Chapter 1151: Era Gradually Changing

Era Gradually Changing

Ring ring ring——

Light rain was falling everywhere. The urgent ringtone of a mobile phone constantly sounded from Shen Nan's pocket, but he seemed to not hear it.

The phone screen flickered bright and dark. A caller remark was marked in the center, buzzing along with the phone's vibration:

Bureau 749 Director Sun.

Waiting until he was completely far away from the old house and there was no one around, Shen Nan finally pressed the answer button.

"... Hello?"

"Shen Nan, do you know what you are doing?" On the other side of the phone, a deep middle-aged man's voice sounded. "I've been calling you for half a day and you didn't answer. If you still don't answer this time, your name will also be on the blacklist in a bit."

"I'm answering now, aren't I..." Shen Nan answered vaguely.

"I went back to my hometown for a bit... What's wrong?"

"Tell me the truth." Director Sun paused for a moment. "What exactly is your relationship with Ghost-Mock World-Ending?"

Shen Nan held an umbrella, glancing at the direction of the old house with his peripheral vision, letting out a long sigh,

"No relationship..."

"You saved him in front of so many people, and still say there's no relationship?"

"I smelled the aptitude of [Nuo] on him, so I didn't want him to just die like this, and then found him alone to chat... The result you also know, our chat fell apart. He was blown to pieces by your missile on the cliff. That's the story." Shen Nan's tone was very calm, as if he had almost forgotten this matter.

"... Do you know how many people in the bureau are dissatisfied with you right now? If I wasn't withstanding pressure from all sides to protect you, you would already be on the road to being arrested right now... And as a result, you didn't answer my phone for half a day."

"I know I was wrong, Director Sun." Shen Nan gave a dry laugh.

"... Let's not talk about this. I called you this time because there's another matter."

"What?"

"In two days, the Wushan Conference, you must come."

Shen Nan was taken aback, asking in doubt, "Is it the Intangible Cultural Heritage Exchange Conference? Why has it been changed to Wushan... Moreover, it shouldn't be the date yet this year, right?"

"Due to some reasons, the conference has been moved forward." Director Sun's tone was incomparably serious. "This time's conference is different from previous years... All registered Divine Path Possessors are forced to participate, especially you. Right now other people in the bureau have a lot of opinions about you. Don't cause any slip-ups for me, understand?"

"... I understand."

Shen Nan hung up the phone. His gaze looked through the umbrella brim where raindrops slipped down, towards the dim, misty sky in the distance... Director Sun's mysterious tone, as well as the inexplicably advanced Wushan Conference, for some unknown reason, all gave him an ominous premonition.

...

"The call isn't going through..."

Lu Xun put down his phone. Three consecutive outgoing calls failing to connect prompts lit up on the screen, his complexion somewhat ugly.

If not for Chu Changqing's help, it would have been very difficult for Lu Xun to break out of the laboratory and seek help from Chen Ling at that time... If because of his leaving, it led to Chu Changqing falling into a dangerous situation, Lu Xun would feel extremely guilty.

"It seems his situation is not too good." Chen Ling slowly spoke.

"Lu Xun, don't you know the director of 749? Why not directly call and question him?" Su Zhiwei's brow furrowed tightly.

"... No, we can't." Lu Xun's train of thought was very clear,

"If Bureau 749 is really taking action against Chu Changqing, calling Director Sun at this time will only alert the snake by hitting the grass... If they secretly transfer the person, it will be troublesome."

"Exactly." Chen Ling nodded slightly. "Right now, besides ourselves, no one is trustworthy."

Chen Ling didn't have any good impression of Bureau 749. He also hadn't heard of matters regarding this organization in the era after the Great Cataclysm, showing that this organization didn't make any outstanding contributions during the Great Cataclysm period. Right now was also not the time for everyone to sit down and chat amiably...

Chen Ling's goal was very simple: snatch back the Lord of the South Sea, protect his safety, and have him be on the same united front as himself.

After a simple discussion, everyone reached a consensus and quickly got into the car.

"Where's Shen Nan?" Su Zhiwei sat in the back seat, only then remembering that she hadn't seen Shen Nan until now, asking in doubt.

"He's not with us."

Chen Ling sat properly in the driver's seat. His palm gently patted on the car surface. Electric currents roamed over the car body, directly modifying an ordinary sedan into a 12-cylinder performance monster. Lightly stepping on the pedal, it let out a beast-like rumbling roar.

Through the rearview mirror, Chen Ling glanced at the misty sky behind,

"To him, the less he is involved with us, the safer he is."

"Indeed..."

Chen Ling drove the car, directly driving out of the village. Along the way, quite a few villagers looked over here in doubt, but because Chen Ling had already modified the car's appearance, no one knew when this car came over, only looking in doubt as the taillights disappeared into the hazy misty rain.

Chen Ling went straight forward along the main road, suddenly turning to look at Lu Xun in the passenger seat:

"Dr. Lu, you should know the location of the laboratory, right?"

"I know, but I'm not too familiar with the road entering the city from here... Wait a moment, I'll turn on the navigation."

While speaking, Lu Xun took out his phone. His fingertips swiped rapidly, as if searching for something.

A moment later, his brow furrowed tightly, letting out a soft sound of surprise.

"What's wrong?"

"Strange... why can't the navigation be used?" Lu Xun opened the car window and stretched the phone out the window. "There's clearly a signal..."

Hearing this, Yang Xiao raised his eyebrows in surprise. He stretched out his hand: "Let me see."

Lu Xun handed the phone to Yang Xiao, the latter fiddling with it in his hands for a moment, his brow also furrowing:

"It's not a network signal problem... the satellite signal is broken."

"Perfectly fine, how could there be a problem with the satellite signal?" Su Zhiwei also looked at the phone. "Try changing to another navigation software?"

"I've tried, it's useless... It's not a single satellite that has a problem, but all satellite signals are broken. It's as if... all satellites broke at the same time."

Although Yang Xiao had grasped Magnetic Field Theory, regarding the situation before his eyes, he was also somewhat puzzled.

"Yang Xiao is right, we are not the only ones encountering this problem."

Chen Ling's voice suddenly sounded.

Everyone looked up simultaneously, only to see that on both sides of the road entering the city, many sedans had already parked at some unknown time.

Yellow hazard lights flashed one after another in the water mist. A group of figures were holding their phones high, walking back and forth by the roadside, still cursing incessantly from time to time, as if greeting the parents of the navigation software.

Chen Ling slowed down, driving slowly through the torrent of hazard lights...

Facts proved that modern people driving had basically lost the ability to recognize roads. Without the guidance of navigation, they were Unable to Move in the intricate and complex urban traffic.

"The satellite signal should be able to recover after a while, right?" Lu Xun's brow furrowed tightly. "Otherwise... half of the ground traffic will be paralyzed."

In Chen Ling's profound eyes, the jumping hazard lights around were reflected. He didn't answer this question, but calmly pulled the gear to the fastest S+...

"We have to hurry up."