered in a matter of seconds.
In Cheng Lin's eyes, the sky dimmed and brightened again, the moonlight disappeared, and a huge, orange-red, newborn sun slowly rose from the distant horizon.
Then everything returned to normal.
"It seems that time has been accelerated, and it's daytime."
Cheng Lin nodded secretly and waited quietly for the next change.
However, the information that came to his mind next surprised him.
[You stood in front of the window all night, and seeing daylight coming again, you decided to go downstairs to take a look]
"kindness?"
Cheng Lin was startled, the process this time seemed a little different from before.
After hesitating for a moment, Cheng Lin turned around and opened the door. He didn't step out immediately, but just looked outside.
There were already some noises in the corridor, as if some neighbors had gotten up and washed up, so Cheng Lin walked out silently.
Looking back, I can see that the "safe house" in the past has also changed, and it no longer looks like an overall house.
Probably because the corridor was not fully visible, there was only a translucent door floating behind Cheng Lin.
"It seems that the safe house mechanism has been activated. So, it is indeed in the process of deduction."
Cheng Lin thought to himself and walked along the corridor.
When I came outside the bathroom, a student came out.
The other party was holding a wash basin in his hand and was wiping his wet hair with a towel. He didn't seem to notice Cheng Lin. His eyes didn't even pause on him for a second and left on his own.
Cheng Lin felt vaguely weird, but didn't think much about it.
I went downstairs and when I arrived on the first floor, I found the dormitory management lady already sitting at the front desk.
Cheng Lin nodded politely to the other party, but was surprised to find that the dormitory aunt ignored him at all.
No.
It's not just ignoring him, it's like not seeing him at all.
"has a problem!"
Cheng Lin finally discovered the problem.
He tentatively walked up to the dormitory aunt, but found that the other party's eyes went straight through him and looked out for a few times, then lowered his head to deal with the affairs.
"Aunt?"
Cheng Lin called out tentatively.
I saw the dormitory auntie raising her head as if she was aware of it.
He looked around the hall on the first floor, then showed a confused look on his face, muttering: "Why do I seem to hear someone calling me..."
Shaking her head, she lowered her head again.
Cheng Lin blinked and suddenly had a guess in his mind.
He did not leave the dormitory immediately, but walked along the corridor to the bathroom on the first floor.
There was no one inside yet, so he walked straight to the mirror mounted on the wall.
Then, a true expression appeared on his face.
There is no trace of him in the mirror!
in other words……
"Am I invisible?"
Cheng Lin was so surprised that he couldn't figure out what the deduction was going to be.
However, invisibility is indeed an ability that almost everyone fantasizes about when they are young. The same goes for Cheng Lin, who suddenly found it interesting.
[You stand in front of the mirror, but your figure is not reflected in the mirror. You exist in this world, but there is no trace]
Cheng Lin raised his eyebrows slightly, returned to the hall, and then walked out of the dormitory building.
When his feet landed on the road in front of Seat F, new information appeared in his mind:
[Enable the mission system, please follow the prompts and complete the series of missions. After completion, the deduction will end and you will receive rewards]
[Task (Part 1): Please arrive at the local Taoyuan International Airport within the next two hours]
"Huh? Is this a mission?"
Cheng Lin was startled and realized that this deduction was indeed very different from the previous two.
The Ninth Hospital is located in the provincial capital.
Although it is a suburb, it is still in the provincial capital after all.
Taoyuan International Airport is also in the provincial capital city, but it is far away from the Ninth Hospital.
Cheng Lin remembered that when he first came to Jiuyuan, the bus he took passed by Taoyuan Airport.
In turn, the fixed shuttle bus outside the Ninth Hospital will also pass by the airport.
Although Cheng Lin never had the chance to leave the academy during this period.
But I also learned that there are shuttle buses passing by the college gate at certain times every day.
I took out my phone and found that the screen was already on.
Cheng Lin looked at the time, it was not yet six o'clock.
I opened the browser and surprisingly found that the network was still available.
After checking the relevant routes, I found that the nearest shuttle bus would arrive in half an hour.
Fortunately, it only takes less than an hour to drive from here to the airport.
"There is plenty of time."
Cheng Lin felt relieved and walked along the street towards the main entrance of the college.
At around five o'clock in the morning, there weren't many people in the academy, but there were quite a few.
Some faculty, staff, and diligent students have already gotten up at this time.
Cheng Lin felt very comfortable walking in the morning light, especially when he passed by some people, but they couldn't see him at all. This feeling was quite strange.
He even met Xie Qingke on the way.
This girl is really diligent. She finished washing herself so early and walked out of the cafeteria with her backpack on her back.
When the two of them passed by each other, Cheng Lin suddenly blew cool air on the back of her neck on a whim.
Xie Qingke was so frightened that he jumped several meters away, turned his head, and stared behind him like a vigorous civet cat.
Unfortunately I didn't see anything.
"Ha ha."
Cheng Lin was very happy, but he didn't tease her anymore.
He walked leisurely all the way, but when he reached a building, his steps suddenly stopped.
That's the Academic Affairs Building.
Cheng Lin suddenly recalled Wang Daming's words last night.
"I remember Wang Daming said that the abilities that can be learned in the academy are placed in the library of the Academic Affairs Building..."
Cheng Lin's eyes suddenly flickered, and an idea came to his mind.
Do you want to go and have a look?
Anyway, there's still some time left, let's try to see if we can get in.
Once the thoughts come together, I can't stop them.
Cheng Lin immediately set off and entered the Academic Affairs Building at a faster pace.
There are already people in the guard room on the first floor cleaning up the house. It seems that they are not practitioners, but just ordinary people.
Cheng Lin took advantage of his invisibility and walked in, then saw a bunch of keys on the wall. Using the blind spot of his perspective, he reached out and took off the keys and stuffed them into his arms.
Oddly enough, once something is wrapped in clothes, it also becomes invisible.
Cheng Lin didn't dare to delay, so he went upstairs and quickly found the library according to the instructions on the sign on the first floor.
This is a very ordinary room with a locked door.
Cheng Lin struggled to find the corresponding key, opened it, and walked in.
After closing the door, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Although I know I'm invisible, I don't know why I'm still so nervous."
Cheng Lin shook his head and smiled, then looked at the house leisurely.
The room was very empty, and the floor was filled with books wrapped in brown paper. Most of them were textbooks that they had already distributed, and some of them had not yet been distributed.
Those abilities also seem to exist in the form of textbooks.
Judging from this storage location, it is not something that needs to be kept secret.
"It's right to think about it. According to Wang Daming, those powers are not very effective. They are the products of exploratory experiments and are not precious. They can be given to ordinary students, which means that they are not a confidential field of research.
.”
However, even this kind of not very precious thing still needs to be reported and applied for.
This is the system, there are no rules and regulations.
Cheng Lin didn't express much emotion, but quickly rummaged through it.
Soon, he found his goal.
It was a white booklet, also not very thick, with only a few dozen pages.
There are several printed words written on the cover:
"Three Field Construction Methods for Learnable Superpowers"
"You are the one!"
Cheng Lin's eyes lit up, but he didn't rush to read. Instead, he stuffed the book into his clothes and quickly went downstairs.
I don't even bother to deal with traces or anything like that, since this is in the world of deduction anyway.
Once the deduction is over, everything will be restored.
If there was no time limit, Cheng Lin would even want to rely on stealth to do something else. Anyway, everything is just a deduction.
Relying on invisibility, he successfully walked out of the academy gate without any accidents.
Cheng Lin finally got his wish and arrived at the empty stop sign not far outside the college.
Waiting quietly for the arrival of the first shuttle bus.
It was still very early at this time, there was almost no one on the street, and most of the nearby residents had not gotten up yet.
Cheng Lin leaned leisurely against the stop sign and stroked the cover of the white textbook.
Just as I was about to open the book and read it, I saw a bus passing by in the distance.
"coming."
Cheng Lin quickly stuffed his textbook into his clothes, then stood up and waved.
Then he watched helplessly as the shuttle bus whizzed past him without slowing down at all, and was gone in the blink of an eye.