Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 713: 420, Tail Ring and Departure_2

Abby felt a pang of sorrow in his heart, as he was still thinking about how to use this incident to set a trap for Qing Chen. He hoped to alert the Future Organization of their whereabouts and have them come to the rescue. But Capri was not cooperating at all and had assigned such a trivial task.

Qing Chen said with a smile, “I can do this for you, but you have to tell me the containment conditions first.”

Capri shook his head, “No, you have to do it for me first.”

Qing Chen responded, “Then should I ask Abby? Maybe he’d be more willing to make this trade with me. Of course, you can also choose to trust that I am reliable and willing to help you with such a small task, after all, it’s a piece of cake.”

Capri was taken aback for a moment, “This tail ring is called ‘Power,’ signifying that it can take you anywhere.”

Qing Chen was also stunned, “Teleportation ability?!”

“No,” Capri shook his head, “It means that as long as you wear it, you can open any door, even if the door has a mechanical or combination lock. You just need to turn the handle, and it will unlock all obstacles and open the door… It works on safes, too.”

Capri hurriedly added another comment, afraid that Qing Chen would think the gadget was useless.

Qing Chen retorted irritably, “With just this ability, you’ve given it such a powerful name?! And said something about going anywhere!”

It would be better called a master key!

Wait a second, Qing Chen suddenly thought of something. It was said that Taboo item ACE-012, the steam train’s carriage, was loaded with Gold Coins. If anyone tried to steal the Gold Coins, they would be locked inside by the steam train and trapped to death.

Could this tail ring called ‘Power’ actually unlock the locked door after stealing the Gold Coins?!

Isn’t this the legendary battle of using rules against rules, defeating magic with magic?

Of course, Qing Chen didn’t really plan to try…

After all, he didn’t know whether this bug-like method would work, and if Western rules didn’t apply well in the East, and the power of the tail ring couldn’t overcome the steam train, then he would be doomed…

Qing Chen looked at Capri, “What are the containment rules? How can one become its host?”

Capri explained, “Its containment conditions are simple. The host must steal something every month, anything will do. The stolen objects must be fed to the tail ring before the owner realizes they’re missing.”

Qing Chen thought to himself, this must be a Taboo crafted by a B-Class Expert from North America, with such a peculiar habit.

If he went back to his country, he might not even be able to test the Taboo’s rules because he didn’t have the habit of stealing at all.

Abby, listening to Capri divulging all the details, sighed internally.

Two C-Class Experts had fallen so low as to fight over a “dying wish.” Abby felt like he wanted to kill Capri there and then.

At that moment, Qing Chen took control of Capri again, then slipped the tail ring onto Abby’s pinky finger, “You try it.”

Abby said, “You want me to test this tail ring for you, to see if Capri has set a trap? Fine, but you must also delete the contents of my cloud drive.”

He made his final attempt.

Abby could have had a better plan, but now all he could do was pray that some clues he had left would bring W to some idea.

Qing Chen smiled and said, “Okay.”

Then, Abby spoke to Qing Chen, “I need to steal something first, and the owner must not be aware of it. Should I go out to the street and steal something?”

“No need, it’s not so complicated,” Qing Chen shook his head as he released Capri’s bonds and knocked Capri out with the edge of his hand.

Then, Qing Chen told Abby, “Just strip his coat off him; that will count as stealing it. Don’t worry, he’s unconscious.”

Abby was shocked on the spot. So, “to feed the stolen item to the tail ring before the owner realizes it’s missing,” could also be manipulated this way.

Qing Chen saw his confusion and said earnestly, “He is indeed unconscious now.”

Abby sighed, as his intention to pass information to the outside world failed, “But this is more like robbery, it’s not really stealing.”

“Let’s try first and see,” Qing Chen responded vaguely.

Abby peeled off Capri’s coat and then brought the tail ring close to it.

The coat appeared to burst into flames and, in an instant, turned to ash.

Abby was stunned for a moment, Could that even work?!

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In Frederic Hospital, W lay on the hospital bed, his body swathed in a massive amount of bandages, while more than ten subordinates sat in the spacious, high-end ward.

According to the doctors, he had a mild concussion, 31% of his body was burned, and he had internal bleeding.

If it had been an average person who had endured that explosion, they would have either been blown apart on the spot, or the 31% burn coverage would have been enough to cause organ failure and death.

Fortunately, as a B-Class Expert, W had a strong self-healing ability.

W calmly said at the moment, “Train stations, highway entrances, freeways, airports, ports, have everyone watch them closely, don’t let Abby and Capri have a chance to leave. Hack into the network, lock down their bank accounts, social media accounts… all accounts, track their information through usage traces. Don’t let them have a chance to leave Amsterdam alive, or else we’ll become a laughingstock to North American Time Traveler.”

However, just then, a subordinate said, “Boss, Capri’s social media account has been logged into!”

W was stunned, “He dares log into his social media account at a time like this? What is he doing?”

The subordinate stared at the computer and said, “He… he’s deleting private messages.”

W frowned, goddammit, deleting private messages.

At a time like this, he’s actually deleting private messages. Is that what a person being hunted should be doing?

Why would he want to do such a thing now?

“No, that’s not right,” W’s brow furrowed tighter, “This is not so simple… In what situation would someone want to delete their private messages.”

Another subordinate said, “Boss, Abby’s cloud storage account has also been logged into, and he’s deleting his selfies and videos.”

W suddenly remembered a time when he had jokingly asked Abby what he would do if he had only five minutes left to live.

Abby’s answer was: delete everything from his cloud to prevent exposure and preserve his reputation.

W suddenly sat up from the bed and roared at his subordinates, “Check their login IPs, hurry up and find out!”

“We’ve got it, boss. The IP address is at Danlack Street, B-156, they fabricated several IP protocols and made over thirty jumps, but our decoders brought from the Inner World cracked it,” said the subordinate.

“Go, surround that place!” W said, “Abby… nevermind, if there’s resistance, kill on sight, no mercy, send Mike as well!”

At that moment, W realized that Abby might be dying, and that there seemed to be more hidden truths to ‘Abby’s Undercover Case’.

But whether Abby truly betrayed the Future or was coerced, W didn’t want any more surprises with this matter.

15 minutes later, Mike had arrived at the door of B-156 on Danlack Street. He looked coldly at the shabby door and asked a member of the Future next to him, “Is there any activity on those accounts?”

The Future member said, “They are still deleting their digital footprints, non-stop.”

Mike sneered, raised his arm and spread his fingers, a red laser instantly sliced the door of B-156 to shreds.

However, when the door was cut open everyone was stunned because there was no one inside.

Mike quickly stepped inside and saw a mobile phone on the dining table, that phone was automatically deleting all of Abby and Capri’s online account information.

The phone kept popping up new apps, then rapidly deleting everything, even canceling membership subscriptions to video websites.

Once it had deleted all the online information, suddenly, a game interface for Monopoly appeared on the phone screen, starting a new game.

And right beside this phone, someone had left a poker card, face down on the table.

Mike’s face turned ashen as he picked up the card, revealing it to be a colorful Joker, silently grinning.

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Tonight’s the final of the Dota 2 TI international tournament, so tonight’s update will be very late, everyone take a look in the morning. I’ll finish writing before dawn…