Imperial capital.

Not far from the General Assembly Hall, the Office Building of the Special Management Department is brightly lit.

An hour ago, however, only a fraction of the rooms were lit up, with only a few personnel on duty remaining.

After all, tonight is the Lantern Festival.

However, the sudden vision had to make these people who had already left work rush back in the starry night.

Among them, there are many important big names.

Although the director of the Ninth Division is not important, he can barely be regarded as a big man.

At this moment, the car he was riding in with an internal license plate was slowly parked in front of the building.

"Bang!"

Getting out of the car, clasping the door with his backhand, the man hurriedly straightened his collar and strode forward.

Deputy Director Yang Congxian followed.

When I entered the building, I was met by a civilian with a white circle embroidered on a small lapel.

When the other party saw the two people entering the door, his eyes lit up, and he said, "The two of you are here." ”

"Secretary Zhao, how's the situation?"

The Director of the Ninth Division asked in a polite tone.

The other party is the minister's secretary, although he is a civilian, his energy is extraordinary.

Secretary Zhao shook his head and sighed, and said, "It's not clear, but the ministers have already rushed over and are in the conference room upstairs." ”

"Then I'm ......"

"Please come with me, I have to show you some information."

"Oh? What is there to talk about? The director of the Ninth Division was stunned.

Secretary Zhao smiled slightly and said, "It has something to do with Cheng Lin." ”

“…… Please lead the way. ”

Several people walked into a room quickly, and then saw Secretary Zhao hand him a few pieces of paper, and at the same time explained:

"There are two main things,

The first thing is about the incident that happened in Jiamusi a year and a half ago,

Do you remember?

The Jamus radio telescope was sneaked into by practitioners and used it to send a radio signal into space.

Later, we also deciphered the content of the signal.

has attracted a high degree of attention,

At that time, a special investigation team was also organized,

tracked all the way, and later found out that it was related to a student in the Ninth Spiritual Academy under your company, who was also named Cheng Lin.

It's a pity that the other party seems to have disappeared out of thin air,

But for a year and a half, we haven't given up looking. ”

After a pause, Secretary Zhao said: "And not long ago, to be precise, dozens of minutes before the starry sky anomaly occurred,

The comrades of the public security recaptured this Cheng Lin's mobile phone signal,

And then by positioning,

discovered the whereabouts of the other party,

He is still in the city of Jamus!

At present, the personnel of the 10th Division have been urgently notified to arrest him. ”

Yang Congxian, who was next to him, moved slightly after hearing this, frowned and asked, "There is such a thing?" But it doesn't seem to be a very high level.

After all, the original projection has not appeared for a year and a half. ”

Secretary Zhao shook his head when he heard this, sighed again, pointed to the pieces of paper in the hands of the director of the Ninth Division, and said:

"The reason why I bring this up again is naturally for a reason.

Just when the starry sky appeared just now,

Xia Guotianyan received a mysterious radio,

And quickly deciphered it. ”

"What's it?"

Secretary Zhao glanced at him deeply: "The translated meaning of that message is: Hello, Cheng Lin!" ”

……

……

"It seems that it was really discovered, located through a mobile phone? Quite possibly. ”

On a street corner on a cold winter night, a group of dignified-looking lapels gathered under a street lamp.

And in the center of their encirclement, an imperceptible safe house hovers silently.

Cheng Lin stood in front of the window of the safe house, thinking in his heart.

"It seems that my previous speculation has come true, there are so many clues, the government must have started arresting me a long time ago,

As soon as I showed up here, someone came, and the efficiency was quite fast. ”

"But just now there was something about the starry sky, isn't that the focus of these people's attention now?

Why are you in such a hurry to catch me?

Did they already know that I had summoned it?

It shouldn't be,

It's been more than a year.

There's no reason to associate this thing with the signal I sent a year ago.

No matter how big the high-level officials are, there is no reason to be so sure that thing has something to do with me. ”

Cheng Lin pondered with some confusion.

He naturally didn't know that when the starry sky appeared in the treacherous face, he also sent a "reply" to Cheng Lin to the earth.

Or it might be more appropriate to call it a "code".

In short, it was precisely because of this that the government immediately connected the two events and launched a hunt for him.

It's a pity that Cheng Lin has already hid in a safe house.

No matter how powerful a cultivator comes, he can't be found.

Thinking of this, Cheng Lin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then turned out a bucket of Laotan sauerkraut noodles from the dormitory cabinet somewhat leisurely.

I looked at the kettle on the table.

Well, a year and a half has passed, and the water in the kettle is still hot.

"I'm going to see which of us can outweigh whom."

Cheng Lin snorted and soaked a bucket of noodles in hot water - there were too few cold noodles baked before, and he was not full.

After soaking the noodles, Cheng Lin sat leisurely by the window, eating while looking at the circle of small lapels outside the window.

Seeing their solemn and tense looks, Cheng Lin was happy.

After eating the noodles, I saw that no new information appeared in my mind.

Cheng Lin thought about it and simply went to bed and closed his eyes to rest.

This sleep is a few hours past.

He didn't expect that he would sleep so deeply.

While Cheng Lin was asleep, the people from the headquarters of the 10th Division of the Terry Division, which controlled the territory of the Black Province, finally arrived.

This made Chai Daofei, who was struggling to support and suffer in the cold wind, excited.

However, even though the senior cultivators of the perception department of the division did their best, they still did not find any trace of Cheng Lin.

In the end, it can only be concluded that he has long since left.

For this reason, Chai Daofei, the leader of the sixth group, was also scolded by his boss.

The last group of people had to leave in a huff.

……

"Whew~"

I don't know how long it took, Cheng Lin finally woke up from his sleep.

With a heavy yawn, he suddenly realized that he had fallen asleep.

Turning his head to look out the window.

The men of Triss have long since disappeared.

"That's it? These people can't do it either. ”

Cheng Lin shook his head and smiled, then he took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, and was suddenly startled.

"I slept for six or seven hours?"

The time displayed on the phone had reached 6:45 the next morning.

This made Cheng Lin amused for a while, he didn't expect that he would be able to fall asleep in the deduction.

"Speaking of which, according to the number of paths of the program, isn't it all direct time acceleration for this situation?"

This time he was surprised to be given such a long time to sleep.

However, after a good night's sleep, it is indeed beneficial, Cheng Lin only feels energetic now, and his whole person is radiant.

"I don't know if they're completely gone, will there still be ambushes around?"

Cheng Lin muttered to the window and began to hesitate to go out immediately.

But then, he was stunned!

Cheng Lin stared blankly at the night outside the window, and suddenly a lightning flashed in his mind!

"Something is wrong! It's almost seven o'clock in the morning, why is it still dark outside? ”

Only then did Cheng Lin discover the abnormality.

Looking out the window, it didn't seem to be any different from before he fell asleep.

The city is still pitch black, stuck in the night.

It was as if it was still early in the morning.

The stars still twinkled in the sky, but the full moon had somehow vanished.

The moon is gone.

It was still dark.

Just when Cheng Lin was stunned, a message finally appeared in his mind:

[You slept for a few hours, you felt refreshed, and you were about to go out, only to find that the world was still at night]

[Many questions arise in your heart, and you don't know what happened]

[In doubt, another hour has passed]

The window blurred slightly, but then it became clear.

Cheng Lin glanced at the time, it was nearly eight o'clock in the morning.

But it was still dark outside the window.

[When you wake up, you feel a little hungry, you decide to go out the door and walk about 200 meters to the right-hand side, there is a breakfast shop where you can have a breakfast]

When Cheng Lin heard this, he pushed open the door of the safe house and stood on the street on a winter night again, the street lights above his head had been extinguished.

But there is no shortage of light sources in the world.

It's already eight o'clock in the morning, and most of the people in the city are already up in bed.

Lamps were lit in every house, and for a time the "starlight" on the ground was even brighter than in the sky.

After walking more than 200 meters along the right-hand side, I saw a breakfast shop.

The plastic signboard at the door reads xiaolongbao, soy milk, millet porridge, side dishes, steamed dumplings...... Wait, the store is not big, about 20 square meters.

The lights were on, and a large cloud of water vapor came out, and a woman in a hat and sleeves was busy inside.

Seeing Cheng Lin coming in, she beckoned, "Classmate, what to eat?" ”

Cheng Lin didn't answer immediately, but asked, "What time is it?" My watch doesn't seem to be accurate. ”

When the woman heard this, she said, "It's almost eight o'clock." ”

"No, why isn't it dawn?"

"How do I know, when I first got up, I thought the clock was wrong."

The woman seemed to sigh, a hint of worry appeared in her eyes, but the movements in her hands did not stop, and she asked again, "What to eat?" ”

"A drawer of steamed buns, a big bowl of millet porridge, and a side dish." Cheng Lin didn't look at the price list, and said directly.

"Okay, take the dishes yourself and serve them on your own plate!"

"Thank you."

Cheng Lin thanked him, and then looked at the store, there were several tables inside, and there were three or four people eating breakfast in it at the moment.

They didn't speak, just looked at a TV in the corner of the store with a serious face.

Cheng Lin found a vacant seat and sat down, and also looked up at the TV.

It's a news station that's playing.

The program is "Morning News of the World".

At this moment, the host is sitting behind the desk and playing the news with a solemn face.

It's just that today's news is more special.

“…… The National Scientific Research Center, the Astronomical Observation Center, the National Academy of Sciences, and other institutions carried out an analysis and investigation of the extraordinarily large astronomical phenomenon that occurred at about 21 o'clock last night...... No definite answer has been reached......"

"In view of the phenomenon that the daylight does not appear in China for a long time, the state has organized the highest scientific research team to investigate, and it is suspected that it has a certain connection with the astronomical phenomenon that occurred last night......

"According to the latest news from the Academy of Sciences, anomalies in the Earth's magnetic field have been detected......"

"According to international information, dozens of countries and regions in the eastern hemisphere are currently in the same dark night as our country, and in the western hemisphere, that is, the position of the federation and other countries, the phenomenon of the sun not setting has also occurred...... This is an astronomical anomaly that radiates worldwide ......"

"Okay, now for a message......"