Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 465: A Way Out

Qing Chen leaned quietly against the stone wall.

He strained his hearing to its limits, continuously calculating something in his mind.

What to do?

This time, even Qing Chen seemed to have no good solution.

Actually, Qing Yi and Qing Li underestimated the number of wolves. They estimated the pack to be over a hundred, but Qing Chen's judgment… was over four hundred.

When Li Yu launched a surprise attack, Qing Li and Sun Chuci consumed a significant amount of ammunition suppressing the wolf pack.

Even if every shot hit its mark, the remaining ammunition in this mountain gully was barely enough to wipe out the wolf pack.

But the threat outside wasn't just the wolves; there was also the person controlling the wolves and Li Yu.

This might be an organized group with a plan and a goal.

Qing Chen had three judgments.

First, the person carrying out the plan shouldn't be Qing Yuan. Creating puppets wasn't that quick or easy for him; otherwise, in Zheng City, he could have used many more methods.

Second, after Li Yu became a Living Dead and came to the mountain gully, he still played his role accurately.

This means…

The person who made him a Living Dead was someone in the camp who knew about his conflict with his agent.

Third, judging by his actions, Li Yu was an ordinary person. Even if he launched a surprise attack from behind, there were a total of nine refugees on duty; he couldn't possibly kill them all.

Even if the surprise attack on Sun Chuci was successful, it would only create an opportunity for probing.

Qing Chen felt that if he were the person controlling Li Yu and could obtain Li Yu's perspective from outside,

Then keeping Li Yu in the mountain gully to observe the situation would be far more useful than sending him to his death.

By keeping Li Yu, they could know if there was infighting in the mountain gully, if there was still food, and if there was still ammunition; this was more useful than sending him to his death, wasn't it?

But Qing Chen thought again, was he necessarily smarter than the other party? What he could think of, perhaps the other party could also think of.

So what made the other party think that Li Yu's insider perspective wasn't important?

Unless, the person who made Li Yu a Living Dead was in the mountain gully.

Qing Chen pondered.

This person must have witnessed the agent's murder of Li Yu. Then the clues are locked on the people around Li Yu at that time.

Qing Chen observed everyone without making a sound. He couldn't determine who that person was for the time being, or perhaps his judgment was wrong.

The bonfire in the mountain gully went out at dawn.

The firewood had burned out, but everyone couldn't leave the mountain gully to find new fuel; the wolves hadn't gone far.

There was no food; some were so hungry their eyes were bloodshot, but they could only watch Qing Yi and the others eat.

The incident of Li Yu killing people at dawn left everyone terrified.

"It's so hot!" A crew member stood up, actually taking off his windbreaker in the freezing cold.

This scene stunned everyone.

They saw the man, in a daze, taking off his clothes until only his underwear remained, then collapsing and dying.

Someone went to take a closer look; the person was strangely smiling after death, which was particularly creepy.

"What's going on?!"

"Why is he smiling?"

First, the Living Dead Li Yu's murder.

Now someone suddenly said it was hot and then died smiling.

For a moment, everyone in the mountain gully was terrified. They looked towards the mountain pass, feeling that there was mysterious and unknown terror there.

However, Qing Li, Qing Chen and the others knew that this was a sign of freezing to death.

Before a person freezes to death, the central nervous system is suppressed, and they will have a false "abnormally hot feeling", causing the freezing person to not feel cold, but rather hot.

Soon, the person will die in a hazy feeling of warmth.

This is also the reason why many people who freeze to death will have a strange smile on their faces after death.

Qing Li said coldly: "This is a normal phenomenon of freezing to death, don't panic, you'll most likely look like this if you freeze to death."

After he said this, everyone became even more panicked.

Qing Chen sat leaning against the stone wall; he was hungry, but there was nothing he could do.

He looked across and saw Yan Chunmi huddled in a corner, holding something in her hand, secretly stuffing it into her mouth, then lowering her head to prevent others from seeing her chewing…

Some people in the mountain gully still secretly had some food.

However, it was only the first day; the real crisis hadn't come yet.

When everyone realized that they were going to be trapped and die here, the order in the mountain gully would probably no longer exist.

Even Qing Yi's followers might not remain loyal.

The second day.

Eleven people froze to death.

Their clothes were stripped, and several strong men wore three layers of clothing inside and out, finally feeling warmer.

Qing Yi didn't bother to strip people's clothes; he didn't care.

As long as these people didn't provoke him, he didn't care what they did.

During this period, Qing Chen discovered that Qing Yi had been closing his eyes in Cultivation, without even sleeping.

When there was a bonfire in the mountain gully, although everyone was far away, seeing the bonfire at least gave them some hope.

Now, even that hope was gone.

The wolf pack outside the mountain pass was still guarding, showing no sign of leaving.

Among the refugees, besides Qing Yi, only a very small number of people still had food.

That night, someone was suffocated to death in their sleep; someone stole the biscuits the person had hidden for several days.

The order in the mountain gully was gradually collapsing.

At first, some people only tested the waters, but later, when they found that Qing Yi and Qing Li didn't care, they became bolder.

Some people stripped the dead of their clothes and sold them, and even specifically looked for the supporting actresses in the crew and asked if they were willing to exchange these warm clothes.

Qing Chen began to weaken, and he could barely walk steadily.

Everyone didn't know if he was hungry or sick.

In the middle of the night, someone quietly approached him, wanting to take his clothes while he was drowsy, but Liu Liqun discovered it in time and chased the person away with the stagehands.

The third day.

Twenty-one more people died.

Qing Chen was even weaker; Liu Liqun also went to grab clothes with the stagehands today, but after they grabbed them back, they first wrapped them around Qing Chen.

And Qing Chen… was still pretending to be sick, while calmly observing the reactions of everyone in the mountain gully.

He hoped to find out the possible insider in the mountain gully so that no one would stab him in the back when they broke out.

However, he didn't know whether Qing Chen's judgment was wrong or the other party's acting skills were too good.

Qing Chen still couldn't find any clues.

Today, even Qing Yi's food was running low.

According to Qing Li's estimate, they could hold out for at most one more day.

Qing Li whispered to Qing Yi: "Master, we have to break out. If they want to kill us, they don't necessarily need to really attack; they just need to besiege us outside, and we will die in a couple of days. So we must break out; this is the only way to survive."

Qing Yi nodded: "Wait a little longer; in two days, I will have a chance to break through to level C; then my chances of survival will be greater."

Qing Li's eyes lit up: "Master, you're going to break through to level C? So fast?"

Qing Yi said: "When I was by the lake, the master gave me an empowerment; these days, I've been working hard to digest the True Qi he poured into me."

Now Qing Chen's Knight True Qi has changed from mist to a stream.

For him, it's certainly a good thing, but for someone like Qing Yi who received empowerment, it's a bit troublesome; the "stream' poured from the divine platform into the body can't be immediately transformed into one's own strength; it needs continuous Cultivation of the meridians to absorb it little by little.

In these two days, Qing Yi hadn't done anything else; he had been wholeheartedly Cultivating.

He hadn't given up hope of survival; he just wanted to reach level C as soon as possible and leave alive.

Guardian was somewhat envious; he was a Gene Soldier. Qing Yi's father had promised that if Qing Yi successfully passed the third round of Shadow Succession, he would give him another Gene Medicine.

At that time, he would be promoted to a level B expert, and his status in the family would also rise.

Qing Chen felt quite relieved when he heard their conversation; he had originally been worried that Qing Yi would be discouraged when facing adversity, but now he found that he wasn't.

However, if Qing Yi planned to break out at dawn tomorrow, there wasn't much time left for him to catch the insider.

Many people in the mountain gully had fallen ill.

The order here was gradually collapsing.

At this time, no one dared to offend Qing Yi and the others; Sun Chuci's group of seven occupied a corner and took turns keeping watch; because they had weapons, no one dared to provoke them.

The stagehands were very united thanks to Liu Liqun's ability to control the situation.

For the rest, fights and disputes over clothes were common.

Yan Chunmi, the Kestrel, was a bit unlucky; she would have three or four people sneaking towards her every night.

Many people also had their eyes on her.

Qing Chen knew that at least four of the 21 people who died today died at Yan Chunmi's hands…

At this moment, a male supporting actor from the crew came to Song Niao Niao with a heavy windbreaker and said, "Song Niao Niao, I've liked you for a long time; be my girlfriend, and I'll give you this jacket."

Qing Yi was stunned, then looked at Qing Li.

The male supporting actor died.

Qing Yi muttered, "He even dares to covet… Master's…? He's tired of living."

He looked at Qing Li, "Distribute the food to everyone, including Sun Chuci and the others. Make it clear to them that we'll be breaking out at dawn; they can follow if they can, but if they can't, we can't help it. I still haven't broken through to level C, but I can't wait any longer."

Qing Li asked in a low voice: "What about Song Niao Niao? I think she and her agent probably won't be able to keep up with us."

Qing Yi thought for a while and said: "Let's make sure we survive first."

However, at this moment, Qing Li suddenly struck, using the edge of his hand to strike Qing Yi's neck.

The expert's strike immediately knocked Qing Yi unconscious.

Qing Chen frowned.

However, before anyone else could react, Qing Li had already whispered to Qing Yi's other followers, "Change Master's clothes; I'll wear his clothes. Half of you stay here to protect him, and half follow me to lure the wolves away. Once the wolves are lured away, you carry Master away from another direction. Understand?"

The followers looked at each other and said with difficulty: "Understood."

Qing Chen was stunned; Qing Li actually thought that they couldn't break out at all, so he planned to use his own life to exchange a way out for Qing Yi.

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