After Lin Qiye pondered for a long time, a touch of night color stained his body. Countless insects and ants crawled out from the ground, circled around him for a moment, and then drilled back into the ground in an orderly manner.

Since no clues were found near the fishing village, perhaps we can use [Starry Night Dancer] to communicate with the nearby nocturnal creatures to see if we can find something different elsewhere.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Qiye seemed to have noticed something. He stared at his feet and uttered a soft "huh"...

…

Fishing village.

An Qingyu held the cigarette in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and then took a tentative puff.

“Cough cough cough…”

He started coughing violently.

"What? You don't know how to smoke?" Seeing An Qingyu's miserable appearance, Chen Gou couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and the last trace of vigilance in his heart was also let go.

This is a child who is ignorant of the world!

"First time." An Qingyu coughed for a long time before slowly putting down the cigarette and smiling helplessly.

"If you don't know how to smoke, don't smoke. It hurts your lungs."

"By the way, Uncle Chen." An Qingyu asked casually, "Do you smoke every day?"

"That's about right. I'm an old smoker. I feel uncomfortable if I don't smoke half a pack a day."

"Where do you usually get your cigarettes from?"

"There is a small shop at the west end of the village. I usually buy cigarettes there. What's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing. I just thought that if there is a small shop, I can buy some drinks... Uncle Chen, do you have any change for me?"

"Yes, wait a moment."

Chen Gou stood up, went back to the house to look for a while, came out with a few crumpled banknotes and handed them to An Qingyu.

"How would you like to change?"

An Qingyu's eyes fell on the banknotes. His pupils shrank slightly, but soon he regained his composure. He touched his pocket and scratched his head embarrassedly. "I'm sorry, Uncle Chen. I just touched my pocket and found that I didn't bring any change. I'm really sorry to bother you..."

Chen Gou was stunned, "It's okay, it's okay."

"Uncle Chen, I'm going to sleep first. You should get some rest early."

"Yeah, okay."

An Qingyu walked back to the room and locked the door. The gentle smile on his face gradually faded, and his expression became more solemn than ever before.

"Qingyu, what did you find?" Jiang Er asked worriedly when he saw An Qingyu's look.

"I have some ideas, but I need to verify them." An Qingyu walked to the window of the room, quietly opened the window, turned around and said to Jiang Er and Jia Lan, "You stay here, I'm going to go out for a while...

Remember, don't let your guard down and stay awake at all times. This place is definitely not as simple as it seems."

"good."

An Qingyu's body flashed, and he jumped out of the window and disappeared into the night.

…

The sky gradually brightened.

Baili Pangpang, Shen Qingzhu and Cao Yuan, who were sitting at the entrance of the village, couldn't help yawning when they saw Jialan and Jiang Er approaching from a distance.

"You came so early?" Galan asked in surprise.

The corners of Baili Pangpang's mouth twitched slightly, "Don't mention it, we've been sitting here all night..."

Jiang Er glanced at the three frustrated people and said uncertainly, "You all...didn't any of you manage to stay overnight?"

The three of them turned their heads and looked into the distance silently, as if they didn't hear Jiang Er's question.

Just as they were chatting, a figure stepped out of nothingness. Lin Qiye stood in front of them holding the handle of the [Zhanbai] sword. He glanced around and asked with some doubt:

"Where's Qingyu?"

"He went out alone last night and hasn't come back yet." Jiang Er pursed her lips, worry flashing in her eyes.

Going out alone?

Lin Qiye raised his brows.

An Qingyu is not a reckless man who would go out and wander around when he has nothing to do. Since he left Jia Lan and Jiang Er behind and took the initiative to attack, it means that he must have found some key clues...

"Don't worry, Qingyu is our deputy captain of Night. What can happen to him? He will be back soon." Baili Pangpang saw Jiang Er's expression and spoke to comfort him.

Lin Qiye nodded, "Then let's get started and tell us what you have discovered."

Baili Pangpang cleared his throat and told Shen Qingzhu everything they had seen and heard last night, as well as Shen Qingzhu's speculations.

"More than fifty years ago?" Jiang Er's expression was very shocked, but she thought carefully for a moment, and still spoke half-doubtfully, "Indeed... all the items here are very old, and there are almost no modern electronic devices. The magnetic field seems to be much cleaner than the outside world."

"But I still can't understand. We just walked along a coastline, how did we inexplicably go back to more than 50 years ago?" Cao Yuan frowned.

"Indeed, if this is really time travel, it would be too easy." Baili Pangpang agreed.

Lin Qiye pondered for a moment and said, "The theory of time travel really doesn't make sense."

The others looked at him in confusion.

"Last night, I tried to leave this fishing village." Lin Qiye raised his head and said calmly, "No matter which direction we went from, no matter what means we used, we couldn't leave this fishing village. If we really just went back to the past, there's no reason why we can only stay in this fishing village."

"Qiye is right, this is not time travel."

Just then, a voice came from a distance. An Qingyu, dressed in plain clothes, was walking slowly out of the village.

"Qingyu, what did you find?" Seeing An Qingyu coming back, Lin Qiye's eyes lit up.

An Qingyu walked over to the crowd, pushed up his glasses, and said, "When the fisherman handed me a cigarette last night, I realized something was wrong. That brand of cigarettes had been discontinued many years ago, and it should not be available in modern society.

Later, I checked the villagers' coins again, and then I was sure that there was something wrong with the timeline here.

So I immediately planted "fish seeds" in the rats here and tried to leave the fishing village in different directions. The result was the same as Qiye's attempt. No matter what method I used, I couldn't leave the scope of this fishing village...

So, the most fatal problem arises.”

An Qingyu spread out his palm, with a half-burned cigarette quietly placed in his palm, and said with a serious expression, "If this fishing village is completely closed, then where did these discontinued and very old materials come from?

For such a big fishing village, the daily necessities of kerosene, rice, flour and vegetables add up to a huge amount. I have already visited the only small shop in the village and found that the stock of goods there is only enough for the village to consume for five days at most.

So how did these things appear when there was no contact with the outside world and no way to get supplies? "

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