Variables Are Coming

"Tell me, when did you become Time Walker?" Jiang Xue roared.

Li Tongyun: "Aba aba aba..."

"Stop pretending to be stupid!" Jiang Xue laid Xiao Tongyun across her lap and started spanking her.

This gentle woman in the villa was always like an older sister to everyone, taking care of everyone.

With her around, no one else needs to buy groceries or cook.

Every afternoon, while everyone was practicing meditation, she would prepare fruit for each person.

When bananas were being distributed to Liu Dezhu and Nan Gengchen, the villa looked like a chimpanzee conservation and breeding base during the day.

A brilliant metaphor.

This gentle older sister, however, was surprisingly strict when facing Li Tongyun ...

On ordinary days, Nan Gengchen and Liu Dezhu would often hear Jiang Xue's angry roars as she tutored Li Tongyun with her homework upstairs. At that time, Jiang Xue was like a lioness, and no one dared to provoke her.

Especially now that Jiang Xue is in charge of Bai Zhou's finances, she is also responsible for the Parent's Association the flow of funds in the Inner World and gathering intelligence.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him the daytime Head Butler.

Who would want to offend the Head Butler for no reason...?

Li Tongyun never expected that she would be the one to die after secretly waiting for Qing Chen to die.

She speculated, based on conspiracy theories, that the people of Kunlun were very likely reinforcements invited by Qing Chen!

That's going too far!

At this moment, after beating up Li Tongyun, Jiang Xue began searching through Li Tongyun's phone, her voice rising even higher. "So you're the Little Rich Girl, Qing Chen?!"

"Huh?" Qing Chen was taken aback.

Jiang Xue asked, "You knew she was Time Walker all along, didn't you? Otherwise, how did she get into the group? And you even helped her keep it from me!"

Qing Chen: "Aba aba aba..."

Jiang Xue didn't make things difficult for Qing Chen, and turned to look at Li Tongyun: "You're really something, aren't you? You tricked me into calling you 'sister' for months!"

Li Tongyun was now in despair. The more fun they had back then, the more utterly ruined they were now...

Jingūji Maki was stunned by what she saw. How could such a gentle aunt suddenly turn into this?

She looked helplessly at Yang Yang: "What are they saying?"

Yang Yang said with a smile, "Your sister Li Tongyun is doomed."

Lu Yuan outside, and hearing the roaring sounds from inside, he hesitated for a while before saying to Qing Chen, "How about I come back another day?"

"No need, no need," Qing Chen closed the door and pulled Lu Yuan outside. "If you leave now, I'll suffer too... No, I want to know more about this school. What's going on here? Where was it built? I see the enrollment date is next week, which is when we return. I've never heard of Kunlun building a school before."

The location of the report was Kunlun Bookstore in Zhengcheng.

You have to understand that there are over 100,000 Time Walker nationwide. Even if only 60% of them are students, it would still take a very large campus to accommodate them all.

However, Qing Chen had not heard of any university in Zhengcheng that would vacate space for Kunlun.

Moreover, reporting from a small bookstore is a bit odd in itself.

Lu Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "There's no need to keep it a secret. The school isn't located in a bustling city center, but in an extremely secluded place, like a paradise. As you know, this is equivalent to gathering half of the country's Time Walker together. If someone finds the place and captures them all, it would be extremely dangerous."

"I understand," Qing Chen nodded. "Why did Kunlun suddenly do this?"

Lu Yuan at him. "Kunlun didn't do anything before because they hadn't finished investigating the situation in China. Now we and Jiuzhou have almost finished our investigation, and we haven't missed any Time Walker, so we have the conditions to build this school."

"What is the significance of building this school?" Qing Chen asked curiously.

"Time Walker like you are certainly good, but some people become less obedient after gaining power," Lu Yuan sighed. "Ever since Time Walker appeared, crime rates have increased significantly in various places. You know what the Inner World is like; its values are completely different from ours. Children are easily influenced there and become extremely disrespectful of order. Just yesterday, there was a particularly cruel underage... well, you know what I mean. After returning to the Outer World, they felt that going to school was useless, and they caused trouble every day, even injuring their own parents."

Lu Yuan: "Moreover, some children have no ability to protect themselves after they get there. They are tricked into selling their organs for money very early on. Sigh... Kunlun also wants to teach them some survival skills in the Inner World, or to form an organization there to help the Time Walker, so that they are not so easily harmed."

Qing Chen understood that when children's worldviews are not yet formed, they are easily led astray when they go to the free and chaotic Inner World.

Moreover, there are many scammers and criminals there, which is indeed very dangerous for children; Zhang Mengqian is an example of this.

What Kunlun is doing now is indeed necessary.

Regardless of the era, responsible and accountable organizations will do this kind of thing.

Kunlun established this school not primarily for constraint, but for protection.

"Do you have my acceptance letter too?" Qing Chen asked.

"Hmm," Lu Yuan said, "This school covers all grades from elementary school to university, up to the time before entering society. Boss Zheng said it's up to you whether you go or not, but it's best if everyone else goes during the day."

"Why?" Qing Chen asked.

Lu Yuan calmly said, "Bai Zhou has now become a thorn in the side of many people. It's not just the Kamishiro Corporation that wants Bai Zhou; the North American 'Future' organization that you once worked with will probably also want to get rid of you. Your members who haven't matured yet will be much safer in that school, and Jiang Xue can also go there to teach painting. That's one reason."

Lu Yuan: "Boss Zheng asked me to pass on a message to you: if you want to find companions, instead of developing in the Inner World, you should look for them in that school. That's the second point."

Kunlun offered two reasons: one was to provide Bai Zhou with temporary shelter, and the other was to provide convenience for Qing Chen. It can be said that their attitude towards cooperation was very good.

Having such an ally in China during the daytime makes things much more secure.

In any case, Kunlun and Jiuzhou are still places that the daytime can only look up to.

At least that's how it is in the Outer World.

Qing Chen smiled and said, "Please tell Boss Zheng that I will consider it, but my current identity is sensitive, so if I go, I will do so anonymously."

"Understood," Lu Yuan, turning and leaving.

At this moment, Qing Chen suddenly stopped him and said, "By the way, I have some information for you to tell Boss Zheng. I saw foreigners in City 22... white people. I suspect that the Kamishiro Corporation may have begun to prepare to take over the West Coast forces and provide them with forward bases."

Lu Yuan paused for a moment, then said, "Thank you. This is very important. We had some clues before that the Divine Era was building a forward base on an isolated overseas Lone Island, but it hadn't been confirmed yet. Now it seems to be true!"

After saying that, he left in a hurry.

Hearing the wailing and howling coming from inside the house, Qing Chen called out from behind Lu Yuan, "Don't go yet, let's talk a little longer!"

"I'm not talking anymore!" Lu Yuan was also a little amused and exasperated. He used to want to talk to Qing Chen, but he couldn't find him. Now this guy wanted to use him as an excuse to avoid trouble. No way!

Qing Chen watched him leave and was about to go back inside when he heard Xiao Tongyun shout, "Ahhhhh, Brother Qing Chen, save me!"

Qing Chen stood at the door for a while, pondering for a long time, before calling Hu Xiaoniu: "Have you eaten?"

Hu Xiaoniu hesitated for a long time on the other end of the phone. "Boss, it's only 3 pm, not lunchtime yet... Is there something you need?"

Qing Chen said, "Xiao Niu, I need you to activate the safe house project. Starting today, the Hu Group will help us build safe houses around the world."

Hu Xiaoniu: "Understood."

Qing Chen: "How's everything going on your end?"

Hu Xiaoniu thought for a moment, "It went fairly smoothly, but I learn a bit slowly, and I get injured during training, which affects my progress."

"Yes, take care, and be careful."

Just then, Jiang Xue's voice came from inside the house. "Are you still going to call me 'sister' or not?"

Then came Li Tongyun's crying...

Hu Xiaoniu was taken aback. "Boss, what's going on?"

"Oh, it's nothing, Xiao Tongyun just had a mishap..."

Qing Chen sighed. The more exhilarating it is to wear a disguise, the more despairing it is to have it exposed...

In the Haicheng Diving Training Hall, Hu Xiaoniu, who had already completed two Life and Death Trial challenges, had just rented the entire training hall, which was open only to him.

Zhang Tianzhen sat cross-legged by the azure pool, meditating, while Hu Xiaoniu dried his hair and asked in confusion, "Boss has never asked me to use the Hu family's power to help Bai Zhou before. What's going on today? Could it be that Bai Zhou is in special danger? Should we go back?"

However, Zhang Tianzhen didn't even open her eyes before confidently saying, "Bai Zhou is in danger? The boss went all the way to Osaka and they couldn't do anything to him. It must be that others think Bai Zhou is in danger. Given the boss's personality, if Bai Zhou were in danger, he wouldn't have called you, because he doesn't want to implicate you. The reason he's asking you to use the Hu family's resources is because he considers you one of his own, nothing more. Outsiders need to be polite, family members don't need to be."

"That's true," Hu Xiaoniu nodded. "My dad's businesses have already prepared 68 safe houses. There are two in each public test city and 30 overseas. My dad's preparations are very discreet; they are all prepared using nominee accounts."

"Your dad personally preparing this kind of thing will definitely ensure everything goes smoothly. By the way, Chen Sui is having a party on the Bund tonight and wants to invite us over. Are you going?" Zhang Tianzhen asked.

"No," Hu Xiaoniu shook his head. "Why would he invite us?"

"They must know how powerful Bai Zhou is, and they're worried that the boss will retaliate if he finds out about poaching him," Zhang Tianzhen said in a nonchalant tone. "Now that Bai Zhou is famous, everyone wants to get on our good side. He gets more than a dozen invitations a day. If they can't find you, they can only come to me. Yesterday, I was even added to a group of Shanghai celebrities."

Zhang Tianzhen and Hu Xiaoniu are both well-known second-generation rich kids in Haicheng, and they are quite famous with a wide social circle.

Of course, Hu Xiaoniu is no useless person. In this short period of time, he has already obtained a lot of business secrets from the Inner World through the game "The Rich Man". Hu Dacheng now has the air of a rising star in the technology industry and has started to develop the chip industry in the Outer World.

I don't know where the Monopoly materials came from, they're so complete.

Many people have tried to make this in the Inner World, but it's a closely guarded secret of various conglomerates, and even outdated technology is impossible to obtain.

But that's how they made Monopoly, and even created an entire industry chain...

The Hu Group today is somewhat different from what it used to be.

Now, with the added advantage of being known by daylight, Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen shine even brighter.

Hu Xiaoniu said, "Don't bother with them. The first life lesson I learned from my boss is: don't get bogged down in trivial matters."

"The boss is just naturally cold-hearted," Zhang Tianzhen laughed, seemingly recalling the scene when Qing Chen kept her at arm's length. "By the way, when are we going to eat? I'm hungry."

"Jump 10 more times," Hu Xiaoniu said.

Zhang Tianzhen muttered, "A madman."

At night, Xiao Tongyun in her bed, sobbing uncontrollably, heartbroken.

Most importantly, she could foresee that Jiang Xue would also put her under control in the Inner World, and she wouldn't be as free as she was now.

Of course, she is only 11 years old this year, which is an age in which she needs to be disciplined by her family.

Xiao Tongyun was desperate and thought about running away from home... No, she wasn't strong enough yet. She had to wait until she reached B-Class.

The little girl was as precocious as Qing Chen, so she knew exactly what to do and when to do it. Even if she wanted to run away from home, she had to be fully prepared.

As she was lost in thought, she suddenly felt Xiao Zhenji snuggle into her blankets and into her arms, as if trying to comfort her in this way.

For some reason, Li Tongyun suddenly felt less sad.

In a villa in Zhengzhou, all the windows were completely covered by black velvet curtains.

Qing Yuan sat on the sofa with an open laptop in his lap.

"Qing Chen, Bai Zhou, Joker, skilled in disguise..." Qing Yuan muttered to himself.

He reviewed the beginning of the incident in Zhengcheng, and also reviewed all the information related to Qing Chen.

Qing Yuan suddenly laughed, "If that's the case, then the cause and effect make sense. It really was you who was looking for me back then."

However, at that moment, the doorbell of the villa rang.

Qing Yuan frowned and opened his phone to check the surveillance footage outside.

The villa is surrounded by surveillance cameras; only in this way can he feel a sense of security.

On the phone screen, Lu Yuan left a document at the door and turned to leave.

Qing Yuan opened the door, and there, in the document, was none other than his university admission letter!

He is 20 years old this year, which is the age for a sophomore in college.

At that moment, a middle-aged man came down from the villa. "Xiao Yuan, who's here?"

Qing Yuan said, "Dad, it's the acceptance letter from Kunlun. Also, have you seen the report about Qing Chen? If I want to be the Shadow, he might be the biggest obstacle."

The middle-aged man pondered for a moment and said, "This person is currently being watched by the shadow, so we can't move him."

"The Inner World is the territory of shadows, so let's kill in the Outer World."

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