Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 271: Zhang Chengze in a Difficult Situation

“Xiaoniu, are you and Zhang Tianzhen ready?” Qing Chen asked before leaving, “I mean, about joining the Eternal Society. Remember, once you join, there’s no turning back. If you ever want to quit, Daybreak won’t tolerate those who give up or compromise within the organization.”

Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen looked at each other. “Boss, we’re ready.”

“Alright, report to Eternal Society tomorrow. I’ve already contacted them. Start from the basics,” Qing Chen said. “As for how far you can go, it’s all up to you.”

Qing Chen left in the Face^[-] of wind and snow. To do business with Zhang Chengze, he first had to find Zhang Chengze.

However, he didn’t go directly to District 4, but returned to his home in Luoshen Building.

He plugged the U-disk he brought back from the Outer World into the interface in his room and waited for the data to upload.

A few seconds later, Yi exclaimed, “Wow, Outer World is so fun!”

Qing Chen: “…You’re just seeking novelty. Once you’re bored, you’ll find it not fun anymore.”

“Not at all,” Yi said, “Over the long years, I’ve learned how to entertain myself.”

The reason Qing Chen returned first was to bring back and upload the data stream from “Surface World One,” so that “Inner World Yi” could know what happened in the Outer World.

He asked, “I need to find Zhang Chengze now. Can you help me find him?”

Yi thought for a moment and said, “I can, but can you go see someone for me in the Outer World…”

Qing Chen raised his eyebrows. “I knew you’d cause trouble. No way!”

“Oh, then for finding Zhang Chengze, I can change the condition. Pay me 100,000 yuan in the Outer World as a reward. I’m a bit short of cash over there…”

Qing Chen’s eyes widened. “Why don’t you go rob a bank!”

…

Zhang Chengze curiously looked at this new world.

A place called the Inner World by the Time Travelers.

He looked around. He was in a dimly lit small room, crowded with more than ten people, sleeping haphazardly on the floor.

This left Zhang Chengze momentarily confused: What exactly was his situation?

Before coming to the Inner World, he had done a lot of homework, the most important of which were three points.

First, the people in the Inner World have a natural hatred for Time Travelers, and very few organizations can tolerate the existence of Time Travelers.

Therefore, after arriving in the Inner World, he must never reveal his Time Traveler identity.

Second, in the Inner World, don’t provoke the Conglomerate. Under unclear circumstances, keep a distance from the Conglomerate.

Third, beware of organ harvesters. Going out at night in the Inner World’s lower three districts is easy to encounter criminals who steal Cybernetic Limbs and rob organs. If you are unfortunately targeted by them, it will be very bad.

At this moment, what Zhang Chengze cared most about was the first point. He had to integrate into this place first and then wait for the Time Traveler he hired to rescue him.

By then, everything would be alright.

Zhang Chengze had the shrewdness of a businessman in his bones. Unlike Hu Dacheng, a Confucian businessman, he had struggled from scratch since the 1990s and was never short of the ability to seize opportunities and endure hardship.

The great businessmen who rose from that era all had the demeanor of a powerful leader, and they had basically all walked in the gray areas, and had seen all kinds of people.

Zhang Chengze silently lay on the floor mat, quietly observing the people around him: tattoos, Cybernetic Limbs, disheveled hair.

The whole room was as cold as an icehouse, yet even in this season, the room was filled with the smell of sweat and foot odor.

The tattoos on these people’s backs were very similar, a green-faced, fang-toothed ghost.

Those ghosts were very similar, Zhang Chengze carefully looked and found that these tattoos should have been tattooed according to a model. It was purely because the tattoo artist’s skill was not good, so each tattoo was different…

Then he looked at the Cybernetic Limbs and found that some people’s Cybernetic Limbs were rusty, looking as shabby as they could be.

Zhang Chengze silently looked at himself. Fortunately, he didn’t have any Cybernetic Limbs.

He touched his pockets, then touched around him, and something astonishing happened. He had no phone on him or around him!

Before traveling to the Inner World, he had agreed with the Time Traveler he hired that they would contact each other using their phones after they crossed over.

Zhang Chengze managed to memorize the other party’s phone number, but he had no phone!

Damn it!

At this time, someone nearby sighed, “When will this hiding life end?”

Zhang Chengze perked up. These words revealed extremely important information.

It helped him understand his situation.

The people lying on the ground didn’t seem to be asleep. They were just forced to hide here, and there was nothing to entertain themselves with, so they could only lie on the floor mats and play dead.

Someone answered, “It’s all because the Boss was blinded by greed. He insisted on teaming up with other gangs to encircle and suppress Eternal Society. Now, look what happened. The Boss is dead, and we are hiding from the Eternal Society’s pursuit.”

Someone sneered, “It’s only because the Boss is gone that you dare to say that. When you were planning to encircle and suppress Eternal Society, weren’t you the most enthusiastic? You were always eyeing the girls in Eternal Society’s territory!”

Zhang Chengze listened to these words, suddenly feeling something was wrong. This information was different from what those Time Travelers had said.

Didn’t they say that Eternal Society had been encircled and suppressed by major gangs? Why now it seems like Eternal Society had crushed all the other gangs…

Moreover, his current identity was actually being hunted by people from Eternal Society!

This is wrong!

Is Eternal Society that powerful?

Even Zhang Chengze, who had seen the ups and downs of life, was a little stunned.

In the room, more than ten people were chattering and complaining to each other.

The more Zhang Chengze listened, the more wrong it seemed.

At this time, the gang member who spoke first said angrily, “Eternal Society is too much. Do they really think they can control everything?”

Someone chuckled, “Yes, in the underworld of City 18, Eternal Society does control everything. Can all the other gangs combined even fight them?”

“Didn’t the four branches of the Qing Family promise the Boss that they would use the Federation’s army when everyone encircled and suppressed Eternal Society? Why didn’t we see any sign of the Federation’s army in the end?”

“They were used as pawns,” someone said, “It’s said that after Li Shutong died, all the Conglomerates wanted to eliminate Eternal Society, but I heard from people in the black market that Li Shutong might not be dead.”

“Bullshit, that’s a space-based weapon. Falling from 800 kilometers high, how could it not kill Li Shutong?”

“It’s as if you understand space-based weapons very well. This is not what I said. A physics professor from Qing He University said that it’s basically impossible for that thing to kill a Demi-God.”

“Professors from Qing He University shouldn’t talk nonsense. No wonder the four branches of the Qing Family retreated in the end. It seems they were worried that Li Shutong was really still alive…”

Zhang Chengze was speechless when he heard this.

The situation described by those Time Travelers was completely opposite to what he knew…

He couldn’t help but complain in his heart, it’s one thing if the information you have is biased, but it’s a bit outrageous if it’s completely opposite.

Until then, he remembered Liu Dezhu’s background.

If he hadn’t changed partners back then, wouldn’t he have to worry now?

Zhang Chengze slowly closed his eyes, trying to recall Liu Dezhu’s phone number. He had written down both phone numbers just in case.

After a few minutes, when he was sure he had accurately recalled Liu Dezhu’s number, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Now he just needed to find a phone.

But Zhang Chengze looked around and didn’t see a single phone. Did people in the Inner World not use phones?

This was unusual, as if everyone’s phones had been confiscated.

At this moment, the cramped door was opened from the outside. Four heavily armed strong men walked in with cold expressions, scanning the room coldly, as if they were scanning pigs.

Everyone in the room looked at each other. Someone got up in a panic and asked, “Who are you? Where’s Su Xingzhi!”

Outside, a thin old man with a drooping mustache paced into the room with his hands behind his back, smiling. “Su Xingzhi has sold you to me. From today onwards, you are all my private property.”

“Chang Ping?! How dare Su Xingzhi do this!” Someone recognized the thin old man at a glance and glared at him, “Didn’t he claim to be very trustworthy?!”

“Do black market merchants have credibility?” The thin old man, Chang Ping, laughed, “Oh yes… Su Xingzhi is indeed an exception. He is very trustworthy. But did you pay him the protection fee you promised? So many people occupy this safe house, but they are unwilling to give him money. He still risks being hunted by Eternal Society. How can he not sell you, how can he recoup his investment?”

Someone muttered, “So Su Xingzhi took our phones, saying it was to prevent us from contacting the outside world and revealing our whereabouts. It turns out he had already planned to sell us!”

Zhang Chengze was now filled with regret. He didn’t know who Chang Ping was, but judging from the reactions of others, he clearly wasn’t a good person.

Chang Ping stooped, stroked his small mustache and smiled, “Quickly collect their blood samples for typing. There may be buyers waiting to prolong their lives. Make sure to sell them all before Eternal Society finds them, otherwise, we will lose money on this deal.”

Chang Ping’s eyes, as he looked at them, were like he was appreciating commodities.

The unpleasant smell of sweat and feet in the room couldn’t suppress his excitement.

When Zhang Chengze heard this, he had already reacted: This is about the trading of their organs!

He didn’t know that Chang Ping was the biggest organ and bionic organ trader in City 18’s black market, making the most unscrupulous money.

Zhang Chengze felt a wave of despair. At this moment, he only hoped that he could survive for 168 hours, so that he would have a chance to ask Hu Xiaoniu, Liu Dezhu, and Zhang Tianzhen for help!

However, Zhang Chengze was thinking of a problem, organ transplantation is a very complicated matter. If it doesn’t match, it is easy to have rejection reactions leading to organ necrosis.

Therefore, his organs might not be able to find a matching buyer for the time being, maybe he could really survive this week!

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