Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1886: Amber

”Since the time travel incidents began, how many 30-day cycles have the Time Travelers experienced?” Qing Chen asked in the dimly lit safe house.

One answered: ”Twice, during which time you were captured and taken to Base A02.”

Qing Chen frowned: ”This mechanism is very unfavorable to us.”

Black Spider stared at Qing Chen blankly. With anyone else losing their memory, it would probably take them a lot of time to explain everything, and they’d have to go through the whole process of becoming familiar and building trust.

But Qing Chen was different.

She was very sure that he hadn’t regained his memory yet, but he had already started to play his role, trying to restore his identity and had proactively contacted the Parent Association.

Qing Chen said: ”Earlier, you mentioned that I was both a Cultivator and an Awakener, now I have a trace of Knight Aura within me, but there’s no sign of the Thunder Pulp at all. Come, tell me more about the people around me, see if it jogs any memories.”

If he only had the physical attributes of a demigod Knight without battle experience or other skills, it would be difficult to fight his way out of the Central Royal City blockade.

So, he had to actively restore his memory and return to his peak state.

One, sitting on a supply box, propped his chin with curiosity and spoke: ”Your mentor, Uncle Li Dong, followed his master onto the Knight’s path at the age of 16. He trained for more than a year before his first life-and-death trial, but he told you he only trained for a little over a month. After completing the first life-and-death trial, your grandmaster threw him and Chen Jiazhang to their uncle, who took them to the Octagon Cage to earn money. They originally thought they would get a share, but the uncle spent all the money on women and even took out loans for houses for them, not expecting to be saddled with mortgage debt at such a young age.”

”Ahem,” Qing Chen said awkwardly: ”Why are we talking about the Knight Organization’s dark history... Also, why does the mortgage thing feel so familiar?”

”Because your mentor did the same to you,” One said with a smile: ”I saw him with my own eyes use Taboo ACE-005 to transform into you and take out a bank loan.”

”How did my mentor eventually repay the debt?” Qing Chen asked.

”Your mentor wasn’t great at making money when he was young, he went to boxing matches but wasn’t as good at acting as you, so he was quickly banned,” One laughed as he said: ”He secretly returned home to find his older brother Li Yunshou, who was already in the Privy Council, and secretly helped him clear the debt. During his years as a Knight, he liked to make friends like a cavalier, hosting banquets and guests, but every time he ran out of money, he’d go back home to his brother.”

Qing Chen recalled the Uncle Li Dong One had mentioned before, quite different from the Uncle Li Dong he knew now... And the name Li Yunshou, for some reason, touched his heart just like Uncle Li Dong.

He said: ”Tell me about the others, those who are important to me.”

One continued: ”Li Changqing... Well, I think she should be a very important person, you fought side by side, she brought you into Li’s Half Mountain Manor, you once held a sniper position to protect her, and she once drove the Qing Shan Ship south alone to save you. However, she later voluntarily disappeared from your world.”

Qing Chen remained silent, not responding.

Zero said: ”If I calculated correctly, Li Changqing should be on the Qing Shan Ship now, ambushed by the West Continent after destroying a supply line. I gave the order, but now the signal is jammed, so I can’t get any new updates, but... she might die.”

Qing Chen asked: ”Why give an order sending someone to their death?”

”Naturally, it’s because there are more people to save,” Zero calmly responded: ”A Commander cannot have emotions, and I happen to have none. If this supply line isn’t cut, the troops from the Jian Menguan direction will double, and no one will be able to stop them. Over twenty thousand Parent Association Members will all die. Even though you’ve lost your memory now, and telling you this seems pointless, war is the art of sacrifice, and you must understand from the start what is most important.”

”What’s most important?”

”The opportunity to win,” Zero said seriously: ”The goal of war is to achieve victory, if you can’t win, then it is meaningless.”

One interrupted the two: ”Now’s not the time to discuss this, let me continue talking about your disciples. Li Ke is a disciple you took on at the Autumn Leaf Courtyard, also the senior brother among the next generation of Knights, progressing the fastest with Zhang Mengchan in their life-and-death trials. He should be training for the last one now. Li Ke is disciplined, like a competent senior brother, generous but with a slightly dark heart. Zhang Mengchan went blind, but this inadvertently awakened his sixth sense, and he might become the strongest combatant in the Knight Organization.”

Zero disagreed: ”No, the strongest combatant isn’t Zhang Mengchan... that’s not entirely accurate, he’s probably the strongest in single combat, but if we’re talking about overall combat power, it must be Jinguji Maki.”

”Ah?” In this Inner World, One didn’t have a signal, so she didn’t know what had happened recently: ”Xiao Zhenji? I saw her in the Outer World, she’s soft and cute, is she really strong?”

”The Genji is a very terrifying lineage. Before leaving this world, Ren Xiaosu was also worried that they might cause trouble and specifically went to warn the Genji,” Zero said.