Qin Shuli asked doubtfully, "Aren't you worried about Qingchen?"
Zhang Wanfang suddenly said, "What if there's still danger there, and you get attacked too? What will Hao Hao and I do? You're all I have left."
Qin Shuli was stunned for a long time before finally sighing, "Wanfang, you're at home taking care of Haohao, I have to go and see him. If he really needs help, he is, after all, your son, and he has secretly helped me before."
With that, Qin Shuli went out.
He arrived at the scene of the explosion and asked the firefighters, "Hello, what happened to these two villas? Were there any casualties?"
"There were no injuries, thankfully no one was inside," the firefighter said. "Could you please move aside and clear the fire lane?"
"Alright, alright," Qin Shuli stepped aside, relieved.
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Countdown 00:30:00.
Liu Dezhu and the others stood at the entrance of Kunlun Bookstore. The small bookstore, which was only a few dozen square meters in size, was empty except for Xiao Ying, who sat listlessly behind the counter, frowning as he looked at the news.
Jiang Xue walked to the counter and knocked: "Hello, I'd like to ask how to get to Kunlun's school?"
Little Eagle looked up and his eyes lit up: "Oh, what brings you all here all of a sudden? The villa was attacked just now, and I was worried about whether you were alright."
"An attack?" Jiang Xue asked, puzzled.
"Looks like you don't know yet. Come on, let me get you to school first," Little Eagle said. "Most of the students have already registered. I'll take you to a good dormitory. We're practically acquaintances now, so leave this to me. I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"
The little eagle led the way to a bookshelf placed against the wall.
He pulled open the bookcase, then took a red stone from his pocket and pressed it against an iron door hidden behind the bookcase.
The red stone seemed to have melted into the iron gate out of thin air, and transparent ripples appeared on the wall.
“This is…” Li Tongyun hesitated before saying, “The forbidden item ACE-004, the Eye of True Sight?”
"Wow, you have a good eye! Even the Hu family's intelligence agency only recorded the name of this thing, not its function or appearance. How did you know?" Little Eagle asked curiously.
“It’s recorded in the top-secret files of the Li family archives, but this thing… doesn’t seem to belong to the Federation, does it? It should have been in the hands of a group of wizards,” Li Tongyun asked.
Jiang Xue watched coldly from the side; she now knew that Li Tongyun was part of the Li Group.
So she realized that the person who had helped her back then was actually her daughter.
This precocious daughter, taking advantage of Jiang Xue's complete lack of memory of her past life, fabricated a story about a "lifesaver," making Jiang Xue believe that she had truly saved some important figure...
Every time she thought about this, she wanted to pin Xiao Tongyun down on her lap and beat her again...
Jinguji Maki somehow sensed that something was wrong, so she immediately hugged Jiang Xue's arm and smiled warmly.
Jiang Xue's mood finally calmed down. Little Maki is still the better behaved!
At this moment, Xiao Ying said, "There is more than one true forbidden substance, ACE-004. This is no secret in Kunlun, but I can't say more. If you are really curious, you can ask Qing Chen to ask Boss Zheng. He is also a member of Kunlun."
Li Tongyun suddenly said, "You deliberately used the Eye of True Sight in front of us, just to lure my brother Qingchen with that thing, right?"
"Hahaha, really?" Little Eagle awkwardly walked towards the wall.
Ripples spread across the transparent ripples on the wall, and the little eagle's figure vanished into thin air.
Jiang Xue and the others exchanged glances and then stepped forward.
Everyone was stunned. They looked at the vast starry sky above them and listened to the sound of the waves crashing in their ears... They had actually passed through a door in the city and arrived on an island!
The countdown has reached zero.
Time travel.
Chapter 594, Secret Service, Deputy Director Qing Chen
After the world fell into darkness, it was illuminated again.
Return countdown: 168:00:00.
Qingchen took out his phone and dialed Jiang Xue's number: "Hello, Aunt Jiang Xue, did you arrive at the school safely?"
Jiang Xue: "Everything went smoothly, but what happened was quite absurd. We passed through an iron gate at Kunlun Bookstore... to be precise, the iron gate didn't open, and we just walked right through. Xiao Ying said it was done using the forbidden item ACE-004 True Sight Eye. You'll have to ask Zheng Yuandong for details. After passing through the iron gate, we arrived at an island, but we don't know exactly where the island is. The island seems very large, stretching as far as the eye can see."
Qing Chen immediately asked, "When you arrived there, was it during the day or at night?"
Jiang Xue: "Tonight."
Qing Chen asked, "Where is the moon located?"
Jiang Xue: "Dongfang feels like it's about to sink into the sea."
Qingchen then asked, "What's the temperature like on the island? Is it warm or cold?"
Jiang Xue recalled, "It was an island, but it wasn't very warm. I think it was maybe 5 degrees Celsius at night? Only a little warmer than Los Angeles."
Qing Chen stood on the long street, lost in thought: "Then it must be an island between 35 and 45 degrees north latitude. If the island's time is 5 a.m., then the distance of one time zone at 40 degrees north latitude is 15 times 111 kilometers multiplied by COS40, which equals 1275.39 kilometers. The island is about 6377 kilometers away from the capital's time zone..."
A time zone is 15 degrees, and 111 kilometers is one degree on the equator.
It's worth noting that the straight-line distance between Beijing and Tokyo is only 2,478 kilometers. In other words, this island is in the Pacific Ocean and is quite far from Japan.
Qing Chen was puzzled; he had never heard of any large island there.
etc……
Hawaii is about 7,500 kilometers away from Beijing, while Midway Island, which belongs to North America, is even closer.
In other words, if Jiang Xue's information is correct, then Kunlun's school is only a little over a thousand kilometers away from Hawaii.
But now, all the islands in the Pacific Ocean, whether inhabited or not, have a place of ownership.
Where did Kunlun get such an island?
Okay, even if Kunlun could create a huge island through some inexplicable means.
Then another question arises: now that the entire Earth is being monitored in real time by satellites, won't it be discovered if Kunlun builds a school on an island?!
How can Kunlun hide an island right under the noses of the whole world?
Qingchen was filled with doubt...
Of course, he wasn't the only one puzzled; Jiang Xue was too. She couldn't understand how Qing Chen had deduced the approximate location of the school from just a few words...
Qingchen said on the phone, "Aunt Jiang Xue, please take good care of them at school. I'll be there soon."
Jiang Xue said, "Yes, you must be careful. Don't worry about the loss of the villa. Our cash flow during the day is still very healthy."
Qingchen was taken aback for a moment: "Oh, there's no loss. The insurance company will cover it. It was just a normal fire."
The only thing to note is that the North American Timewalkers are becoming increasingly active on the world stage, and have even begun to extend their reach into the Inner World Federation and the Outer World, which may lead to future conflicts.
After hanging up the phone, Qing Chen did not leave the city immediately, but instead headed to the Caramel Bar on the first floor of the Leiming Building.
As soon as he entered the bar, everyone who was chatting stopped and looked at him.
The bartender behind the counter, dressed in a white shirt and black vest, looked excited, but because of discipline, he didn't dare to say a word.
Dozens of people in the bar silently watched Qing Chen, some even with a hint of affection, making Qing Chen feel somewhat awkward...
"What's wrong?" Qingchen asked, both amused and exasperated.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when he spoke. A middle-aged man standing behind the bar said, "Director Qingchen... you're finally back!"
Now, Qing Chen is no longer a secret agent in the Secret Service, but the only deputy director.
Everyone knows that the Shadow created this position not to find someone to compete for power, but to ensure a smooth transition of power.
It was transferred to Qingchen's hands.
Previously, the Secret Service would pass on the role of Shadow to the next generation; this was an unspoken rule. Therefore, it would be taboo for an active Shadow to do so.
However, no one in the intelligence agency, from top to bottom, said much, as if it were only natural for Qing Chen to take over.
They only recognize Qing Chen now.
The middle-aged man behind the bar said, "Director Qingchen, we are under Lao Shen's command. We're posing as customers at Caramel Bar to protect underground information. We've been waiting for you here for almost a month. Lao Shen only said that you would definitely come, but he didn't say when."
Qing Chen asked, "Is there something you need?"
The middle-aged man was taken aback for a moment: "It's nothing much, but you brought Commander Qingmu and his subordinates out of A02. That's truly admirable!"
The bartender said, "Not only that, a few days ago, Boss Shadow issued an internal announcement saying that you killed Kamishiro Yunhe in City 22 and also captured Kamishiro Yasusuke, one of the Ten Attendants... He's one of the Ten Attendants!"
The middle-aged man said, "Kamishiro Yasuji is currently being held in a pigsty in the Southern Military Region. Kamishiro sent people to exchange him, but the Shadow Boss did not agree."
This incident was both sensational and incredibly satisfying.
In fact, Qing Chen had already created a miracle simply by rescuing those intelligence agents, but now he had also captured the Ten Attendants...
If they weren't afraid of appearing uncultured, all the intelligence personnel here would have wanted to say "Holy crap!" or "Awesome!"
Qing Chen asked with a smile, "This is all I should do. Is there anything else?"
The middle-aged man suddenly said, "Boss Shadow said you won't be back for a while, but we'll wait for the day you return."
“Okay,” Qingchen nodded. He suspected that these people were rehearsed by Shadow, and he was afraid that if he ran away, he would never come back…
But he really can't come back right now.
Upon returning, he would be drawn into the factional struggles within the Qing family.
Rather than standing in the open and becoming a target for others, it's better to wait in the shadows for the clouds to rise and fall.
Chapter 595, The Wonderful Method of Containing a Steam Train
As he entered the elevator in the bar, he pressed the floor buttons 4, 10, 2, 18, 3, 16, 5, 17, and 8 in sequence, and the white lights on the buttons went out at the same time.
The elevator began to descend.
The elevator doors opened, and Old Shen was still sitting behind the small table. He looked up and pushed a small box in front of him forward: "Now you're my boss... This is your Ginkgo Medal, representing the highest honor within the Qing Group. Do you want to take it with you, or leave it with me for safekeeping?"
Qingchen smiled and said, "Keep it here for safekeeping... I have a few questions I'd like to ask. Old Shen, you're in charge of the Secret Service's database, so you should be most familiar with these things."
Old Shen said with a smile, "When my superior asks me a question, I will answer to the best of my knowledge."