Ma Jingjing and others whispered to each other, while Qing Ye, Qing Qu, and Zard went off to hunt game.

Qing Chen sat beside the bonfire and said softly, “Brother, I have something else.”

Shadow poked at the firewood with a twig with interest: “Say it, what do you need me for? You were dead set against believing me before, but now you’re not at all polite when you speak to me. That’s good.”

Qing Chen’s eyes lit up: “In the Qing Family, are there any preserved textual materials that you can’t understand?”

“Hmm?” Shadow paused: “Why are you asking this?”

Qing Chen replied: “Actually, the Zhunti Method came about like this. The text it records belongs to a minority ethnic group in the Outer World. People in the Inner World don’t recognize it, but the Outer World has a way to translate it.”

Shadow nodded: “I understand this. There are people in the black market who specialize in selling this stuff, and it’s quite valuable. It’s all sold as antiques. Various Conglomerates also keep similar documents, and even have dedicated expert teams responsible for deciphering them, wanting to know what is recorded in those texts… Although everyone doesn’t know what is written on them, they all treat them as treasures. If they are deciphered one day, they might be able to master certain secrets and trump cards. However, this deciphering work is very slow because there is no reference range at all.”

Qing Chen thought to himself, isn’t this the same as the Outer World’s efforts to decipher the texts of some ancient lost civilizations?

Shadow continued: “These things are not from the last civilization era, but the one before that.”

The continent where the Federation is located has experienced two catastrophes.

The first was nuclear winter. After the nuclear winter, humans built barriers on the wasteland to protect themselves.

So the Federation ordered a ban on all research and development of nuclear weapons. If anyone develops them, everyone else will fight together.

Although everyone is secretly developing them.

The second civilization collapse was the intelligent machine crisis, so now the Federation also prohibits the development of true artificial intelligence life.

Therefore, the information Shadow mentioned is from before the nuclear winter, that is, the era of Knight founder Ren He.

The information is more than 1,200 years old, equivalent to Outer World’s Tang Dynasty relics.

In the black market, there is even a group of people who specialize in making fake cultural relics, almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

Although the forgers don’t understand what the words on those cultural relics mean…

Qing Chen looked at Shadow expectantly: “Brother, can you get some for me?”

His transaction with Kunlun is a path of Cultivation inheritance. Whether it’s the Zhunti Method or not is fine.

Qing Chen’s last resort is to exchange the Zhunti Method for the Forbidden Artifact ACE-004 Black True Sight Eye, but this is a last resort. If possible, he wants to find a new inheritance for Zheng Yuandong from those relics.

Of course, this is a matter of luck, and it’s not certain whether he can get it or not.

So, Qing Chen did not give Zheng Yuandong a definite answer.

At this moment, Shadow pondered: “Now various Conglomerates have also realized that your Outer World has more surviving writing systems, so they have captured Time Travelers to translate the texts for them. To my knowledge, the Chen Family is doing this. They split a piece of text into hundreds of independent characters and give them to different Time Travelers to translate in the Outer World to avoid leaks. The Qing Family has also just formed such a team, with Si Nianhua in charge.”

Qing Chen frowned. Sure enough, the Conglomerates are not stupid either. The methods he can think of, others can naturally think of as well.

At this time, Shadow changed the subject: “But if you want…the Qing Family still has some bottom-of-the-box things that haven’t been deciphered yet. I’ll go and find some for you.”

Shadow thought to himself, this precious younger brother finally asked someone for help, so this matter must be done.

Thinking of this, he entered the forest and opened the Shadow Gate.

After a while, Shadow returned with two artifacts framed in glass.

The artifacts were framed very beautifully, with serial numbers on them. The glass frames were even filled with inert gas to prevent them from being oxidized over time.

The first text was a handwritten document. Qing Chen recognized it immediately. Isn’t this English…

Qing Chen held the glass frame and looked at it for two seconds: “This is a letter.”

Shadow curiously asked: “Read it.”

Shadow rarely gets curious about anything.

For someone who is in the vortex, without curiosity, there is no danger.

There are few things about the Inner World that he doesn’t know, but now that these artifacts are being deciphered, he is really curious about what is written on them.

Qing Chen read: “Dear brother…”

Shadow: “Hmm?”

Qing Chen: “…it’s written on the letter. People over there like to add this kind of phrase at the beginning of the letter.”

“Oh,” Shadow nodded: “Continue reading, read it again…”

Qing Chen said: “Dear brother, I’m doing well here. Life in China is very convenient. Qinghe Group’s Didi Special Car is very convenient and cheap here, and you don’t even need to carry cash when you go out. Life here is very safe, and you don’t have to worry about being robbed at gunpoint when you walk on the streets at night. Don’t believe the rumors from the media over there. Everything is fine here. I’ve chosen two gifts for you and my niece here. I hope you like them, and I hope you can come here to experience it soon.”

Communication should have been quite developed in that era.

This letter should have been included in the gift and sent abroad. But it should have encountered nuclear winter during transit, the gifts disappeared, and the letter was left behind and preserved to this day.

Shadow was listening with gusto, but Qing Chen stopped. He looked up: “Read on?”

Qing Chen shrugged: “That’s all.”

Shadow muttered: “The ancestors preserved these relics for so long, and it only wrote such a short family letter? This is nonsense.”

When he brought this thing to his younger brother to show off, he thought it would be very useful.

Now he found out it’s just a worthless letter, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Shadow pointed to the other framed glass: “Look at that one, what’s written on it? It seems to have many kinds of writing.”

Qing Chen glanced at it. It was a well-preserved white coated paper. The original seemed to be very large, but now only a small piece remained.

He only glanced at it and found something wrong. German?

At this time, Yang Yang, while picking fish bones, came over and glanced at it, casually saying: “Earphone instruction manual.”

Qing Chen was surprised: “You can speak German?”

Yang Yang held the grilled fish proudly: “Of course.”

Qing Chen handed the instruction manual to Shadow, dumbfounded: “Brother, this is useless too. It’s just an earphone instruction manual.”

Shadow’s Face[-] couldn’t hold it anymore: “Wait here, I’ll be right back!”

Saying so, he walked into the forest and opened the Shadow Gate, with a hint of Killing Intent on his Face[-].

……

……

City 10, Caramel Bar underground.

Old Shen was gently sipping a small glass of white wine when he saw Shadow suddenly walk in: “Hey, weren’t you out playing with Qing Chen? Why do you have time to visit this old man?”

Shadow picked up the wine bottle on the table and poured himself a glass. He said: “Bring me all the deciphered and undeciphered mysterious text archives from the archives.”

Qing Chen widened his eyes: “What are you doing, not living your life? Si Nianhua just started translating and hasn’t found anything useful yet.”

“Don’t worry about this,” Shadow said: “Also, tell all the spies to send their Kestrels and informants, turn the Federation black market upside down for me. Don’t look for anything else, but all mysterious textual materials, find them all for me!”

Old Shen looked at Shadow in astonishment, not knowing what kind of madness he had in the middle of the night.

He said: “Qing Family’s can be given to you now, but the black market…you should at least give the spies some time. After all, it takes time to Raid. I’ll get Qing Family’s own ones for you first. After 24 hours, I’ll give you the ones the spies have compiled together.”

Shadow thought for a moment: “I can wait, but tell them, I only wait 24 hours.”

Old Shen pouted: “It must be Qing Chen who needs it. When it comes to him, you start to be unreasonable and unruly.”

……

……

Forbidden Zone 10 lakeside.

Qing Ye and others returned from hunting, each carrying a wild boar.

Qing Qu explained to Qing Chen: “Little Boss, we didn’t go deep into the hinterland, so we can only find this ordinary game now. Maybe we can get some delicious food in a few days.”

Qing Chen smiled: “It’s already very good.”

At this time, Zard didn’t know where he found another Oil Refining Fruit and put it on his head. He fiddled with the fruit on his head and asked Qing Chen: “Does it look good?”

Qing Chen remembered the rules of Forbidden Zone 10: “Looks good, looks good, looks good…”

In Forbidden Zone 10, even when answering questions normally, try not to refute anything. It’s always right to agree to whatever others say.

After all, the rules of this Forbidden Zone are “approximately” tested and speculated from one life after another, not the Forbidden Zone accurately telling you not to do this or that.

Therefore, even if it has become written rules, it may not cover all the rules.

No one knows whether the speculations of those who came before are accurate or not.

Qing Chen now looked at Zard and suddenly felt how dangerous it is to have a psychopath around when entering this kind of Forbidden Zone.

Or rather, how dangerous it is to complete crossing and returning in the Forbidden Zone.

Before returning, everyone carefully guarded against the rules. After returning, the time span is 7 days or 30 days, and it’s easy to forget about the rules.

Saying the wrong word might cause death here.

Zard chuckled: “7-day limited free skin, very cool!”

Qing Chen: “…”

On the other side.

Actually, Ma Jingjing felt a little numb when he saw Zard.

Especially when he saw the sapling on the other person’s head, he immediately remembered the fear of being dominated by the sapling on the snow field more than three days ago.

Xiao Yu and the others were not on the playground at that time.

Only Ma Jingjing was dragged into the snow.

Everything happened too fast at that time. When Ma Jingjing saw Zard’s sapling, it was too late.

Before he could react, he was dragged into the snow pit by Zard.

After that day, countless people on the Academy forum denounced the sapling, and Zard replied with one sentence, angering everyone and plunging them into an even more irritable state.

“Can’t you take a loss?”

This hate-drawing skill is simply maxed out.

So, when someone advised Ma Jingjing to cling to a big leg.

Ma Jingjing had just stood up, when he saw Zard’s figure, he sat down again…

The big leg is too thick, a bit hard to hug.

The Master of Daybreak hugs it?

When he first returned a few days ago, Ma Jingjing even enjoyed the subtle thrill of “we know who Qing Chen is, but Qing Chen doesn’t know we are also Time Travelers.”

Thinking of this information advantage, the four of them felt slightly excited.

But now…

“Do you think…he might already know that we’re using him to gain popularity at school? That Zard is very active on the forum,” Ma Jingjing cautiously asked.

“Principal Zheng’s secret-keeping skill,” Yi Wenbo calmly analyzed: “According to my guess, Principal Zheng should be an A-Class or above expert. As long as the level doesn’t exceed his, people inside the Academy can’t reveal any information from there to the outside. Even the Daybreak members can’t be A-Class, Qing Chen hasn’t reported to the Academy yet, and the Daybreak members can’t reveal the things there to Qing Chen.”

Ma Jingjing: “Makes sense.”

This analysis is actually quite logical.

According to this logic, even if Zard knows they are Time Travelers, he can’t tell Qing Chen now.

But Ma Jingjing thought about it and still felt something was wrong: “He’ll find out sooner or later. You can’t hide from the first one, but you can’t hide from the fifteenth. In the beginning, I pretended to be cool to gain popularity, but thinking about it now, I still have to tell him. If he lets us follow him, it’s good. If he’s unhappy, we apologize early to avoid causing trouble… You haven’t seen the sapling transform into ‘Big Wa’ smashing elementary school students. It’s too scary.”

He finally stood up and went to Qing Chen’s bonfire with the other three: “I’m sorry…”

His attitude was extremely sincere, he almost knelt down to Qing Chen.

Qing Chen smiled and looked at them: “It’s alright, it’s okay for you to post something on the Academy forum. You are also very smart, and you haven’t touched any secrets. You can continue to post, just be sensible.”

Ma Jingjing was stunned, and he immediately reacted: “Boss, you’re at the Academy?! Everyone says you haven’t reported yet.”

“I am,” Qing Chen smiled and nodded.

Yi Wenbo thought quickly: “Disguise.”

Ma Jingjing understood. He curiously asked: “What’s your identity at school…Oh, no, you shouldn’t be able to say it. Can I ask which Academy you’ve been assigned to? Which Academy do you think is better?”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and replied: “I went to the Science and Technology Academy.”

Chen Sui went to the Science and Technology Academy.

At this time, Qing Chen was using Ma Jingjing and the others to solidify certain people’s guesses about his identity.

To make Chen Sui take the blame more firmly.

As they spoke, Shadow walked out of the forest again, holding a stack of thick documents in his arms.

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