Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 281: Dragon Fish and Dragon Lake

“Instructor, perhaps I’ll ask you questions later,” Li Ke said, looking at geography Instructor Luan Fengfeng.

He felt the atmosphere in the office was a little off, so he decided not to join in the fun.

The geography Instructor looked at Li Ke kindly and said, “Mm, go back to the Common Room first.”

Li Ke turned and left, but he remained cautious and didn’t leave immediately.

He saw the 14-year-old boy hiding under the window outside, squatting and eavesdropping.

Inside, the four Instructors sitting in the corner stood up and stretched after Li Ke left.

The geography Instructor was puzzled: “What’s wrong with you all? Why were you all sitting there…and why was the new combat Instructor Qing Chen sitting in Lao Zhou’s seat?”

Lao Zhou, Zhou Xingwen, the math Instructor.

At this moment, Zhou Xingwen stood up and said: “Didn’t we agree yesterday to give him a Show of Power? So after he came, we didn’t prepare a desk for him, wanting to see his reaction. But I don’t know where Li Changqing found this monster. After only a few tens of minutes of quiet, after finishing all the textbooks in the Li Clan academy, he started attacking us.”

Zhou Xingwen continued: “We first took out our high school’s most challenging exam questions, and he kept his score at 145 each time. Then he gave us questions in return, and Lao Liu and I couldn’t solve a single one.”

Lao Liu, Liu Junkui, the physics Instructor.

Geography Instructor Luan Fengfeng was stunned. He took the question, one of the most difficult problems in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, from Zhou Xingwen’s hand, and after looking at it for a long time, he didn’t even understand the question.

Although they taught different subjects, they were all highly educated professionals who had received Master’s degrees in Education from Qing He University. Solving a high school math problem should have been easy for them.

But now, they couldn’t even understand the question.

Li Ke, squatting outside the window, was filled with shock, like an undercurrent surging beneath the sea.

To be honest, he really didn’t expect Qing Chen to cause so much trouble in one day.

First, he subdued the servants, and then he took over the Instructors’ office, causing the Instructors to have no desks to sit at.

Awesome!

Young Li Ke finally saw what true awesomeness was!

No wonder when he entered the office just now, he felt Qing Chen’s aura suppressing the entire Instructor’s office!

Thinking of this, Li Ke secretly slipped back to the Common Room. Such joyous news couldn’t be kept from his brothers and sisters!

At this time, Qing Chen was walking on the path leaving Bieyuan Courtyard.

Ban Shan Mountain Estate was lush and green, and walking inside was like being in a forest maze.

Simply put, Qing Chen was lost.

With his memory, he rarely got lost in his life.

However, he was sent here from the back mountain by Li Changqing in a Flying Car, so he hadn’t walked the road to the Bieyuan Courtyard entrance at all.

Qing Chen used the sun’s position to determine the directions and walked towards the general direction of Flying Cloud Courtyard.

However, after walking for an hour, he hadn’t even seen the shadow of Flying Cloud Courtyard.

Along the way, Qing Chen encountered the hidden posts in Ban Shan Mountain Estate more than ten times. Fortunately, Li Changqing had given him the electronic access card in advance, otherwise he might have been buried under some garden by now.

When he turned from a small path, the scene suddenly opened up before him, with sparkling water, a wide lake.

Unexpectedly, this Ban Shan Mountain Estate even hid such a large artificial lake.

Looking around, he could see groups of fish swimming in the water.

A wooden bridge extended from the lakeside into the lake, and an old man, wearing a thick fur coat, was sitting quietly on a small stool fishing.

No one was by the lake, and the lake was like a mirror.

This was a very artistic scene: a solitary boatman in a straw raincoat, fishing alone in the cold River Snow.

It would have been more artistic if the old man hadn’t been holding high-tech equipment.

Qing Chen clearly saw that the old man was holding an LCD screen, which showed the underwater situation and even whether fish were biting the bait.

However, what made Qing Chen curious was that in the wilderness waters, fish had become extremely ferocious.

But the fish in this lake seemed normal.

There must be something special about it.

He turned to leave; an old man suddenly appearing to fish alone in such a place must be an extraordinary figure in the Li Clan.

However, Qing Chen had just turned around when the old man said, “Come quickly, help me pull up the fish! Hurry!”

Qing Chen was stunned. Looking back, he saw that the old man’s fishing rod had been bitten by a fish, and the old man, frail, couldn’t even hold the fishing rod.

The old man looked back at him: “I’m talking to you, what are you doing standing there?”

“Oh,” Qing Chen walked to the old man’s side, grabbed the fishing line, and with a strong pull, pulled the struggling fish out of the water.

“Youth is still the best, you have strong hands,” the old man sat motionless on the nearby stool, smiling and asking: “Whose child are you? I haven’t seen you before.”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “I’m a new Instructor invited to Bieyuan Courtyard by Li Changqing, not a member of the Li Family.”

“Oh?” The old man was stunned: “I thought so. The old Li Family doesn’t have such good genes to produce a handsome lad like you.”

Qing Chen was also stunned. From the other party’s tone, he wasn’t sure if the other party was from the Li Clan: “Aren’t you from the Li Clan? Why would you say that about the Li Clan?”

The old man chuckled: “I’ve sold my life to the Li Clan for a lifetime, so what’s wrong with saying a few words about the old Li Family?”

Qing Chen frowned. He glanced at a distant eave and the Forbidden Artifact ACE-020 Heartless Copper Bell hanging under the eave with a red rope.

“What? Afraid that my words about the Li Clan will make that copper bell ring?” The old man laughed: “That thing is fake!”

“Ah?” Qing Chen was confused: “There are so many copper bells in Ban Shan Mountain Estate, are they all fake? That’s impossible!”

“Why is it impossible?” The old man shook his head: “Things in this world are real and fake, true and false. Even brotherhood can be fake, let alone a Forbidden Artifact?”

“I don’t believe it,” Qing Chen shook his head.

“Hey, you don’t even believe me,” the old man glared: “Let me tell you, there’s only one pair of real Heartless Copper Bells, so only the two on the east side of the Baopu Building are real. After the Li Clan received the Heartless Copper Bells from the Knights, the Li Clan head thought it was too few, saying that his Ban Shan Mountain Estate was so large, two Heartless Copper Bells were not enough! He argued with the Knight.”

Qing Chen was confused. What kind of weird idea was this Li Clan head having, someone sent him a Forbidden Artifact and he still thought it was too few…

Oh, he put himself in the other person’s shoes and thought that no one would ever refuse more Forbidden Artifacts.

The old man continued: “The Knight said, those Heartless Copper Bells are only two, whether you want them or not. However, the Knight couldn’t stand the Li Clan head’s persistence, so he came up with an idea: No one knows exactly how many Heartless Copper Bells there are, so you can make a few hundred more, and we Knights will also tell the outside world that there are a few hundred, so at least it can protect against villains.”

Qing Chen was speechless; this really seemed like something the Knights would do.

He had been worried when he was walking in Ban Shan Mountain Estate that he would accidentally do something and cause all the Heartless Copper Bells in the entire estate to ring.

As a result, they were all fake!

But when the old man told these secrets, it was as if he had been present when the Li Clan received the Heartless Copper Bells. So who was this old man?

“Who are you? Why do you know these secrets? And why are you telling me this confidential information?” Qing Chen calmly asked as he removed the large, plump fish from the hook: “Is there some kind of plot?”

The old man raised his eyebrows: “I’m an honest old man who fishes, what kind of bad intentions could I have?”

“Alright,” Qing Chen said indifferently: “I’ve caught the fish for you, I’m leaving now. I’ll pretend I haven’t heard anything you’ve said.”

“Hey, you finish listening to the story and then want to leave?” The old man laughed: “Don’t you want to know why the Knights gave the Li Clan head the Heartless Copper Bells?”

Qing Chen thought for a moment: “Because the current Knight leader, Li Shutong, is from the Li Family? This isn’t a big secret; I know this even without you telling me.”

“Nonsense,” the old man said: “When Li Shutong became a Knight, the Heartless Copper Bell had already been hanging here for more than twenty years!”

“Oh?” Qing Chen became interested.

“The Li Clan has a long-standing friendship with the Knights because the ancestor of the Li Clan, also a Knight, was named Li Yingyun,” the old man saw that Qing Chen didn’t know this secret and immediately became interested in gossip.

Li Yingyun, this was the name Qing Chen saw on Qingshan Cliff.

He seemed to be sharing gossip with Qing Chen: “You don’t know this, do you? Li Yingyun himself didn’t have a talent for business, but his son was a business prodigy. At that time, the Northwest had not been blocked by the Forbidden Zone, and this Li Clan prodigy gradually expanded the Li Clan’s business by traveling through the Northwest and Central Plains. Therefore, the Li Clan and the Knights have a connection.”

Qing Chen suddenly felt that the old man had told him so much, it seemed that he was only getting to the point now: The other party intentionally or unintentionally kept telling him that the Li Clan and the Knights had a good relationship.

This made Qing Chen wary. Could the other party know his identity?!

But who was this old man?

“I’m leaving, you continue fishing,” Qing Chen turned to leave.

But the old man grabbed his arm: “This Dragon Fish is a gift for you, steam it tonight, it’s delicious.”

Qing Chen was surprised: “You caught it yourself, why don’t you eat it yourself?”

“The happiest moment of fishing is when the fish bites the hook, not the process of eating the fish. Take it,” the old man chuckled: “By the way, if you want to hear more gossip, come here to find me in the afternoon. I know a lot of secrets, enough for young people to benefit from for a lifetime.”

Qing Chen looked at the other party’s display screen and thought, what fun is there in this high-tech fishing.

He hesitated for a moment, but finally took the Dragon Fish from the other party: “Thank you, see you again if we’re destined.”

On the way back, he kept thinking about the other party’s identity.

There were two clues: First, the old man knew many secrets of the Li Clan, even about the Heartless Copper Bells.

Second, the old man didn’t show much respect when he mentioned the Li Clan.

Initially, Qing Chen thought the other party was the head of the Li Clan, but then he thought, wasn’t the Li Clan head already critically ill many times? It shouldn’t be.

Then, the other party could be the brother or younger brother of the Li Clan head? He failed in the struggle for the position of head and was then confined to Ban Shan Mountain Estate.

Then, because he harbored resentment towards the Li Clan, he told an outsider these important secrets, perhaps hoping to use his mouth to break the rumors of the Heartless Copper Bells, so that the outside world wouldn’t be so wary of this Forbidden Artifact?

He couldn’t figure it out.

However, he had only walked two kilometers when he was stopped.

The hidden post who stopped him walked out of the woods and said into his communication earpiece: “Team leader, an unidentified person was found stealing Dragon Fish, request support.”

Qing Chen: “???

He looked back towards the lake and thought, this is too much.

The old man must have been deliberately setting him up, knowing that carrying the Dragon Fish flagrantly would cause problems, so he had to give him the fish.

Old man, you’re in big trouble.

Qing Chen looked at the other party’s dark gun muzzle and wisely raised his hands: “Hello, I’m Qing Chen, the new Instructor of Bieyuan Courtyard. This Dragon Fish was given to me by someone else, I didn’t steal it.”

The hidden post didn’t approach rashly. He waited for support and asked: “Who gave it to you?”

“I don’t know his name,” Qing Chen sighed: “But I’m not lying.”

The hidden post pointed an unknown instrument at Qing Chen and pressed it. Then, the electronic access card in Qing Chen’s phone sent his identity information to the instrument.

The hidden post was relieved. At least the identity of the new Instructor of Bieyuan Courtyard was real.

Qing Chen said seriously: “I know Li Changqing, please ask her to come, she can explain for me.”

At this time, resisting the security system of the entire Ban Shan Mountain Estate was the most stupid thing to do. If you have a connection, quickly use it; don’t create unnecessary conflicts.

After a while, more than ten security guards surrounded them and escorted Qing Chen to the small building of the Guardhouse.

Since he cooperated, they didn’t make things difficult for him; they just waited for Li Changqing to handle it.

Some people in the Guardhouse even recognized him: “Qing Chen? The Qing Chen who knocked down a bunch of servants this morning?”

“It’s me,” Qing Chen sighed, still holding the Dragon Fish.

The security personnel in the Guardhouse were curious: “This Dragon Fish is really given to you by someone else?”

“Yes,” Qing Chen explained: “An old man was fishing by the lake, I passed by, he just caught it, and then he gave me one. Now I suspect that someone is deliberately framing me, taking advantage of my unfamiliarity with the rules! There are cameras everywhere in Ban Shan Mountain Estate, you can check the cameras!”

“There are no cameras at Dragon Lake. You’re new here and don’t know, Dragon Lake is opposite the head’s Baopu Building, even we don’t have the right to approach,” the security personnel were stunned: “There are real experts guarding there, we don’t need those people from the Guardhouse. I don’t know where that expert is today, otherwise, you wouldn’t just be stealing fish; being alive would be considered good fortune.”

“Real expert? I didn’t see any,” Qing Chen had become suspicious: “Is this Dragon Fish very precious?”

“Of course, this Dragon Fish is the head’s most precious thing, it was a precious species that a Knight once got from the Forbidden Zone, even if you catch it, you have to release it,” the Guardhouse people explained.

Qing Chen lifted the Dragon Fish: “It? From the Forbidden Zone? What’s precious about it?”

“I heard that Dragon Fish doesn’t bite people,” the security personnel said: “So it’s naturally spiritual.”

Qing Chen thought, it’s not surprising that fish don’t bite people; most fish in the Outer World don’t bite people!

However, he then thought that if this Dragon Fish was really a descendant of a species from the Forbidden Zone, it was indeed a little strange that it didn’t bite people.

At this moment, a Flying Car landed outside the Guardhouse. Li Changqing got off and saw the Dragon Fish in Qing Chen’s hand: “You even caught a Dragon Fish, no wonder you were caught by the Guardhouse.”

The Guardhouse people said: “Miss Changqing…you also know that stealing Dragon Fish is a serious matter, and we dare not release him privately, why don’t you tell someone above, we dare to let him leave only if Secretariat orders it.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone in the Guardhouse rang; it was an internal line from the Secretariat.

The Guardhouse personnel answered the phone and subconsciously glanced at the caller ID: “Hello?”

“Release him,” the other side of the phone said simply, then hung up.

“Who?” Li Changqing asked.

“Secretariat,” the Guardhouse people were curious: “Miss Changqing, did you contact Secretariat beforehand?”

Li Changqing didn’t answer, but took Qing Chen and left.

Sitting in the Flying Car, Li Changqing suddenly asked seriously: “I heard that an old man personally gave you the fish?”

“Yes,” Qing Chen nodded, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly said: “He also told me that only two Heartless Copper Bells in Ban Shan Mountain Estate are real, and he even said who sent the Heartless Copper Bells. Do you know who this person is?”

Li Changqing looked at Qing Chen thoughtfully: “What else did he say?”

“He also said that if I have nothing to do, I can go to Dragon Lake and hang out; no one should stop me,” Qing Chen said frankly.

“Then do as he said,” Li Changqing said: “There are no classes at the academy, go to Dragon Lake and hang out whenever you have time. No one should stop you.”

Qing Chen fell into deep thought; Li Changqing seemed to have guessed something but didn’t intend to tell him.

At this time, only Li Changqing knew that she hadn’t contacted the Secretariat before she came, and the Secretariat shouldn’t have known about someone stealing Dragon Fish beforehand.

In the Li Clan, the Secretariat was the most powerful central institution under the head, and many administrative orders from there were beyond even Li Changqing’s authority.

Half of the Li Clan’s intelligence agencies were in Li Changqing’s hands, and the other half was in this Secretariat.

Who could allow the Secretariat to call the Guardhouse directly? In the Li Clan, there were no more than three people with such power.

“By the way, why did the old man give you the Dragon Fish?” Li Changqing asked strangely: “Did he tell you its use?”

“No,” Qing Chen replied: “He just said to steam it and eat it, it’s delicious.”

Li Changqing was stunned, then laughed and cried: “Steam it and eat it?”

“Yes,” Qing Chen thought of the ginkgo nuts sent by those old men from Forbidden Zone 002, thinking that there are many strange things from the Forbidden Zone; I don’t know if eating this Dragon Fish will have any magical effects…

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