Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 110: 110, there is another target

The convoy that just arrived was full of clans’ scions, the real big shots in the city.

The young girl thought that these two avoiding the financial groups probably weren’t big shots either, otherwise, they would have come out and acknowledged each other already.

After all, those clan scions had threatened to kill them, and if they truly knew each other, they at least would have come forward and said something.

At this thought, Qin Yiyi was a bit happy… It was good that these were not the big shots.

Her whole family disliked those city big shots.

Those big shots never regarded people like them as human beings.

However, Qin Yiyi suddenly noticed that the young boy seemed to be furrowing his brow, pondering something.

Not far away, Uncle Li Dong looked at his prized student, “What is it? What did you see to make you so serious?”

Qing Chen turned his head and whispered softly, “Teacher, I saw my classmate.”

When the woman named Yino rolled down the car window, the person Qing Chen saw from the passenger seat was none other than the timid Nan Gengchen…

The woman with a robust physique, a dominating huge SUV, and the silver exhaust pipes spitting flames – all this made Nan Gengchen, who sat in the passenger seat, appear somewhat out of place.

So… Qing Chen suddenly found himself feeling a mix of laughter and tears; was the muscular Li Yinuo the rich woman keeping Nan Gengchen?

No wonder he moved into District 1, he indeed had latched onto a big shot…

Only the taste of this Li Yinuo seemed somewhat peculiar, strong herself, yet she preferred weak boys.

At this moment, while everyone else was enjoying the rhythmic music, Nan Gengchen sat in his seat with a desolate expression.

His eyes were lifelessly staring at the windshield…

He even wanted to cover his ears at one point.

This must be the price of being kept.

The poor guy hadn’t even noticed that his desk mate was hiding in the nearby woods.

Uncle Li Dong looked at Qing Chen, “Do you remember the name Li Yinuo?”

“Yes,” Qing Chen nodded, “It’s on the list of Li’s Financial Group you gave me, Li Yinuo, the beloved eldest daughter of the Lee family’s third generation.”

Tong Yun once mentioned that she had an elder sister in the Lee family who was very kind to her, not sure if it’s this one though.

The third generation of the Lee family had many children, with Tong Yun having more than ten older sisters and brothers. The little girl didn’t mention a name, so Qing Chen couldn’t be sure.

He looked at Uncle Li Dong, “Teacher, what is this Autumn Hunting Team for, hunting wild beasts?”

Uncle Li Dong shook his head, “They dare not hunt wild beasts, they only dare to hunt humans.”

“Humans?” Qing Chen was stunned, he truly hadn’t expected that.

“There are many like Guo Huchan, who don’t have legal identities, wandering in the wilderness,” Uncle Li Dong explained, “some are prisoners who escaped from the city, and others are civilians who live in the wilderness unwilling to be oppressed by the financial groups. They live just outside the borders of the Taboo Land and whenever financial groups launch raids, they escape into the edges of the Taboo Land and play cat and mouse with the army.”

So, the so-called Autumn Hunting is not about finding wild beasts, but about hunting down illegal wilderness dwellers!

All along the way, Qing Chen had also seen scattered settlements in the wilderness.

There, humans were responsible for assisting intelligent machinery in production labor, but now, production labor seemed to have been largely replaced by machinery, and not many humans were needed anymore.

Before, Qing Chen had summarized that not only 19 cities experienced the emergence of Time Travelers, but other places also sporadically witnessed them.

So, those sporadic appearances, must correspond to the few settlements in the wilderness.

“Why do we need to raid the wilderness people?” Qing Chen asked.

“Because they always like to seize the opportunity to loot those production bases. Guo Huchan was captured while leading a raid on production base 1192,” Uncle Li Dong said.

“Teacher, what level is Guo Huchan?” Qing Chen asked.

“B-Class,” Uncle Li Dong answered. “That’s why in the recent Autumn Hunting Team, there definitely were B-Class Experts from the corporation hidden among them, protecting these young people.”

“Are all these people direct descendants of the corporation?” Qing Chen asked.

“No,” Uncle Li Dong shook his head. “They are just some spoiled descendants, the real direct heirs are either serving in the Federation’s corporate army or holding significant positions in companies. These in the Autumn Hunt are just collateral members of the family with no hopes of ascending.”

As he watched the departing convoy, Qing Chen suddenly thought of the term “Eight Banners’ descendants”: “So, are there many corporate elites in the Federal Army?”

Uncle Li Dong said with a laugh, “Heng Society also captured quite a few Time Travelers and extracted numerous details. Interestingly, many people in the Outer World think that the corporations directly control the entire Federation, but that’s not the case. They indirectly hold power over the Federation through various sectors. Fundamentally, they still claim this place is democratic.”

“Democracy is not about the corporate descendants killing whomever they want,” Qing Chen said calmly.

Uncle Li Dong smiled, “The Emperor has never disappeared; they just changed clothes.”

The terms Inner World and Outer World were gradually catching on in this region.

Actually, there was no difference, having names to distinguish both worlds was sufficient.

At that moment, Uncle Li Dong, watching the departing convoy said, “But, they started the Autumn Hunt early, which means I can’t take you to walk there slowly. Otherwise, by the time we’d arrive, the dinner would be cold.”

After speaking, Uncle Li Dong walked over to Qin Cheng and asked, “Could we get a lift? I see there’s still space on your pickup; the two of us can sit in the back. We’ll pay.”

The young girl Qin Yiyi suddenly pointed at Qing Chen and said, “You can ride, but you have to treat him well.”

Uncle Li Dong was startled; that was an unexpected turn.

He had not realized that his student was quite popular wherever he went.

However, Qin Cheng pulled Qin Yiyi away, then politely said, “The little girl doesn’t know better, she’s gotten wild living in the wilderness. Yes, you can hitch a ride, but where do you need to go?”

Uncle Li Dong laughed and said, “It’s up to fate where we go. How about this, let’s just ride along and when we want to get off, we’ll settle the fare based on the distance traveled.”

Qin Cheng hesitated for a moment, then Qing Chen took out a bottle of antibiotics from his bag and handed it to him: “A deposit.”

“Okay!” Qin Cheng agreed.

During the conversation, Qing Chen glanced at his teacher.

The man clearly didn’t come out here without a purpose.

Uncle Li Dong knew very well that the corporation’s Autumn Hunt was beginning, and he even knew where Qin Cheng’s family was heading.

However, he couldn’t understand why, given that the teacher had said he would take him to try to unlock the first layer of his genetic lock, it now seemed he had another goal in mind.