Night’s Nomenclature

Countdown 144:00:00.

Agricultural Academy was brightly lit.

"Everyone, work a little faster. We can't make a mistake with the two breeding cycles this time. Each fruit may be related to a human life, so please be careful and don't break the fruits."

Xiao San's hands were still bandaged, while Little Seven worked tirelessly to lead everyone in a new round of transplantation.

Double, double, double again.

The crop yield on Whale Island had reached a terrifying number.

If all goes well, the next time we travel, we should be able to let each City 10 Time Traveler eat four Eternal Heaven Fruit.

By then, everyone's chances of survival will be greatly increased.

Everyone knew that the result of the Rat Tide disaster would occur during the next traversal, and that it would be a fierce battle.

Now they were not treating fruits, but human lives and hopes.

Qing Chen returned to Agricultural Academy, only to see Zard and Xiaoyu had moved a table from somewhere, and the two of them sat beside it, peeling crayfish.

After obtaining Qing Chen's permission, Zard used Qing Chen's name to ask for two servings of crayfish, planning to have a good time during the free small stove period.

As a result, when the canteen chef heard that this was a midnight snack prepared for the young dean, he actually made ten servings for them.

However, these two people were not peeling shrimp for themselves, but for Li Tongyun and Shinguji Maki at the table.

Xiaoyu patiently peeled the crayfish and placed them in Shinguji Maki's small plate. After peeling for a long time, she didn't eat a single one herself, yet she still smiled brightly.

Zard was the same.

"Xiao Tongyun, little Maki, what are you two doing here?" Qing Chen curiously asked.

"We came to see you," Li Tongyun said. "We were going to go back when we saw that you weren't here, but Zard and Xiaoyu stopped us, saying they would peel shrimp for us. Maki and I are full."

Zard chuckled: "It turns out that peeling shrimp for others can also be so happy."

Qing Chen looked at Li Tongyun: "You must have other things to do, right?"

Li Tongyun got up, wiped her hands, and pulled Qing Chen and little Maki towards the outside.

Arriving at the edge of the cliff, Xiao Tongyun whispered, "I take Maki to practice rock climbing every day. Once, we stayed out late, and she said that after 1 o'clock, there seemed to be many kind voices calling her from below Whale Island. Of course, not all of them were kind, one voice was very evil."

Qing Chen frowned: "Whale Island…"

Before this, even Kunlun had never delved into what the bottom of Whale Island looked like, and had never gone down to check.

In everyone's mind, an island is just an island,

But now, the bottom of Whale Island didn't seem as simple as imagined. Qing Chen decided to go down and have a look: "You two wait here, I'll go down and have a look."

"Will it be dangerous?" Li Tongyun asked.

"No," Qing Chen said. "No matter what ghosts and monsters are under this Whale Island, if they could come out and jump around, they would have done so long ago, and they wouldn't be staying at the bottom of the sea calling for Maki. Those that haven't come out until now means they can't come out on their own, and they want Maki's help."

This is the simplest logic.

Qing Chen had Maki materialize a waterproof flashlight, then leaped from the twenty-meter cliff.

The two girls anxiously waited on the shore until the light of the flashlight sank into the deep sea, hidden by the black waves.

Qing Chen used Knight True Qi to breathe through his skin.

He originally thought that diving would be a very strenuous task, but he later found that when he dived to about 10 meters, there was a gentle suction force that slowly pulled him into the bottom of Whale Island.

The mountain body at the bottom of Whale Island became increasingly narrow, like an inverted snow mountain.

Qing Chen occasionally judged the strength of the suction force to decide whether he should leave this strange vortex.

Otherwise, if he was sucked into some unknown place, it would be dangerous.

However, the suction force did not increase with the increase in depth.

As he sank, he used his flashlight to examine the rock walls at the bottom of Whale Island, but it was bare, without even moss or algae.

Slowly, after an unknown amount of time, Qing Chen felt that his vision suddenly opened up and brightened, with purple soft light shining through!

This was already the bottommost layer of Whale Island, and what suddenly appeared before Qing Chen was an upside-down island village.

There were inverted cherry blossom trees growing in the village, and the purple soft light was emitted by the long-lasting, unfading cherry blossoms on the trees.

Various kinds of fish swam through the crown of cherry blossom trees, sometimes slowly, sometimes accelerating.

The seawater was clear and transparent, and the scene before him was breathtakingly beautiful.

Qing Chen stared blankly at this scene. No one expected that under Whale Island, there would be such a magnificent sight.

In the village, triangular wooden houses were scattered and inverted at the bottom of Whale Island. In the distance, there were terraces extending, neat and tidy.

In front of the small wooden houses, there were stone mortars used for pounding glutinous rice cakes, and a hole-loving octopus was resting inside.

In the middle of the village, there was a two-meter-diameter well. Qing Chen suddenly realized that all the underwater suction force came from this well; it was constantly swallowing seawater into the interior of Whale Island.

At this time, Qing Chen saw several red grouper slowly swim past the well, but they were accidentally sucked into the well.

His heart sank. If he was sucked into the well, it would probably be very dangerous, right?

However, the next moment, a few seconds after the red grouper were sucked into the well, the well actually spat the red grouper out again.

Qing Chen was puzzled. Could it be that the well did not swallow living things?

He floated in the water, continuing to look around. He saw a huge temple at the end of the village road. More than one hundred people in kimonos were sitting with their eyes closed at the entrance of the temple, men and women, dressed in gorgeous clothes.

Beside these people, there were also demons that Qing Chen had seen in the Hyakki Yakou Illustrated Book, also sitting at the bottom of Whale Island. These people's legs were all bound to the bottom of Whale Island with iron chains.

Qing Chen's world was completely opposite to theirs, which made him feel very strange.

Looking further into the temple, he could even see an eight-headed giant snake trapped on a stone pillar in the courtyard. Each of its heads was mercilessly locked to the stone pillar with black iron chains.

The next moment, the eight heads of the dozens-meter-high giant snake all opened their eyes.

It struggled and shook on the stone pillar, opening its bloody mouth to reveal the fangs inside.

The lips of the more than one hundred people outside the temple began to move, muttering something unknown. As their lips moved slightly, the iron chains on the giant snake became tighter and tighter, suppressing the giant snake tightly.

Qing Chen stared blankly at this scene. Were these Shikigami? Were they the Shikigami once controlled by the ancestor of the Yuan Clan?

Shadow once said that after the Yuan Clan disappeared at sea, the Shendai Yin-Yang Master began to decline little by little, and the number of Shikigami decreased instead of increasing.

Zheng Yuandong said that the Yuan Clan once controlled a large and powerful number of Shikigami, all of which sank to the bottom of the sea with the ancestor of the Yuan Clan.

Therefore, if the Whale Island Forbidden Artifact was precipitated by the ancestor of the Yuan Clan and the giant whale, then the creatures trapped at the bottom of Whale Island were probably the Shikigami once controlled by the ancestor of the Yuan Clan, right?

And now, the meaning of the existence of the Shikigami outside the temple was to suppress the giant snake, and Maki said that there was another evil voice at the bottom of the sea, which might be this giant snake.

This village was where the Yuan Clan once lived.

The well absorbs seawater because it needs to transform the energy of the seawater into the energy on Whale Island that allows the Purple Orchid Star to grow rapidly.

Previously, Qing Chen had always been puzzled. Although Whale Island has the rule that "nothing grown on Whale Island can leave the island," the Agricultural Academy, although an outsider, the energy it needs for growth is real, and it really helps cultivators. Moreover, after cultivators leave Whale Island, their power is not taken back by the rules.

Where does this power come from?

At first, Qing Chen thought that this energy came from the fallen giant whale. After all, that level of extraordinary creature could support an island. It is not uncommon, after all, even Shendai Qianchi can support a city's rat population.

But in this case, the energy on Whale Island would eventually be depleted, which is why Qing Chen didn't want to blindly reproduce the Purple Orchid Star before.

He was worried that Whale Island would one day be drained.

But now Qing Chen understood that the Whale Island Forbidden Artifact itself does not provide energy; its energy comes from seawater.

Qing Chen slowly swam towards the surface. He already roughly knew what was going on at the bottom of Whale Island. As for those underwater Shikigami, he would have to wait for Shinguji Maki herself to collect them after several Trials of Life and Death. He was not sure if he rashly brought blood down here, whether it would inexplicably release the bound giant snake, and who knows how powerful that thing is.

After seeing the wonders of the seabed, Qing Chen became even more curious about what creatures lived in the forbidden forest on the surface of Whale Island.

Countdown 16:00:00.

At 8 am, Qing Chen arrived at the tiered classroom on time.

Dozens of Kunlun Members were already waiting here. Their expressions were calm, but everyone nervously clenched their fists.

Lu Yuan said: "Yesterday, there were too few operators assigned to you, and they couldn't keep up with your pace. Today, I've assigned double the number of people to help you."

Qing Chen looked at the Kunlun Members in front of him: "It's going to be tiring."

Lu Yuan said: "As long as what you do can help Dianfu and the others avenge their deaths, we'll have no problem working non-stop."

Qing Chen solemnly said: "I will. Everyone return to their workstations and begin. Today, show me the video of screen number 10165, rewind to a month ago, I need to look for clues targetedly!"

Dianfu brought back recordings of surveillance data from the past three months.

But Qing Chen only had 7 days. Even if he played it at eight times the speed, he wouldn't be able to finish watching 90 days of video content. To finish watching, he would need at least 11 days.

This was still under the condition that Qing Chen did not eat, sleep, or use the toilet.

At this time, Qing Chen had to take a risk and use sixteen times the speed to play the video, which would save more time.

But in this way, Qing Chen had to narrow down the analysis scope first, otherwise, the amount of information from sixteen times the speed and the entire area would be enough to make him collapse.

Now, screen number 10165 is the traffic camera in the fifth district.

Lu Yuan curiously asked: "What are you looking for in this area? I remember you didn't watch it three days before the Rat Tide broke out yesterday. To find the Rat King, shouldn't you watch the last few days? Why do you still need to watch the recordings from a month ago?"

"Of course not," Qing Chen explained: "When a question is raised, the answer has already been written in the past."

He sat in the last row of the tiered classroom, silently watching those screens play at sixteen times the speed.

It was from morning to noon, noon to evening, and evening to midnight.

At this time, Lu Yuan and the others suddenly saw Qing Chen bleeding from his nose.

The Kunlun Members truly understood how hard Qing Chen was working. If it were them, they would have their eyes blurred just by fast-forwarding a video, let alone watching dozens of videos like Qing Chen.

Lu Yuan had someone bring tissues and silently handed them to Qing Chen.

Qing Chen simply wiped away the blood from his nose and did not stop.

The next moment, Qing Chen stood up and shouted: "Videos 11, 17, 141, and 147, rewind to 0 minutes ago and slow down!"

Lu Yuan was surprised. This was the first time Qing Chen had spoken to give instructions from morning until now. The extra Kunlun Members who had been assigned were all suffocating.

Just when everyone thought there would be no gains today, Qing Chen finally spoke!

The young man got up and went to these screens, carefully observing something.

Lu Yuan and others held their breath, afraid of disturbing Qing Chen's thoughts.

But then Qing Chen pointed to the left wall: "Turn on screens 1, 19, 1, and 4711, and set the time to 5 minutes and 1 second, 4 minutes and 8 seconds, 1 minute and 1 second, and 1 minute and 56 seconds, respectively!"

Qing Chen kept uttering precise numbers. The Kunlun Members frantically operated, and the screens that were originally dark on the wall, one after another, opened according to the numbers he specified, and then switched to the time periods Qing Chen specified.

After observing for a while, Qing Chen said: "Then turn on 0, 7…"

At this moment, everyone was quiet.

The Kunlun Members all realized that Qing Chen had found a clue!

A clue so important that Qing Chen couldn't help but stand up!

They saw a transport fleet driving into the southern border checkpoint. They seamlessly transitioned from one screen to another, as if a fleet were driving across the wall. The time of the video splicing was so ingenious that people wanted to applaud!

Slowly, as the transport fleet was driving, the lead vehicle suddenly left the team and drove towards the fifth district.

Everyone in the tiered classroom watched it drive into that area of the fifth district from among the many dark screens, then arrive at the Fei Niao Building in the fifth district, and drive into the parking lot.

The video ended here.

Qing Chen said: "This transport fleet travels between City 10 and City 0 once a day, responsible for transporting beef and mutton from the north. According to the normal route, they should arrive in the third district together, and then the food quarantine bureau would conduct three random checks on the goods, eventually flowing into the high-end market of City 10. This lead vehicle carried raw meat products but did not go to the third district, which is illegal in itself, and they have never done this before."

Qing Chen continued: "Moreover, screens 11 and 17 are high-definition cameras, and the third district is all high-definition. You can see that the driver of this fleet is very stable and has never been changed, except for this time."

The Kunlun Members looked at each other. What kind of brain, what kind of computational analysis ability, would notice that a driver in so many screens had been changed?!

This is too terrifying!

Qing Chen said: "It's not just as simple as changing a driver. Before, the drivers never wore Bluetooth headsets while driving, but this time they did. Come on, Little Eagle, enlarge the high-definition camera on screen 11. Okay, confirmed, they did wear Bluetooth headsets, they were carrying out a mission."

Qing Chen looked at Lu Yuan: "To create the Rat Tide, there is a prerequisite, which is to transport the body of Shendai Qianchi to City 10, so as long as you find this mode of transportation, you will also find where the body of Shendai Qianchi is, and you will also find the Rat King."

He pointed to screen 149: "Fei Niao Building parking lot, it's right here. As far as I know, the Federation's sewer inspection ports are habitually built on the edge of underground parking lots, which is more convenient and saves costs. So they entered the sewer through here and put Shendai Qianchi's body in."

In the tiered classroom, everyone was speechless.

Everyone felt that this moment was extremely magical, but they had to admit that everything Qing Chen analyzed was traceable.

Lu Yuan remembered what Qing Chen had just said, "When a question is raised, the answer has already been written in the past."

This was Qing Chen's answer!

Lu Yuan scratched his head in distress, how could he not say such things, how could he not have the same brain as Qing Chen?

However, Qing Chen's analysis was not over. He said to the operator: "Screens 14 and 17, rewind to 4 hours ago. Since someone is carrying out a mission, then with Shendai Qianchi's suspicious and cunning nature, how could he not supervise the execution of the mission? This plan is too important; he must see his body being put in with his own eyes! Therefore, before the vehicle drives in, Shendai Qianchi himself, or someone he trusts most, will definitely enter or leave the Fei Niao Building, or wander outside the parking lot."

However, this time Qing Chen did not find any suspicious characters.

"How could this be? You must be here," Lu Yuan asked: "Could it be that he lives inside? In this way, he doesn't need to enter or leave here to monitor the execution of the mission."

Qing Chen looked at Lu Yuan in surprise: "Sleeping on top of the Rat Tide? Don't you want to die fast enough? This must be the earliest place where the Rat Tide broke out in the fifth district; he wouldn't be that stupid. Open all the recordings around screens 14 and 17. He must have hidden in a blind spot of the surveillance camera. This is easy to do, but he will also leave that area. I need to expand the search scope."

Qing Chen's eyes shone brightly. He knew that he was very close to the other party.

The video kept playing, and Qing Chen's eyes began to feel sore. This was the first time his eyes felt sore after drinking Jingshan Tea.

But at this moment, Qing Chen suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

Little Eagle and the others immediately pressed the pause button.

Qing Chen laughed.

He looked at a young man wearing sunglasses in the corner of screen 148 and laughed happily.

Lu Yuan followed his gaze: "Has this person appeared in other videos, done anything?

"It's because he has never appeared in other videos that it's abnormal," Qing Chen calmly said: "In 8 hours, the total number of mobile population in the fifth district reached 10,000. Everyone appeared more than 6 times in various monitors, only him, as if he appeared out of thin air, only appeared once."

I found you!