Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 869: 532, the Time Traveler in A02

Snow began to fall at the A02 secret military base.

Snowflakes drifted through the cracks in the pigsty’s roof, landing on Qing Chen’s hair.

Qing Chen sat against a pillar in the cold, muddy ground while a few black pigs huddled together for warmth nearby, not daring to move.

In the dormitories of the surveillance area, a prisoner lying on a bunk asked, “Do you think Inspector Qing Chen is still building that stone wall?”

“He probably is.”

Dawn broke.

The first thing the prisoners did upon exiting the surveillance area was look toward the pigsty, but everyone was stunned because the figure building the stone wall had stopped.

For the prisoners, they didn’t know Qing Chen was a Time Traveler, nor what Qing Chen did in the Outer World, let alone why Qing Chen had stopped.

They only heard the Jindai soldiers mention Time Travelers but still didn’t know what a Time Traveler was.

All they could see were the bodies of Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke hanging outside the pigsty.

And that stubborn young man no longer built the stone wall; he just sat quietly in the pigsty, as if he had been defeated by the world.

Someone whispered, “Why did he stop… how could he stop.”

That stone wall had unknowingly become something the prisoners looked forward to the most; they hoped Qing Chen would never fall, never be defeated by Jindai.

But now, Qing Chen had stopped.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

At this moment, Jindai soldiers brought Qing Chen a lavish meal, but there were no chopsticks.

All the prisoners watched as Qing Chen hesitated not a bit, grabbing the food with his hands to eat.

The prisoners were herded toward the quarry by Jindai soldiers, and as they passed the pigsty, someone suddenly shouted at Qing Chen, “Stand up!”

“Qing Mu persisted here for two years. He only collapsed when he got sick. How many days have you lasted?!”

“Are you going to be penned up like a pig by Jindai? Stop eating!”

Qing Chen still sat there, not even blinking, as if he heard nothing.

Just then, someone suddenly spat into the pigsty.

The spit landed on Qing Chen’s head, but he still had no reaction.

In the next moment, a Qing intelligence personnel member suddenly turned around and punched the spitting prisoner in the face, “What the fuck are you doing?”

Not just this intelligence member, but all Qing intelligence personnel stood up, confronting the others.

The Jindai soldiers nearby did not stop them; they just watched the show.

A prisoner sneered, “Isn’t he penned up like a pig now? Just with better food. Why did Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke die? They gave up their protein bars to keep his dignity intact! But now? He’s gobbling Jindai’s food. What’s their death worth now?”

Among the Qing intelligence personnel, a middle-aged man said slowly, “This is his business. What’s it got to do with you?”

As the brawl was about to break out among the prisoners, a shot rang out, startling everyone.

Jindai Yunzi walked over, sneering, “Don’t you have work to do? Move! Today, all Qing’s Family people will have their tasks doubled. No meals unless completed.”

The prisoners lowered their heads and continued to the quarry. Though the Qing intelligence personnel had stood up for Qing Chen, no one looked toward the pigsty.

Not out of shame, but compassion.

They couldn’t bear to see the most outstanding young generation of Qing’s Family, who ended up being penned up just like Qing Mu.

Jindai Yunzi walked to the pigsty, covering his nose with a black sheepskin glove, taunting, “It’s admirable that you can still eat here. Even the prisoners look down on you.”

Qing Chen looked at him, “If you don’t dare to kill me, then get lost.”

Jindai Yunzi fell silent, sneering after a long pause, “I can’t kill you, but I can kill others. The Winter Hunt was scheduled for a month later, but I plan to move it up now.”

The so-called Winter Hunt was the graduation ceremony for all ‘Baqi’ organization trainees at A02 base, requiring each to kill a prisoner to graduate.

Based on the schedule, the soldiers here had a month until graduation, which would be around February when the temperature slightly warmed.

Qing Chen looked at Jindai Yunzi, “Your Time Travelers in the training camp were wiped out by my Daytime. What will you use to hunt?”

Jindai Yunzi laughed, “Do you think there are only Time Travelers in the A02 base? I have more than 800 elites selected from the Jindai Corporation Army. Naturally, the prey could be fewer. This time, how about I only hunt Qing intelligence personnel? They number 927 people, which is enough.”

Qing Chen corrected, “929 people, including Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke.”

Jindai Yunzi ignored Qing Chen’s stubbornness, lightly saying instead, “Now, if you kneel to me before these prisoners, I’ll spare those Qing intelligence personnel, how about it?”

Qing Chen pondered for a few seconds, then began analyzing aloud, “I guess the reason you dare not touch me is only one: someone wants to take over my body. So the question is, who would make you go to such lengths? It must be someone with a high status.”

“The head of the Jindai? As far as I know, he just took over a body 7 years ago.”

“The Jindai Onmyoji ancestor? Yes, it must be him.”

“What kind of person is he? Rumor has it he was capricious and eerie in his early years. If someone like that took over my body and you witnessed this body kneeling to you, living in a pigsty, do you think he would spare you? Of course not, he’d kill anyone aware of this body’s past, including you. Only then could he continue living with this body, cleanly.”

Jindai Yunzi was taken aback upon hearing this, understanding what Qing Chen meant.

Though the body wasn’t the ancestor’s yet, if the ancestor took over and someone told him, “This body used to live in a pigsty and knelt to Jindai Yunzi,” what fate would Yunzi meet?

Jindai Yunzi sneered, “Sharp-tongued, wait here and see how many Qing heads I bring back after this hunt.”

Qing Chen said nothing, just methodically finished his meal, leaving nothing behind.

Jindai Yunzi’s hunt was in three days.

But according to his calculations, the rescuers might need five days to be prepared.

Besides, the timing of his most critical plan would make five days the best opportunity to act.

He looked up at Jindai Yunzi, “Send some more water; this is a bit hard to swallow.”

Just then, an A-Class Floating ship descended from the sky. Jindai Yunzi looked up, laughing, “Do you still think you have a chance to leave? Don’t be delusional.”

As he spoke, the A-Class Floating ship landed, and the rear hatch opened. Twenty-four jet-black War Robots paraded out.

They didn’t go elsewhere but stood directly around the pigsty.

It seemed they would take action at any movement.

“This is just a small part that you can see. Rest assured, even a Demigod couldn’t save you,” Jindai Yunzi said, looking at Qing Chen, then walked away without looking back.

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In the dead of night, the prisoner dormitory was quiet, save for the soldiers’ footsteps patrolling outside the iron gate of the surveillance area.

The boots with iron soles thudded on the ground, echoing in the empty surveillance area.

In the dormitory, someone suddenly said, “The intelligence officer from your Qing’s Family, this generation is much lesser than Qing Mu. When Qing Mu was still here, he was the person I admired the most.”

Someone else echoed, “What a pity.”

The speaker was one of the Li Family’s intelligence heads in a northern city, imprisoned after his subordinates were turned by Jindai.

No one from Qing’s Family spoke because they didn’t know what to say.

Another voice added, “There’s nothing else to do here, just moving stones day after day. When Inspector Qing Chen came, I thought things would get a bit interesting, but it’s no different. I’m not blaming him; I just wish he could last a few more days. I knew he’d fall eventually, but I didn’t want him to fall so fast.”

A Qing intelligence officer lying on the bed clenched his fists.

Just then, someone whispered, “Have you heard of Time Travelers?”

“Yeah, I heard those Jindai bastards mention them. Seems like a bunch of transmigrators?” someone asked in surprise, “What, Iron Egg, do you know Time Travelers? Did Jindai tell you?”

Iron Egg replied, “I am a Time Traveler; I came here two months ago. My real name isn’t Iron Egg. That was a nickname you gave my original body. My name is Wang Shuang!”

“What?”

Many in the dormitory sat up, looking at Iron Egg. They never expected a Time Traveler to be among them.

Iron Egg continued, “Other Time Travelers crossed directly into cities, enjoying the high life. But I was fated for this place; I was traveling in the Outer World’s Mohe City… only to cross here, to this shithole.”