Night’s Nomenclature

Li Dongze first met Qing Chen in the Octagonal Cage of the Haitang Boxing Gym. Watching the boy box, he thought he was pretty good, not bad for the Boss's student. Someone like him was qualified to be a Knight.

Perhaps all the messengers, when scrutinizing Qing Chen, their future leader, would have a critical eye.

After all, the leaders of the Knight Order have always been the best of the best.

But back then, Li Dongze's assessment of Qing Chen was only that he was 'pretty good'. He could accept this person leading him, but he didn't feel particularly awed.

The involution with Su Xingzhi was just a matter of hard competition, nothing to do with Qing Chen.

But things changed later.

The A0 Base incident was a turning point.

It proved that the Head of the Qingshi Clan was right when he said to Shadow: If you really want to win over the hearts of the people in the Qing Family intelligence agency, you need to be a little crueler.

At that time, whether it was the Knight Order, the Qing Family intelligence agency, or the Shadow troops, they all needed Qing Chen to do something truly impressive.

The Head of the Qingshi Clan told Shadow: He has to do something that no one else can do.

So the Head of the Qingshi Clan sent Qing Chen through hell, forging his reputation.

Li Dongze now admires Qing Chen from the bottom of his heart, whether it was maintaining his principles while enduring humiliation in the pigsty, or his ability to calmly fight his way out and bring more than nine hundred people with him.

These are things that he honestly knows he could never do.

And then there was the killing of Shendai Yunhe and the capture of Shendai Jing Cheng.

Perhaps Shendai Jing Cheng still doesn't know that his life has become a footnote in Qing Chen's life.

Whenever anyone mentions Qing Chen, they use him as a foil.

At this moment, Li Dongze looks at the soldiers about to attack Qing Chen, and is quite angry.

The Knight Order hasn't caused any trouble for too long, so many people think that killing the next leader of the Knight Order won't cost them anything?

What gave the world this illusion?

Li Dongze coldly watches the four hundred-strong force, then says to the eleven messengers behind him: "Kill them all!"

Return Countdown 1:00:00.

Yang Yang is still maintaining the heavy Force field on the battlefield, making it incredibly difficult for any soldier to approach.

Then, after Zard's brief recovery, he uses sand to harvest them.

In this cold winter night, sweat drips from her thin chin onto the ground.

Yang Yang is working incredibly hard, almost unable to hold on.

But she still doesn't wake Qing Chen, wanting him to cherish this moment a little longer.

At this time, Zhang Mengqian says: "Look, another troop is coming from the east."

Everyone turns their heads to look. A kilometer away, where Xiao Mengqian pointed, there are countless figures!

The Chen Family's field army has arrived. Excluding those left behind in the wilderness, there are over six thousand people on the battlefield!

This kind of fully-fledged army, even a Demi-God couldn't kill them all!

Yang Yang sighs, and apologizes to Qing Chen in her heart.

More than two thousand people are approaching nearby.

Another six thousand plus are rushing towards them from afar.

She has to wake Qing Chen and get him to leave.

But just as she's about to wake Qing Chen, she sees paper swallows flying across the sky.

Everyone is stunned.

Swallows?

Paper swallows?

Why would there be paper swallows on such a deadly battlefield!

Slowly, more and more swallows appear in the sky, hundreds of them.

Those swallows are circling above Zard's head, sometimes forming an S, sometimes a B.

They seem to be silently mocking this traitor.

Zard laughs happily: "Aaaaaah, my big brother's here!"

He stands up, waving his arms to greet the S and B in the sky, as if his big brother is hidden within those letters.

As he speaks, the slowly circling swallows begin to accelerate.

They scatter and fly towards the soldiers closest to Zard.

The sharp whistling sounds are piercing and ear-splitting. In a flash, hundreds of swallows, like bullets, pierce through the soldiers one by one.

The swallows are not bullets. The resistance they encounter when penetrating the human body is far greater than that of bullets.

But those swallows are like sharp knives, either slicing through the Chen Family soldiers' necks or piercing through their chests.

Without any obstruction!

One swallow, after piercing through a soldier, is not satisfied, and uses its inertia to pierce through another soldier behind.

When the swallows kill, the white paper swallows suddenly turn blood red, as if the swallows are weeping blood.

Zhang Mengqian looks at the swallows, feeling like he's looking at a bizarre world. Everything that has happened today is something he could never have seen in his life in the slums, not even online.

At this moment, a pale young man sits on a hillside with a pair of nice white headphones on, sneering: "Qing Chen, I'm not here to save you, I'm here to save Zard, it has nothing to do with you. Zard, you're almost back; I'll see how you explain this later. When you're not around, your little brother folds swallows for me, when you are, he folds little frogs for me, we're not done yet."

Huan Yu has arrived, but to his dismay, he was supposed to be the one killing Qing Chen, but now he's being forced by Zard to save him together with Qing Chen.

The more he thinks about it, the angrier he gets. Huan Yu controls two swallows to fly towards Qing Chen.

But before the swallows can land, Zard stands in front of Qing Chen.

Huan Yu almost spits blood: "I'm freaking… you freaking…"

Huan Yu continues to scold: "I'm buying you time, run! What are you standing there for?! Don't really think I can kill more than two thousand soldiers! Wait, why are more people rushing out!"

Another troop appears from the northeast.

But Qing Chen is still standing there.

From the direction of Forbidden Zone 00, a huge roar is heard.

The roar is like the footsteps of a beast, like a herd of galloping horses running wild across the wilderness!

The next moment, a scarred, ferocious giant appears in everyone's sight, holding a large tree in his hand, followed by countless wild boars.

The giant is like the king of the wilderness. He feels Huan Yu's gaze and coldly looks back at him.

Huan Yu is stunned. What's going on? The giant from Forbidden Zone 00 is actually an A-Class? He even has a sixth sense!

The giant swings the tree in his hand, and the wild boars obediently begin to charge, blocking the newly arrived troops.

Gu Dong picks up a light tank and puts it in front of him to shield himself from the hail of bullets.

Ding Dong follows his brother's example, holding up a light tank and charging fiercely, clearly scared, but still gathering courage for Qing Chen.

"Ding Dong!"

I told you my friend wouldn't miss the appointment, it's you bad guys who stopped him!

Qing Chen is still standing there.

He has a long dream.

He dreams that he is a student in City 5, District 7, nervously preparing for his studies, waiting for the Qing He University entrance exam after the new year.

He'll need to take a car to City 10, which is a considerable expense.

Qing Chen carries his backpack, takes the Light rail, listens repeatedly to historical question analysis in his earphones, and looks at the supplementary materials for his information technology class.

The Qing He University entrance exam does not include English, but adds an information technology course.

In this day and age, one can live without English, but not without information technology skills, computer programming and application abilities.

Huh, English?

What is English?

Young Qing Chen sits on the Light rail in confusion. He doesn't know how this word popped into his mind; it's rather strange.

But he doesn't think much about it and continues reading.

The train arrives at his stop. Qing Chen pushes his way out of the crowded Light rail and walks briskly home.

Passing through the streets of District 7, someone sees that he is unharmed and quickly approaches him: "Want to sell your organs? Recently, Chen Family Conglomerate released a new transparent phone, you can exchange one kidney for it, and still have some Ling money left!"

Qing Chen is stunned. Before he can say anything, his sister-in-law Ning Xiu, holding a wok shovel and wearing an apron, runs out of the building angrily, like a mother tiger protecting her cub, and comes to Qing Chen's side, then scolds the old man who tempted Qing Chen: "Old Wang, you are so wicked, my Qing Chen is going to take the Qing He University entrance exam, you dare to trick him into selling organs, I'll beat your brains out!"

Ning Xiu even waves the wok shovel, wishing she could split Old Wang's head open.

Old Wang is guilty: "I just said something casually."

"Shut your mouth," Ning Xiu shouts angrily: "We've been neighbors for years, do the right thing, get lost, or his brother and father will beat you to death when they get back!"

Qing Chen stares blankly at his sister-in-law, seeing her using a simple rubber band to tie her long hair behind her head, her beautiful face without makeup.

For some reason, he suddenly feels like crying.

He doesn't know why.

Seeing Qing Chen's eyes redden, Ning Xiu says apologetically: "Was I too fierce just now, did I scare you? Hurry home and study, your father and brother will be home for dinner soon. Don't worry, we have three grown men in our family, no one in District 7 dares to bully us."

This is how it is in District 7; the more men in the family, the less likely they are to be bullied. They feel more secure.

But Qing Chen's father always said it was a pity that he didn't have a daughter; he wished Qing Chen was a girl.

"Alright," Qing Chen walks towards the building, he feels something strange today.

He's restless while studying, feeling like he's forgotten something.

In this one-bedroom apartment, the only bedroom is given to Qing Chen.

Originally, his father said that his brother and sister-in-law should live in the room and have a baby boy soon, but his brother insisted on giving the bedroom to Qing Chen.

He said that Xiao Chen is still in his review phase, and is most afraid of being disturbed, so Xiao Chen should live in the bedroom.

This way, Xiao Chen can sleep a little longer every day and not be disturbed by the outside noise.

The rest of the family will just sleep on the floor in the living room.

In the evening, his father and brother come back, their bodies covered in paint, dust, and sawdust from the renovations.

His brother glances into the room, Qing Chen looks up, his brother smiles and walks into the room, secretly taking out two chocolates from his pocket and placing them on the table: "Heard from a coworker that students eating this can get smarter, I bought you two, eat them."

Qing Chen has a lump in his throat: "That's feudal superstition, eating chocolate won't make you smarter."

"Nonsense, eat them," his brother pretends to be serious.

At this time, his sister-in-law's gentle voice comes from outside: "Wash your hands and eat, I have good news, I found a job today! This way, you guys don't have to work so hard, and Xiao Chen won't have to worry so much about the money for his trip to City 10."

For some reason, Qing Chen suddenly bursts into tears at his desk in the bedroom. He doesn't know why he's so sad, only that he's never felt sadder in his life.

Gradually, his crying grows louder.

He remembers. He is not the young Qing Chen from Inner World.

He is the Master of Daybreak, the next leader of the Knight Order, the future master of the Qing Family!

He is a beta tester Time Traveler!

Qing Chen!

He finally remembers that when he was eighteen months old, Shadow secretly carried him out of the Ginkgo Garden and secretly showed Ning Xiu his precious younger brother.

So, when he was eighteen months old, he had seen that gentle woman, the woman his brother yearned for, his sister-in-law.

He remembers everything.

At this time, his brother slowly walks into the bedroom and softly asks: "Do you remember everything?"

"Yes," Qing Chen cries and nods frantically, but he wishes he hadn't remembered.

He longs for such a brother, such a sister-in-law.

If he were just an ordinary boy from City 5, Inner World, how much better it would be.

"Go back then," his brother says gently: "Don't cry."

"I don't want to go back," Qing Chen says.

"You have to," Qing Zhun gently wipes away his tears: "People are waiting for you there."

"Thank you, brother. In the next life, be my brother again."

"Okay."

Return Countdown 00:00:00.

Huan Yu yells angrily: "Go! I can't hold on anymore! Are you stupid? Someone's here to rescue you, but instead of running, you're just standing there waiting for an idiot?!"

"Traitor, run!"

He hasn't finished killing the two thousand people nearby, and the six thousand people in the distance are almost here. Zard will surely die, everyone will die!

But at this moment, Huan Yu suddenly looks up.

A fierce energy fluctuation pervades and erupts in the space.

This terrifying energy, even without a killing intent, makes Huan Yu feel a real sense of crisis.

In an instant, golden lightning flashes into the sky.

Qing Chen, who has been standing still for an unknown amount of time, opens his eyes.

He looks at Zard and Yang Yang and says: "You've worked hard, take a rest."

The next moment, all the pulse magnetic fields in his body form. In the blink of an eye, the War Robots and mechanical spiders at the forefront are reduced to scrap metal.

The powerful electromagnetic pulse takes only a breath to turn all the electronic components within a kilometer radius of the battlefield into scrap metal!

Seeing that something is wrong, the newly arrived Chen Family soldiers start shooting, even though they are not within shooting range, and the long-range Metal Storm keeps sweeping.

Bullets and thick black rain clouds fall densely.

This time there is no earth wall from Zard.

Qing Chen suddenly raises his arm, and an electromagnetic Force field condenses above his right hand.

He softly says: "Bound."

A terrifying scene suddenly occurs. The metal bullets are suspended in front of the powerful electromagnetic repulsive force.

The fierce electromagnetic repulsive force, not even a single bullet can penetrate!

The suspended bullets are like rain frozen in time.

Before the bullets, stands a world master who commands the gods.

At this time, Qing Chen softly says: "Unbound!"

In the raging storm, the bullets suspended in front of the god-like youth are shot back.

What hail of bullets.

What Metal Storm.

This is the natural enemy of modern human Firearms technology, a true human-shaped weapon!

There have been lightning-type Awakened Ones before, but before this, no one has ever been able to use the power of lightning so precisely, so perfectly, so terrifyingly!

Huan Yu watches this scene calmly from afar, softly saying: "Damn."

The countdown returns to zero.

Return.

The world falls into darkness.

This time travel was particularly long for Qing Chen.

Some small easter eggs about Shadow have been released as side stories.