Nomenclature of Night

   Chapter 681 Upstream

   Located in the T101 military base north of City 10, the sprawling air fortress Aoyama is undergoing a complete overhaul.

  The black city was so silently parked on the ground, and high maintenance benches were erected around it, just like the dense scaffolding outside the walls when a building was being built.

  Thousands of maintenance engineers were busy on the maintenance bench. They controlled the huge robotic arm, dismantled the scrapped parts of the Qingshan, and replaced them with new ones.

   There are also hundreds of engineers overhauling the system and code of the Qingshan, trying to obtain future improvements to the air fortress from the data of the last battle.

The battle of   002 in the Forbidden Land made the Aoyama fall into a state of total battle damage.

  The anti-gravity device and the reactor must be maintained after overloading. The larger and more precise the machine, the more careful it is to handle.

   Now, just repairing its outer armor would cost astronomical amounts.

  The matter of war, in the case of evenly matched forces, is the comparison of who has more money.

   Although Li Changqing was unable to slow down the Chen's 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 headquarters of the military base.

   She silently looked at the information sent back by the Cardinals organization, and two of them caught her attention.

  The first one is that the whereabouts of foreigners have been found in the northern gods' territory, but so far they have not found the flying vehicle that the other party took to cross the Forbidden Sea.

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

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

   Once there were people from the West Coast who came to the Federation, the Federation was welcome at first, but later it was discovered that those who came here were all engaged in espionage work, and this communication was cut off.

   Those spies were all sentenced to life imprisonment, and they were severely interrogated for information about the West Coast, and finally learned that they wanted to open up a new continent and colonize the Federation.

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

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

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

   Floating airships and fighter jets will be replenished in this forward base and then fly over the Federation.

   Since then, the Federation has always regarded the West Coast people’s stepping on this land as a provocation, and radar bases have been deployed in the coastal areas to monitor 24 hours a day.

   And now, when someone from a foreign country appears in the north, they must have flown in, and the federal army under the God Age did not have a radar warning in advance, which means that God 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 already found a forward base at sea.

  The second piece of information is that there was civil unrest in City No. 5, and that civil unrest was quelled that night. However, after the failure to overthrow the head of the family, the head of the family remained in the hut on Ginkgo Hill and did nothing.

   This made Li Changqing very puzzled, what exactly is the Qing family head going to do, even such a serious provocation can be regarded as nothing happened?

   In fact, what the Qing Patriarch wants to do has always been a mystery to the various forces.

  The previous patriarchs will balance the relationship between the shadow and the various factions. The shadow checks and balances each faction, and each faction also checks and balances the shadow, and the patriarch is the one who controls the overall situation.

  The families of all generations on Ginkgo Hill used their powerful imperial minds to control everyone in their own hands.

   But this current Patriarch, Qing Xun, didn't do that. He let the shadow forces compete with each other. He didn't care when the shadow prevailed, and he didn't care when each faction prevailed.

   As if nothing had anything to do with him.

Infighting in the family, the cheap ones are all outsiders. In order to fight against the shadow, the Qing factions have been constantly exchanging interests with other financial groups. Just like Qingwen’s mother Qingyun transferred the core technology this time, maybe there is no need to wait any longer. How long, they will gradually short-sell.

   In this way, it is the interests of the family that are harmed.

   But the Patriarch still didn't care. For more than ten years, it was the first time that the Patriarch of the Qing family made a move to prevent Qingyun from replacing the air fortress technology.

   The other party was in that small room, silently watching the building collapse.

   At this time, a combat staff officer walked in with a piece of intelligence. Li Changqing glanced at the sign on the intelligence. It was the S-level information passed by Li's privy office:

  Tonight, a young man named Ji Guanya visited Banshan Manor in City No. 18 and had a secret talk with Li Yunshou for 20 minutes.

   This season, Guanya was originally a Time Walker belonging to the Li family, and was Li Changqing's direct subordinate.

   Li Yunshou was already the head of the Li family at this time, so naturally he would not go over Li Changqing to see Ji Guanya.

  The Li family pays attention to the internal order, so Li Yunshou does not like someone to come 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, it will reduce Li Changqing's authority and cause Li's underlying structure to collapse.

  As the owner of Baopu Building, Li Yunshou followed his father's ears for decades. He watched his father handle everything in an orderly manner, and then taught him countless truths.

   Many outsiders say that Li Xiurui likes Li Shutong the most, so the head of the family is likely to 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 spare two hours a day to impart knowledge, share experience, and test his wisdom.

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

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

   When Ji Guanya arrived at the Banshan Manor, Li Yunshou had already fallen asleep, and he didn't plan to see him at all.

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

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

  Li Changqing just opened his eyes and got up immediately: "Prepare the Class A airship, I'm going to the No. 10 city."

   Lao Twenty-one outside the headquarters was taking a nap on the chair at the door. After he heard Li Changqing's words, he asked doubtfully, "Why don't you take a Class B airship, it will be faster."

"I'm going to fight, preparing a Class-A airship and **** fleet!" Li Changqing said coldly: "The owner said, Qingchen asked Ji Guanya to hear news that City No. 10 has been polluted by the body of Qianchi Shendai, and immediately There will be a disaster."

Old Twenty One was stunned for a long time: "Wait a moment, you just came back from the south, there is no need to go to this kind of thing in person, boss, just sit in the rear, there is no reason to let you go to the battlefield in person every time you fight. ?"

  Li Changqing glanced at him: "Qingchen is in City No. 10."

  Old Twenty-One was silent for a long time: "A sinner."

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

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

   "Aren't you and Qingchen at the Timewalker Academy? Why didn't you tell me the news?" Li Changqing asked with a gloomy expression.

   Xiaoying was overwhelmed by the aura of the woman in front of him: "Qingchen said that you have just participated in a battle, and it is not suitable for you to venture to No. 10 city..."

  Li Changqing walked out with a sneer: "He didn't come to me, but to the privy office. It was obvious that he didn't want me to go there, but I wanted to go."

However, at this moment, Li Shu walked over quickly: "Lieutenant General Li, the generation of God has just held a press conference. They claimed that the No. 10 city has been polluted by biological organisms, and now a huge disaster is brewing. The Northern Fleet of God's Generation will Set sail in 8 hours and head to City 10 for support."

  Li Changqing frowned: "The thief shouts to catch the thief, they will use this excuse to go south!"

   Obviously it was the disaster created by the God Age Consortium, but at this time it became the reason for the God Age Northern Fleet to go south.

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

  002 The Battle of the Forbidden Land, the Qing clan, the Li clan, the Kashima clan, and the Chen clan all participated in the battle, but the Shendai Consortium was silent and planning.

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

   And the reason why the opponent chose to pollute the No. 10 city is also very thief.

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

   Second, the defense of City 10 is empty.

   In the early years, the five major consortiums all sent troops there. As a result, the Qing clan was stationed at a distance of 100 kilometers from City No. 10, the Shendai was stationed at a distance of 90 kilometers, and the Li clan was stationed at a distance of 80 kilometers.

   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.

   Each military camp was a little troubled, and everyone became extra sensitive and nervous.

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

  800 km is the distance between city 10 and city 18.

   Now, because all parties are avoiding suspicion, the army is very far away, and no one can quickly support it.

  Kamidai has calculated everything.

   This time will be the beginning of a total war!

  Li Changqing walked back to the headquarters again. She calmly and silently watched the holographic sand table and looked at the entire northern battlefield.

  10 minutes later, the combat staff walked into the headquarters: "Kashima also announced that he will go south to support City No. 10."

She paced back and forth in the headquarters, and finally made a decision: "Don't go to No. 10 city, reply to the privy office, our department will complete logistical preparations within 8 hours, and meet with front-line commander Li Yunmu in 16 hours... It's going to be a tough fight. already."

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

   This battle is not easy to fight.

  Li Changqing glanced at No. 10 city on the sand table like an isolated city, she really wanted to go there.

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

   And Li Changqing knew very well that from the moment a full-scale war broke out, all the main troops would be contained in the frontal battlefield, and the No. 10 city might not be able to wait for real support.

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

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  …

  Return countdown 166:00:00.

   It's only been two hours since this crossing.

   "Keep up!"

  Iodophor is walking through the streets with more than 600 Kunlun members.

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

   These mice did not stretch the front line at will, but after eating these three areas, they tried to plot other areas.

  At that time, their breeding numbers will be transformed, and the whole city will become their granary.

The plan A that   Qingchen handed over to iodophor is that if the city does not fall into darkness after crossing, then Kunlun members will swear to guard the power plant to ensure normal power supply.

   But once they are too late, plan B should be activated: go to the PCE Security Council headquarters in District 5 immediately.

   There are nearly three months of police records there.

   At first, Iodophor did not understand why Qingchen asked them to get a police record in such a crisis.

   But after explaining it, they understood that Qingchen wanted the police record at the PCE headquarters and used this record to analyze the location of the rat king.

  According to Qingchen's inference, the Rat King wanted to invade the lower three districts for the first time because it was located in a three-no-care zone, which 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 are more than half of the population of No. 10 city. It can completely use it as a granary.

   I have to say that the plan of the Rat King coincides with that of the parent-teacher association. They both feel that the lower three districts are unsupervised, so they must start there first.

   But what the Rat King didn't expect was that when it was drawing power from the corpse of Qianchi Kamidai, the lower three districts had already become a private area for the parent-teacher association, which made it impossible to insert it at all.

  Qingchen analyzed that since the mouse group failed to invade the lower three areas, and there was no optimal strategic goal, the remaining areas were the same no matter where they invaded.

  Then the next area where they move frequently must be the area closest to the rat king, because they have to carry food nearby for the continuous reproduction of the group.

When the   rats started rampant, there must have been some residents who were lucky enough to survive.

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

   The headquarters of the PCE Security Committee has a backup generator. He needs Kunlun members to use the report records to analyze the active area of ​​the rat population, so as to analyze the location of the rat king. Only in this way can Qingchen find a way to behead.

   Moreover, Qingchen was thinking about a question, if Kashiro Chiaki was holding the taboo ACE-022 Queen Ant in his hand.

  Then if you find the rat king, maybe you can find Chiaki Kamidai.

   This person, Qingchen must be killed. The city with millions of people has no way to survive because of the power outage.

"Captain, are we sure we're going to District 5?" Someone in the Kunlun team asked in a low voice, "Actually, it's still too late to evacuate. Let's go to District 3 to meet up with the members of the parent-teacher association. We only need to stay there for a few days. How can the reinforcements of the group army arrive."

   Now, everyone knows that there will be a rat wave disaster in the city.

  In the academy, the orders received by Team 99 Timewalkers were to memorize the route, use plans A and B as a guide, and retreat to the outside of the city or the lower three districts.

   Only Kunlun was ordered to intersperse with the city center.

   They all know that this is a mortal road, and there is no turning back.

   Now the rat tides are only scattered, and it is too late for them to retreat.

"No," Iodophor responded in a cold voice: "Orders are orders. Qingchen asked us to capture the PCE headquarters before the rat tide broke out. We must do it. So far, everything Qingchen has said is true. Fulfillment, 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 execute it."

   Actually, Iodophor admires Qingchen very much. As the person in charge of Kunlun in City No. 10, he witnessed how the other party worked hard to find a way out for everyone and made a backup plan during the remaining five days of his return.

At this moment, everyone is clearly in a city without electricity and communication, but everyone can still continue to respond according to the plan. This is entirely because Qingchen has done all the plans, variables, and preparations before crossing. .

   This is the reason why all time walkers are not panicked in the face of a city with a sudden power outage after crossing.

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

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

   is like what the shadow once said to Qingchen.

  Qingchen once asked the shadow in No. 002 Forbidden Land: "The Federation is at war, is it appropriate for you to run around."

   And the shadow's answer is: "I have done what I have to do."

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

   The residents who went to bed early also woke up from their sleep screaming.

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

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

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

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

On the last day of the countdown to the return, Qingchen talked to everyone 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 much your mission is important. In this disaster, I need everyone to be a hero so that more people can be saved, please.

  Iodophor couldn't help laughing when he thought of this, Kunlun can't let the day be degraded.

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

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