Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 343: 265, it’s late

The moment the sniper appeared, Nan Gengchen finally realized just how many pedestrians and actors were on Xingshu Road.

In an instant, those shadowy figures quickly put on Bluetooth earpieces and ran towards the sound of the gunfire.

And Nan Gengchen, who had been the original target, was rightfully abandoned.

No one spared him another glance.

The feeling was quite peculiar—as if being kidnapped signified importance.

Once the sniper intervened, he was discarded like a worn-out shoe, as if the act of kidnapping was merely to lure someone more important.

Nan Gengchen hid in the shadows and watched their back, his mouth opened in an attempt to make the people ambushed on Xingshu Road reconsider his value, but he restrained himself.

Raising a fuss now, there was no telling if someone might jump out and kill him.

From the moment the first sniper shot rang out, Nan Gengchen found himself no longer as afraid.

He was convinced that Qing Chen was around, and the reality of his presence was reassuring.

But who was this sniper, also a member of the Daytime group?

He had never heard of such a person in the Daytime group before!

Was it Qing Chen?

Probably not.

When Nan Gengchen had visited the injured Lao Jiu, Lao Jiu had mentioned they hadn’t had time to take Qing Chen to the shooting range yet.

Moreover, Qing Chen had no place to hide a sniper rifle.

In fact, this was also the reason why Qing Chen dared to directly use a sniper rifle… nobody knew he could handle one, forging a brand-new identity for him.

No matter what the outside world speculated, the sniper couldn’t possibly be Qing Chen.

And with the appearance of the sniper rifle, the assassins’ plan was utterly disrupted, as they had stationed their men on Xingshu Road, ready to swarm anyone who came to rescue Nan Gengchen.

However, they hadn’t anticipated Qing Chen’s bullets would come shooting in from outside the encirclement, nor had they expected the gunfire to arrive so swiftly!

The assassins had already turned Xingshu Road into their home ground, but Qing Chen didn’t follow their plan at all!

Who would set up an unnecessary encirclement a kilometer outside of the already established ones for no reason?

Now, to find the sniper and the more important figure behind Nan Gengchen, the assassins would have to charge through these several hundred meters.

But here’s the problem, this was within a few hundred meters of the sniper’s effective range.

Within the range of a cannon, the ground is covered with truths.

Under the cover of night, the sniper rifle continually roared as the assassins attempting to charge the building fell one after another.

The muzzle brake fitted on ‘Yi De Fu Ren’ was a “flame suppressor”, not a “silencer”; outsiders could see no muzzle flash but could hear the terrifying boom.

The bullet would spin rapidly as it traversed the barrel, driven by the rifling’s helical grooves.

As the bullet pierced through a human body, all muscle fibers were shredded by the tremendous torque, and upon exit, it caused a massive exit wound and radiated blood.

It stained the grey roller doors of the small shops lining Xingshu Road with red.

No matter how fast the assassins ran or how they dodged, it was futile.

The bullets would always fly through the night, punctually arriving.

An assassin with a calm expression continuously ran in a “Z” pattern down the middle of Xingshu Road, his speed resembling that of a hunting dog.

The remaining assassins hid behind trees and silently watched, trying to see if this manner of moving was effective.

As it turned out, the Z-patterned assassin hadn’t gotten far before a shot blasted through his chest.

The sniper in the distance on the rooftop didn’t even need to fire another shot.

It seemed that no matter how dizzying your maneuvers, they were merely the struggles of a dying beast.

A young man hid behind a tree, lightly panting as he spoke into the Bluetooth earpiece: “Boss, we’ve charged quite a distance, but the sniper is more than 500 meters away on top of the Kai Hotel; we probably can’t make it over. For now, it’s relatively safe to hide behind the tree; what should we do next?”

A light voice came through the earpiece: “Just keep hiding for now, I’ll have someone else deal with him.”

The assassins on Xingshu Road, upon hearing that their boss had an ace up his sleeve, all breathed a sigh of relief.

However, in the next moment, everyone’s expression stiffened.

They saw a bullet pierced straight through the trunk of the tree where the young man was hiding and then through his body!

The blood mist in the night looked particularly brutal, splattering all around.

The sides of Xingshu Road were lined with camphor trees and low green belts, where the camphor trees grow so slowly and difficulty that the diameter of the trunks mostly measures over thirty centimeters.

With such thickness, there’s no way to stop the sniping of ‘Yi De Fu Ren’.

“It’s an anti-materiel sniper rifle!” the assassins exclaimed.

“How could there be an anti-materiel sniper rifle in a place like Los Angeles City?”

Anti-materiel rifles are used to penetrate cover, loaded with armor-piercing bullets. Although they can’t pierce a main battle tank, they can easily penetrate armored personnel carriers.

In a sense, sniper rifles and anti-materiel rifles are two different weapons!

And in a place like Los Angeles City, there’s simply no qualification to use an anti-materiel sniper rifle; usually, only the military would have them.

So, all the assassins were forced to hide behind solid telephone poles, not daring to show their faces.

Because to show your face meant death.

Qing Chen was calm and unhurried, silently locking onto his target and even finding time to send out a message on his phone in the Daytime group.

Boss: “Liu Dezhu, have Kunlun send more people. There are many behind the street-side telegraph pole that need to be captured.”

At that moment, he was on the rooftop of the Kai Hotel, with an unobstructed view of the long street below.

Although he was still far from where Nan Gengchen had been located before, it was beyond the precise shooting distance of ordinary snipers.

But just that morning, Qing Chen’s shifted targets had already reached this distance!

This was within his effective range of hitting every shot!

Qing Chen glanced at the assassins suppressed behind the telegraph pole, finding it too troublesome to shoot them one by one. It would be better to wait for Kunlun to finish the job since this was originally Kunlun’s duty.

Time was passing unknowingly, and everyone was waiting.

Suddenly, in his expansive field of view, someone quickly appeared on the rooftop of a residential building in another direction, holding a telescope and looking towards the Kai Hotel’s rooftop.

The person was hooded and wore a black mask, making it impossible to see their face. Qing Chen could only make out that the person was fairly well-proportioned, about 185 cm tall, and male.

However, as soon as the person raised the telescope, they saw the black sniper rifle already swiveled in their direction, aiming right at them.

When he saw this, his hair stood on end in shock, and he quickly retreated back into the dark passage above the rooftop.

Qing Chen frowned, feeling that this person didn’t seem like an assassin.

Instead, he seemed more like a Time Traveler who had discovered the situation and had come to the roof to see what was happening!

Qing Chen silently pondered, who could this person be? Could he be one of the known Time Travelers?

Suddenly, on the Kai Hotel’s rooftop, the iron door that Qing Chen had forcefully broken and left ajar was slowly pushed open.

The rusty iron door made a squeaky metallic friction sound as it opened, which was quite grating on the ears.

A young man pointed a gun at the back of the sniper’s head and smiled, “Found you.”

The sniper said, “When did you enter this building? Why didn’t I see you?”

The young man smiled and replied, “This spot is perfect for observing the ambush circle, and it’s a hotel, so why not just check in here. Sorry, I was actually staying in Kai Hotel. Don’t move, okay? If you move, you’ll die. You definitely can’t turn around faster than I can pull the trigger.”

After that, he pressed the button on his Bluetooth headset and said, “Boss, I found the sniper. Should we keep him alive?”

From the other side of the Bluetooth headset, someone lightly exclaimed, “You found him that easily? No… Zhou Yong, first disarm him. The others will arrive in a few minutes. Take the sniper with you and leave before Kunlun surrounds the area. Follow the escape route I’ve set up.”

Zhou Yong responded, “Understood…”

Before he could finish speaking, the sniper had already turned around recklessly, pointing the sniper rifle at Zhou Yong!

Left with no choice, Zhou Yong decisively pulled the trigger.

Bang! Bang!

Two shots echoed through the night sky!

In the Bluetooth headset, someone asked in a stern voice, “What happened?”

“He suddenly became reckless, tried to turn around and kill me. I had no choice but to shoot him dead,” Zhou Yong slowly walked towards the sniper, but then he suddenly froze: “Boss, it’s Chen Siheng!”

“Chen Siheng? Evacuate!” came the voice through the Bluetooth headset.

However.

In the Bluetooth headset.

Behind Zhou Yong.

Someone else spoke at the same time.

“Too late.”

In the chilling wind on the rooftop, Zhou Yong’s body stiffened completely. He felt the cold touch at his neck, a lethal blade poised to kill him.

Zhou Yong didn’t even realize when the person had gotten behind him.

Qing Chen, smiling, pressed the talk button on his Bluetooth headset, greeting in a raspy voice, “I hear you’re looking for me?”

There was also a light laugh through the Bluetooth headset, “You’re not easy to find. So your greatest skill is as a sniper. But I’m curious, where did you get the sniper rifle from? You shouldn’t have been able to bring it back from the Inner World, right? So, if I search the military’s anti-material sniper rifle serial numbers to see which guns are missing from the armory tonight, can I find you then?”

Qing Chen replied softly, “No worries, you can take your time looking.”

Sorry, this sniper rifle, in fact, Qing Chen did bring it from the Inner World.

In the Bluetooth headset, that light and excited voice said, “I feel like I’m very close to you now. Be careful, or you might end up being my slave.”

Qing Chen chuckled, “Is that how you talk to your master? Rude, hehe.”

Hearing the word “hehe,” the person on the other side of the Bluetooth headset finally confirmed that the caller was indeed the leader of that organization, because no one else could be so infuriating!

However, Qing Chen didn’t continue to engage over the headset; he flicked his wrist, retracting the Puppeteer strings that had been wrapped around Chen Siheng’s wrist and then around Zhou Yong’s.

Surprisingly, Zhou Yong wasn’t controlled by the Puppeteer as Qing Chen had expected.

Qing Chen, somewhat taken aback, used a dagger to cut the other’s carotid artery. He hadn’t expected that Zhou Yong would actually be a D-Class or above Transcendent!

The young man pocketed the ‘persuader,’ picked up the handgun that had been in Zhou Yong’s hand, and turned to walk into the dark hallway behind him.

He knew more people were closing in, and it seemed this night had only just begun.

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