Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1367: Chapter 751: Escape Room, Performing Magic for Chen Yu

Zong Cheng, anyone familiar with the true history of the Federation would know this name.

He once awakened the rare ability to ‘make others into puppets’, and he was also one of the fuses for the unification of the last human civilization.

Now, Zong Cheng has been dead for who knows how long, yet his genetic samples appeared in the Tinder Company’s laboratory and were successfully cloned into a bionic body by the Tinder Company.

This is not Zong Cheng himself; he doesn’t have Zong Cheng’s memories, but he has a body identical to Zong Cheng’s.

Since the body is identical, it’s highly likely that the awakened ability is the same.

The one who killed Ning Xiu, transmitted messages to Jindai Kashima, and provided intelligence is very likely him.

Da Yu suddenly said, “Is this the Puppet Master targeting the Knight Organization and the Parents’ Meeting?”

“It should be,” Qing Chen nodded, “There aren’t so many coincidences in the world. A Puppet Master born in such a dark place, yet unknown to the world outside, means he has been hiding in the shadows all along.”

“His data may be old, but there must be photos of him in the Tinder Company’s hard drives,” Zard said while pressing on the experimental subject, “We can obtain the photos and then issue a wanted notice.”

“That won’t work. He wouldn’t look like ‘Zong Cheng’ anymore,” Qing Chen shook his head.

The Tinder Company produced this batch of bionics using fragments of God’s blood to solve the short lifespan drawback of the A-Class Genetic Potion. Otherwise, all warriors injected with the A-Class Genetic Potion could only live up to 40 years.

Qing Chen also learned from the data that this gene modification targeting bionics wasn’t considered a success, merely extending the lifespan of A-Class bionics from 40 to 60 years.

Now, who knows how many years have passed, and the original Zong Cheng has long since died.

The other party has already used his abilities to resurrect in the puppet.

Who knows how many identities and bodies the other party has changed now, or what he looks like? This is even more formidable than Jindai’s possession method.

“We only learned about his origins here. To kill him, we still need to use the method I previously prepared and wait for Xiao Qi and the others to execute my plan,” Qing Chen said, “He is a troublesome figure, not easy to kill.”

Qing Chen asked the experimental subject in front of him, “When were you released?”

The experimental subject shook his head, “It’s been too long. I can’t remember how many years. It’s perpetually dark here, making it impossible to track time. I just remember that one day the base lost power, and the door imprisoning us was forcibly locked. Gunshots sounded outside, and the potion used to suppress physiological functions in the glass vessels gradually failed. We regained mobility, broke the glass vessels, crawled out, but were still trapped in this room… until I was almost starved, and the door opened.”

Qing Chen thought for a moment, then suddenly said to the elder and Qin Yiyi, “Could you two go find the remaining resources in the laboratory? Zard, collect all the hard drives here. The data we need are all inside them. Da Yu, summon your painting and clean this place thoroughly.”

Da Yu raised an eyebrow, “How do you become so good at ordering people around? And why clean here? Are you planning to live here?”

Qing Chen shook his head, “The Chen Corporation’s army will eventually track us here. I don’t want them to deduce our actions from the footprints in the dust. Leave twenty paintings to clean the place, and four to stand guard outside. If anyone approaches, issue a warning sound immediately.”

After instructing all this, Qing Chen looked at the experimental subject again and said with a smile, “Don’t try to escape or pull any tricks. Any random person here can blow your brains out, so continue answering my questions properly.”

To be honest, once a Transcendent reaches a certain level of power, there’s not much to fear about spirits.

This team of six would even watch The Ring together, and if Sadako crawled out of the TV, she’d have to do the splits to get a chance to crawl back into the TV…

All fear stems from insufficient firepower.

“After you came out, how did you survive?” Qing Chen asked.

“By fishing in the river,” the experimental subject said.

“You can fish?” Qing Chen countered.

“By cutting open my arm, the scent of blood would attract fish. The fish in this underground river have long since mutated,” the experimental subject replied hoarsely, “I even attracted a giant snake, enough to eat for a month. It’s perpetually dark here; my eyes gradually blurred but slowly adapted to the darkness, allowing me to see you all clearly even in the dark.”

“Were the guards in the laboratory killed by you?” Qing Chen asked.

The experimental subject shook his head, “Not by me. By the time I came out, they had already decayed.”

Da Yu asked, “Why ask all these irrelevant questions?”

Qing Chen replied, “I need to know how long it’s been since Zong Cheng left, to assess the scale of his current power.”

It’s possible that Zong Cheng left here much earlier than imagined, even hundreds or thousands of years ago!

This answer even made Qing Chen feel a trace of concern.

If we speculate more boldly, Qing Chen even suspected that even Liu Yue from several hundred years ago was a puppet created by the bionic Zong Cheng, who made the same mistake as the original ‘Zong Cheng’ by not keeping a low profile.

According to human logic, after ‘Zong Cheng’ left here, he went through a period of hiding. When he found he couldn’t compete with the corporations, he wanted to grasp military power, which led to the emergence of the incarnation Liu Yue.