Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 291: Pursuit

In the hotel room, Qing Chen crushed his Bluetooth headset under his foot.

This time, he didn't listen in on the opponent's deployment arrangements with his headset.

After all, he had used this trick too many times, and the other party would definitely notice. Even if any message came through the headset, it could be used to mislead him.

So, it was better to neither hear nor see anything than to spend the effort listening to and analyzing the information.

Tonight, Qing Chen would follow his own rhythm.

Everyone had to follow his rhythm.

Qing Chen searched the killer's body, but the killer in the room did not carry any firearms.

It seemed that firearms were not very common in Huan Yu's hands, at least not enough to equip all his killers.

Qing Chen pondered, what exactly was Huan Yu's identity in the Inner World?

The first clue was that when he was at Laojun Mountain, he didn't understand firearms.

But now he did, he even knew the models and calibers of all the handguns and firearms in the Inner World.

So, when he took the firearms from the previous killer, he understood that the handgun, silencer, and subsonic ammunition all came from the Inner World.

Woodpecker k24 model, 5.4mm caliber, subsonic ammunition with an initial velocity of 310 meters per second, would not produce a sonic boom.

Huan Yu had the ability to transport such large items as firearms from the Inner World, or someone under him had such ability.

No wonder, in such a strictly gun-controlled environment, the other party could get so many handguns.

The second clue was that the Forbidden Artifact ace-017 Demon Stamp in Huan Yu's hands should be in the possession of a certain Conglomerate.

The third clue was that Huan Yu had too many subordinates.

Even if their methods were mysterious, having so many subordinates in just over a month was unreasonable.

Unless, these subordinates were all Time Travelers controlled by a certain Conglomerate. Only a Conglomerate could have such efficiency.

Having clashed with Huan Yu many times, Qing Chen noticed that the other party's subordinates gradually changed from ordinary criminals to well-trained killers.

Those killers might have been ordinary people before time travel. Someone systematically trained them for a long time to achieve such results.

The third clue also confirmed the second clue.

Therefore, Qing Chen was now very certain that Huan Yu was one of the powerful figures in a certain Conglomerate, or a direct descendant of a powerful faction.

As for whether the other party was from the Li Clan, Qing Family, Chen Family, Koshima, or Shendai, Qing Chen couldn't determine that yet.

But if Xian City was Huan Yu's base, then which Conglomerate controlled the city corresponding to number 16? Chen Family, Qing Family!

Wait, Qing Yi wasn't from city number 16, which means Qing Yi wasn't Huan Yu?

The next moment, he opened the hotel window and skillfully climbed out.

For a Knight, a five-story building was nothing.

Anyone who had climbed Qingshan Cliff wouldn't find this difficult.

Next to the Vienna Hotel lobby, in a bar.

The students sat uneasily. They didn't know what was going on. They only heard Xu Zimo say that they seemed to be involved in a conflict between Time Travelers.

Everyone didn't need to do anything, just wait in the bar until it was over.

This was what Xu Zimo said, and everyone, including the math teacher Tian Hailong, didn't question it because there was no reason for Xu Zimo to joke about this.

"Ziming, can you tell us what's going on?" Xia Xiaoran curiously asked.

"I promised someone, I can't say," Xu Zimo shook her head.

Qing Chen specifically told her not to tell anyone before leaving.

"Is it Qing Chen?" Wang Jiale curiously asked, "This is not hard to guess, you left with him during dinner, and you came back without him."

Xu Zimo didn't want to lie, so she took out her phone and started looking at error correction questions.

The so-called error correction questions were to record all the questions she had missed in the past, and then look at them from time to time to verify whether she had really mastered the knowledge points.

This is a method used by most top students.

However, Xu Zimo was only pretending to look at the questions at this moment. Her mind had already drifted off to somewhere else.

Soon, Little Eagle came downstairs again. He introduced himself: "Hello everyone, I'm Little Eagle from the Kunlun organization. I know you are representing Luo City High School in the math competition, but I have to ask you to stay here until the incident is over. Don't worry, it will definitely be over before 12 o'clock."

Zhou Xuan Ying asked: "Did Qing Chen cause some trouble? Why do we have to wait here for the trouble he caused? We have to participate in the competition tomorrow."

"It's not that he caused any trouble," Little Eagle gradually restrained his smile: "The organization targeting Qing Chen tonight killed countless people at Laojun Mountain. Do you want to be killed too? Then you should let this organization grow slowly. He's doing what you can't do, if you think the competition is particularly important, go back to your room to review, your safety is none of my business."

Zhou Xuan Ying opened her mouth and said nothing.

In fact, if Zheng Yuandong and Lu Yuan were present, Little Eagle would be punished for saying these words.

But in the battle at Laojun Mountain, Wrench and Hawthorn died on the mountain, and Qing Chen avenged them.

So no matter what the relationship between Kunlun and Qing Chen was, whether or not he joined Kunlun, Little Eagle appreciated his actions.

Xu Zimo hesitated for a moment and asked, "Excuse me, can I ask you a few questions privately?"

Little Eagle was stunned: "Sure."

The two walked to a nearby booth and sat down. Xu Zimo got straight to the point: "Is Qing Chen a member of the Kunlun organization? Otherwise, why would you come to help him clean up the mess?"

Little Eagle thought for a moment, Qing Chen was indeed a member of Kunlun. The boy was not only a member of Kunlun, but also a member of Nine Provinces, a member of Daybreak, an instructor at the Inner World Li Clan Academy, Li Changqing's personal bodyguard, and a tiger-level boxing champion of Haitang Boxing Gym...

What a mess.

Little Eagle suddenly found that Qing Chen had acquired a lot of identities in these two months of time travel!

Incredible!

Little Eagle carefully said: "Strictly speaking, he is indeed a member of Kunlun, but his identity is special."

Xu Zimo asked again: "...Is he very powerful?"

Little Eagle was excited when he heard this: "Powerful, very powerful. He should be one of the most powerful Time Travelers!"

In fact, Xu Zimo didn't know what she wanted to ask. She just wanted to understand what kind of person Qing Chen was from various sources.

Now that she thought about it, how naive it was to tell the boy to show his true strength in the exam.

Because in his eyes, exams were no longer important.

"Is he still upstairs?" Xu Zimo asked.

"No, I don't know where he went, this kid always comes and goes without a trace," Little Eagle said.

Xu Zimo looked out the window, not knowing what she was thinking.

At this moment, in the black night sky outside, Ling star's white snowflakes were falling, like plum blossoms swirling in the air.

It was snowing.

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"Boss, target number one didn't come out of the Vienna Hotel's front door," a middle-aged man reported from a corner outside the hotel.

"Boss, target number one didn't come out of the back door either. He should still be in the hotel," someone also reported from the back door.

Someone said in the Bluetooth headset: "Stay alert."

"I'm already out."

The voice came from behind the killer.

However, as soon as the voice fell, the killer at the back door suddenly felt a numbness in his lower back, as if all the strength in his body had been drained.

That was a typical symptom of the body losing its blood bank after spleen rupture.

Qing Chen didn't necessarily have to pierce the other party's spleen, but this technique had become the "persona" that the outside world used to identify him. If he used this persona to hide other identities, then he needed to maintain this persona to create a stereotype in everyone's minds.

At this time, the killers didn't know when Qing Chen left the hotel or how he left.

Previously, they were in the dark and target number one was in the open, but now they couldn't even find target number one's movements.

Qing Chen went north alone, towards Xian City North Station, and also towards Xian City Weiyang Lake Park.

His destination tonight was there.

In the Bluetooth headset, the mastermind Huan Yu noticed something was wrong and immediately urged the nearby killers to rush to the back door.

But when the other killers arrived at the back door, they could only see Qing Chen's receding back.

"Boss, he went north," a killer reported.

"North?" Huan Yu hesitated.

Earlier, Liu Dezhu stood at the entrance of Xian City North Station for so long to attract the killers surrounding the Vienna Hotel to the north.

As a result, Qing Chen rushed out of the hotel and instead of running elsewhere, he went towards the killers who were returning to the Vienna Hotel?

This was abnormal. Qing Chen must know that the killers at Xian City North Station were returning, so why would he throw himself into the net?

A young man who came to Xian City for the first time, why would he think he could kill his way north?

"Boss, should we leave some people at Xian City North Station? Maybe when Liu Dezhu came, the Daybreak Boss also arrived on the same train. Now Qing Chen is going to meet up with the Daybreak Boss," a deep voice said in the Bluetooth headset. This voice had appeared before, and the killers knew it was a higher-level member of the organization.

Huan Yu smiled: "Zhang San, he might be meeting his Boss, but they definitely won't go to Xian City North Station. After all, there are three stations in Xian City. They can leave Xian City from any of them. There's no need to fight Xian City North Station, right?"

"Then what are they going to do?" Zhang San asked doubtfully.

"They are going to fight us to the death," Huan Yu's voice became colder: "If that's the case, then let's oblige them. Everyone outside the Vienna Hotel chases target number one, others gather there. Zhang San, take your men and wait for him at the end of Fengjin Road, Mingguang Road, and Zhuhong Road. He doesn't know the terrain of Xian City, so we'll give him a surprise there."

From the Vienna Hotel to the north, there are only three intersections. If Qing Chen continues north, he will definitely pass by here.

However, as time passed, the killers who were far behind Qing Chen suddenly discovered.

Qing Chen didn't choose any of the three roads, but went straight into a residential area, and through a very narrow alley, he forcefully broke through their blockade.

This road didn't even have a name on the map!

"Boss, he's already crossed the blockade!" The killer pressed the call button on his headset and said urgently: "I don't know why he knows there's a small road here. It feels like he knows the terrain better than us."

Many killers were stunned when they heard this. Didn't the Boss say that the boy came to Xian City for the first time? Why does he know this place better than them, who were born and raised in Xian City?

However, they didn't know that this afternoon, Qing Chen spent three hours memorizing the entire route of Xian City, and even used Google satellite maps to observe his planned route clearly.

People who live in their hometown naturally have some sense of superiority, feeling that this is their home turf.

However, do the killers dare to guarantee that they know and recognize every road in this city?

But Qing Chen dared to guarantee that he knew every road in Xian City's urban area!

At this moment, a huge city model of Xian City was being modeled in Qing Chen's mind with blue lines, like a huge linear palace, clear and accurate.

The voice came from the Bluetooth headset: "Zhang San, you personally go and catch him."

The deep voice replied: "Yes, Boss. People who are following him, tell me his current location."

"Fengcheng Fifth Road!"

"Keep an eye on him, I'll be there soon."

A thirty-something-year-old man in a baseball cap suddenly rushed out from the shadows at the end of Fengjin Road, and ran towards Fengcheng Fifth Road at an astonishing speed.

The snowflakes that fell from the sky were originally falling lightly, but when he ran through, the air turbulence he stirred up blew the snowflakes up and down.

In just a few minutes, he had crossed several streets and was heading straight for Qing Chen's route!

At this time, as if anticipating all this, Qing Chen suddenly turned around and slipped into a small door of a residential community, disappearing from everyone's sight.

"I know this high-end community. There is a 3-meter-high electric touch wire mesh on the walls to set off the alarm. He can't jump over. This community has four gates, and you can enter and exit from any of them," a killer said.

Zhang San rushed into the community and said coldly: "I'll go after him, you guys block all four gates."

From afar, Zhang San already saw Qing Chen running in the night, agile and flexible.

But unexpectedly, Qing Chen didn't run towards any of the exits, but went straight into the underground parking garage!

Zhang San was stunned: "How many exits does this community's underground parking garage have, and do they overlap with the ground exits?"

"This community separates people and cars. There are a total of five exits, four of which overlap with the ground exits, and one is on the west side, which has no ground exits," someone answered.

Zhang San understood, Qing Chen came in for that west exit.

But the question is, is this really his first time in Xian City? All those chasing Qing Chen had a feeling that Xian City wasn't their home turf, but the young man's!

Zhang San was very fast, and compared to speed, Qing Chen was no match for him.

However, Qing Chen used his familiarity with the terrain to widen the distance several times, erasing the gap between them.

Every time Zhang San felt that he was about to catch up, he would lose sight of the other party, and when he found him again, the distance had widened again.

This feeling was so strange, as if he had all the strength in his body, but he couldn't use it.

It was infuriating.

Dozens of people intercepted him in different directions, Zhang San no longer cared about the hidden danger of using firearms on the street, and took out his silenced pistol and fired.

The accurate range of the silenced pistol is 20 meters, while the distance between Zhang San and Qing Chen was about 100 meters.

Zhang San knew that it was difficult to hit Qing Chen while running, but as long as the other party made some evasive movements and slowed down, he could shorten the distance.

However, Qing Chen in front didn't even deliberately evade the trajectory, as if he knew clearly that Zhang San couldn't hit him.

5 minutes later, Zhang San lost sight of Qing Chen again in the next community. He said in the Bluetooth headset: "Don't chase him, you can't catch him like this. We need to drive to the two intersections in the north to block him."

In the Bluetooth headset, Huan Yu calmly said: "Don't worry, continue to drive him north, someone is already waiting for him there."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Qing Chen's familiar voice came from the Bluetooth headset: "Are you talking about a middle-aged man and a young man? They...are already dead."

The originally noisy conversation in the Bluetooth headset fell silent for a moment.

Huan Yu glanced at the map in front of him. The people he arranged to ambush Qing Chen were clearly 800 meters away from Zhang San.

In other words, in the short 5 minutes when Qing Chen disappeared from their sight, he no longer circled or played hide-and-seek, but like a scalpel in a surgeon's hand, he went straight into the heart of the ambushers.

This was a textbook example of pursuit and counter-pursuit, and encirclement and counter-encirclement operations!

And until this moment, only one person from Daybreak had appeared!

No, it must be more than one person. Huan Yu pondered, if Qing Chen was alone, he couldn't have done this.

Perhaps several people were constantly providing information to Qing Chen, including the location of the killers and route maps, just like rally drivers need navigators.

This was a power struggle and a declaration of war between the two organizations. At one point, Huan Yu even wondered if Qing Chen's appearance in Xian City was also pre-calculated by Daybreak?

Otherwise, why was Daybreak so well-prepared?

No, if it was prepared, why didn't they bring Liu Dezhu, an Awakened One, as a combat force?

Tonight, there were too many mysteries.

Qing Chen outside the encirclement smiled: "Why is it so quiet? Are you starting to overthink things?"

Huan Yu laughed: "Interesting, now that you've broken out of the encirclement, where are you going? Take the high-speed rail home from Xian City North Station? Or shall we continue tonight's game?"

Qing Chen also laughed: "I already said, Daybreak will accompany you to the end. Don't bother looking for me anymore. The Daybreak organization is waiting for you... to die in Xian City Weiyang Lake Amusement Park."

Huan Yu was stunned: "Weiyang Lake Amusement Park? That's not close to you at all. How are you going to get there?"

Qing Chen hailed a taxi on the roadside: "Don't worry about it, I'll take a taxi."

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