Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 343: Black Spade Meets Black Spade Again

“Why do you say Jiang Yichen has ulterior motives?” Qiduo was a little puzzled.

“That young man’s name is Qing Zhade, the slightly older one beside the old man, they are all from the Qing Family,” Hu Xiaoniu said casually, “He is a PCE Public Security Committee investigator. After meeting this neighbor, he found that he suddenly came to City 18 without warning, saying that he planned to take the entrance examination of Qing He University, but he didn’t even go to any tutoring classes, and he was sneaky every day. Do you know about the Shadow Succession incident? Qing Zhade suspected that he was involved in the murder of Qing Zhong and is now being hunted by the Qing Family. He may not have any ill intentions towards you, but he may very well want to use your team to escape the pursuit.”

Zhade is a phonetic translation of zard.

Mainly because Qing Chen didn’t know zard’s real name, otherwise he would have used the other party’s real name directly.

The reason for the surname Qing is because they were driving a car with the Qing Family logo, and only the surname Qing would make sense.

Hu Xiaoniu continued: “You must know that in the Shadow Succession, if an outsider kills a Shadow Candidate, the Qing Clan Secret Intelligence Agency will hunt down the murderer to the ends of the earth.”

After Hu Xiaoniu finished speaking, he felt like he was playing Werewolf.

Qing Chen first gave himself the identity of a pce Federation investigator (police officer), and then directly gave Jiang Yichen a ‘kill’ judgment, characterizing him as a ‘wolf’..

At this time, Qing Chen’s NPC identity was a natural disguise.

Qiduo recalled.

In fact, they hadn’t actively invited Jiang Yichen in the Outer World, but the other party had taken the initiative to come to their door, saying that he wanted to go to the wilderness with them to have a look.

Thinking about it now, being so proactive is indeed a bit suspicious.

However, Qiduo wasn’t a fool, he always felt something was wrong: “Could Qing Zhade be here to hunt down Jiang Yichen?”

“No,” Hu Xiaoniu shook his head, “Who would bring an old man and a child out to hunt someone down? I heard him talking privately with the old man, and the old man told him not to get involved in the Shadow Succession incident casually. Even if it’s confirmed that Jiang Yichen is the murderer, Qing Zhade cannot kill him. Their kind of Conglomerate branch doesn’t want to get involved in the Shadow Succession. They plan to part ways with you tomorrow to avoid being implicated by this Jiang Yichen.”

Qiduo was stunned, indeed, if Qing Zhade was here to kill Jiang Yichen, why would he bring an old man and a child? This is definitely unreasonable.

So, Hu Xiaoniu was sincerely reminding them, lest they be tricked by Jiang Yichen.

After Qiduo left, Qing Chen slowly walked out of the woods, and he said with a smile: “Xiaoniu’s acting skills are good, and his logic is also good.”

Hu Xiaoniu scratched his head, a little embarrassed: “Actually, Zhang Tianzhen is more suitable for this kind of thing. If Tianzhen were here, I’m afraid he could trick them into driving Jiang Yichen out of the team tonight.”

“Brother Chen, are you going to take Jiang Yichen’s Forbidden Artifact?” Hu Xiaoniu asked.

“No,” Qing Chen shook his head, “Our main purpose this time is to fulfill the old man’s wish, everything else is secondary.”

For Qing Chen, whether Jiang Yichen had a Forbidden Artifact wasn’t the most important thing.

What he needed was to reach Forbidden Zone 002 as soon as possible.

Now Qing Chen wasn’t sure what level Jiang Yichen was, or what the strength of the highest-level student in the Masonic Lodge was, and he didn’t plan to directly take the thing by force.

“Then why did you set him up,” Hu Xiaoniu was curious.

Qing Chen said: “I want to see if he’s uneasy after the news gets out, to confirm whether he is Lu Ya.”

“By the way, Brother Chen, what exactly are we going to Forbidden Zone 002 for?” Hu Xiaoniu asked in a low voice, “I know it’s for the old man to fulfill his wish, but I’m asking, why did you bring me along?”

“You should already have the answer in your heart,” Qing Chen replied with a smile.

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…

The next day at dawn, before the sky had fully brightened, Qing Chen took the old man, Li Ke, and Hu Xiaoniu to the wilderness.

It was the place where Li Shutong had taken him to practice rock climbing.

He would teach Li Ke and Hu Xiaoniu the techniques he would need before they reached Qingshan Cliff.

Before this, Hu Xiaoniu and Li Ke had been practicing for a long time, even before Qing Chen entered the Li Clan academy, Li Ke had been practicing secretly and hoped to be selected by his seventh uncle one day.

Although no one knew what the subsequent challenges of the Knight were, Qingshan Cliff wasn’t a secret in the Li Clan.

In the back mountain of the Ban Shan Mountain Estate, there was also a cliff of several tens of meters.

The old man sat on a rock, panting, watching Li Ke and Hu Xiaoniu nimbly climb upward, the rising sun behind them blooming towards the horizon.

“Is the sunrise on Qingshan Cliff more beautiful than this?” the old man asked softly.

“Yes,” Qing Chen replied, “That was the most beautiful sunrise I’ve ever seen.”

“Thank you,” the old man said suddenly.

“Why are you suddenly saying this?” Qing Chen smiled, “You are my master’s father, it’s only right to help you fulfill your last wish. If he were still in City 18, he would do the same.”

“Actually, I didn’t have such expectations,” the old man shook his head, “Until you appeared in Ban Shan Mountain Estate, I saw a glimmer of hope.”

At this time, he pointed to Li Ke and Hu Xiaoniu, and said to Qing Chen beside him with emotion: “I practiced this back then too. The place where Li Ke secretly practiced rock climbing in the back mountain was also a place I often went to.”

“I said, why would there be a place specifically for practicing rock climbing, did you have it built?” Qing Chen asked curiously.

“No, it’s been there for hundreds of years. After the Li Clan became a Knight, there have been Knight members from generation to generation,” the old man said with a smile.

By 9 am, Li Ke and Hu Xiaoniu stopped practicing, drenched in sweat.

Li Ke said: “Master, although I have rock climbing skills, Qingshan Cliff is 600 meters high, and my stamina may not be able to support it.”

Hu Xiaoniu thought for a moment and said: “Me too, I roughly calculated in my mind, I’ll probably be exhausted when I climb to more than 200 meters.”

Qing Chen smiled and shook his head: “It’s alright, don’t worry about that.”

He thought, since he was bringing two successors of the Knight at once, it was only reasonable for those old fellows in the Forbidden Zone to give up some of their treasures.

At this time, the old man said: “Let’s rest for a while, I can’t walk anymore.”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said: “I’ll carry you.”

With that, he put the old man on his back and slowly walked towards the camp.

The old man’s weight was already very light, like a feather, and he might fly away carelessly.

Qing Chen suddenly felt a pang of heartache, he didn’t know when he had already treated the old man as his own grandfather, and he even vaguely hoped that their journey to the Forbidden Zone would be slower, allowing the old man to hold on to that bit of hope for a few more days.

Back at the camp, the students of the Masonic Lodge curiously asked: “Where did you go?”

However, before Qing Chen could explain anything, he saw the old man nimbly getting off Qing Chen’s back and walking towards the female students: “I see you’re packing your things, are you leaving? I’ll take your car today, so I can continue to tell you stories about Zone 3 on the way.”

The female students happily said: “Okay!”

Qing Chen looked at the old man’s back expressionlessly. That tired and worn-out appearance, ready to pass away at any moment, was just to trick him into carrying him back!

Is this old man really the head of the Li Clan? Where is the majestic old man from the news?

However, at this moment, an Off-road Vehicle rushed over from the north. A little strangely, the Off-road Vehicle didn’t take the main road, but came along the dirt road.

Qing Chen frowned; it was clearly coming for them.

He took two steps back, opened their car doors, and put his hand into his gun holster.

The next moment, the Off-road Vehicle came to a sudden stop in front of everyone, and a strong, bald man jumped out of the car. He looked around and then smiled at Nangong Yuanyu: “Guys, where are you going?”

Nangong Yuanyu said: “South.”

The bald man smiled: “What are you going south for?”

Nangong Yuanyu said: “To see the scenery in the south.”

“It happens that I’m also going south, why don’t we all go together? There are bandits on the road, and it’s good to have company,” the bald man said.

Nangong Yuanyu smiled: “Okay.”

At this moment, Qing Chen had already moved his hand away from the gun holster.

Because he knew this bald man.

Black Spade, Guo Huchan!

That characteristic bald head, Qing Chen was extremely familiar with!

Although this guy pretended not to know Nangong Yuanyu, his acting skills were too poor, and anyone with discerning eyes could tell that he was here to rendezvous.

At this time, Qing Chen already had an understanding. This trip of the Masonic Lodge to the southern wilderness was most likely related to Black Spade.

He had observed this convoy; clearly, none of the cars were full, and the vacancy rate was even quite high, yet they had brought out so many cars.

They were transporting things!

As for what they were transporting, Qing Chen wasn’t sure yet.

According to Li Shutong, Black Spade is now the protector of the Wildlanders and has a close relationship with Fire Pit. These people were probably secretly transporting supplies to support the Wildlanders.

Black Spade has always been traveling in the wilderness and doesn’t have any power within the Federation, so the Masonic Lodge can transport so many supplies, and the Shadow Master and Black Spade must have reached some kind of deal behind the scenes.

But the problem is, aren’t the wilderness and the Federation opposed to each other?

He’s making deals with Li Shutong, and also making deals with Black Spade.

What exactly does that Shadow Master want to do?

At this time, Guo Huchan also noticed Qing Chen and the others. When he saw the ginkgo leaf logo on the car, he raised his eyebrows: “Who are these?”

“Just happened to be traveling together,” Nangong Yuanyu explained.

“Oh,” Guo Huchan touched his bald head: “It’s fate that we meet, friends, let’s go together.”

Qing Chen thought, if this guy knew that he had impersonated his boss, Xu Linsen, and almost caused him to suffer a beating, I wonder if he would still want to recognize him as a friend…

Wait, on this road going south, will they meet Yang Yang?