Chapter 868 – An Qingyu’s Discovery

　　After pondering for a long time, Lin Qiye’s body was drenched in a touch of night color, and countless insects and ants crawled out from the earth, circling around him for a few moments before burrowing back into the earth in an orderly fashion.

　　Since he didn’t find any clues near the fishing village, perhaps he could use [Starry Night Dancer] to communicate with the nocturnal creatures in the vicinity to see if he could find something different elsewhere.

　　I don’t know how long it took, but Lin Qiye looked like he sensed something, his eyes gazed at his feet, and he let out a light eep ……

　　Fishing Village.

　　An Qingyu clamped the cigarette in his hand, and after hesitating for a moment, he still took a tentative puff.

　　”Cough cough cough ……”

　　He coughed violently.

　　”What? Can’t smoke?” When Chen Gou saw this wretched appearance of An Qingyu, the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but rise, and the last trace of wariness in his heart was let go.

　　This is an uninitiated child!

　　”First time.” An Qingyu coughed for half a day before slowly putting down the cigarette and smiled helplessly.

　　”If you don’t know how to smoke, it’s better not to smoke, this thing hurts your lungs.”

　　”Right Uncle Chen.” An Qingyu asked in a seemingly offhand manner, “Do you usually smoke every day?”

　　”Almost, I’m an old smoker, I don’t feel comfortable without smoking half a pack a day.”

　　”Where do you usually get your cigarettes?”

　　”There’s a kiosk at the west end of the village, I usually go there to buy cigarettes, what’s wrong?”

　　”Oh, nothing, I just thought that if there is a kiosk, I can go by and buy something to drink …… Uncle Chen, do you have change in your house that you can change for me?”

　　”There is ah, you wait a moment.”

　　Chen Gou stood up, turned back to the house and looked for a while, took a few crumpled bills and walked out, handing them to An Qingyu.

　　”How do you want to exchange them?”

　　An Qingyu’s gaze fell on those few bills, his eyes contracted slightly, and he quickly regained his composure, he felt his pockets while scratching his head in embarrassment, “I’m sorry Uncle Chen, I just felt my pockets, and realized that I brought change, I’m really troubling you …… ”

　　Chen Gou froze, “It’s fine, it’s fine.”

　　”Uncle Chen, then I’ll go to bed first, you rest early.”

　　”Uh, good.”

　　An Qingyu walked back to her room, locking the door with her backhand, the gentle smile on her face gradually converged, her expression unprecedentedly grave.

　　”Qingyu, what have you discovered?” Jiang Er saw An Qingyu’s appearance and asked with some concern.

　　”I have some ideas, but I still have to verify them.” An Qingyu walked to the window of the room and quietly opened the window, turning back to Jiang Er and Jia Lan, “You guys stay here, I’ll go out ……

　　Remember, don’t let your guard down, be sure to stay awake at all times, this place is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface.”

　　”Good.”

　　An Qingyu’s figure shifted and directly rolled out the window, her figure disappearing into the night.

　　The sky was brightening.

　　Sitting at the entrance of the village, Baili Fatty, Shen Qingzhu, and Cao Yuan couldn’t help but yawn when they saw Jia Lan and Jiang Er walking in the distance.

　　”You guys came so early?” Seeing this, Jia Lan opened his mouth in some surprise.

　　The corners of Baili Chubby’s mouth twitched slightly, “Don’t mention it, we’ve been sitting here all night ……”

　　Jiang’er’s gaze swept over the frustrated trio, and spoke with some uncertainty, “You guys didn’t …… have a family that didn’t manage to borrow a room for the night, did you?”

　　The three of them silently turned their heads to look into the distance at the same time, oblivious to Jiang Er’s question.

　　Just as a few people were chatting, a figure stepped out from nothingness, Lin Qiye stood in front of the crowd with the hilt of the [Zhanbai] blade in his hand, and with a sweep of his gaze, he asked with some doubt:

　　”Where’s Qingyu?”

　　”He went out alone last night and hasn’t returned yet.” Jiang’er pursed her lips, her eyes flashed with worry.

　　Went out alone?

　　Lin Qiye’s eyebrows raised.

　　An Qingyu wasn’t a reckless person who went out blindly with nothing to do, since he left behind Jia Lan and Jiang Er and took the initiative to go out, it meant that he should have found some key clue ……

　　”Don’t worry, Qingyu is our [Night Curtain] vice-captain, what could go wrong? It’s estimated that he’ll be back soon.” Baili Chubby saw Jiang Er’s expression and spoke out to comfort him.

　　Lin Qiye nodded, “Then let’s start, tell us what you all found out.”

　　Baili Chubby cleared his throat and told all about what they saw and heard last night as well as Shen Qingzhu’s guesses.

　　”More than fifty years ago?” Jiang’er’s expression was very shocked, but after she thought carefully for a moment, she still spoke half-heartedly, “It’s true that …… all the items here are very much of their age, and there’s almost no modern electronic equipment, and the magnetic field seems to be a lot cleaner than the outside world.”

　　”But I still can’t understand, we just walked across a coastline, how did we somehow return more than fifty years ago?” Cao Yuan frowned.

　　”Indeed, if this is really time travel, it’s too easy.” Baili Chubby agreed.

　　Lin Qiye pondered for a moment and said, “This theory of time travel really doesn’t make sense.”

　　The others looked at him suspiciously.

　　”Last night, I tried leaving this fishing village.” Lin Qiye raised his head and calmly said, “No matter which direction we go from, no matter what kind of means we use, we can’t leave this fishing village by half a step… If we really just simply went back in time, it doesn’t make sense that we can only stay within this fishing village.”

　　”Seven Nights is right, this isn’t time travel.”

　　Right at this moment, a voice came from the distance, An Qingyu was dressed in civilian clothes and was slowly walking from within the village.

　　”Qingyu, what did you find?” Seeing that An Qingyu had returned, Lin Qiye’s eyes lit up.

　　An Qingyu walked to the side of the crowd, pushed up his glasses, and said, “When that fisherman handed me cigarettes last night, I found the clue, that brand of cigarettes was discontinued many years ago, and can’t be bought in the modern world at all to be right.

　　Then I confirmed the villagers’ coins, and that’s when I dared to determine that something was wrong with the timeline here.

　　So in the first place, I planted ‘fish seeds’ for the rats here, and tried to leave this fishing village in different directions, and the result was the same as what Seven Nights had tried, no matter what method I used, I couldn’t leave the scope of this fishing village ……

　　So, one of the deadliest problems has arisen.”

　　An Qingyu spread out his palm, a half-burned cigarette silently placed in his palm, his expression serious as he opened his mouth, “If this fishing village was completely closed, then where did these discontinued and extremely dated supplies come from?

　　Such a big fishing village, the necessary kerosene, rice and noodles, vegetables is not a small number, I have gone to the only kiosk in the fishing village, the goods inside the reserve is only enough for the village to consume for five days at most.

　　So with no contact with the outside world and no way to get goods in, how did these things appear?”