32: The King of Clouds 01

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Although he'd sworn to Wang KeMing it didn't matter if he missed the start of school, by the time Zong Yan passed all the hurdles and actually returned to Jiangzhou, Qingyang High School had already been in session for four days.

Zong Yan was a little worried.

The parental contact number he'd given the school belonged to a grandpa in the tube-shaped apartment building. If the school called to notify his guardian, Zong Yan would probably get a lecture when he went back.

So he quietly opened his WeChat, where he only had a few contacts, and turned to He Yuan for help.

【I Love Gauss】: He Yuan Ge, help out your didi. I won't make it back in time

【I Love Gauss】: If I miss the start of school I'll be in trouble

There turned out to be a bit of a misunderstanding here.

He Yuan's previous profile pic was the badge of Dragon Team 7. After he went on leave, he changed his WeChat avatar to a picture of a sunset he took in Syria.

Zong Yan wasn't used to sending messages to people. When he saw the Dragon Group pic in his friends list, he sent a message immediately.

Unfortunately, that was also the avatar of Si Yan, the leader of Team 7. His WeChat avatar hadn't changed for ten years, unlike He Yuan who updated it whenever he went on vacation.

This time, because of the incident in Syria, they'd been on assignment for almost two years and received an ample amount of leave.

Si Yan stayed in his dormitory endlessly playing games until his days and nights were switched around. Specifically, he was in the Top 50 of the PUBG international ranking list. A lot of overseas clubs sent him olive branches asking if he had plans to become a professional E-sports player.

But these easy days were coming to an end. Recently there were more and more unusual events in the occult world, and a lot of them were concentrated around Jiangzhou.

Based on the position of the celestial bodies, it was likely that when the stars returned, Jiangzhou would be the center of activity. Si Yan knew he might suddenly become busy in a few days, so he was playing games like crazy, trying to brush up on his skills.

Ding—

He'd just finished playing a game when the cell phone next to him produced a message beep.

Si Yan casually reached for the phone.

He didn't have many contacts. Most of them were work-related, and his WeChat was private. Generally, work would contact him by phone, and they were pretty ruthless about it.

Then he saw the message from 【I Love Gauss】.

Si Yan: ...

Wanted him to handle something, and mistook him for He Yuan. Si Yan didn't want to get mixed up in it.

At the other end, Zong Yan didn't wait for a reply. He didn't know much about online social etiquette and assumed He Yuan had received the message.

That was mostly because Zong Yan was busy preparing, which left him a little frazzled.

Since they were traveling back to China through the Gate of Truth, they had to go from Westminster Abbey to the outskirts of the Dreamlands.

When they reached the gate, he heard investigators with spatial awakening ability chatting about something.

"Why did the Gate of Truth move so early? Don't they usually move it half a month before the start of school?"

"Ugh, you didn't hear? Too much happened in London recently. Those British people said they were done. They told us if we didn't leave they'd cancel our subsidies in the Commonwealth, so we had to move the gate in a hurry."

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