Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 582: 370. Joining the Spy Bureau Chapter 582: 370. Joining the Spy Bureau Qing Chen was still holding the cold, black pistol in the corridor.

The bright, white light from the elevator shone through the open door, creating an extremely awkward atmosphere.

The woman in front of him looked to be in her early twenties, with fair skin, crying beautifully like flowers in the rain, her eyes as red as if she had applied a circle of pink eyeshadow.

However, within the Inner World, skincare technology was quite advanced; some people in their forties could look just like they were in their twenties, so one’s apparent age was no longer a reliable reference.

The woman’s hands were free of calluses, and her physique bore no traces of combat training.

An assassin who had undergone long-term training would naturally hold their right hand still while walking, unlike an ordinary person who would swing their arms.

That was to draw a gun faster, to react more swiftly in a crisis.

Even if someone tried to overcome this habit forcefully, they still would look somewhat awkward.

At that moment, Qing Chen’s phone rang. He looked at it and saw a message from Mr. Shadow, “Interesting.”

Sure enough, the other party was no longer satisfied with just quietly remarking to themselves. They had to send the word “interesting” to him.

Qing Chen glanced at the surveillance camera by the elevator door. The other party was probably looking at him through that camera right now, watching his expression.

But at this time, he was pondering a question. Li Changqing had said that sometimes when playing, Mr. Shadow would accidentally accomplish what they intended to do.

So what was the other party’s purpose with this game now?

Did they want him to have some kind of interaction with the woman in front of him, or was it purely for fun?

The tearful woman looked at Qing Chen, “Who are you exactly, and why are you doing this to me?”

Qing Chen sighed and said, “I’m sorry, I really mistook you for someone else.”

The woman trembled and said, “Let me go, I promise I won’t call the police.”

“Thank you,” said Qing Chen as he walked past her into the elevator, discreetly pressing the door-close button several times.

If Qing Chen hadn’t kept his composure, he would have smashed the close button.

Qing Chen got out of the elevator and directly called Qing’s Shadow, “Do you find this amusing?”

Shadow laughed, “I always get a bit unhappy seeing your composed demeanor. It’s quite funny to see you a little flustered.”

“What are you after exactly?” Qing Chen didn’t understand.

“It’s for fun, of course,” Shadow retorted with interest, “Is there anything more important than fun? No, there isn’t!”

As Qing Chen walked out, he sighed. Had he come to city number 10 just to accompany Mr. Shadow in seeking fun?

The young man stood in the noisy cyberpunk city at midnight.

In front, the colorful neon lights, the golden holographic clouds flowed rapidly in the sky, converging with the Blue Whale at the end of the long street, as if the giant whale was tumbling in the sea of clouds.

The pupil of the young man constricted as the dazzling light strips on the buildings and the mechanical limbs on the pedestrians mingled together.

Curious, Shadow asked, “What are you doing standing still, why don’t you move? Oh yes, the Spy Bureau’s power structure is very simple. Your position is as a spy, and the 12 people under your command are called Kite Falcons; I’ve carefully selected them for you, make sure to use them well.”

Qing Chen said nothing.

Shadow laughed, “Go report to the Spy Bureau with ease. There will be many more interesting things waiting for you in the future… huh?”

At that moment, Shadow suddenly realized that they had lost sight of Qing Chen in the surveillance. The young man seemed to have an ability to disappear into the crowd like a water drop merging with the ocean.

Qing Chen had not changed his appearance, but instead stepped into all the dead angles of the surveillance cameras.

He was proving to Shadow that despite their extensive Divine Skills, he still had ways of escaping their control.

“This is even more interesting. I like control, but I like the uncertainties of the future even more,” Shadow hung up after saying that.

In Shadow’s 34 years of life, everything was in order, as if all things were proceeding in a foreseeable future according to their plans.

Including their own life.

People love the certainty of things in life, such as dreaming of saving six million to live off the interest in the bank for an easy second half of their life.

Like finding a secure job, and then waiting to age.

Like finding a love that is constant and unchanging, hoping it will never go sour.

But Shadow found such a life boring. After getting used to seeing people, events, and objects being controlled, they instead preferred the occurrence of uncertainties.

Uncertainty equates to surprise.

If you know too early what you’re going to get, that surprise can no longer be called a surprise.

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1:45 AM.

Caramel Bar’s entrance.

Caramel Bar was located on the first floor of Leiming Building. Yan Chunmi from the Spy Bureau arrived 15 minutes early, but she did not see a trace of her new boss.

She muttered to herself, “Not the type to arrive early, huh? But surely he won’t be late?”

Just then, she heard Qing Chen’s voice from behind her, “You had three servings of takoyaki, two skewers of oden, one portion of yellow braised chicken with rice, and a steak on your way here. Why are you eating so much? Aren’t you supposed to have an audition with the film crew tomorrow? Don’t third-rate stars need to manage their figure?”

Yan Chunmi turned abruptly, only to see her new boss’s expression as calm as a lake.

She suddenly realized that he had followed her the whole way, and she hadn’t noticed him at all.

Indeed, Qing Chen knew not only about the food she’d eaten but also that after she stepped out of the Utopia Building, she started crossing the first pedestrian light with her left foot.