Night’s Nomenclature

Shadow had a good dream.

But he didn't dream of Li Bingxi and Chen Yu.

Instead, he dreamt of Qing Chen and his father.

In the dream, he wasn't Shadow, but a construction worker.

His father wasn't the Head of the Qingshi Clan, but the foreman of the construction team.

Qing Chen wasn't a beta tester Time Traveler sent to the Outer World, but a seventeen-year-old student with excellent grades, preparing to strive for Federation Qinghe University.

He heard that two days ago, a girl wrote a love letter to Qing Chen, but his father discovered it and tore it to shreds, telling him to study hard and not think about other things.

During the day, Shadow and his father would work as carpenters in the Upper Three Zones, making ceilings and wall panels for the wealthy.

His father would eat a protein bar and say, "These rich people are so extravagant, they actually nail such expensive wood onto the walls."

During breaks, Shadow would sit on the construction site, counting on his fingers, figuring out when he could save enough for the down payment on a house in the Fifth Zone.

His father would cut wood while asking him, "How much more do you need?"

Shadow smiled, "More than 200,000. I'll save enough in two more years."

His father was silent for a long time, "I'll lend you 200,000 first, and I'll deduct it from your salary later. Ning Xiu isn't easy either. She could have earned so much money and found a rich man, but she chose to suffer with you. Buy a good house and move in, so you don't have to cram your family of four into a small room. Then I'll stay in the Seventh Zone with your brother, and you and Ning Xiu can move there, and give me a grandson soon, I'll help you take care of him."

Shadow scratched his head, a little embarrassed, "It's not easy for you to save 200,000 either. My brother needs to go to university next year, and cram school is expensive."

His father thought for a moment, "Don't worry, I've worked hard for most of my life, I still have some savings."

Shadow was a little uneasy, "Dad, don't sell your organs."

His father said angrily, "Don't worry, I'm not that stupid. Who would sell organs when they have a legitimate business?"

In the evening, covered in dust, they returned home. Ning Xiu had already prepared dinner and urged them to wash their hands and eat.

His gentle wife, wearing an apron, smiled as she told him she had just found a job and could now help with the mortgage, and Qing Chen's tuition wouldn't be so stressful.

Qing Chen was still in his room, doing practice questions, diligently studying.

This dream was ordinary and mundane.

But everything was good.

So good that Shadow even wanted to relive his life in the dream, but unfortunately, the dream was too short.

Shadow had clearly realized in his dream that this was a good dream, and that he had to wake up.

Return Countdown 4:00:00.

Eight o'clock at night.

The moment Shadow woke up, Li Bingxi had already begun to divide his clone, creating four in an instant.

His expression was calm, but his actions showed Shadow sufficient respect.

Or perhaps fear.

Chen Yu also took out six crushed scrolls from the bamboo basket.

But instead of mythological figures leaping out of the scroll, six small suns rose into the sky.

Those suns hung high above everyone's heads, emitting an unbearable heat, and their intertwined light rays illuminated the wilderness like daybreak, causing all of Shadow's shadows to disappear.

This was to restrain Shadow's Shadow Gate.

Shadow Gate can only be opened where there are shadows.

This time, Chen Yu was determined to succeed, and made his first move to cut off Shadow's escape route.

At this moment, 00 kilometers away, at Chen Family's first airbase, seven Class A Airships suddenly rose into the sky.

The huge airbase was brightly lit.

Eighteen escort aircraft had already been launched in advance, surrounding the seven Class A Airships, and dozens of Class B Airships equipped with air-to-ground fire systems were also accompanying them.

This was the true form of the Chen Family Southern Fleet.

Chen Yu was treating this siege as a war.

Shadow smiled and asked, "Six paintings to cut off my escape route? But what if I don't want to leave?"

Chen Yu calmly said, "It's just a precautionary measure."

Qing Chen: "Bro, can you get off my back?"

"Sorry, I forgot," Shadow jumped off Qing Chen's back and smiled, "You protected me well. I don't have a single injury. Honestly, I was prepared to wake up missing limbs."

Qing Chen cried and laughed, "It's such a terrible joke. Can you improve your joke-telling skills?"

"Oh? It's not funny?" Shadow smiled at Zard, "Have the Faceless Soldiers arrived?"

Zard honestly replied, "They've given their token of allegiance."

"Good," Shadow nodded, and then he looked at Zhang Mengqian, "Kid, are you scared?"

Zhang Mengqian calmly shook his head, "Not afraid, it's just death."

Shadow laughed, "See, the kids around me are much stronger than that old geezer Li Bingxi."

The three Demi-Gods stood on the wilderness, three-leggedly, and the surrounding troops did not approach until they received orders.

The current situation was beyond the participation of ordinary people. Anyone who approached would only increase unnecessary variables.

If there were spies from the Secret Spy Agency among the soldiers, the outcome might be different.

In this tense atmosphere, Zard suddenly looked worriedly towards Forbidden Zone 00.

Qing Chen softly asked, "What's wrong?"

Zard looked at the towering tree and said, "Boss, I can't take this thing away."

Qing Chen: "Who said we came to Forbidden Zone 00 to take it away!"

The originally heavy atmosphere suddenly dissipated for some reason.

Shadow smiled, "That's a good joke, Zard, I like you a little now."

At this time, Chen Yu said with some regret, "I have always admired Shadow Master. I have reviewed many of your plans, truly exquisite. I know you are prepared to die today, and I know that today Li Bingxi and I might fall here. You've been waiting for this opportunity, but I'm curious. Even if you can take us away, you can't take away this vast army and these soldiers. After your death, Qing Chen and the others will become lambs to the slaughter. How will they escape?"

Chen Yu: "I don't know if the news of your death is true or not, but Chen Family's First Air Force is about to arrive on the battlefield. Regardless of whether this news is true or not, regardless of whether Li Bingxi and I can defeat you, today I will ask you to leave this world."

Shadow was stunned, "Do you think you're certain to win? You only have two army corps?"

Li Bingxi sneered, "Don't bluff. There are traitors within the Qing Family, your head of family is sitting still in City 5, your Shadow troops are trapped in the north, and cannot use Shadow Gate to arrive, and your direct Federation army is also blocked on the road, currently fighting the 171st Field Army in the wilderness. You have no more trump cards."

Shadow smiled, "You did a lot of preparation."

Yang Yang turned to look at Shadow, wanting to hear Shadow's next plan. As Li Bingxi said, Shadow Gate is currently unusable. Even if Shadow could take away the two Demi-Gods, the few remaining people would surely die.

Then, Shadow said, "I don't have good social skills. Many people within the Qing Family want to kill me, so I really don't have any trump cards now."

Yang Yang, Sun Chuci, Tuanzi and others looked at Shadow in shock.

The next second, Shadow smiled, "But Qing Chen does. You've all focused on defending against me, but my brother is the one you've underestimated."

Li Bingxi was stunned. What did that mean?

Before this, Li Bingxi hadn't even considered Qing Chen.

A small B-Class, how powerful could he be? Two A-Class experts could easily kill him.

Even if this Time Traveler has friends in the Inner World, with two Demi-Gods here, two Chen Family field armies, and the Southern Fleet on its way,

At this moment, even if someone in the Federation wanted to help him, how would they dare to take such a risk?

No one would come.

Shadow smiled, "Actually, when he first arrived in City 18, I wanted to hand over my Shadow troops to him, to hand over the Secret Spy Agency to him, to hand over everything to him. I wanted to teach him about political maneuvering, I wanted to teach him about human nature. At that time, I was afraid he was an ignorant kid, so I wanted to teach him everything."

That's why Shadow often appeared in Qing Chen's apartment, lying down for a while, brewing a pot of tea, waiting for Qing Chen to come home.

That's why Shadow constantly taught Qing Chen how to Face[-]this Inner World.

"But later I found out that my brother doesn't need my teaching. Even without my help, he made many friends."

He inexplicably became a guest of the Li Clan Old Master, and the future tutor of the Li Clan.

"Later, I found out that my brother doesn't need anything from me either."

He created Daybreak himself and became the next leader of the Knight, and also had the terrifyingly powerful Guardians' Union.

Shadow said softly, "I was quite anxious then. If he's so powerful, what can I give him? Then I'll teach him how to fight, how to win people's hearts. But before I could teach him, he learned it himself."

He single-handedly killed his way out of the A0 Secret Military Base and brought back more than 900 Li Clan and Qing Family intelligence personnel.

Shadow suddenly laughed, "The most surprising thing is that he later even killed Shendai Yunhe, and then carried Shendai Jing Cheng away like he was carrying a dog. Everyone, whose brother is as powerful as my brother?"

When Qing Chen first crossed over, Shadow hoped he could act as a father and brother figure, allowing Qing Chen to take pride in him.

He was astonished to find that he couldn't help but praise his brother's strength to Qing Ye and Qing Qu.

He was proud to have such a brother.

Qing Chen listened silently. He didn't know how long Shadow had been holding back these words, and now he was telling them to his enemies, but also to himself. If he didn't say it now, it would be too late.

Shadow laughed loudly, "You underestimated my brother, and that makes me unhappy. You've almost seen through my trump cards, why don't you see his now? I've called all his trump cards!"

Qing Chen was stunned.

The Southern Fleet was rapidly moving across the sky.

Under the dark clouds, the black airships and fighter jets were like armies from hell.

On the bridge of the flagship, the commander looked at the Holographic Sand Table and listened to the operations officer's report, "0 kilometers to the target location. Currently, the fleet's engine room, main fire control room, and auxiliary fire control room are all normal. No suspicious targets within 300 kilometers."

The commander thought for a moment and said, "After reaching the battlefield, the Southern Fleet will immediately surround the battlefield and lock onto all targets. If Shadow wins, directly cover the battlefield with all firepower. If Li Bingxi survives, kill him at all costs. Except for Mr. Chen, make sure no living creature leaves."

"Understood," the operations officer nodded.

The commander looked at the holographic Radar scan of the Phase-array Radar again, confirming that there were no suspicious targets around before he was slightly relieved.

He looked at the thick dark clouds in front of him and felt inexplicably uneasy.

But the next moment, in the clouds ahead, the base of a steel island seemed to slowly break through the clouds and descend.

It was as if a kingdom had fallen from the sky and appeared before everyone!

There was no sign of its appearance before!

The seven huge Class A Airships seemed particularly small in front of it.

Three soldiers responsible for the Radar suddenly roared in the communication channel, "Qingshan Fortress! It's the Qingshan Fortress!"

Qingshan Airship Fortress!

No one knew why it appeared here, nor did anyone know when it came, and its location was right on the path of the Southern Fleet to the battlefield.

When the commander saw the full picture of Qingshan Fortress, he found that all the carrier-based fighter jets and carrier-based airships on the Air Fortress had disappeared!

The commander also roared, "Be careful, all the Qingshan Fortress carrier aircraft have taken off. Pay attention to your surroundings! Why didn't our Radar detect the other party, why?!"

At this moment, a soldier suddenly shouted, "Sir, our Radar system has been invaded by an unknown hacker!"

The commander froze in place. The Phase-array Radar of the military operations system had been invaded?! How is that possible? All the fleets in the sky are physically isolated combat systems!

Unless someone performed a physical intrusion from inside! Accessed the intrusion data from inside the Airship!

"Escape pod malfunction, hatch opened, warning, hatch open."

When the system prompted this sentence, a young man, with a black hard drive in his mouth, looked determined, destroyed the escape equipment one by one, then put on his parachute and jumped out of the escape hatch, falling towards the wilderness.

On Qingshan Fortress, Li Changqing, wearing a major general's uniform, stood quietly in front of the Holographic Sand Table.

Someone in the fortress said, "Command Center, 191 has arrived at the battle zone."

"19 has arrived at the battle zone."

"19"

"Requesting combat!"

Li Changqing looked at the Southern Fleet on the Holographic Sand Table and calmly said, "Permission granted, annihilate the enemy without leaving a single one alive, triumphant return."

This long-silent cruel woman from the Li Clan, everyone thought she was still in City 19, balancing the various spies, but unexpectedly she appeared here.

No one expected that the Qingshan Airship Fortress, which had disappeared for two months after rescuing Qing Chen, would appear here.