Cheng Cheng and the Cicada

Chapter 108 Smiling Face

Chapter 129 Information Exchange in Dreams

"Wait a minute."

Lin Xian grew serious, staring at CC.

"Are you saying... tonight, a batch of water-damaged books will be transported to the 314 waste disposal plant? Is this information reliable?"

"Of course, it's reliable, did you forget?"

CC picked up the Bluetooth earpiece-like device in her hand and shook it.

"This thing can see the tasks of each waste disposal plant, the routes of the garbage trucks, transportation schedules, and so on at any time. How could it be unreliable?"

"I look through the work lists of the surrounding waste disposal plants every day. I look very carefully, so I definitely won't misremember."

"The 314 waste disposal plant isn't far from here, and it's in the same area as Time Bank, so I pay close attention to it every day. Last night, their work list had an item about sending a special garbage truck to collect water-damaged books."

"Let me confirm again."

After saying that, CC put the Bluetooth earpiece-like device on her left ear, then her eyes became unfocused, her gaze fixed on a spot about eight inches in front of her. Her pupils flickered erratically, as if she was operating something.

"Found it."

CC's pupils stopped moving, staring at the air in front of her, she read aloud to Lin Xian.

"I'll just say the simple parts. It says that a large bookstore in the Dongcheng District had a water leak on the second floor, which caused a large area of the first-floor book section to be water-damaged. The relevant disputes and insurance company have already been handled, and now garbage trucks are being arranged for special transportation."

"Time... let me see. The 314 waste disposal plant has arranged four large garbage trucks to specifically transport the water-damaged books... This shows that the number of water-damaged books is quite large, requiring four trucks to haul them all."

"Departure time... the return time to the 314 waste disposal plant is 23:19. Okay, I misremembered the time. Since the arrival time at the waste disposal plant is so late, then it probably hasn't started burning yet."

"But you've already missed today's shift change for the supervisors. Even if you go to that waste disposal plant right now, it's too late. Besides..."

CC glanced over and looked at the supervisor in the waste disposal plant's control room.

"Besides, how we escape from here is a problem. I'm planning to find a place here and hide until the supervisor's shift change tomorrow before escaping. I don't know what you're planning."

"Thank you very much for the information. It's a timely rain." Lin Xian stood up.

"About the safe... If I can ever sneak into New East Sea City, I'll go take a look at what's inside for you."

CC raised her head, looking at Lin Xian in confusion.

"The second batch of garbage trucks is arriving soon. The safe is about to be transported over. What are you talking about?"

"I should be going." Lin Xian raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

"Where are you going?"

"Home."

Boom!!!!!!

Boom!!!!!!

Boom!!!!!!

The white light at 00:42 arrived as scheduled, burning everything in sight to ashes, illuminating everything, then returning to darkness.

……

……

"Hoo..."

In a corner of the bedroom, Lin Xian took a deep breath and sat up.

He got out of bed, put on slippers, and picked up the water glass on the desk, taking a few sips.

Lin Xian was very satisfied with the gains from this dream.

Quite fruitful.

CC's identity and her relationship with Chu Anqing were still confusing, but at least a few incorrect options had been eliminated, making his thoughts much clearer.

He still firmly believed.

The copy-paste similarity between CC and Chu Anqing could absolutely not be explained by coincidence.

But the specific reason depended on whether he could grasp any clues in the future.

Considering that CC was so persistent and desperately wanted to open that safe...

Could the answer to this question be hidden in the safe?

"Looking at it this way, the things in this safe are really something to look forward to."

Thump.

Lin Xian put the water glass on the table and wiped the corner of his mouth.

Actually, all along.

Lin Xian hadn't taken that safe too seriously.

After all, he had guessed the password so many times without success, and he wasn't very curious about the things inside, so many times he just treated it as a side quest to do conveniently.

It was best if he could try his luck, and it didn't matter if he couldn't open it.

He had always had this attitude towards the safe.

Far less obsessed than CC.

But now, at this moment, Lin Xian's thoughts had changed, becoming somewhat different.

Through the information exchange with CC in this dream.

He discovered that this safe seemed to hide many, many secrets... perhaps more than he had imagined.

Including the relationship between himself and that bearded man, the relationship between Chu Anqing and CC, the answers were probably all hidden in that safe.

"After going around in a circle, it finally comes back."

In fact, Lin Xian was still eager to try the 29990203 password today.

After all, this was his advice to his future self, and it was also the ideological stamp he had placed on himself.

Logically speaking, if his future self really had a day to set up a safe, he should definitely set it to this password. After all, there was no reason for him to go against himself... Why make things difficult for himself?

Too bad.

Heaven didn't help.

The hafnium alloy safe unloaded by the first batch of garbage trucks did not contain his safe, which was really disappointing.

What was even more disappointing was...

The second batch of garbage trucks containing his safe would not arrive at the waste disposal plant until 00:57, which could be said to be Schrödinger's garbage truck.

Come, seem to come, can't come.

Therefore.

To open the safe with his name written on it, there was only one way—

Sneak into New East Sea City during the day, find that closed Time Bank, and then open the safe that hadn't been transported away by the garbage truck.

"So, in the end, it's still necessary to sneak into New East Sea City."

"Well, at least all the main quests are concentrated on one main quest, making it easier to攻略." (No explanation)

"But tomorrow night, I still have to go to that 314 waste disposal plant to try my luck."

Lin Xian sat on the chair and thought.

Was he really still concerned about who the president of X Corporation would be 600 years later...

This was something closely related to him.

It was also directly linked to Zhao Yingjun's identity and position, and it was also likely to be a powerful clue for further investigation into the Genius Club.

X Corporation was so famous in New East Sea City, and even the entire New East Sea City was built by it. Lin Xian felt that finding information about this company shouldn't be difficult.

It should often appear in various newspapers, magazines, and books.

It was just that people in New East Sea City probably didn't read paper newspapers and magazines, so he didn't find anything in the waste disposal plant.

"But, the 314 waste disposal plant is different."

Lin Xian remembered CC's words very clearly.

The second floor of a large chain bookstore had a water leak, which caused a large area of the first-floor book section to be water-damaged, so a large number of water-damaged books were produced.

It took four large garbage trucks to transport them all... that meant that there were at least tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of water-damaged books.

Otherwise, why would it be necessary to send four large garbage trucks?

Moreover, the books in chain bookstores were very miscellaneous, with many types, including various magazines and periodicals, which for the current Lin Xian... was a treasure!

It shouldn't be difficult to find information and history about X Corporation in this "fresh" sea of books.

As for whether the book *Introduction to the Cosmological Constant* could be found in the 314 waste disposal plant, that would depend on luck.

This book sounded very niche.

It was hard to say whether it had been reprinted in recent years, and chain bookstores might not have these things.

"In short, let's try my luck."

"If I can find it, it's better than risking my life to sneak into New East Sea City... although I'll have to go to New East Sea City sooner or later."

Lin Xian yawned.

He went to the bathroom, closed the bedroom lights, and climbed back into bed.

Sleep.

……

The next day.

Lin Xian was awakened by Gao Yang's phone call.

"Good brother! Hurry! Hurry and help me save face!"

On the other end of the phone, Gao Yang was very anxious.

He told Lin Xian that he had already arranged the time for the high school reunion, which was scheduled for the evening of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and the location was in a large hotel near the new campus of his alma mater, Hangzhou No. 1 High School.

But!

He had just sent a notice in the class QQ group, but no one replied!

Not a single person replied!

In the past half an hour, he had been opening the class QQ group every minute to take a look, but no one had replied!

As the class monitor, this was too embarrassing!

He had to save face!

"So Lin Xian, you quickly log in to QQ and give me some support in the class group! Just say that you're going! That you miss the classmates! They will definitely respond for your sake!"

"What kind of face do I have..."

"You're the founder of Rhine Cat! You're not popular, but your cat is popular! Now who doesn't know Rhine Cat? Isn't that enough face? Go quickly, don't make this old class monitor so embarrassed, making it seem like I have no friends!"

Helpless.

Lin Xian had no choice but to download the QQ software again.

After a lot of wrangling, he finally convinced Tencent Corporation that he was himself and managed to log in.

After logging in, he received a lot of malicious messages from classmates whose accounts had been hacked. Lin Xian directly opened the high school classmate group.

There was only one message inside, which was the *Classmate Reunion Notice* sent by Gao Yang.

Indeed.

Half an hour had passed.

Not a single person had replied.

Lin Xian edited a message according to Gao Yang's request and sent it out.

"Classmates, it's been a long time! It's time to get together! See you when you come home for the New Year!"

However...

After waiting for several minutes, there was still no reply.

Lin Xian called Gao Yang directly.

"Give up. In this situation, no one is using QQ anymore. You should use WeChat to find them one by one. You can always find everyone through those classmates who have better relationships."

Gao Yang also accepted this fact.

Ding!

Just as he hung up the phone, a QQ notification pop-up appeared.

Someone had replied in the QQ group.

Lin Xian opened the group chat page—

"Okay Lin Xian, I'll definitely go!"

An extremely unfamiliar name and avatar sent this sentence.

After that...

There was also a smiley face ^^.