The Simplest Link

"Beep beep beep!"

The crisp, piercing sound of an alarm clock came from a homeless man on a street corner in the third district.

The bakery owner next door was a little curious. City 22 prohibits people of lower castes from entering the Upper Third District, unless they are people like him who have obtained a work visa.

So, the boss was a little puzzled as to how this homeless man managed to sneak into City 22.

But that's still not the point. The point is that he saw the young homeless man come to the street corner, sit on the ground and sleep for ten minutes, and then his alarm clock went off.

What could a homeless person possibly want? Why would they set a ten-minute alarm for themselves? Are they afraid of freezing to death on the street after falling asleep?

The bakery owner was initially considering whether to kick the homeless man out, but now he didn't need to, as the homeless man was getting up and hurrying away.

Ten minutes later, the bakery owner leaned against his shop door, waiting for the fragrant high-gluten bread to be baked and then bought by those high-caste bigwigs.

Suddenly, the sunlight disappeared from the sky. He looked up and saw a huge B-Class Airship with its landing port at the rear of the cabin open. Hundreds of God Era soldiers descended one by one along the ropes.

The bakery owner panicked. A military officer approached him. "Where's that homeless man who was just standing in front of your shop?"

The bakery owner said, trembling, "He slept here for ten minutes, then ran away when the alarm clock in his pocket rang."

The officer's face was grim...

For seven days, they had been tracking Qing Chen with the Cloud Mirror. However, no matter how many times they pounced, he would always escape like a rabbit before the eagles in the sky could descend.

Then, like a drop of water flowing into the sea, it disappears into the city.

It's important to understand that the soldiers from the Age of Gods tracked them down in shifts, while this fleeing assassin faced a round-the-clock pursuit.

The other person broke a complete sleep into one ten-minute interval after another. If it were an ordinary person, they would have collapsed long ago, but the other person did not.

The officer stood at the bakery entrance. The assassin had never tried to leave City 22, just wandering around the city with them, completely clueless about what he was doing.

The assassins stopped trying to kill anyone. Experts of this caliber could disguise themselves, and if they were focused on escaping, the Shindai side wouldn't even be able to set up a trap.

They also tried setting up several traps to lure the enemy to their doorstep, but after wiping out a group of Time Walker from the Age of Gods, the assassins seemed to have changed their ways and stopped taking any bait.

It's incomprehensible for an assassin to suddenly stop killing enemies.

However, the truth is that Qing Chen was also cursing inwardly at this moment.

Without the tip-off from Kamishiro Yunluo, Kamishiro Kongxu was also required to completely disrupt the time difference in order to use the Cloud Mirror.

The first two days were fine; Qing Chen would run away whenever he heard a noise, and very few people were able to catch him.

As a result, the Kamishiro Corporation dispatched six B-Class Airship. He might have just fallen asleep when Kamishiro soldiers would descend from the sky on the other side.

As a result, he hasn't had a good night's sleep in the past few days, to the point where he can practically fall asleep standing up.

That's terrible.

Qing Chen sighed.

Of course, there was also good news: Luo Wanyai had successfully turned Gao Yang of the Dragon Mark Society against them, and they were going to take action against the Dragon Mark Society tonight.

Up until now, no one has noticed the changes in the Lower Three Districts; everyone's attention is focused on Qing Chen alone.

At this very moment, Xu Linsen, Jiang Mubei, and Luo Wanyai were all making preparations.

Only Yang Yang has some free time.

Qing Chen has been pretending to be a homeless man since last night, hiding in the Lower Three Districts.

He hid in the Lower Three Districts so that when the Gods analyzed his whereabouts later, if they found that he never hid in the Lower Three Districts, they might discover some clues.

This Yang Yang woman even went so far as to find him in the Lower Three Districts and, pretending to be passing by, tossed him a few coins.

I don't know what kind of twisted sense of humor this is...

However, to be fair, Yang Yang's ability to lock onto a force field seems to be just as good as the Cloud Mirror for finding people.

Qing Chen arrived at a building, quietly sneaked into a house, stole the homeowner's clothes, and left behind more than a thousand yuan.

He changed his appearance and left silently, waiting for the next time the Cloud Mirror would open.

The arrival of the airship was a signal; he now has four hours of sleep.

Just then, another call came in from an unknown number. Qing Chen said irritably as he walked, "I'm in a hurry to find a place to sleep right now, I don't have time to chat with you."

On the phone, Kamishiro Yunluo laughed for a while before saying, "A doctor once told me that if people don't sleep well, they are prone to endocrine disorders and irritability. It seems that's really true."

"What exactly are you trying to say?" Qing Chen asked.

"Kamiyo Yunhe and Kamishiro Seisho will depart early tomorrow to go to City 21 for a memorial service," Kamishiro Yunluo said. "I don't know the route either."

"You don't get along with them, so how do you know their whereabouts?" Qing Chen asked.

"Because I have like-minded partners," Kamishiro Yunluo with a smile.

"What do you want?" Qing Chen asked.

"I want the eyes of Kamiyo Yunhe."

Qing Chen remained silent for a while.

On the phone, Kamishiro Yunluo said, "You've been lying low for the past seven days. Although I don't know what your trump card is, I know you're waiting for Kamiyo Yunhe to board the airship. Now your chance has come. Just keep his eyes on me."

In District 9, Luo Wanyai was in a commercial building recently purchased by the Parent's Association, facing dozens of young people, earnestly explaining how to understand federal law and how to circumvent it.

This was the first lesson he taught to the new family members.

This is a community-based organization that doesn't teach spiritual practice or make empty promises in its first lesson; instead, it teaches law.

This kind of organization is destined to take an unusual path...

The young people sat cross-legged on the prayer cushions, listening attentively. Gao Yang was among them, his expression filled with longing and anticipation.

After finishing his lecture, Luo Wanyai said to the new family members, "After explaining the law to you today, you may have noticed a problem: the federal law has gradually become corrupt. It is composed of the legislature as its skeleton, law enforcement agencies as its flesh and blood, and conglomerates as its brain, forming the current social order and ruthlessly exploiting ordinary people."

Luo Wanyai: "Outer World aptly said, when order degenerates into chaos, chaos must be used to maintain order and save the law. Now, what I am about to teach is one of the tools for saving the law... the Zhunti Method."

The family members were overjoyed when they heard this.

At this moment, Xu Linsen and Jiang Mubei, who had been watching from the sidelines with their arms crossed, suddenly looked at each other.

They looked at Luo Wanyai, Xiao Qi, Xiao San, and others, and began to bestow initiations and teachings on cultivation techniques to the new members one by one.

Then, right in front of them, he forcefully forced out an F-Class drink.

The two were immediately shocked!

Previously, they thought that Bai Zhou had received support from the conglomerate and obtained a large quantity of gene serum, which was why he was able to have a team composed entirely of gene warriors of D-Class or higher.

At the time, Xu Linsen was still wondering how to maintain his stance since the source of power was the conglomerate.

It was only at this moment that they realized that Xiao Qi and the others were not gene warriors, but cultivators!

The reason Luo Wanyai invited them to watch was quite clear: to flex his muscles.

The subtext even goes like this: if Spades were to merge with Daylight, then your Wilderness People would actually receive some tangible benefits. Whether you use it as a dowry or whatever, it doesn't matter; this thing works very well anyway.

Xu Linsen fell into thought.

The most troublesome thing for many organizations in this world is their military strength.

Even something as simple as a fire pit isn't something that can be approved by the gods just by randomly taking someone for a stroll in the snowy mountains.

The deity of the hearth is quite picky!

Now, the fact that Parent's Association have the ability to mass-produce practitioners is itself a terrifying thing.

From a utilitarian perspective, perhaps the Zhunti Method was the greatest gift that Li Xiurui, the Head of the Li Clan, gave to Qing Chen.

The biggest problem for Spades has always been that the Wilderness People live a very hard life. They lack ammunition, are prone to illness, and can't run fast when they are besieged by the Federation Group Army.

Spade didn't expect the Wilderness People to be able to confront the Federation's high technology head-on, but if they could act quickly, at least fewer people could die before they fled into the Forbidden Zone...

And now, what does it mean to have a cultivation lineage that can mass-produce F-Class items on the spot?

No wonder Luo Wanyai spent so much time on team building and talent selection. Jiang Mubei used to think it was unnecessary, but now he realized that Luo Wanyai did it to ensure that the Zhunti Method would not be lost at will.

Jiang Mubei said in a low voice, "Boss, I'm tempted! Why don't we really let that person be the Joker?"

Xu Linsen glanced at Jiang Mubei: "You sold me out pretty quickly..."

"Boss, they're giving us too much!"

Just then, Yang Yang pushed the door open and came in. She looked at Xu Linsen and said, "Boss, I have to go now."

"Huh? Where are we going?" Xu Linsen asked, puzzled.

"I'm going on a date," Yang Yang said.

"Tell me clearly, what exactly are you going to do?" Xu Linsen said, both amused and exasperated.

"Kamiyo Yunhe and Kamishiro Seisho are leaving City 22 ahead of schedule. I'm going to help with the fighting," Yang Yang said.

Xu Linsen was exasperated. Only this girl would consider something like this a date!

"Do you need our help?" Xu Linsen asked.

"No need," Yang Yang shook her head.

"Did he hire other helpers?" Xu Linsen wondered.

"No," Yang Yang shook her head.

Jiang Mubei was puzzled. "Those are A-level experts and the Ten Eunuchs. Although Kamishiro Seisho himself is not very powerful, he has powerful people around him. It is said that his airship always carries 24 war robots, each of which is B-Class."

Yang Yang said, "He said that he has already done the most difficult things in this plan, and now all he has to do is harvest the fruits, which is the simplest part."

Xu Linsen and Jiang Mubei looked at each other in disbelief. Could anyone really think that assassinating the Ten Eunuchs and an A-level expert was so simple?

Three hours later, the entire area around the airport in City 22 was placed under martial law, and all civilian and commercial airships were prohibited from taking off by the control tower.

Inside the airport, countless signal lights flashed, and containers were neatly stacked along the edges.

A convoy slowly arrived. While ordinary people would have to go through strict security checks, this convoy did not; they could drive directly to the center of the convoy.

The bodyguard opened the car door for Kamishiro Seisho, and the Ten Eunuchs boarded the plane under the escort of security personnel.

After entering the A-Class Airship, Kamishiro Seisho looked at Kamiyo Yunhe, who was already waiting in the cabin. "You said that he had been biding his time for seven days. If he had a bigger plan, it would be to kill my father. The best time would have been when I entered the cabin, but he did not show up."

As he spoke, this "Ten Eunuchs" suddenly grabbed a piece of skin below his neck and tore the entire mask off.

Behind the airship, the real Kamishiro Seisho emerged. "Since he hasn't made a move, let's leave it at that. The fighting in City 21 is fierce right now, and we need to get there as soon as possible."

The young man playing the role of Kamishiro Seisho nodded. "Understood, Father."

This person was none other than Kamishiro Yunxin, the third son of Kamishiro Seisho and the eldest grandson of the family head.

He walked into the command room at the front of the bridge and said to the captain, "Take off and head directly to City 21, 'Yaki Port'."

The anti-gravity device of the A-Class Airship slowly activated, and the main propulsion turbojet engine was turned on.

Anti-gravity technology is still not mature enough, and this technology has always been a problem that the Federation is working on to overcome, so airships still need external engines.

As the "Abyss" airship slowly ascended, four fighter jets in the airport took off using electromagnetic catapults to escort the Abyss.

Kamiyo Yunhe sat in the cabin, somewhat puzzled. Had Bai Zhou really given up?

Half an hour later, Kamishiro Kongxu sat in the Garrison Troops's independent network command room, watching the corpses carried in outside, and expressionlessly cut open the corpses' chests as a sacrifice.

Her fingernails cut through the dead man's pale, cold skin as she thought about ending it all quickly so that she could stay by Yunluo's side after her return.

The corpse withered rapidly, and the clouds in the Cloud Mirror parted.

However, at that moment, everyone suddenly saw in the Cloud Mirror that the boy and girl were holding hands and flying in the sky.

They are no longer in City 22!

"Where is this? It looks like the wilderness of the south," an officer said.

"Wait, look!"

Right below the boy and girl was the Abyss, which had just taken off from the airport!

There will be another chapter at 11 PM.