Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 478: Traces
A Class C civilian Airship was flying in a boundless airspace, heading north from south.
Airships are divided into four levels: A, B, C, and D.
Levels A and B are military-grade and can carry weapons.
Levels C and D are civilian-grade; the former can be used for commercial operations, such as travel between City 10 and City 18. Class C Airships are the most common high-end transportation.
Level D is for household use and is exclusive to the wealthy.
There were four people in the cabin. One was responsible for navigating, while the other three frantically cleaned the cabin, even using strong acid detergents, trying to remove all traces of blood.
They wore simple, full-Face[-] transparent breathing masks to avoid inhaling toxic fumes from the disinfectant.
The cabin had already been cleaned, but they were worried that residual DNA might be detected by the airspace blockade.
The Airship pilot said, “In 120 kilometers, we'll enter the Federation Army's controlled airspace. That area is now under complete Radar coverage by that madwoman Li Changqing. Hurry up and clean; if someone boards for inspection, we absolutely cannot let them discover anything suspicious, or we'll all die!”
“We want to hurry, but how can this job be hurried? And I don’t understand, didn't they say there wouldn’t be any danger? Why does it suddenly feel like the whole world is looking for us?!”
“Especially yesterday, if another Airship hadn’t suddenly diverted the Qing Family’s attention, we would probably have been caught by Shadow by now.”
The Airship pilot whispered, “Strange, who is diverting attention for us?”
“Maybe they want to help us escape?”
“Do you believe that? We’re already expendable; they won’t help us.”
At this moment, the sky suddenly darkened.
The shadow of dark clouds covered the Airship.
The pilot muttered, “Why is it snowing again? I have to activate the fixed route… Wait! What the hell!”
The pilot casually opened the 360-degree panoramic view, and in an instant, his scalp felt like it was exploding.
He felt as if a huge mountain had fallen from the sky.
The overwhelming pressure made you want to kneel and worship its majesty just from a single glance.
This was the ultimate manifestation of humanity's imagination of the term "war machine'.
The pilot turned around and roared hoarsely, “It’s the Qingshan Airship Fortress! That madwoman Li Changqing actually brought out the Qingshan Airship Fortress! Damn it!”
It turned out that the shadow that had just enveloped them wasn’t a prelude to snowfall; it was the Qingshan Airship Fortress, vast and overshadowing!
The majestic figure of this air dominance was so vast that they almost mistook it for a natural phenomenon.
This is an Air Fortress of the same level as the Qing Family’s divine Scepter, a strategic-level weapon for the front lines.
It carries the most advanced nuclear reactor, 230-kilometer range main firepower electromagnetic cannons, and cruise missile launch silos.
And countless unmanned aerial vehicle combat groups.
These are just the basic functions of the Air Fortress. Just like before Prison 18 was destroyed, no one knew that the divine Scepter was connected to a divine scepter 800 kilometers high in the sky.
Inside the Airship.
The four people looked in despair at the approaching shadow in the sky: “Are they here to catch us?”
“Duh, the Qingshan Airship Fortress wouldn’t take off without a clear target!”
“Then what do we do? How can we escape?”
The pilot looked at his companions with an expression of disbelief, “The Qingshan Fortress is here, and you ask me how to escape? All I can tell you is to show a good attitude; that way, you might get a whole body.”
Companion: “….”
The pilot took a deep breath, “Activate the self-destruct sequence, for our families in the north.”
After saying this, he entered the password and pressed a red button in the cabin.
However, at this moment, they felt a sudden state of weightlessness, as if something above the sky had already seized them.
The next moment, an extremely thin laser swept across, cutting the huge Airship in half.
Like cutting bread, the tail of the Airship was cleanly sliced off by the laser.
That’s where the Airship’s self-destruct timer bomb was located…
At this time, the pilot finally despaired completely; Li Changqing wanted to capture them alive!
In the sky, a huge gate opened below the Qingshan Fortress, like a giant beast opening its bloody mouth, swallowing the cut-up Airship!
After a short while, a Class A Airship flew out from the bottom of the Qingshan Airship Fortress and flew straight towards the western mountains.
Although the Air Fortress is majestic, Class A Airships are faster.
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Next to the lumberjack’s hut, a Class A Airship landed slowly.
Li Changqing and Old Nineteen, dressed in Federation Army uniforms, along with dozens of fully armed soldiers, emerged from the cabin.
They all had a metal disc attached to their ears—the Federation’s highest-level bone conduction communication equipment, covert and with a longer effective range.
As soon as they opened the door, Li Changqing saw six bodies dead from poisoning, and the bed where Qing Chen had been lying.
She calmly surveyed the scene, her slender fingers tracing the bed; there were traces of blood, and nearby were used bandages.
In just a few minutes, Li Changqing made a judgment: “These six people were silenced. They changed Qing Chen’s bandages here, and then Shendai Yunhe took him away alone. Bring the mechanical hounds; track Qing Chen by his blood.”
Six mechanical hounds were brought in; after sniffing the blood on the bandages, they ran wildly towards the mountain road outside.
Li Changqing followed behind, but Old Nineteen said, “Boss, it’s cold; you should return to the Airship and follow from the air.”
Li Changqing shook her head: “We’re already very close to Qing Chen. If we suddenly engage in close-quarters combat on the mountain road, you won’t be able to handle it. Don’t waste your breath, let’s go. The Airship will provide aerial support and enter combat readiness.”
Walking along the rugged mountain road, Li Changqing saw traces found by the soldiers…
There were bloodstains on the mountain road and stones where someone had been dragged.
Deep and shallow bloody footprints.
Li Changqing knew that this was evidence of Qing Chen’s suffering.
She understood that Qing Chen had been dragged along this mountain road, without even shoes, forcing him to walk tens of kilometers in the snow.
Thinking of this, Li Changqing clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms.
Old Nineteen watched from the side, his heart aching; he had followed Li Changqing for nearly ten years and had never seen his Boss like this.
He whispered, “Boss, be careful; there might be traps on this road. What if someone is using Qing Chen to lure you out…”
“Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing,” Li Changqing said calmly, her calm tone filled with boundless anger.
She wanted to walk this path of Qing Chen’s suffering, to remember everything he had endured, and then return it to Shendai tenfold.
There was no ambush along the way. When they reached the farmhouse, it was quiet.
Several Shendai killer corpses were scattered outside the farmhouse; these were the “extras” Qing Chen had killed when he first arrived here.
Old Nineteen crouched down to examine them for a moment, whispering in doubt, “Boss, did someone save Qing Chen? He was so badly injured, and he was dragged barefoot for tens of kilometers; he shouldn’t be able to kill so many people, right?”
Li Changqing nodded: “Maybe, maybe someone rescued him when they got here.”
Many people were looking for Qing Chen. The fact that they found the Class C Airship’s trail was also thanks to an anonymous tip.
There were thousands of Airships rising and falling in the Central Plains. Verifying the flight trajectory of each one took time, and the other party also had camouflage.
Li Changqing could find this Airship eventually, but to save Qing Chen, time was of the essence.
The anonymous person was very mysterious. Li Changqing’s side used the army’s most powerful information technology troops, but they couldn’t find the person’s whereabouts.
This is very strange. Did Qing Chen know a hacker who could resist the Federation Army? She had never heard of it before.
Old Nineteen arranged for soldiers to search the farmhouse. He stopped Li Changqing, insisting on making sure there were no traps in the farmhouse before letting the Boss go inside.
As soon as the soldiers rushed in, someone shouted, “There’s a Neural Link device here!”
Li Changqing froze, rushing in frantically.
However, when she saw two comatose patients and a corpse beside the bed, she suddenly felt relieved: “They must have tried to take over Qing Chen’s body, but they failed.”
If they had succeeded, they wouldn’t have left three lives here.
At this time, Old Nineteen frowned: “There are no signs of rescue inside… So, were those corpses outside killed by Qing Chen?”
It seemed so.
No one came to save Qing Chen; Qing Chen himself endured the tens of kilometers of mountain road, and after arriving here, he killed seven Shendai killers.
Thinking of this, although Old Nineteen found it unbelievable, for some reason, he felt that this was something the young man was capable of.
Li Changqing examined the two Neural Link body-snatching devices and suddenly questioned, “Strange, these two devices seem to be malfunctioning?” frёewebηovel.cѳm
An soldier connected a laptop to the device and inquired for a while, saying, “Boss, this device wasn’t damaged externally; it was formatted internally… It’s a bit strange. Also, the internal Nanobots are severely damaged, with only 27% of storage remaining. These Nanobots should have undergone a rigorous Federation recording process, they cannot remain in the human body, but there is no residue on the ground at the scene.”
At this moment, a soldier shouted outside: “Officer, we found where the bodies were buried.”
Li Changqing got up and walked quickly out. The mechanical hounds were barking frantically at a patch of fresh earth. A soldier dug up the earth with a tool and clearly saw more than ten bodies below, including women, children, and men.
Someone was wearing gloves and collecting samples beside the pit; the brownish-black earth was soaked in dark purple blood.
The soldier said, “Officer, we checked; they are all agricultural producers from this production base and have Federation citizenship…Shendai didn’t even bury their own people’s bodies; this is problematic. There are traces of human fingers digging at the edge of the pit, and there are bloodstains.”
Li Changqing looked at the edge of the pit and suddenly said, “Bury them and fill in the earth. Shendai didn’t bury them; Qing Chen dug these graves with his own hands; he personally buried these people.”
She felt a dull ache in her heart. She loudly said, “We’re very close to Qing Chen; find him; even if Shendai runs to the ends of the earth, I want them found!”
However, at this time, the Class A Airship suddenly alerted through the communication channel: “2.2 kilometers away, fast-approaching life forms detected on the ground.”
The Class A Airship’s life detection radius is 10 kilometers. Someone suddenly appeared at 2.2 kilometers, which means…someone has been using camouflage coating technology and ambushing nearby.
Li Changqing calmly asked, “Shendai’s people? Coming for us? No…”
Li Changqing felt that if it were Shendai’s people, they should choose a better ambush location, and they shouldn’t expose so much information here, such as their previous attempt to use Neural Link to seize Qing Chen’s body.
But if it wasn’t Shendai…
Who else knew that Qing Chen was brought here, and knew that Li Changqing would come?
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