Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 476: Sword Wielders

Takahashi Touju's body was lifeless.

His physiological functions were perfectly normal, but his consciousness had been completely transferred by Nanobots, leaving him a vegetative state without awareness.

Qing Chen knew this.

The Shendai Consortium must have conducted numerous clinical experiments on Neural Link body snatching.

It's rumored that the head of the Shendai Family was able to live so long precisely because he continuously used this evil technology to switch bodies with B-Class experts.

A technology daring enough to be used on the head of the family must be extremely mature.

Therefore, when Shendai Yunhe saw Qing Chen's synchronization rate was so high, he could confidently say that Qing Chen had not been body snatched.

Everything Shendai Yunhe had done along the way—torturing Qing Chen, humiliating him, breaking his will—was to lower this synchronization rate.

Clearly, the people of the Shendai Consortium knew how to lower this synchronization rate.

But what surprised him was that after experiencing so much suffering, Qing Chen's synchronization rate remained at a staggering 100%.

“Sir, I really am Takahashi Touju,” Qing Chen said anxiously. “I enlisted at the age of 17. Commander Shendai Jingchuan selected me to join the ‘Eight-Forked’ organization. Those who came here with me were Takahashi Ichiro, Zhao Kuan, Zhao Jie…”

Qing Family's Secret Spy Agency, Li Clan's Red Cardinals, Chen Family's Sword Wielders, Shendai's Eight-Forked, Koshima's isolated island, were all well-known intelligence agencies within the Federation.

Every piece of information Qing Chen mentioned in this sentence was irrefutable.

If Qing Chen were still Qing Chen, there would be no reason for him to know this information.

So, here's the problem…

The Clinical Data Center has never had a successful case of a body snatching where the synchronization rate was low, resulting in a high synchronization rate.

However, there has also never been a case where after a failed body snatching, the person whose body was taken over could still retain the memories of the person who tried to take over their body…

Therefore, what was presented before Shendai Yunhe were two unprecedented situations, and he needed to choose which one to believe.

The first possibility: Takahashi Touju's synchronization rate was indeed low, but he did successfully body snatch Qing Chen.

The second possibility: Not only was Qing Chen not body snatched, but he also possessed Takahashi Touju's memories.

Theoretically, the first one could still be explained as a machine malfunction; perhaps the displayed value was incorrect. The second one, however, was far more incredible…

This was why Qing Chen insisted on denying it; he felt that the other party couldn't fully confirm it.

As long as he kept acting, he could make the other party doubt their own sanity.

It looked like Shendai Yunhe was starting to lose confidence…

“Sir, could it be that Dongshu has really succeeded?” someone whispered.

Shendai Yunhe frowned and asked, “How many times can the Nanobots in this secret base be used?”

A subordinate whispered, “Sir, twice.”

Shendai Yunhe casually pushed Takahashi Touju's body off the bed and said to another subordinate, “Zhao Kuan, lie down and undergo Neural Link body snatching again.”

Zhao Kuan was stunned. He looked at Takahashi Touju's body, somewhat nervous. “Sir, Qing Chen is not B-Class. One Neural Link has already caused irreversible damage to his brain. If a second connection is made, it will likely cause even more severe damage.”

But Shendai Yunhe said nonchalantly, “Don't worry, he can still live for at least five years. If you work for the family, the family will take care of your family. But what will happen to your family if you betray the family?”

Zhao Kuan froze. He didn't want to lie down, but Shendai Yunhe's gloomy expression was terrifying.

At this moment, everyone in the basement suddenly remembered that Qing Chen had mentioned that Shendai Yunhe killed his own people to silence them.

They believed it.

Zhao Kuan lay down on the bed with a bitter heart, waiting for his colleagues to attach the tubes to his body.

Qing Chen began to struggle wildly, crying, “Sir, I really am Takahashi Touju! Don't overwrite my consciousness! I've already completed the overwrite! Sir, please, don't overwrite me!”

Qing Chen's acting was so tragic that everyone thought it might really be Takahashi Touju…

However, Shendai Yunhe showed no emotional fluctuation. “Begin.”

He silently watched the synchronization rate on the instrument.

This time, Qing Chen's body was still 100%.

Zhao Kuan's was 91%.

This time, Qing Chen saw Zhao Kuan's entire life.

Zhao Kuan joined the Southern Boy Scouts before graduating from junior high school and then, due to his outstanding performance, entered… the Sword Wielders organization.

Qing Chen was stunned.

Sword Wielders?!

Wasn't that the Chen Family's intelligence agency?

Qing Chen never expected that the second person he would reversely devour and body snatch would be a double agent.

Zhao Kuan grew up in the South. After receiving training, he was quietly sent to the North, joined the army, and was selected by Shendai to join Eight-Forked.

When he first arrived in the North, young Zhao Kuan didn't have a good time.

The Takahashi surname was relatively prestigious in several northern cities. Even though Takahashi Touju's family was poor, they still received some subsidies every month.

But a Chinese surname like Zhao Kuan's was treated as inferior in the North, and he wasn't even allowed to date Takahashi girls.

Takahashi, Shendai, and the like were big surnames in the North, like Zhao Qian Sun Li in the Central Plains.

What Qing Chen didn't expect was that Shendai was openly implementing a “caste system” in the North, dividing classes based on surnames.

Zhao Kuan did fairly well in Eight-Forked, but eventually, he received an order to intentionally hook up with the wife of a Shendai official to obtain information.

After the official discovered the signs, he had someone transfer Zhao Kuan to the southern front, sending him to his death as part of this plan to infiltrate the Central Plains.

Wait.

Qing Chen discovered extremely crucial information.

Zhao Kuan received instructions to cooperate with the performance before Shendai Yunhe arrived.

He had already passed the message to the Chen Family!

Qing Chen pondered. He didn't expect that devouring Zhao Kuan's consciousness would bring such an unexpected surprise.

He just didn't know whether the Chen Family's learning about Shendai Yunhe's information was good news or bad news for him.

This always quiet Conglomerate… no one knew what they were trying to do.

On the other side.

Zhao Kuan finally knew what Takahashi Touju had experienced. Looking at the vast memory palace before him, he felt like a tiny ant beneath the palace.

So, Takahashi Touju's consciousness was obliterated by this massive will, right?

Zhao Kuan cursed Shendai Yunhe in his heart.

How the hell did you manage to overwrite it?

Huh?

Using sesame seeds to cover a watermelon? His consciousness wasn't even as big as the seeds!

You bastards are incredible!

Shendai Yunhe and the others saw Zhao Kuan's body tremble violently, but after only a few tremors, it went still.

Everyone looked at Qing Chen, only to see Qing Chen open his eyes, his expression somewhat fearful, his voice hesitant. “Sir, it's completed…”

His fingers nervously clutched the bedsheets.

In Qing Chen's view, this was consistent with Zhao Kuan's reactions, a performance interspersed with small details, very perfect.

Zhao Kuan's memories, coupled with Qing Chen's acting, were flawless.

Shendai Yunhe: …

He didn't know what to do anymore.

The current situation was that Shendai Yunhe didn't believe the body snatching had succeeded, but he didn't have any proof of failure!

And Qing Chen was thinking.

He had never imagined that being body snatched by others could bring him so much information.

You see, he had experienced the lives of Zhao Kuan and Takahashi Touju, albeit incompletely, but he knew all the important people, events, and places.

The contacts, friends, relatives, superiors, and subordinates of these two intelligence officers, the internal workings of Eight-Forked, the Chen Family Boy Scouts, and the Sword Wielders, and even the missions they had carried out, and who had come to the Central Plains this time, were all laid bare to Qing Chen.

The only regret was that these two were of low level; the information Qing Chen possessed was useful but not useful enough.

At most, after he escaped alive, he could trace the clues to destroy several Shendai and Chen Family bases and capture some relatively important people.

It would have been great if it were someone like Shendai Yunhe who had tried to body snatch him. Qing Chen felt that if he could obtain the information known to this person, he could probably wipe out Shendai's intelligence agencies in the South…

Honestly, Qing Chen was even thinking about whether he should ask the Shendai head of the family after he reached B-Class if he was interested in his body. He's healthy; he eats well and is full of energy! He can run up five flights of stairs in one breath!

Shendai Yunhe probably didn't know that while he was racking his brains for a solution, Qing Chen was already starting to fantasize about the future…

Of course, Qing Chen wasn't sure if he would survive.

At this time, Shendai Yunhe suddenly laughed. He said to his subordinates, “Take this Inspector Qing Chen with us to the equipment room.”

Qing Chen's heart sank, and he immediately realized what the other party was going to do.

When they took Qing Chen there and opened the equipment room, they revealed the truly agricultural producers who were tied up inside.

These people were the true producers of the production base, Federation civilians.

After the Shendai intelligence personnel infiltrated, they restricted these people's freedom and threw them into the dark and cold equipment room.

The most appalling thing was that these producers lived in the production base as families; among the 14 producers who were imprisoned, there were two young boys and two women.

In the memories of Zhao Kuan and Takahashi Touju, there were too many appalling scenes.

At one point, Qing Chen wondered if, in this era, little people were really like weeds.

When the door to the equipment room opened, everyone inside fearfully retreated.

Their mouths were covered, and they could only make helpless whimpers.

Shendai Yunhe handed a pistol to Qing Chen: “If you are Zhao Kuan, then shoot them. If you don't shoot them, your family in 2City 1 will die. As far as I know, Supervisor Qing Chen is a relatively principled person in the Outer World, and Daybreak's reputation is quite good.”

The gun was loaded, and there were bullets. Qing Chen knew immediately that Shendai Yunhe really wanted to kill these producers.

He could have taken the opportunity to shoot at Shendai Yunhe and the others, but even if he wasn't injured, he couldn't shoot and kill people in front of an A-Class expert.

The opponent's speed would be enough to stop him before he could do anything.

He could also shoot these people to continue disguising himself, but he couldn't bring himself to do it; his principles wouldn't allow him to do such a thing.

Qing Chen was well aware of the pros and cons and knew what the correct choice was, but he couldn't pull the trigger.

Qing Chen was silent for a few seconds.

“Don't bother. I'm Qing Chen.”

Shendai Yunhe laughed heartily: “Supervisor Qing Chen, you somewhat surprised me. You've been in the Inner World for so long and haven't learned how a Conglomerate should deal with the scum? Their lives, even tens of thousands of them, aren't worth as much as yours. Why would you expose yourself for a few insignificant people? If you hadn't admitted it yourself and had simply killed them, it might have really caused me some trouble.”

Qing Chen looked calmly at Shendai Yunhe. “I once lost my way and thought that I could use any means to achieve my goals. But recently, you guys have reminded me of who I am and how I should Face[-] this world. I am different from you beasts.”

Shendai Yunhe didn't get angry; he curiously asked, “I'm very curious, why can't you be body snatched?”

Qing Chen pondered for a moment: “I don't know either. Maybe it's because they haven't tried enough times. Or would you like to let others try?”

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