Chapter 1600
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Chapter 1600: Mysterious Archives from the Han Dynasty
Deep night.
Nightwatcher Headquarters.
Lin Qiye, draped in a deep red cloak, walked through the empty floors. Under the pale lights, rows of metal shelves were neatly arranged, occupying most of the floor space.
At this hour, there weren’t many people at the Nightwatcher Headquarters to begin with, and this floor housed the most top-secret archives of the Nightwatchers. If Lin Qiye hadn’t been promoted to the upper echelon, he wouldn’t have been able to move freely here.
The birth and growth of the Nightwatchers, everything they experienced over the past century, was contained in this archive room, even more extensive than the archives of [Utopia].
Lin Qiye walked straight to the center of the archive room, where a bulky off-white desktop computer sat quietly on a desk.
This computer looked like a product from the last century, the kind of old item that even antique recycling stations wouldn’t want. Perhaps the most suitable place for it would be in a museum exhibition of electronic components.
Yet this seemingly ancient, cumbersome first-generation machine carried all the archive sequences of the Nightwatchers.
And in the entire Nightwatcher organization, only five people had the authority to use this computer… one was the current Commander-in-Chief, and the other four were department heads with crucial positions in the upper echelon. Lin Qiye, who managed the Special Operations Department, was among them.
In the empty, silent archive room, Lin Qiye sat alone in front of the computer and carefully browsed through the internal network’s index directory.
Only now did Lin Qiye truly understand how vast the Nightwatchers’ intelligence network was.
Setting aside the internal data of the Nightwatchers, at the top of the index directory were detailed files on all living human ceiling experts and ceiling candidates: Zhou Ping, Chen Fuzi, Guan Zai, Lu Wuwei…
Personal history, ability rating, potential rating, personality analysis, personal action analysis… each person’s file was over a hundred pages long. The personal history section was so detailed that it even included which classmate they had a crush on in elementary school, using this to model and simulate their psychological development.
Lin Qiye couldn’t understand those professional models and analyses, but he clearly knew that these files completely recorded their lives.
Moreover, they had classified the combat power and potential of human ceiling experts. Among all the human ceiling files Lin Qiye browsed, only “Zhou Ping” had an “S+” rating. “Wang Mian,” “Youlilang Bai,” and “Guan Zai” had “S” ratings, while the rest like “Lu Wuwei,” “Wu Tongxuan,” “Chen Fuzi,” and “Zuo Qing” were all below S level…
As for Lin Qiye himself, since he had just broken through today, his human ceiling rating hadn’t appeared yet, but in the ceiling candidate directory, his rating was also a conspicuous “S+”.
The Nightwatchers had been observing all human ceiling experts.
What was their potential? Was there a possibility they might betray Da Xia? What role could they play in war… This was the true meaning behind these files.
The Nightwatchers were the blade protecting Da Xia, with its edge pointed not only at enemies beyond the mist but also vigilant against potential dangers from within.
But what surprised Lin Qiye even more was…
“There are even files on the Gods of Da Xia??” Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed slightly when he saw a certain section.
These files were much vaguer compared to the ceiling expert files. Even the Nightwatchers’ intelligence network couldn’t fully grasp the power and personality of each Da Xia God. Their history was too ancient to investigate…
Lin Qiye didn’t know if these files were created when the Nightwatchers were searching for traces of the Heavenly Court before the Da Xia Gods appeared, or if… deep down, they were wary of the Da Xia Gods?
But thinking carefully, it wasn’t surprising… The Nightwatchers were an organization belonging to Da Xia, and Da Xia belonged to countless ordinary people. Before the Heavenly Court descended, who would know if the Da Xia Gods might rule this country through faith and miracles like the gods of other divine nations?
Myths were ultimately just myths. In that era, it was natural for the Nightwatchers to be skeptical about the ideals of the yet-to-descend Da Xia Gods. But now it seemed their doubts were unnecessary.
Perhaps, if the Da Xia Gods had truly intended to enslave people and collect faith like the gods of High Heaven who cultivated “human enclosures”… the Nightwatchers would definitely have fought them to the death.
Putting aside these complex thoughts, Lin Qiye began searching for what he wanted.
Among the numerous files, he selected all materials related to [Heroes], [Mediums], [Phoenix], as well as confidential files about other special departments.
Since he had taken on the role of department head, Lin Qiye naturally wanted to do well. Although he had never liked dealing with paperwork, to manage the entire Special Operations Department effectively, he first needed to understand all the department’s secrets.
Time passed minute by minute. After an unknown period, Lin Qiye rubbed his tired eyes and stood up from his seat.
“So much information…” Lin Qiye murmured.
After this period of reading, he had a general understanding of the structure of the Special Operations Department and most of its confidential secrets. Just as he was about to leave after completing his task, he suddenly paused.
After a moment of hesitation, he sat down in front of the computer again and typed a string of characters into the file index bar:
—Gods’ Mental Hospital.
“Nothing.”
There was nothing…
Lin Qiye tried to search for materials related to the Gods’ Mental Hospital using the Nightwatchers’ archive, but found nothing.
Lin Qiye sighed. As he pondered what else was worth searching for, the image of the little boy who had appeared in his mind during his coma surfaced involuntarily…
Every time he was on the brink of death, he would see that mysterious boy who looked very similar to himself. He had also heard from others about his remnant soul trapping [Chaos], and in his speculation, this matter was most likely related to that boy.
He extended his hands, trying to input index characters, but looked troubled.
How should he search? Little boy? That would yield too many results… How far back should he look?
After contemplating for a moment, he typed in a string of characters:
—Little boy, Lin Qiye
As Lin Qiye hit enter, two index file results appeared on the screen.
The first result was a file from about a dozen years ago, from Cangnan City, about a little boy named “Lin Qiye” who claimed to have seen angels… At the end of this file, there was a link that could directly jump to all of Lin Qiye’s files after he joined the Nightwatchers.
This wasn’t what Lin Qiye was looking for.
His gaze passed over this file and continued downward… then a look of confusion appeared in his eyes.
“The date on this file… is from the Han Dynasty?” Lin Qiye exclaimed in surprise. “Were the scrolls from the Demon Suppression Department back then transcribed into the archives? No, that’s not right… Why would my name be on a Han Dynasty file?”
With a heart full of questions, Lin Qiye clicked on the second file.
