Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1132: Chapter 673: Calamity of All Living Beings

Return.

The world becomes bright again.

Qing Chen is still standing in the War Fortress of the Agricultural College.

He looks at Sun Chu Ci, Tuan Zi, and Zard: ”Is everything going smoothly?”

Zard is about to say something, but Qing Chen interrupts: ”Don’t speak yet, Sun Chu Ci, you go ahead, and Zard you can add on later.”

Sun Chu Ci says: ”Li Cheng and Qing Ling have already crossed the Taboo Land number 002 under the guidance of Yang Yang. The vehicles were abandoned outside the Taboo Land, and Zard covered them with sand to prevent anyone from tracking us using the vehicles.”

Sun Chu Ci continues: ”Four warriors stepped forward to admit they had once been turned... They chose to commit suicide, they weren’t cowards. Everyone else passed Ding Dong’s test.”

Qing Chen is silent for a moment: ”What were their names?”

”I saw on their tombstones, it was Wang Zhongyu, Li Gongwen, Liu Bingxu, and Zhang Boming,” Sun Chu Ci says.

Qing Chen nods and silently notes these four names.

Sometimes having an excellent memory is not necessarily a good thing. Qing Chen even remembers Liu Bingxu was only 28 years old. On the steam train, he was cracking sunflower seeds, talking about wanting to marry a pretty wife and having a child. He said he doesn’t want his wife to have too many children because he heard childbirth is painful.

Then Li Cheng teased him for not having been in a relationship yet, talking about marrying and having children.

Liu Bingxu retorted, he joined the army at 15, captured by Jindai at 18, where would he find the time to date.

Qing Chen also remembers Zhang Boming had a particular addiction to smoking; on the steam train, he liked to pick his feet, and he was particularly lucky when playing cards.

Wang Zhongyu liked to sing and said he could play the harmonica.

Li Gongwen was very taciturn, yet his dream was to return to the city and buy a holographic ’wife,’ dressing her in whatever he wanted, letting her do whatever he wanted...

These vibrant lives have now all departed.

Qing Chen harbors no blame for them because he knows he did not experience the hardships they went through, so he has no right to reprimand their rebellion and betrayal. He only feels sorry for the four of them.

If there is any fault in this world, it belongs to the Jindai Consortium.

Qing Chen looks at Zard: ”Anything you’d like to add?”

Zard laughs: ”Ding Dong says I’m the cutest soul he’s ever seen, and he also said next time when I go to Taboo Land number 002, he’ll treat me to some fruits.”

Qing Chen: ”....Is that what I wanted you to add?!”

”The cutest soul, from a Talent for Mental Synchronization giant’s official recognition, can I not brag about it? You’re not as cute as me!” Zard said wide-eyed.

Qing Chen: ”Right, right... You should all head back and rest. I have some things to think about.”

”Alright, Xiao Yu is still waiting for me at the dorm; I have to tell him a bedtime story. Tonight it’s about King Kong fighting the Gourd Warriors to rescue Snow White,” Zard says.

Qing Chen thought to himself, do you have the rights to mix three stories together...?

He waves his hand helplessly: ”Go tell the story quickly.”

As he lies down on the chair, after returning to the 10th city this time, among the chaotic information, there are some hidden clues.

These include news from the bartender, various information from the Parents’ Meeting mistress liaison, and discussions he overheard from passersby on the main street.

Qing Chen’s hearing is extraordinary. The words passersby unintentionally spoke could become potential clues or evidence of clues.

He looks at the dome, his pupils suddenly constricting.

Beneath the dazzling neon lights, men and women dressed in beautiful clothes shuttle through the streets of the Fifth District.

A gigantic holographic female model sprays perfume into the night sky, golden powder descends from the sky, snowing down across all the pedestrians...

But just as Qing Chen plans to analyze further, suddenly a series of screams pierce through the academy.

The piercing screams are so strong, like a knife cutting through the night, tearing through the midnight of Whale Island, faintly audible even within the Agricultural College.

At this moment, all the Time Travelers have just returned and had not yet had time to sleep. Therefore, students open their doors, coming into the corridors, loudly discussing what had happened.

Qing Chen rises and walks towards the dormitory area.

The people of Kunlun have already arrived first, dispersing hundreds of people throughout the dormitory area to maintain order.

They ordered all students back to their dorms and simultaneously locked down 12 dormitory areas.

When Qing Chen arrives, Kunlun has already set up a barricade, protective suit-wearing staff carrying tool kits are entering the 12 dormitories one by one.

He finds Lu Yuan and asks in a low voice: ”What’s going on?”

Lu Yuan, with a solemn expression, says: ”You know, if a Time Traveler dies in the Inner World, the corpse will return to the Outer World.”

”12 Time Travelers dead?” Qing Chen’s expression becomes solemn as well.

Lu Yuan says: ”16, some Time Travelers died together in their dorms. Also, eerily, all the deceased have turned into skeletons, with signs of gnawing by beasts on the bones. Don’t worry, we were mentally prepared for this, and the forensic experts have begun investigating the cause of death.”

Time Travelers are safe on Whale Island, but they all inevitably have to traverse to the Inner World, which is beyond Kunlun’s control.

So, inevitably in the long years to come, Time Travelers will suffer accidental deaths in the Inner World and have their bodies returned by the rules.