Night’s Nomenclature

In Knight's old days, Knight was the peak of individual combat.

Li Shutong once sparred with Shadow, even when Shadow, also a Demi-God, used the time domain, Li Shutong could easily break free with a powerful life Force field.

Fighting against Chen Chuanzhi, the Demi-God of the previous generation of the Chen Family, the gods and Buddhas in the painting tried their best but couldn't even touch Li Shutong's clothes. Only when countless Buddhas formed an array could they stop this Knight leader, and they still failed in the end.

When the founder Ren He traveled through Europe, the great wizard Russell's incantation hadn't even been finished when Ren He defeated him with speed, making it impossible for him to cast even a single complete spell.

This led to Russell, the leader of the wizard group, closing himself off to cultivate silent and rapid spellcasting, but he still couldn't achieve it.

Shendai and Fire Pit don't need to be mentioned; everyone has been defeated by them.

Knight is a strange hereditary organization. They don't belong to any faction and don't have conflicts of interest with most Conglomerates, yet they make Demi-Gods all over the world feel a sense of shared suffering.

They are all younger brothers.

But the problem is that Knight only possesses individual combat abilities. When facing a field army, they are likely to be overwhelmed by numbers because they lack group combat capabilities.

Chen Family: Painter lineage, Demi-Gods have countless gods, accumulating power for nearly a hundred years, one person can be worth a million soldiers.

Hu Family Intelligence Agency: Sword-controlling lineage, the Demi-God has twenty-four Jade Heart Swords, at noon, the world will be judged.

Li Clan: Star-picking lineage, the Demi-God is a Banished Immortal who can pick stars from the sky, and can cause a land subsidence of ten miles with a single gesture.

Qing Family: Martial arts lineage, the Demi-God achieves the Dao through martial arts, their every move and posture influences the will of heaven and earth, and a punch will cause a spatial shock of a hundred meters in radius.

Fire Pit: Gift of the gods, the Demi-God has the blessing of totem power, one sword can open mountains and split thousands of troops.

Observer: Wizard lineage, the Demi-God holds the True Sight Eye, which can freeze ten miles, and can summon a Meteorite from the sky.

Shendai: Yin-Yang Master lineage, the Demi-God can control 1 Shikigami to launch a massacre against regular troops. Although the Ittō-ryū lineage is strong, it doesn't have a direct path to Demi-God, it all relies on luck.

Even a weakling like Li Bingxi can easily split into 48 A-Class clones, annihilating the battlefield.

Although these lineages have varying strengths, once they reach Demi-God, they can all withstand small-scale regular army combat without having to kill one by one.

Therefore, after losing the advantage in numbers, Knight has always had a fatal flaw in group battles.

This is also the reason why the Knight Order is gradually fading from the historical stage.

Until the appearance of Qing Chen.

First Li Ke, Hu Xiaoniu, then Shinguji Maki and the Academy challengers, and now Zhang Mengqian.

In just a few months, Knights have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Among them, there are also several who have transformed into Knights, and hundreds of messengers.

Strictly speaking, the Eternal Society is the previous generation of the Knight Messengers organization, while the Guardians' Union, Masonic Lodge, Shadow troops, etc., are all the Knight Messengers organizations of this generation.

Very large.

However, the transformation that Qing Chen brought to the Knight Order is not just about quantity.

When he was on Ao Sui High Peak, the cloud of energy that looked like a rain of stars opened the era of area-of-effect attacks for the Knights.

The first section of the Zhunti Method Breathing Technique compresses Knight True Qi and produces a qualitative change, allowing Li Shutong to now possess an ability that makes everyone fearful.

Millions of Rat Tides, a single breath of cloud energy killed them, what a terrifying ability.

This is destined to be an era belonging to the Knights, but we need to wait a little longer, until the young Knights have all grown up.

Then, one breath of cloud energy each, perhaps Shendai will be gone.

Of course, that's the ideal state.

At this moment, the biggest crisis on the lower three districts' defense line has been resolved. The million Rat Tides were blown away in one breath. When all the refugees looked at Li Shutong's figure, they looked like they were looking at a god.

Li Shutong's action is simply a stroke of genius in terms of boosting morale.

And Li Shutong didn't leave; he continued to stand on that building, using the Autumn Leaf Blade to defeat the scattered Rat Tides, cutting off their path, as if he were damming a river.

Without the continuous Rat Tides, the pressure on the defense line was immediately relieved!

Xiao San and others on the defense line shouted excitedly: "Did you see that? That's our Leader's master! He came to save us!"

"Demi-God Li Shutong, he's the Grand Tutor of our Guardians' Union!"

The Home Families were chopping rats while embellishing themselves, as if the wounds on their bodies didn't hurt anymore, making the refugees next to them dumbfounded.

They haven't yet realized what's going on, but they have seen the demeanor of a Demi-God with their own eyes!

To be precise, this was the first time Li Shutong used his cloud energy after gaining it, and he used it in front of nearly a million people.

He stood on that tall building, visible to everyone, as if demonstrating a miracle.

And those remaining steel structures of the buildings reminded everyone of what had just happened every moment.

A refugee suddenly asked: "Do you guys in the Guardians' Union still recruit people?"

"Yes, of course," a Home Family member said reservedly: "But to join the Guardians' Union, you have to go through an assessment. After expressing your intention, the organization will observe you for three months, then you write an application, the organization will accept you as a probationary family member and observe you for another three months. If your performance is good, you will become a formal white family member."

This is a new policy recently set by Luo Wanya, in order to control the purity of the team, there needs to be a threshold.

The Guardians' Union is not open to everyone now.

After hearing the conditions, the refugees fell into thought. Why is joining this group so difficult? But people are like this, the harder it is, the more they want to join.

Everyone always thinks: those who want to deceive you will not set a threshold!

For a time, countless refugees were eager to join the Guardians' Union after surviving.

At this time, a Home Family member looked at the building and frowned for a long time and said: "Wait a minute, the building that was blown to just steel bars, isn't that my house?"

"After we kill all the rats, won't we be able to choose any house in the upper three districts? Don't feel sorry for your house, Grand Tutor blowing up your house is your ancestor's blessing."

"What are you talking about?"

More and more people ran out from the Key Gate, rushed to the defense line, and pushed the defense line back!

Not only that, some people were so enraged that they even had the intention to counterattack and kill rats throughout the city!

Fortunately, Xiao San remained rational and stopped them: "Even if we want to counterattack, it's not now. We need to rest and formulate a complete strategy."

However, even Xiao San was wondering if it was really possible to counterattack?

Before this, everyone was thinking about escaping, evacuating, and defending, and even Qing Chen wasn't optimistic about the outcome, believing that only by killing the Rat King could this disaster end.

As a result, even a piercing missile couldn't kill the Rat King, and the Rat King didn't know where it had hidden itself.

But now, could there be another way to kill the rats?

As long as the Rat King becomes a lone commander, then the more than five million people can slowly search for the shivering Rat King in the city's sewers. No matter where it hides, they will eventually find it.

With Demi-God Li Shutong present, the Rat King will die once found, there's no other suspense.

Then, raise it as a pet, without having to care whether it is happy or not.

The premise is that the refugees are willing to fight with everyone!

This is the power of the people!

Xiao San called Qin Shuli over: "Go to the back of the Key Gate to do publicity work, let everyone come back. The million Rat Tides have been destroyed, we have won this battle against the Rat Tides, no matter how many rats come, they are not enough for Grand Tutor to blow away with one breath. Then, organize the returning refugees into 100 teams, we will prepare to lead the counterattack, search the whole city, carry out rat extermination and disinfection work, and help Leader catch that Rat King."

Then, City 10 will be the territory of the Guardians' Union.

Of the four cities in the Federation, one belongs solely to the Guardians' Union, this sounds impressive.

For so many years, countless forces have tried to squeeze into the five Conglomerates and gain their own place, but none have succeeded.

And now, the Conglomerates haven't destroyed this city. Although the Rat Tides killed many people, more than five million people remain, the city's buildings are intact, facilities are complete, factories are still there, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is right before their eyes.

The tax revenue from this city alone is enough for the Guardians' Union's expenses!

In fact, Xiao San's guess was correct. The old man on Ginkgo Mountain negotiated with various parties not to drop missiles, not only to protect Qing Chen's life, but also to leave a complete city for Qing Chen.

The rats in City 10 only killed people, not destroying facilities, and there's no need for complex post-disaster reconstruction here!

This will certainly lead to opposition from various parties.

But the Li Clan is Qing Chen's ally, the Qing Family will not object, Shendai is the culprit of this disaster and has no right to stop them, Koshima doesn't have the ability to send troops south to stop them, and the Chen Family is recuperating in the south.

When the Shadow forces are stationed here, this matter can immediately become an established fact.

After Qing Chen reappoints city officials, it will be too late for other Conglomerates to say anything.

At this moment, the Shadow forces have arrived 800 kilometers outside City 10, not only Qing Ye and Qing Qu's Gene Soldiers special forces, but also a field army, these were originally Shadow's direct troops.

In addition, all the Qing Family troops are assembled in the north and cannot spare their hands to occupy this place. After Qing Yu arrives at the front line and becomes the commander, he has only two tasks: one is to stop Koshima and Shendai from going south, and the other is to keep all Qing Family factions on the battlefield.

The old man has calculated the timing and gave Qing Chen a small gift.

In his opinion, this is Qing Chen's city, not the Qing Family's.

But the occurrence of all this, he is actually just going with the flow, as if with everyone's efforts, a coincidence has created Qing Chen's position as the master of the city.

Xiao San whispered: "Go quickly, we must counterattack as soon as possible and eliminate the rats. We can't let other Conglomerates come here under the pretext of eliminating rats. This city belongs to Leader."

Qin Shuli's eyes lit up: "I'll go right away, don't worry, within 4 hours, I will definitely get 100 teams of young and strong people who can be dispatched."

At this time, the refugees pulled Xiao San and other Home Families who had been fighting for a long time off the defense line, letting them rest for a while.

The good news of suppressing the Rat Tides and the Demi-God's arrival also spread to the wilderness behind the Key Gate.

Everyone said that there's no need to run, victory is coming!

More and more refugees returned, so the Home Families had to maintain order next to the Key Gate.

Xiao San sat on a small stool in a mess, being pressed down on the stool by a group of girls to bandage him.

At this time, the little girl named Xiaoxia returned to the lower three districts with her parents. She came to Xiao San and whispered: "Uncle, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you before."

She thought that there would be no chance to say sorry.

Fortunately, everyone didn't lose everything.

District 4, the elite troops composed of secret spies have arrived.

Qing Chen looked at the two tall buildings in front of him from afar: "It is currently impossible to determine which one is Shendai Qianchi's hiding place, do not disperse your forces, follow me inside to search."

"Be careful, there is a security force around Shendai Qianchi, the number is currently unknown. Once suspicious persons are found in the building, kill them immediately, don't trust anyone, not even women or children. These two buildings have been searched by the Rat Tides, it's impossible for ordinary people to survive. Advance."

Speaking, the elite troops followed Qing Chen, first searching the shorter building.

Qing Chen was the arrowhead in the breakthrough formation at the forefront, everyone followed him, responsible for completing the search of each room, cabinets, under the beds, ceilings, no dead angles.

However, after an hour, everyone confirmed that the target was not in this building.

"Rest for 15 minutes, continue searching the other building," Qing Chen said.

But another hour passed, and they were shocked to find that neither building had the target.

Qing Chen recalled his observations and measurements of the exterior of the building, and calculated his observations of the dimensions inside the building.

At first, he thought that the building was a building within a building: that is, the actual area occupied by the external construction is 1500 square meters, but the internal space of the first floor is only 100 square meters, and another 1400 square meters are hidden in the secret passages.

Many spy safe houses are built like this, making them hard to detect.

But after Qing Chen calculated, he found that these two buildings did not have this situation.

However, he didn't say anything, but led the Secret Spy Agency troops and left without hesitation.

Qing Yi curiously asked: "Sir, could it be that Shendai Qianchi has already left?"

The spies dared not speak; now who would casually question their new boss? This kind of thing can only be said by the closer Qing Yi.

Qing Chen's expression was calm, he didn't speak, but just led the team out.

Until everyone was 100 meters away from the building, Qing Chen suddenly said: "That's right, it's here."

"If I were Shendai Qianchi, where would I choose as my hiding place? What would I need to guard against?" Qing Chen said: "I need to guard against the attack of the Rat Tides, I need to hide until the Rat Tides mature and reach the containment conditions of the Forbidden Artifact ACE0, I need to prevent various Conglomerates from going crazy and dropping bombs into the city!"

In City 10, Qing Chen had seen a place that could avoid piercing missiles and cruise missiles: 50 to 80 meters underground in the Caramel Bar, Old Shen's database, the seemingly simple database is surrounded by earthquake-resistant alloys and sound insulation structures!

Qing Yi once said that he wanted to protect Old Shen's evacuation, but Old Shen said that he didn't need to leave at all.

That was Old Shen's pride. If the place where the Secret Spy Agency stores its original data can be easily broken through by rats and easily penetrated by missiles, then the Secret Spy Agency might as well close down.

The airtight measures of the safe house can even provide independent oxygen for a month and can even defend against poison gas bombs.

Therefore, if this building also has such a safe house, then everything can be explained.

Qing Chen said: "I suspect that there are hidden cameras in that building just now, so I didn't say much, but I observed with my peripheral vision that the elevator shaft on the first floor had been pried open by hand."

At that time, Qing Chen didn't rashly pull open the elevator shaft because he didn't know if there were any safety countermeasures inside.

This kind of safe house most likely only has one way in and out. It is suicidal for them to attack, but the people inside will eventually come out.

Qing Yi asked: "Could he be hiding inside and not coming out?"

"No," Qing Chen shook his head and said confidently: "If he controlled the Rat Tide, then he would definitely evacuate with the Rat Tide to the wilderness. He knows very well that staying here is a death sentence. Of course, if he doesn't come out, I have a way."

Qing Yi asked: "Could this safe house have a passage connecting to the sewers? Should I bring people to guard the sewers at various intersections to prevent them from evacuating underground?"

"Yes, go and guard, be careful of the rats," Qing Chen said.

Qing Chen waved his hand, and the team of 100 people immediately dispersed and arrived at their best concealed combat positions.

Qing Chen sat down in a shadow behind the building. He knew what he should do now and who his target was.

He wouldn't leave here until Shendai Qianchi is dead.

There's still a battle.

The final battle.

In the sewers, a gray-eyed, black-skinned rat had come to the Rat King with hundreds of its companions.

The Rat King lay bloated in the dirty water of the wide sewer, its body like a mountain, almost filling the sewer.

It kept eating, its claws holding the flesh and stuffing it into its mouth.

The gray-eyed, black-skinned rat held a human hand and slowly approached. Just as the Rat King stretched out its claws to take the human hand in its mouth, the gray-eyed, black-skinned rat jumped onto the Rat King's arm and jumped towards the Rat King's neck.

The Rat King wanted to control it to stop, but found that the gray-eyed, black-skinned rat was completely uncontrollable!

In the eyeballs of the gray-eyed, black-skinned rat, it seemed as if maggots were wriggling. It bit the Rat King's neck, and the white and plump ant queen crawled out of its mouth, squeezing through the Rat King's flesh and into its body.

The ant queen arrived at the Rat King's spine, and hundreds of thin white tentacles extended from its white body, piercing into the Rat King's spinal joints, binding them tightly together.

The Rat King roared in anger. It wanted to use its back hand to dig the ant queen out of the flesh, but it couldn't reach it.

Next, countless rats, driven by the Rat King, climbed onto the Rat King's back and bit open the skin of the Rat King's back. This is the Rat King controlling its subjects to help find the strange thing.

However, even if the rats found the tentacles, they couldn't hurt it at all!

The Forbidden Artifact cannot be damaged or destroyed!

Time passed by little by little, the Rat King's eyes turned gray and then black again, until it finally fell powerlessly in the sewer.

The black pupils were finally occupied by gray.

In another underground location, Shendai Qianchi held a blood-red piece of wood and closed his eyes tightly. He suddenly stood up and laughed: "It's done!"

In this underground safe house, 10 security personnel were waiting. When they heard this, their eyes lit up immediately: "Congratulations, Ancestor!"

Shendai Qianchi laughed: "Finally, I've waited for this moment… wait, something's wrong."

The security personnel looked at each other.

What's wrong?

Shendai Qianchi said with a ferocious expression: "Why are there only a quarter of the rats left? No, Li Shutong is here, when did Knight possess such a terrifying area-of-effect attack ability!"

This Forbidden Artifact Ant Queen ACE0 can allow Shendai Qianchi to control the Rat King, search the Rat King's memories, and see the scene seen by the Rat Tide, just like the Rat King.

In the Rat King's memories, Shendai Qianchi's hands trembled when he saw Li Shutong spitting out that cloud of energy.

This kind of individual ceiling existence, Knight, actually has such a terrifying area-of-effect attack ability? Is there still any reason in this world?!

According to his plan, if the various Conglomerates dropped missiles in the city, he would leave the safe house and go to other cities to look for opportunities. If the various Conglomerates didn't drop missiles, he would break through the lower three districts at the cost of half of the Rat Tide, use it as a granary, and quickly breed new Rat Tides.

In just three days, he could lead the Rat Tide north, at which time the Li Clan and the Qing Family would die, and many neutral parties within the Shendai Consortium would turn to him again.

But now, an accident happened. The lower three districts' defense line resisted stubbornly, killing a batch of his Rat Tides, and Li Shutong's appearance killed another batch of his Rat Tides. The remaining Rat Tide forces are simply not enough to break through the lower three districts!

"Abandon the lower three districts!" Shendai Qianchi said coldly: "The Rat Tide must evacuate as soon as possible. As long as they hide in the wilderness, there's still a chance to rise again."

Although the food in the wilderness is not as plentiful as in the lower three districts, this is the only way for the Rat Tides to survive.

After the Rat Tides reach the wilderness and sweep away the wild animals, in less than three months, he will have a huge Rat Tide again.

It's impossible to go north, Shendai Qianchi must preserve his strength.

The next moment, the Rat King climbed up from the sewer and slowly crawled towards the sewer exit.

In the lower three districts' defense line, Xiao San had just returned to the defense team when he saw the Rat Tides retreating like a receding tide.

They escaped!

The Rat Tides dispersed and headed towards the four gates of the wall, trying to leave the city through there and regroup in the wilderness.

Xiao San was dumbfounded watching the retreating Rat Tides.

Victory?

Victory!

"No," Qin Shuli suddenly said: "The Rat Tides want to run, don't let them run away like this, we must annihilate them in one go, otherwise, there will be a day when they return!"

Xiao San also reacted. He jumped onto the sandbags on the defense line and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Pass the order, everyone follow the formations and search the whole city with us, don't let the rats escape!"

In an instant, all the refugees followed the Home Families and rushed out of the defense line, surging outwards like a flood.

City 10 did not wait for support from the Federation army, but they still won.

The Conglomerates were waiting for the collapse of the lower three districts' defense line to drop bombs.

Shendai Qianchi thought that the Rat Tide was enough to destroy a city.

History always belongs to the people, but some people always forget this.

Hope Media reporter Gao, looking at this scene with excitement, held his camera and kept shooting the scenes before him.

The little girl covered in dust sat in the ruins, the aunt wielding a chipped kitchen knife ran through the streets, the men rushed through the crowd with stools, the Guardians' Union rushed to the front with scarves made of clothes.

Dawn broke, the snow stopped.

The golden light of the rising sun on the horizon enveloped the whole city.

All the buildings turned golden, and the sunlight sprinkled on the refugees, warm and comfortable.

Gao suddenly wiped his eyes. At this moment, he felt a vitality he had never seen before, erupting from City 10, complementing the rising sun.

The Rat Tides were still fleeing, completely executing Shendai Qianchi's escape plan without looking back.

In the elevator shaft of District 4, a white lantern flew into the sky, like a signal lighthouse.

Shikigami, ATS71, Never Fall!

At the entrance and exit of City 10, a Yin-Yang Master in a black combat uniform held binoculars and coldly watched the Never Fall in the sky. He knew that this was a signal from the ancestor, it was time to open the gate.

This city defense system with a physical isolation network and independent backup power can only be controlled from the inside, it cannot be controlled from the outside, so this Yin-Yang Master has been waiting here, waiting for the ancestor's command.

Now, the command has come.

The Yin-Yang Master turned and walked towards the control room.

The moment he stepped into the control room, he suddenly felt something strange behind him.

Without thinking, the Shikigami of his life Spiritual Bridge rushed out and rushed towards the uninvited guest behind him.

Space fluctuated, and the Yin-Yang Master felt a sharp pain in his internal organs, as if resonating with space.

He saw a hand stretching out from the Shadow Gate, tightly pinching his neck.

Qing Ji walked out of the Shadow Gate expressionlessly, pinching the other person's neck, and like throwing a toy, used the Yin-Yang Master's body to disperse the Shikigami that were attacking him one by one.

Then, he calmly lifted the Yin-Yang Master and smashed him against the alloy gate, again and again, until the Yin-Yang Master's bones were broken!

Seven orifices bleeding!

"Boring," Qing Ji threw the Yin-Yang Master at his feet, like throwing a tattered bag.

At this time, Qing Ji suddenly remembered that he once had a friend who liked to say the word "interesting", while he liked to say "boring".

He shook his head and walked straight to the control room, pulling out the equipment plugged in by the Yin-Yang Master and replacing it with the equipment he brought.

In an instant, the Metal Storm throughout the city stopped, and after 1 second, the Metal Storm restarted!

At this moment, the biological characteristics they were locking onto were no longer humans, but rats.

Qing Ji walked out of the control room with a lonely expression. He put his hands in his sleeves, stood on the usually lively entrance and exit passage, and looked at the human bones killed by the Metal Storm in the distance.

No one knows how many people were killed by the Metal Storm that was used to protect humans in seven days.

Looking at this scene, Qing Ji thought that he shouldn't think about this kind of problem.

It's better to be a knife, don't be a knife that can think.

Otherwise, it will hinder the Dao heart.

The hustle and bustle of this world is really boring.

In the underground safe house of District 4, Shendai Qianchi said solemnly: "We must evacuate too."