The Secret Service office building not far from the General Assembly Hall was brightly lit.
However, an hour ago, only less than half of the rooms here had the lights on, and only some personnel on duty remained.
After all, tonight is the Lantern Festival.
However, the sudden vision forced those people who had already got off work to rush back under the starry night.
There are many important figures among them.
Although the Director of the Ninth Division is not yet very important, he can still be considered a big shot.
At this moment, the car he was riding in with an internal license plate was slowly stopping in front of the building.
"boom!"
After getting out of the car, he locked the door with his backhand. The man hurriedly straightened his collar and strode forward.
Deputy Director Yang Congxian followed closely behind.
After entering the building, I met a civilian employee with a white circle embroidered on his lapel.
When the other party saw the two people entering the door, his eyes lit up and he said, "You two are here."
"Secretary Zhao, how is the situation?"
The Director of the Ninth Division asked in a polite tone.
The other party is the minister's top secretarial officer. Although he is a civilian, his energy is extraordinary.
Secretary Zhao shook his head and sighed, and said, "I don't know yet, but the minister and others have already arrived and are in the conference room upstairs."
"Then I..."
"Please come with me. I need to show you some information."
"Oh? What is it about?" Director Ninth Division was startled.
Secretary Zhao smiled slightly and said, "It has something to do with Cheng Lin."
"...please lead the way."
Several people quickly walked into a room, and then saw Secretary Zhao handing him a few pieces of paper and explaining at the same time:
"There are two main things,
The first thing is about what happened in Jiamusi a year and a half ago.
Do you remember?
The Jiamusi radio telescope was secretly sneaked into by practitioners and used it to transmit a radio signal into the universe.
Later, we also deciphered the content of the signal.
attracted great attention,
A special investigation team was also organized at that time.
I followed it all the way and later found out that it was related to a student also named Cheng Lin from the Ninth Spirituality Academy under your company.
It's a pity that the other party seems to have disappeared out of thin air.
But over the past year and a half, we have never given up searching."
After a pause, Secretary Zhao said seriously: "Not long ago, to be precise, a few dozen minutes before the starry sky phenomenon occurred,
The police comrades re-captured Cheng Lin’s cell phone signal.
Then through positioning,
Discovered the other party's whereabouts,
He is still in Jiamusi City!
People from the 10th Division have been urgently notified to arrest him."
Yang Congxian next to him looked slightly moved after hearing this, frowned and asked: "Is this happening? But this matter doesn't seem to be of a very high level, right?
After all, the original projection has not appeared again for a year and a half."
Secretary Zhao shook his head when he heard this, sighed again, pointed to the pieces of paper in the hands of the Director of the Ninth Division, and said seriously:
"Of course there is a reason why I bring this up again.
Just when the starry sky appeared just now,
Xia Guo Tianyan received a mysterious radio message,
And quickly deciphered it."
"What's the content?"
Secretary Zhao looked at him deeply: "The translated message means: Hello, Cheng Lin!"
…
…
"It seems that it was discovered and located through a mobile phone? It's very possible."
On a street corner on a cold winter night, a group of solemn-looking lapels gathered under a streetlight.
And in the center of their encirclement, an unperceivable safe house was quietly suspended there.
Cheng Lin stood in front of the window of the safe house, thinking in his mind.
"It seems that my previous guess has come true. There are so many clues. The government must have started arresting me a long time ago.
As soon as I showed up here, people came, and it was very efficient."
"But what happened with Starry Sky just now, isn't that what these people are focused on now?
Why are you so anxious to catch me?
Do they already know that thing was summoned by me?
It shouldn't be,
It's been more than a year since this happened,
There is no reason to associate this thing with the signal I sent a year ago.
No matter how imaginative the top officials in the government are, there is no reason to be so sure that that thing is related to me."
Cheng Lin thought with some confusion.
Naturally, he didn't know that when the Starry Face appeared, he also sent a "reply" to Earth to address Cheng Lin.
Or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a "secret code".
In short, it was precisely because of this that the government immediately connected the two incidents and launched a hunt for him.
It's a pity that Cheng Lin has already safely hid in the safe house.
No matter how powerful the practitioner is, he will not be able to find him.
Thinking of this, Cheng Lin couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and then leisurely dug out a bucket of Laotan pickled cabbage noodles from the dormitory cabinet.
He looked at the thermos on the table.
Well, a year and a half has passed, and the water in the thermos is still hot.
"I want to see which of us can outlast the other."
Cheng Lin snorted and soaked a bucket of noodles in hot water. He had baked too little cold noodles before and was not full.
After making the noodles, Cheng Lin sat leisurely by the window, eating and happily looking at the circle of lapels outside the window.
Cheng Lin was happy when he saw their serious expressions and tense spirits.
After finishing the noodles, I saw that no new information appeared in my mind.
Cheng Lin thought for a while and simply went to bed and closed his eyes to rest.
This sleep lasted only a few hours.
He himself never thought that he would sleep so deeply.
While Cheng Lin was sleeping soundly, people from the headquarters of the 10th Special Division, which controlled the Black Province area, finally arrived.
This made Chai Daofei, who was struggling to support himself in the cold wind, very excited.
However, even though Si Li's senior practitioners of the perception system tried their best, no trace of Cheng Lin was found.
In the end it can only be concluded that he has already left.
For this reason, Team 6 leader Chai Daofei was scolded by his immediate superior.
The last group of people could only leave in anger.
…
"Hoo~"
After an unknown amount of time, Cheng Lin finally woke up from his sleep.
Yawning hard, he suddenly realized that he had fallen asleep.
He turned and looked out the window.
Tris and his gang have long since disappeared.
"Leave now? These people can't do it either."
Cheng Lin shook his head and smiled, then took out his phone and looked at the time, and was shocked.
"I slept for six or seven hours?"
The time displayed on the phone had reached 6:45 the next morning.
This made Cheng Lin very funny for a moment. He didn't expect that he could fall asleep during the deduction.
"Speaking of the number of steps in the program, wouldn't time in this case be directly accelerated?"
He was surprised that he was allowed to sleep for such a long time this time.
However, a good night's sleep was indeed beneficial. Cheng Lin now felt energetic and radiant.
"I don't know if they are completely gone or if they are still lurking around?"
Cheng Lin muttered and came to the window, beginning to hesitate whether to go out immediately.
But then, he was suddenly stunned!
Cheng Lin stared blankly at the night outside the window, and suddenly a flash of lightning flashed in his mind!
"Something's wrong! It's almost seven o'clock in the morning, why is it still dark outside?"
Only then did Cheng Lin discover something unusual.
Looking out the window, it seemed that there was no difference from before he fell asleep.
The city is still dark and plunged into night.
It seems like it's still early morning.
The stars in the sky are still twinkling, but the full moon has somehow disappeared.
The moon is gone.
It's still dark.
Just when Cheng Lin was stunned, a message finally appeared in his mind:
[You have slept for a few hours and feel energetic. You are about to go out, but unexpectedly find that the world is still at night]
[Many questions arise in your mind, wondering what happened]
【In doubt, another hour passed】
The window blurred slightly, then became clear.
Cheng Lin looked at the time and saw that it was almost eight o'clock in the morning.
However, it was still dark outside the window.
[When you wake up, you feel a little hungry, so you decide to go out and walk about 200 meters to the right. There is a breakfast shop where you can have breakfast]
Hearing this, Cheng Lin pushed open the door of the safe house and stood on the street on a winter night again. The street lights above his head had been extinguished.
But the world does not lack light sources.
It's already eight o'clock in the morning, and most people in the city have already gotten up.
Every house was lit with lights, and for a while the "starlight" on the ground was brighter than the sky.
After walking for more than 200 meters along the right hand side, I saw a breakfast shop.
The plastic sign at the door says Xiao Long Bao, soy milk, millet porridge, side dishes, steamed dumplings...etc. The store is not big, about twenty square meters.
The light was on, a large cloud of steam came out, and a woman wearing a hat and sleeves was busy inside.
Seeing Cheng Lin come in, she greeted: "Classmate, what do you want to eat?"
Cheng Lin did not answer immediately, but asked: "Excuse me, what time is it now? My watch seems to be inaccurate."
The woman heard this and said, "It's almost eight o'clock."
"Isn't that right? Then why isn't it dawn yet?"
"How did I know? When I first got up, I thought the clock was moving wrong."
The woman seemed to sigh, and there was a trace of worry in her eyes, but she didn't stop moving her hands, and asked again: "What can I eat?"
"A drawer of steamed buns, a big bowl of millet porridge, and a side dish." Cheng Lin said directly without looking at the price list.
"Okay, take the side dishes and serve them on your own plate!"
"Thanks."
Cheng Lin thanked him, and then looked into the store. There were several tables inside, and there were three or four people eating breakfast inside at the moment.
They didn't speak, they all just looked at a TV set in the corner of the store with serious expressions.
Cheng Lin found an empty seat and sat down, and also looked up at the TV.
What is playing is the news station.
The program is "Chao Wen Tian Xia".
At this moment, the host is sitting behind the desk, playing the news with a serious look on his face.
But today’s news is a bit special.
"... Regarding the huge astronomical phenomenon that occurred at around 21:00 last night, the National Scientific Research Center, the Astronomical Observation Center, the National Academy of Sciences and other institutions carried out analysis and investigation overnight... No definite answer has been obtained yet..."
"In response to the current phenomenon of daylight not appearing in our country, the country has organized a top scientific research team to investigate, and it is suspected that it has a certain connection with the astronomical phenomenon that occurred last night..."
"According to the latest news from the Academy of Sciences, anomalies in the Earth's magnetic field have been detected..."
"According to international news, dozens of countries and regions in the Eastern Hemisphere are currently in the same dark night as our country, and in the Western Hemisphere, where the Federation and other countries are located, the phenomenon of the sun not setting also occurs... This is a radiation