Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 865: 528, a lily flower

The world plunged into darkness.

And lit up again.

Countdown to return: 720:00:00.

This time travel would again last thirty days.

Qing Chen had experienced numerous crossings and returns, yet each time he went through this world transition, it still felt wondrous.

It was as if some god had used the most magical method to forcibly meld the two worlds together, influencing each other, gradually becoming indistinguishable from one another.

Things that couldn’t be done in the Inner World could be done in the Outer World.

People that couldn’t be killed in the Inner World could be killed in the Outer World.

Qing Chen looked at the pitch-black night in front of him. After a month, he was still in the stinking pigsty, chained with shackles weighing hundreds of pounds on his hands and feet.

Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke were still hanging outside the pigsty.

The time dislocation between the Inner and Outer Worlds almost made Qing Chen hallucinate: It seemed as if these two had been hanging there for a month.

This illusion caused Qing Chen’s emotions, which had already calmed down a bit, to surge once more.

Qing Chen slowly stood up in the pigsty, waiting.

He silently counted down from ten seconds in his mind.

When the countdown ended, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded throughout the entire A02 secret military base.

The alarm hadn’t sounded here in a long time, prompting the prisoners who had already gone to bed in the surveillance area to get up.

One by one, they pressed their ears against the tightly shut iron doors of their cells, trying to figure out what was happening.

However, they only heard chaotic footsteps, leaving them clueless.

Qing Chen stood in the pigsty, slowly raising his heavily shackled arms, treading step by step on the muddy ground mixed with ice chips, then walking to the edge of the pigsty.

The shackles were so heavy that everything he did seemed like slow motion, even though he had just ascended and could not disregard the weight.

Qing Chen stood at the edge of the pigsty, looking towards the direction of the military camp, then slowly opened his palm and placed a lily flower he had been holding for an unknown amount of time next to Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke.

He looked at the night sky and softly said, “I wish you both to be born in a peaceful era in your next life, where the birds sing, and flowers bloom, where old men practice sword in the park, and someone sells breakfast downstairs. Where children can run carefree, and the weak are not bullied.”

That was something he brought from the Outer World.

Many people thought that trapped in here, Qing Chen must have brought something back from the Outer World to help him escape. Even though he couldn’t bring back large weapons in his palm, a grenade would do.

But Qing Chen didn’t. He only brought back a flower and the gold coin given by the old man.

Qing Chen smiled and said to the corpses of Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke, “Rest assured, I will avenge you. Besides, I will also bring out the remaining brothers of the Qing’s Family. Thank you.”

This “thank you” was for redeeming his once lost self.

Unexpectedly, after doing all this, Qing Chen sat down in the pigsty.

He did not immediately spring up to kill, nor did he try to escape, calmly like an unconfined person.

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Over at the military camp, Jindai Yunzi, who was in charge of the entire A02 secret military base, was looking at the dormitory in front of him with a grim expression.

The wide dormitory that could accommodate hundreds of people looked like a makeshift hospital, with a bed every few meters.

There should have been 621 Time Travelers participating in training lying here, but now there were only a dozen, their bodies covered with burns, gunshot wounds, and knife wounds.

These dozen people were screaming in agony.

Jindai Yunzi knew what had happened: Someone in the Outer World had precisely wiped out the trainees in the A02 secret military base!

For the Time Travelers, a month had passed.

For Jindai Yunzi, he had just finished inspecting the camp, and his six hundred plus men were gone the next moment.

It’s important to know that when Time Travelers die in the Inner World, their bodies return to the Outer World.

When they die in the Outer World, they disappear into thin air upon the next crossing.

The Federation news had reported many people disappearing into thin air before, people who were drinking in a bar and then suddenly became air.

As if someone had erased them with a rubber eraser.

It must have been Qing Chen who did it.

But Jindai Yunzi couldn’t understand how a mere prisoner, even if he could operate in the Outer World, could pull off such a grand plan!

And this was the final task Qing Chen had assigned to Ji Guanya.

Jindai Yunzi’s satellite phone rang. Jindai Yunxiu had reported everything that happened in the Outer World to the ten directors the moment he returned.

And the first thing the ten directors did was to inform Jindai Yunzi to raise the alert level, and reinforcements had already been dispatched.

“Daytime,” Jindai Yunzi muttered as he looked at the empty Time Traveler camp, then led over a hundred soldiers toward the surveillance area.

The commander of the A02 base was already internally tumultuous.

He hadn’t expected the heavy casualties they suffered here to be just the tip of the iceberg of what happened in the Outer World.

Jindai Yunyi, Jindai Yunjue, Jindai Yunwu, Jindai Yunye, these four core members were all dead.

The shrines in the Outer World were destroyed, and a thousand people were killed by the joint efforts of the Master of Daytime and Zard. This act was nothing short of terror.

Is this the price of imprisoning one person?!

This cost is too high!

“Open the door to the surveillance area… wait a moment!” Jindai Yunzi originally wanted to go straight to Qing Chen, but he stopped, steadied himself for over ten seconds to regain his composure, and said, “Open the door.”

He came to the pigsty and looked at Qing Chen sitting on the ground inside, calmly saying, “I thought you would escape the moment you returned, but it turns out you’re much more cowardly than the legends suggest.”

Qing Chen smiled, “I guess you just calmed yourself, right? After all, you now understand the price of imprisoning me.”

Jindai Yunzi fell silent, his thoughts exposed. He glanced down where a lily flower lay, quietly commemorating the departed souls.

He sneered, “I thought you would bring something useful back from the Outer World, but all you brought was a useless flower? They are all dead. What use is it to give them a flower now.”

Qing Chen replied with a smile, “Don’t envy them. Your grave will also sprout flowers one day.”

Jindai Yunzi’s face turned completely grim.

Qing Chen said, “Want to kill me? I bet you don’t dare because someone is waiting for me to ascend to B-Class, right? Am I right?”

Jindai Yunzi scrutinized Qing Chen and said, “What if you’ve guessed correctly? This is the Jindai Consortium’s stronghold, surrounded by defending troops and field units constantly patrolling the wilderness. To rescue you, someone must first traverse layers of military defense zones from the south, rescue you, and then face army pursuits. Even a demigod would avoid the aerial fortress that dominates the skies.”

Jindai Yunzi continued, “Under such circumstances, even if you can retaliate against the Jindai family in the Outer World, it won’t shake the foundation of the Consortium. Even if you escape the A02 secret military base by luck, you will eventually be recaptured. As a prisoner, you’d better be aware of your status. Mere words won’t help you.”

Qing Chen smiled and did not retort.

Jindai Yunzi was right about one thing; Li Family and Qing’s Family were in the Central Plains, while Jindai and Deer Island were up north.

The A02 base was at 52 degrees north latitude, even farther north of the Jindai family.

To rescue Qing Chen, one would have to traverse all of Jindai to reach him and then find a way to evade all pursuits and return to the Central Plains.

On the run, they would face entire units of the Jindai Corporation Army and this era’s god-slaying technological weapons.

It was almost an impossible task.

That is why Qing Mu, who was once imprisoned here, never received a rescue attempt.

It was just too difficult.

Qing Chen aimed to do more than just escape; he wanted to take the Qing intelligence personnel from the A02 secret base with him.

If Jindai Yunzi knew Qing Chen’s plan, he would probably laugh out loud.

Because the idea was too naive.

Jindai Yunzi stomped the lily flower into the ground, the white petals crushed into the mud: “Do you think in such a situation, your boss from the Daytime organization would come to rescue you? He is only B-Class. Even Li Changqing’s Qing Shan Falcon had already turned back. Who else would come to save you? Just stay here and await the consequences of your arrogance.”

After speaking, Jindai Yunzi conducted a final check. He summoned a shikigami, slowly approaching Qing Chen.

ATS-331, Mao You.

The two-tailed shikigami, which only caught mice, approached Qing Chen but did not kneel.

Confirming this, Jindai Yunzi left. He needed to report the situation at the A02 secret military base.

Once Yunzi departed, Qing Chen stood up and said to the night wind, “Two of you, stay with me in the cold wind a little longer. I will let you witness the destruction of this base with your own eyes. I will bury you in the northern soil, not to abandon you, but to let you see the Jindai flag fall.”

The message he brought back should have already spread through the cold wind.

Give his faraway friends some time.

Qing Chen calculated the time: “Wait another five days.”

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There’s another chapter at 11 pm