Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 464: Inanimate Object

“We won’t all die here, will we?” Liu Liqun sat in the mountain depression, gazing at the snowy mountain pass with worry.

Everyone could see that more than twenty strong wild wolves hadn’t left, instead huddling in the snow, cautiously watching them.

Gradually, even as the heavy snow covered their bodies, they remained motionless.

Qing Li, seeing this, pretended to charge out of the mountain depression.

The next moment, the more than twenty wild wolves simultaneously stood up, shaking off the snow from their bodies, coldly staring at him.

Qing Li pondered for a moment; he raised his automatic rifle to pick off the wolves.

However, the wolf pack immediately increased their distance, only stopping three hundred meters away before lying down again.

Qing Li fired several shots, but the wolf pack remained unmoved.

This made Qing Li sense something was amiss. He whispered to Qing Yi, “Young Master, this wolf pack…is somewhat beyond common sense. It’s as if they know the effective range of the automatic rifle, and they aren’t that afraid of gunfire. In the past, a wolf pack would have run away at the sound of gunfire.”

Qing Yi frowned, “You mean to say this wolf pack…is being controlled by someone?”

Qing Li whispered, “In Federation history, there have been many Metahumans who are close to wild animals. While there’s no clear evidence, we can’t let our guard down.”

“Then we’re finished,” Qing Yi sighed, “Real wild animals fear death, but human-controlled wild animals don’t. A pack of wolves who have overcome their instincts is enough to wear us down and kill us here.”

They still had plenty of ammunition, but after killing the wolf pack, what other dangers might lie ahead?

“Let’s wait a little longer,” Qing Yi said, “Perhaps there will be a turn of events.”

The mountain depression was relatively spacious, about three to four hundred square meters.

But there was only one bonfire, and only a few people could huddle around it.

Qing Yi and the others arrived first; the wood they chopped was only enough for themselves until dawn, so they couldn’t share it with others.

As a result, everyone could only watch from afar, shivering from the cold.

Qing Li roughly calculated and said to Qing Yi, “Young Master, this wolf pack probably wants to trap us here. The firewood will run out by morning. If we can’t leave by tomorrow night, tomorrow night will be very difficult.”

“We can’t worry about others, let’s just get through tonight first,” Qing Yi said.

At this time.

The mountain depression became noisy.

One of Li Yu’s male assistants said to his companion, “This coat is clearly mine, take it off and give it to me!”

“In a place like this, you’re still talking about whose coat it is? Can you just ask it, and will it answer you?” the companion said.

Everyone was in a hurry when they left the camp; it was normal for someone to wear the wrong clothes.

It’s just that it’s really too cold now, and everyone was cold and hungry and couldn’t take it anymore.

For a time, the two men wrestled, tearing their clothes.

Qing Yi merely glanced at them without intervening. Others also watched coldly, only the actress kept persuading, “Everyone here should be like a family; don’t fight anymore! Listen to me, in such a harsh environment, we must work together like brothers and sisters; only then can we survive…”

Qing Chen was silent.

The style of the Guardians’ Union was indeed different from others.

He and Liu Liqun, along with the other crew members, sat against the stone wall of the mountain depression. Although Qing Yi took care of them, there was only one bonfire, and Qing Yi, Sun Chuci, Song Niao Niao, and the others had to huddle together.

Therefore, the crew members naturally couldn’t get close.

Liu Liqun looked at those people, “Wasting energy fighting at this time is a dead end…Speaking of family, I heard that there’s a new organization in City 10 called the Guardians’ Union, which seems to have come from City 18.”

“Oh?” Qing Chen turned his head, “What kind of organization is it?”

“I don’t know either,” Liu Liqun shook his head, “I only heard people mention it. This organization seems different from ordinary gangs. They like to do good deeds, they don’t bully others, they don’t collect protection money, they only help each other internally. It sounds quite interesting. I heard that when a member got sick, a group of poor Guardians’ Union members pooled their money to treat him. After hearing this, many people planned to ask how to join.”

In the malice-ridden Federation, the emergence of an organization that truly aims to help each other is like a clear stream, attracting attention…

Liu Liqun said, “Alright, let’s not worry about this for now. Let’s all go to sleep. We’ll have to take turns standing guard later.”

Qing Li assigned tasks to everyone, taking turns guarding the mountain pass to prevent the wolves from approaching without anyone knowing.

The crew members spread out the tents they had painstakingly dragged, laying them on the snow. Without supports, they could only wrap them around themselves as sleeping bags; at least they were windproof, waterproof, and warm.

This action made many people in the mountain depression envious.

Li Yu’s agent even walked towards Liu Liqun, whispering, “Your tent still has a lot of space. Can you let me get in too…”

The crew members were all stunned. The tents they had wrapped around themselves were indeed big enough for two people to squeeze into.

But the problem is, wouldn’t they have to be very close?

Li Yu’s agent was once an 18th-tier small artist. Because she maintained herself well, at nearly forty years old, she still looked like she was in her early thirties.

For others, perhaps they would be tempted.

In this wilderness, you might die tomorrow; enjoying yourself now would be fine, wouldn’t it?

But Liu Liqun just didn’t like women: “Get lost…”

The agent then looked at the crew members. Li Yu sneered behind her, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourselves? You used to sleep with directors and screenwriters; now you’re sleeping with crew members?”

The agent glared back. She no longer concealed anything, “Didn’t I do it to get resources for you?! Also, how did you survive? I clearly tied the rope tightly. How could you possibly break free and live? There must be something strange!”

Qing Yi looked over.

Li Yu sneered, “You must have hoped I would die, but I happened to meet a cameraman who was lost in the snow. He helped me untie the rope.”

“Where is he now?” the agent asked.

“He was bitten to death by wolves,” Li Yu answered.

“You’re lucky!” the agent said viciously, “But I believe you definitely won’t be able to return to the Federation alive.”

At this time, another of Li Yu’s female assistants came to Qing Chen, “Can I share a tent with you?”

Qing Chen glanced at her but threw the tent he had dragged to the Guardians’ Union actress. He leaned against the stone wall with his gun and closed his eyes to rest.

Liu Liqun sighed beside him, “Zhou Cang, why are you being so kind at this time? Without anything to keep you warm, you’ll soon get hypothermia.”

Qing Chen smiled, “It’s fine. You guys go to sleep. If we all huddle in the tent, it will be inconvenient to move and easy to be ambushed.”

Liu Liqun was stunned, “That’s true. You guard for a while; when I go on guard duty, use my tent.”

Qing Chen nonchalantly narrowed his eyes and looked at the mountain depression.

There were a total of 87 people here.

But he only heard 86 heartbeats.

It wasn’t that someone had frozen to death, but that an inanimate object had infiltrated the mountain depression.

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It was already 4 a.m.

Everyone in the mountain depression was hungry, but they couldn’t withstand the fatigue and lay down in the snow, falling into a drowsy sleep.

These people had trekked nearly twenty kilometers in the snow. Snow had seeped into their shoes and then melted into water.

At this moment, they felt as if their feet were frozen into ice lumps.

It was foreseeable that when they woke up again, most of them would be sick.

In the darkest hour before dawn, it was Li Yu’s turn, along with the crew cameraman, to stand guard with Sun Chuci and the others.

Li Yu reluctantly walked behind everyone. When the previous group returned to the mountain depression, Li Yu suddenly pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and viciously cut the throat of a cameraman from behind.

Then, without stopping, he lunged towards Sun Chuci. Sun Chuci was completely unaware that he was about to be cut.

With a bang, Qing Li shot expressionlessly, hitting Li Yu’s thigh and breaking his thigh bone.

This also woke up everyone in the mountain depression.

However, Li Yu didn’t fall to the ground and cry out in pain. His body only swayed slightly before he continued to slash at Sun Chuci’s neck.

Bang, another shot.

Li Yu’s arm was also broken, and the dagger flew out.

Qing Li wanted to leave him alive, but Li Yu seemed to have gone mad, not feeling any pain.

Bang.

Qing Li had no choice but to shoot through his head.

Sun Chuci didn’t have time to check his back. He roared, “The wolves are coming!”

They saw the wolf pack suddenly approaching from the mountain pass, as if cooperating with Li Yu’s actions, quickly charging over.

As the wolf pack charged, their strong limbs kicked up huge waves of snow on the ground, the momentum was extraordinary.

It was as if they had known that chaos would erupt at the mountain pass at this moment.

Qing Li, who had been resting, immediately got up and used his automatic rifle to sweep the mountain pass, working with Sun Chuci to use dense firepower to repel the wolf pack.

In the mountain depression, everyone looked at this scene in shock and awe until the gunfire stopped.

They saw the bodies of Li Yu and the cameraman, momentarily unsure of what had happened.

Qing Li turned Li Yu’s body over and found that his complexion had instantly turned bluish-purple, and there were also corpse spots on his Face[-].

Qing Li said in astonishment, “Corpse spots? This would only appear after death for more than two hours.”

Qing Yi looked at the others and calmly explained, “I thought something was wrong with this person as soon as he entered the mountain depression. If what the agent said was true, he should have died in the snow.”

Qing Yi judged logically that there was something wrong with Li Yu, so he told Qing Li to keep a close eye on him.

Only Qing Chen knew that Li Yu had no heartbeat from the moment he entered the mountain depression.

Li Yu had already been dead.

The reason Qing Chen didn’t deal with him at first was to see what the person controlling Li Yu wanted to do. Now he discovered that the other party wanted to use Li Yu as an inside man to tear apart the defenses of the mountain depression from within, creating enough chaos to destroy the defenses inside.

So who was controlling Li Yu, and the wolf pack?

The other party was targeting Qing Yi. Of all the people present, only Qing Yi was worth the effort of a Metahuman of this level.

Was it Qing Yuan?

Or was it Shendai and Koshima’s doing?

Qing Chen frowned. If Qing Yuan could turn the wolf pack into puppets, then this person would be too dangerous.

The wind and snow had not stopped; instead, it had gotten even stronger.

They couldn’t last long in this mountain depression; the food wasn’t enough.

Qing Chen looked at the mountain depression. If everyone went hungry for three days, they probably wouldn’t need the wolves outside to attack; the mountain depression would erupt in infighting first.

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