Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 837: 506, even more blown off, stars like rain

In the night, a whistling sound echoed.

One car window after another was shattered.

This was a new use of the Knight Vital Energy that Qing Chen discovered on the ridge.

He had been pondering a question: as the Knight Vital Energy transitioned from gas to liquid, it inevitably indicated an increase in quality. So, had the toughness and sharpness of the Autumn Leaf Knife improved?

Until he accidentally flicked away a snowflake.

In that instant, Qing Chen realized that the snowflake wasn’t shattered by the shock of his finger but was instead energized by the Knight Vital Energy like high-carbon steel of the ATS-34 model.

The Knight Vital Energy burst out from within his body, akin to the hammer of a gun striking a bullet, with the power exploding in an instant.

For a while in the past, Qing Chen felt that the Knight Vital Energy was somewhat useless.

In the era when the Knight ancestors created the organization, the three-foot punching energy or the Autumn Leaf Knife were very useful. However, in the modern technological environment, the power of firearms was enough to kill most enemies, thus turning the usage of the Autumn Leaf Knife from a “lethal weapon” to a “functional weapon.”

The throwing distance of the Autumn Leaf Knife was very short and restricted by “material.” Sometimes, when the Autumn Leaf Knife struck a person, the opponent might be fine, but the blade would break.

Therefore, when killing enemies, he relied more on ‘overwhelming them with virtue,’ as its lethality far exceeded that of the Autumn Leaf Knife.

Only during assassinations would he infuse Knight Vital Energy into his or someone else’s hair.

He had means to kill enemies from extremely long distances and close ranges, but he lacked an efficient mid-to-long-range killing method — and now he had it.

Not enough.

Still not enough.

Qing Chen knew that even with these, the Autumn Leaf Knife couldn’t replace an automatic rifle.

But he believed that the role of the Liquid Knight’s True Qi was far beyond just these.

The Knight Vital Energy was still surging within him like a tide, not yet stopped, not yet at an end, not yet across the river.

Only by taking the final step tonight and completing the next life-or-death ordeal could Qing Chen understand the complete form of this Liquid True Qi.

At this moment, the drivers in more than ten off-road vehicles were all dead. The members of the Mysterious Business Department didn’t even understand what had happened.

They couldn’t find bullet holes on the drivers’ foreheads, only a small bloodstain like a vermilion mark.

Before they could take a closer look, the rolling car bodies had knocked them around chaotically.

The vehicles skidded incessantly on the slippery icy road, sliding towards Qing Chen.

Jinguji Maki was just about to warn him to be careful when she saw the vehicles barely graze past Qing Chen.

Qing Chen didn’t move.

The boy stood in the high-beam light of the overturned vehicles from afar, with wind and snow drifting in the beams. The boy looked magnificent and brilliant.

Only then did the little girl realize that this was the life Qing Chen intended to give her.

This was her future life!

This was the longest path of all the shortcuts in the human world!

“Don’t move,” Qing Chen turned and smiled at the little girl.

He then walked towards the vehicles.

The next moment, golden arcs of electricity burst from his palm. Before the people inside the cars could climb out, the thunder controlled by the boy had already snuffed them out inside the vehicles.

At this moment, Jinguji Maki only felt that this brother of hers was simply omnipotent.

If this didn’t count as a god, then what would a god be?

Tonight, none who had fought against Qing Chen could leave the snowy mountain alive. He had other plans to execute.

After resolving everyone in the ten-plus vehicles, Qing Chen slowly walked towards the little girl by the roadside and gently asked, “Are you afraid of me?”

He extended his right hand. The wound on his arm had just reopened, with blood flowing down his sleeve to his hand, looking particularly gruesome.

The little girl took Qing Chen’s hand without hesitation, feeling the warmth in his palm: “Not afraid.”

The little girl continued, “Brother is a kind person, putting himself in danger for the villagers, just like when you saved me. Only today did I know that brother can smile.”

“Let’s go up the mountain,” Qing Chen held Jinguji Maki’s hand with one hand and carried the mountain bike with the other, treading heavily towards Mount Okuhotaka.

Dawn had broken, and they just needed to head towards the brightest part of the sky.

The little girl asked, “Will I also ride a mountain bike on the ridge in the future?”

“Of course,” Qing Chen nodded, “You’ll also need to climb hundreds of meters of sheer cliffs with your bare hands, and leap down from the snowy mountain… Are you afraid?”

“Not afraid,” the little girl said, “I want to follow the path you’ve walked.”

“I’m afraid that’s not possible,” Qing Chen chuckled. He was a Time Traveler, but the little girl was not.

She might be the first person in the Outer World to break the rules without traversing.

There are records in the consortium’s history that Ren He was the first in the Inner World to break the rules of confinement. Later on, Ren Xiaosu was born, accelerating the transcendent process of the entire world.

Before Ren He, there were no transcendents in the world. Everything began the moment Ren He unlocked the genetic lock.

Qing Chen wondered if the Outer World would be the same way.

He had a premonition that perhaps some people in the Outer World could awaken even without becoming Time Travelers.

If the little girl wasn’t an Internal Test Player, it would explain a lot.

The rules of this world were loosening.

Qing Chen wasn’t sure if this was good or bad, but the grand era of the Outer World might be coming.

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Climbing the snowy mountain was much more difficult than traveling on flat ground. Every time, the little girl had to use all her strength to climb for a long time.

In the past, Qing Chen would wait, letting her struggle to climb, no matter how hard or exhausting it was, he wouldn’t help.