Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 642: 396, Observer Chapter 642: 396, Observer On the 112th floor of the Utopia Building, inside the small cottage rented by Qing Chen.

Just as Pu Changhao thought, “Since I’m already here,” and was planning to kill Qing Chen as well, the Shadow opened the Door of Shadow and pulled Qing Chen, who was in the midst of danger and chaos, inside.

Qing Chen curiously looked around his own cottage.

This was his first time traveling through the Door of Shadow.

One second he was at the roadside shop on Struggle Road, and the next second he had arrived at the Utopia Building. There was nothing unusual about it, just like simply walking through a small door.

I wonder how many people have fantasized about having a method to travel through space, not needing to visit bank vaults or any magical places.

Just needing to wake up every day, without driving, without riding an electric bike, without cramming onto the subway or bus, to directly reach work or school.

Or wanting to travel somewhere, just open a door and arrive there.

What a blissful thing that would be.

Thinking this, Qing Chen’s eyes sparkled as he looked at Mr. Shadow’s neck, where the Taboo ACE-008, the Door of Shadow Pendant, should be hanging.

The Shadow didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “Should I praise your courage, or scold you for having the guts of a bear and the heart of a leopard?”

Qing Chen averted his gaze: “I was just looking.”

The Shadow thought for a moment: “Looking is fine.”

Saying that, he actually pulled out the Door of Shadow Pendant directly from his collar.

Qing Chen had thought it would be something expensive inlaid with sapphires, but he didn’t expect that what hung at the end of the pendant was merely a small silver buckle.

The kind used to keep photos of relatives or lovers inside.

“Whose photo is inside?” Qing Chen asked.

The Shadow held the silver buckle in his hand and opened it, revealing the photo inside, which turned out to be a handsome young man.

“Isn’t he somewhat familiar,” the Shadow said with a smile.

Qing Chen fell silent, for the young man in the silver buckle bore a resemblance to him, especially around the eyebrows and eyes.

This resemblance gave a sense of familiarity at first glance.

“Who is in the photo?” Qing Chen raised his head and asked.

The Shadow said with a smile, “He doesn’t have much to do with you, no need to be overly suspicious. He is Qing Zhen, the founder of Qing’s Family in the new human civilization era.”

The Shadow continued, “In the old era, there was also a Qing’s Financial Group, and at that time Qing Zhen, like me, was also a Shadow. But back then, Shadows were not highly regarded, their power wasn’t too great, basically used by the clan and then disposed of. But when Qing’s Financial Group wanted to kill Qing Zhen, this forefather suddenly flipped the table, and thus the new Qing’s Family was born.”

Qing Chen was startled: “Why is his photo hidden inside the Door of Shadow Pendant?”

“Because the owner of the Door of Shadow fell in love with him—it was love unrequited, eventually becoming an obsession,” the Shadow explained with a smile: “This is considered one of Qing’s Family secrets. The Transcendent who extracted the Door of Shadow loved Qing Zhen for 49 years, hence in the 071 Taboo Land there is a tombstone with only the number 49 engraved on it.”

“071 Taboo Land,” Qing Chen was startled, he had heard about this Taboo Land from his master, Uncle Li Dong, the one with the rule “only single people can enter.”

The Shadow asked with a smile, “Aren’t you curious why, after so many generations, you still bear a resemblance to Qing Zhen?”

Qing Chen nodded: “According to genetics, it’s rare for dominant genes to be passed down through so many generations.”

“It’s because of the bloodline,” the Shadow said smiling: “I want to ask you, do you have great memory, capable of memorizing hundreds of digits after the decimal point of pi? Are you usually analytical, able to instantly perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of five-figure numbers by heart?”

Qing Chen was startled, wait, so this is the bloodline ability of Qing’s Family, but what he could do was far beyond that.

Not to mention hundreds of digits following pi; he could remember tens of thousands of them.

At that moment, the Shadow said, “Qing’s is a very strange clan; every few generations such a monstrous talent appears. Not just Qing Zhen, but also Qing Wu from seven hundred years ago and Qing Xu from three hundred years ago, were all very remarkable people. Of course, there were also three others who possessed monstrous talents but were indifferent to power.”

The Shadow continued, “But they all share one common trait—they all look strikingly similar to Qing Zhen, and the more monstrous the talent, the better looking they are. Of course, this is just my little observation, few people would occasionally flip through all their ancestors’ photos and resumes… Only when things aren’t going well do they think of digging up ancestors and then changing the Feng Shui.”

“But I’m from the Outer World; I shouldn’t inherit such a bloodline,” Qing Chen said, “That’s a plain world, only filled with Ordinary People, without any Transcendents.”

The Shadow shook his head: “Maybe not. I’ve always suspected that Ren He, the founder of the Knights, came from your world. Although I don’t know exactly what happened, the appearance of the Time Traveler even more confirmed my thoughts, for example, his composition ‘Farewell’ originates from the Outer World. So, if the Outer World and Inner World are parallel worlds, one of your ancestors might also have had DNA identical to Qing Zhen’s. Of course, there are other possibilities.”

Qing Chen was astonished; he hadn’t expected the Shadow to even be aware of Ren He being the Time Traveler.

He always felt that when the Shadow talked about these things, it seemed he had omitted something, but he couldn’t determine exactly what the Shadow had intentionally left out.