Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 273: Stop Tricking Us

Before this crossing, Gu Huozai and the others were completely immersed in the dream of making a fortune.

Boss Zhang Chengze was so gentle and reasonable, so understanding.

How come after arriving in the Inner World, the Boss is a completely different person?

They never imagined that only four hours after their crossing, Gu Huozai's bodyguard team had already suffered heavy losses.

Their dreams were shattered.

The four of them were thrown out one by one by the security guards of Haitang Boxing Gym. Fortunately, there was thick snow outside, otherwise, just that fall alone would have made their already fragile bodies even worse.

"Weren't we tricked by that old Zhang Chengze?" Gu Huozai lay weakly in the snow, the blood flowing from his nostrils staining the snow, looking particularly vivid.

"But the problem is, why would he bother to trick us?" another person asked in confusion.

"Insane!" Gu Huozai said with grief and indignation.

At this moment, in a certain slum area of District 8.

The real Zhang Chengze was huddled in the corner of a narrow room, suffering from hunger and cold.

It was the end of December, and the climate was so cold that it could cut into the skin, yet the room had no warmth.

Originally there were more than ten people in the room, but after only three hours, only eight remained.

The organ matching work was faster than Zhang Chengze had imagined.

He used to see in literary works how patients waited for matching, and if they couldn't get it, they would die.

However, that was because the country controlled organ trafficking, and couldn't find sellers...buyers were never lacking!

So, as soon as they tested the blood samples and DNA sequences, buyers from across the Federation started bidding.

Zhang Chengze was a little desperate. If no one saved him, he was afraid he wouldn't see the dawn.

At this time, another guard came in, dragging a member of the Evil Ghost Society out: "Found a buyer, let's share this one first."

The member of the Evil Ghost Society being dragged away wailed, but it was useless.

These guards were fully armed, and each of them was a Gene Soldier who had been injected with Gene Medicine. They were Chang Ping's most capable thugs.

"I want to go to the toilet," Zhang Chengze said to a sturdy guard, "I can't hold it anymore."

The guard looked at him coldly: "Even if you can't hold it, you have to hold it."

Zhang Chengze secretly opened his palm and said: "I really can't hold it anymore. It's already smelly here. You wouldn't want to guard us in a place that smells of shit, would you...?"

The guard pondered: "Get up, don't try to play tricks."

Saying so, the guard, holding a gun in one hand and Zhang Chengze's collar in the other, walked towards the toilet outside.

Zhang Chengze secretly slipped the Gold bar into the guard's pocket and whispered: "I just want to make two calls. As long as you let me use my phone, I absolutely won't tell the other guards that I gave you the Gold bar. Then, no matter whether I live or die, the Gold bar will be all yours!"

Like other rich people, since Zhang Chengze knew that the Inner World was also a gold-standard world, he naturally carried Gold bars with him, 200 grams of it, just enough to fit in his mouth.

As soon as he crossed over, he kept it in his mouth without speaking, only taking it out secretly when no one was paying attention.

Now, the Gold bar had become a life-saving item.

Zhang Chengze didn't beg the guard to let him go, because he knew it was impossible.

He didn't make any other excessive demands, only asking to make two phone calls.

The guard looked at him calmly: "Do you think anyone can save you now? If someone could save you, you wouldn't be hiding here being hunted down by the Eternal Society."

"I just want to try," How could a figure like Zhang Chengze give up until the last moment?

The guard was silent for a moment, and said coldly: "Don't even think about calling the Security Committee. I can guarantee that by the time they come to save you, you'll definitely have become goods, packed separately in different refrigerators and shipped to different cities in the Federation."

"Don't worry!" Zhang Chengze immediately assured him when he saw that the other party had relented.

The guard took out his phone: "Remember, you only have two chances."

Li Chengze was very cold. With trembling hands, he pressed the number Liu Dezhu had given him.

He believed in what he had personally experienced and seen, so he had a general judgment: In City 18, the Eternal Society had already controlled the entire underworld, so finding Liu Dezhu's people was the most reliable option.

However, after dialing the 12-digit number, a woman answered. Zhang Chengze asked: "Excuse me, is this Liu Dezhu's phone?"

The other party replied: "Are you crazy? You've dialed the wrong number in the middle of the night!"

Zhang Chengze was stunned. He had remembered the wrong number!

If he were still young, his memory wouldn't have made such a mistake, but he was old, and he had just been greatly frightened!

Moreover, he had memorized Gu Huozai's number first, and then, to be safe, he memorized Liu Dezhu's.

This led to some haste.

Zhang Chengze got a little confused. Was the last digit a 1, a 7, or a 9?

There was one more chance. Zhang Chengze changed the last digit to 7, but when he was about to dial, he hesitated, because between 7 and 9, it was a matter of probability. If he got it wrong, he would miss his chance.

It was a 50/50 chance, a matter of life and death.

Zhang Chengze suddenly thought of a problem. He definitely wouldn't have made a mistake with Gu Huozai's number. Why not just call Gu Huozai, give him Liu Dezhu's number, and let him try it?

Whether the last digit was 7 or 9, Gu Huozai could try it out within a minute!

Thinking of this, Zhang Chengze excitedly dialed the number: "Hello, Gu Huozai? It's me, Zhang Chengze, your Boss. I have something to tell you..."

In the snow, Gu Huozai said with grief and indignation: "Boss, we know we were wrong. Stop tricking us!"

After saying that, Gu Huozai hung up the phone.

Zhang Chengze looked at the guard with a dumbfounded expression: "Can this not count...?"

The moment Gu Huozai hung up the phone, he wanted to kill someone.

The key is, why did Gu Huozai say that he was tricking them? Wasn't it just that he didn't go to find them immediately? Was that considered tricking them?

Zhang Chengze couldn't figure out what happened!

The guard sneered: "I told you, no one will save you."

After speaking, he grabbed him by the collar and dragged him back.

"Wait, I really need to go to the toilet. I can't hold it anymore," Zhang Chengze suddenly remembered that he had indeed been holding his urine for more than two hours.

However, this time the guard wouldn't listen to him anymore.

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At this moment, the very idle Qing Chen had changed back to his own Face^[-] and gently knocked on the door of Room 001.

Jiang Xiaotang's calm voice came from inside: "Come in."

Qing Chen went in and smiled: "Was the match tonight exciting?"

Jiang Xiaotang only then heard his voice and turned her head in surprise: "When did you come? Why didn't you tell your sister in advance?"

Saying so, she stood up, ran to Qing Chen, and caressed his cheek with her slender fingers: "My brother's complexion is not good. Are you injured?"

The woman was wearing a red silk dress, barefoot.

She wasn't very tall, so without high heels, she had to tiptoe to caress Qing Chen's cheek.

For some reason, Qing Chen didn't resist this sister touching his cheek. The lack of any impure thoughts in her eyes made him unwilling to refuse.

Qing Chen smiled and said: "The injury on my ribs hadn't healed yet, and I suffered another minor injury. I came here to find my sister for a quick-acting medicine."

He would be returning to Xian City next week to complete the second Trials of Life and Death, so he had to stabilize his injuries.

Jiang Xiaotang's eyebrows were almost knitted together: "I'll have someone send the medicine right away. Which bastard hurt you? Sister will go and chop him up."

"No, no," Qing Chen smiled: "The other party is already dead... By the way, sister, there's something else I want to ask. Do you know Su Xingzhi?

"Su Xingzhi?" Jiang Xiaotang was stunned: "You're looking for him? He has a rule. He doesn't do any business after 2 a.m. If you look for him now, he won't see you."

"Why?" Qing Chen asked curiously.

"Because he thinks that after 2 a.m., people's decisions are not rational, so business should be done when they are most awake," Jiang Xiaotang explained: "This person is quite strange. What do you want him for?"

Qing Chen replied: "I have something to ask him. I want to ask him to buy some information."

Jiang Xiaotang thought for a moment and said: "This person is in District 4. His business is huge, and he has many bodyguards around him. The black market says that his credit is good, but I know that although this person usually smiles, he's thick-skinned and black-hearted, and he has secretly harmed many people."

Qing Chen was silent.

It seems that Jiang Xiaotang didn't know the relationship between Su Xingzhi and Li Shutong, otherwise she wouldn't have said that.

However, would Li Shutong arrange the Qin family to a rumored villain?

Qing Chen had one principle.

No matter what anyone in this world told him, he would take what Li Shutong told him as the standard.

Because if the master had even a slight intention to harm him, he wouldn't have survived until now, nor would he have become a Knight.

He knew Li Shutong's devotion to the Knight's legacy. The other party wouldn't joke about this.

Su Xingzhi was hiding too deeply, so much so that even Jiang Xiaotang didn't know the relationship between him and Li Shutong.

Qing Chen said: "Sister, tell me where Su Xingzhi is. I need to go find him and buy some information."

"Decided?" Jiang Xiaotang thought for a moment and said: "He's not far away. Take one of my business cards. Maybe he'll see you. But don't get your hopes up, because as far as I remember, besides Li Dongze, no one has ever made him break the rules... Li Dongze also broke in and dragged him out."

Qing Chen was stunned: "How come Li Dongze also has such a past with Su Xingzhi?"

The people under Knight, one is more eccentric than the other...

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