There was no way to salvage the situation; the demigod's flesh and blood had been completely devoured.
So, they might only see two or three hundred rats, but in that huge underground pipe network, there could be hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of them!
This would be a huge disaster.
Zheng Yuandong asked, "Have you figured it out?"
Qingchen said, "Kamishiro Chika's body has been placed in City 10."
Zheng Yuandong's pupils suddenly contracted.
While the others were still searching their minds for the name "Kamishiro Chika" in confusion, Zheng Yuandong had already shouted to Ni Ergou and Lu Yuan, "Gather all the time travelers who are currently in City 10 and tell all the time travelers heading to City 10 to stop! Quickly, immediately!"
A voice came over the loudspeaker: "All time travelers currently in City 10, and those heading to City 10, please assemble at the plaza in front of the dormitory..."
In an instant, the dormitory area erupted in excitement.
Time travelers, young and old, emerged from the dormitory one after another, asking each other with bewildered expressions what had happened.
"What does Boss Zheng want to do?" Qing Chen asked.
“I need to evacuate all Timewalkers,” Zheng Yuandong said gravely. “You and I both know very well that if the biocontamination was indeed caused by the corpse of Kamishiro Chika, then after six days, it’s irreversible. Evacuation is our only option. Do you have any suggestions?”
Qing Chen said, "I will arrange for someone to take over the border gate of City 10, and the Time Travelers can immediately pass through there and leave the city."
Lu Yuan: "This kind of organized and disciplined behavior may expose the hidden time travelers to the conglomerate, but it doesn't matter, it's better than losing your life."
However, at this moment, Zheng Yuandong suddenly said, "It's not just the Timewalkers who need to evacuate. The entire city's residents must evacuate. We can't just think of ourselves."
Everyone fell silent.
City 10 is a federal twin city with a permanent population of over 20 million, making it a megacity!
If a rat swarm were to wreak havoc there, it would be terrifying!
In this situation, saving lives is an extremely extravagant act, but no one objects.
At this moment, Qing Chen said, "We haven't fully analyzed this matter yet... You know, City 10 is the political center. Why would they dare to defy the world and destroy it using biological contamination?"
City 10 is a neutral city, where all the major powers—Kajima, Kamishiro, the Lee family, the Kei family, and the Chen family—are intertwined and vying for legitimacy.
Just as the Kei family seized power from the PCA and the CIA, the Kei family's will was carried out by the PCA issuing orders. The Kei family was the natural embodiment of justice, which is why City 10 was a must-win location for conglomerates.
The gods destroyed this place. Anyone with a brain knows they did it. What gave them the right to do such a thing?
Does the Age of Gods already possess the power to confront the entire Federation?
Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "I think this matter must have been orchestrated by Kamishiro Chika himself. He must have completed the first agreement with the West Coast. The appearance of foreigners in the North is not accidental. Kamishiro has already obtained the assistance he wanted. I even suspect that the West Coast fleet has already found a forward base in the Forbidden Sea, just like Midway and Hawaii in the real world."
Zheng Yuandong nodded: "I agree."
Qing Chen suddenly said, "Furthermore, I suspect that a certain forbidden item is in their possession."
Zheng Yuandong lowered his head in thought, pondering what Qing Chen meant by the forbidden item: "The forbidden item is ACE-22, the queen ant?"
Qingchen nodded heavily.
If this forbidden item is in Kamishiro's hands, then all of Kamishiro Chika's actions have completed a closed loop.
When Qingchen arrived at the square, he saw seven or eight-year-old children standing in the night.
Timewalker Academy covers elementary, middle, high school, and university levels, so it's not surprising to see children here.
Moreover, City 10 itself is the city with the largest population in the Federation and the most Time Travelers!
These children were completely helpless in the face of this disaster!
Qing Chen glanced across the square and gasped, “4811 people!”
Among them were more than twenty successful and unsuccessful participants in his cliffside challenge.
Chen Zhuoqu and Hu Jingyi were also in the group.
That Kamishiro Chika not only plotted how to kill himself and his master Li Shutong, but that bastard even plotted to kill his own corpse.
What a vicious plot to use the corpse of a demigod to destroy the political center of a federation, plunging the federation into real chaos!
If this disaster cannot be contained and residents are not relocated in time, millions will die!
Chapter 674, The Little Dean
The dormitory area is under lockdown, and time travelers who are not from City 10 are temporarily unable to move around freely.
Meanwhile, 4,811 Time Travelers stood anxiously in the square in front of the dormitory area.
Although they didn't know what had happened, the heart-wrenching screams they heard upon their return cast a shadow over everyone's hearts.
They saw that Principal Zheng's face was grave, and the boy next to him... wait, isn't that Qing Chen, the boss of Bai Zhou?!
Zheng Yuandong slowly said, "Fellow Time Travelers, City 10, where you are located, is currently in an extremely dangerous state. We suspect that someone has placed a demigod's corpse in the city's sewage system, causing biological contamination of the entire city and leading to a large-scale mutation and reproduction of rats."
"You heard the screams when you returned, that's because 16 Timewalkers have been attacked by rats in the city and died. Last time you returned they were still alive and kicking and running with you, but this time they're just skeletons."
As they spoke, Ni Ergou and Lu Yuan carried sixteen skeletons to the front of all the Time Travelers and instantly lifted the white cloth covering them.
The time travelers retreated in fright, but this was exactly the result Zheng Yuandong wanted.
If it were anything else, he could wait for the children in front of him to grow up slowly, but now there is no such opportunity. If these children do not realize the seriousness of the matter, they may not have the chance to grow up.
At this moment, Chen Zhuoqu, who was in the crowd, suddenly asked, "Principal Zheng, what should we do?"
Her first thought was... what she should do.
Zheng Yuandong said in a heavy tone, "I now require you to form mutual aid groups under the arrangement of the academy. The academy will appoint the team leaders based on your usual performance. I require you to obey the command of your team leaders after the next crossing, use all your money to purchase supplies as soon as possible, and then move to the border gate in the south of the city to leave City 10."
Zheng Yuandong: "Don't go to the dark corners of the city, don't go to places with few people. This will be your first principle for survival."
The 4,811 people will be divided into 96 teams of about 50 people each by the college. They will go to purchase supplies and then leave the city.
The academy began dividing the area into zones to assign teams to the time travelers.
Qing Chen suddenly said, "Wait a minute, I will be in charge of assigning the team, I will be in charge of the escape route, and I will be in charge of the location for purchasing supplies."
The Time Travelers and Kunlun members were stunned; they hadn't expected Qing Chen to step forward at this moment.
Lu Yuan scratched his head and asked curiously, "Is there something wrong with what we did?"
Qing Chen shook his head: "No problem. From the beginning of sealing off the scene until now, the academy has done an impeccable job. It's just that I can do better. Let me do it."
Normally, Qing Chen might choose to hide his talents or be modest, but when it comes to matters of life and death, he has no room for pretense.
Qing Chen said, "Wait for me a moment."
With that, he returned to the war fortress and summoned Kotoun and Shinguji Maki.
He squatted down and said, "Maki, let me draw it. You create a sand table model in the square in front of the dormitory area."
After saying that, he lay down on the huge sheet of paper and copied it exactly onto the paper based on the satellite map of City 10 that he had seen at the Qing Clan's secret intelligence agency.
On the plaza outside the dormitory area, the Time Travelers and Kunlun members watched as a huge sand table model of City No. 10 slowly appeared before them.
The sand table model is erected, like a blackboard, making it easy for everyone to look up and view.
Skyscrapers rose up before them, one after another: Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3...
The traveler said, “Wait a minute, even the trees on the streets of the second district are exactly the same. I remember that row of trees, they were indeed paulownia trees.”
"Even the storefronts and signs on the street are all the same."
At this point, everyone finally realized that this was a real 3D sand table. The so-called realism meant that there were no fictional elements, and everything could be used as a reference and guide in reality.
The time travelers suddenly looked toward the mysterious war fortress.
When City 10 is replicated pixel by pixel, it's as if they are experiencing the rise and fall of a city.
"What are they trying to do?" the Time Traveler asked, puzzled.
The next moment, Qing Chen walked out of the War Academy, looking somewhat tired.
He held a laser pointer and drew an area on the map: "Time travelers living in this area, step forward."
More than forty time travelers walked slowly away, looking at each other in bewilderment.
Qing Chen said without turning his head, "Lu Yuan, you assign them team leaders. I require you to come out of your homes and immediately gather at the entrance of this convenience store on Guangdian Street. The team leaders will count the money on each of you and purchase water, protein bars, canned synthetic meat, sugar, and lighters from the convenience store. Buy as much as you can."
Qingchen moved the laser pointer to draw a route through the city: "After you come out of Guangdian Street, keep going south along Ziyun Road. It's easy to get a taxi there. Everyone take taxis in batches and then go to the border crossing gate. Remember to tell the driver not to go through Qixing Street, as it gets very congested from 8 o'clock to 2 a.m. there."
As he spoke, Qing Chen looked expressionlessly at the Time Walker behind him: "Did anyone remember?"
The Time Travelers were stunned for a moment, exchanging bewildered glances: "What you just said wasn't fast, but it was a bit complicated."
At this moment, a time traveler of about seventeen or eighteen years old stepped forward: "Hello...you..."
For a moment, the Time Traveler didn't know how to address Qing Chen. Should he call him "Classmate Qing Chen"? He couldn't bring himself to say it; the other person was clearly not on his level.
Why not just be shameless and call him "boss" directly? That seems a bit abrupt.
Qing Chen looked at him and said, "You can call me Dean, Dean of the Agricultural College."
At midnight on Whale Island, the Time Traveler was first taken aback, then gasped in shock.
Prior to this, many travelers searched for information about the dean of the Agricultural Academy on the Academy's app, especially after people learned that those miraculous products came from the Agricultural Academy.
However, no matter how hard they searched, the identity of the dean of the College of Agriculture remained a mystery.
Qing Chen interrupted the Time Travelers' train of thought: "What do you want?"
The time traveler said weakly, "Dean... I can remember the route you just drew, I know how to get there."
Qing Chen nodded: "Very good, you will be the deputy captain and assist the captain in the evacuation work."
In Qingchen's team setup, the person with the strongest organizational, coordination, and thinking abilities is the team leader, and the person familiar with the route is the deputy team leader.
He used a laser pointer to draw another area on the sand table: "Time travelers in this area, step forward. I require you to gather at the pharmacy on Fangcao Street, use all your savings to buy medicine, and then cross Kaixuan West Road... Remember, do not take Jiudu Avenue, it's very congested there, and I suspect it's also a major area affected by the rat infestation. Those who can remember the route, step forward."
At this moment, Chen Zhuoqu stepped forward: "Dean, I can remember it."
"Anything else?" Qing Chen asked calmly. "Anyone else you can remember, please step forward."
Another student stepped forward: "Dean, I can remember it."
“Very good, you will be the vice-captain,” Qing Chen said, looking at Chen Zhuoqu. “You are the captain, and the lives of the team members cannot be entirely entrusted to you. If you die, the vice-captain can still lead everyone forward. If the vice-captain dies, at least everyone will still have you as their backbone.”
Everyone felt a chill; this young dean had already considered the worst-case scenario.