The Mysterious 【Director Chen】
"I was almost seen..."
Chen Ling concealed his figure amidst the clouds and fog. Treading with 【Cloud Step】, he walked straight towards the outside of the mountain range.
【【Audience Expectation Value】 2】
【Current 【Expectation Value】: 22%】
Chen Ling also hadn't expected that just making eye contact with soone could hook a small portion of the audience's expectation. Could it be because his whereabouts were exposed? Or perhaps there would be so butterfly effect later on?
Chen Ling only thought about it briefly before putting the matter aside. It was just a coincidence that he was seen when returning to the "【Stage】". It shouldn't have any major impact...
However, through that one glance just now, he also saw the process of the search and rescue team rescuing the 【Nine Monarchs】 and leaving. He knew that the trajectory of history was still advancing in its original direction. His and 【Ying Fu】's existence didn't seem to have been discovered by the world.
"I finally shook that guy off..." Chen Ling turned his head to look at the mountain peak where 【Ying Fu】 had escaped, letting out a long sigh.
This stumbling block that hindered his entry into the 【Tiline Save File】 had been removed. Now he possessed the ability to act freely in the modern era. So, it was ti to carefully consider his next moves... Chen Ling pondered for a mont, took out a notepad he carried with him from his pocket, and began to seriously sort things out.
Initially, Chen Ling entered the 【Tiline Save File】 just to see what happened during the 【Nine Monarchs】' exploration back then. But after personally experiencing all this, he found that things were far more complex than he imagined. Not only was there the intervention of the 【Path of the Sovereign】, but the 【Nine Monarchs】 themselves were also full of mysteries.
Chen Ling wrote down several lines of characters on the notepad in order:
【Yang Xiao】 (【Lord of the Aurora】), PhD in Magnetic Field 【Domain】;
【Su Zhiwei】, PhD researching "【String Theory】", has a unique understanding of parallel worlds, suspected to be able to manipulate the "string" movent that created the world;
【Lu Xun】, PhD in 【Astrophysics】, initiator of the 【Red Star Fragnt】 exploration project;
【Wu Tongyuan】, PhD in Mathematics, weak personality, the mascot forcibly dragged here by 【Lu Xun】;
Dr. Lou, PhD in 【Material Science】, proactively asked 【Su Zhiwei】 about her understanding of "parallel worlds", left the team without authorization during the exploration process, behaved abnormally, and even attempted to kill mathematics PhD 【Wu Tongyuan】. Suspected to also be a 【Transmigration】er who used unknown thods to return to this era;
【Dr. Ji】, PhD researching the "【God Particle】", suspected to possess the power to create a 【Wormhole】 to traverse ti. Chased after Dr. Lou imdiately after he left the team, and subsequently a massive battle broke out in the forest. Intervened to protect 【Wu Tongyuan】 when Dr. Lou attempted to kill him, confirming his hostility towards Dr. Lou. Also suspected to be a 【Transmigration】er.
Chen Ling listed the six doctors he had interacted with during this event and recorded all their actions. He fell into deep thought as he looked at these nas.
Leaving 【Yang Xiao】 aside for now, 【Su Zhiwei】 didn't seem to have any abnormalities either. 【Lu Xun】 seed to have noticed his special nature. As for 【Wu Tongyuan】... there was even less to say about him. Ultimately, Chen Ling still used his pen to heavily circle the nas of Dr. Lou and 【Dr. Ji】.
These two guys absolutely harbored incredible secrets.
After thinking for a long ti, Chen Ling added another line below:
【Ying Fu】, 【Path of the Sovereign】, suspected to be the eleventh monarch. Possesses the sa 【Tiline Save File】 【USB Drive】 as himself, yet lacks a standard serial number. Suspected to have entered the 【Save Point】 using so special 【Path】...
After writing this line, Chen Ling used his pen to connect "【Ying Fu】" and "Dr. Lou", drawing a "?" on their relationship.
Chen Ling clearly rembered that when Dr. Lou attempted to kill 【Wu Tongyuan】, he shouted towards the forest, "What are you still waiting for?", and then 【Ying Fu】 appeared. This indicated that there must be so sort of cooperative relationship between these two people.
"This is truly thorny..." Chen Ling let out a long sigh as he looked at this note.
"Regardless, I still have to find 【Yang Xiao】 first."
Among these nine people, the only one Chen Ling could trust right now was the 【Lord of the Aurora】, 【Yang Xiao】. No matter what Dr. Lou and 【Dr. Ji】 were planning to do, he had to first find a reliable companion and then try his best to win over the other 【Nine Monarchs】.
Having a clear goal, Chen Ling's gaze fell on the search and rescue team that was gradually retreating from the mountain range. A figure draped in red concealed itself in the clouds and fog, vanishing from sight.
...
Several hours later.
When 【Wang Xinye】 saw Search and Rescue Team Three walking out of the mountain forest carrying stretchers, the stone hanging in his heart was finally set down.
"dical team, quickly!"
At 【Wang Xinye】's command, the accompanying professional dical team hurriedly stepped forward to take over. There were also white tents specifically prepared for dical purposes in the base camp. The crowd moved the nine people on the stretchers inside and began to busily check their physical conditions, turning on all sorts of instrunts.
As bursts of busy testing sounds rang out from within the white tents, the atmosphere in the base camp beca sowhat suppressed. The other staff mbers, just like 【Wang Xinye】, had personally seen the 【Exploration Team】 off and witnessed their group photo before departure. But at that ti, they never imagined that a single teorite fragnt exploration would end up like this... The entire team was practically wiped out, with only these nine people surviving.
"Have the others... all been accounted for?" 【Wang Xinye】's voice was sowhat hoarse.
"We have checked the corpses of the ard escort personnel one by one, and they all match the roster from when they set out... There is only one person whose corpse hasn't been found, nor are there any traces of survival."
"Who?"
"The 【Guide】, Chen Li."
"The 【Guide】..." 【Wang Xinye】 frowned and began to ponder. "He's a local and is relatively familiar with the situation inside 【Shennongjia】. Could he have taken advantage of the chaos and escaped?"
"But we didn't find any footprints of him escaping. Moreover, even if he did escape, he should have returned here. It makes no sense for him to go missing."
【Wang Xinye】 rubbed his chin with one hand, sinking deep into thought.
Right at this mont, a figure hurriedly ran over, his face incomparably pale!
"Commander! Commander!!"
Both of their gazes looked over at the sa ti and found that the person running over was a staff mber of the base camp. 【Wang Xinye】 spoke in a deep voice, "What's the matter, why in such a rush?"
"I... we, we found the 【Guide】 Chen Li in the mountain forest out back!"
"Oh?" 【Wang Xinye】 raised a brow and smiled. "Then it seems this 【Guide】 also survived... That's a good thing."
"No, Commander! His entire body was tied up with ropes and hung from a branch in the forest, and a cloth was stuffed in his mouth... If he hadn't struggled and broken the branch, falling directly to the ground, we wouldn't have discovered that there was a person in that forest at all..." The staff mber swallowed his saliva, his next words causing the smile on 【Wang Xinye】's face to instantly freeze:
"He said that he was knocked unconscious and tied up before they even set out! He never entered 【Shennongjia】 at all!!"
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