Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 746: 437, Yang Yang was elected as Director with the highest number of votes

Kunlun distributed a single sheet of paper to everyone, with a total of 240 online IDs listed, no real names.

Each Time Traveler only needed to check off the people they wanted to vote for on the sheet, up to a maximum of nine.

Then, the nine people with the most votes would go on stage to campaign for more votes.

Qing Chen glanced over the list and was surprised to find his own name, along with those of Yangyang, Liu Dezhu, and Nan Gengchen. Was this to facilitate Daytime choosing a representative to be a Director?

Next to him, Yangyang looked towards Qing Chen, unhappily saying, “Why choose me as Daytime’s representative? I don’t want to be a Director.”

Qing Chen asked, “Who was gloating just now? Aren’t you a member of Daytime? Didn’t you just say that whatever the boss asks you to do, you’ll do it?”

“That was just to elevate the boss’s status,” Yangyang said with a frown.

Qing Chen watched the crowd silently and murmured, “Don’t worry, when it’s your turn to campaign, just intentionally don’t canvass for votes. All I need is for you to remember his power field when you stand alongside Qing Yuan. Afterward, I’ll figure out a way to find him.”

Yangyang was stunned for a moment. “So that’s it. No wonder you had Kunlun list Qing Yuan as a candidate Director, to prompt him to show himself, making it easy for me to tag him.”

“Yes,” Qing Chen nodded. “It might still not be Qing Yuan himself who comes, but I only need him to make an appearance so I can identify which puppet is his.”

According to Kunlun’s rules, even while campaigning, everyone can wear masks or dress up as Slime.

Therefore, given Qing Yuan’s behavioral habits, it’s highly unlikely that he himself would attend. If Qing Chen had that ability, he certainly wouldn’t either.

But at the moment, Qing Chen didn’t even have a clue, so he needed to find a starting point first.

The arrival of Yangyang seemed to give Qing Chen some clues to uncovering the other party.

The ability to sense power fields and tag others is not something ordinary people can do.

Moreover, voting here was done using online IDs, and Qing Chen needed to know whether Qing Yuan’s ID really was Guan Jue.

Yangyang curiously looked at Qing Chen: “Aren’t you afraid that Kunlun will discover something?”

Qing Chen smiled and said, “Boss Zheng is so smart; he must have already noticed. Continuing to hide it would only make me look foolish. Besides, I also know Boss Zheng’s Inner World identity now.”

Daytime members, on their forms, checked off Yangyang, Zard, Huan Yu, and Guan Jue.

Yangyang futilely checked off ‘Ice Eye’ as a last struggle.

Qing Chen was curious: “How is Kunlun supposed to control the outcome with this method of free selection and public vote counting?”

He looked at the venue, recalling the details that had just unfolded, and noticed a strange pattern.

Organizations that truly had a chance to become a Director were personally handed forms by Lu Yuan.

Another group of people, wearing masks, received forms distributed by Ni Ergou.

Qing Chen realized that, among the nearly one thousand people in the venue, over two hundred were Kunlun’s own members.

Previously, many had said that Kunlun was hiding a team that had appeared during the manhunt for Liu Dezhu by Wang Yun’s parents and had also made appearances against Jindai and Deer Island.

But they quickly vanished again.

It seemed that this group of people had once again been brought to the venue under Ni Ergou’s arrangements, pretending to be individuals but checking off Kunlun’s desired list as directed.

Ordinary organizations, even Red leaves, could barely muster more than twenty people, so how could they compare to these two hundred plus?

Weren’t they able to choose whoever they wanted?

Cheating!

The vote counting was next. Yangyang watched, dismayed, as she was elected as a Director candidate with the highest vote count of 379, not only by Kunlun’s two hundred plus members but also by members of the Matrix, Red leaves, and various Time Travelers who were dazzled by her.

The nine candidates were Zard, Yangyang, Xiao Ran, Haicheng Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jian Shouqing, Guan Jue, Mountain City Spicy Chicken, Lu Yuan, and Yu Cheng.

The last two were real names, one belonging to Kunlun and the other to Kyushu.

The choices for chairman and vice-chairman were also clear now: Chairman Zheng Yuandong, Vice-Chairman He Jinqiu.

The Federation meeting had finally reached the main topic and was nearing its end.

Zard was the first to go on stage to campaign.

Wearing a full Slime costume, he shuffled onto the stage: “Hello everyone, I am the representative of Daytime… something doesn’t seem right. Oh, sorry, I’m the representative of Mr. Huan Yu!”

Beneath the stage, Huan Yu, hidden in a Pikachu costume, watched expressionlessly as his unreliable subordinate spoke. He felt he would sooner or later meet his end at the subordinate’s hands.

Zard looked at everyone and said, “Since I was young, my mother told me that if the class needed to choose class officers, you have to be proactive…”

Blah blah blah, he spoke for about ten minutes.

Just when everyone thought it was about to end, Zard continued, “In junior high school, my father told me…”

Zard took over an hour to introduce his entire family and friends to the audience.

The atmosphere in the venue became quite tense for a moment.

Yangyang was actually happy for him to talk more, thereby delaying her turn to go on stage.

In everyone’s state of collapse, Zard turned the campaign into a process of elimination.

Initially, most weren’t firmly decided on whom to choose, but after Zard’s campaign, they finally knew who not to choose.

It didn’t matter who became a Director, as long as it wasn’t Zard.

Yangyang suddenly felt a sense of urgency.

Qing Chen looked at her curiously, “Why do you seem a bit nervous?”

Yangyang spoke earnestly, “I need to hurry up and go on stage, or if another one is eliminated, I’ll actually be elected.”

Qing Chen was caught between laughter and tears, so this girl was still thinking about how to lose the election?

When Yangyang took the stage, she simply said, “Hello, everyone, I’m Yangyang, but I don’t want to be this Director, so please do not vote for me.”

After speaking, she stepped down.

However, just at that moment, Qing Chen suddenly started to clap, “We need Directors like her who speak less, vote for her, vote for her, vote for her!”

With just that sentence, Qing Chen stirred up resonance in everyone.

Yangyang turned to Qing Chen, “…”

At that moment, she realized that it was inevitable for her to become a Director.

From then on, everyone’s campaign speeches were remarkably brief. Zard spoke for 1 hour and 49 minutes alone, while the following eight candidates spoke for a total of 40 minutes.

Not even close to a fraction of Zard’s time.

The only thing that piqued Qing Chen’s interest was that ‘Guan Jue’ really showed up, he was Kunlun’s officially verified Qing Yuan, though it might not be the person himself, but Yangyang had already said she remembered his energy field.

Qing Chen turned to Yangyang, “If we see this person again, would you be able to recognize him?”

Yangyang said, “As long as he hasn’t been burnt to ashes, I will definitely recognize him.”

“What level is he?”

“D-Class.”

“Then it seems he is not the real deal,” Qing Chen pondered, if it were the real Qing Yuan, his power level should be higher.

It seems that Qing Yuan needs many conditions to create Puppets, just like a Puppeteer.

Otherwise, he would definitely try to turn more powerful individuals into Puppets.

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The Federation meeting ended.

Yangyang was elected as Director with the highest number of votes.

The Time Travelers said their reluctant goodbyes.

Unlike the intensity with Daytime, everyone here made a lot of friends.

The person in charge of the Red Umbrella Organization, Jian Shouqing, even shed tears on the spot, inviting the Time Travelers he knew to Kuncheng to eat mushrooms.

The scene was quite touching.

Watching this, Qing Chen suddenly felt as though everyone came to make friends, while only Daytime came to stir up trouble.

Standing next to him, Nan Gengchen curiously asked, “Brother Chen, are we leaving just like that?”

“Yes,” Qing Chen nodded, “We’re about to travel again soon. Let’s go back to Los Angeles City and properly rest up in case it’s another month-long trip.”

This time travel, he had a lot to do.

Finding Qing Yuan.

Helping the Parents’ Meeting gain a foothold in City 10.

Trading Qing Mu.

Unearthing clues about the Taboo belonging to Qing Xing.

However, Qing Chen did not feel tired.

For some reason, compared to the joy of the Outer World, he found the tension and thrill of the Inner World more appealing.

Daytime had indeed left, and Yangyang also followed them to Los Angeles City, wanting to visit Daytime’s new base.

She claimed she was, after all, an official member of Daytime and needed to recognize their home.

As Daytime set off on their journey home, a young man stood outside the high-speed rail station, somewhat puzzled, “They really left? So, the ones targeting me were not Daytime? Who could it be then, Qing Xing?”

On the high-speed train, Yangyang looked at Qing Chen curiously, “Since you knew that person followed us to the station, why didn’t you act?”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “Because I’m not yet confident that I can find his real body, so if I can’t kill him completely, it’s better not to draw disaster to all of Daytime. Letting him suspect others first is also a strategy. If he really starts a fight with Qing Xing, even if they don’t, attacking other Shadow Candidates isn’t bad either. Besides, since you’ve already reached City 10 in the Inner World, we can find that Puppet if we want to. Let’s observe how he controls the Puppets in secret—that could be quite good. He thinks everything he does is unseen and unheard, but it’s all under our surveillance, isn’t that nice?”

Yangyang muttered quietly, “Those who play tactics have dirty hearts.”

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Er, sorry everyone, that’s all for today.

A rather unexpected event has occurred recently; Ren Xiaosu’s brother or sister is about to come into this world. A few days ago, my wife started experiencing morning sickness. Pregnant women really suffer during this time, and their moods are not very stable, the house is in chaos, so I need to spend more time with her.

If it’s a girl, without any surprises, she will be called Ren Xiaomian. If it’s another boy… I haven’t thought about what to name him if it’s a boy; I’m currently resistant to the idea, hopefully, it won’t be a boy…