Nomenclature of Night

  Chapter 681 Upstream

   Located in the T101 military base in the north of City 10, the huge Qingshan Sky Fortress is undergoing a comprehensive overhaul.

  The black city just docked quietly on the ground, and high maintenance platforms were built around it, just like the dense scaffolding outside the wall when building a building.

  Thousands of maintenance engineers are busy on the maintenance platform. They control the huge mechanical arm, disassemble the scrapped parts of the Qingshan, and replace them with new ones.

   There are also hundreds of engineers overhauling the system and code of the Qingshan, trying to obtain future improvement plans for the air fortress from the data of the previous battle.

  The Battle of No. 002 Forbidden Land caused Qingshan to fall into a state of complete battle damage.

   After the anti-gravity device and the reactor are overloaded, they must be maintained. The larger and more sophisticated the machine, the more careful it must be.

   Now, just repairing its outer armor will cost astronomical figures.

   In the matter of war, in the case of evenly matched forces, the comparison is who is richer.

  Although Li Changqing couldn't slow down the Chen fleet for a year in this operation, Li also paid a corresponding price.

  At this time, Li Changqing was wearing a military uniform and the rank of lieutenant general, sitting in the command post of the military base.

  She silently flipped through the information sent back by the Cardinal organization, and two of them caught her attention.

  The first one is that the whereabouts of foreigners have been found in the territory of the Northern God Dynasty, but the flying vehicle that the other party took to cross the Forbidden Sea has not been found so far.

  The Forbidden Sea can be crossed. Although ships cannot pass through, there is no obstacle in the air.

  Even in the watch world, the direct flight across the ocean takes about 13 hours.

   There were people from the west coast who came to the Federation. At first, the Federation welcomed them, but later it was discovered that those who came here were all engaged in espionage work, and this kind of communication was cut off.

  The spies were all sentenced to life imprisonment, and they were tortured to interrogate information about the West Coast, and finally learned that they wanted to open up a new continent and colonize the Federation.

  Although the distance of the Forbidden Sea can be crossed, it is not suitable for combat.

   You know, the flight radius of a fighter jet is about 8,000 kilometers.

  The kingdom on the west coast sent people here this time to find an island in the sea as their transit base.

  The airships and fighter jets will all be resupplied at this advance base, and then fly to the sky above the Federation.

  Since then, the Federation has always regarded the West Coasters setting foot on this land as a provocation, and there are radar bases deployed in coastal areas to monitor 24 hours a day.

  Now, if foreigners appear in the north, they must have flown in, and the Federal Army under Shendai did not have radar warning in advance, which shows that Shendai opened the country for the forces on the west coast!

  Li Changqing frowned. This is not good news. The west coast is making a comeback. I am afraid that they have found a forward base at sea.

  The second piece of information is that there was a civil turmoil in city 5, and that civil turmoil was quelled that night. However, after the operation to overthrow the Patriarch failed, the Patriarch still stayed in the hut on Ginkgo Mountain without any action.

   This made Li Changqing very puzzled, what was the head of the Qing family going to do, that he could even pretend that such a serious provocation had never happened?

  Actually, what the Patriarch of the Qing family wants to do has always been a mystery to all parties.

  The previous patriarchs would balance the relationship between the shadow and the factions. The shadow checks and balances the factions, and the factions also check and balance the shadow, while the patriarch is the one who controls the overall situation.

  The generations of residents on Ginkgo Mountain used their powerful imperial mind to control everyone in their own hands.

  But this Patriarch Qing Xun did not do this. He allowed the shadow forces to compete with the various factions.

  As if nothing had anything to do with him.

The family fights, and the cheap ones are outsiders. Over the years, the various factions of the Qing clan have been exchanging interests with other financial groups in order to fight against the shadows. Just like this time when Qingwen’s mother Qingyun transferred the core technology, maybe there is no need to wait any longer. After a while, they will gradually sell their property short.

   In this way, the interests of the family will be damaged.

  But that patriarch still didn't care. It was the first time Patriarch Qing made a move to prevent Qing Yun from replacing the air fortress technology in more than ten years.

  The other party was in that small house, silently watching the building fall.

  At this time, a combat staff officer came in with a piece of information. Li Changqing glanced at the sign on the intelligence, and it was the S-level information sent by Li's Privy Council:

  Tonight, a young man named Ji Guanya visited the Banshan Manor in No. 18 City, and had a 20-minute private talk with Li Yunshou.

   This Ji Guanya is originally a time traveler who belongs to the Li family, and is Li Changqing's direct subordinate.

  Li Yunshou is already the head of the Li family at this time, so naturally he will not pass Li Changqing to see Ji Guanya.

  Li Shi pays attention to internal order, so Li Yunshou doesn't like people who leapfrog to see him without authorization.

   This is not Li Yunshou's arrogance, but for a huge consortium, the power structure should be stable. If Li Changqing's subordinates can leapfrog to see him at will, then it will reduce Li Changqing's authority and lead to the collapse of Li's underlying structure.

  As the owner of Baopu Building, Li Yunshou has been fascinated by his father for decades. He watched his father handle everything in an orderly manner, and then taught him countless principles.

  Many people outside said that Li Xiurui liked Li Shutong the most, so the head of the family might make an exception and pass it on to the seventh son.

  However, only Li Yunshou knew that since his mother left, no matter how busy his father was, he would spend two hours a day imparting knowledge, sharing experience, and testing wisdom.

  In fact, from that moment on, Li Yunshou already knew that his father wanted to leave with his mother.

  After the mother passed away, everything my father did for the rest of his life was to keep the family alive for a long time.

  When Ji Guanya arrived at the Banshan Manor, Li Yunshou had already fallen asleep and had no intention of seeing him at all.

   As a result, Ji Guanya explained that he was entrusted by Qingchen, and the head of the Li family immediately got up.

  After the secret talk, a piece of information arrived at the T101 military base through an encrypted network.

  Li Changqing just opened it and took a look, then got up immediately: "Prepare the Class-A airship, I'm going to go to City 10."

  Old 21 outside the headquarters was dozing off on a chair at the door. Hearing Li Changqing's words, he asked doubtfully, "Why don't you take a Class B airship, which is faster."

"I'm going to fight, prepare a Class-A floating airship and **** fleet!" Li Changqing said coldly: "The head of the family said that Qing Chen asked Ji Guanya to send news that the city on the 10th has been polluted by the corpse of Shendai Qianchi, and it will be destroyed immediately." There will be a disaster."

The old twenty-one was stunned for a long time: "Wait a minute, you just came back from the south, there is no need to go to this kind of thing in person, boss, you can just sit in the back of the town, there is no reason for you to go to the battlefield in person every time there is a war ?”

  Li Changqing glanced at him: "Qing Chen is in City 10."

  Old twenty-one was silent for a long time: "It's a crime."

   "Where's the little eagle?" Li Changqing asked loudly.

   "I'm here, boss," Xiaoying timidly walked in from the outside.

   "Aren't you and Qingchen both in that time traveler academy, why didn't you tell me the news?" Li Changqing asked with a gloomy expression.

  Xiaoying was so suppressed by the aura of the woman in front of her that she couldn't breathe: "Qing Chen said that you just participated in a battle, so it is not suitable for you to take risks in City 10..."

  Li Changqing walked out with a sneer: "He didn't come to me, but to the Privy Council. He obviously didn't want me to go there, but I decided to go."

However, at this moment, Li Shu walked over quickly: "Lieutenant General Li, Shendai just held a press conference. They claimed that City 10 has been biologically polluted, and a huge disaster is brewing now. The Shendai Northern Fleet will Set sail in 8 hours and head to City 10 for support."

  Li Changqing frowned: "The thieves are calling for a thief, they are going to use this excuse to go south!"

  It was obviously a disaster created by the Age of Gods consortium itself, but at this time it became the reason for the Northern Fleet of the Age of Gods to go south.

   And not only the Northern Fleet, the field army controlled by the Age of God may also go south together.

   In the battle of No. 002 Forbidden Land, the Qing family, the Li family, the Kashima family, and the Chen family joined the battle one after another, but the Age of Gods consortium remained silent and planned.

   Now that the other party chooses this time node, it happens to be the time when the forces of all parties are preparing to take a breather and recuperate.

   And the reason why the other party chose to pollute the No. 10 city is also very stupid.

   First of all, city No. 10 has the largest population.

  Secondly, the defense of city No. 10 is empty.

  In the early years, the five major financial groups all sent troops there. As a result, the Qing family was stationed 100 kilometers away from No. 10 city, the Shendai stationed 90 kilometers away, and the Li family stationed 80 kilometers away.

  In the end, everyone was stationed on the edge of the city, and it looked like the five coalition forces were going to besiege the city.

  The barracks were a little turbulent, and everyone became extremely sensitive and nervous.

  So the consortia agreed with each other that no consortium troops would be stationed 800 kilometers away from No. 10 city.

  800 kilometers is the distance between city No. 10 and city No. 18.

  Now, due to the avoidance of suspicion by all parties, the army is far away, and no one can quickly support it.

  The Age of God calculated everything.

   This time it will be the beginning of an all-out war!

  Li Changqing walked back to the headquarters, she calmly looked at the holographic sand table, and looked at the entire northern battlefield.

  10 minutes later, the combat staff officer walked into the headquarters: "Kashima also announced that it will go south to support city 10."

She paced back and forth in the headquarters, and finally made a decision: "I won't go to City 10, and I will reply to the Privy Office. Our department will complete the logistics preparation within 8 hours, and join the frontline commander Li Yunmu in 16 hours...the battle will be tough." .”

  At this time, the Aoyama was unable to take off, but the air fortress of the Jindai consortium was intact.

   This battle is not easy to fight.

  Li Changqing took a look at the isolated city No. 10 on the sand table, she wanted to go there very much.

   But she is Li's general. Before, she could pilot Qingshan and appear in front of Chen's fleet willfully. But now that a full-scale war is about to break out, she must be responsible for Li's soldiers.

   And Li Changqing is very clear that when the all-out war breaks out, all the main forces will be restrained on the frontal battlefield, and city 10 may not be able to wait for real support.

   This is what Qing Chen said to Xiaosan. It is very likely that what they are waiting for is not support, but war.

  …

  …

  Return countdown at 166:00:00.

   It has only been two hours since this crossing.

   "Come on!"

  Iodophor is leading more than 600 Kunlun members through the streets.

   At this time, the rat wave has just emerged from the ground, and the main active areas are still in the second, fifth, and sixth districts.

  These rats didn't lengthen the battle line at will, but wanted to wipe out these three areas before plotting other areas.

  At that time, their reproduction numbers will complete their metamorphosis, and the entire city will become their granary.

  Plan A that Qing Chen handed over to Iodophor is that if the city does not fall into darkness after crossing, the Kunlun members will swear to guard the power plant to ensure the normal power supply.

   But if they don't arrive in time, plan B will be activated: immediately go to the headquarters of the PCE Public Security Management Committee in the fifth district.

  There are nearly three months of police records there.

  At first, iodophor didn't understand why Qingchen asked them to get a police record at such a critical moment.

  But after an explanation, they realized that Qing Chen wanted the police records in the PCE headquarters, and used the records to analyze the location of the Shu King.

  According to Qing Chen's deduction, Shu Wang wanted to invade the lower three districts at the first time because it was in a no-regret zone and could easily become a blind spot in the city, which was a strategic choice.

  The people in the lower three districts are all low-level people who don't care about their parents. There is still more than half of the population of City 10 there. It can completely use it as a granary.

   I have to say that the plan of the Mouse King coincides with that of the Parents' Association. Both of them think that the lower three districts are left unattended, so we have to start there first.

   But what the Mouse King didn't expect was that when it drew power from the corpse of Shendai Chichi, the lower three districts had already become the private land of the parents' association, which made it impossible to get in at all.

  Qing Chen analyzed that since the rat swarm failed to invade the lower three districts, and there was no optimal strategic goal, the rest of the districts would be the same no matter where they invaded.

  Then their next frequent activity area must be the area closest to the rat king, because they have to carry food nearby for the group to continue to reproduce.

  When the rats started raging, some residents must have survived by chance.

  And what will the surviving residents do? It must be the first time to inform the PCE safety committee of this horror.

  PCE Security Committee Headquarters has backup generators. He needs Kunlun members to use the report records to analyze the area where the rat population is active, so as to analyze the location of the rat king. Only in this way can Qing Chen find a way to behead him.

  Besides, Qingchen was thinking about a question, if Chichi Kamito was holding the taboo ACE-022 Ant Queen in her hand.

   Then if you find the Mouse King, you might be able to find Kamdai Chichi.

   Qing Chen must kill this person. A city with tens of millions of people has lost its way of life because of power outages.

"Captain, are we sure we're going to the fifth district?" Someone in the Kunlun team asked in a low voice: "Actually, it's still too late to evacuate now. Let's go to the lower third district to meet the members of the parent association. We only need to stay there for a few days. The reinforcements of the group army can arrive no matter what."

   Now, everyone knows that a rat wave disaster will break out in the city.

  In the academy, Team 99 timewalkers were ordered to memorize the route, use plan A and plan B as a guide, and retreat to the outside of the city or the lower three districts.

   Only Kunlun received the order to intersperse into the city center.

  They all know that this is a road to death, and if you step on it, you can't turn back.

  Rat swarms are only sporadic now, and there is still time for them to retreat.

"No," Iodofu responded coldly: "An order is an order. Qing Chen asked us to occupy the PCE headquarters before the rat swarm broke out, and we must do it. So far, everything Qing Chen has said is true. It came true, he prepared Plan A and Plan B for everyone, since he has not missed it so far, then I have no reason to question him."

   Someone asked: "What if he is really wrong?"

  Iodophor was silent for a while: "...Even if he is really wrong, we must carry it out."

  Actually, Iodo admired Qing Chen quite a lot. As the person in charge of Kunlun in City No. 10, he witnessed with his own eyes how the other party tried his best to find a way out for everyone and make a backup plan during the remaining five days of his return.

At this moment, everyone is obviously in a city without electricity and communication, but everyone can still continue to make changes according to the plan. This is entirely because Qing Chen made all the plans, variables, and preparations before the time travel. .

   This is the reason why all the time travelers did not panic in the face of the sudden power outage after the time travel.

  Because Qingchen told them everything that might happen, even if there is no commander or commander in this dark city, all the timewalkers still know what they should do.

   It can be said that when the countdown to comeback ends, Qing Chen's work is over.

   It's like what Shadow once said to Qing Chen.

  Qing Chen once asked Shadow in No. 002 Forbidden Land: "The Federation is at war, is it okay for you to run around?"

  The answer of the shadow is: "I have done everything I should do."

  At this moment, in the huge city, the residents began to panic gradually because of the rat tide gradually becoming active. Countless people ran towards the edge of the city, wanting to escape here.

  The residents who fell asleep early also woke up from their sleep amidst the screams.

  Iodophor stopped a fleeing refugee: "Is there a rat wave in the direction you came from?"

  The refugee said in horror: "Yes! There are rats all over there!"

  Iodophor frowned. He didn't expect that the fifth district they were going to was one of the hardest hit areas!

   "Go ahead!" Iodophor said heavily: "Brothers, the task must be completed."

On the last day of the countdown to return, Qingchen talked to each person in charge again. At that time, Qingchen said to iodophor: This order may not be fair to you, and you may not understand it, but I know how important your mission is. important. In this disaster, I need everyone to be a hero so that more people can be saved, please.

  Iodofu couldn't help but smile when he thought of this, Kunlun can't be demoted by the daylight.

   At midnight, everyone was running out, only this team of more than 600 people was going upstream.

  …

  5,000-word chapter, there is another chapter before 11:00 p.m.

  (end of this chapter)