Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 332: The Test of the World

"There are no abnormalities downstairs, no more assassins sighted." Nangeng Chen said in a low voice through the Bluetooth headset.

"No abnormalities upstairs either," Zhang Tianzhen followed, "But I saw oil barrels in a room on the 18th floor, it seems like someone deliberately placed them there. I suspect there are some downstairs as well."

"Hmm, Liu Dezhu and I are coming down to meet you now. Tianzhen, you start coming down too," Qing Chen said.

Nangeng Chen said, "Chen, the fire downstairs is already huge, the other party seems to want to burn us alive, it's impossible to go down now."

"It's okay," Qing Chen glanced at Liu Dezhu, then said into the Bluetooth headset, "They don't know we have a C-Class Fire Awakened One, we'll meet on the 9th floor."

When the fire was raging, the flames soared upwards, burning all the building materials.

In this situation, the flames rose all the way up, no one could pass through the flames downstairs.

This was perhaps the Shendai assassins' plan; if they couldn't kill the snipers, they would burn them to death. No one could escape this building alive.

Qing Chen's expression turned cold. The other party was too ruthless. This Borui Building housed thousands of office workers, thousands of lives.

The other party even brought in oil barrels.

If the fire couldn't be stopped, everyone in this building would die.

While people were fleeing frantically to the top floor, Daybreak was calmly walking downwards, a scene that looked extraordinarily strange.

The left and right sides of the same staircase were like two distinct worlds.

When Qing Chen reached the 9th floor, it was already filled with smoke. Black smoke was surging along the ceiling, as if countless black faces were roaring inside.

They didn't encounter any other assassins, everyone successfully converged on the 9th floor.

"Chen, the smoke is too thick, we can't get through," Nangeng Chen said.

Liu Dezhu also looked at Qing Chen, "I can absorb heat, but I can't withstand this smoke."

Zhang Tianzhen looked at Qing Chen, but he didn't ask like the other two.

Qing Chen looked at Zhang Tianzhen, "Don't you want to ask anything?"

"No need to ask. You must have a way since you asked us to meet here," Zhang Tianzhen didn't know why he had this inexplicable trust in Qing Chen.

Qing Chen said to Liu Dezhu, "Open the toolbox I asked you to carry."

Liu Dezhu was stunned. After opening the box, he found eight sets of fire-resistant dust masks inside. In smoky conditions, these could last for half an hour.

Zhang Tianzhen and the others were stunned, "You already guessed they would set fire? And having Liu Dezhu protect you and defuse bombs was also something you anticipated?"

Qing Chen corrected, "Boss anticipated it."

However, this time Zhang Tianzhen started to doubt.

Not for any other reason, but because Qing Chen was too calm.

Only those who are truly in control of the situation would act so calmly.

At this time, Qing Chen looked at them and said, "Before the killing begins, no one can predict what the killer will do or how much they are willing to pay, so it's never wrong to be prepared."

He added, "The world never tests what you are prepared for, but what you are not prepared for."

Not being prepared could mean death.

After speaking, Qing Chen put on a smoke mask and led everyone towards the fire.

Liu Dezhu walked in front. Suddenly, all the heat began to gather towards him. The flames seemed to come alive, like dragons, burrowing into his body, which was composed of flames.

Wherever he passed, the flames quickly extinguished, leaving only blackened marks on the ground.

The three behind watched this scene, even Qing Chen felt it was magical.

If Cultivators are born for battle, then Awakened Ones are born to surprise people.

The abilities of Awakened Ones are too strange and novel, making people envious.

When the Daybreak members went downstairs, the fire had just reached the 6th floor.

Liu Dezhu tirelessly absorbed the flames into his body, and in just over twenty minutes, he extinguished them all.

Moreover, after the heat from the burning area was absorbed, the temperature in the building even dropped significantly.

It felt cold.

Qing Chen suddenly wondered if the essence of a Fire Awakened One was the manipulation of energy, rather than simply controlling flames?

He had been misled by the Inner World's term "Fire Awakened One" and hadn't thought much of it before. Now he felt this term was completely wrong.

Combustion is simply a vigorous oxidation-reduction reaction, and flames are a manifestation of combustion. Energy is the essence.

It's just that the phenomenon of energy release is mostly related to flames, and Awakened Ones find it most convenient to release their abilities using flames, so everyone calls this type of Awakened One a "Fire Awakened One."

But this term isn't scientific, at least it doesn't get to the essence.

Qing Chen started to get serious.

In fact, when Liu Dezhu was defusing the bombs, Qing Chen had been thinking that the essence of an explosion was the release of a large amount of energy, and what Liu Dezhu was absorbing was also energy.

Thinking of this, Qing Chen looked at Liu Dezhu and asked, "Do you usually feel that you have the ability to control energy, such as electromagnetic energy, mechanical energy, etc.?"

"No, I can only convert some energy in my body into heat and release it. When absorbing, it's also heat. I was able to defuse the bomb because I absorbed the heat into my body before the explosives fully burned, but before it ignited, my perception of it was very weak," Liu Dezhu said.

Qing Chen asked again, "Zhu, when you absorb heat into your body, do you feel a breakthrough?"

Liu Dezhu absorbed the surrounding energy while saying, "No, I just feel stuffy, a little like I'm going to throw up..."

It seemed that the upper limit of his strength was the upper limit of Liu Dezhu's ability to absorb and release energy. Releasing too much would exhaust him, and absorbing too much would make him want to spit fire...

Qing Chen said, "Bear with it, we'll find a deserted place to let you throw up."

"Okay..." Liu Dezhu replied.

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When Lu Yuan and the others arrived, the fire in the Borui Building had been completely extinguished.

It was extinguished in an unusual manner.

In the building, people discovered that the fire had been put out, and they hurriedly ran downstairs to escape.

Lu Yuan stopped a person and asked, "Was there any fierce conflict upstairs?"

Someone replied, "There are corpses on the stairs of the 16th floor, and in the conference room on the 17th floor! We didn't dare to approach, we don't know what happened."

"Thanks," Lu Yuan led his men upstairs.

When they reached the 16th floor, Lu Yuan found the assassins' corpses lying in the safety passage.

When they reached the 17th-floor conference room, there were only a few corpses left, and some "live" captives who were tied up.

Lu Yuan stepped over the captives, looking at the explosion marks on the ground and the firearms on the conference table.

He picked up a firearm and looked at it. There was a serial number on the gun.

Lu Yuan said, "These are the firearms Kunlun gave to Qing Chen before. Daybreak specifically returned the guns."

So there was no need to think too much. The Shendai assassins were indeed targeting Daybreak this time, and Daybreak once again solved the problem themselves.

However, Daybreak probably came with more than one person this time.

Little Eagle looked at Lu Yuan, "Team Lu, can you tell what happened?"

"It's simple," Lu Yuan said calmly, "The Shendai assassins wanted to hunt Daybreak's Boss, but instead they walked into Daybreak's ambush. Daybreak anticipated the Shendai's arrival, and the fire downstairs was probably extinguished by them."

Lu Yuan thought to himself that they had initially mistaken the hunter and the hunted. In this fight, Daybreak was the hunter. His worries were unnecessary.

Moreover, this time, they left without a trace, concealing their merit and fame.

Daybreak not only hunted down the Shendai Family assassins, but also specifically left the guns and captives for Kunlun.

This made Lu Yuan feel a little uneasy. It was as if everything they wanted to do and wanted to do had been calculated.

They had calculated that the Shendai assassins would come.

They had calculated that they would come to support.

They had calculated that they would find the 17th-floor conference room.

They had calculated that the gun would not be taken away.

What if someone else picked up the gun? If someone were to use this gun to kill innocent people in the future, and the ballistics were compared, the account would fall on Daybreak.

However, no one came to pick up the gun. All the escapees saw the corpses at the entrance and turned back.

Actually, Lu Yuan didn't know.

There is no such thing as a perfect plan in this world.

As Qing Chen said, the world never tests what you have prepared for, but what you haven't.

Qing Chen's personality is to prepare everything he can, and then Face^[-] the world.

Lu Yuan wouldn't know that when the countdown first appeared on the young man's arm, he even specifically prayed to Buddha.

At this moment, Little Eagle glanced at his phone and said, "Team Lu, Boss is back and wants us to return to headquarters."

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...

Deep within the Kunlun headquarters at Lijingmen, Zheng Yuandong and He Jinqiu each sat on an armchair, one drinking tea, the other drinking coffee.

He Jinqiu praised, "Kunlun's hospitality has improved. You know I like to drink coffee to stay awake, so you specifically prepared coffee. However, the grade of this coffee is not very high. If it's not instant, hand-ground would be better."

Zheng Yuandong picked up his teacup and said calmly, "You're overthinking. This coffee is just instant coffee that the Kunlun Members brought back from a hotel during a business trip to Xian City. It's not just coffee, there's also free shampoo, shower gel, and soap."

He Jinqiu was stunned, "You guys are so frugal? Kunlun isn't that poor, I know Kunlun has many sources of funds. What, did you spend it all on Ni Ergou's intelligence system?"

"That's none of your concern. Tell me, what's the matter with you coming to see me again?" Zheng Yuandong was still wearing his Zhongshan suit, always calm as water.

"Nothing else," He Jinqiu said, "It's just that Nine Provinces is operating domestically this time. I hope the old squad leader won't mind. After all, these people are Time Travelers controlled by Shendai and Koshima, and they should indeed be under the jurisdiction of Nine Provinces."

"You're overthinking it," Zheng Yuandong said calmly, "Shendai and Koshima are going all out this time. More power means more safety for the people. In the Face^[-] of national interests, there's no need to distinguish between you and me. What we're facing is not a power struggle, but a challenge to our bottom line."

He Jinqiu put down his coffee and stood up, "It's best if the old squad leader can think this way. I won't disturb you anymore. As for intelligence, Tang Keke and Ni Ergou will exchange information. At this time, the two organizations should share intelligence. By the way, please tell Team Lu not to always cling to Keke, she's from Nine Provinces."

Outside, Lu Yuan had just returned. Hearing this, before even entering the yard, he shouted, "Boss He, you're too nosy! Do you know what freedom of love is?"

He Jinqiu smiled, "Brave. Alright, I'm leaving."

After speaking, he ignored Lu Yuan and got into the business car at the entrance.

Lu Yuan mumbled, "Nine Provinces is really wealthy, they even choose good business cars. Boss, Nine Provinces' money doesn't come from a clean source, right?"

"Don't make wild guesses," Zheng Yuandong said, "They make money abroad, that's their ability. As long as they don't harm our own citizens."

In fact, since the time-travel incident, Nine Provinces has been making a lot of money abroad, and it's been unscrupulous.

Compared to ordinary mercenaries, Time Travelers are like adults beating up children. Except for those in the United States, no one can do anything about them.

However, everyone tacitly understands this. Kunlun is a domestic organization and can't do whatever they want like Nine Provinces.

So, the money comes slowly.

At this time, Zheng Yuandong put down his teacup, "Let's talk about business. Everyone else, leave. Little Eagle, Lu Yuan, you two stay."

After all the Kunlun Members left,

Zheng Yuandong said, "Little Eagle, tell me again what happened on the night Li Changqing was attacked."

Little Eagle carefully recalled and then carefully recounted all the details.

However, to everyone's surprise, after listening to the whole story, Zheng Yuandong suddenly said, "Confirmed, Qing Chen is the Boss of Daybreak."

"Ah?" Little Eagle was stunned, "Why, Boss? He didn't leave Ban Shan Mountain Estate that night. After Li Changqing gave me a new security clearance, I immediately checked, and his name wasn't on the access records. That night, he was at Baopu Building."

Zheng Yuandong thought for a moment and said, "I ask you, what is Baopu Building?"

"The residence of the Li Clan's head of the family," Little Eagle said, "Everyone in the Federation knows it."

"Yes, the key point is here," Zheng Yuandong said, "Although it's hard to believe, Qing Chen now has the qualification to enter and leave Baopu Building, and can even participate in family meetings with the second generation of Li Clan, and even has some say. I don't know how he did it, but he did it."

"Then what?" Little Eagle wondered.

Zheng Yuandong replied, "The problem is in Baopu Building. Can someone who can enter and leave Baopu Building even when the Li Clan Old Master is critically ill not modify his own access records? In other words, can't Baopu Building lie for him? From this point, I'm not saying he changed his access records, but the access records can no longer be used as proof of his alibi."

"But why are you so certain he's the sniper, the Boss of Daybreak?" Lu Yuan was puzzled.

Lu Yuan used to be in criminal investigation, but he always needed Zheng Yuandong to unravel the mystery. It's not that Lu Yuan was stupid, but the truth about Daybreak was always hidden very deeply. Qing Chen kept giving himself different identities and disguises, making the outside world dizzy, unable to see the truth.

However, Lu Yuan still didn't understand why their Boss was so certain that Qing Chen was the sniper.

Zheng Yuandong said, "First, Qing Chen has absolute marksmanship. Of course, there aren't many people with 400-meter absolute marksmanship, but there are some. At least He Jinqiu and I can do it. But this is at least some evidence, proving Qing Chen's firearms foundation. In the past, we always wondered if the Daybreak Boss was a retired army sniper, because ordinary people couldn't train themselves to that level in just two months."

"However, Qing Chen proved to us that there are indeed people who don't need that long to master absolute marksmanship. For such a special person, who can possess 400-meter absolute marksmanship in a short period of time, I'm willing to believe he can be even more amazing."

Zheng Yuandong continued, "Second, I trust women's intuition."

Lu Yuan: "???"

Little Eagle: "???"

They were about to hear the reasoning, but the Boss suddenly started talking about metaphysics?

"I'm serious," Zheng Yuandong asked, "Do you know Qing Chen, or does Li Changqing know Qing Chen better? She has spent time with Qing Chen, so she must know him better."

"Do you know more secrets about Qing Chen, or does Li Changqing know more? It must be Li Changqing who knows more."

"So, after the incident, Li Changqing immediately went to Autumn Leaf Manor, which is enough to show that in her heart, the sniper who appeared in Jinmao Building that night could only be Qing Chen, at least she thought so."

"Finally, if we assume Qing Chen is the Daybreak Boss, then many things can be explained."

Little Eagle and Lu Yuan looked at each other, they didn't expect their Boss to make such an astonishing deduction just after returning from a business trip.

Zheng Yuandong stood up, "This time I only believe in my judgment. Even if there is any more evidence proving that Qing Chen and the Daybreak Boss are not the same person, I won't believe it. That would only be an illusion created by Qing Chen. Remember, only the three of us know about this, it's one of Kunlun's top secrets."

At this moment, with Hu Xiaoniu's help, Liu Dezhu and the others had returned to Villa 12.

However, at this time, they found that Qing Chen and Nangeng Chen had not returned yet.

They left the scene separately.

After Hu Xiaoniu helped Liu Dezhu, she specifically found a place for him to spit fire, and he did so for a long time before finishing. Qing Chen and Nangeng Chen should have been home long ago.

"Did Chen and Nangeng Chen get into trouble?" Liu Dezhu now, following Nangeng Chen's address of Qing Chen, also called him Chen.

"Call them," Zhang Tianzhen said, "See if you can get through."

For a moment, all the Daybreak members became nervous.

Today was a very dangerous day. What if Qing Chen and Nangeng Chen encountered enemies after they left?

The phone was connected, and Qing Chen said, "Are you home yet?"

Liu Dezhu: "Yes, yes."

"Did you finish spitting fire? Anything unusual?" Qing Chen asked.

"Finished, nothing unusual, just a little hot, and my urine is a little yellow..." Liu Dezhu asked, "Chen, why haven't you come back yet?"

"Oh, we're handling something. It's okay, don't worry," Qing Chen said.

"Okay," Liu Dezhu hung up the phone relieved, "We were overthinking, they're fine."

"Yeah, that's good," Hu Xiaoniu said.

At this moment, Qing Chen turned to look at the traffic policeman in front of him.

He heard the other party patiently say, "Remember not to take people with you on electric bikes next time. And, you need to wear a helmet when riding an electric bike, you know? This time, I see that you are students, so I will just give a verbal warning. Next time, I will have to fine you."

Qing Chen, Nangeng Chen: "Okay, officer..."

The reason why they hadn't returned home yet was that they were riding an electric bike with a passenger and without helmets, and were stopped by the traffic police for education...

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