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Return countdown 00:20:00.
There are 20 minutes left.
Gunshots could be heard from the lakeside, but Qingchen and the others were not affected by them at all.
Ma Jingjing and the others sat shivering by the lake, but when they looked around, they saw that no one else was panicking.
Yi Wenbo calmed down: "They seem to know very well what's happening in the forest, which should be related to the two missing guides. The three guides and four artifact spirits already knew each other, and bringing us in was just a convenient thing to do."
Qingchen set up three small pots and was making boiled fish for Yangyang and Zhang Mengqian.
In another small pot, mushrooms that Shadow had picked from the forbidden land were simmering.
Qingchen looked at Yingzi curiously: "You really don't eat fish? I'm not that stingy."
The shadow said with a smile, "You guys can eat it, I don't need it."
At this moment, Xiaoyu asked pitifully, "You eat meat, so you should at least give us a sip of soup, right?"
After thinking for a moment, Qingchen handed the pot to them after Yangyang finished eating the dragonfish.
Ma Jingjing glanced inside expectantly, then immediately felt terrible. He exclaimed in anguish, "This food is so clean! If you served this pot of food to Tang Sanzang, he probably wouldn't even consider it a violation of his vows!"
Qing Chen said with a smile, "Yes, yes, yes."
Just then, there was a rustling sound in the forest outside the lake.
Everyone turned around and saw Zard walking out with a small sapling on his head, grinning foolishly as he said, "They're all taken care of. I deserve the credit. Out of seventy assassins, I killed fifty-six of them all by myself."
"Impressive, impressive," Qing Chen praised, "...but what's with that sapling on your head?"
Zard laughed and said, "I happened to see it on the way, so I picked one and planted it on my head. What do you think? Does my limited edition skin look good?"
Qing Chen: "...It looks good, but why are you so obsessed with planting trees on yourself?!"
Zard said, "I am an earth-type awakener. Without grass growing on my body, I would look very barren."
Qing Chen: "???"
What kind of logic is that?!
Zard chuckled, "Hehe, don't worry, it can't hurt me. I don't have any blood vessels in this body, it'll die in a couple of days. By the way, now that I've done something useful, can I make a request?"
Qing Chen was taken aback. Why would someone make a request of him?
"What are the requirements?" Qing Chen asked.
“Let’s take a picture and record a video together,” Zard laughed. “Can we? You have to use your natural appearance.”
Qing Chen thought about it. His appearance had already been exposed, so there was nothing wrong with recording it. So he agreed and restored his true appearance.
Zard excitedly ran over to him, sat down, took out his phone, and took a selfie. Then he asked Qingchen, "Am I qualified to join Daylight?"
Qing Chen raised an eyebrow: "...Yes, yes, yes!"
At this moment, Ma Jingjing and the others, who were not far away, were stunned. The four of them stared wide-eyed and looked at each other in astonishment.
What?
Daytime!
When Ma Jingjing looked at Qing Chen again, the boy sitting quietly by the campfire was none other than the renowned Lord of Daylight.
The countdown has reached zero.
return.
The world was plunged into darkness.
Chapter 608, Small Things After the Return
The world is bright again.
Countdown 168:00:00.
Ma Jingjing sat in her double room, looking at Yi Wenbo across from her, who also seemed somewhat bewildered...
The two of them simultaneously uttered a question from the depths of their souls: "Was that man by the lake just now, Qing Chen, the boss of Bai Zhou?"
That's right, it's Qing Chen.
The figure at the very top of the Time Traveler pyramid was right beside them.
Ma Jingjing stood up, opened the curtains, and looked out at the surging black waves of the sea.
The dormitories at Timewalker Academy are luxurious, with two people sharing a 42-square-meter room, much like a standard room in a five-star hotel in a big city.
The two small beds in the dormitory were even intelligently adjustable, allowing the legs to be raised above the heart level to help blood flow back to the heart.
On the bedside table, there is also a smart switch that controls the lights and curtains throughout the room.
Once the curtains are opened, the dormitory's floor-to-ceiling windows reveal a cliff and the vast ocean. If the windows are opened inside, you can hear the sound of waves crashing against the cliffs.
It's exhilarating.
Throughout the entire period, the Walker Academy had more than 60,000 students. Elementary school students shared dormitories with 8 students per room, junior high and high school students shared dormitories with 4 students per room, and university students shared dormitories with 2 students per room.
The island is as big as a city, with more than 20,000 dormitories like glass boxes, scattered along the long coastline and on the black cliffs.
It is like a beautiful galaxy.
If someone who doesn't know the truth came here, they would definitely think this is a top-notch cliffside hotel.
Exquisite and magnificent.
At this moment, Ma Jingjing said, "I've heard that Bai Zhou is powerful, but without seeing it with my own eyes, I have no clear idea... If he is the Lord of Bai Zhou, then it makes sense that someone in the Forbidden Land is chasing after him."
Yi Wenbo nodded heavily: "But it's not what the outside world imagined. Everyone thought he was going to flee for his life to avoid being hunted down, but he still had the leisure to go and steal our dragon fish."
After Qingchen captured the Ten Attendants, Shen Dai Jingcheng.
Everyone thought that the Kamishiro Group would launch a furious revenge, and that Qingchen would live in the shadow of being hunted down from then on.
Although the Lord of Daylight is powerful, he cannot contend with an entire conglomerate.
However, the Qingchen in Ma Jingjing's eyes was not what they imagined at all. He was not flustered at all, but instead played cards and sang songs on the steam train.
They acted as if nothing had happened.
Even as intense gunfire erupted in Forbidden Land No. 10, the boy remained by the lake, seemingly oblivious to everything.
No other time traveler can match this calm and composed attitude alone.
Unconsciously, the identity of the Lord of Daylight became even more mysterious.
Knock, knock, knock—there was a knock on the door.
Ma Jingjing opened the door, and there stood Xiaoyu and Li Mengyun in the hallway.
The corridor was bustling with activity as newly enrolled students introduced themselves and exchanged contact information.
But then Li Mengyun said anxiously, "Ma Jingjing, I didn't see wrong just now, did I? The one in the inner world just now... was Qing Chen?"
The moment Qing Chen uttered those two words, the entire corridor fell silent.
Ma Jingjing immediately sensed something was wrong. He glanced around and whispered, "Let's talk inside. Don't make a scene outside."
Before he could even close the door, all the students in the hallway had already gathered around: "Wait, were you just talking about Qing Chen? Is it the Qing Chen from Bai Zhou? Are you with him?"
Ma Jingjing sighed. It's over.
In the crowd, someone's eyes lit up when they saw Ma Jingjing: "Hey, Ma Jingjing! I've followed your Douyin account. In your last video, you said you were going to the Forbidden Land No. 10. Did you meet Qing Chen there?"
Ma Jingjing is a Douyin (TikTok) influencer who specializes in making videos about exploring the underworld. She takes photos and videos in the underworld and then returns to the real world to gain traffic. She already has 700,000 followers.
During his last time travel, he said he was going to the Forbidden Land No. 10, and many fans are still waiting for his updates.
At that moment, Ma Jingjing's gaze suddenly swept across the crowd and she saw a person with a sapling on their head, staggering as they walked outside.
Because there were too many people, he could only see the swaying little sapling.
He quickly pushed through the crowd, rushing towards the sapling amidst the sea of heads: "Hey, Zard!"
Zard turned around in surprise and said, "You've mistaken me for someone else!"
Ma Jingjing's expression changed: "Big brother, how could the sapling on your head be fake?"
Zard paused for two seconds, then said, "Ah, right, right, right..."
"We're no longer in Forbidden Zone 10!"
As they were talking, Xiao Ying led Li Tongyun, Jinguji Maki, Nan Gengchen, Liu Dezhu, Jiang Xue and others over.
Zard beamed, "We've finally waited for you! I have something the boss asked me to bring back, which I need to pass on to you!"
Xiao Tongyun and the others were stunned. Who was this person?
Suddenly, Zard reached into his chest and pulled out a dragonfish from his sandy chest and abdomen: "Here, Qingchen said this is for a little girl!"
The dragonfish had a mouthful of sand stuck in its mouth, and it looked like it was choking.
The fish were dead, so Zard couldn't bring back any live ones.
In fact, it wasn't until he was about to return that Qingchen realized that Huanyu's ability to bring back items from the inner world did not come from any forbidden object.
It was Zard's body.
At this moment, the crowd gathered again, and Li Tongyun looked at the students expressionlessly: "Excuse me, please make way."
The sound had an invisible, strange, and intimidating power. The students who had excitedly gathered around were startled and involuntarily made way for it.
Someone whispered, "This is Bai Zhou, Li Tongyun... and Liu Dezhu and the others. The Bai Zhou members have arrived!"
"Where's Qing Chen? I don't think I've seen him!"
Chapter 609, Breathing the World