Lin An hid in an abandoned pipe well, trying to calm the surging energy in his body.
The swallowing just now was too risky, and he almost lost control.
The crystal disease seemed to have worsened a little, and his right hand became more transparent, and even the outline of the bones was vaguely visible.
He took out his pocket watch and stroked the cold symbols on it.
Mother's memory fragments, the man in black, the key...
The clues finally appeared, but they also brought greater danger.
Suddenly, a subtle "click" sound came.
Lin An instantly became alert and clenched the dagger hidden in his sleeve.
A palm-sized, pitch-black mechanical spider crawled in from the gap in the pipe.
Its eight legs were flexible and silent, and its compound eyes flashed with a faint green light.
Lin An recognized it.
This is the messenger of "Old Ghost".
Old Ghost, an underground intelligence dealer in Ash City, no one knows his real name or origin, only that he knows everything.
Lin An once helped him with some "dirty work" in exchange for sporadic information about his mother's disappearance.
The mechanical spider crawled in front of Lin An and stopped.
One of its compound eyes lit up, projecting a line of twisted encrypted text, which was directly reflected on the wet wall of the well.
[Boy, are you out of your mind? The girl from the Administration has set her sights on you. ]
Lin An's pupils shrank.
Old Ghost's news always comes so fast.
The text changes.
[Don't worry about the pursuers, what you want is on that watch. ]
[Your mother's pocket watch can open the 'door'. ]
"Door?"
Lin An frowned.
What door?
He raised the pocket watch and faced the spider's projected light.
Those twisted symbols seemed to have a strange rhythm under the light.
[Coordinates, written in reverse. ]
The mechanical spider projected the last line of words, and the light of its compound eyes quickly dimmed.
It curled up its eight legs and turned into an inconspicuous metal ball, rolling into a dark corner without a sound.
Coordinates... written in reverse?
Lin An suddenly looked at the symbols on the pocket watch.
He tried to mirror those symbols in his mind...
The longitude and latitude coordinates of the earth? !
A coordinate point located deep in the Pacific Ocean that he had never heard of!
How is this possible? !
The inside of my mother's pocket watch was not engraved with any mysterious symbols, but... an earth coordinate pointing to an unknown place?
What does this have to do with alien civilization? !
Countless questions hit Lin An's brain.
But he knew that the old ghost would not shoot without purpose.
This rusty pocket watch hides secrets far beyond his imagination.
And the so-called "door" may be the key to solving all mysteries.
Outside the pipe, the sound of orderly footsteps and the beeping of energy detectors could be heard faintly.
Bai Jin's men were already chasing after him.
Lin An took a deep breath and clenched his pocket watch.
His transparent right hand seemed to feel the coldness of the pocket watch and... the heavy mission.
He had to find the "door".
Before that, he had to survive from these pursuers!