Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1171: Chapter 685: Hold the Line! Not One Step Back! (Part 2)

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Time until return: 112:39:02.

Xiao San and the others had just repelled a wave of mice, and everyone was panting while sitting on the damp sandbags. At this moment, no one cared about their appearance; it was enough to sit down and take a brief rest.

There were many women in the Parents’ Meeting. Xiao San wouldn’t let them go to the battlefield and only let them do some logistics work.

At this time, those women were carrying makeshift stretchers, carrying away the fallen family members.

They cried as they carried the stretchers because some family members’ hand bones had been bitten through by the mice, and some maintained a stance of biting the mice.

The state of these corpses was unbearable to look at directly.

The logistics personnel laid out the corpses one by one in the rear. No one knew if they’d have the chance to bury them, or perhaps everyone would soon lay there, reuniting with comrades underground.

Some wounded were enduring on the stretchers, trying hard not to moan for fear of affecting the morale.

Xiao San turned his head, not daring to look for a long time.

Suddenly, a voice came through the walkie-talkie: “They’re back! The leader is back!”

Everyone stood up to look, only to see Qing Chen leading over a hundred people running quickly. Luckily, the wave of mice had just been repelled; otherwise, these people wouldn’t have been able to escape so smoothly.

“Quick, quick,” Xiao San said, “Heat up the food and let him eat quickly when he returns!”

This was the seventh wave of students Qing Chen had welcomed back. During this period, Qing Chen had only sat down to adjust his body once using the Knight’s Breathing Technique, then left again.

The refugees also watched him welcome the refugees back time and again, and everyone remembered this figure.

When Qing Chen left, an aunt secretly asked Xiao San, “Does this young man have a partner? He seems very amiable.”

Xiao San couldn’t help but smile bitterly: “If you think he’s amiable, you’re wrong. Have you seen the news about him storming the A02 base? He’s the one who single-handedly crushed the Jindai Consortium.”

Now, the story was becoming more and more exaggerated. In Xiao San’s words, Qing Chen was just three heads and six arms short; everything else was perfect.

The refugees now knew that Qing Chen was the prominent figure of the Qing’s Family.

Yet this family consortium figure seemed entirely different from what they imagined…

Qing Chen sent Zhang HuBao and the others to the defense line, only to ask simply: “Casualties?”

Xiao San looked somber: “3192 dead, 7121 lightly wounded, 1409 severely wounded.”

Qing Chen then asked, “Can we hold?”

Xiao San immediately stood up straight: “We can!”

Qing Chen nodded: “Hold our ground.”

After saying that, he turned and left without a single pause.

“Leader, stay and eat something, take a rest,” Xiao San said anxiously.

Qing Chen just waved his hand, said nothing more.

Dozens of teams of Time Travelers and children were still waiting for him; he didn’t have time to feel sorry for himself.

Moreover, the wave of mice was growing ever larger. He could wait, but those waiting for him didn’t have that much time to wait.

Zhang Mengchan suddenly said, “The boss is actually punishing himself. He let Kunlun’s people and you all stay in this city. Every one of you who dies makes him blame himself more, even though he made the most correct decision.”

“But we don’t blame him,” Xiao San said.

“Whether you blame him or not has nothing to do with it,” Zhang Mengchan replied.

Xiao San realized this was what Principal Zheng meant: The person making the decision is the one who suffers the most pain. Wanting to take command means bearing that pain.

Qing Shuli looked silently in the direction Qing Chen left.

He rarely intersected with Qing Chen, even after marrying Zhang Wanfang, he scarcely visited Qing Chen.

At that time, he was genuinely worried Zhang Wanfang, due to Qing Chen, would frequently meet with Qing Guozhong.

During that time, Qing Guozhong even went to Qing Shuli’s factory, asking for a loan, saying if he didn’t give it, he’d leave Qing Chen for Zhang Wanfang and Qing Shuli to raise.

Having his wife’s ex-husband visit to borrow money was indeed a terrible life experience.

So when Qing Shuli examined the father-son relationship between Qing Guozhong and Qing Chen, he instinctively brought some rejection.

To be honest, any normal person would be repelled.

After Qing Guozhong entered prison, Qing Shuli asked friends to understand the situation and found out that the person who reported Qing Guozhong was “Helpful Citizen Mr. Qing,” who else could it be but Qing Chen?

Qing Shuli just couldn’t understand why Qing Chen would report Qing Guozhong?

Latterly, Qing Shuli entered the Inner World, and when he learned the Parents Meeting’s leader was Qing Chen, he started collecting all the information related to that young man.

At that moment, Qing Shuli realized he was wrong; Qing Chen was entirely different from Qing Guozhong. He shouldn’t have transferred his prejudices against Qing Guozhong onto Qing Chen.

When the fire broke out at the Daylight Villa, while Zhang Wanfang pulled him not to let him check, a strange sorrow arose in Qing Shuli’s heart.

He didn’t blame Zhang Wanfang because his wife’s life was very tough; finally, at 40, she had come to a good life and genuinely couldn’t afford to lose everything she had now.

Qing Shuli only felt they all owed something to Qing Chen. That young man had a gambler father, an indifferent mother, and life must have been tough all these years.

In the Inner World, he devoted himself to work, always feeling he should do more.

In the Parents’ Meeting, apart from Luo Wanya, no one knew the extra connection between Qing Shuli and the leader. He worked hard bit by bit, rising from Blue Family Member to Golden Family Member.