However... now that the other party has already taken him for Chen Sui, he can easily switch to another identity to teach.
Qing Chen frowned: "By the way, do the other people know I've been missing for three days..."
Zheng Yuandong said, "Don't worry, everyone in the academy knows that a few people have passed the extraordinary assessment and obtained the Eye of True Sight and the wizard's inheritance. They are currently focusing on their training. So, your disappearance for three days can be explained as you entering the wizard department of the extraordinary academy."
"That's all we can say," Qingchen nodded.
"Aren't you planning to come and teach?" Zheng Yuandong asked.
Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "Can I be the dean of a branch school?"
Upon hearing this, Zheng Yuandong and Ni Ergou exchanged a glance. They had thought it would be difficult to get Qingchen to teach, and the two of them had even rehearsed their speeches. But Qingchen actually wanted to bypass the teachers and become the dean directly!
Zheng Yuandong said without hesitation, "Okay, I'll make you the dean of the Extraordinary Academy."
With Qing Chen's strength, he is more than capable of serving as the entire dean.
Moreover, when it comes to actual combat, apart from Zheng Yuandong, no one in this room has the same combat experience as Qing Chen.
But then Qing Chen shook his head: "He's not the dean of the Extraordinary Academy, he's the dean of the Agricultural Academy."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yuan was completely taken aback: "Wait a minute, we don't have an agricultural college. It's good that you're willing to be the dean, but what's with you opening a new college? We don't train people to farm!"
Zheng Yuandong asked thoughtfully, "You have a plan?"
Qing Chen pondered for a moment: "Let me confirm one thing first: after eating on the island, leaving Whale Island will definitely not result in death due to rapid energy loss, right?"
“Hmm,” Zheng Yuandong nodded, “I had this concern before, that the island’s resources couldn’t be removed, and that people who ate the island’s specialties would have that energy suddenly deducted from their bodies and die. I’m not sure how it follows the law of conservation of energy, but there is definitely no danger in that regard.”
“That’s fine then,” Qingchen nodded.
Ni Ergou and Lu Yuan looked at Zheng Yuandong: "Boss..."
Zheng Yuandong raised his hand to stop him, and after careful consideration, he asked, "When do you plan to establish an agricultural college?"
Qing Chen glanced at the time; the countdown was 00:00:09.
He looked up and said, "I will give you a definite answer when I return next time."
Time travel.
The world fell into darkness, and then light returned.
Qingchen looked at the shadow of someone sitting by the campfire grilling fish not far away, and suddenly remembered the scene when the other person held him in their arms when he was a child.
The other party actually dared to speak up in front of the gods, telling them to be quiet so as not to wake them up.
“Brother,” Qingchen called out.
The shadow paused for a moment, then slowly smiled: "You're back?"
For some reason, the air seemed to become more lively.
Qingchen sat down by the campfire and remained silent for a long time before suddenly saying, "My memories have been unlocked, and in those memories, I saw the person who sent me to the real world. Who exactly is he? I saw you sitting in the dimly lit room, and you were holding me."
Looking at the campfire, Shadow pressed his hands close to the flames to feel the warmth: "Your words have instantly brought back memories of more than a hundred years ago... For you, it's only been a little over ten years."
A century stood still for him, for another person. Everyone else stopped, but time surged on him alone.
So when Shadow recalled everything back then, it was as if he was traversing a century: "You were very, very young back then. The first time I met that person was in a family photo. The photo included Ren Xiaosu, our ancestor Qingzhen, knights Li Yingyun and Qin Sheng, a person named P5092, and Zhang Jinglin, the commander of the Northwest Army. Among them was Yan Liuyuan, the one who sent you to the other world."
Qingchen recalled and finally found the name.
According to records from the Li Family Academy, this was once the ruler of the vast royal court on the grasslands north of the Federation.
Under his leadership, the nomadic peoples of the grasslands moved away from the federation and established defenses on the grasslands to resist the barbarians from the north.
After those bloodthirsty barbarians were completely wiped out, Yan Liuyuan led the grassland people back to the Federation, while he himself disappeared with a woman named Li Xiaoyu.
Shadow poked at the campfire with a stick and said, "Within the conglomerate, there is only one universally acknowledged god, but there are three people who are closest to the god: Li Shentan, Chen Wudi, and Yan Liuyuan. Each of their wills is close to merging with the will of the world. Many people once guessed that Yan Liuyuan should have left this world with Ren Xiaosu, but later everyone found out that he did not leave."
Shadow looked at Qingchen: "He said he wants to protect this world for his brother Ren Xiaosu."
"Are he and Ren Xiaosu brothers?" Qing Chen asked. "Why do they have different surnames?"
Shadow laughed and said, "I don't know about that. Anyway, he always calls Ren Xiaosu 'brother.' It's said that the brothers have a very good relationship, just like real brothers."
"You told him to keep his voice down so he wouldn't wake me. Did he punish you afterward?" Qingchen asked curiously.
“No,” Shadow shook his head. “He said that an older brother should protect his younger brother. When his older brother protected him, I was the same way. That person even gave me a forbidden item because of my courage. Forbidden item ACE-006, the ear pick of the gods.”
Qing Chen was both amused and exasperated: "What kind of forbidden item is this? How can it have such a strange name?"
The shadow laughed, "Don't underestimate it. As long as you use it to clean your ears, no one can get close to attack you because 'Mom said you can't touch someone when they're cleaning their ears.' Haha, it's said that this was once an item carried by the god Ren Xiaosu. I don't know why it's so strange."
Qingchen suddenly remembered the moment in his memory when the other person was gazing at him.
He asked, "You used 'that person' to refer to him before, does that mean mentioning his name will let him know?"
Shadow nodded: "But it doesn't matter anymore. He should be sleeping soundly now. Besides, I'm almost gone anyway, so I'm not afraid of him, haha."
Qingchen sighed inwardly.
At this moment, the elder brother and younger brother were discussing the secrets of the Federation.
From a distance, Ma Jingjing and the others cautiously observed this Lord of Daylight...
They couldn't hear what the two were saying.
But then Yi Wenbo urged Ma Jingjing, "Quick, go! The chance to curry favor with someone powerful has come!"
Chapter 620, Searching for a New Cultivation Legacy
Qingchen sat by the campfire and said in a low voice, "Brother, I have something else to tell you."
Shadow poked at the firewood with a twig with interest: "So, what do you need from me? You used to refuse to believe me no matter what, but now you're asking me for help without any hesitation. That's good."
Qing Chen's eyes lit up: "Does the Qing family still have any written materials that you can't understand?"
"Huh?" Shadow paused for a moment: "Why are you asking this?"
Qingchen replied, "Actually, that's how the Zhunti Dharma came about. The script it records belongs to a minority group in the outer world, and people in the inner world don't recognize it, but the outer world has a way to translate it."
Shadow nodded: "I understand. There are people on the black market who specialize in selling these things, and they're quite valuable. They're all sold as antiques. Various conglomerates also keep similar documents, and there are even specialized teams of experts responsible for deciphering them, trying to find out what's recorded in those texts."
Qingchen thought to himself, isn't this just like the efforts of the surface world to decipher the writing of some ancient lost civilizations?
The shadow continued, "These things don't come from the previous civilization era, but from the one before that."
Therefore, the information that Shadow mentioned all existed before the nuclear winter, that is, during the era of Ren He, the founder of Knights.
The materials date back more than 1,200 years, equivalent to Tang Dynasty artifacts in the world.
In the black market, there is even a group of people who specialize in forging cultural relics, and their fakes are almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
Even the forgers couldn't understand the meaning of the inscriptions on those cultural relics...
Qingchen looked at the shadow expectantly: "Could you get me some?"
His deal with Kunlun was a path of cultivation and inheritance, regardless of whether it was the Cundi Dharma or not.
Qingchen's backup plan was to use the Zhunti Method to exchange for the forbidden item ACE-004 Black True Sight Eye, but this was a last resort. If possible, he wanted to find a new legacy for Zheng Yuandong from among those cultural relics.
At this moment, Shadow pondered: "Now all the conglomerates have realized that there are more writing systems in your world, so they have captured time travelers to translate for them. As far as I know, the Chen family is doing this. They break a text into hundreds of independent characters and give them to different time travelers to translate in the world to avoid leaks."
Qing Chen frowned. Sure enough, the conglomerates weren't stupid. The methods he could think of, others could naturally think of as well.
At this moment, Shadow changed the subject: "But if you want... the Qing family still has some hidden treasures that they haven't started deciphering yet. I'll go and find them for you."
Shadow thought to himself, "My precious little brother finally asked for a favor, so I have to make sure it gets done."
With that thought in mind, he entered the forest and opened the Shadow Gate.
A short while later, Shadow returned with two artifacts framed in glass.
The artifact was beautifully framed, with a serial number on it, and the glass frame was even filled with inert gas to prevent it from oxidizing over a long period of time.
The first piece of text was a handwritten document, which Qingchen recognized immediately—it was English…
Qing Chen looked at the glass frame for a moment and said, "This is a letter."
The shadow asked curiously, "Nian Nian."
Qingchen murmured, "My dear brother..."
Shadow: "Hmm?"
Qing Chen: "...It was written in the letter. Westerners like to add such a sentence at the beginning of their letters."
“Oh,” the shadow nodded, “keep reading, read it again…”
Qingchen said, "Dear brother, I'm doing very well here. Life in China is very convenient. The Didi Chuxing service under the Qinghe Group is very convenient and cheap. I don't even need to carry cash when I go out. Life here is very safe. I don't have to worry about being robbed at gunpoint when I walk on the street at night..."
Shadow was listening intently when Qingchen stopped and looked up: "Read it?"
Qing Chen spread his hands: "That's all."
The shadow muttered, "Our ancestors preserved these cultural relics for so long, and all they wrote was such a short letter? Isn't that ridiculous?"
When he presented this to his younger brother, he thought it would be very useful.
The shadow pointed to another framed glass: "Look at that one, what's written on it? It looks like there are many different languages."
Qing Chen glanced at it; it was a piece of white coated paper that was in relatively good condition. The original seemed to be a large sheet, but now only a small piece remained.
He noticed something was wrong after just one glance.
The top of the coated paper reads in English: "Instructions."
This is the instruction manual for headphones...
Qing Chen was both amused and exasperated: "This is pretty useless, it's just an instruction manual for the headphones."
Shadow was completely embarrassed: "You wait here, I'll be right back!"
As he spoke, he walked into the woods and opened the Shadow Gate, his face still carrying a hint of murderous intent.
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City 10, Caramel Bar basement.
Old Shen was taking a small sip of baijiu when he looked up and saw Yingzi suddenly walk in: "Hey, didn't you go out with Qingchen? How come you have time to come back and see this old man?"