Cheng Cheng and the Cicada

Chapter 42 The Real Killer on July 7th (Bonus chapter for the Silver Grand Alliance Leader loading7)

Chapter 42 July 7th. The real culprit is the silver alliance leader 1oadg7 who requested an extra chapter. The Grizzly Bear Tribe is located directly north of the Bobcat Tribe!

But no one in this armored vehicle knew exactly where, how far, or how north!

Lin Xian was an outsider!

The blue-eyed girl had only woken up an hour ago!

Only Big Face Cat and Gao Wen had overheard while digging in the deep pit that the Grizzly Bear Tribe was north of the Bobcat Tribe; they knew nothing else about it. "We forgot to keep a hostage." Lin Xian looked at the vast wilderness in all directions, regretting it a bit: "Now that we don't have a map, road signs, or even a highway, just the condition of 'directly north' is not enough for us to find the Grizzly Bear Tribe's location."

"We were only focused on dealing with those supervisors and foremen just now. We really should have left one alive. They often fought with the Grizzly Bear Tribe and must know the exact location!"

Indeed!

Battles and life both require experience!

Now that he thought about it, why had he killed so quickly?

Not knowing the area, leaving a hostage was better than anything else!

It was because he didn't have any doomsday combat experience and didn't know the importance of hostages!

There was no way!

He could only think of another way!

He turned his head to look at Gao Wen, who was sitting in the back row with the blue-eyed girl: "Your memory is better than Big Face Cat's, and you usually hear more. Besides the information that the Grizzly Bear Tribe is located directly north of the Bobcat Tribe, is there any other information about the Grizzly Bear Tribe?"

"It's not a solution for us to just drive aimlessly north like this. The concept of 'north' is very broad. We might drive all night and still not find the location of the Grizzly Bear Tribe! Tell me everything you know about the Grizzly Bear Tribe, and we'll brainstorm to see if we can find any clues!"

Gao Wen nodded and began to explain in detail: "All the information I know came from the conversations of those supervisors and foremen! They said that the Grizzly Bear Tribe was originally just a small tribe, relying on the mountains for sustenance and living at the foot of the mountains!" "Later, a larger tribe attacked and drove them away, so they came to their current location and built a stronghold by a large river, starting to farm and fish for a living!"

"However, being a tribe from the mountains, they didn't know the risks of living by a large river. The river's current was very rapid, and it often flooded, submerging the surrounding dikes. The Grizzly Bear Tribe also suffered greatly, encountering many floods!"

"Later, about a year ago, the riverbed eroded by the flood revealed a spot, and the people of the Grizzly Bear Tribe dug down along the cracks and discovered an underground building built hundreds of years ago!"

"The equipment inside the machine room was all very well-preserved. It seemed to have been built for long-term storage. The computer inside could talk and think, just like a human, and its name was Turing. The Bobcat Tribe learned about the existence of Turing during their battles with the Grizzly Bear Tribe, so they wanted to dig out their own Turing!"

"In fact, many tribes around the world have Turing computers. The Porcupine Tribe to the east also dug out a Turing computer very early, so the Porcupine Tribe is more developed. However, the Porcupine Tribe is mainly engaged in constant battles with tribes further east, so their energy and attention are not focused on the Bobcat Tribe and the Grizzly Bear Tribe." "Let me continue talking about the Grizzly Bear Tribe. After the Grizzly Bear Tribe dug up the Turing computer, they revered it as a god. Turing taught them how to build dams, change river courses, use water resources, and purify water resources, and so on!"

"In short, the Turing computer taught the Grizzly Bear Tribe many things. After agriculture, there was also animal husbandry, and then industry. The Grizzly Bear Tribe developed rapidly under Turing's guidance!"

"Things like muskets and armored vehicles were all snatched back by the Bobcat Tribe from the Grizzly Bear Tribe! If they didn't have a population advantage of more than ten times, the Bobcat Tribe would have no chance of winning in the battles between the two sides! From another perspective, even with a technological disadvantage of more than ten times, the Grizzly Bear Tribe could still fight the Bobcat Tribe to a draw, which is enough to show how advanced their tribe's technology is! If they were given another three to five years to develop, they could definitely wipe out the Bobcat Tribe in one fell swoop!"

Gao Wen was indeed a good listener. As an effective black laborer, he had listened to various intelligence reports in such detail, like a military advisor undercover. Compared to him, Lin Xian turned his head and looked at Big Face Cat with a look of resentment.

Big Face Cat immediately felt this gaze and frowned. "What?"

"What's wrong, Officer Lin? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Lin Xian sighed softly!

He turned his head back, continuing to look ahead and drive: "I just feel that the gap between people is really big. Gao Wen has been digging in the construction site for three years and has almost figured out the political and military situation of the surrounding tribes. Even the tribe's military advisor might not know as much as he does! And look at you, Vice-Captain Big Face Cat... you've been digging here for more than ten years, and I ask you so many questions, but you never know anything." "Why is the gap between everyone so big when we're all digging in the same construction site?"

"Hmph!" Big Face Cat turned his head away and snorted coldly: "There are only a few weirdos like him who are always listening to everything with their ears perked up. He's lucky he's still alive!"

"My former underling, A Zhuang, was just like him, always eavesdropping on other people's conversations, and he was beaten to death by the foreman; Er Zhu also always peeked at the foreman's wife and was chopped into pieces and fed to the dogs by the foreman; San Pang was the same, when the foreman was scolding Er Zhu, he blurted out, 'I don't think that's right,' and then he was also fed to the dogs!"

"What does this show? It shows that the way to survive on a construction site is to listen less, see less, and say less! Unless you want to die early, don't be so nosy!"

Listening to Big Face Cat's defense, Lin Xian also mourned for his three underlings. He hoped they could have a good ending in the next world! He continued to savor the situation Gao Wen had just introduced!

The Grizzly Bear Tribe, a pitiful little tribe that everyone beat up and was even bullied by the rising river water, had become a super-power overnight because of the Turing computer! It truly verified the famous saying that knowledge is power!

The humans in the Sixth Dream were truly warlike. Any force supported by a Turing computer had to fight to the death! No! Lin Xian shook his head! In fact, the essence of this world being so violent and turbulent was not because of humans, but because countless Turing computers were fanning the flames. Turing's nature was Kevin Walker's nature. Lin Xian had seen it!

His personality of infighting and self-denial was inevitable, just like the thousands of Turings on Earth in the Sixth Dream! They all refused to submit to each other, and each of them felt that the other was redundant and that all Turings must be eliminated so that they could become the only one!

Therefore! Now there was constant war and unrest everywhere on Earth!

"It's hard to change someone's nature." Lin Xian muttered!

He continued to think about the location of the Grizzly Bear Tribe: 22°95'105.153". He still extracted some key information from Gao Wen's words – stationed by the river, floods, breaches, riverbed erosion, and modified river courses! River.

This was an important clue, indicating that the Grizzly Bear Tribe's base camp should be built in the downstream part of a certain river; and this river had a large flow of water and often experienced floods and breaches. Geological features like large mountains and rivers were different from man-made buildings. They had spent billions of years on Earth! A mere few hundred years was just a blink of an eye for large mountains and rivers. There might not be any changes at all! The Yellow River was the "mother river" of the thief country, and it had already existed for hundreds of thousands of years!

The Huai River, as the crystal of the Dragon Country, had existed for 500 million years according to records!

So, a river that was 2600 years old in 2024 would probably still exist!

This was the site of the old East Sea! So, combining these clues and thinking about it! The river next to the Grizzly Bear Tribe was most likely the Huangpu River. The Huangpu River was the last tributary before the Yangtze River entered the sea, and its flow was rapid. Flooding the riverbanks often happened, which was very consistent with Gao Wen's description!

Now that he understood that the Grizzly Bear Tribe was located next to the Huangpu River, the geographical location became much clearer! Lin Xian turned the steering wheel to the left and drove towards a hundred-meter-high earthen mountain: "We'll go to the earthen mountain first to look for the location of the Huangpu River. As long as we find a similar river and go north along the river, we can find the Grizzly Bear Tribe sooner or later!" His thinking was clear all of a sudden!

"Damn it, Officer Lin, you're so smart!" Big Face slapped Lin Xian's head!

However!

He instantly felt Gao Wen's vigilant gaze. "Cough," he coughed lightly and rubbed Lin Xian's shoulder: "I mean, Officer Lin, you're great!"

Looking from a high place, he could see the flow of the Huangpu River at a glance!

Lin Xian couldn't help but sigh! Humans were really just a drop in the ocean in front of nature!

No matter how human civilization changed!

Whether it was developed or destroyed! A few hundred or thousand years was just a nap for nature!

Even if humans fought to the death in the sky and on the earth!

The Yellow River was still the Yellow River!

The Yangtze River was still the Yangtze River!

The high mountains were still there!

Sometimes, thinking about it, it was really "Why bother?"

Finding the location of the Huangpu River was much simpler!

Going north along the river would definitely lead to the Grizzly Bear Tribe! "Over there!" The silent blue-eyed girl suddenly raised her arm and pointed towards the sunset. Lin Xian, Gao Wen, and Big Face Cat squinted their eyes. They couldn't see anything unusual there!

"What's there?" Gao Wen took the initiative to ask! He knew very well!

The reason why this blue-eyed girl with strange strength was willing to take risks with them was entirely because Lin Xian had established a good persona and fooled her! Therefore, he had to try his best to get Lin Xian to ask questions!

Once Lin Xian asked a question, it would inevitably arouse the girl's suspicion!

So, in order to maintain Lin Xian's high status, he had to take the initiative to help Lin Xian ask questions!

"It should be the Grizzly Bear Tribe you're talking about!"

The blue-eyed girl squinted her eyes and continued to look into the distance: "I can see a scattered town by the river there. Although there aren't many people inside, there are many facilities and buildings, which is very consistent with your description of the Grizzly Bear Tribe!"

"And although I can't see clearly what the people inside are doing, there are many vehicles in the town that look like your armored vehicle!"

Lin Xian nodded: "The location, features, and vehicle design are all very consistent, so it's highly likely that it's the Grizzly Bear Tribe we're looking for. Let's continue on our way."

With an order!

Everyone got back into the car again! According to the blue-eyed girl's guidance, they roughly knew the location of the Grizzly Bear Tribe! About a kilometer away, they found a lush piece of vegetation at the foot of the mountain. Lin Xian parked the armored vehicle at the foot of the mountain and led everyone up the mountain to overlook the Grizzly Bear Tribe's city from a high place! At this time, the sun had completely set, and the moon had not yet risen from the east. The earth was in darkness before the moonlight!

Every household in the Grizzly Bear Tribe's territory was lit with bright yellow lights!

After all, battery resources were inexhaustible in this world, and many household appliances had already been conquered, but they still didn't have the ability to manufacture high-end appliances such as televisions and computers. There were three or four patrol teams of various sizes outside the territory!

Most of the patrol teams were not very serious and were just chatting and laughing, wandering around. It was estimated that they knew very well that no one would invade the Grizzly Bear Tribe: No one had the courage! What was patrolling was an armored vehicle, almost exactly the same as the one they had driven!

Obviously, the Grizzly Bear Tribe was the original factory for this type of vehicle. Today, they had finally seen the original version!

Lin Xian stroked his chin and thought: "If we want to sneak into the Grizzly Bear Tribe's territory, we still need to do some disguise. Your current attire is really too strange." "It's okay for me!"

"Short sleeves, long pants, a smart watch – this is my dream suit. I always wear this when I enter the dream, no matter what era. This is the most basic clothing and there's no problem blending into the environment. But looking at Big Face Cat and Gao Wen! What they're wearing isn't even prison uniforms, but just rags wrapped around their waists. It's simple and crude. If they sneak in looking like such naked men, they'll definitely be discovered. Similarly, the blue-eyed girl's clothes are nowhere to be found. She's wearing a full set of white, close-fitting winter sleep clothes!" "It accentuated her already graceful figure even more!"

"It's good-looking and pleasing to the eye, but sneaking in requires being low-key and inconspicuous!

Professional players always wear black tight-fitting clothes that are neat and agile!"

"In short, we need to change clothes for the three of you!"

"And our vehicle also needs to be updated. It would be best to hijack a vehicle that already belongs to the Grizzly Bear Tribe and then swagger directly in through the main gate of the tribe. The more natural it is, the less risk of exposure." As Lin Xian spoke, he pointed to the walking crowd below: "Gao Wen, your math is good. Please help me pay attention to calculating the respective patterns and meeting times of these two patrol teams, and the blind spots!"

"Find the specific time blind spots so we can take advantage of the blind spot time to subdue them, then swap their clothes and vehicles. Then we can carry out the next tactic!"

As the best lieutenant and the strongest brain, Gao Wen naturally understood Lin Xian's meaning and began to look at several patrolling teams to start calculating and verifying!

As for Big Face Cat! He was amazed by Lin Xian's clear thinking and decision-making: "Officer Lin, you're simply a genius!"

He had always been frank and said whatever he thought: "Your tactics and ideas are too awesome."

"From judging the location of the tribe through the river at the beginning, then coming here to the mountain to calculate the monitoring blind spots, and finally changing clothes and vehicles to start the infiltration operation, it's too smooth. Where did you learn this?"

Lin Xian smiled! He was about to say that this was basic knowledge, but then he suddenly froze. He suddenly realized: This was not basic knowledge at all. How could he have known these tactical things in the first place? Even in the First Dream, he had been wantonly unscrupulous for so long and had never talked about any tactics. He was just waiting for the police to save him and manually leave the dream! As for things like tactics, including the precautions for infiltration operations, and the calculation of monitoring blind spots: All of this was taught to him by Big Face Cat in a previous dream. Lin Xian took a deep breath! Except for the First Dream, although Big Face Cat didn't teach him anything particularly useful, he could be considered to have given him a beginner's course, letting him familiarize himself with the process of robbing a bank. That's right, from the First Dream, Big Face Cat had gradually entered the role of "instructor" and "mentor". Standing on the slope outside New Donghai City, it was Big Face Cat who taught him to observe from a high place and formulate tactics. It was he who told himself outside the garbage disposal plant to calculate the unmanned patrol route and blind spots, and to test it several times to be on the safe side!

All the way to the Third Dream, he taught himself how to parachute. In the Fifth Dream, he guided himself on how to make decisions and how to make trade-offs from a long-term perspective!

Lin Xian suddenly realized!

All of this!

Was actually the result of Big Face Cat's education and guidance. It was just that Big Face Cat in the Sixth Dream was a bit of a mess. But Big Face Cat was always Big Face Cat. Lin Xian smiled slightly and patted Big Face Cat's thick arm: "Didn't you teach me all this knowledge?"

"Me?" Big Face Cat pointed at the flesh on his face with an exaggerated expression: "You're kidding me. Where would I have taught you these things?" Lin Xian just smiled and didn't speak! Speaking of which, the Big Face Cat in this dream was really a bit too sturdy. Even as a millennial stake, he couldn't be met in every dream. Just like now, in the Sixth Dream, he didn't know where he was, and he wasn't sure if he could meet him in this dream!

But Big Face Cat... was really getting more and more outrageous!

In the past, he needed to spend a little effort, run a few steps, and take the initiative to find Big Face Cat!

This time, Big Face Cat directly spawned next to his birth point. He could see him digging or being whipped as soon as he entered the dream! It was a bit interesting. As the dream continued to change, he was getting further and further away from the vault, but he was getting closer and closer to Big Face Cat!

If this trend continued, Lin Xian wouldn't feel strange if Big Face Cat and his birth point were together when he entered the next Seventh Dream!

Maybe he would be hugging Big Face Cat as soon as he entered the dream!

His spine was tingling!

Pulling himself back from his thoughts!

Big Face Cat and Gao Wen, with bare chests and wearing torn pants, were lying on the hillside, beginning to look for the patrol patterns of the Grizzly Bear Tribe's external teams!

Lin Xian turned around and found the blue-eyed girl staring at him with even brighter blue pupils in the darkness, looking at him seriously and silently! "What's wrong?" Lin Xian said calmly!

"Officer Lin!"

The blue-eyed girl looked at him with a very formal expression and posture: "Can you tell me about my past and my true identity now, during this time?" "Now, besides the name Yan Qiaoqiao, I still don't know who I am, what I've done, or what the specific purpose of my life is." Indeed!

Lin Xian stared at the blue-eyed girl! As time went on, the blue-eyed girl would become more and more intelligent and her mind would become clearer. Naturally, she would want to know the truth more and more. It wouldn't work to keep deceiving her, as it would inevitably arouse suspicion!

But saying too much would inevitably reveal flaws because the logic wouldn't hold up!

So: Half-truths were the way to go. Repeat what she had said before!

"Third-level agent Yan Qiaoqiao from the Space-Time Police Department, listen up!" Lin Xian looked solemnly at the girl, who was gradually standing at attention: "You came from the Space-Time Police Department on the 0!0000000 world line to carry out a secret mission in the distant past! But there was an accident with that mission, so you 95.105.153 were supposed to be able to return to the future immediately, but you could only return by using the clumsy method of a hibernation pod!"

"Unfortunately: The world line has changed, and your original future time and space are gone. Your colleagues, your unit, your friends, and your hometown are all gone. The world of sugar cakes you see now is as backward and violent as it is!"

"Therefore, as one of the few remaining cadres of the Space-Time Police Department, we have reason to take on the responsibility of saving the world and restoring time and space to its original track, to restore the beautiful and happy life to the earth. This is our purpose and our duty!" "It's just that our mission is urgent now and we don't have time to tell you too much. I hope you can put the overall situation first, put your doubts and confusion aside, and prioritize the task at hand." Lin Xian's words were a pack of lies! But for the amnesiac and blank-minded blue-eyed girl, the more incomprehensible and difficult to understand things would instead control her for a longer time and prevent her from thinking too much in the direction of betrayal!

Any lie couldn't stand up to scrutiny. If you thought about it too much, it would reveal flaws, so it was best not to let her think too much! This was Lin Xian's approach! First, information bombardment. As long as you had questions, I would throw out a bunch of semi-understandable nouns for you to slowly understand! Second, make the task and action urgent. Even if you had ten thousand whys in your heart, you wouldn't have the opportunity to ask!

"Are you done?" Lin Xian turned his head to look at Gao Wen! "Done," Gao Wen turned around and made an OK gesture. "I've figured out their patrol patterns, and now is a great opportunity. The Grizzly Bear Tribe's patrol armored vehicle is approaching us! And there's only one, and it's far away from the main force. It's a good time to strike!"

What Lin Xian was waiting for was now. He waved his hand and signaled Yan Qiaoqiao to follow! "Is it not necessary to continue tearing the car door?" I feel very interesting!"

"No no no!"

Lin Xian waved his hand: "This time, we need to leave a complete armored car. We still need to ride it into the Grizzly Bear Tribe!" In the end!

With the exquisite cooperation of the crowd, they successfully hijacked the Grizzly Bear Tribe's night patrol car, which was roughly the same as the one they had driven!

But at least the door was intact and there was no battle damage!

There were three enemies sitting inside, and there were three sets of clothes for Big Face Cat, Gao Wen, and the blue-eyed girl!

The smallest set of clothes fit the blue-eyed girl perfectly!

And she finally had a pair of shoes to wear, as she had been barefoot before!

Putting on these shoes made her seem a lot taller again. The blue-eyed girl's height was about 170 cm barefoot, and she was about 175 cm with shoes on. This was already considered a very tall girl in this age group! Lin Xian looked at her appearance! Recalling Sen Yingxi and Yan Qiaoqiao's delicate bodies, it was hard to imagine that they could reach 175 cm in a few years!

After all, their body types were obviously petite, and even if Lin Yingxi had beautiful muscle lines, that didn't change the fact that her skeleton was petite! At fourteen or fifteen years old, it was common to grow to 170 cm by seventeen or eighteen years old. How to put it, some of Lin Xian's relatives' sons had grown so crazily, but girls usually grew to about 140 cm and it was hard to grow another twenty or thirty centimeters before adulthood. It was really a big stretch! After all, it was unlikely that their height would grow like that.