Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 331: Whose Trap Is It?

The moment nine o'clock arrived.

Across from Quanshuang Square, in Kaiyuan Lake, the fountain shot up into the sky.

Beautiful music surrounded the water columns, like a grand ceremony.

But.

The Shendai Family assassins who should have appeared at Quanshuang Square at this time did not appear.

“Miss Shendai Kongyin, may I ask why you chose to develop your career in China? As far as we know, you have collaborated very well with Director Miyai in Japan, and you have won numerous awards for your previous films. Now that you are giving up everything there to start over in China, will this affect your future development?” a reporter asked.

This was the first reaction of the media after learning that Shendai Kongyin would develop her career in China.

Shendai Kongyin is not someone who can't make it there. Those who understand know that she is now a cultural goddess there, and film offers probably extend to three years later.

Why would such a person suddenly come to China?

Shendai Kongyin sat behind the table at the press conference. She wasn't wearing any grand dress today, partly because of the cold weather and the press conference was outdoors.

On the other hand, she came in a hurry, and Nine Provinces couldn't help her prepare these things.

However, wearing a snow-white high-necked sweater, she matched her forest goddess temperament very well.

Shendai Kongyin smiled and said to the reporters: “As you all know, my father is Chinese, so strictly speaking, this is my motherland. When I was in Japan in the early years, I often worried about not being used to the food there. It was not until I returned to China and ate the first bite of fish-flavored shredded pork that I realized I belong here.”

While speaking, Shendai Kongyin's eyes kept scanning the crowd.

It seemed like she was smiling and greeting the fans.

In fact, she was looking for that familiar figure in the crowd.

But to her disappointment, Qing Chen was not here.

The next reporter suddenly asked: “Hello, Miss Shendai Kongyin, there are rumors that you have already become a Time Traveler and are a core member of the Shendai Family. Your coming to China to develop is to escape the Shendai Family's pursuit, is that true?”

Now in the Outer World, there are already too many reports about the Inner World. The sharp-nosed paparazzi have long publicized the Inner World information they have obtained.

The content that keeps appearing on the top of Weibo's hot searches is related to the Inner World.

Therefore, they know Shendai, Koshima, and Li Clan…

If Shendai Kongyin's Time Traveler identity is confirmed, today's press conference news will definitely top the hot search.

Shendai Kongyin was stunned. She didn't expect that the Chinese people already knew so clearly.

This shows that someone in the know is leaking information.

However, she thought for a moment and smiled: “That's true, but I believe that the motherland will protect me, so I am not afraid of the Shendai Family.”

There's no point in hiding it, so let's not hide it.

Subsequently, as expected, reporters asked a lot of questions about the Inner World, but Shendai Kongyin did not answer.

When the reporters found that they couldn't ask anything, they turned to other questions that might generate heat: “Miss Shendai Kongyin, do you know any Chinese male artists?”

Shendai Kongyin shook her head: “I just came back to China and I'm not very familiar with them yet. I only know a few people.”

“Among those people, is there your ideal type?” the reporter asked.

Other reporters' eyes lit up.

Shendai Kongyin smiled, as if she had already expected this question. She replied: “I already have someone I like, but he is not in the industry.”

After speaking, a staff member walked up: “Today's press conference is over. Thank you all for coming…”

Shendai Kongyin walked off the stage under the protection of Nine Provinces members.

As she was leaving, she looked back at the crowd, but still saw nothing.

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“Boss, the Shendai people really didn't come,” Tang Keke said, “I can confirm that no information was leaked. After Kunlun arrested their people yesterday, Kunlun controlled the four Time Travelers and still maintained contact with them. Logically speaking, they let these four people open the music fountain to take action, but the assassins didn't show up.”

Nine Provinces Yu Cheng wondered: “They went to great lengths to open the music fountain. They certainly didn't want to give Shendai Kongyin a gift.”

“Yeah,” He Jinqiu said in the communication channel, “They weren't after us, they were after Daybreak. Perhaps, the Shendai Family people have already arrived at Borui Building.”

At this moment, as if to confirm He Jinqiu's judgment, an explosion suddenly came from the direction of the Borui Building. Everyone looked back and saw that a huge fire had erupted at the bottom of the building and was rapidly spreading towards the top.

In the crowd, Lu Yuan and others looked at each other, turned around and ran towards Borui Building!

Tang Keke asked: “But why? Logically speaking, they shouldn't know the existence of Daybreak yet. Why would they target them? You must know that only a few people know about the existence of this organization.”

He Jinqiu smiled: “They may not know Daybreak. To be precise, they are targeting that miraculous sniper.”

He Jinqiu continued: “This sniper has appeared too frequently recently. And, the simultaneous appearance of a top sniper in the Inner World will inevitably make people associate them together. Actually, we have never seen the Daybreak Boss, have we? But we assume that the one on Xingshu Road and City 18 is the same person. If we think this way, Shendai and Koshima will think this way too.”

“But why did Shendai ignore even Shendai Kongyin and want to kill him?” Tang Keke asked.

“He has disrupted Shendai and Koshima's actions many times, once in Xian City, once saving the person called Luo Wanya in the Inner World, and once saving Li Changqing,” He Jinqiu smiled, “If I were Shendai and Koshima, I would also want to kill him. Since Shendai Kongyin has debuted again, she can be killed anytime, but this sniper is hard to find, and nobody knows his identity.”

“But how could they be sure he would appear today? Even we didn't know he would appear,” Tang Keke wondered.

He Jinqiu smiled: “The key is that they don't actually know that Daybreak is an independent organization and has nothing to do with Nine Provinces and Kunlun. This sniper seems to have been opposing Shendai and Koshima all along, and we and Kunlun have also been opposing Shendai and Koshima. The opponent regards this Daybreak Boss and us as the same camp, which is also normal. So, today we set up a trap for Shendai and Koshima. We are all here, and the appearance of the sniper is reasonable. From the other side's point of view, this is a very natural thing. Moreover, the other side may not be certain, so trying their luck at Borui Building is also fine.”

“Boss, I heard you were also a great shooter?” Tang Keke curiously asked, “This sniper…”

He Jinqiu sighed: “I dare not call myself a great shooter in front of him. The gap is too far, there's no point in comparing.”

Nine Provinces members were stunned.

He Jinqiu is proud and arrogant, and rarely admits that he is inferior to others.

This time, He Jinqiu frankly admitted that he was completely inferior to the Daybreak Boss in terms of sniping.

“Boss, should we go and help Daybreak?” Tang Keke curiously asked.

“No,” He Jinqiu said, “Lu Yuan has already taken people there, there's no point in us going. In addition, the Time Travelers from Shendai and Koshima who appear now are definitely not the main force. The reverse time travel plan is what they must accomplish. Therefore, the Time Travelers who appear here are most likely just some Gene Soldiers. Judging from the time of travel, the Gene Soldiers appearing in the Outer World are at most D-Class.”

“D-Class is pretty powerful too, Boss,” Tang Keke said, “Most of our Nine Provinces members are only D-Class.”

“Strength is relative,” He Jinqiu said, “They thought the sniper's weakness was being approached, but when they really approached him, they would find themselves naive. The horror of that sniper is far more than just a sniper rifle. Okay, let's escort Shendai Kongyin away, in case it's a feint. By the way, remember to order her a plate of fish-flavored shredded pork at the hotel. The motherland welcomes her home.”

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In the 17th-floor meeting room of Borui Building, Qing Chen, wearing a central air conditioning maintenance uniform, was looking at the music fountain on Kaiyuan Lake.

He had only heard that this music fountain was spectacular, but he had never had time to see it.

From his old small house to here, he needed to transfer twice by bus, costing one yuan each time, totaling four yuan for the round trip.

At that time, Qing Chen was not willing to spend even these four yuan.

He heard the explosion downstairs and knew that the fire was spreading upwards. But for some reason, Qing Chen stood by the window, wanting to take a closer look at the so-called largest music fountain in Asia.

“They’re here,” Qing Chen said.

He wasn't speaking to the Bluetooth headset, but to Liu Dezhu behind him.

When those footsteps stopped outside the meeting room, Qing Chen turned around and aimed the handgun issued by Kunlun at the unopened meeting room glass door and pulled the trigger.

Chaos erupted outside instantly.

In fact, from the beginning, there was more than just Qing Chen in the room. Liu Dezhu had hidden himself in this meeting room without knowing when, waiting for the arrival of the Shendai assassins.

It wasn't that Qing Chen guessed that the Shendai Family assassins would definitely come, but he knew that there would definitely be Nine Provinces and Kunlun security personnel at the press conference site. It would be meaningless for Liu Dezhu to go there.

It's better to let Daybreak ambush in the Borui Building and wait for the other party to come to them.

At this moment, Liu Dezhu looked at Qing Chen. He witnessed this classmate's transformation from extreme stillness to extreme movement. He was just watching the music fountain, and in an instant, he shot to kill.

The assassins outside did not rashly rush in.

The next second.

Someone outside threw a black box onto the ground inside.

A homemade bomb.

Qing Chen didn't move, but Liu Dezhu suddenly turned into flames and pounced on the bomb.

In that flame, Liu Dezhu's skin seemed to have turned into magma.

With a loud bang, the huge explosive force was firmly contained in his arms.

The moment of the explosion, the flames on Liu Dezhu's body suddenly soared, as if someone had poured gasoline into the fire, and the whole meeting room was illuminated orange-red.

However, the flames exploded and quickly subsided back into Liu Dezhu's body, instantly annihilating the explosive force.

This is Liu Dezhu's ability.

It's also the reason why ‘Boss’ let him hide in the meeting room earlier.

Thinking of this, Liu Dezhu suddenly felt that his Boss seemed to have anticipated everything.

He not only guessed that the other party would abandon Shendai Kongyin and go straight to Borui Building.

He also guessed that the other party would use bombs as an attack method, so he let Liu Dezhu try a new combat method in advance…hugging the bomb to protect his comrades.

The flames surrounding Liu Dezhu subsided, he felt his condition, but found that the high heat and impact of the explosion did not harm him, but made his flames even more abundant.

It's like the other party was helping him create a home field advantage.

He looked back at Qing Chen, but found that despite experiencing the explosion, he was as calm as ever, and his eyes were still fixed on the door, without paying any attention to the bomb.

At this moment, the assassins outside heard the explosion, thinking that they had succeeded, and swarmed into the meeting room.

And waiting for them were Qing Chen's unmoving hands and deep gun muzzle.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Five consecutive shots.

The four assassins who were rushing into the meeting room didn't even have a chance to stop. Everyone arrived at the meeting room door and their heads were shot backwards, losing consciousness and falling to the ground.

The assassins fell to the ground one after another. All of them were shot in the forehead, except for the last one, who was shot in the thigh and wrist.

Liu Dezhu shouted “Wow” in his heart. He witnessed this scene, feeling as if the assassins and Qing Chen had agreed beforehand to send themselves to death.

He turned around in shock to look at Qing Chen. This marksmanship was invincible!

Although one person was not dead, Liu Dezhu couldn't even achieve consecutive three-shot headshots even when playing Crossfire.

Qing Chen placed the handgun on the long table in the meeting room, then said to Liu Dezhu: “Don't be stunned, go downstairs.”

“Wait, what about the gun?” Liu Dezhu asked.

“No more bullets, people from Kunlun will come to collect them,” Qing Chen said as he walked out. He took out two rubber bands from his pocket and bound the hands and feet of the assassin who had not died.

“What's this for again?” Liu Dezhu curiously asked.

“For Kunlun's interrogation,” Qing Chen said.

Liu Dezhu thought, so the fourth person wasn't dead because Qing Chen missed, but because he deliberately shot his legs and arms.

The first shot hit the wrist, preventing him from firing.

The second shot hit the thigh, preventing him from escaping.

Everything was in Qing Chen's plan.

Liu Dezhu suddenly realized that from the beginning of the battle to now, this Qing Chen classmate hadn't even changed his expression, as if everything was normal.

Qing Chen glanced at him: “Even though you've all become Metahumans, you haven't experienced real combat. Before, I taught you Cultivation, and today I'll teach you how to kill people… By the way, I was impressed that you really dared to pounce on the bomb.”

After saying this, he threw the undeaded assassin on the ground and picked up the four handguns on the floor and walked towards the elevator entrance. While walking, he said in his Bluetooth headset: “Tianzhen, Nangeng Chen, the fire should be spreading upwards, you two hide in the crowd escaping, don't look for assassins, just tell us their location, they have firearms.”

Zhang Tianzhen and Nangeng Chen: “Received.”

This was Qing Chen's collaborative plan. When chaos broke out in the building, Zhang Tianzhen and Nangeng Chen, who had been hiding here last night, would mix in with the fleeing crowd and tell Qing Chen the assassins' location.

There is only one emergency exit. Zhang Tianzhen goes up from the 18th floor, and Nangeng Chen goes up from the bottom floor, and they will always encounter the assassins.

The assassins' target is the sniper, and they can't kill all the thousands of people in the building, so Zhang Tianzhen and Nangeng Chen are safe.

What they have to do is observe.

At this moment, Liu Dezhu was still thinking behind Qing Chen… Qing Chen just complimented him?

It should be a compliment!

The two of them went downstairs through the emergency exit. Qing Chen threw a handgun to Liu Dezhu and said, “Get familiar with it, but don't fire.”

“Ah? Why?” Liu Dezhu was stunned.

Qing Chen said, “I'm afraid you'll hit me.”

Liu Dezhu: …

In fact, Qing Chen didn't understand how the assassins accurately found him until he saw the security guard who gave him his ID in the morning among the dead assassins.

So these people's methods are similar to Nine Provinces, they are all observing suspicious people who enter the building.

And Qing Chen's huge toolbox attracted their attention.

“Chen,” Nangeng Chen's voice came from the Bluetooth headset, “I saw several people with firearms going upstairs, a total of six people. They are currently on the seventh floor, and on average it takes 3 seconds to go up half a floor.”

“Understood,” Qing Chen stopped at the stair turn between the 16th and 17th floors, leaning quietly against the wall.

At this time, Liu Dezhu suddenly found that Qing Chen closed his eyes, as if he was waiting for the assassins to arrive.

But is it really appropriate to close your eyes at this time.

However, after a while, when the head of the first assassin appeared in their field of vision, Liu Dezhu saw Qing Chen open his eyes at the same time and pull the trigger!

With a bang, the assassin who was lifting his leg to climb the stairs was shot in the head, and his body fell backwards, pressing on his companion behind him.

Qing Chen took advantage of the moment when the first assassin's body disrupted the rhythm of all the assassins, and flashed sideways from the stair turn, continuously pulling the trigger!

Liu Dezhu behind him was dumbfounded. If it weren't for the other party having bombs, he wouldn't even be needed in such a small scene.

So, his role is to hug the bomb?

Earlier, after Liu Dezhu was promoted to C-Class, he was still a little complacent. After all, there aren't many C-Class Time Travelers. Qing Chen was only E-level.

But when he really saw Qing Chen killing people, he understood that he was still a little brother.

Qing Chen is so powerful, how terrifying is the Boss?

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