Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 485: Slaughter
Above the towering mountains of the south, the Qingshan Airship Fortress, obscuring the sky and the sun, was slowly flying.
Hundreds of soldiers were moving through the mountains.
Thousands of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) combat groups shuttled across the ground, searching every corner in a Matrix-like pattern.
The buzzing UAV combat groups, like countless large killer bees, were in a state of complete frenzy.
Whenever a batch of UAVs' energy consumption neared its limit, they would fly back to the bottom of the Qingshan Fortress's hull, enter a charging sleep state, and then another batch of hive hatches would open, releasing a second batch of UAV clusters.
Li Changqing violated the search principles and repeatedly expanded the search range, but still could not find any clues about Qing Chen.
Until 6 hours later, UAVs finally discovered two anomalies in the north.
The first anomaly: UAVs found the corpse of an Overlord Newt outside a northern valley. A fierce battle had taken place here, but no human corpses were found.
The second anomaly: In a valley five kilometers away, scattered corpses of wild animals were found.
There were signs of human activity nearby; it seemed that a group of people had camped here for several days and then left not long ago.
Li Changqing believed that the person who could control the Overlord Newt must be Shendai Yunhe, but she couldn't imagine who had fought with Shendai Yunhe here.
Moreover, various signs at the scene indicated that Shendai Yunhe was not dead, because there was no significant amount of human blood.
The other valley might be a sign of Qing Chen's escape, but it seems he was intercepted by another group of people.
If this group was Shendai, then Qing Chen might have already been taken to a secret military base in the north.
Li Changqing thoughtfully instructed her subordinates. She applied to use Li Clan satellites to collect all satellite images in the vicinity, and found that a Class A Airship had taken off 20 kilometers north 6 hours earlier.
Old Nineteen glanced at Li Changqing: “Boss, it's too late for us to chase now. Further north is Shendai's military district; they would love for you to barge in.”
He wasn't unwilling to save Qing Chen, but he knew that compared to Qing Chen, Shendai would be much happier to directly kill the Boss standing beside him.
Li Changqing stood calmly in the cockpit of the Qingshan Fortress, in front of the huge transparent protective shield, without saying a word.
Old Nineteen was getting anxious: “Boss, there are thousands of soldiers on the Qingshan Fortress; you can't be impulsive. Give me an elite squad, and I'll lead them to infiltrate the rear. The military base where they're holding Qing Chen must be the one where Qing Mu used to be. I'll bring people to save him.”
In fact, Old Nineteen knew very well that the military base was located in the harsh northern region. To reach it, they had to traverse the entire Shendai territory; he couldn't save Qing Chen alone.
But it didn't matter, as long as Li Changqing didn't take the risk herself, he could go.
Li Changqing suddenly shook her head: “Gather the troops and return. We need to find other ways. You don't have to go to your death; you need to find others to save Qing Chen. Don't worry, some people know that Qing Chen has been taken north and will be more frantic than me.”
As far as Li Changqing knew, that person was currently in the north.
Old Nineteen was immediately relieved; he didn't want to go to his death either…
But at this moment, the commander in charge of gathering the troops back to the Air Fortress suddenly frowned: “Commander, a soldier who was searching on the ground went missing. I just located his position, but when the UAV swarm arrived, he realized he couldn't escape, so he immediately jumped off a cliff and committed suicide… I suspect that he had already transmitted the news here to the outside world before he committed suicide.”
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There are still 6 hours of air travel time to reach A02 Base.
Qing Chen sat in the corner observing.
There are 21 Gene Soldiers in this Class A Airship, each carrying a sidearm.
Their strength is also unknown.
Qing Chen's injuries healed quickly. Although he is far from his peak condition, he can even feel the strange itchiness as his muscles regrow.
This has never happened before.
It seems that the awakening has brought him some new changes.
According to the original plan, Qing Chen thought that by consuming his internal potential, the level of his awakened ability would be only D-Class or E-Class.
But he had seen the power of C-Class awakened abilities on Liu Dezhu, and when he first mastered thunder, he was no worse than Liu Dezhu.
In other words, after he consumed his potential through Cultivation, the remaining potential was still enough for him to fully awaken.
At one point, Qing Chen felt that when he recovered to his peak, his physical fitness would probably be even stronger than before.
Ordinary people's physical fitness will become stronger during Cultivation.
During awakening, physical fitness will also become stronger.
Then, with his Cultivation and awakened state coexisting, his physical fitness might directly break through the limit of C-Class, after all, he was already at the critical point between C-Class and B-Class.
Does this count as a promotion to B-Class? Strictly speaking, it shouldn't, but his peak state should have B-Class physical fitness, at least B-Class early stage.
If that's the case, then at his peak, he should at least have a chance to dodge gunfire.
Unfortunately, time is too pressing, and the other party won't give him this chance.
“Commander Takahashi, drink some hot water first. They want us to inject you with a locator, so we need to verify with other intelligence personnel to see if it's consistent with your information,” a Gene Soldier on the airship said solicitously, “It shouldn't take long before they remove your micro-bombs.”
Qing Chen calmly took the water cup.
This is what he's most worried about. There must be many reinforcements chasing Shendai Yunhe and others, and there are bound to be spies among them.
If the other party transmits the news of "failed possession' to Shendai, he's done for.
But… what can he do?
His body can no longer support high-intensity combat, and in this Airship, there are 21 Gene Soldiers plus 21 firearms; this is not something he can handle.
Qing Chen sighed and leaned against the wall.
No, before the Airship reaches A02, he must do something.
Even if it's meaningless, he must do something.
Surrendering is not Qing Chen's style.
At this time, a Gene Soldier looked at Qing Chen: “Commander Takahashi, we stayed in the wilderness for a long time this time to meet you and Commander Shendai Yunhe…”
Qing Chen looked at the people in the cabin, at the Gene Soldiers in the cockpit, and calmly said: “Don't worry, everyone. If you hadn't met me, I wouldn't have been able to return to my family safely. Once we return to the north, I will definitely not treat you poorly.”
At this time, Qing Chen's tone was like that of a superior rewarding his subordinates.
However, everyone's eyes lit up.
The Shendai internal hierarchy is strict, and they secretly implement a "caste system'. Takahashi Touju is a "High Caste', second only to the Shendai surname in the north.
And now that Takahashi Touju has successfully possessed Qing Chen, he is about to rise to prominence.
Although Takahashi Touju's strength level is low, only an E-level Gene Soldier, the "Qing Chen' body is of high level; it is said to be already C-Class.
Don't look at Takahashi Touju as just an ordinary non-commissioned officer now; he will be promoted to major within a few months, and becoming a colonel is also possible.
Later, in order to disgust the Qing Family, Shendai may even give Takahashi Touju a major general's position.
So when Qing Chen finished speaking, someone immediately came up and said: “Commander Takahashi, we were in the same training camp. Please take care of us in the future.”
Qing Chen nodded: “I will. By the way, is there a communication device on the Airship? I want to call my family and let them know I'm safe.”
He needs to contact the outside world first, contact Yi.
After all, at this moment, contacting anyone on this Airship is not as effective as contacting Yi.
Although the other party provides paid services, and the money will be quickly scammed away after they receive it, they really do what they promise!
The Gene Soldier said with difficulty: “Commander Takahashi, you weren't in the air force during training camp, right? The Class A Airship at A02 Base doesn't allow private communication devices, and this Airship and A02 Base use independent military satellites and implement a physically isolated sandbox network to prevent hacker intrusion. I know you really want to call your family after escaping, but we really can't do it on this airship.”
Qing Chen nodded calmly: “I understand. I was in the intelligence department during training camp, and I haven't touched an Airship, so I don't know the Airship's network situation. It's fine if I can't contact the outside world.”
He has experienced Takahashi's life, so there are no loopholes here because they belong to different combat sequences; Takahashi Touju really doesn't know about these things.
But he was already cursing in his heart. If he couldn't contact Yi, he would have to take a risk.
Qing Chen continued to ask nonchalantly: “By the way, does our Airship have any expert protection?”
Several Gene Soldiers looked at each other: “Commander Takahashi, don't worry, our captain is a master among C-Class. Commander Shendai Yunhe should have boarded the Airship…”
At this time, the captain said: “In the airspace, the experts in the cargo hold are useless. If there are pursuers, the main firepower weapons on the Class A Airship itself are more effective than any experts.”
At this time, Qing Chen got up and went to the driving position: “When I was in training camp, I especially envied your physiques; you could be selected into the air combat sequence. Can you teach me how to drive an Airship?”
Others didn't think much of it. Gene Soldiers all have a dream of being air force pilots; the benefits and treatment are better, and it's safer and more comfortable. It's normal for "Takahashi Touju' to be envious.
The pilot looked at the captain, and the captain nodded slightly, so the pilot quickly got up and said with a smile: “Commander Takahashi, why don't you sit here and experience it?”
Qing Chen sat in the driving seat nonchalantly, looking at the complex LCD controllers: “How do you operate this?”
The pilot smiled: “Now A02 Base has locked the airship on autopilot. Before arriving at A02, we can't control it internally. Commander Takahashi, just sit here and experience it.”
Qing Chen: “….”
He looked at the pilot in astonishment. There's no way to change the course, so what's the point of experiencing it? Just sitting here to enjoy the scenery?
The captain also said: “In order to avoid any problems with the escort mission, all of us must stay in the cockpit before arriving at A02 Base, and the power compartment and main firepower compartment are all closed.”
Just then, a Gene Soldier walked to Qing Chen: “Commander Takahashi Touju, you're injured. Should I take you back to the cargo hold to rest for a while? You'll reach the base after a nap.”
The captain said: “Yes, you can sleep in my captain's room. I'll get new bedding for Commander Takahashi Touju.”
The words clearly showed intimacy.
Qing Chen sighed and stood up, following the Gene Soldier towards the cargo hold behind the cockpit; perhaps there are some clues in the captain's room.
However, just after passing the bridge and reaching the captain's room, the Gene Soldier in front continued to walk deeper into the cargo hold.
Qing Chen asked in confusion: “Isn't this the captain's room? Where are you going?”
But the Gene Soldier suddenly pulled out a pistol from his waist, turned around, and pulled the trigger at Qing Chen.
The gunshot was particularly loud in the cabin, causing everyone's eardrums to ache.
But Qing Chen's reaction speed was far beyond imagination. The moment the Gene Soldier drew his gun, he had already dodged to the left.
This Gene Soldier, while forcing Qing Chen back, continued to run deeper into the cargo hold.
Qing Chen looked up and was astonished to find a door there, which actually read “Power Compartment”!
He quickly realized that this Gene Soldier pretended to take him to the captain's room, but actually wanted to go to the power compartment to destroy the Airship's power system and create a "crash' incident!
Qing Chen's mind raced.
Wait!
What kind of person would want to destroy the Airship they're on at this time?!
Only Qing Family intelligence personnel would do this!
He already understood:
This should be a Qing Family intelligence officer. After learning that Qing Chen had been possessed by Takahashi Touju, and unable to contact the outside world, he immediately decided to kill "Takahashi Touju' to prevent "Takahashi Touju' from humiliating the Qing Family under Qing Chen's guise.
Because, now only Qing Family intelligence personnel have reason to risk their lives to kill "Takahashi Touju'.
This might be the sense of honor of Qing Family intelligence personnel.
The other party doesn't know that Qing Chen hasn't been possessed, and Qing Chen can't explain it.
But the key is that although he doesn't want to reach the A02 secret military base, he can't let the Airship crash!
But Qing Chen stumbled and caught up with the Gene Soldier, immediately knocked him to the ground, and seized his firearm.
“What are you doing?” Qing Chen asked.
The Gene Soldier was suppressed and unable to move. Seeing that he had failed, he sneered coldly: “You northern vermin want to impersonate Commander Qing Chen to humiliate the Qing Family; you're delusional.”
As he spoke, he punched Qing Chen in the left ribcage, where he had done ribcage correction for Qing Chen, so he knew that hitting there would cause Qing Chen to temporarily faint.
But Qing Chen endured the punch without fainting. He didn't explain anything; what if this was another test from Shendai?
Urgent footsteps came from behind, and someone shouted: “Commander Takahashi, get out of the way!”
Qing Chen and the Qing Family intelligence officer were wrestling on the ground. He suddenly kicked out, kicking the Qing Family intelligence officer sliding across the floor.
He got up and hid to the side, shouting: “I've seized his weapon; I'm going to interrogate him alive!”
After hearing the gunshots, the Gene Soldiers on the ship had already reacted. Two of them quickly provided cover fire and came to Qing Chen's side for protection.
The others suppressed the fire, forcing the Qing Family intelligence officer back to the tea room next to the bridge.
The Qing Family intelligence officer desperately tried to rush out to kill Qing Chen, but before he could rush out of the tea room, he was kicked back by the C-Class captain and couldn't stand up for a long time.
The captain stood at the entrance of the tea room and coldly asked: “Whose person are you? Why did you want to kill Takahashi Touju?”
Suddenly someone on the Airship wanted to assassinate "Qing Chen'; this was considered an accident during the mission. Everyone didn't understand why they suddenly encountered this situation when they were already in Shendai airspace.
The Qing Family intelligence officer in the tea room sneered: “You won't understand.”
After saying that, the Qing Family intelligence officer struggled to get up again.
Then he was kicked back by the captain again.
The captain said coldly: “Let me tell you what will happen after you reach the base. They will send people to conduct political reviews of you, and then what you will Face[-] will be the most miserable life in the world.”
The Gene Soldier sneered: “Northern vermin.”
As he spoke, he slammed his head against the wall of the tea room, but the captain quickly knocked him to the ground.
The captain dragged the Qing Family intelligence officer back to the cockpit and said apologetically to Qing Chen: “I'm sorry, I didn't expect this to happen…”
Then, the captain threw the Qing Family intelligence officer on the ground and said to his subordinates: “Interrogate him now and get something out before we return to A02 Base, otherwise, our political review will be difficult.”
Upon returning, all the crew members of the Takatenjin Class A Airship will Face[-] a severe political review. The higher-ups will definitely conduct screening of the crew to see if there are any more spies or if anyone has been instigated by spies.
At this time, the captain must find a way to clear himself.
Several Gene Soldiers brought pliers and pulled out the Qing Family intelligence officer's nails one by one, leaving him bloody.
However, the Qing Family intelligence officer stubbornly cursed.
The captain ordered them to pull out his teeth.
Soon, the Qing Family intelligence officer's mouth was full of blood.
Qing Chen watched.
Since the Takatenjin has locked the course.
Since he will definitely arrive at A02 Base.
Since his identity as Takahashi Touju will not last long.
Then, there are some things he must do.
Qing Chen took a deep breath and said to the captain: “My safe arrival at A02 Base is the most important thing now. I demand that all of you surrender your firearms and keep them with me. Let me make it clear that I'm not distrusting you, but my current identity is too critical. To avoid the presence of any Qing Family spies among you, I must make this decision. Those who don't surrender their weapons are Qing Family spies!”
In the ship, all the Gene Soldiers looked at the captain.
After thinking for a few seconds, the captain thought that Qing Chen's proposal was very reasonable, so he slowly nodded: “Before arriving at A02 Base, all firearms will be kept by Takahashi Touju. Those who don't hand them over are Qing Family spies.”
After he finished speaking, even though the Gene Soldiers were reluctant, they all stepped forward and unloaded their guns.
Then, Qing Chen turned his gaze to the captain.
Captain: “….”
Qing Chen frowned: “Captain, you want to kill me? I will truthfully tell the political review personnel about this matter.”
The captain hurriedly said: “No, Takahashi, you misunderstood.”
As he spoke, he handed over the pistol at his waist.
Qing Chen gathered all the firearms around him.
But at this moment, the holographic image in the cockpit lit up, and Shendai Yunzhi said sternly: “Confirmed that the possession of Qing Chen failed. Immediately restrain him. Everyone be careful before arriving at A02 Base.”
The crew and captain of the Takatenjin Airship looked at Shendai Yunzhi and then at the pile of firearms next to Qing Chen…
Your mother!
Why didn't you say so earlier?!
The guns are all handed over, and you tell us this?!
Only the bound Qing Family intelligence officer stared blankly at Qing Chen, only to find Qing Chen winking at him.
Shendai Yunzhi looked at the cockpit and frowned: “What's wrong with you?!”
The next second, Qing Chen raised his hand and pulled the trigger, shattering the control panel in the cockpit.
The captain reacted quickly. He subconsciously reached into his pocket to get the controller of the micro-bomb.
But he found that he had already pressed the detonation button, but the two micro-bombs had no reaction.
The captain roared: “He's just one person, and his pistol bullets aren't unlimited. Get him!”
The remaining 20 people on the ship all pounced on him.
“Too late.”
Qing Chen expressionlessly pulled the trigger.
The Qing Family intelligence officer fell to the ground, staring blankly at this scene.
He saw the chambers of the two firearms in Qing Chen's left and right hands striking the mechanisms.
He saw the yellow brass casings ejected from the chambers, falling to the ground and making a crisp clinking sound.
He watched Shendai's Gene Soldiers shot in the forehead, falling one after another.
The Qing Family intelligence officer swore that he had never seen such domineering gun skills. Every gunshot ended a life. It seemed like a setting in fate; the gunshots echoed in the cockpit like a death knell.
It was also invigorating.
“Watch out!” The Qing Family intelligence officer vaguely warned, his mouth spraying blood in front of him.
The captain saw the captain lift the corpse of a Gene Soldier to block in front of him and charged towards Qing Chen.
He knew that Qing Chen was seriously injured. As long as he, a C-Class, got close to him, everything would still be under his control.
Qing Chen pulled the trigger again and again, trying to shoot through the corpse the captain was holding up.
Even if the captain is only C-Class, he is still not his opponent in his current state.
Before Qing Chen could shoot through the corpse, the captain had already used the corpse as a shield to collide with him, knocking Qing Chen into the air.
At that moment, Qing Chen only felt that all the wounds on his body had burst open again.
The captain didn't notice that when he collided with Qing Chen, Qing Chen kicked a pistol under his feet.
The black, cold pistol spun and slid toward the Qing Family intelligence officer.
The Qing Family intelligence officer froze for a moment, then struggled to get up.
He raised his hand and pulled the trigger.
With a bang.
The captain's neck was pierced by an angry bullet, and blood splattered on Qing Chen.
The ship was quiet.
The Qing Family intelligence officer weakly lay down on the floor again. He watched Qing Chen struggle to get up and then squatted beside him.
Qing Chen calmly said: “Identity.”
The Qing Family intelligence officer said: “Secret Spy Agency Kestrel, Zhang Wenqi… I'm sorry, Commander, I can't reveal my identity in the Secret Spy Agency.”
Qing Chen untied the restraint clothes on him: “Is there still a way to control the Airship to deviate from the course?”
Zhang Wenqi sat up and shook his head: “Commander Qing Chen, the course has been locked. Unless the plane crashes, there's no way to change the course. A02 Base did this precisely because they were worried about someone hijacking the plane.”
Qing Chen sighed. After so much effort, he still had to reach the unknown A02 secret military base.
Qing Chen didn't want to give up, and he asked: “Is there a parachute on the Airship?”
“There were originally ten, but we used them up when we went to the Central Plains to carry out infiltration missions,” Zhang Wenqi said.
Qing Chen asked again: “Can you find a way to make the Airship crash?”
If the plane crashes, Qing Chen can make a simple parachute with the things here when he's close to the ground, smash the cockpit glass with his firearm and climb outside. He might survive if he buffers slightly before landing.
Zhang Wenqi said: “There's no way. A02 Base must have locked the power compartment. It's a 30-centimeter thick alloy hydraulic door that can't be opened.”
Qing Chen pulled out a hair and tried to cut the power compartment door with Knight True Qi.
He could make a very thin cut, but he only calculated the time and realized that at the speed he was cutting the power compartment door, it was impossible to create a crash before reaching A02 Base.
Qing Chen returned to the cockpit and sat cross-legged next to Zhang Wenqi, calmly saying: “It's my fault. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have had to go through this.”
Zhang Wenqi struggled to get up, sat next to Qing Chen, and shook his head: “Commander, this is my duty.”
“For the Qing Family?”
“Yes, for the Qing Family.”
“Is it worth it?”
Zhang Wenqi was stunned: “I'm sorry, Commander, I haven't thought about this question.”
Qing Chen asked in confusion: “Then why did you do this?”
Zhang Wenqi thought for a while and said: “Our predecessors have always done this, generation after generation. Success doesn't have to be achieved by me.”
“Where are you from?” Qing Chen asked.
“I was in City 10 before I was 13. Later, I followed my commander to the north and changed my name. I haven't been back in 10 years,” Zhang Wenqi said.
Qing Chen sighed inwardly. In times of chaos, 13-year-old children had already begun to Face[-] this cruel world.
“Commander, can you do me a favor?” Zhang Wenqi said.
“What's up?” Qing Chen asked.
“If you go back alive, can you buy a bouquet of flowers for my mother?” Zhang Wenqi said, writing an address on the ground with his own blood, then wiping it away with his hand.
This Airship has a black box that records the sounds inside the Airship every second.
Qing Chen thought for a while and said: “I'm afraid I won't be able to go back alive, but if I do, I will help you.”
“Thank you, Commander,” Zhang Wenqi smiled.
“Is there anything else you want to do?” Qing Chen asked.
Zhang Wenqi thought for a long time: “No more.”
“No regrets?”
Zhang Wenqi thought for a long time again and said with a smile: “Maybe because I lived too short a life, I haven't had time to accumulate any regrets.”
Then he wrote on the ground again: Do you want me to tell you about the situation at A02 Base?
Qing Chen calmly shook his head.
Because Zhao Jie came from A02 Base, Qing Chen also knew everything about it.
The training camp of the Eight-Forked organization is located in the harsh northern land. To its west is a vast, boundless grassland, and further north is a wide river, which is said to be frozen all year round.
Shendai Consortium not only sends outstanding intelligence personnel there but also detains some secretly captured prisoners there to transport stones.
They don't intend to use the prisoners as coolies, and those stones are not useful.
Shendai just makes the prisoners repeatedly transport the stones to the west and then back to the east.
With this endless life and labor, they destroy the prisoners' minds and bodies.
Half of the prisoners here have received anti-reconnaissance and anti-interrogation training. They hold their breath and refuse to reveal their secrets, so they are kept there.
The other half are ordinary prisoners from the three cities controlled by Shendai.
The Federation prison is impartial and inviolable, so after each Conglomerate captures some prisoners, they will directly detain them in secret prisons without going through judicial procedures, which is no longer a secret.
At the end of each training camp graduation season, Shendai Consortium distributes basic weapons to these prisoners, then drives them into the mountains and forests, and then has the newly graduated members of the Eight-Forked organization hunt them.
Shendai Consortium tells the prisoners that as long as they escape alive, they can be free, and killing a member of the Eight-Forked organization can also bring them freedom.
But according to Takahashi Touju's memory, Qing Chen clearly knows that every prisoner has the same micro-bombs and locators as he does in his body now.
Eight-Forked has never let a single prisoner escape alive.
Hunting these prisoners is just to stimulate the beastly nature in the hearts of the new members of Eight-Forked, so that they will not feel uncomfortable about killing people in the future.
There are three such training camps, which are called A01, A02, and A03 secret military bases within Shendai.
Qing Chen is going to A02.
Silence fell in the cockpit. Qing Chen and Zhang Wenqi both knew that this empty Airship had trapped their fate, and they would soon reach A02 Base.
The course is locked, and the ship's firepower cannot be activated.
Silence.
Zhang Wenqi sat on the ground, silent for a long time before saying: “Commander, I know what will happen if we reach A02 Base… I'm sorry, I want to be a deserter.”
“Yes, it's not shameful,” Qing Chen looked at the window in front of the cockpit and nodded calmly.
“Commander, take care,” Zhang Wenqi smiled, picked up the pistol, pointed it at his chin, and pulled the trigger.
Qing Chen's expression didn't change.
He wasn't familiar with Zhang Wenqi, so he wasn't particularly sad.
Strictly speaking, Qing Chen is not a Qing Family person. He doesn't have that sense of honor and belonging.
Whether he is a "public test player' or a "closed test player', from the bottom of his heart, Qing Chen's sense of identity always belongs to the Outer World.
But at this moment, his heart still stirred.
At one point, since his transmigration, Qing Chen finally had some goals in his life.
He needs to find a way to survive, and then do something.
5 pm.
At A02 Base, the prisoners in cold shackles were repeatedly transporting stones when they suddenly heard dense footsteps, and then they saw that hundreds of soldiers in the base were fully armed and gathered in the open space in the center of the base.
They formed a defensive formation.
Soon, a Takatenjin Class A Airship, more than forty meters long, flew in.
The prisoners were puzzled. What made Shendai's soldiers so active?
They looked numbly. Was it an invasion?
The Airship slowly landed, and the hydraulic hatch hissed open.
The next moment, a young man calmly walked out of the ship, stood nonchalantly at the edge of the exit, and looked at the thousands of troops outside with a smile.
The young man's Face[-] was pale and weak, with bloodstains all over his body.
But the smile on his Face[-] was exceptionally dazzling.
The soldiers waiting outside quickly rushed forward, pulled Qing Chen from the Airship, and pressed him to the cold ground.
Then, they carried out corpse after corpse of Eight-Forked organization soldiers from the ship.
The prisoners were shocked. They recalled the scene of the young man standing at the exit and smiling just now.They had seen countless prisoners being escorted, but never had they witnessed a prisoner arriving at the A02 secret military base with such a shocking presence.
"Did he kill all the Shendai soldiers on the entire Takatenjin…"
A prisoner murmured,
as if asking the companion beside him, or perhaps the biting cold wind.
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City 5.
High up in Ginkgo Garden,
in the loneliest room, the Shadow Gate opened.
After arriving this time, Shadow didn't immediately begin to question anything, instead, he sat down in silence.
After an unknown amount of time, the old man, his back to him, laughed: "What, do you plan to follow those students, and practice sitting meditation and fasting here? It's useless."
Shadow calmly said: "If I'm not mistaken, your people should have seen Qing Chen, and the person who hunted down Shendai Yunhe was also him."
The old man neither confirmed nor denied it, remaining silent.
Shadow continued: "If nothing unexpected happens, Qing Chen should have already arrived at the A02 secret military base. You have people stationed at the A02 base, right? Otherwise, why would you really send him there?"
The old man still didn't answer.
"Why? Just to give him the qualifications and reputation for quickly seizing power? Can you have an open and honest conversation with me, otherwise, I might just turn this world upside down," Shadow's tone became increasingly serious.
The old man calmly said: "Have you considered this question: Back then, someone told me to send him to the Outer World, I agreed, but that person didn't tell me how long to send him for. He's been in the Outer World since he was a child, more than ten years have passed, do you think he'll consider himself a member of the Qing Family?"
"I will teach him slowly," Shadow said.
"Too slow, I can't wait, and neither can you," the old man said.
"So you're going to use such extreme methods?"
"Unless he sees with his own eyes what the Qing Family people are like, how can he understand what the Qing Family truly is?" the old man said slowly: "He needs to see it, only then will he understand."
"The same words, if he doesn't want what you give him, if he wants to leave the Qing Family and start his own business?" Shadow said: "He has the ability."
The old man laughed: "I'll give him the Secret Spy Agency, and in the future, I can also give him the army, and I'll make a deal with Li Shutong, letting him become the next leader of Knight, does it matter if he wants this current Qing Family or not. Wherever he is, that's the Qing Family."
Shadow was stunned.
The old man said softly: "The world has decayed, and some people can't bear to watch it, so the unchanged pattern for a thousand years must be broken. Xiaozhun, the Qing Family is not you, nor am I, nor those short-sighted members of various Qing Family factions. The Qing Family was built on human lives, forged by the wisdom of our ancestors, it does not belong to you, nor to me. The current Qing Family is like a swollen shell on a crab, you can't survive without shedding this shell."
Shadow fell silent.
Everyone says the Qing Family is ruthless, the Shadow of the Qing Family is ruthless, and the head of the Qing Family is even more ruthless.
But even Shadow didn't expect that the Head of the Qingshi Clan would be so ruthless that he would personally abandon his vast heritage and undergo a rebirth.
"What if he dies? This is the only remaining bloodline heir of the Qing Family."
The old man shook his head: "You still don't understand, if you could live another twenty years, then the person who would accomplish this could be you. But you don't have that much time, so I chose him. If he dies too, then leave the Qing Family to fate."
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