Ningchang County.

Sunset coastline.

Black vans sped along the wide road and stopped at the edge of the coastline. A large number of people got out of the vehicles and silently and quickly began to set up cordons around the coastline.

"Eh? What's going on? Why is it still closed?"

“Yeah, isn’t this a tourist attraction?”

"What happened up front?"

“I don’t know…”

“…”

When the tourists who were still checking in and taking photos on the coast saw this scene, they started talking about it. Soon someone came to maintain order, evacuated the tourists, and completely blocked the entrance to the scenic area.

A car stopped near the cordon, and several figures wearing dark red cloaks got out of the car and quickly approached the coastline.

"Hello, I'm Zhou Dao, the captain of Team 197 stationed in Ningchang County." The leading man stretched out his hand and shook hands with another man who had just evacuated the tourists.

"I am Lv Ruici, a special investigator from the Shangjing City Headquarters."

After the two shook hands, they quickly walked across the cordon and headed towards the coastline ahead.

"What's going on here now?" Zhou Dao asked in confusion, looking at the busy crowd. "Didn't we say we're here to look for the missing Masked Team? Why are we setting up such a big scene here?"

"This is an order from Commander Zuo himself. Master Chen is on his way here."

“Has the situation become so serious?”

Lu Ruici didn't explain much, just nodded slightly, and pointed to the end of the coastline in front.

"Has anything happened around here before?"

Zhou Dao hesitated for a moment, "No, there has been no 'mysterious' incidents in this area, but after receiving your information, I immediately checked the local police station files and found that there have been three disappearances here."

"A missing person?"

"Yes, these are all cases of tourists visiting this area and then suddenly disappearing. The oldest case was more than 30 years ago, and the person hasn't been found yet."

Lu Ruici nodded thoughtfully.

"Shouldn't we go in and check out the situation first?" Zhou Dao couldn't help but ask in confusion when he saw that everyone was standing neatly outside the cordon without taking a single step inside.

"No, Commander Zuo has given an order. We can only take action after Master Chen arrives." Lu Ruici said firmly.

"When will Master Chen arrive?"

Lu Ruici was about to speak, but as if he had noticed something, he turned his head and looked towards the end of the sea level.

Between the azure sky and the sea, a carriage was passing through the rolling waves like a ghost, stepping on the sea surface, approaching here at an alarming speed. As the carriage swayed, the copper bell hanging on the front end of the carriage jingled.

"He's here." Lu Ruici's mouth corners slightly raised.

The ghost carriage passed over the sea at an astonishing speed and finally stopped in front of the two people.

The curtain of the carriage was drawn, and Master Chen, dressed in a gray robe, sat behind a low table, holding a cup in his hand. He glanced at the two people calmly and asked, "Who is Lu Ruici?"

"It's me, Master Chen."

"Where is the place Zuo Qing mentioned? Is there any news from the Nightfall team?"

"There is still no news about the Nightfall team..." Lu Ruici stretched out his hand and pointed in a certain direction, "But the coordinates they left before they disappeared are just ahead. Commander Zuo has instructed that we can only cooperate with you after you arrive."

"Um."

Master Chen nodded and said, "Let's get in the car and take a look."

Zhou Dao was startled and turned to look at Lu Ruici, who nodded slightly at him and took the lead to walk into the carriage, followed closely by Zhou Dao.

"This carriage looks so new." Zhou Dao couldn't help but say as he sat in the carriage, looking around curiously.

Master Chen's hand holding the cup trembled slightly.

Lu Ruici coughed lightly, leaned over to Zhou Dao's ear, and whispered, "In the battle of gods two years ago, Master Chen's carriage was smashed by the Nine Pillar Gods... This is a new carriage."

Zhou Dao then realized that he had said the wrong thing and lowered his head in embarrassment.

"There's nothing to be ashamed of." Master Chen drank his tea slowly, his eyes calm, "It's true that I was not as skilled as the gods back then..."

He looked at the "heart scene" of birds singing and flowers blooming outside the window and continued,

“But now, they can’t do that.”

"drive!"

The book boy sitting in the front of the carriage drove forward, and the copper bell hanging on the eaves jingled again. Master Chen waved his hand lightly, and the "mental scene" of birdsong and flowers outside the window disappeared without a trace. The next moment, the walls and top of the entire carriage faded like ink. Sitting in the carriage, one could clearly see the coastline outside.

"360° sunroof with no blind spots?" Zhou Dao opened his mouth in shock. "Is this new car so smart?"

Lu Ruici glared at him, and Zhou Dao silently closed his mouth again.

The carriage was speeding forward, the coastline outside the window was rapidly receding, and Lu Ruici's brows were getting tighter and tighter.

"Strange... It should be right here." Lu Ruici looked around and asked in confusion, "Where is the fishing village? Why can't I see the fishing village?"

The rough waves beat against the gray-brown shore. There was nothing around the carriage except a deserted gravel beach. There was not even a hermit crab, let alone the fishing village that Lin Qiye mentioned on the phone.

"Could it be that the address is wrong?" Zhou Dao asked.

"Impossible. The signal location of the last phone call was also here. There is no mistake."

At this moment, Master Chen, who had been resting with his eyes closed, seemed to have noticed something, opened his eyes, and suddenly said, "Stop the car."

The servant tightened the reins and the carriage stopped quickly.

Master Chen's figure flashed and he flew out of the carriage. He stood on the deserted gravel beach in a gray robe, his brows slightly furrowed.

Zhou Dao and Lu Ruici got out of the car and looked around, but found nothing.

"Master Chen, what did you find?"

Master Chen did not answer. He stood on the shore, looking up at the blue sky with his eyes slightly narrowed.

After a while, he raised his hand and pointed at the half-hidden shadow of the moon in the sky.

"From this angle... the moon is red."

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Shangjing City, Night Watch Headquarters.

"Can't find the fishing village?" Zuo Qing's eyes became serious after receiving the call. He thought carefully for a moment and said, "Chen Lu did not deny the existence of the fishing village, which means that the address given by Lin Qiye should be correct. Perhaps the fishing village used some other means to hide itself..."

Zuo Qing glanced at Chen Lu who was still in the interrogation room, and every conversation he had with him flashed through his mind.

In the initial conversation, Chen Lu was very surprised that he and his friends found the fishing village, but when he answered the date, he laughed again...

Is the date the key to whether or not one can enter the fishing village?

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