Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 346: Joining Forces

The campfires flickered in the camp.

The students of Masonic Lodge curiously sized up Li Situ and Yang Yang, questioning their identities.

Guo Huchan excitedly introduced them, “This is Li Situ, and that girl is Yang Yang.”

The students of Masonic Lodge glanced at Li Situ before their gazes lingered on Yang Yang.

The girl was still wearing a gray hoodie with the hood up.

At this time, Li Situ said, “I’ve delivered Yang Yang. The rest is up to you. I need to hurry to City 18.”

Guo Huchan questioned, “What are you doing going to City 18 now? The Conglomerate and Federation are both hunting Black Spade. You’re an open member of Black Spade. It’ll be very dangerous to go there now.”

“To attend a funeral,” Li Situ calmly replied.

Guo Huchan was taken aback, “Sorry, I almost forgot you’re from the Li Clan.”

Li Situ shook his head, “I’ve long severed ties with the Li Clan, but my father passed away. As his son, I still need to go back, even though it’s been eighteen years.”

Qing Chen heard this and quietly glanced at the elder.

He was incredibly shocked. The Conglomerate was like a towering tree in the Federation, its branches and leaves affecting various organizations to varying degrees.

Qing Chen truly hadn’t expected that this Li Situ was actually the elder’s son.

No wonder the other party looked distressed and had an air of world-weariness. It turned out he had just received news of his father’s death.

But the problem was, Li Situ probably wouldn’t have guessed that the elder wasn’t dead and was right beside him.

Come to think of it, Li Situ hadn’t returned to the Li Clan in eighteen years, so it was normal for him not to recognize the disguised elder.

“Aren’t you going to recognize him?” Qing Chen curiously asked in a low voice, “That’s your son.”

“No,” the elder calmly said, “At this moment, being able to see him from afar and knowing he’s doing well is enough. Back then, he said the Conglomerate was a malignant tumor in the Federation and disdained associating with it. He ran away to the southwest snow mountain. Later, when I wanted to know about him, I could only get information from intelligence reports.”

“Shouldn’t you give him a chance to say goodbye in person?” Qing Chen asked.

“There’s no need for a goodbye. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are the fate of life. There’s no need for sentimentality,” the elder said, “The fact that he still remembers the father-son relationship makes me happy enough. I think funerals should be held before death so that one can see people’s true hearts. You know, faking death is quite interesting. But I did a better job than your master. Nobody believed his faked death.”

The elder was smug.

This expression formed a stark contrast with Li Situ’s distressed Face^[-] on the other side.

Seeing this, Guo Huchan and the students of Masonic Lodge even offered Li Situ their condolences.

“What’s Li Situ’s ranking among the second generation of the Li Family?” Qing Chen asked.

“Seventeenth,” the elder replied, “I don’t know why, even though I haven’t seen him in eighteen years, seeing him this sad makes me quite happy. And hearing so many people offer him condolences, I even want to say ‘my condolences’ to him.”

Qing Chen: …

He imagined the scene and found it dramatic.

This is really something the elder would do!

Li Situ left. He left in a hurry, as if he were racing against time.

Guo Huchan returned to the bonfire of Masonic Lodge and greeted Yang Yang, “Yang Yang, come warm yourself by the fire and rest.”

Some students in Masonic Lodge silently sized up Yang Yang, pondering whether she was easy to get along with and what her personality was like.

The elder whispered, “The Li Clan has no information about this girl. She seems to be a new member of Black Spade.”

Qing Chen pondered, Yang Yang was mysterious in both the Outer World and the Inner World.

Even the elder didn’t know her identity.

Right, most members of Masonic Lodge were students from Luo Yi High School and had never seen Yang Yang. They probably didn’t know that Yang Yang was also a Time Traveler.

At this time, Yang Yang didn’t go to Guo Huchan but walked straight towards Qing Chen.

The elder was stunned.

The girl sat down by their bonfire and asked with a smile, “Do you have anything to eat? I’ve been traveling all day and only ate a piece of bread this morning.”

The elder laughed and nudged Qing Chen with his elbow, “Don’t you give the girl some food? We have supplies and rations in the car. We’re well-prepared.”

Hu Xiaoniu looked at the bonfire, looking as if he didn’t recognize Yang Yang, puzzled about what the other party intended to do.

Qing Chen silently went to get food. The students of Masonic Lodge were all confused. Nangong Yuanyu looked at Guo Huchan, “Do you have a conflict with her? Why did she go over there?”

Guo Huchan touched his bald head, “No.”

Qing Chen took two chocolates, a compressed biscuit, and a bottle of water and handed them to Yang Yang.

Yang Yang accepted them without hesitation and ate them without any pretense, not even minding her table manners.

The elder saw the girl’s straightforward manner and immediately liked her. He pointed at Qing Chen and said, “Girl, do you have a boyfriend? What do you think of this young man beside me?”

Here we go!

Qing Chen thought, you should at least lay some groundwork, right? Asking a girl this question so directly is appropriate?

Yang Yang smiled, “I think he’s pretty good.”

The elder’s eyes lit up, “Want to consider getting to know each other?”

Yang Yang nodded, “Okay.”

The camp suddenly fell silent. The elder and Yang Yang’s voices weren’t quiet, so most of the camp heard their conversation.

One dares to speak.

One dares to agree.

However, not only were the students of Masonic Lodge stunned, but even the elder was stunned.

Actually, he was just playful and wanted to tease Qing Chen.

After all, Qing Chen was serious all the time, managing this and that, even preventing him from telling stories to the female students. The elder found Qing Chen’s calm expression boring.

But now it’s interesting.

The girl actually agreed!

Now, it’s the elder’s turn to hesitate. He asked Yang Yang, “Don’t you need to observe a little longer?”

Yang Yang smiled and looked at Qing Chen, “Isn’t this good? No need to observe.”

The elder felt like something went wrong…

Qing Chen sighed. In front of this girl, any disguise was impossible to hide from her perception.

As Yang Yang had said before, everything within 200 meters was in her mind. Others might be fooled by the Forbidden Artifactace-005 on his Face^[-], but Yang Yang definitely wouldn’t be.

So, the girl knew he was here before she even got out of the car.

However, Yang Yang was equally playful. She pretended not to know Qing Chen and didn’t even recognize Hu Xiaoniu.

But Yang Yang looked at Qing Chen and said, “My name is Yang Yang, I’m 17 years old. What about you?”

Qing Chen: “My name is Qing Zhade, I’m 27 years old.”

Seeing the two chatting enthusiastically, the elder immediately said, “You two have too much of an age gap. It’s not suitable.”

Yang Yang smiled, “I think it’s pretty suitable.”

Qing Chen: “Yeah, I think it’s pretty suitable too.”

Among everyone present, only Hu Xiaoniu knew the truth.

He realized that Qing Chen and Yang Yang were very tacitly choosing to tease the elder in return.

The elder said, “My grandson is very uninteresting. He doesn’t have any hobbies and isn’t romantic at all. Also, he works at the pce security management committee. He’s a bit at odds with your Black Spade. Girl, you should be cautious. I’m afraid it will ruin you.”

Yang Yang’s eyes lit up, “Before, Black Spade had no one to take care of them in pce. Now they do.”

The elder said, “My grandson is from the Federation. He certainly won’t come to the wilderness with you. You two will be worlds apart, with no possibility at all.”

Yang Yang smiled, “Black Spade wants me to return to the city to organize protests soon. I don’t need him to come to the wilderness.”

The elder sighed, what the heck is this? He actually messed up.

He stood up with his hands behind his back and sulked towards his tent.

But after returning to his tent, the elder quickly realized that these two probably knew each other beforehand and conspired to play a trick on him, right?

Otherwise, why would this girl go straight to Qing Chen?

This girl named Yang Yang was probably also a Time Traveler, and maybe she was very familiar with Qing Chen in the Outer World!

The elder, as the former head of the Li Clan, quickly figured out the secret after a little thought.

At this time, after the elder left the bonfire, the students of Masonic Lodge no longer paid attention to this side.

“Li Ke, go lay down a moisture-proof mat in Old Master’s tent. Don’t let him catch a cold,” Qing Chen said.

Li Ke left obediently.

Qing Chen, Yang Yang, and Hu Xiaoniu sat by the bonfire, the firelight illuminating their faces.

Qing Chen looked at Yang Yang and said, “I didn’t expect to meet you here.”

Yang Yang smiled, “I didn’t expect it either. Are you with these students from Masonic Lodge?”

“No, I just happened to meet them,” Qing Chen replied.

Yang Yang proactively talked about what she had been doing recently, “I returned to Haicheng recently and organized some college students and high school students to come to the wilderness, bringing those Time Travelers who couldn’t survive in the city. We tried to rebuild homes in places the Conglomerate overlooked. Now, we have built a small town in the southern wilderness, with Time Travelers and relatively friendly Wildlanders.”

Qing Chen smiled, “Why are you telling me this?”

Yang Yang smiled and glanced at Hu Xiaoniu, then asked Qing Chen, “Does he know?”

“It’s okay, no need to hide it from him,” Qing Chen said.

Hu Xiaoniu was dumbfounded. The two were talking in riddles. He seemed to understand, but not completely.

At this time, Yang Yang smiled, “I’m a member of Daybreak after all, so it’s appropriate to report my recent actions to the Boss.”

Qing Chen glanced at Hu Xiaoniu. He was already in shock.

Hu Xiaoniu looked at Qing Chen with an incredible expression, “You’re the Boss?”

He then looked at Yang Yang, “So, the girl who descended from the sky on the night Liu Dezhu was retaliated against by the Wang Yun family was you?”

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