Twelve o'clock in the afternoon.

The scouts came to report and did not notice anything unusual.

"Rotate yesterday's scout team members again and continue to scout!" Tang Le ordered that he be elected by the Quartet as the temporary chief leader, and that he would decide the affairs of the Ten Thousand Chamber of Commerce.

"Something must be wrong." Tang Le stared at the map, trying to find the possible hiding places of these swarms.

The abilities of the three insect queens are amazing, if they are allowed to gather together, then Dongyang Town will have to pay at least half of their lives to repel the insect queen.

What are the remaining people in Dongyang Town? It's just over a thousand. Of these, only one hundred and fifty were warriors, and the other nine hundred were ordinary survivors, with no combat effectiveness at all.

"Ugh." Tang Le sighed, in his previous life, he was tired of running for his life and didn't notice the movements of the insect queen, so he had no clue about these disappeared insect queens now.

However, this is not how it should be, in my previous life, I had inquired about many battlefields where insect tides had erupted, and the insect queens would be on standby in their respective worm holes, waiting for the third day to come and attack together. But now Dongyang Town is already on the second day of the post-worm stage, but there is no insect in sight, is there something wrong?

No, and there will be no mistakes, the battlefield will not modify these rules.

"Damn it!" Tang Le scolded in a low voice and slammed his fist on the table.

On the table, a storage ring was bounced up by Tang Lezhen. It was the old man's ring in the laboratory, and there were only a few old yellow photographs and a letter left in it, and nothing else.

"Huh?" Tang Le picked up the ring that belonged to the old man and took out the black and white photos.

There are five photos in total. The first photograph is of the old man himself, with the date 'March 12, 1976' printed on it.

The second photograph shows an old man and a woman, who has a big belly and a smile on both faces. It also bears the date 'April 5, 1978'.

The third photo is a group photo of eight people in the laboratory...... Well, it should be said that there were nine people, because the old man was sitting on a chair with a boy in his arms. The date 'August 16, 1985' is printed on it.

The fourth photo has changed, and the black and white photo has changed to color.

Above is a group photo of nine people in the research room, the boy has grown up, through the height comparison of other research institutes, the height of the old man's son should be around 1.75 meters. The date is 'July 11, 1996'.

The fifth photo shows eight people in a group photo, and the old man's son is not among them. The date is 'December 6, 2004'.

"Is it already gone by this time?" Tang Le looked at the appearance of the old man's son, if he was still alive, he would be exactly forty years old now.

Tang Le picked up the envelope, and there was only a thin piece of A4 paper in the envelope, with some words printed on it:

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Written on December 12, 2012.

Young man, whoever you are, when you read this passage, it means that I am dead.

My own name is Zhou Longsheng, and my wife's name is Fang Ying.

The regret of my life is that I didn't give my daughter a good care. Young man, if you want, I hope you will go to Hong's house to meet my daughter, Zhou Lian. If you can, I also hope that you will go to Sijiu City to meet my son, Zhou Ying. You take this letter and they will help you.

Writing: Zhou Longsheng (handwritten here)

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The handwriting is sonorous and powerful, slightly sloppy but full of strength, at least Tang Le asked himself if he could write such a big character.

"Hongjia? Forty-nine cities? ”

Tang Le had read this letter more than once, but every time he read it, Tang Le's doubts deepened: why is the old man's daughter the old man's regret, and why is his daughter in the Hong family, but his son is far away in Sijiu City?

Wait a minute!

Tang Le captured one of the key words in the letter: 'You hold this letter'.

Why is he holding this letter, with the old man's almost heavenly strength and various information, he doesn't know that there will be an outbreak of insect tides?

But he clearly wrote in the letter that he took this letter to meet his children, which means that the old man has concluded that Dongyang Town will definitely be able to pass through the insect tide, but why can he pass it?

Tang Le immediately moved his gaze to the corner of the map, which was the ground area of the old man's research room—the Qinghe Club.

"Is the secret still in the research room?" Tang Le thought like this, and even he himself was taken aback. Perhaps the actual wormhole is located near the basement of the research room, and it is likely that the laboratory is the entrance to the wormhole.

Why did the elderly choose Qinghe Club as the location of the research room? There is no point in setting up a research room here if it doesn't help in any way.

If you really have information about the battlefield, you can't do useless work.

"It must be here!" Tang Le stared at the location of the Qinghe Club.

Tang Le picked up the Shuoji gun and slowly walked out of the door, and at the same time ordered sharply: "Order!" Ling Hong Xuanling, Qin Yilong, and Han Qingwu gathered with their respective troops! Head to the Clear River Club! ”

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Outside the Clear River Club.

Hong Xuanling and the others surrounded the entrance to the basement of the Qinghe Club, and the entrance to the steps of this basement had long since become a wormhole passage.

"Hong Tianli, Hong Xuanhui, Qin Yilong, Fu Yan, Han Qingwu, Cheng Dalei, Chen Ji, and Lin Yu followed me in, and the others answered outside. If it is Chen Ji who comes out, then you will enter the wormhole one by one. If it was Han Qingwu who came out, then Wang Tian, Wang Shi, and Qin Shaochuan would immediately enter the wormhole to respond. ”

"Yes!" Hundreds of members present answered the order in unison.

"Let's go!" Tang Le waved his hand and motioned for Hong Xuanli, Cheng Dalei and the other eight to follow him into the wormhole.

The situation inside the wormhole was no different from when Tang Le first came a few days ago, there were still stumps and various internal organs and intestines everywhere, as well as a large number of broken blades, carapaces, and so on.

Hong Xuanhui looked at the tragic scene in the wormhole, and felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.

The other seven were unusual, but their brows furrowed, a little resistant to the smell of decay wafting through the air.

Soon, Tang Le and his entourage of nine people came to the front of the research room.

Tang Le looked at the door of the research room, stepped forward and quickly clicked on the PINpad.

"Ding-" The green light lit up, and the door to the research room buzzed. Two air pumps on the door eject two air columns, and the door of the research room opens.

The first purpose is to study all kinds of broken instruments and test tubes in the laboratory.

"...... here" Everyone was puzzled, and for the first time they knew that there was such a research institute under Dongyang Town.

The area of the institute is 400 square meters, which is really very large, according to the calculation of eight people in the institute, it is equivalent to each person has 50 square meters of space to study and debug at will.

"Let's go." Tang Le walked in the front and entered the research institute.

Coming to the rest hall of the research institute, Tang Le glanced around and said, "Separate actions, find out if there is a secret switch or hidden passage, the entrance to the wormhole of the insect queen must be somewhere in the research institute." ”

"Yes!" Eight people received the order and took action one after another.

The eight of them began to act separately, and Tang Le also looked around the research institute, whether it was a mural, a calligraphy, an ordinary tabletop, or a chair, they all looked at it in turn.

But the nine of them searched for a long time, but they still didn't find a similar switch to the secret passage.

Twenty minutes.

Qin Yilong and Fu Yan came back and said, "Chief Tang, we found two bedrooms, and we searched all over the ceiling and down to the floor, but we didn't find any similar mechanisms. ”

Hong Tianli and Hong Xuanhui also came to the gate of the research institute and told Tang Le the news: "We didn't find anything related either, but we found a wordless book in a bedroom. It's weird. ”

"Wordless books?" Tang Le frowned, took the book from Hong Xuanhui's hand, and simply flipped through the book twice, "An ordinary notebook? Strangely enough, the book also does not have bars or styles. Alas, we have limited energy. This book may be treasured by a former researcher, but it is better not to mess around. ”

As he spoke, Tang Le put the wordless book on the research table behind him.

Hong Xuanhui muttered: "This book looks like it has been around for some years, and modern technology should not produce such old books anymore." ”

Tang Le said casually: "I understand what Miss Xuanhui is worried about, but this book is neither an item nor an equipment, if it is really something valuable, will it still be kept here?" ”

"That's right, I'm overthinking." Hong Xuanhui let go of the doubts in her heart. After all, the priority is to find out where the wormhole is.

Another five minutes passed.

Tang Le and the other eight shook their heads one after another, and when they were about to return in vain, they heard Chen Ji say in a loud voice: "Everyone, come quickly!" Something is wrong here! ”

The eight people moved when they heard the news and quickly came to Chen Ji's side.

Tang Le looked at the place that Chen Ji had noticed, where was a chessboard about half a meter square. Next to the chessboard are turquoise, pale white, vermilion, yellow and blue. The four colored chess boxes are stacked one after the other.

Directly below the chessboard is a stone column, about one meter high, surrounded by four stone pillar benches.

"Oh? Interesting. Tang Le smiled faintly, "Stone table, four-person chessboard." The people at the institute are very elegant. ”

"This chessboard—" Chen Ji stared at the chessboard as he urged his 'detection' talent to operate, wanting to see through the secrets of this chessboard.

Suddenly, Chen Ji's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "This chessboard does not have a black circle in the center!" ”

"What?" The eight looked at the chessboard and saw that it was indeed the case. However, the four black circles in the four corners of the board are still there, except for the black circle in the center.

"I see!" Tang Le opened the four chess boxes in turn, and took out one chess piece from each of them and placed it in the black circle at the four corners of the chessboard.

Boom Boom –

The center of the board cracks along the black checkerboard line, pushing it to the left and right. Soon, a half-meter-wide secret passage appeared in front of everyone.

"This stone table is hollow?"

"Good means, hiding so deeply."

Tang Le gestured to the size of the dark road, and said to Cheng Da Lei: "Da Lei, you and Hong Tianli, Hong Xuanhui, and Lin Yu are waiting outside." You are too strong to pass through this tunnel. ”

"Hmm!" Cheng Da Lei Hong Tianli and the four of them nodded.

"The rest of me come with me!" Tang Le put Shuoji's spear and a piece of equipment into the ring, leaving only a black suit on his outer body.