This is a key member of the parent-teacher meeting whom Yi mentioned in his 7-hour narration; his stepfather.
Qingchen didn't know Kunlun's phone number, nor did he know Luo Wanya's phone number; the only person he could find now was Qin Shuli.
Qin Shuli snatched Zhang Wanfang's phone: "Hello? Is this Qingchen? Boss, where are you?"
Zhang Wanfang stared blankly as her husband addressed her son as "boss"...
After pondering for two seconds, Qing Chen calmly said, "I'm in a drug lab in a tropical rainforest in Mexico. Based on sunrise and sunset times and the angle of sunlight, I should be around 23 degrees north latitude. Judging from the season and wind direction, I shouldn't be too far from the sea, influenced by the northeast monsoon. Come pick me up next time you return, and be quick. I'll be waiting for you here. Tell the others that I'm hiding in a safe house in the Underworld with Yi and Black Spider, waiting for the lifting of martial law in the central royal city on the surface before I immediately return to find you. I've lost my memory, but it's slowly returning, and my cancer has healed."
Although Qingchen has not fully recovered his memories, he has made the right choice for himself.
He didn't say a single unnecessary word in this passage.
The countdown has reached zero.
Time travel.
Chapter 981, Returning to Secular Life at Any Time
When the world lights up again.
“Someone else has left,” Xiao Qi said dejectedly as he sat in the ravine after finishing another round of manhunts. “Everyone is saying that nobody cares about us anymore, there’s no support, no supplies, as if we’re not important at all.”
Since the parent-teacher conference started traveling, they have been cut off from the outside world for most of the time.
Hundreds of thousands of people walked in the mountains like wild men, with disheveled hair and bare feet.
Before this, they found it hard to believe that the soft soles of human feet could adapt so quickly to the hard mountain paths and become so resilient after leaving shoes.
Suffering is not scary; what is scariest is the feeling of being abandoned.
The Phoenix City air force fleet behind them came to search the mountains from time to time, and the frequency was increasing, but the Qing family's air support was nowhere to be seen, leaving them to die meaninglessly.
This will make PTA members feel that everything they are doing is meaningless.
In the mountains and fields, only 260,000 of the 330,000 parents' meeting participants remained, with more than 70,000 people getting lost.
Some died in the pursuit of the Phoenix Air Force fleet, while others couldn't bear the long journey and quietly left on their own.
Hunger and cold became their constant condition.
All the parents were starving, their cheeks slightly sunken, and they even had to plan how to share tree roots.
Many people persevered and walked over a thousand kilometers, but the news of Qingchen's disappearance became the last straw that broke their backs.
On the night Qing Chen disappeared, Luo Wanya did not hide the news.
That night, more than 20,000 parents left the meeting because no one could see any hope.
At this moment, the monks of Dabeisi Temple had just returned from collecting herbs, each carrying a bamboo basket filled with herbs.
Xiao Qi looked at the abbot: "Abbot, are there any wild vegetables in these mountains that we can eat?"
The abbot used sign language.
The young monk standing nearby translated, "The abbot said, 'This is too difficult for you. We might as well walk ourselves...'"
Xiaoqi: "..."
Is this some kind of respectable monk?! Why is he starting to complain about parent-teacher conferences...?
It has to be said that those fake monks pretend to be compassionate all the time, while these real monks have a bit of genuine personality. The abbot might even give you the middle finger if he gets angry.
Xiaoqi asked the abbot why he was cursing and how he could use foul language, saying that this was breaking the precepts.
The abbot replied in sign language: I didn't speak, so it doesn't count as breaking the precept.
Xiaoqi was so angry she almost fainted.
The monks originally planned to fight the puppet army to the death. If they lost, they would die on the mountain; if they won, they would break their vows and return to secular life. However, they didn't even get a chance to fight.
The abbot was quite happy afterwards: "I don't have to return to secular life today!"
This is still a group of monks who are ready to return to secular life at any time; when they will return depends on when they break their vows...
The abbot asked in sign language, "You're really planning to walk all the way to the southwest like this? How long will that take? Isn't anyone coming to help you?"
Xiao Qi was speechless for a long time: "I can't answer these questions."
The abbot used sign language, and the young monk translated: "You are all in such a miserable state."
Xiaoqi: "Why are there even modal particles?! Don't add unnecessary details in the translation!"
The abbot then asked: "Where is your boss? He's Qing Chen."
Xiao Qi said sadly, "I don't know either."
at this time.
Qin Shuli had broken away from his group and was running wildly through the woods, shouting, "The boss is alright! The boss is alive! The boss is alright! The boss is alive!"
Parents have been waiting for this news for far too long.
At that moment, Luo Wanya, Xiao Qi, and the others turned around abruptly when they heard the distant shouts!
Qin Shuli ran over, panting, "Before I transmigrated, Qing Chen called me..."
As he spoke, his throat became so dry that he couldn't speak. He had run more than 20 kilometers without even drinking a sip of water.
Xiaoqi quickly handed him a water bottle: "Speak slowly, speak slowly, but the more details the better!"
Qin Shuli took a sip of water: "He said on the phone that he had amnesia, but is slowly recovering some of his memories. He is currently trapped in a safe house with Black Spider and Yi, and is waiting for the troops on the surface of the Central Royal City to lower their guard before coming back to find us! His cancer has been cured!"
Xiao Qi looked excited. For so many days, all the family members had been asking, "How is the parent?" "Is the parent still alive?" Qing Chen's life or death had truly become the spiritual pillar of the parents' association. If bad news about Qing Chen really came, half of the group would probably break up.
Luo Wanya murmured, "As long as he's alive... As long as he's still alive, it means he's completed the path to godhood! Everyone, although we're not sure when the boss will be back, as long as he's alive, our persistence is meaningful. Spread the word and tell everyone! Wait, something seems off about what the boss said."
Xiao Qi asked, "Old Qin, where is the boss in the watchtower world?"
Qin Shuli quickly said, "He said he would wait for us to pick him up in a rainforest drug manufacturing plant at 23 degrees north latitude."
Xiao Qi laughed: "That should be the direction Boss Zheng is looking for. When he returns next time, we can bring him back and help him regain his memory together."
However, at this moment, Luo Wanyi glanced at the countdown on his arm and was stunned: "The countdown has changed!"
All the time travelers looked down at the same time, only to see that the countdown was 719:19:01.
Several tens of minutes have passed since the crossing, which means that the crossing period has once again become 30 days!
The travel cycle has remained unchanged for a long time, always taking seven days for a round trip, to the point that everyone subconsciously assumes that this seven-day travel cycle is fixed and will not change.
"What should we do? We're afraid we won't be able to hold out until we get back to meet the boss," Xiao Qi said bitterly.
“It’s alright,” Luo Wanyi said calmly. “As long as we’re alive, we’ll meet again. According to the original plan, we should have arrived at Jianmen Pass tomorrow, but at the current speed, it will probably take another three days. If we slow down, everyone’s plans will have to be changed. We can’t delay any longer. Everyone, keep moving forward!”
Xiao Qi sighed, "It's not that we don't want to move faster, but when the Western Continent's air force comes to search the mountains, we can only stay put. Now that their supply lines have been established and the searches are becoming more frequent, we simply can't speed up."
Just then, someone said in the communication channel: "Those bastards from the Western Continent are coming to search again with their airships. Everyone, take cover!"
For a time, the members of the parent-teacher association hid under the trees, covering themselves with camouflage cloths and silently practicing the Cundi Dharma. The search in the western continent became more and more thorough, and the members in the rear were killed in batches, passing on messages before they died, while the others could only stop and wait for the search by the airship to end.
Right behind them, the airship dropped bombs, and any parent-teacher association members caught in the blast would immediately be detected by the sonar system if they cried out in pain.
Once a member is discovered, the entire area will be under fire, potentially resulting in thousands of casualties.
The parent-teacher meeting procession stretched for hundreds of kilometers, with the Western Continent's air force trailing behind, very close to the main force.
Their supply lines must be destroyed to slow down the search progress of this Western Continent force.
This is the significance of the Qingshan's journey to the Central Plains, but the Qingshan itself may also be in danger.
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Central Plains.
The forward base that the Western Continent had just established in City 10 was now engulfed in flames.
The Qingshan, with a seemingly miraculous coordinate trajectory, evaded all radars of the Western Continent and suddenly appeared over the forward base, catching the forward base completely off guard.
However, Li Changqing knew that things were not so simple. The fact that the enemy was not on guard because of the existence of the Fate Master was suspicious in itself.
Li Changqing waited silently. In fact, from the moment she received the order, she knew it was a dead end.
But if doing this can really buy some time for the parents' meeting, then it doesn't matter if she comes to die.
On board the Qingshan, the ship's sailors looked at the densely packed enemy forces on the phased array radar and were momentarily at a loss: "We're surrounded! It seems the Western Continent knew we were going to launch a surprise attack on our forward base! To the north, there's an aerial fortress appearing in the north!"
To intercept and destroy an aerial fortress, the aerial fortress itself naturally needs to be deployed.
Currently, only three aerial fortresses remain in the Western Continent: the Royal Family's, Storm City's, and Phoenix City's. It's unknown which one will be the one that arrives this time.
One operations staff officer said, "There are more than 400 airships appearing on the radar, plus an air fortress. I'm afraid we can't stop them."
How far are we from that point?
"320 kilometers, at their current speed, they will arrive in about 43 minutes."
Li Changqing looked at Xiao Tongyun: "You guys go to the deck level now and board the airship. I'll open a passage for you later using the Qingshan. Actually, you shouldn't have come."
Li Tongyun shook her head: "We're not leaving. Since we chose to come here, we've already prepared for the worst."
Li Changqing's bodyguard, Lao Shijiu, changed his name to Lao Wan because he found it too troublesome.
He watched this scene silently and said to Li Changqing, "Boss, the Qingshan can't leave, but you can."
Li Changqing smiled and said, "I am the head of the Li family. I brought these three thousand members of the Li family army to the Central Plains in an air fortress. What would it mean if I left you all behind? I won't leave. By the way, Lao Wan, when did you start following me?"
Old Wan replied, "I started working as your housekeeper when you were 18 and had your own Qingshan Villa."
Li Changqing asked, "Actually, you're a member of the Bystanders organization, right? My father told me about this. He knew your identity and that you wanted to record what was happening within the Li family, but he let you record it."
The command room fell silent.
After a long pause, Lao Wan replied with a smile, "Miss, I am now the current editor-in-chief of the Bystander Organization. The previous one was Zheng Yuandong, who handed it over to me after he left. The Bystander Organization has no ill intentions; we only care about the truth."
Old Wan no longer addressed Li Changqing as "boss," but rather seemed to have returned to 14 years ago, when he smiled and greeted the young girl as she lazily walked into Qingshan Villa.
He is both the current leader of the observers and an ordinary person in this era, a speck of dust.
In the torrent of this era, he chose to protect Li Changqing, becoming a loyal bodyguard until his own death.
Li Changqing shook his head: "Don't worry, I don't mind your true identity. I know very well what kind of organization the Bystanders are. I'm just a little curious. Now, this Green Mountain is the last branch of the Li family. If we die, the Li family will also vanish. So, how will the Bystanders record the Li family?"