Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 840: 507, Use Oneself as Bait

The silence on the snowy mountain was shattered by a sudden avalanche.

Blood gushed from the bodies of the Mysterious Business Department members, converging into a stream under the mountain.

Jinguji Maki watched Qing Chen stand in the morning sun and exhale a breath of cloud gas.

She swore it was really cloud gas, and she could even see a rainbow in the morning sun.

This scene truly upended Xiao Zhenji’s worldview. In her past life, humans were fragile; even a paper cut could tear their skin.

But everything Qing Chen did tonight seemed to open a door to a new world for her.

Behind that door was a more magnificent side of this world.

Qing Chen stood at the top of the mountain, today’s breakthrough brought him new surprises.

The greatest advantage of a knight is that after completing a life-or-death threshold, they enter a new level of strength, reaching the peak of the current level instantly, unlike others who must slowly grow their power.

This means that the moment Qing Chen stepped into B-Class, he reached the pinnacle.

Below A-Class, few could be his opponent.

But the problem was, the world is fair. There are advantages, but also flaws.

Knights have always been synonymous with strong individual ability, but they have always lacked true large-scale destructive capabilities, Uncle Li Dong was no exception.

For example, the first recorded demigod in Federation history, Chen Wudi, was said to destroy all enemies within a hundred meters with a single move called “Heavenly Tilt.”

Another example is the spiritual demigod Li Shentan, who could hypnotize 5,000 people and once captured an entire artillery team to kill the enemy.

According to the record of the ‘Darkest Hour’ before the destruction of the previous human civilization era, he once sacrificed himself and transformed into the world’s will to control a million people and hold off the AI army for half a day, buying the Northwestern Army their last chance, making him a legend.

The founder of Hu’s Information Agency, ‘Hu Shuo,’ wielded twenty-four green jade small swords to harvest the battlefield, making him a battlefield harvesting machine.

But the demigods of the knight organization, rarely had the ability to overcome thousands in a single move.

In the past, the knight organization made up for this weakness with sheer numbers—twelve A-Class experts flattened the Southwest Snow Mountain like it was child’s play and even captured Buddha from among the thousands.

Now, that’s not possible anymore. Despite the knight’s increased potential, their numbers have dwindled, a shadow of their former glory.

To use an analogy, if all the demigods had to guard a city, others would sit in the city and annihilate any enemies that came.

But the way knights guarded a city was not by sitting in the city but by leaving it, hiding among the populace.

They made everyone dread the consequences of knightly assassination and vengeance.

Simply put, in large-scale battles, knights did not have the same brute force as other demigods.

However, the appearance of liquid state knight vital energy in Qing Chen’s body brought significant transformations to his future.

He was the first in the knight organization’s history to max out attribute points and possess large-scale destructive abilities…

At this moment, Qing Chen, at the peak of B-Class, could injure over three hundred people within a hundred meters. If he reached A-Class, a breath of cloud gas could devastate the landscape.

This time, a single breath of cloud gas exhausted all his knight vital energy, but if he reached A-Class, his sustained combat ability would be stronger.

The only unfortunate thing was, Qing Chen discovered that upon unlocking his genetic lock, the thunder within his body did not advance with him.

Does he need to experience significant mental stimulation again?

Or is there another way, such as continuing to complete life-or-death thresholds, continuing to challenge the limits to release potential? After several ‘incomplete’ releases of potential, like at the beginning, his cultivation would be unable to fully release his potential, ultimately accumulating strength for the next awakening.

Qing Chen did not rush to the battlefield but sat atop the mountain, pulled out a dagger from his pocket, and calmly dug out the bullet embedded in his thigh muscle.

And waited for the knight vital energy to recover slowly.

Jinguji Maki watching this scene, felt the pain, but Qing Chen didn’t even frown.

She suddenly wondered what this brother had experienced to be so calm in the face of pain?

She knew, perhaps it was also something she had to experience in the future.

The mountain echoed with continuous wails.

Jinguji Maki suddenly looked at Qing Chen and nervously asked, “Brother, will I have to go to the pigpen in the future?”

Qing Chen couldn’t help but cry and laugh hearing this. Despite the situation, the little girl focused on this matter.

He earnestly said, “Yes, you will go too.”

The little girl showed a struggling expression on her face, finally lowered her head: “Alright, then.”

Qing Chen continued to adjust his breathing, the dopamine produced by the breathing technique rapidly soothing his nerves and even mobilizing all body energy to heal his wounds.

He did not bother with the Mysterious Business Department members, letting them wail.

From the moment he encountered the wolf pack, he had been suppressing, enduring, and suffering in silence.

Until today, a single breath of cloud gas released all frustrations, and it was time to reap some interest.

However, Qing Chen did not have the habit of torturing enemies, it was purely because of the life-or-death threshold experienced twice, climbing the mountain peak again in a single breath, and the injury on his leg… He was indeed a bit tired.

Of those three hundred plus enemies, only a few dozen should be dead; the others might still have some strength for a desperate counterattack.

So Qing Chen waited, for these people to exhaust themselves to death.

At this time, Wutian Yingfu slowly stood up in the snow, having lost the courage to continue climbing. He turned and ran down the mountain.

He guessed one thing, Jindai had strong control over the Island Country’s time travelers, and there were no mysterious experts hidden.

Encountering such a seemingly chosen one time traveler in such a remote area, he concluded it was the Joker their entire organization was looking for.

Meeting this person and losing was not shameful, but he had to pass this information back.

However, before he could run out two steps, he saw Qing Chen, at the top of the mountain, use the newly recovered knight vital energy to flick a snowflake, piercing Wutian Yingfu’s back of the head.

Qing Chen continued to wait for a less severely injured member of the Mysterious Business Department to get up, then used his freshly recovered knight vital energy to shoot the snowflake.

Like playing Whac-A-Mole, hitting whoever showed their head.

Jinguji Maki watched this and suddenly asked, “Brother… where are we going next?”

Qing Chen was silent for a while and said, “If you never get to set foot on this land again, what do you want to do?”

The little girl bowed her head and thought for a long time: “Are we going far away?”

“Yes.”

“Then… can I see my mother?”

“Huh?” Qing Chen looked at Jinguji Maki.

The little girl whispered, “Although she left me, Grandma said it was because she had no choice, she needed to live her own life… I don’t blame her, just want to see if she’s doing well, just from afar. If it disrupts your plans, then forget it, I won’t go see her.”

Qing Chen grabbed a handful of snow from the ground and put it in his mouth, slowly melting it with his warmth to drink as water. He thought and said, “Actually, I had a similar experience but you let go sooner. I’ll take you to Hokkaido, then forget it after you see her.”

Hours later, Qing Chen finally got up to finish off survivors close by. Once confirmed all members of the Mysterious Business Department were dead, he held the little girl’s hand and walked down the mountain.

He didn’t return to Shirakawa Village.

Members of the Mysterious Business Department would soon arrive in large numbers, and they would discover the bodies on the snowy mountains, a lesson left by Qing Chen.

But this was just the beginning.

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In fact, the response from the Mysterious Business Department was faster than Qing Chen expected.

Last night, before Wutian Yingfu set off from Shirakawa Village to the snowy mountains, he had already reported the situation here in advance.

And upon arriving at the destroyed cars of the Pioneer Corps, he reported again.

So the Mysterious Business Department was aware they had fallen into an ambush.

Now, Wutian Yingfu and the others had been out of contact for nearly ten hours; even a fool would know something was wrong.

And most critically, the Mysterious Business Department quickly suspected Joker; they mobilized half of Osaka City Hall’s forces to blockade the entire Takayama Hida area, swearing to find this mysterious expert.

The experts from the Mysterious Business Department arrived quickly.

They climbed Mount Okuhotaka and saw the astonishing sight.

Over three hundred people lay mortally wounded in the snow, their clothes and skin almost entirely broken.

Of the 361 people, 270 died from excessive blood loss.

Based on the state of the bodies, they concluded the injuries were inflicted by a face-to-face attack utilizing some bizarre method because their formation hadn’t scattered when they fell.

This was shocking.

Some suspected this Joker had A-Class strength, otherwise, it was impossible to achieve this.

The Mysterious Business Department was genuinely alarmed now; if an A-Class was determined to play assassination games in Jindai’s territory, how many resources would be needed to kill this A-Class?!

The cost was too high!

No, they couldn’t let Joker return to the city; they had to eliminate him in the mountains of Takayama Hida!

Within a day, thousands of time travelers from Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe, all organized, drove to the northern, southern, and central parts of Takayama Hida.

They tried to blockade the whole mountain range.

However, while the Mysterious Business Department spent vast amounts of manpower and resources tracking Qing Chen and Jinguji Maki in Takayama Hida.

Suddenly news came from Osaka City Hall…

Within Island Country, on Mount Sanne in Aichi Prefecture, the Shrine of the Seven Sacrificial Soldiers, burying seven war criminals’ remains.

Three Togo Shrines worshipping Tojo Heihachiro, who seized the northeastern privileges from Russia.

The grand Zenko-ji or Temples consecrating the invader of northern China post-Mukden Incident, Iwane Matsui, the butcher of Nanjing Massacre.

Almost simultaneously, all these locations were precisely blown up.

If the previous Tokyo Shrine bombing was considered an isolated incident, a spontaneous act by Li Family or Qing’s Family time travelers after completing a mission.

This time, it was a coordinated and disciplined premeditated act.

These places were originally guarded by the Mysterious Business Department, but due to the Takayama Hida incident, they had to redeploy resources.

Thus, some lured manpower to Takayama Hida while others executed precision bombings.

Ji Guanya and Si Nianhua, head of Li Family and Qing’s Family in the Outer World respectively, had been restricted from entering the Island Country long ago.

This time they risked sneaking back themselves, to personally oversee everything for this moment.

When they asked Qing Chen at the White Day Villa back then, what cooperation was needed, Qing Chen only instructed them on this matter.

This was also why Qing Chen came to the Island Country for his life-or-death threshold; he was willing to be the bait.

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There will be another chapter at 11 PM.