After the world plunged into darkness, it returned to light.

Qing Chen was still in the midnight of City 10, as if he had only presented those flowers to Zhang Wenqi’s mother yesterday.

He glanced back at the building behind him, hoping that the mother could feel Zhang Wenqi’s intentions.

Return Countdown 168:00:00.

Another seven-day cycle, which means the connections between the Inner World are becoming tighter, intertwined rapidly with each other.

Qing Chen took out his phone and called Jiang Xue: “Hello, Aunt Jiang Xue, did you arrive at the school safely?”

Jiang Xue: “Everything went smoothly, but what happened was absurd. We went through an iron gate at the Kunlun bookstore… To be precise, the iron gate didn’t open, we just went straight through. Little Eagle said it was done using the Forbidden Artifact ACE-004 True Sight Eye. You have to ask Zheng Yuandong about the specifics. After passing through the iron gate, we arrived at an island. We don’t know where the island is. The island seems very large, boundless.”

Qing Chen immediately asked: “When you arrived there, was it day or night?”

Jiang Xue: “Night.”

Qing Chen asked: “Where was the moon?”

Jiang Xue: “In the east, it felt like it was about to sink into the sea.”

It’s the end of the lunar month, the moon rises in the west and sets in the east. The island Jiang Xue and the others are on is about to welcome dawn, which means the island is to the east of the mainland, possibly in the Pacific Ocean.

But the island isn’t too far away either. If it were very far, it should be daytime there.

Qing Chen asked again: “What’s the approximate temperature on the island? Warm or cold?”

Jiang Xue recalled: “It’s an island, but it wasn’t very warm. I think it might be 5 degrees at night? Only a little warmer than Luo City.”

Qing Chen stood on the long street, lost in thought: “Then it should be an island between 35 and 45 degrees north latitude. Further south or north, it’s difficult to have this temperature. If it’s 5 am on the island, then the distance of one time zone at 40 degrees north latitude is 15 multiplied by 111 kilometers multiplied by COS40, which equals 1275.39 kilometers. The island is about 6377 kilometers from the Beijing time zone…”

A time zone is 15 degrees, and 111 kilometers is the distance of one degree on the equator.

You know, the straight-line distance between Beijing and Tokyo, Japan is only 2478 kilometers. In other words, this island is really in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still very far from Japan.

Qing Chen was puzzled. He hadn’t heard of any large islands there.

Wait…

Hawaii is about 7500 kilometers from Beijing, and closer is Midway Island, which belongs to North America.

That is to say, if Jiang Xue’s information is correct, then Kunlun’s school is only more than a thousand kilometers away from Hawaii.

That’s the distance between Beijing and Shanghai in China.

But now, the islands in the Pacific Ocean, whether inhabited or not, all have owners. These things were shamelessly divided up by the powers in the 19th century.

Where did Kunlun get such an island?

Okay, even if Kunlun can use inexplicable methods to create a large island.

Then the problem comes again. The entire earth is under real-time satellite monitoring. Wouldn’t Kunlun be discovered if they built a school on an island?!

How can Kunlun hide an island under the eyes of the whole world?

Qing Chen was full of doubts…

He could only ask Zheng Yuandong about this matter. It’s no longer in the realm of science, science doesn’t care about this.

Of course, it’s not just him who is puzzled, but also Jiang Xue. She couldn’t understand how Qing Chen could judge the approximate location of the school from just a few words…

Qing Chen said on the phone: “Aunt Jiang Xue, take care of them at school, I will be there later.”

Jiang Xue said: “En, you must pay attention to safety. Don’t worry about the loss of the villa, our Daybreak’s cash flow is still very healthy.”

Qing Chen was stunned: “Oh, there’s no loss, the insurance company will compensate. It was just a normal fire.”

In fact, if you carefully examine it, you will find explosives in the villa.

However, Kunlun is the organization responsible for investigation and determination. Qing Chen is certain that Kunlun will insist that this was an ordinary fire.

Therefore, he should still be able to make some money from this.

The only thing to pay attention to is that the North America Time Traveler is becoming more and more active on the world stage, and has even begun to reach out to the Inner World Federation and domestic Outer World. There will probably be conflicts in the future.

After hanging up the phone, Qing Chen didn’t leave the city immediately, but walked towards the Caramel Bar on the first floor of the Leiming Building.

He restored his own appearance, worried that Old Shen underground would think someone had invaded and detonate the underground explosives.

He also knew that this Caramel Bar was a membership-only bar, not open to the public. The bar was full of Secret Spy Agency plainclothes officers.

However, as soon as Qing Chen walked into the bar, everyone who was chatting stopped and looked at him.

The bartender behind the bar, wearing a white shirt and black waistcoat, was excited, but because of discipline, he didn’t dare to say a word.

Dozens of people in the bar silently watched Qing Chen, even with a somewhat affectionate feeling, making Qing Chen feel a little embarrassed…

“What’s wrong?” Qing Chen said with a wry smile.

Seeing him speak, everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief. A middle-aged man standing behind the bar said: “Director Qing Chen… You’re finally back!”

Now Qing Chen in the Secret Spy Agency is no longer a secret agent, but the only Deputy Director.

In fact, before Qing Chen appeared, the Secret Spy Agency didn’t have the position of Deputy Director at all. The Director is Shadow, and below the Director are secret agents, below the secret agents are Kestrels, and below the Kestrels are informants.

There are few levels, the structure is simple.

The person who initially set up this structure for the Secret Spy Agency was Qing Zhen, an ancestor of the Qing Family. In this ancestor’s concept, intelligence agencies need rapid response capabilities.

The more redundant levels there are, the more processes an intelligence needs to go through.

The more deputy directors there are, the more power struggles there will be.

Intelligence itself is a race against time, so in the Secret Spy Agency, Shadow is the supreme authority, and all matters can be decided with a word.

Many people worry that the great power of the Shadow in the Secret Spy Agency will lead to an imbalance of power, so they need to set up a deputy director to balance the power.

But Qing Zhen thought it was unnecessary. This is a powerful violent organization, power should be centralized, without intrigue.

So in the Qing Family, the main officers of various units have absolute authority. This approach has the hidden danger of power imbalance, but Qing Zhen believes that the family head who can stand out from many Shadows must be able to control everything.

He believed that the family head who fought his way out of the Shadows must be the most powerful person in the family.

And now, the Secret Spy Agency has a Deputy Director.

Everyone knows that Shadow set up this position not to find someone to compete with him for power, but to allow a smooth transition of power.

To Qing Chen’s hands.

In the past, the Secret Spy Agency would be handed over to the next Shadow, this is an unspoken rule.

But Qing Chen is not Shadow now, and most people don’t even know that he is a Shadow Candidate, so the current Shadow must be breaking the taboo by doing this.

But no one in the intelligence agency said anything from top to bottom, as if Qing Chen’s succession was a matter of course.

They now only recognize Qing Chen.

The middle-aged man at the bar said: “Director Qing Chen, we are under Old Shen’s charge, pretending to be guests in the Caramel Bar to protect the underground information. We’ve been waiting for you for almost a month. Old Shen only said that you would definitely come, but didn’t say when.”

Qing Chen asked: “Is there anything?”

The middle-aged man was stunned: “Nothing really, it’s just that you brought Commander Qing Mu and his subordinates out of A02, which is so admirable!”

The bartender said: “Not only that, the Shadow Boss also issued an announcement internally a few days ago, saying that you killed Shendai Yunhe in City 22 and captured Shendai Jing Cheng, one of the Ten Attendants… That’s one of the Ten Attendants!”

The middle-aged man said: “Now Shendai Jing Cheng is imprisoned in the pigsty of the Southern Military Region. The Shendai family sent people to exchange him, but the Shadow Boss didn’t agree.”

This matter is really too sensational and satisfying.

In fact, Qing Chen only needed to rescue those intelligence officers, which in itself was already a miracle. Now he has captured one of the Ten Attendants…

If they weren’t afraid of appearing uneducated, all the intelligence officers here would like to say “Wow” or “Awesome”.

Qing Chen smiled and asked: “This is what I should do, anything else?”

The middle-aged man suddenly said: “The Shadow Boss said you won’t be back for a while, but we’re waiting for the day you return.”

“Okay,” Qing Chen nodded. He suspected that these people were arranged by Shadow, afraid that he would run away and never return…

If it were someone else, Qing Chen wouldn’t guess like this, but it’s Shadow, he can understand whatever operation he does.

At one point, Qing Chen thought that there was still a group of people in the Secret Spy Agency waiting for him, and he couldn’t help but feel proud.

But he really can’t come back now.

Coming back means getting involved in the factional struggle of the Qing Family.

It’s better to wait in the dark for the clouds to rise and fall than to be a target in the open.