Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 738: 432, Ambush, Bloody Battle_2

Luo Wanya had been tracking the young man for quite some time, yet the latter kept moving forward without ever looking back, as if completely unaware that someone might be following him.

Under normal circumstances, individuals who pose a danger are often in a state of crisis. Even if they haven’t received formal counter-surveillance training, they gradually develop a sense of counter-surveillance.

Qing Chen replied, “Has he noticed you?”

Luo Wanya texted Qing Chen, “Boss, he hasn’t noticed me, and he hasn’t even looked back at me.”

A few seconds later,

Qing Chen suddenly replied, “Leave first. Liu Dezhu and Nan Gengchen are coming to support you. It’s dangerous.”

Luo Wanya was startled.

He instinctively looked around himself; nothing was amiss.

But Luo Wanya wasn’t one to act recklessly. Since the boss had mentioned danger, there must be real danger.

He turned and started walking in the opposite direction, preparing to leave.

However, he then discovered that somehow seven people had followed him, and along with Qing Yuan ahead, they subtly encircled him.

At that moment, Luo Wanya realized that this was a trap.

The young man in the matrix uniform turned around, removed the white mask from his face, and with a somewhat mocking expression, looked at him, “You’ve gone to such lengths to find me, I’m curious who is behind you. A Shadow Candidate, perhaps?”

Qing Yuan knew something.

If everything that happened tonight was actually unrelated to Wang Zhenbei and Li Yi, if Wang Zhenbei had never colluded with Jindai or Deer Island, then someone had deliberately fabricated the event.

Thus, the target was definitely not Wang Zhenbei.

But himself.

Therefore, if he were to leave halfway, the people who followed must be one of the planners behind tonight’s event.

All he needed to do was capture one of them for interrogation, and the truth would emerge.

Yet, Luo Wanya didn’t engage him, but used his fastest typing speed and the little time he had left to send a message to Qing Chen, “Boss, this person might be the one you’re looking for, but his appearance is completely different from the photo you gave me.”

This old veteran, even while surrounded, still used this brief time to send the most important message to Qing Chen.

The person in front of him wasn’t disguised as Qing Yuan at all!

Qing Yuan’s appearance wasn’t hard to find in the Inner World’s intelligence system, being a scion of a conglomerate, he’d attended one or two events before.

Yet, Luo Wanya was astonished as the other party, in his speech, actually admitted he was Qing Yuan, but the appearance didn’t match.

Qing Chen, too, was stunned by the message, as this was an unexpected variable.

Wait a moment, before this, all intelligence had never revealed Qing Yuan’s caliber level nor confirmed his status as a Cultivator or Awakener.

Qing Chen wondered, could Qing Yuan’s ability be similar to the Puppeteer, capable of controlling others?

In the history of the Federation, there were 7 Awakeners with such abilities, among them, Puppeteer was a power delineated by one with controlling abilities.

The conditions for using controlling abilities are unusually stringent, even laden with many odd restrictions, and Awakeners cannot use their powers freely.

But if a Transcendent with controlling abilities advanced to A-Class, they would become extremely dangerous, even capable of challenging the social order single-handedly.

Uncle Li Dong had once told Qing Chen that the Awakener who delineated the Puppeteer was an A-Class expert from the Federal Army Group.

Back then, some strange occurrences had surfaced in the 127th Brigade of the First Army Group.

A soldier had officially reported to the staff that the atmosphere within the 127th Brigade was eerie, as if many people were controlled by an unknown entity.

He explained in his report that a comrade, who was previously very close, suddenly acted like a stranger, having forgotten all past incidents.

And it wasn’t just this one comrade who was acting oddly.

Once, when he woke up in the middle of the night, he suddenly discovered eight comrades quietly watching him from beside his bed, not uttering a word.

Since then, the reporter began to silently observe the barracks.

This reporter noticed that his roommates often quietly got up several people at a time, in the dead of night, and it was unknown where they went.

Because of all these eerie incidents coming together, the reporter finally decided to report the matter.

The staff from the First Army Group sent 12 military policemen to investigate the matter, but when the military police found the reporter, he denied all the odd phenomena, claiming he was just disgruntled with the senior soldiers bullying him and wanted some revenge.

Qing Chen’s first reaction was that the reporter had ultimately been controlled!

And he thought, if the entire 127th Brigade had been controlled, wouldn’t that be terrifying?

What if the entire First Army Group was controlled, wouldn’t that be even more frightening?

So, an A-Class controlling type Awakener was truly horrifying.

The crucial issue was that, after controlling others, it was like planting a seed in their bodies.

At A-Class, even if the Awakener himself died, as long as more than half of his seeds survived, he could be reborn in the bodies of those seeds.

This was the most terrifying part.

Of course, there was a way to counter it, which was to kill more than half of his seeds in one go. Even if the Awakener himself didn’t die, such controlling type Awakener would become a vegetative state, his consciousness completely submerged in Chaos.

Qing Chen asked his master, what happened later?

Uncle Li Dong said that back then, the First Army Group was Qing’s Family turf, so after the staff reported the issue to the command, it was the contemporary Shadow who directly intervened to resolve the issue.