Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1187: Chapter 690: The Secret Beneath Whale Island

Countdown 144:00:00.

The Agricultural College was brightly lit.

“Everyone, work a bit faster. We can’t afford any mistakes during these two rounds of breeding from this return. Each fruit could be a matter of life and death, so please be careful not to damage them.”

Xiao San’s hands were still bandaged, and Xiao Qi spared no effort leading everyone in a new round of transplantation.

Double, double again, and double once more.

The crop yields on Whale Island had already reached an immensely alarming number.

If everything went smoothly, at the next crossing, each Time Traveler in City 10 should be able to eat four Immortality fruits.

By then, everyone’s chances of survival would be greatly increased.

Everyone knew that the aftermath of the mouse plague would occur at the next crossing, and it would be a fierce battle.

Sun Chu Ci, Tuan Zi, and others were seen carefully picking the Immortality, fearing that any mishap could cause future planting issues.

What they were handling now were not just fruits, but lives and hopes.

Qing Chen returned to the Agricultural College, only to see Zard and Xiao Yu somehow brought over a table and were sitting beside it peeling crayfish…

Zard, after getting Qing Chen’s permission, took his name to request two servings of crayfish, intending to indulge while the small kitchen was free.

As a result, upon hearing it was a nighttime snack for the dean, the head chef prepared ten servings in one go.

However, these two weren’t peeling the shrimp for themselves but for Li Tongyun and Jinguji Maki beside the table…

Xiao Yu patiently peeled the crayfish and placed them onto a small plate in front of Jinguji Maki, without eating a single one herself, yet she smiled brightly.

Zard was doing the same.

“Xiao Tongyun, Xiao Zhenji, what brings you here?” Qing Chen asked curiously.

“We came to see you,” Li Tongyun said. “We were planning to leave when we didn’t find you, but Zard and Xiao Yu insisted we stay and have some shrimp, and now Xiao Zhenji and I are stuffed.”

Zard laughed heartily, “Who knew peeling shrimp for someone else could be so enjoyable.”

Qing Chen looked at Li Tongyun, “You must have other things to discuss, right?”

Li Tongyun stood up, wiped her hands, and pulled Qing Chen and Xiao Zhenji outside.

At the edge of the sea cliff, Xiao Tongyun whispered, “I come here every day to train climbing with Xiao Zhenji. Once, when it got late, she said that after midnight, it seemed like there were many friendly voices calling her from under Whale Island. Of course, not all were friendly; one voice was quite sinister.”

Qing Chen frowned, “Under Whale Island?”

Until then, not even Kunlun had delved into what was beneath Whale Island; no one had ever gone down to check.

In everyone’s mind, an island was just an island; there should be rocks beneath, nothing else.

But now, the bottom of Whale Island didn’t seem so simple, and Qing Chen decided to take a look, “Wait here for me, I’ll go down and have a look.”

“Will it be dangerous?” Li Tongyun asked.

“No,” Qing Chen replied. “Whatever is under Whale Island, if it could come out, it would have already; it wouldn’t just stay at the bottom calling for Xiao Zhenji. If it hasn’t come out by now, it means it can’t get out by its own power and wants Xiao Zhenji’s help.”

This was the simplest logic.

Qing Chen had Zhenji manifest a waterproof flashlight, then took a leap off the twenty-meter cliff.

The two little girls waited nervously by the shore until the flashlight’s beam descended into the depths of the sea, swallowed by the black waves.

Qing Chen circulated his Knight Vital Energy, breathing through his skin.

He initially thought diving would be a strenuous task, but later discovered that when he reached around ten meters deep, a gentle pull guided him towards the base of Whale Island.

The mountain base of Whale Island grew narrower, resembling an inverted snowy mountain.

Qing Chen intermittently gauged the intensity of the pull, deciding whether he needed to leave this enigmatic whirlpool.

Otherwise, he ran the risk of being sucked into some unknown place, which would be dangerous.

However, the pull didn’t intensify with depth.

As he descended, he examined the stone walls of Whale Island’s base with his flashlight, finding them barren, with not even moss or seaweed.

After some unknown period, Qing Chen suddenly found the space ahead opening up, the view brightening with a soft purple light emerging!

He had reached the very bottom of Whale Island, and before him now appeared…an inverted island village.

Within the village, inverted cherry blossom trees grew, and the soft purple glow emanated from the ever-blooming cherry blossoms.

Various fish swam leisurely through the cherry blossom canopies, sometimes slow, sometimes swift.

The sea was crystal clear, and the scene before him was breathtakingly beautiful.

Qing Chen stood there in a daze, not expecting the underbelly of Whale Island to be so magnificent.

In the village, triangular wooden huts were neatly arranged, appearing to be inverted and nestled in the base of Whale Island, with terraces extending out in neat rows in the distance.

In front of the small wooden huts, there was a stone mortar for pounding rice cakes, inside which an octopus that loved to burrow rested.

In the center of the village, a well with a two-meter diameter stood, and Qing Chen suddenly realized that all the underwater pull originated from this well, which was continuously sucking seawater into the depths of Whale Island.