Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1003: 628, Points! Points!

Facing Qing Chen’s trading terms, Zheng Yuandong hesitated.

He understood very well that offering the Black Eye of Truth ACE-004 and an investigation into a truth as a condition in exchange for an orthodox cultivation method was a bargain.

After all, an orthodox cultivation technique could even support an organization or a clan. With it, Kunlun could entirely relocate with his students to a wilderness where even the Federation wouldn’t care.

Life might be tougher, but survival would certainly be secured.

The black stone was indeed important, yet not as valuable as a cultivation path that could be passed down.

If it weren’t for Qing Chen’s eagerness for revenge, he wouldn’t propose such a price.

But Zheng Yuandong couldn’t accept it.

This made Qing Chen a bit curious: “Why? Is it that the Observer organization can’t do it? Or is there something you know that makes you afraid of being implicated?”

“Firstly, the Observers haven’t investigated this matter,” Zheng Yuandong said after a moment’s thought: “And with my personality, there’s nothing in this world that can’t be done before making every effort. However, the Observer organization has a different nature. I hold dual identities as Kunlun and an Observer, I can act with Kunlun but can’t use the Observer at will, as it is neutral.”

Zheng Yuandong: “Kunlun Zheng Yuandong needs the method, not Observer Zheng Yuandong. Starting next month, I will step down from the position of chairman of the Observer organization’s board, then everything will get on track with a new successor. Observers can continue doing what they want without being dragged by me or Kunlun.”

Kunlun Zheng Yuandong, Observer Zheng Yuandong, were obviously the same person.

But in Zheng Yuandong’s own view, there was a great difference.

“Why be neutral?” Qing Chen asked.

“The identity of Observers, aside from their abilities, is essentially investigative journalists,” Zheng Yuandong explained: “What they do is authentically record the history happening in the Inner World and compile it into a chronicle. Regardless of poverty or wealth, regardless of which conglomerate’s pressure, unless out of their scope, they are unfaltering.”

Qing Chen said: “Investigating the cause of death of a woman named Ning Xiu, isn’t that also part of history? Her death even altered some of the directions of the Federation, I think it’s very important.”

“But the history recorded by Observers is for future generations to see, all information has a 100-year confidentiality period,” Zheng Yuandong said.

“What’s the difference between showing history to contemporaries versus future generations?” Qing Chen wondered.

“History for contemporaries is Hope Media, history for future generations is the Observer organization,” Zheng Yuandong thought for a moment: “Actually, it’s still because the Observer organization is not strong enough, some truths, once released, would be instantly retaliated by conglomerates, and it couldn’t withstand such retaliation.”

Zheng Yuandong: “Just last year, an Observer investigating a faction of the Qing’s by using barbarians to test the rules of the Taboo Land, after his identity was discovered, was brutally murdered by the Qing’s faction, and the truth of that incident vanished in the river of time. Therefore, to let future generations know the truth today, the Observer organization chooses to compromise and endure. You might think they are timid or pretentious, but this is the only way to preserve true history.”

“Don’t they seek revenge?” Qing Chen asked.

Zheng Yuandong calmly said: “Observers do not seek revenge because they are not an organization that excels in violence, and in front of the conglomerates, they are as insignificant as ants. If Observers seek revenge, it will lead to retaliation by the Qing’s and distract other Observers from investigating the truth. Endless revenge is not more important than their original mission.”

“The Contraindicated courts are also a neutral organization, and the conglomerates wouldn’t kill people from the Contraindicated courts,” Qing Chen said.

Zheng Yuandong said: “That’s because the Contraindicated courts are useful to them.”

“Then what is the meaning of maintaining neutrality when one could be killed?” Qing Chen wondered.

He actually didn’t understand the Observer organization, but he knew that everyone in this world was inherently different. He just wondered about the meaning of neutrality.

Zheng Yuandong: “The neutrality of the Observer organization is non-interference in world affairs, we are like spectators of this world, quietly waiting for things to happen, rather than participating in them. Sorry, Observers will not help you, just as they will not help me obtain a cultivation method. Things that the Shadow can seize, we cannot.”

Qing Chen could imagine how many Observers had died in the long years to investigate the truth.

They record the beauty and suffering of the human world, and also the ugliness and wretchedness of the conglomerates.

Even if Qing Chen was from the Qing’s, he felt that the Qing’s actually had no significance.

At this moment, Qing Chen felt somewhat disappointed.

At this time, Zheng Yuandong thought for a bit and said: “Now Kunlun needs to develop, so I will also resign from the Observer identity to focus on the development of domestic Time Travelers. After this, I can help you investigate under my personal name. Meanwhile, I’ll also seek out He Jinqiu and use Hu’s Information Agency’s power to investigate this matter. You know Li Changqing; if she becomes an independent director and works with He Jinqiu, the Executive Director, they can accomplish a lot.”

Zheng Yuandong very much wanted a cultivation technique, but he couldn’t deceive Qing Chen.

“Think about it,” Zheng Yuandong said.