Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1397: Chapter 764: Yi, Long Time No See_2

”Mm,” Qing Chen became serious: ”I have a very important matter I plan to discuss with you.”

”What important matter could you possibly have?” Li Shentan’s tone was ambiguously amused.

”Do you know someone named Zong Cheng?” Qing Chen asked.

”It’s an old name, I have an impression,” Li Shentan said, ”I personally killed him. He had a great enmity with Ren Xiaosu. Back then, I waited at the junction of the Northwest and Central Plains specifically to rob gold and kill him. His ability was very disgusting; the sooner it was dealt with, the better, or it would lead to endless trouble.”

”He’s still alive,” Qing Chen said, ”alive until now.”

The next moment, the Mechanical Prison Guards fell silent.

Soon, the Magician in a tuxedo walked out from the prison, his head of silver hair so vivid that it was impossible to tell it was made of nanorobots.

Qing Chen suddenly realized how Li Shentan’s body worked; he had enough nanorobots stored in the prison of every city, and once he wanted to manifest, he could summon the nanorobots from that city’s prison.

It could be said that all the prisons in the Federation served as secret bases for Li Shentan and Zero, and there had always been two Wardens in the Federation prisons.

Li Shentan played with a deck of cards in his hand, no matter how they flipped, they always returned to his hand as if by magic.

Qing Chen closed his eyes.

Li Shentan laughed: ”Why are you closing your eyes?”

Qing Chen calmly said, ”If we’re going to talk business, it can be done using the Mechanical Prison Guard’s body. You suddenly appearing with a full nanobot body is merely a way to hypnotize me and get the truth from my mouth. But I don’t like being hypnotized.”

Li Shentan seemed thoughtful: ”You truly are very clever, but a bit too clever, making me worry that Zero, that silly girl, might not be able to play against you. Open your eyes, if I wanted to forcibly hypnotize you, I could do it with sound alone.”

”I don’t believe you,” Qing Chen shook his head with his eyes closed.

Li Shentan laughed, and the playing cards in his hand suddenly disappeared entirely, turning into a silver coin in his hand, with a gentle woman on it.

He flicked his thumb lightly, and the silver coin made a clear, pleasant sound as it soared into the sky.

Qing Chen waited for a long time: ”... And then?”

The silver coin fell back into Li Shentan’s hand, and he frowned, asking, ”Do you also have a palace in your mind?”

Qing Chen hesitated for a moment: ”... Um.”

”Oh?” Li Shentan became interested: ”There’s actually a second person in this world who can naturally resist hypnosis? I’m tempted to use a more powerful method, but I’m worried that if I press harder, it might turn you into a vegetative state in a subconscious confrontation.”

”The second one?” Qing Chen asked in confusion, ”Who was the first... Ren Xiaosu?!”

Li Shentan neither confirmed nor denied: ”Now let’s talk about Zong Cheng, how did you discover him?”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said: ”To be precise, it’s not that Zong Cheng is still alive, but that his clone is still alive. I just came out of Taboo Land No. 008, and there’s a Tinder Secret Base in the underground caves there. The Tinder Company made bionic clones there a thousand years ago. Among over ten thousand bionic storage containers, only four are empty. I compared with the genetic fragment records of Tinder Company’s bionic bodies, and the first three bionic bodies’ genetic fragments are from Chen Wudi, Qing Zhen... and you.”

Li Shentan was surprised: ”You actually found this secret base; I’ve searched for it for a long time without success.”

Qing Chen asked: ”Have these three bionic bodies appeared before?”

”They have appeared, all died,” Li Shentan said.

”Mm, then the last one who escaped from there is Zong Cheng’s bionic body,” Qing Chen said, ”No one knows he escaped, and no one knows he’s still alive. Earlier I encountered two A-Class Puppets. When opposing the Jindai and Deer Island, there were Puppets informing these two conglomerates. So, I suspect Zong Cheng has been secretly hiding in the shadows, silently building his forces. After a thousand years, he’s already become a significant force.”

Li Shentan closed his eyes, his brain continuously searching the network to verify Qing Chen’s statement: ”Do you want me to kill him again? But if, as you say, he’s been building for a thousand years, only by hypnotizing the entire Federation can we find all his puppets... Even I can’t do that.”

”I’m not asking you to kill him once, but I need to kill him, and I need your help,” Qing Chen said.

”How do you plan to kill him?” Li Shentan became interested.

Qing Chen asked in return, ”What almost led to human extinction in the last human civilization?”

Li Shentan narrowed his eyes dangerously: ”To kill a Puppet Master, you want to play so big?”

The cause of the last civilization’s destruction was rarely recorded by humans.

A super artificial intelligence named ’Zero’ was born; it used the feature of nanorobots that could connect to neurons to control troops to pour a sufficient number of nanorobots into the water systems of all cities.

When nanorobots entered every household with tap water and were ingested by people.

Nanorobots entered the human brain, parasitizing on the human brainstem to forcibly connect neurons, thus helping Zero achieve control over nearly millions of humans.

Subsequently, using the human brain as a server carrier, it formed a huge ”neural server” through the network, providing it with immense computing power, like neural mining.

Ultimately, the controlled force of nearly millions launched an attack on humanity’s last pure land, the location of Taboo Land No. 001.

That was the site of humanity’s final battle, and the reason Taboo Land No. 001 was formed.

Therefore, Qing Chen intends to use the same method to reconnect everyone’s brain with nanorobots, which is the only way to know who Zong Cheng’s Puppets are.

Using the method that nearly destroyed humanity to kill a cancerous Puppet Master, such a tactic would defy the morales.

That’s why Qing Chen was so conflicted and hesitant while discussing it with Uncle Li Dong.

If someone publicized his plan, if Zong Cheng knew what he planned to do, this matter couldn’t continue.

Moreover, he would become an enemy of the public.

No one would want to be controlled, not even for a second.

This is also why he required Xiao Qi and others to hide their identities and act discreetly.

Li Shentan pondered: ”It’s too risky.”

”Otherwise, do you have any other way to kill him?” Qing Chen asked, ”He will be like a cancer, growing continuously in this world. Regardless of dynastic changes, no matter times change, he will be immortal, constantly resurrected in any Puppet. One day, he will completely devour this world.”

Li Shentan looked at Qing Chen: ”If you controlled all humans, your authority would be magnified infinitely.”

Qing Chen shook his head: ”I don’t plan to control all humans but need Zero to control all humans. Only its computing power could truly sift out all Puppets in a second and complete this screening task. Moreover, she is just; her upbringing does not allow her to exploit this matter.”

Li Shentan remained silent for a long time: ”Do you trust her? You must know, last time the destruction of humanity was caused by her creator. Of course, I trust her because I watched her grow up, but do you really trust her? Don’t use her and then push her out to take the blame.”

”I trust her,” Qing Chen firmly said: ”She is entirely different from Zero. If this matter causes all humanity to oppose, I will stand up and bear the blame. I am not saving humanity; Zong Cheng has a grudge with me, and I must kill him!”

Zero stood aside bewildered; the feeling of being trusted like this was something she had never encountered in others before.

For a thousand years, the only ones who truly trusted her were Brother Li Shentan, Dad Ren Xiaosu, Mom Yang Xiaojun.

A bit touching...

Li Shentan remained silent for a long time: ”With someone like Zong Cheng around, he’s indeed like a cancer, eventually causing a more significant disaster. I agree with your plan.”

Zero cautiously asked: ”Can I go out to play now? Rest assured, I won’t mess around; I know my boundaries.”

Li Shentan looked at Zero with an ambiguously amused expression: ”You’ve learned to lie to me already. Tell me, how many online romances have you had?”

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