Thousands of soldiers surrounded and attacked, hundreds of armored vehicles galloped, armed helicopters approached from above, and drones buzzed like a swarm of hornets. In this spectacular scene, the magician made a graceful exit, leaving not a single clue.
Strange.
Mysterious.
The helicopter pilot, looking at the empty rooftop, felt as if he had just woken from a dream. Now the dream was over.
Over the communication channel, an air unit stated blankly, "Target has disappeared into thin air! Repeat, target has disappeared into thin air! Wait, there's something on the rooftop!"
A moment later, a gust of wind swept through the city.
A Joker card fluttered into the air from the rooftop, silently mocking.
The Garrison Troops commander was dumbfounded. He had used such a large-scale operation, yet caught nothing.
The Garrison Troops commander found the thought terrifying. Qing Chen was still in City 10 a day ago, and today he arrived in City 20, and could leave whenever he wanted.
What if he felt like doing something after lunch and decided to attack, and then went home for dinner when it was time? Who could bear that?!No, this matter must be reported. The city was no longer safe. Someone had mastered the ability to come and go as they pleased.
City defense construction must be put back on the agenda, otherwise, within a few months, their northern city's defense forces would be breached!
The key is that they still don't understand how Qing Chen travels through space. It's clearly not the effect of the Shadow Gate.
At this moment, in the City 10 Garrison Troops camp area, Qing Chen lost his balance and fell out of the Key Gate.
Luckily, he used his hand to support himself and did a backflip, avoiding the embarrassment of falling in front of his subordinates.
The man who had been wreaking havoc in City 20 just a second ago, now stood up and put the Beyond the Three Realms back on his wrist.
Zheng Yuandong asked from the side, "I was still wondering how you would return, but I didn't expect you to use this method."
For the Observer Organization, the Key Gate was rare, and everyone was cautious when opening it. People only opened the Key Gate when they were extremely confused and lost, to see where their hearts truly wanted to go.
As a result, the Key Gate in Qing Chen's hands was truly put to good use.
Anyway, the Guardians' Union had many people, and there were many opportunities to open the Key Gate. The True Sight Eye was only a few, so everyone took turns using it.
"Where did you go?" Lu Yuan curiously asked.
"To give Shendai a little surprise," Qing Chen said, "To force them to shrink their forces and use some of their field forces to protect their cities."
Lu Yuan asked, "To buy time for the Qing Family and Li Clan?"
"No," Qing Chen shook his head, "To buy time for ourselves."
When Shendai and Koshima marched south, in addition to leaving a 4500-person garrison regiment in each city, all troops were assembled for the invasion of the south. No defense force was left behind.
After all, the two families had geographical advantages and no strong enemies behind them; they only needed to face the pressure from the south.
Now it's different. Qing Chen used his actions to tell Shendai that when he wants to kill them, he can come and go freely!
Now Shendai and Koshima will panic. Neither family has Demi-God level combat power, and for a while, they have no way to deal with this highly mobile assassination warrior.
Unless the bigwigs of both families are not afraid of death, they will have no choice but to shrink their forces and establish checkpoints within the cities.
Qing Chen looked at the scientists and team members sitting in the conference room and said with a smile, "Welcome everyone to City 10. In the days to come, let City 10 grow with you. The Guardians' Union has set up a special group to liaise with you all."
Someone suddenly asked, "By the way, where's Demi-God Li Shutong?"
Qing Chen was stunned. Yes, where is Master?!
He carefully recalled that he hadn't seen his master since he returned. He's run away!
Knowing that there would be many more Knights after this crossing, he had left early.
Is this something a Demi-God should do?!
Qing Chen explained to the scientists, "My master has urgent business to attend to elsewhere. Don't worry, I'll do the empowerment. You just need to hand over your patents to us for verification, and then choose your residence from the city model."
This time, City 10 offered a high-end residential area in Zone 2 as a research talent base, with 800 villas for these people to choose from, only needing to pay 1 yuan in rent per year, for a 70-year lease.
This time, Qing Chen selectively recruited scientists, focusing on several key technologies.
The first key area was bioscience, namely the development of Gene Medicine. He hoped that City 10 would have the ability to independently produce Gene Medicine.
First, Scientist No. 2 promised that as long as the equipment, laboratory, and materials were in place, he could enable City 10 to independently research and produce Gene Medicine within 3 months.
Second, once they obtain the gene fragment of divine blood, they could start researching samples of A-Class Gene Medicine and clinical trials within a year.
It's important to note that using the gene fragment of a god as a base has no side effects, at least it won't cause infertility, and it can even cure those who became infertile due to Gene Medicine.
Nowadays, there are many Gene Soldiers. Even the lowest-level F-Class Gene Medicine has sold at least millions of doses, and many regret getting the injection.
Once their Gene Medicine is successfully developed, Qing Chen will prioritize providing it to the 300 members of the Shadow special forces.
Then the Shadow special forces will become very terrifying.
The second key area is Nanobots.
Qing Chen has personally experienced Nanobots. This thing, forming an external armor, is more useful than external skeletal armor.
He also once had Nanobots, but when he awakened the thunder, all the Nanobots were destroyed.
He can't use external armor; electromagnetic pulses cannot selectively target someone or not. Once used, it's large-area AOE damage.
But he doesn't need it, but his Shadow troops can.
Then 300 A-Class special forces, carrying external armor...
It's scary to think about.
These two scientific fields are war-oriented, prepared for war.
As for basic industrial directions, Qing Chen decided to let the scientists freely develop, then apply their new breakthroughs to the industrial field of City 10.
After he finished empowering all the scientists, Zheng Yuandong also completed the secret-keeping technique.
For this city, Qing Chen has done what he should do. Next, he will go his own way.
On the first day of his return, Qing Chen disappeared from City 10, and no one knew where he went.
He didn't want anyone to know where he went.
Li Shutong once said that all Knights must keep secrets on their path of challenge.
Because the dangers that Knights face are not only the Trials of Life and Death, but also the human heart.
That night, a strange administrative department suddenly appeared in the seven cities controlled by the Qing Family: the Immigration Administration Bureau.
Previously, there was no such department in the city, but now there is.
What's even stranger is that these Immigration Administration Bureaus are even doing promotions like supermarkets, setting up offices in the city's downtown area and using holographic neon signs for publicity.
In the holographic neon lights, Song Niao Niao said with a bright smile, "City 10, full of opportunities."
Residents of the Qing Family's cities were dumbfounded. The Immigration Administration Bureau is not for managing immigrants, but to help people immigrate!
Some people curiously asked, and the answer they got was: If there is an intention to immigrate, the Qing Family can provide a large number of civilian Airships as transportation to City 10.
Civilian Airships are used to transport goods, and their size is no smaller than Class A Airships, only slower and without weapon systems.
A civilian Airship can carry more than 2,000 people, like a cargo ship.
That night, Qing Chen's actions seemed to have passed the first round of assessment from the person on Ginkgo Mountain, and the Qing Family began to fully support the construction of City 10.
However, they did not interfere with the construction of City 10, but provided whatever Qing Chen needed.
In the Ginkgo Manor of City 5, a secret meeting was being held.
The bigwigs of various factions were present, and the one presiding over the meeting was Qing Ji. Before the new Shadow was born, he would temporarily take over the position of Shadow, without giving anyone a chance to object.
In the conference room, Qing Ji read from a script: "Qing Yun, if you do anything like giving away family assets to outsiders again, the family will conduct a comprehensive audit and Settlement of Accounts on your businesses. Qing Kun has performed well. The business adjustments are as follows..."
Qing Ji read for a long time, then whispered, "Boring."
He knew that he was not suitable to be Shadow, and these power adjustments were not his idea, but the old man's. He just read them out.
All the old man needs is a spokesperson.
It's just that this is really boring.
If it were up to Qing Ji, he would just kill all the disobedient ones.
Countdown 160:00:00.
On the southern wilderness, Huan Yu woke up early from his house made of sand and rocks. He looked at Zard and said, "Prepare to leave."
"No!" Huan Yu said coldly, "Those women who have their eyes on Xiaoyu are one thing, but the Lian Tribe is an extremely unstable factor. Can those corpse-raising people who are good at using Gu be good people? Xiaoyu said in her letter that they don't always stay in Xiuzhu Prefecture, but have formed trade relations with this place, which in itself is very dangerous."
"Lian Tribe..." Zard hesitated, "The Lian Tribe are all beautiful girls."
Huan Yu sneered, "What about the zombies around them? Are zombies cute too? Let's go! What good things can there be in the Wildlanders? Xiaoyu cannot make friends here."
"Fine," Zard said reluctantly.
The two walked out of the house.
But as soon as they went out, they met several kind-hearted uncles who smiled warmly, "Xiaoyu is awake! Uncle just picked some fruit this morning, and there are two eggs from the old hen at home for you."
Huan Yu glanced at them, "No need."
The uncle hurriedly said, "You worked hard helping us build the house before. You must take these things! Such good people as you should eat more!"
Saying that, the uncle stuffed the eggs and fruit into Huan Yu's hands and left.
Huan Yu silently looked at their backs, thinking, good people? He never intended to be a good person in his life.
The two walked outwards. Along the way, countless people greeted them kindly and gave them gifts.
Only at this moment did Huan Yu realize that the villagers were treating Xiaoyu as a hero.
At this time, someone asked, "Where are you going?"
Zard secretly glanced at Dayu, then replied, "We're leaving. We're leaving here."
As he spoke, his eyes kept glancing at Dayu, hinting to the villagers: It's him who wants to leave, persuade him! Persuade him! Persuade him not to leave!
The villagers understood, and one by one, they hurriedly stood in front of Dayu. A little girl said pitifully, "Xiaoyu brother, we don't want you to leave."
Dayu felt a toothache. It would be fine if others were blocking their way, but he was naturally defenseless against cute children, and he couldn't hit children?!
He looked at Zard, but saw that this guy was still excitedly winking at the villagers.
Dayu grabbed Zard's ear and walked out of the village, "Stop tripping me up. I've told you a hundred times, we have to go!"
The villagers were stunned. Was this still the Xiaoyu they knew? Why was he so fierce?
Xiaoyu should be a very cute young man, polite, helpful, and curious.
But this Xiaoyu was completely different.
Watching the two walk away, they didn't know what to say.
Someone ran to find Yang Yang, "It's not good! Xiaoyu took Zard and left!"
Yang Yang said indifferently, "We can't stop them anyway. Let them go."
A day later, Dayu stopped by a stream. He looked at the sky and said, "We still have 200 kilometers to reach the nearest city. We'll hire an Airship to return to City 9 then. I've been out too long. I have a feeling that when I wake up from this sleep, it will be Xiaoyu. He might cry. You have to comfort him and reason with him, don't get angry with him."
"Okay," Zard nodded vigorously.
Dayu fell asleep.
Three days later, Dayu woke up from his sleep. He stared blankly at the sandy roof.
Logically, he should be on the Airship now, and soon he would be able to return to City 9.
But, how is he still in this damned place?
Everything he saw when he opened his eyes was exactly the same as four days ago!
Was he trapped in some kind of loop?
Dayu was furious, "Zard!!! How did you bring me back again?!"