Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1861: Chapter 974: Xiao San

Where is Xiao San?

Everyone has already evacuated through the Key of Gate, except for Xiao San who is still missing.

Qing Ji loudly asked, ”Who controls the Key of Gate responsible for Xiao San’s evacuation? Break it immediately!”

Ke Rouli quickly answered, ”It’s Gate 127!”

The Kunlun member responsible for the Key of Gate smashed the doorframe, but nothing came back, not even Xiao San’s body!

Everyone was dazed, standing in place.

Everyone evacuated safely, leaving only Xiao San alone there.

The Drama Master is like a thief, parasitizing the river of fate, always inadvertently stealing the most inconspicuous things from travelers.

Oftentimes, travelers only realize the cause of today’s defeat was decided long ago after drifting forward for a long time.

”Don’t waste time. First, squeeze everything out of this Duke of Phoenix!” Old Master Qing asked gravely, ”Why does the Roosevelt Royalty need the Queen Ant?”

The Duke of Phoenix mechanically replied, ”Someone saw in God’s perspective a street full of cockroach swarms, even a million-strong group army is helpless. The Roosevelt Royalty has long been preparing to seize this Queen Ant. They started when the mouse swarm emerged. They used the costliest Wolf-Type Genetic Potion to cultivate an orc army that can rival the Giant Race, but the orc army has lost its sanity and lacks combat intelligence; they need the Queen Ant to transform this orc army.”

Improving genetic potions requires time and technological advancement, but the Roosevelt Royalty doesn’t want to wait, so they plan to use taboos for control!

The old master asked again, ”Does the Roosevelt Royalty have anything to counter the Key of Gate?”

The Duke of Phoenix shook his head, ”I don’t know.”

The old master further asked, ”What is the Roosevelt Royalty’s battle plan?”

The Duke of Phoenix shook his head, ”I don’t know.”

Apart from the events that have occurred, the Duke of Phoenix knows nothing else.

Time passed, and the spirit floating in mid-air dissipated.

Qing Xun said calmly with his hands behind his back, ”Why do I feel like this Duke of Phoenix is also an abandoned pawn? The Roosevelt Royalty wants to concentrate all power in its own hands, clearing all hazards before the expedition. Wait, there’s one more thing that doesn’t add up.”

”What is it?” Qing Ji asked.

Qing Xun pondered for a moment and said, ”They should already know what Qing Chen is doing. Would they really let Qing Chen become a god without the Queen Ant being more important? Definitely not. So, I guess they intend to use Xiao San’s cockroach swarm to draw Qing Chen out.”

From the moment Qing Chen injected the potion, fate related to him became invisible. Even Qing Xun didn’t know what Qing Chen would face.

”We’ll now return to the West Continent to assist Qing Chen,” Uncle Li Dong said calmly.

Qing Xun shook his head, ”No need. The Black Spider’s intelligence network hasn’t reported any bad news yet, which is the best news. If we can’t find him, neither should the West Continent. Going there might backfire. This is his last meter, he has to finish it himself.”

Qing Xun continued, ”Moreover, everyone present must prepare for a tough battle. There’s still a lot to do before Qing Chen returns.”

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In an underground garage of the Central Royal City, Xiao San was gasping for breath, hiding in a corner.

According to the plan, the Parents’ Meeting should have transported him back to City 5 using the Key of Gate, but the expected evacuation did not happen.

He was left behind.

The cockroach swarms covered the entire city. Xiao San knew every move in this city; he saw the garrison forces approaching him, among them Drama Masters in black robes.

Centered on him, in four directions three kilometers away, the Drama Masters placed four 63 cm high gargoyle sculptures.

When the cockroach swarms entered this area, they inexplicably died.

Even rioting slaves who accidentally entered this place would mysteriously die suddenly if they crossed a certain boundary.

The West Continent has several kinds of barrier-type taboos. The Spider Web Array only allows entry, not exit, while the Gargoyle Barrier allows only exit, not entry, keeping the cockroach swarms outside.

The opponent’s target was clear, as if they knew where he was hiding from the start.

Uncle Li Dong has evacuated.

Li Dongze has evacuated.

Everyone has evacuated, leaving him alone in this vast city in the end.

Xiao San knew it wasn’t that someone forgot him, but that this eerie Gargoyle Barrier prevented him from passing through the Key of Gate again.

The cockroaches in the sewers saw the Black Spider carry Qing Chen to a safe house, so Xiao San knew Qing Chen was temporarily safe.

That’s good.

While pondering, Xiao Jing nudged his calf beside him, indicating that he still had company.

Xiao San chuckled and said, ”I haven’t even married yet, why are you always nudging me, get lost... I have to think, why was I the only one left behind.”

As a member of the Parents’ Meeting, he does not know much about the core secrets. Each has their responsibilities within the organization. If the other party truly wants secrets of the Parents’ Meeting, they should capture Xiao Qi and Luo Wanya.

His only special trait is that he controls the Taboo Ant Queen and the terrifying roach swarm.

Therefore, the other party is after what he holds.

”No way,” Xiao San muttered to himself, ”If they use the West Continent’s possession technique to seize my memory, they’ll know where the boss’s safe house is, because I saw it through the roaches. Neither can they control you because you also know where the boss is...”

He seemed to figure something out, as the roach swarm in the city no longer converged on him or charged at the Gargoyle Array, but started attacking with reckless abandon, targeting all facilities related to the Nobles.

Without concern for consequences or cost, even if the target had a terrifying metal storm, Xiao San directly filled it with the roach swarm.

Xiao Jing felt a bit distressed, but Xiao San didn’t care about that.

He sat in the corner of the parking lot, manipulating the roach swarm while laughing and saying, ”I’m actually a very scared person. I’m afraid of mice, spiders, roaches—cowardly to the extreme. Facing the rat swarm in City 10, I thought I would die there, but I unexpectedly survived.”

”During the rat swarm, the Parents’ Meeting asked us to act like fierce villains to drive away the residents,” Xiao San said, ”My neighbor’s little girl called me a bad guy and wouldn’t take candy from me. I felt really sad at that time. Being misunderstood feels really bad. But after the battle, Xiao Xia came back and handed me her candy, and I felt it was all worth it.”

”We were people originally with no aspirations. My greatest wish at that time was to reach the diamond rank in League of Legends. Once I entered an internet cafe, the broadcast would say, ’Welcome to the diamond god of the League of Legends Ionia zone.’ Haha, it felt awesome! Xiao Qi also had no big accomplishments. When he first joined the Parents’ Meeting, he was busy doing tasks to make money every day, and when he had a little money, he’d hurry to buy a Porsche 911 to pick up girls.”

”But suddenly, we, such a group of loafers, said we wanted to change the world,” Xiao San laughed and asked, ”Isn’t life strange?”

These Time Travelers in the Outer World are nothing more than ordinary people, with girls they have a crush on, who are afraid of death, with a bit of cleverness.

Their lives seem to have nothing to do with great endeavors.

At this moment, the lights in the parking lot started flickering.

Xiao San heard footsteps approaching, many footsteps, fast and hurried.

The Taboo Ant Queen had no time to hide, but he couldn’t let them find Qing Chen through his memory.

Xiao San glanced at Xiao Jing, reaching out to touch its head.

Xiao Jing looked innocently at Xiao San. It seemed to guess Xiao San’s intention but showed no sign of blaming.

Xiao San’s nose suddenly felt a sting: ”I’m sorry!”

After speaking, he actually pulled out a pistol from his waist, hugged Xiao Jing’s head tightly, and pulled the trigger against its head.

With a bang, Xiao Jing died without a struggle.

”Those who live on, take a look at the New World for me,” Xiao San took a deep breath, pointed the muzzle to his own jaw, and pulled the trigger again, collapsing in the dim parking lot.

Everything was over.

A minute later, four Drama Masters led hundreds of Garrison troops to Xiao San’s side. One Drama Master said coldly, ”Still too late. After he died, we could only get the Taboo but not know Joker’s whereabouts. The fate related to Joker is becoming increasingly blurry. I have a bad premonition.”

If Drama Masters can’t see fate, they lose their greatest advantage.

”Let’s report back to His Majesty the King, the last piece of the Empire’s expedition puzzle has been obtained,” said one Drama Master.

Someone found the Taboo Ant Queen on Xiao San, and the plump white worm under Xiao Jing’s wings retracted its tentacles, curling up.

They left the parking lot, leaving only Xiao San silently leaning against the wall.

No grand speeches, no final burst, just like everyone in this era, ordinary but stubborn.

After Xiao Jing’s death, the roach swarm lost control and retreated underground. They originally didn’t like attacking humans, only interested in oil-sugar mixtures.

However, just thinking about a city hiding hundreds of thousands of roach swarms is enough to instill fear.

One hour later, hundreds of airships took off at the Central Royal City’s aerodrome, the entire fleet abandoning this continent to head for the Eastern Continent Federation.

City 5.

Although Black Spider was missing, her intelligence network continued to relay information incessantly.

When Old Master Qing learned that the roach swarm in the Central Royal City dissipated, he sighed: ”Everyone, the final war is coming.”

At this time, Ke Rouli took an LCD board and said, ”The West Continent has reorganized the remnants of the Jindai and Deer Island and ordered them to march south along the edge of the nuclear blasts of City 18. Currently, they have entered the Southwest Mountains, seemingly to hunt down the Parents’ Meeting members.”

The Roosevelt Kingdom’s Land Group Army, upon arrival, controlled twelve cities.

They re-recruited retired soldiers from the cities, forming a suicide squad of over 200,000, with a small portion for city management, responsible for tattooing civilians.

After being conscripted, these soldiers not only didn’t help Federation civilians but helped the oppressors, dubbed ’collaborator forces’ by the populace.

The remaining majority repurposed civilian airships with crude armament, heading to the Southwest Mountains to hunt the tens of thousands of escaping Parents’ Meeting members.

Ke Rouli looked at Old Master Qing: ”Shall we provide support to the Parents’ Meeting members? Qing Kun’s air force is just 600 kilometers away, and they can arrive within three hours.”

Old Master Qing shook his head: ”This is their destiny. This journey must be completed by themselves. Give Qing Kun the order, he must retreat from Jian Menguan within 24 hours. It can’t be held.”

Ke Rouli hesitated for a moment and said: ”Zero said she wants to take over military command. You no longer have the authority to command the troops. Qing Kun can’t abandon Jian Menguan. As long as there are people, Jian Menguan can’t be lost. If you have objections, you can first dismiss her.”

Old Master Qing contemplated for a moment: ”Tell her, from now on, she is the highest military commander of the Qing’s Family.”