Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1838: Chapter 963: Snowball Fight

The tyrant’s power is beyond human imagination, like a meteor striking Earth, leaving an indelible scar on the planet’s surface.

A massive shockwave rolled outward, raising smoke and dust hundreds of meters high, reducing everything in City 18 to dust.

Buildings collapsed and fell apart, the city walls crumbled instantly.

Residents of City 10, 600 kilometers away, could see the sudden flash in the night sky.

Soon after, the blast wave shattered all the glass of buildings at the city’s edge, some people approached the windows to watch, only to be suddenly knocked over by the wave inside their homes.

This is the ultimate terrifying weapon; if not for Qing Chen and the others destroying the Empire’s top military base, such a weapon might one day fall upon the Eastern Continent.

The once most prosperous Federation’s Gemini suddenly lost a city overnight.

Along with it, the Black Water Air Fortress was completely destroyed after the nuclear explosion, falling at the center of the blast, completely melted by extreme heat.

The Black Water City Fleet, acting as the Pioneer Corps of the Roosevelt Kingdom, also disappeared along with that city.

The Roosevelt Kingdom hasn’t dealt much with the Eastern Continent; they encountered Jindai and Deer Island, who surrendered at the first meeting, as well as the Chen Clan taken over by the Puppet Master.

Later, even the Li Clan surrendered, just like Jindai and Deer Island.

The Roosevelt Kingdom didn’t think conquering the Eastern Continent would be difficult; they were only wary of not giving Qing Chen time to grow, yet they didn’t expect the Li Clan to be so fierce, making them realize the Eastern Continent’s resolve to resist invaders.

However, even at this time, the online remarks cursing the Li Clan still persisted, with some not even knowing what had happened.

At this moment.

The Li Clan troops were rushing southward, all the bridges at Southwest 19 destroyed by the Qing’s Family. However, there was actually a forgotten abandoned bridge, not shown on the map.

The Li Clan troops carried numerous residents of City 18 over mountains and ridges, finally at midnight, the Pioneer Corps gazed upon the outline of the bridge from the mountain.

Frontline Commander Li Yunmu stood on the mountain road, looking back into the sky, bright as daylight, several hundred kilometers behind him, not sure what he was thinking.

The adjutant beside him, who didn’t understand the situation, looked at him: ”Sir, we’ve been marching intensely for two days straight, the troops are a bit exhausted, should we stop for a rest?”

Li Yunmu stared into the distance, lighting a cigarette, seemingly falling into some past memories: ”Xiao Zhou, do you have any siblings?”

The adjutant Xiao Zhou paused: ”Sir, I’m an only child.”

Forty-one-year-old Li Yunmu smiled and said: ”That’s really a shame.”

”Sir, why do you say that?” Xiao Zhou asked puzzled.

Li Yunmu smiled and said: ”I have an older brother, when our father took us to the Dragon Lake to have snowball fights as kids, he was silly, everyone threw snowballs at him, but he just smiled foolishly without fighting back, even when hit in the face with snowballs he was never angry.”

”Our Lao Qi was secretly a Transcendent then came back to have snowball fights with us,” Li Yunmu took a deep drag on the cigarette, exhaling the thin pale smoke into the moonlight: ”We were beaten badly back then, Lao Qi’s snowballs were solid, leaving a panda eye when hitting the eye socket. At that time, my brother hugged Lao Qi from behind, yelling hoarsely for us to run, making it seem as if he was sacrificing himself... It was epic.”

Xiao Zhou was dumbfounded, your brother is the Family Head, Lao Qi is the Demigod Uncle Li, am I supposed to hear this gossip?

Li Yunmu continued: ”My brother has always been a gentleman, everyone respects him. Many people’s gentlemanly ways are just an act, but not my brother, he never competed for interests, never lost his temper, when the outside said the Li Clan was about to have an internal strife, I laughed, if any of the siblings had said to him ’Brother, I want to be the Family Head,’ he might have just yielded.”

”Four months ago, he suddenly told the siblings he wanted to be the Family Head, asking them not to contest. At that time, I wondered when my brother became enlightened? Thinking back, he was already prepared by then, wasn’t he.”

Xiao Zhou listened, utterly confused, not knowing what Li Yunmu was talking about.

Also, now everyone knows Li Yunshou has defected, why is Li Yunmu suddenly reminiscing about that Family Head?

And, what about that distant brightness?

Li Yunmu stamped out the cigarette butt, taking a deep look at that gradually dimming glow in the distance: ”Cross the bridge!”

This time, Li Yunmu didn’t dispatch scouts, as the Li Clan’s frontline commander, he personally walked ahead, crossing the abandoned bridge.

Upon crossing the bridge, Xiao Zhou suddenly noticed traces of ”wearing down,” clearly the steel bones were solid, yet the surface seemed acid-washed, as if it might collapse at any moment.

Xiao Zhou said from behind: ”Commander, what if there’s a Qing’s Family ambush ahead, please move back a little, let’s send scouts over the bridge first.”

Li Yunmu shook his head: ”No need.”

Xiao Zhou was stunned: ”This doesn’t comply with combat regulations, how can there be no scouts when crossing a bridge?”

But as they spoke, they had already crossed this short bridge.

Li Yunmu stood at the bridgehead, suddenly shouted toward the dark mountains ahead: ”Li Clan Group Army’s frontline commander, Li Yunmu is here, where’s the reception troops?!”

The next moment, lights illuminated the mountain, and Qing Yu walked up from below, shaking hands with Li Yunmu: ”Long awaited, cross the bridge.”

Xiao Zhou was completely dumbfounded again, weren’t they here to fight the Qing’s Family? Why did it feel like a meeting instead?

Li Yunmu said to Xiao Zhou: ”Transmit the orders, the Li’s Family Head Li Yunshou has died for the country, in the battle of City 18, the Li Clan destroyed the West Continent’s Black Water City Air Fleet. Now, Li Changqing immediately succeeds as Li Family Head, the Li Clan Group Army has formed an alliance with the Qing Clan, we will fight the invaders... to the last soldier.”

Xiao Zhou: ”???”

Orders were transmitted out, and the hidden troops in the dark mountains erupted into boiling exclamations and discussions.

The troops moved out again, the Li Clan troops surged over the short bridge, continuing to advance southwest.

Qing’s Family soldiers stood along the road, passing compressed biscuits and mineral water to the soldiers and refugees: ”Well done. There’s only compressed biscuits here, but 80 kilometers further you’ll have hot meals.”

The Li Clan and the Qing Clan finally joined forces, ready to face the final battle.

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West Continent, 78 Viktor Avenue.

Qing Chen sat silently on the sofa, doing nothing but waiting for news.

At this moment, a Door of Shadow opened in the living room, and Qing Ji walked out looking exhausted.

Qing Chen looked up at him: ”Is it over?”

Qing Ji nodded: ”It’s over.”

Before Qing Chen came to the West Continent again, he learned of Li Yunshou’s fate.

He recalled that previously at the Dragon Lake in the hillside manor, Li Yunshou seemed to have only said one truthful sentence: ”If the Li Family abandons its foundation and retreats to the southwest with the Parents’ Meeting, will they be ostracized?”

Li Yunshou said it was a joke.

But often the truest words are hidden in jokes.

At that time, Li Yunshou wasn’t worried about himself but was instead concerned about whether the Li Family soldiers would be ostracized if they went to the southwest.

After Qing Chen left, Li Yunmu also arrived at the hillside manor, calling Li Yunshou ’big brother’ from behind.

Li Yunshou then said, let’s begin, we have no time to hesitate.

Everything was written in fate, and a few people carefully maintained this ’destiny train,’ steering it towards its predetermined end.

Qing Chen suddenly looked at Qing Ji and said: ”We will definitely win, right.”

Qing Ji did not answer.

Qing Chen said: ”A destiny that allows Li Yunshou to sacrifice his life to maintain must lead to victory; otherwise, he wouldn’t go to his death so resolutely. Yet, until now, I still don’t know how to win.”

As he spoke, he coughed violently, then coughed up fresh blood in his palm.

Qing Ji calmly said: ”In fact, guessing the role of the world chessboard in the old master’s hands is already quite troublesome, so don’t guess wildly, do what you want. City 18 has been destroyed, the West Continent must choose another place to detour and build the forward base, but the time left for us is still limited.”

”Understood,” Qing Chen nodded: ”The agreed time has arrived, open the Door of Shadow.”

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At this moment, Xiao San was sitting hidden in the shadows of a 23rd city alley.

The West Continent’s transport ship had successfully delivered two land group armies to the north, they blocked the city, sweeping through all the buildings, tattooing anyone they saw.

Xiao San didn’t want a tattoo, he could only leave his hiding building, using B-Class superhuman abilities, constantly hiding.

He glanced at the time on his arm, only 45 minutes until he had to return, the agreed time had arrived.

He was late.

No choice; there were many checkpoints on the way to the agreed opening of the Door of Shadow, slowing his progress.

Xiao San shuttled through the darkness, when suddenly a Storm Fleet’s B-Class floating airship flew overhead.

The airship detected his life signs and immediately opened the hatch at the bottom, deploying two war robots, and drones pursued Xiao San in the dark alley.

Two war robots leapt tens of meters, landing heavily on the ground.

The roads cracked like spider webs due to their landing.

In the next instant, the war robots, quick as lightning, chased after Xiao San in the alley, constantly locked onto his target.

In their eyes, the infrared radiation emanating from Xiao San was like a sun in the night sky, easily tracked even through walls.

The floating airship above also realized this was a big catch, at least a B-Class, possibly a main member of the Parents’ Meeting in the north!

The pursuit extended further, Xiao San swearing constantly as he looped in circles, but no matter how he tried, he couldn’t shake the pursuers.

Moreover, other floating airships received notifications, joining the blockade, directly sealing his path to the agreed location!

In just three minutes after discovering him, Storm City Soldiers swiftly formed a tight net, far more efficient than Jindai and Deer Island.

”This damned thing is over!” Xiao San cursed: ”The soldiers of the West Continent are really strong.”

He pulled out a red Queen Ant statue from his pocket, preparing to summon Xiao Jing for a desperate fight. But just as he passed an alleyway entrance, Qing Ji suddenly appeared, pulling him into the Door of Shadow.

The street’s war robots stopped abruptly, the floating airship above also lost its target.

Someone had escaped right under their noses.