Naming Technique of the Night

During the break, Wang Yun, Bai Waner, Hu Xiaoniu, and Zhang Tianzhen met up in the corridor.

The majority of the students coming and going were dressed in uniforms, while these four, due to not having received their uniforms yet, were in their own clothes and stood out markedly.

However, as students passed by them, they would deliberately keep some distance.

The logic was similar to how on a bus with many empty seats, if a beautiful woman sat alone in the back, most people would not choose to sit next to her unless there were no other seats available.

Hu Xiaoniu glanced at his pure gold Daytona watch on his wrist—it was 8 minutes before class started—and asked softly, "Let's start with your side, any anomalies?"

Bai Waner smiled and looked at Wang Yun, "No other anomalies, just a male student switched seats specially for Wang Yun."

"Don't talk nonsense," Wang Yun hit Bai Waner's arm lightly, "what if he didn't mean anything by it."

"You know exactly what I mean," Bai Waner said in a suggestive tone.

However, at that moment Hu Xiaoniu suddenly asked, "Is he a Time Traveler? Did he move next to you because he figured you were Time Travelers?"

In fact, Hu Xiaoniu was well aware that high school boys, even if they developed a crush, would not go so far as to switch seats on the first day to get close to the girl they liked.

So, Hu Xiaoniu immediately felt something was off.

Wang Yun and Bai Waner exchanged glances, "Probably not?"

"You have to remember this is Los Angeles City, one of the nineteen gathering places for Time Travelers, it's quite normal to have Time Travelers hidden around," Hu Xiaoniu analyzed, "be careful, it could be a big deal if he understands our conversations in English."

"He probably doesn't understand," Wang Yun said, "We talked about him to his face and he didn't stop working on his math problems."

"Like this," Hu Xiaoniu said, "next class, observe whether he frequently looks down at his arm. You get what I mean, right? If a countdown suddenly appears on someone's arm, out of curiosity or novelty, he will check it from time to time. This habit will only slowly change once he gets completely used to it."

Wang Yun thought for a moment and agreed, "Okay, I'll observe."

After class, the four met up in the corridor again.

"How did it go?" Hu Xiaoniu asked.

Wang Yun shook her head, "For 45 minutes, he didn't look at his arm once, even when he was idly daydreaming, he didn't glance at it."

Hu Xiaoniu sighed in relief, and Zhang Tianzhen asked, "Could it be that he guessed someone might observe him, so he deliberately didn't look at his arm?"

Hu Xiaoniu pondered for a moment, "For now, let's rule out the possibility that he is a Time Traveler. Generally, young people don't have such controlled restraint, nor would they think so comprehensively. If he really did what you said, that would be terrifying."

Zhang Tianzhen joked, "Then he might truly like Wang Yun."

"By the way, how are things on your side, any progress?" Wang Yun asked.

"None," Hu Xiaoniu shook his head calmly, "Liu Dezhu is great at playing dumb. We still can't find a weakness in him, we must slowly build up a relationship."

"Why not try to find a breakthrough with Jiang Xue?" Zhang Tianzhen suggested, "This way, at least before we reach City 18, we can learn about the current situation of City 18 through her."

"That's the only option, but it seems she's also not easy to get along with," Bai Waner said, "Wait, do you remember the little girl who called Qing Chen 'brother' yesterday? It must be our classmate Qing Chen; these two families must be very close."

"Shall we start with this Qing Chen then?" Zhang Tianzhen asked.

"Yes, let's start with Qing Chen and then get to know Jiang Xue through him," Wang Yun nodded.

...

During the second long break, Qing Chen was sitting in the classroom, head down, scrolling through his phone, recording all information related to Time Travelers.

At that moment, a voice came from beside him, "Qing Chen, Nan Gengchen, here, this is the water we just brought back from the school supermarket for you."

Nan Gengchen turned to look, and it was indeed a Farmer's Spring water just taken out of the fridge, the bottle covered with a dense layer of condensation.

Because their fingers were wet, the other person's slender, fair fingers looked even more crystal clear.

Classmates stealthily glanced in their direction, wondering when Qing Chen and Nan Gengchen had become so familiar with the transfer student?

The transfer student even bought them water.

Nan Gengchen asked blankly, "Is this… for me?"

Bai Waner answered with a bright smile, "Of course."

"Okay, thank you!" Nan Gengchen became excited.

Just at that moment, Qing Chen was looking down at his phone, as if he hadn't heard anything.

A news alert on his phone read: Authorities in the country successfully dismantled a site of illegal detention and rescued 12 "Time Travelers" who had previously disclosed their identities online.

Among them was a well-known internet celebrity who had suddenly disappeared.

The report stated that the criminals had kidnapped these 12 individuals to an abandoned factory in the suburbs, where they used threats and intimidation to extract their Inner World identity information.

They then coerced the Time Travelers into smuggling items using their bodies, by inserting medicine into their rectums, stomachs, and mouths to travel between the Inner and Outer Worlds.

At the crime scene, law enforcement seized a large quantity of Inner World medicines, primarily consisting of Genetic Potions.

Reportedly, the two types of Genetic Potions found at the scene couldn't enhance physical strength but could ameliorate hereditary genetic diseases: congenital deafness and congenital heart disease.

The authorities have arrested four suspects, but nine others remain at large; according to the confessions of the detained suspects, all nine fugitives are Time Travelers.

This news was truly shocking.

Previously, crimes involving Time Travelers were reported abroad, but now such unimaginable incidents were occurring domestically as well.

Now, surely no one will dare to publicly claim they are Time Travelers anymore, right?

Starting today, all Time Travelers must remain silent.

It's as if everyone is living in the Dark Forest.

"Qing Chen?" Wang Yun waited for a while next to him, and when Qing Chen didn't respond, she spoke up again to remind him.

Qing Chen snapped back to reality and took the mineral water: "Thanks, but you don't have to be so formal next time."

"We're neighbors after all, let's look out for each other," Wang Yun said with a smile as she sat down.

The classmates erupted upon hearing this; what was going on, Qing Chen and these two transfer students were neighbors?!

Qing Chen sat quietly in his seat, quickly figuring out what the others were planning.

He didn't pay attention to the envious or strange looks from his classmates, nor did he react to the jeers from some of the boys.

He just slowly began to understand the characters of Wang Yun and Bai Waner.

These people, under the halo of elite education, had seen the world too soon and had made their own calculations.

However, deep down, they hadn't really experienced true hardship; the depth of their cunning was only what they learned from adults and had not yet been tested by society.

So, just a few hours ago they were aloof, and a few hours later they suddenly changed their attitude, making it seem particularly awkward.

At that moment, Wang Yun laughed, "What are you looking at so intently? You didn't even respond when I called you?"

Saying this, the girl bent down to get a closer look at his phone, and when she suddenly came close, a faint scent of perfume from her body rushed into Qing Chen's nostrils.

It seemed intentional.

But when the girl saw the news on the phone, her body stiffened.

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