Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 260: The Path of Cultivation

Countdown 144:00:00

Midnight, 12 o'clock, in the darkness.

Li Tongyun, seeing that the chat was about to end, quickly and quietly slipped out of the bathroom and tiptoed towards the living room.

Now that her maternal grandmother and grandfather had arrived, in this small two-bedroom apartment, Xiao Tongyun's bedroom was reserved for her grandparents, and she had to sleep in the same bedroom with her mother.

This was very inconvenient.

Therefore, tonight, when Qing Chen told her in advance that she would open a group chat, Xiao Tongyun cleverly suggested that she sleep on the living room sofa.

Jiang Xue found it a little strange when she heard this suggestion in the evening, after all, the little girl usually slept with her mother, why did she suddenly change her mind today?

Li Tongyun's explanation was: she heard that her classmates had already been sleeping alone, and she couldn't be worse than other children.

When Jiang Xue heard this, she felt a wave of comfort, her daughter had finally grown up.

But she probably wouldn't have guessed that her daughter had grown 7 years older overnight...

And had become sisters with her...

Just as Li Tongyun had just lain down on the sofa, she suddenly found that the lights in the living room were turned on.

Jiang Xue stood at the door of her bedroom and said strangely, "Why did you go to the bathroom for so long?"

Li Tongyun quickly said in a wronged tone, "Mom, I feel a little uncomfortable in my stomach."

Jiang Xue was stunned: "I told you not to eat so much tonight, you must have indigestion."

Saying this, she brought some digestive tablets and gave them to Li Tongyun to take. The little girl said, "Grandma's cooking is so delicious."

"Wait," Jiang Xue asked, "Didn't you hide in the bathroom to play with your phone? Give me your phone."

Li Tongyun obediently handed over her phone: "I really didn't play with my phone."

Jiang Xue unlocked the little girl's password and searched for a long time but didn't find anything unusual, so she finally felt relieved: "Do you want to sleep with mom?"

"No," Li Tongyun said obediently, "Grandma and Grandpa are going back to Zheng City tomorrow, it's not a big deal."

"Well, then go to sleep early," Jiang Xue said as she tucked her in.

Li Tongyun breathed a sigh of relief as she watched Jiang Xue return to her room. Fortunately, her phone had two interfaces, otherwise she would have been seen by Jiang Xue.

Sure enough, it was necessary to be as cautious as Qing Chen, otherwise she would get beaten up.

Li Tongyun recalled the things she had done tonight, and estimated that if she got beaten, it definitely wouldn't be light.

However, she felt that although this kind of play was dangerous, it was very interesting.

Exciting.

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Meanwhile, Qing Chen went to Yang Yang's room to take a look, but Huan Yu, the Demon Stamp holder, had not sent any new letters.

He returned to his bedroom and began his unwavering sniper training.

In the mysterious world of Conquer with Virtue, when Qing Chen moved the target to 800 meters, the trajectory had already begun to show a slight parabola.

He had studied known practical cases on the internet, the most typical of which was a high-altitude battle called "Python Operation," in which a sniper used a sniper rifle equipped with a 16x optical sight to kill a terrorist at a distance of 2430 meters with three shots.

The first shot missed, the second shot hit the terrorist's backpack, and only the third shot finally succeeded.

At that time, the sniper was at a high altitude of 3000 meters, the air was thin, and the air resistance was relatively small.

However, even so, the parabola of the bullet fired reached a vertical height of 20 meters.

The calculation of this huge parabolic drop is one of the important factors that restricts most snipers from hitting targets beyond 1500 meters.

If you can see the trajectory of the sniper rifle bullet, it will be more like a shell, experiencing more than two seconds of long-range flight before finally falling to the ground in a parabola.

After leaving the mysterious world, Qing Chen asked Yi: "When the distance exceeds 2000 meters, is the effective lethality of Conquer with Virtue still enough to kill an A-class target?"

"Beyond 2000 meters shooting distance, it may not even be able to penetrate the hard bones of a B-class target, so you must aim for the eye sockets," Yi said, "Otherwise, why do you think the target is only a coin?"

Qing Chen was stunned. He had said earlier that no sniper's training was so harsh, they all used human-shaped targets.

200 meters, 400 meters shooting toothpicks, shooting coins is fine, but shooting coins at more than 2000 meters sounds like a myth.

It turned out that the target shooting training in the mysterious world was prepared for Metahumans, aiming for the eye sockets.

Qing Chen secretly pondered, could he really do it? Maybe he could, but he had to devote more time to training.

And this is still because he is taking advantage of Conquer with Virtue, because most sniper's optical sights allow for a tolerance of 0.28 milliradians, which means the aiming point deviates from the target by 42 centimeters at 1500 meters.

This is because it is difficult to guarantee zero error during production.

Therefore, snipers need to adjust the aiming point themselves during shooting to eliminate this 42-centimeter error.

But Conquer with Virtue doesn't need to, it is a Forbidden Artifact born under the rules, an absolutely perfect anti-materiel sniper rifle.

After the trajectory showed a parabola, Qing Chen's training progress slowed down significantly.

He spent a whole night just moving the target to a distance of 800 meters.

This is the standard for military use of 7.62 mm caliber sniper rifles. In other words, Qing Chen is now finally considered a qualified sniper, but not yet a god among snipers.

However, in urban use, unless in a specific sniper environment, 800 meters is enough.

"Temporarily enough," Qing Chen trained against the clock, just to give himself the ability to kill with one shot from a long distance.

Now, no matter what the situation, as long as it's within 800 meters, Huan Yu, even if he controls a B-class Time Traveler, must die.

Moreover, the other party may not be able to control a B-class expert.

Qing Chen estimated that the previous estimate that he could master an effective range of 2600 meters in 7 days was still an overestimation of himself and an underestimation of the difficulty.

It seems that it will take at least 12 days, and this is only calculating wind speed.

After he completely graduates from wind speed training, he will have to do additional training at different altitudes.

This is a long-term training plan.

Accumulate strength for a great leap forward.

At the end of the training, Yi suddenly said, "Are you going to train Hu Xiaoniu and the others? I suggest you buy Chen Family ASG Oral Medicine from the Inner World black market. The price is not as expensive as Gene Medicine. It mainly balances muscle gain and increases cardiopulmonary function. This stuff has a side effect of making you sweat profusely after taking it, but long-term clinical trials have shown no other side effects. In the Federation Group Army, soldiers with ambition who have not been selected as Gene Soldiers will secretly buy ASG to take, which can help ordinary people quickly reach the critical point of F-class, which is 2999."

Qing Chen thought carefully and said, "It's not time to take medicine yet. What Hu Xiaoniu and the others need most now is not physical fitness, but mental will."

Unwavering and indomitable will is what the Knight path needs most.

This will can only be cultivated in absolute adversity.

Yi thought for a while and said, "I agree with you. My mother, Yang Xiaojin, said a sentence: When disaster strikes, mental will is the human being's first-line weapon against danger."

Countdown 138:00:00

Hu Xiaoniu heard a knock on the door. He opened his eyes drowsily, looked at the time on his phone, 6 o'clock in the morning...

"Who is it?" Hu Xiaoniu got up to open the door, but saw Qing Chen standing at the door, looking energetic, and Nangeng Chen, looking listless, behind him.

"Uh, Qing Chen, what's going on?" Hu Xiaoniu was stunned.

"Don't you want me to teach you how to kill enemies? The course starts today. Give you and Zhang Tianzhen five minutes to change your clothes and come with me for a run," Qing Chen said calmly.

"Ah?" Hu Xiaoniu was shocked: "Running at 6 in the morning?"

"6 o'clock is not early. Many high schools in county towns start running at 5:40 in the morning," Qing Chen said: "Remember, I only give you 5 minutes, otherwise I will tell the Boss that you are not qualified."

Hu Xiaoniu immediately woke up, he quickly went back and grabbed Zhang Tianzhen, and the two of them frantically washed up, finally managing to finish in 5 minutes.

At this moment, Zhang Tianzhen was still a little unwilling, but Hu Xiaoniu had already completely adjusted his mood: "Qing Chen, let's start."

"Hmm," Qing Chen said, "Run 5 kilometers first, this is just the warm-up process, the training volume will increase in the future."

After running five kilometers, Nangeng Chen, Hu Xiaoniu, and Zhang Tianzhen were all sweating profusely.

In this winter, each of them was steaming with heat on their heads, collapsed at the front door.

Because of the cold weather, they only felt the cold air would freeze their trachea and lungs when they breathed.

Every time they breathed, their bodies ached stiffly.

After the run, Qing Chen didn't say a word and prepared to go home.

Hu Xiaoniu originally wanted to ask when he could learn the skills of killing enemies, but he suddenly remembered what his father, Hu Dacheng, had said: If the other party doesn't give you false hopes and makes your path extremely difficult, then this is not torture, but a test.

Thinking of this, Hu Xiaoniu immediately extinguished the thought of asking, and even aroused a trace of fighting spirit.

It's just training, it's just torture, he can bear it.

Hu Xiaoniu looked at Qing Chen's back: "Qing Chen."

"Hmm?" Qing Chen had already opened the door in the corridor.

Hu Xiaoniu said sincerely, "Please tell the Boss, I will definitely follow this path."

Qing Chen said, "I will tell him."

Nangeng Chen pondered after hearing this.

The third day of returning, 6 a.m.

This time, Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen came downstairs without waiting for Qing Chen to call them up, and took the initiative to knock on Qing Chen's door.

Qing Chen opened the door curiously: "After strenuous exercise, lactic acid begins to accumulate in the muscles. Aren't your legs sore?"

"They hurt," Hu Xiaoniu nodded, "But bearable."

Zhang Tianzhen's fighting spirit seemed to be ignited by Hu Xiaoniu as well: "Yes, bearable!"

At one point, Qing Chen even saw his own shadow in Hu Xiaoniu.

When he was in Prison 18, he seemed to have impressed Li Shutong in the same way.

Qing Chen smiled: "Then let's begin."

It must be said that the physical fitness of high school students is generally quite good, not as fragile as middle-aged men.

Although they were tired, they could recover well after a night's sleep.

Although they ran very hard, they could barely keep up with Qing Chen's pace.

During the run, Qing Chen ran in front, setting the pace, and the three behind him had to keep up.

Today, while running, Qing Chen said, "Try to keep your pace consistent."

Slowly, everyone's steps fell into the same frequency.

Difficult and yet determined.

Only then did the four members of Daybreak finally have a slightly organized look.

Qing Chen didn't intend to teach them how to kill enemies now, he wanted to use training to build the team's sense of belonging and teamwork, so that Daybreak could be called an organization, not a gang.

Next, not only would Hu Xiaoniu and others need to run, Qing Chen believed that Jiang Xue, Liu Dezhu and others must also join in.

This is a necessary process for an organization to be tempered.

Moreover, this is also a process of screening "Knights," it must be extremely arduous.

After this running exercise, Hu Xiaoniu, Zhang Tianzhen, and Nangeng Chen were still panting.

Qing Chen calmly asked, "Don't you want to ask me when you can start formally learning how to kill enemies, instead of just running stupidly like now?"

Hu Xiaoniu panted for a while and managed to smile: "No need to ask, we are patient enough to wait for that day."

Qing Chen: "Good."

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Deep in the Lijinmen area of Luo City, Little Eagle and other Kunlun Members on duty were cleaning.

They held large bamboo brooms, looking like ascetic monks in a temple.

Someone pushed open the door to the courtyard, and Little Eagle looked up, and it was Boss Zheng Yuandong returning.

His expression was calm, and his body was covered with the morning mist and dew.

Little Eagle ran back to the courtyard to get towels and hot water: "Boss, why did this trip take so long?"

"I tracked down Koshima's trail with the intelligence team's colleagues, and the Time Travelers they controlled secretly entered the country from Changbai Mountain, and we chased them all the way," Zheng Yuandong wiped his Face^[-] with a hot towel: "Many of the Koshima Time Travelers leading this operation are from outside Yanbian border regions. Such lawless places breed villains, and we absolutely cannot allow them to run around in the country."

"Then did Boss capture them all?" Little Eagle asked curiously. In his opinion, since Boss and the intelligence team's colleagues personally took action, there would definitely be no mistakes.

Zheng Yuandong said: "Not yet, after they came in, they switched to various long-distance buses, directly heading to the inland areas, and only stopped in Xian City yesterday. I didn't catch them because I wanted to use a long line to catch a big fish. Their goal is too clear, and they went to Xian City very quietly, which I find suspicious."

Zheng Yuandong continued: "This shows at least two points. First, someone inside the country is guiding them, and even planning the route for them. If it weren't for the competence of our intelligence team's colleagues, they might have really escaped. The existence of such an insider in Koshima with anti-reconnaissance capabilities within the country must be found."

"Second, they went straight to Xian City, they must have found a target. I want to see what they are going to do," Zheng Yuandong explained, "Is there any food at home? Give me some."

Kunlun members are all hardworking, and even Zheng Yuandong is no exception.

He never sat behind the scenes strategizing like He Jinqiu, but personally handled most of the things. Wherever the mission is dangerous, he will be there.

This is also the reason why Kunlun's manpower has always been insufficient, but Zheng Yuandong still insists on the principle of "better to lack than to be excessive." Absolutely no one with impure intentions can be allowed to join Kunlun's ranks.

At this time, Little Eagle excitedly said: "Boss, the criminals who came this time are from outside the country! Once we catch them, can we slap Nine Provinces in the Face^[-]? Let them be so arrogant every day!"

Zheng Yuandong glanced at him and said solemnly: "Is national security something to be compared with this? Nine Provinces and Kunlun have their respective organizations; do the people who are hurt have different organizations? Don't say such things again in the future."

"I'm sorry, I was wrong," Little Eagle immediately lowered his head, "By the way, Boss, I have something to report to you. I ran into Qing Chen in the Inner World!"

Zheng Yuandong was a little surprised: "Lu Yuan also said he saw him, at the Haitang Boxing Gym in District 4."

"Huh?" Little Eagle was somewhat surprised: "I saw him next to Li Changqing. It seems that he is being kept by that strong woman."

"Tell me in detail," Zheng Yuandong frowned.

He always felt something strange. Qing Chen's identity changed too fast. He suddenly became a tiger-level boxing champion, and then inexplicably was kept by a big shot of the Li Clan.

This boy is so restless...

Little Eagle said: "It's like this. You know about Li Changqing's attack, right? On the afternoon of the day she was attacked, I had just finished my vacation and returned to Ban Shan Mountain Estate, and then I was notified to go on a mission. It was originally said that we were going to watch Eternal Society being besieged, but we were attacked by Koshima forces as soon as we entered District 4."

"Next, our convoy was blocked on the street, and that kid escorted Li Changqing into the building to carry out a beheading operation, and almost killed all the Koshima killers in a building."

"He's just a Gene Soldiers, how did he kill them?" Zheng Yuandong asked.

"It is said that his firearms skills are very superb. I heard from Old Six...now called Old Nine...by Li Changqing's side. He said that Qing Chen could identify every type of firearm and caliber of bullet in the Inner World just by listening to the gunshots," Little Eagle said, "Boss, are there really such people in the world?"

"There are, but I have only seen one in the army before," Zheng Yuandong said calmly.

"Who? Have I met him?" Little Eagle curiously asked.

"You have, He Jinqiu," Zheng Yuandong said, "Although I don't know where Qing Chen learned his firearms skills, it seems that I have to go and find him personally."

"By the way, Boss, I plan to infiltrate their organization, do you agree?" Little Eagle asked, "I have to tell you first, otherwise you'll think I've defected."

"I agree," Zheng Yuandong glanced at him, "As long as you can really join. But I'm curious, what's your purpose of joining?"

"Of course it's to investigate intelligence. As a member of Kunlun, how can I ignore the emergence of a Time Traveler organization under my nose?" Little Eagle said righteously, "I, have an inescapable responsibility!"

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