Late at night.
Night Watchmen Headquarters.
Lin Qiye, draped in a dark crimson cloak, moved through the deserted floor. Under the pale lights, rows of metal shelves stood neatly arranged, occupying most of the space.
At this hour, there were few people at Night Watchmen Headquarters to begin with. Moreover, the archives stored on this floor were among the Night Watchmen's highest-level secrets. If Lin Qiye had not risen to the upper ranks, he would not have been able to walk freely here.
The Night Watchmen's birth and growth, everything they had experienced over the past century, was contained within this archive room. It was even more extensive than Utopia's archives.
Lin Qiye walked straight to the center of the archive room, where a bulky off-white desktop computer sat silently on a desk.
The computer looked like something from the last century, the sort of ancient relic that no one would even want at an antique recycling station. Perhaps the only place suited for it was a museum exhibition of electronic components.
Yet this seemingly ancient, cumbersome prototype machine carried every archival record in the Night Watchmen's possession.
In the entire Night Watchmen organization, only five people were qualified to use this computer... the current Commander-in-Chief and four department heads in the upper ranks whose positions were of critical importance. The Special Operations Department under Lin Qiye's command was among them.
In the empty, silent archive room, Lin Qiye sat alone before the computer and carefully browsed through its built-in internal network index.
Only then did Lin Qiye truly understand just how vast the Night Watchmen's intelligence network was.
Leaving aside the Night Watchmen's internal files, at the top of the index were detailed records on every living Human Apex of the era, as well as the Human Apex candidates: