Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 257: Daybreak’s Future

“Qing Chen, I absolutely didn’t give you this watch to show off,” Hu Xiaoniu explained, looking at the box that had been pushed back in front of him. “I only recently found out that you were the one who saved me on Laojun Mountain. This is just an entry-level Rolex, with good waterproof functions. I thought you’d need a watch with such reliable technology.”

Qing Chen shook his head again. “Saving you was just something I did in passing. Besides, we’re all in the same organization now. If we have to charge each other for mutual support, that would be too impersonal.”

Hu Xiaoniu looked thoughtful. He took the watch box back and didn’t say anything more.

For some reason, this top-tier rich second-generation from Haicheng always felt that Qing Chen held a more special and mysterious position within the Daybreak organization.

There was no basis, just intuition.

Qing Chen suddenly asked, “Boss sent you to such a dangerous place like Eternal Society. Do you have any thoughts about that?”

Hu Xiaoniu thought for a moment and said, “It’s a surprise, I guess. At least I finally have an identity in the Inner World. No matter what the future holds, at least I have a direction to strive for.”

Qing Chen nodded without saying anything.

At this time, Hu Xiaoniu said sincerely, “Qing Chen, actually, there’s something else I wanted to ask you for when I gave you the watch…”

“I want to learn your killing skills,” Hu Xiaoniu said. “Going to Eternal Society in the future, having some skills to rely on will help me get a foothold there.”

Qing Chen was silent for a moment and said, “If you’re just an ordinary person, no matter how proficient you become in skills, it won’t help.”

Hu Xiaoniu said seriously, “As long as I work hard, I will definitely find ways to improve my strength. If Boss sees my use, he will also consider me.”

“About learning killing techniques and improving strength, I think you should tell Boss first,” Qing Chen replied. “I’ll follow Boss’s instructions. If he arranges it, I will teach you wholeheartedly.”

Qing Chen sighed. Hu Xiaoniu indeed maintained a studious and ambitious attitude.

This is how a top-tier rich second-generation should be. That bunch of spoiled brats next door are all a bunch of trash.

Hu Xiaoniu was absolutely right. As long as he could prove his usefulness to the ‘Boss,’ Qing Chen would eventually help him improve his strength.

Li Changqing still had a whole set of Gene Medicine ready. Qing Chen also needed to choose the most suitable person to inject it into.

The best steel should be used on the blade.

Before this, Hu Xiaoniu was the most suitable person in the Daybreak organization to inject this set of Gene Medicine. However, Qing Chen suddenly changed his mind before his last return.

He was going to experiment with something before making a decision.

This so-called experiment was not a test of Hu Xiaoniu’s humanity.

Instead, Qing Chen wanted to prove whether Knight could open the Gene Lock in his body in the Outer World!

It was known that among the Awakened Ones, Yang Yang and Liu Dezhu were both restricted by the world’s rules in the Outer World, so they had not awakened. As soon as they entered the Inner World, they awakened.

But Qing Chen wasn’t reconciled.

Knight’s path of Cultivation is different from others. They seek self-breakthrough, achieving transformation from the most fundamental depths of their genes.

Half a month ago, someone confirmed that Gene Medicine brought back to the Outer World could also turn wealthy people into Gene Soldiers.

Since that’s the case, there’s no reason why Knight should be bound.

At this moment, Qing Chen already had greater ambitions.

Once he could complete the second Trials of Life and Death in the Outer World and open the next level of Gene Lock.

Then it would mean that Nangeng Chen, Hu Xiaoniu, and Zhang Tianzhen, whom he had gathered into Daybreak, could follow the old path of Knight before he had the Breathing Technique: after completing all the challenges, they could be promoted to A-class!

The sea here is also dangerous, but it is not a life-forbidden zone.

Although the upper limit of this old path is not that high and cannot reach the achievement of a Demi-God.

But its threshold is lower, at least it doesn’t need to use the Breathing Technique to pass the Trial of Heart.

How terrifying would mass-produced Knights be? In the future, with many A-class members in Daybreak, which force would dare to provoke them easily?

This is why Qing Chen temporarily didn’t want to inject Hu Xiaoniu with Gene Medicine. Once he injected the Gene Medicine, this path would be cut off.

This plan has only one problem, and that is that Daybreak still needs Guardians.

Without the Breathing Technique, Knights are still ordinary people before completing the complete Eight Trials of Life and Death.

Therefore, before Daybreak completes its true transformation, it needs strong combat power to protect it.

One Liu Dezhu is definitely not enough.

Qing Chen put away his thoughts. He knew that all this still needed to wait until after his experiment to get an answer.

Thinking of this, he closed his eyes and lay down on the table, as if he were asleep.

This surprised Hu Xiaoniu. When they had just transferred to this school, they had heard of Qing Chen’s reputation as a top student. In fact, in last week’s monthly exam, Qing Chen did indeed enter the top three again.

But Hu Xiaoniu didn’t understand. Since he transferred here, he hadn’t seen Qing Chen study at all…

Is this the talent of a top student?

They didn’t know that Qing Chen had already opened the mysterious world of Conquer with Virtue in his mind and had begun to continue recording his sniping data.

Racing against time.

On the wasteland of the mysterious world, Qing Chen had already mastered all the data within 400 meters.

He began to push the target coin further and further back, then cycling through different levels of wind speed.

This method is unfair to other snipers.

What does a person need to become a sniper? First of all, they need talent.

The army often says that whether a soldier is suitable to be a sniper is actually determined from birth.

However, Qing Chen is now using the most brutal method: remembering all the possible ballistic trajectories in all environments, even only needing to glance at the target to know the distance between them.

The exhaustive method is always the best learning technique for his talent.

For other snipers, the result of the moment of firing is unknown. However, for Qing Chen, when all external factors are determined, the result is like an ordinary equation, and the result can be calculated.

And he already had the answer in his heart.

But this is not the biggest advantage of the mysterious world. In Qing Chen’s view, its biggest advantage is… the recoil of firing does not affect his real body, and bullets are free.

It must be known that the cost of cultivating a sniper is very high.

A common sniper bullet costs about 20 yuan, while special bullets with an effective range of over 2000 meters cost as much as 50 yuan.

A sniper’s training time is usually 3 years, during which the number of sniper bullets fired is in the tens of thousands, averaging 100,000.

In these 3 years, the sniper must break down the training tasks into each day and then use bullets to develop a feel for the gun.

Any sniper is trained with bullets.

Even if we calculate it at 100,000 bullets, the minimum cost of training a sniper is 5 million…

At Qing Chen’s firing frequency, he might fire as many as 18,000 special sniper bullets every day. In 7 days, the number of bullets fired would be a terrifying number.

If Qing Chen were just an ordinary person, he would be bankrupt just from firing. This is also why Lao Jiu didn’t take him directly to the shooting range in the Inner World in the beginning.

Lao Jiu’s quota wasn’t that high…

When Qing Chen thought that he was making a profit with every shot he fired, his enthusiasm for sniper training became even higher.

It wasn’t boring at all.

Qing Chen pushed the coin distance further and further in the mysterious world, from 400 meters to 450 meters, then to 500 meters.

Every bit of progress was extremely solid.

Slowly, Qing Chen suddenly felt that he had a certain connection with Conquer with Virtue.

After pulling the trigger, he knew exactly how this black sniper rifle would react.

He also knew exactly what trajectory the bullet would take after being fired, and how long it would take to reach the target.

Gun feel.

Qing Chen suddenly realized that after he had fired a large number of shots, the rudimentary form of the powerful gun feel that Lao Jiu had mentioned finally appeared!

He had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

The gods among snipers are one in a million, or even one in ten million.

Qing Chen always makes the worst preparations first, so from the beginning, he didn’t expect himself to be one of those one in ten million gods.

He mechanically shot, mechanically recorded data, just wanting to use his talent in memory to make up for his lack of talent in sniping.

But now he knew that he also had the same talent in sniping!

Calm and tenacious will, a steady and unshakeable body, a mysterious and powerful gun feel, the ability to calculate ballistic trajectories in detail. Qing Chen is the most suitable person to be a sniper.

At this moment, Qing Chen became more and more skillful in shooting, and the progress of the entire shooting training was more than twice as fast as before.

He was lying on the wasteland, having stopped shooting.

Qing Chen was thinking, since he had such strong talent, did he still need to use such a clumsy method as the ‘exhaustive method’?

He only thought for 2 seconds before continuing with the previous training method.

Qing Chen was not blinded by joy. He was always clear about what he needed most.

Whether or not he had a gun feel, he had to make every step extremely solid.

500 meters.

501 meters.

502 meters.

...

600

Until the coin was pushed to 650 meters.

Qing Chen finally stopped.

He lifted his head from the desk, took out his phone and looked at the time, 11:50 in the morning, almost time for class to end.

Nangeng Chen curiously asked, “Brother Chen, you didn’t sleep well last night, did you? Why did you sleep all morning?”

“Hmm,” Qing Chen didn’t explain much.

Nangeng Chen continued, “The math teacher found you sleeping during class. He said he wants you to go see him after you wake up.”

When Nangeng Chen said this, he felt a little bitter. Is this the treatment of a top student? Even the teacher had to wait until Qing Chen woke up to call him to the office…

Qing Chen asked, “Did Teacher Tian say anything about why he wanted to see me?”

“It’s probably about the math competition,” Nangeng Chen said. “It seems that the domestic selection for the International Mathematics Invitational Tournament is about to begin, and our school is sending 5 people to participate in the selection tournament at public expense.”

Qing Chen was thoughtful.

He came to the office. At this time, Tian Hailong was telling this to the other four students.

The current homeroom teacher of Class 3, Grade 2, saw Qing Chen and his first reaction was, “Awake?”

The other four contestants for the math competition turned their heads to look at Qing Chen…

Awake? So Teacher Tian said to wait for Qing Chen just because Qing Chen was sleeping?

Slept for so long?

Unlike Qing Chen, the other four top students were all real, hard-earned students. They were not as monstrous as him, and they also listened carefully in class.

When they thought about Qing Chen’s grade ranking and then thought about the legend of Qing Chen working part-time, everyone knew that if this guy studied with all his might, it’s likely that the top spot would never belong to them.

Moreover, there was a legend in the grade: Although Qing Chen’s grade ranking fluctuated, the difference in his scores on each exam never exceeded 5 points.

If the questions were difficult, he would score 690; if the questions were easy, he would also score 690.

In a certain exam in Grade 1, Qing Chen got the top spot in the grade. As a result, the questions for that bottom-up exam were too difficult, and the second place only scored 645 points. He was 45 points ahead of the second place.

Therefore, there was always someone saying that Qing Chen was controlling his score.

This was a legend in Luoyang Foreign Language School. Everyone always joked about it. Sometimes when Qing Chen scored 691 and ranked third, someone would say: Qing Chen ranked third because he only wanted to score 690 points.

At their age, they would always be willing to believe in some absurd legends.

Qing Chen softly asked, “Teacher Tian, what competition is this?”

“Oh, it’s ac10,” Tian Hailong explained. “It’ll be held next week. The school will give you travel expenses and provide food and accommodation. This can enhance your application materials for studying abroad, although you’re not going abroad… But you’re free anyway.”

ac10 is the preliminary selection for the ai International Mathematics Competition. The top 25 will enter the next round of ai competition.

It’s an officially certified mathematical thinking thing, one of the qualification packages for science students before studying abroad.

It’s not that important. It’s a relatively basic thing, an additional point in your resume, but not a decisive factor.

But if someone from the school can enter the ai competition, it will definitely be good news for the school.

Tian Hailong knew Qing Chen’s family conditions, and he probably wouldn’t go abroad. Du Yihong, the previous homeroom teacher of Class 3, Grade 2, had also said that Qing Chen didn’t plan to go abroad.

Therefore, the other students were there to enhance their resumes, while Qing Chen was just “free anyway.”

It sounded like Tian Hailong thought that Qing Chen would definitely be able to enter the competition if he went.

The other four students, two boys and two girls, were the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 9th in the grade. They looked at Qing Chen with complicated emotions. Everyone felt that Qing Chen held a very special position in this school.

One of the long-haired girls stared at Qing Chen, her eyes containing something indescribable.

At this time, Tian Hailong said, “As long as you can enter the top 25 and get the qualification to go to the United States, the school will reward you with 10,000 yuan, and the school will also reimburse you for the travel expenses to the United States later.”

Qing Chen didn’t particularly care about this bonus. He asked, “Where is this competition held?”

“Xian City,” Tian Hailong said. “It’s in Xian City this time.”

Qing Chen replied, “Okay, I’ll go.”

Because the location of the second Trials of Life and Death he was about to challenge was in Xian City!

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