Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 290: Daybreak Greets You All

Faced with Huan Yu’s threat, could Qing Chen escape?

Of course, he could.

Forbidden Artifact Ace-005 changed his Face^[-] and went to the high-speed railway station. He didn’t believe Huan Yu was audacious enough to intercept and kill him in a place as densely populated as a high-speed railway station.

But he didn’t want to leave.

He didn’t want to leave because he had been following the weather forecast. From tonight onwards, the entire area north of the Yellow River would experience a temperature drop, falling below 0 degrees Celsius.

It might even usher in the first snowfall of the Outer World winter.

This meant that the most suitable place for him to complete ‘Ultimate Trust’ would begin to freeze tonight.

And it wouldn’t thaw until next spring.

If a 70-meter high back-flip jump could result in death, even with the slightest mistake.

Then after the lake surface froze, this Trials of Life and Death wouldn’t even be considered.

Qing Chen also tried searching for other places, to see if there were any suitable locations in the south.

The answer was no. Those terrains were completely different from the terrain he had been training on. The heights were either less than 70 meters or as high as 93 meters.

Therefore, if he wanted to complete the Trials of Life and Death challenge within 7 days and return to the Inner World at level D.

Tonight, he had to take the plunge.

Although tonight was dangerous, who said that tonight’s danger necessarily fell on him?

For Qing Chen, some things were very simple. Since there was only one path before him, all he could do was clear all the obstacles on this path.

He lay slowly on the hotel’s large bed, closed his eyes, and calmly repeated the experience of falling from a 70-meter height.

That feeling of weightlessness from a vertical fall made one feel dizzy.

Yet, it was exhilarating.

In the evening, the students gathered in Tian Hailong’s room for final preparations.

Only Qing Chen was absent.

Tian Hailong felt a little regretful, “Actually, for many of the competitions you’ve participated in, we teachers can’t keep up with the pace. So, there’s not much we can tutor you in this last afternoon.”

In fact, Tian Hailong was stating a common situation. Those teachers most proficient in Olympiad competitions were either in the best top high schools or in private training schools.

If one wanted to participate in competitions, relying solely on ordinary public school teachers was definitely not enough.

Xu Zimo suddenly said, “Teacher Tian, can we let Qing Chen explain some problems to us?”

The other few students looked at Xu Zimo in surprise. They hadn’t paid much attention to Qing Chen, so they only felt that Xu Zimo was exaggerating.

Although there were legends about Qing Chen in the school, if even the teachers couldn’t tutor them, would a student tutoring another student be of any use?

Seeing the questioning gazes around her, Xu Zimo hesitated for a moment and said, “It will definitely be useful. You don’t know Qing Chen very well. His studies are even better than you imagine, aren’t they, Teacher Tian? Otherwise, the school wouldn’t have insisted on letting him participate in this competition. I know that the school’s main expectation is on him this time.”

Tian Hailong smiled, “I thought the same way. But I asked him at noon, and he said he didn’t have time. Let’s go. Take the buffet coupons I’ve given you; dinner will be on the second floor of the hotel.”

When they arrived at the second-floor buffet restaurant, they found Qing Chen sitting in the restaurant staring at a Xian City map, they didn’t know where he bought this map.

Qing Chen looked up and saw Tian Hailong and the other three.

The classmates wanted to greet him, but Qing Chen had already lowered his head again, as if he didn’t know them at all.

This scene made the classmates feel somewhat embarrassed, so much so that Wang Jiale resentfully put down his hand that he was about to wave.

“Has Qing Chen always been so aloof?” Wang Jiale was puzzled. He had also heard of Qing Chen, but in the rumors, although this classmate was cold, he wasn’t cold to this extent.

Xia Xiaoran pouted and went to get a food tray to serve herself.

A moment later, Tian Hailong, Wang Jiale, Xia Xiaoran, and others sat at one table, while Qing Chen was at a separate table.

Xia Xiaoran muttered, “It’s as if we didn’t come together… Xu Zimo, is he deliberately avoiding you? I heard that you went to his classroom door a few days ago to ask questions, and he made you feel very embarrassed.”

Xu Zimo thought for a moment and said to Xia Xiaoran, “Nothing like that, it’s my own problem. Qing Chen is a bit unusual today. I think it might be because he’s about to participate in the competition, so he’s a little nervous.”

Xia Xiaoran picked at the broccoli on her plate, “You’re still speaking up for him… Forget about Qing Chen. You’ve also heard about what happened on Xingshu Road a few days ago, someone tried to kidnap Nangeng Chen, but Nangeng Chen’s boss, from the organization he belonged to, crushed them with a sniper shot.”

Xia Xiaoran didn’t know that even though she said she wasn’t going to talk about Qing Chen, she still ended up talking about him.

Xu Zimo also knew about this incident, or rather, everyone at Luo City Foreign Language School knew about it, because it happened when the students were leaving school.

Xia Xiaoran: “I wonder why we didn’t become Time Travelers. Compared to studying, it seems more interesting to become a Time Traveler.”

Tian Hailong smiled, “If you say that, at least avoid talking about this in front of the school teachers. You are among the top ten students in your grade; studying hard is the most important thing.”

As they were speaking, Qing Chen seemed to have finished his meal, and he walked out of the restaurant without looking sideways.

Xu Zimo looked at his back and suddenly said to the other students, “I’m full too. You guys continue eating; I’ll go back to my room.”

She followed Qing Chen to the elevator, but found that Qing Chen had already gone to the fifth floor, they all lived on the fifth floor.

Xu Zimo entered the elevator, but as soon as she got out of the elevator, she was suddenly covered over her mouth from the side outside the elevator and dragged into the safety passage next to the elevator.

The girl was a little terrified, but no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn’t escape the arms and hands that held her.

“Shh.”

Xu Zimo recognized this voice. When the hand covering her mouth loosened slightly, the girl finally had a chance to look back and saw, in the dim light of the safety passage, Qing Chen’s Face^[-].

However, Qing Chen wasn’t looking at her, but was silently pondering something.

Xu Zimo found that this boy always seemed to be thinking, never stopping.

The next moment, footsteps came from the stairs below the safety passage.

Who would be idle enough to take the stairs instead of the elevator?

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On the other side, the Luo City to Xian City North Station g3171 high-speed train slowly stopped.

Liu Dezhu, who had skipped class, didn’t bring any luggage. He hurried out.

The crowd was slowly flowing out of the station, and Liu Dezhu’s figure looked particularly hurried.

No one knew that in this crowded crowd, two young men wearing Bluetooth earphones kept their eyes fixed on Liu Dezhu’s back.

Dusk had just faded, and the sky was covered with dark clouds, making the moon invisible.

“Target 2 has arrived at Xian City North Station and is leaving the station, Boss. He is likely to go to the hotel to meet with Target 1,” a young man said.

Laughter came from the Bluetooth headset, “He’s really taken the bait. Keep an eye on him. Wherever he goes, you go. Tonight, we’ll stage a siege, not only Qing Chen will die, but Liu Dezhu and their Boss will also die.”

“Understood, but Boss, the strength of Target 2 is unknown. According to the last observation, he should have awakened the fire element. The two of us may not be able to handle him,” the young man said.

The voice from the Bluetooth headset said, “Don’t worry, there are other experts heading your way. They are very close to Xian City North Station. Liu Dezhu can’t escape. You two just need to follow him closely. Tonight, I have a big gift prepared for them.”

“Understood,” the young man said, and exchanged glances with another companion who came from Luo City. The two silently followed Liu Dezhu.

At this time, a strange voice came from the Bluetooth headset: “Boss, what about the sniper from their organization? This is not easy to handle.”

“Don’t worry,” someone said from the Bluetooth headset, “Choosing this time for them to come to the rescue is to make them take the high-speed train. Other means of transportation wouldn’t be in time. Since they are taking the high-speed train, how could an anti-materiel sniper rifle pass security checks?”

However, at this moment, Liu Dezhu suddenly stopped at the exit of Xian City North Station, he didn’t move.

He didn’t move, and the two young men behind him didn’t move either.

The three of them were thus in a stalemate, in the flow of passengers, like three sculptures.

When passengers passed by them, they all avoided them, as if a river had encountered rocks in the riverbed.

Between the three of them, there seemed to be a strange Force field, controlling the surging crowd at the exit.

“Boss, Target 2 is not moving. He might be waiting for someone, or he might have discovered us,” a young man whispered.

“Let’s observe for a while,” a voice came from the Bluetooth headset, “Pay attention to whether anyone is exchanging glances or talking with Target 2. Regardless of the image of the person talking, they could be his companions. To avoid our detection, his companions may not have been on the same train.”

Time passed bit by bit, but Liu Dezhu just stood there silently, not looking at his phone, not talking to anyone, not doing anything.

Slowly, the young man in charge of tracking Liu Dezhu felt something was wrong: “Boss, I think something’s wrong. It seems that Liu Dezhu doesn’t intend to leave the station.”

“Wait, the people supporting you outside Xian City North Station have arrived,” someone whispered in the Bluetooth headset.

As soon as the words fell, Liu Dezhu suddenly turned around and walked towards the two young men behind him.

From the moment Liu Dezhu stopped to the moment he turned around, this was exactly the time it took Qing Chen to take a car to Vienna Hotel, 31 minutes.

“Boss, Liu Dezhu seems to have discovered us,” the young man’s muscles were tense, as if facing a great enemy.

However, when Liu Dezhu passed by the two of them, he didn’t attack. He simply passed them indifferently, “Daybreak greets you all.”

After saying this, Liu Dezhu turned back to the station without looking back, and boarded another high-speed train back to Luo City.

“Boss, Liu Dezhu is going back to Luo City. He boarded the g2206 high-speed train,” the young man said urgently.

“Going back?” The Boss on the phone seemed a little surprised, “Why did he go back?”

“It’s true,” another young man said, “The g2206 has already left. He really went back.”

“Did he do anything strange?” the Boss asked.

“He said…Daybreak greets you all.”

In the Bluetooth headset, the Boss was silent for half a minute: “A diversionary tactic. Liu Dezhu’s trip to Xian City was just to lure the people we had stationed near the Vienna Hotel to the high-speed railway station to help Qing Chen escape. The timing was precise; our people just arrived, and Liu Dezhu went back.”

In front of a certain floor-to-ceiling window, the slender figure laughed faintly, “Daybreak? Is your organization called Daybreak? Then, has the Boss of Daybreak also arrived in Xian City? You shouldn’t have gone back, should you? Interesting.”

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In the safety passage of the Vienna Hotel.

In the dim light, the footsteps downstairs stopped on the third floor.

And for as long as these footsteps stopped, Qing Chen held Xu Zimo’s mouth shut.

Xu Zimo blinked in the darkness, staring intently at Qing Chen in front of her. She didn’t know what the other person was waiting for, nor what the other person was going to do.

The girl only felt that everything that happened tonight seemed different from her past study life.

It was as if in a certain bar, a magic wand was lightly tapped against the wall, the wall cracked, and behind the wall was a magical world, Diagon Alley.

This girl who had only known to study for the first seventeen years of her life, was pressed against the wall, her heart beating faster, the white breath from her narrow nostrils condensed into dewdrops between Qing Chen’s fingers.

Xu Zimo knew that when those footsteps sounded again, she would witness something she had never experienced in her life.

But for some reason, she wasn’t scared at all.

After an unknown amount of time, the footsteps that had stopped on the third floor sounded again. The sound of leather heels on the steps was particularly abrupt in the empty safety passage.

At this time, Qing Chen moved.

The boy put his index finger to his lips, signaling Xu Zimo not to make a sound, then turned to meet the people coming up the stairs, his footsteps silent.

The next moment, the people going upstairs and the boy going downstairs encountered each other on the fourth floor.

The other party didn’t expect anyone to be here!

The killer wanted to draw his gun from his armpit, but he knew that he was too late.

The moment Qing Chen appeared, the boy’s ghostly figure was as fast as lightning.

Qing Chen pounced down from the stairs, carrying immense speed and inertia. The person going upstairs had just seen the boy’s existence when he heard the whistling wind rushing towards him.

In an instant, the boy, like a train, crashed the killer into the wall.

With a loud bang, the killer felt as if his internal organs had been shattered.

Qing Chen rolled over and stood up, kneeling on the ground. He pulled out a silver dining knife from his palm and fiercely stabbed at the killer’s spleen.

The killer lay on the ground, facing Qing Chen, who was about to stab the dining knife into his body, crossed his arms over his abdomen, and struggled to block Qing Chen’s downward force.

However, he suddenly found that no matter how hard he tried, the dining knife was still falling slowly.

Finally, the tip of the knife pierced his clothes, pierced his skin, and pierced his spleen, and blood gushed out like a pump.

“Don’t shout,” Qing Chen loosened his grip on the dining knife and said calmly.

He wasn’t speaking to the killer, but to Xu Zimo, who was following behind him.

The girl stood at the top of the stairs, shocked at this scene, then saw Qing Chen take a silenced pistol from the killer’s armpit.

At this moment, she understood everything. Ordinary people couldn’t carry silenced pistols.

“You…” Xu Zimo said, “Do you need me to call someone for help?”

“No, thank you,” Qing Chen said.

Xu Zimo pursed her lips again, those four words.

She looked at the bloody scene in front of her, at the boy standing beside the killer’s corpse, and felt unprecedented shock.

This is where the aloofness came from, because they were truly not from the same world.

They were separated by thirteen steps, as if separated by a vast river, insurmountable.

Qing Chen glanced at the corpse on the ground and said to Xu Zimo, “Go down this staircase to the second floor, then get Teacher Tian and the others to sit in the lobby bar, don’t wander around, someone will protect you secretly.”

Speaking, Qing Chen walked up the stairs and passed by Xu Zimo, walking back upstairs.

“You…where are you going?” Xu Zimo grabbed Qing Chen’s sleeve, “I’m a little scared.”

“Fear is a useless emotion. Do as I say,” Qing Chen said, “There should be someone in our room on the fifth floor. The other party found that I didn’t return to my room, so they came upstairs.”

“Won’t you be in danger?” Xu Zimo worried.

Qing Chen looked at the girl, “No.”

At least not in the next 30 minutes.

Speaking, he left the safety passage and walked towards the corridor.

Xu Zimo bravely walked down, but at this moment, footsteps came running up from below.

Before Xu Zimo could react, a young man had already arrived on the fourth floor. He glanced at the corpse in the stairwell, then at the pale-faced girl, and smiled, “Hello, Kunlun Little Eagle, I’m here to help Qing Chen clean up.”

“Ah? Kunlun?” Xu Zimo wasn’t a Time Traveler, but she had also heard of Kunlun’s name. Hearing Little Eagle say that he was helping Qing Chen clean up, her first reaction was to relax. It turned out that Qing Chen was on the side of good.

However, the girl still confirmed, “Qing Chen is a good person, right?”

Little Eagle was stunned for a moment, smiled, “I suppose so.”

“Um, he’s in danger now, shouldn’t you go help him?” Xu Zimo said.

Little Eagle thought for a moment, “It shouldn’t be necessary, he’s so powerful that he doesn’t need my help. Besides, Kunlun also has other actions tonight, only I can spare time, so I can’t help much. Please go down and ask the classmates to go to the bar, I’ll handle this and then go find you. However, try not to tell them what happened, especially anything related to Qing Chen.”

The Kunlun action that Little Eagle was referring to was the Koshima Time Traveler’s illegal entry incident.

Huan Yu chose to act today, probably because he knew that Kunlun would be too busy to interfere with other matters tonight.

“Okay, I’ll go inform the teacher and classmates now,” Xu Zimo said as she ran downstairs.

As she ran down the stairs, Qing Chen’s figure kept appearing in her mind, as well as the warmth of his palm when he covered her mouth.

At this moment, Qing Chen stood in his room, looking at the corpse lying on the ground, shot in the chest. The muzzle of the gun in his hand was still emitting blue smoke.

This was another undercover killer in the hotel.

He gently removed the other party’s earphones and pressed the call button: “Your people are dead.”

Huan Yu chuckled in the earphones: “As I expected, your people left Liu Dezhu’s side, and you acted in the Vienna Hotel. By the way, has your Boss arrived in Xian City? Tell him for me, tonight, the game has just begun.”

Qing Chen said calmly, “Daybreak will accompany you to the end.”

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