Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 880: 542, Shadow!

City No. 5, Mountain City.

Ginkgo Manor on the mountainside was still brightly lit at 4 a.m.

This place was like a playground that never sleeps. Every night, the young ones from the consortiums, who saw no future in their family, would drive their sports cars and set the whole city ablaze with noise.

However, the small house on the hill of Ginkgo Manor remained quietly tranquil.

As if they were two worlds that never merged.

In the small house where the Qing Clan House Master resided alone, the old man was still sitting cross-legged in the dark with his head bowed, lost in thought. Qing’s shadow stood silently waiting behind him.

No one knew how much time had passed before the shadow said, “You succeeded.”

“Mm,” the old man responded casually.

With a calm voice, the shadow said, “When Qing Chen left A02 base, he took all of Qing intelligence personnel with him. This shows that he already has Qing’s Family in his heart. Since that’s the case, you should be mocking my weakness. Why are you not speaking this time?”

The old man spoke softly, “To win against you only means that I failed to teach you well, there is nothing to be happy about. If you won against me, that is worth celebrating.”

The shadow fell silent; this old man always had a unique way of thinking, different from normal people.

Just as the old man initially felt that merely having Qing Chen bring Qing Mu back wasn’t enough to make Qing Chen esteemed. Only by making him the second Qing Mu could he gain that prestige.

In fact, during that rescue mission, Qing Chen could have been rescued early on, but the old man deliberately ‘sent’ him to A02 base.

The mysterious expert who found Qing Chen and was chasing Jindai Yunhe around the world must be the old man’s person.

The information about Qing Chen in the film crew was also leaked by the old man using secret agents.

Even the people the Jindai Consortium originally sent to capture Qing Chen were not Jindai Yunhe, but another expert named Jindai Yuncang.

The old man sent someone to stall Jindai Yuncang, forcing the Jindai Consortium to send Jindai Yunhe instead.

Just because the old man felt that although Jindai Yuncang was stronger, Jindai Yunhe’s methods were more varied and had a higher success rate of taking Qing Chen away.

All of this, the shadow only found out later.

The old man wanted all Qing intelligence personnel to remember the name Qing Chen and wanted the 929 personnel inside A02 base to genuinely praise Qing Chen from their hearts. This was the result the old man sought, and now it had been achieved.

Thrilling yet without danger.

No, the shadow thought, perhaps for the Qing Clan House Master in front of him, everything was calculated, without any surprises or dangers?

The shadow suddenly asked, “When I was looking at the satellite map just now, I thought of a question. Six years ago, you had me personally go to the Northern Snowfield to hunt down a traitor. At that time, I thought he had family secrets, which was why you wanted me to kill him personally. But later, I discovered it wasn’t the case. He was just a small fry. I couldn’t understand why someone like him needed me to travel thousands of miles to kill?”

“But just now, I saw on the map that the location where I hunted him was precisely the route the Field Teacher is advancing now. You know, my Door of Shadow can only open in places I’ve been to. So, you planned all this long ago, setting up the prerequisites for me opening the gate there? But the time travel hadn’t even started back then,” said the shadow.

Lightly, the old man said, “You don’t need to think of me as being so mystical. Go, bring Qing Chen home. Let him enjoy the support and applause he’s earned. And let Jindai know they’ve provoked someone they shouldn’t have.”

The shadow gave the old man a deep look, then directly opened the Door of Shadow and walked in.

However, the shadow did not go directly to the Northern Snowfield but came to a high mountain instead.

In the darkness of the night,

he stood at the edge of a cliff, one step away from falling.

The shadow, dressed in black, silently looked down at the mountain, where a tea garden was planted, with realm camellia.

Next to the tea garden, there was a small fenced area where sunflowers were planted.

Oddly enough, whether due to the magical nature of the soil, after many Transcendents had been buried here, or for other reasons, these sunflowers continued to bloom brightly in the winter when they should have withered.

In the middle of the sunflower garden, there was a delicate tombstone.

The shadow whispered, “Not yet, wait for me…”

Then, the shadow suddenly called out loudly, “Qing Ye!”

Someone behind him responded, “Present.”

“Qing Qu!”

Another person answered, “Present.”

The shadow turned around with a smile, looking at 330 people in black, standing neatly and silently, like 330 statues.

Letting the Great Snow fall upon their heads, without moving a muscle.

Thirty Awakener or Cultivator subordinates.

Three hundred Genetic Warriors he secretly trained.

This was the secret squad responsible for rescuing Uncle Li’s imprisoned friend.

They had been waiting here for six hours, knowing that the shadow was going to kill someone.

The shadow smiled and said, “There’s no need to paint your faces in camouflage this time… By the way, do you have any questions? Ask them all at once.”

Qing Ye: “Was Qing Chen possessed?”

“No, he is innately incapable of being possessed. Or rather, people of Qing Zhen’s unique bloodline in Qing’s Family cannot be possessed.”

Qing Qu: “Did he ever submit while at A02 base?”

“No, he never submitted, not for a single moment. Now he has single-handedly escaped from A02 base. Out of 2383 soldiers in A02 base, including Commander Jindai Yunzi, all have been killed.”

The pupils of the secret squad members contracted suddenly, knowing what this meant.

“Any other questions?” The shadow smiled.

“None.”

From start to finish, they never asked who to kill, how to kill, or how many to kill. Those were not their concerns.

They only cared whether it was worth it.

Now they knew, it was worth it.

If it was worth it, then killing from night until day, from one end of the world to the other, was no problem.

The shadow smiled, “Let’s go over the battle plan. It’s simple. Two groups of Jindai Field Teachers are advancing to encircle Qing Chen. One will be handled by Uncle Li, The Grand Elder of Fire Pit, and Li Yunjing, while the other will be handled by us… Two demigods and four A-Class experts. To those who don’t know, it’d seem like we’re going to save the world.”

The shadow retracted his smile, “Everyone, have a good time tonight.”

With that, the Door of Shadow suddenly opened beside him, and he was the first to walk through.

The next moment, the shadow stood in the middle of the Jindai Field Teacher’s camp. He chuckled and said, “Wow, jackpot.”

At that moment, all the Jindai soldiers stared in astonishment at the scene of a man in black seemingly walking out of the darkness, standing in the middle of their camp as if he was the master of the world.

“Secur…” A Jindai soldier was ready to shout.

But in that instant, time around the shadow became thick and viscous like water.

The Great Snow falling from the sky suddenly slowed down, snowflakes stopped in the air, suspended in the night, caught in the white beams of the camp’s searchlights, hanging around the shadow.

The Jindai soldier’s mouth was left hanging open; his body frozen mid-reach for his gun.

In the command tent, the commander was angrily questioning why the neighboring friendly forces were unable to organize an effective resistance in response to the news of the attack.

The angry expression also froze.

The world came to a halt for the shadow, with only him able to move freely.

The shadow slowly walked through the curtain of falling snow towards the command tent of the Field Teacher.

He opened the tent door, stood in front of the commander for a few seconds, and then used his fingers to cut the opponent’s carotid artery.

He then picked up some documents from the Jindai Consortium on the table, read them for a while, and memorized all useful information before pouring himself a cup of hot water.

Throughout the entire process, everyone’s actions slowed to the point of being imperceptible.

After taking a sip of hot water, the shadow walked out of the tent and reopened the Door of Shadow in the darkness.

At that moment, the flow of time abruptly returned to normal, and Qing Ye, Qing Qu, and the others streamed through the Door of Shadow.

The shadow calmly said, “Kill them all.”

The 330 members of the secret squad, with each ten-man unit of B-Class Genetic Warriors led by one Awakener or Transcendent, including the two A-Class experts, Qing Ye and Qing Qu.

Thirty of the world’s most elite squads began their massacre in the night.

Qing Ye found that as he passed by, all the Jindai soldiers’ firearms were drawn to him, gathering around him.

A dozen or so black automatic rifles floated near him, resembling a throne of iron swords from which he dispensed a storm of bullets, covering everything in a metal tempest.

As the gunfire swept through, the tents in the camp were shredded into sieves.

Behind him, ten genetic warriors moved like phantoms through the field, from east to west, from south to north, sweeping everything in their path.

More than a dozen Jindai genetic warriors gathered together, hoping to stop the ten shadow warriors with their strong bodies.

However, when they opened fire from a distance, they found that even if these shadow warriors were hit, they would resolutely continue to kill, fearless of death.

Before the Jindai genetic warriors could react, these shadow warriors had already charged them, shattering their defense line in an instant.

The Jindai genetic warriors were dumbfounded; these people were all B-Class Genetic Warriors?!

The entire camp was filled with these fast-moving, ghost-like black-clad warriors, all B-Class Genetic Warriors?

How much financial and material resources had to be consumed to train such a secret squad?

But the question was, why would such a fierce secret squad be used to deal with a newly reorganized rear unit like theirs?

The shadow did not make another move; he just paced slowly in the camp, as if a tango named “One Step Away” suddenly started.

It seemed none of this had anything to do with him.

Nobody had expected 330 experts to appear in the camp suddenly, nor that such an elite force would be used against a simple rear field unit.

This kind of elite squad was good enough to send to City No. 22 for conducting an assassination of the Family Head!

Who would use such an elite squad for a simple rear-field unit?!

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Dawn broke.

The camp fell silent, with only 323 shadow warriors standing still, breathing heavily.

Seven had fallen.

The shadow pondered, “Both attacks on the camps succeeded, but we haven’t seen that old turtle from Jindai. Where did he go?”

The shadow looked north and said, “Using two Field Teachers as a cover, what a large scheme. Uncle Li, I hope you realize this, the rest is up to you.”