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Early in the morning, Liu Dezhu and Nan Gengchen went to the school to complete the transfer procedures, while Jiang Xue, along with Li Tongyun and Jinguji Maki, went to complete the transfer procedures for Xiao Tongyun and Jiang Xue's own job transfer. She had decided to teach art at the new school.
After the two teams left, Qingchen also rode out on his electric bike. They were all wearing Bluetooth headsets, making it seem less like they were going to process a transfer and more like they were carrying out a mission.
After Jiang Xue helped Li Tongyun and the others complete the formalities, they arrived at Wangfujing on Nanchang Road in Luocheng. She bought several new outfits for Jinguji Maki, but because she was still sulking with Xiao Tongyun, she didn't buy her anything.
At noon, after the three of them finished eating, Jiang Xue led the two girls toward the back entrance of the mall.
A black minivan was waiting there, and the three of them headed straight for Zhengzhou.
Through the Bluetooth headset, Luo Wanyi said, "Boss, Group A is doing well."
Qing Chen rode his electric bike away from Wangfujing and headed towards Luocheng Foreign Language School: "Prepare to meet up with Group B."
He wanted to disappear from everyone's sight during the day to prevent anyone from ambushing them on their way to Zhengcheng.
Chapter 592, A Gift from the Future
Countdown 15:00:00.
At this moment, a long queue had formed at the entrance of the Academic Affairs Office of Luocheng Foreign Language School. The students who usually skipped classes every day were now queuing up to complete their transfer procedures.
The school can't manage them, so they have to let Kunlun take care of them.
When Nan Gengchen and Liu Dezhu arrived, the Time Travelers quietly stepped aside, making way for them to complete their procedures first.
The students watching were stunned; they had never experienced such a sense of order and hierarchy before.
In fact, no matter how good you are at school, you still have to queue up; there's no hierarchy involved.
Even if your parents are government officials, they won't be particularly respected by their classmates at school.
This is a relatively clean environment, and everyone is still learning about social etiquette.
But the Time Travelers are different; they have all been tempered in the complex society of the Otherworld.
The Time Travelers knew very well what the word "daylight" meant now, and they also knew what Qing Chen, as the next generation leader of the knights, meant.
Liu Dezhu glanced at the Time Travelers and said softly, "No need to make way for us. Everyone can line up as they wish. We'll just wait."
Only after he said that did the queue return to normal order.
This scene was still somewhat touching for high school students who hadn't yet left the ivory tower.
While queuing, a student suddenly asked in confusion, "Liu Dezhu and Nan Gengchen are here, but why isn't Qing Chen here?"
These people didn't know much about Nan Gengchen and Liu Dezhu; they were simply the focus of everyone's attention because of the halo surrounding them.
But the halo of daytime ultimately comes from Qing Chen, so everyone is curious about where Qing Chen went.
At this moment, Qingchen was riding a shared electric scooter at the school gate, wearing a baseball cap and a mask, watching the passing vehicles and silently recording the license plate numbers of each car.
“No duplicate license plates, you can leave,” Qingchen said in the communication channel.
“Received,” Luo Wanya said.
The plainclothes agents at the entrance sprang into action, while Qingchen glanced at Luocheng Foreign Language School one last time, like someone about to embark on a long journey looking back at an old friend.
At the school, Liu Dezhu and Nan Gengchen left immediately after completing the transfer procedures.
As soon as they arrived at the school gate, a taxi stopped and took them to another secluded spot where another car was waiting to pick them up.
After the two got into the car, Qingchen rode away on his electric scooter. He said in the communication channel, "After meeting up with Jiang Xue, Xiao Tongyun, and Xiao Zhenji, I will go directly to Zhengcheng to report to Kunlun. You guys wait for me at that school."
Liu Dezhu asked, "Boss, aren't you leaving?"
“I still have some finishing touches to make,” Qingchen said. “Remember, don’t skip classes when you get to the new school. Kunlun was right about one thing: students do need to learn. It’s a process of cultivating a way of thinking.”
Nan Gengchen asked in confusion, "Brother Chen, why are you in such a hurry to make us leave Luocheng? What are you guarding against?"
"Better safe than sorry."
Liu Dezhu and Nan Gengchen drove further and further away in the car, and what awaited them was a new campus life.
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Countdown 01:00:00.
The North American headquarters of the 'Future' organization is located next to Times Square in New York.
This place was once the most prosperous place in the world, known as the 'Crossroads of the World'.
The Future Organization bought an entire building here and brought the holographic neon technology from the Underworld to the Surface World.
At night, once the holographic neon lights are activated, a massive Class A airship will float in the air, as if an alien civilization has descended.
Not only in this building, they also sell holographic neon equipment to other companies, so much so that at night, New York is more dazzling than the fireworks at Disneyland.
Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world flock here to admire the beauty of this place that belongs to the Otherworld.
This city is probably the closest place in the outer world to the inner world.
It was 11 p.m. in China, but it was still 10 a.m. here.
W, wearing a gray trench coat and holding a cup of coffee, strode into the 'Future Building'.
Upon arriving at the 42nd floor in the elevator, Mike, the A-level Awakened, was sleeping with his legs propped up on his desk and a Playboy magazine covering his face.
W ripped the magazine off Mike's face, looking at his drunken, womanizing appearance: "Did you take drugs again last night?"
Mike opened his eyes and looked at W with a smile, "Stop acting like the world is about to end, okay? We came back from the Otherworld together to enjoy life. The Otherworld was too depressing. Now that the royal family has asked us to join forces with the Kingdom Organization, let them do the work."
“Have you been following the news from the East? The identity of that Daylight Boss has been exposed! I suspect he’s the Joker. He possesses the forbidden power to control others. If Capri and Abby were controlled by him, then everything makes sense,” W said heavily.
Mike glanced at the countdown on his arm with a smile: "We'll be crossing over in an hour. The gift the kingdom gave to Daylight should already be on its way."
Chapter 593, Forbidden Item ACE-004, The Eye of True Sight
During the day, the villa's curtains were drawn, but the lights were on, music was playing, and shadowy figures moved about behind the curtains, making it look exceptionally lively.
At that moment, two drones hummed softly as they flew over the villa area's walls and headed deeper into the neighborhood.
One of them flew over the Daytime Villa, while the other flew over Luo Wanya's villa.
Unlike the structure of surface-world drones, they use turbine engines, resulting in faster flight speeds and greater load-bearing capacity.
Each of the two drones had a black box attached to its bottom. Once the drones were airborne, they would drop the boxes down.
With two loud booms, both villas burst into flames, the enormous firelight illuminating the sky.
Roof tiles flew off, and windows in the surrounding villas were shattered.
The two drones quickly gained altitude and then flew north under the cover of night, finally landing slowly on Mount Mang.
In the mountains, a young Asian man with a wheatish complexion removed his holographic glasses, opened the metal box beside him, and prepared to put the drone back in.
But at that moment, Yangyang descended from the darkness and said into the Bluetooth headset, "Found him, should we kill him?"
“Yes, kill him,” Qing Chen said.
"Aren't we going to interrogate them and find out who sent them?" Yangyang asked curiously.
Qing Chen said, "We don't have time to interrogate him. We're about to travel through time. He might be silenced in the other world. Besides, it's not hard to guess which organizations would target us: North American, Japanese, and Huan Yu in China. Whoever is behind it, they're all enemies."
"How do you know someone will definitely attack the Daytime Villa?" Yangyang asked.
"I don't know, I'm just taking precautions," Qing Chen said calmly as he stood on the street outside the National Treasure Villa District, watching the raging fire.
The seedlings, enveloped by the force field, plummeted rapidly. Before they even reached the ground, the immense force field had already bent the weeds and branches on the ground.
The young people on the ground, who were preparing to retreat, bent over under the weight, as if their spines had been bent by a mountain!
Even the hard soil on the surface collapsed, creating a huge crater.
But at that moment, the young man suddenly looked up and smiled at Yangyang, then transformed into a fluorescent blue light and disappeared into the night.
As the figure disappeared, a blue pentagram symbol appeared on the ground, surrounded by strange tadpole-like patterns, mysterious and eerie.
"Huh, a trap!" Yangyang felt something was strange. The box that originally contained the drone fell to the ground, and suddenly there was a huge energy fluctuation inside.
Yangyang put her hands in front of her and quickly rose back up.
With a deafening roar, the box seemed to contain a sun, bursting forth with tremendous flames!
Pang Pei's scorching heatwave rippled through the midnight air. Luckily, Yang Yang was quick-witted and dodged in time, otherwise she would have died here.
"Qingchen, which of your enemies will turn into a blue light and disappear? After disappearing, it will leave behind a pentagram symbol," Yangyang asked curiously in the sky. She took out her phone and took a picture of the blue symbol.
Qing Chen said, "It was exposed in North America that it was a forbidden item belonging to the boss of the 'Kingdom' organization. It is said that the method of use is to instantly teleport when you see the eyes of an enemy with murderous intent. Therefore, this future boss of the organization is known as the unkillable phoenix."
"The owner of the Kingdom?" Yangyang asked in surprise. "No, what I saw was a young Asian man, like someone from Southeast Asia. Isn't the owner of the Kingdom a white man?"
“I don’t know, but the way you described how you disappeared matches the legend,” Qing Chen said. “Let’s retreat and avoid any further complications… By the way, are you coming to meet me?”
“I’m not going,” Yangyang said with a smile. “Anyway, we’ll see each other after we travel through time.”
"See you in a bit," Qingchen said.
He looked at Luo Wanya beside him: "Is the insurance I asked you to buy for the house confirmed to be in effect?"
“Yes, it covers structural damage, floods, fires, and accidents,” Luo Wanya nodded, this boss was not willing to suffer any losses.
Qingchen said, "Then hurry up and report the incident to the police, and then put out the fire. The insured has an obligation to cooperate with the investigation and to mitigate the losses."
Just as they were talking, in a villa, Zhang Wanfang and Qin Shuli watched in horror as flames shot into the sky.
Qin Shuli picked up his coat and said, "I'll take a look. That looks like Bai Zhou's villa."
In fact, there are only five villas in the center of the villa area, two of which are open during the day, so even a fool would know that the source of the explosion must be related to daytime.
Just as Qin Shuli was about to leave, Zhang Wanfang suddenly grabbed him and remained silent.
Qin Shuli was taken aback for a moment: "Now that I'm also cultivating, if Qingchen gets injured in the villa, I might be able to help."
However, Zhang Wanfang still held onto him, saying nothing, and even avoiding Qin Shuli's gaze.