Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 370: Joining Secret Spy Agency

Qing Chen still held the cold, black pistol in the corridor.

The white light from the elevator shone through the open door, creating an extremely awkward atmosphere.

The woman in front of him looked to be in her early twenties, with fair skin. She was crying, her eyes red and swollen, as if she had applied a layer of pink eyeshadow.

However, Inner World's skincare technology is quite advanced. Some forty-year-olds can look like they're in their twenties, so facial age is no longer a reliable reference.

The woman had no calluses on her hands and no signs of combat training on her body.

A killer who has undergone long-term training will have a natural droop in their right hand when walking, unlike a normal person.

This is to draw their weapon faster and respond to crises faster.

Even if someone forcibly overcomes this habit, they will look a little awkward.

At this moment, Qing Chen's phone rang. He picked it up and looked at it. It was a message from Shadow Master: "Interesting."

Sure enough, the other party was no longer satisfied with just saying "interesting" to themselves; they had to send the word "interesting" to him.

Qing Chen looked at the surveillance camera at the elevator entrance. The other party was probably watching his expression through that camera at this moment.

But at this moment, he was thinking about a problem. Li Changqing once said that this Shadow sometimes completes what he wants to do while playing.

So what is the purpose of the other party playing like this now?

Is it hoped that he and the woman in front of him will have some kind of interaction? Or is it purely to play?

The woman looked at Qing Chen with teary eyes: "Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?!"

Qing Chen sighed: "I'm sorry, I really did mistake you for someone else."

The woman trembled and said: "Please let me go, I promise I won't call the police."

"Thank you," After saying this, Qing Chen brushed past the woman and entered the elevator, pressing the close door button several times without a sound.

If Qing Chen couldn't remain calm, he would have smashed the close door button.

Qing Chen got out of the elevator and immediately called Qing Family Shadow: "Is this how you have fun?

Shadow laughed: "I'm unhappy every time I see you looking so calm. It's interesting to see you panic a little."

"What are you trying to achieve?" Qing Chen asked, puzzled.

"Of course it's for fun," Shadow asked playfully, "Isn't there anything more important than fun? No!"

Qing Chen sighed as he walked out, did he come to City 10 to have fun with Shadow Master?

The young man stood in the noisy cyberpunk city at midnight.

In front of him were colorful neon lights, golden holographic clouds flowing rapidly in the sky, merging perfectly with the blue whale at the end of the street, as if the huge whale was rolling in the clouds.

The young man's pupils narrowed, the dazzling light strips on the buildings, and the Cybernetic Limbs on the pedestrians on the roadside, all converging together.

Shadow curiously asked: "What are you doing standing there? Why don't you leave? By the way, the power structure of the Secret Spy Agency is very simple. Your position is a secret spy. The positions of the 12 people under you are called Kestrel. They are all carefully selected for you. You must use them well."

Qing Chen didn't speak.

Shadow laughed: "Go to Secret Spy Agency to report with peace of mind. There will be more interesting things waiting for you in the future... eh?"

At this moment, Shadow suddenly discovered that he had lost sight of Qing Chen in the surveillance, as if the young man had the ability to disappear into the crowd like a drop of water into the sea.

Qing Chen didn't change his appearance, but walked into the blind spot of all surveillance cameras.

He was proving to Shadow that even though the other party was omnipotent, he still had a way to escape the other party's control.

"This is even more interesting. I like control, but I like the uncertainty of the future even more," Shadow said before hanging up the phone.

In Shadow's 34 years of life, his life has been orderly, as if everything was in the foreseeable future, always moving forward according to his plan.

Including his own life.

People in this life like certainty too much, such as fantasizing about saving six million yuan and putting it in the bank to earn interest, carefree life for the rest of their life.

Such as finding a secure job and waiting for old age.

Such as finding a faithful love, hoping it will never deteriorate.

But Shadow felt that this kind of life was boring. When a person has seen people, things, and things being controlled, he prefers uncertain things to happen.

Uncertainty equals surprise.

If you know what you will get early on, then the surprise cannot be called a surprise.

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1:45 AM.

In front of the Caramel Bar.

The Caramel Bar is located on the first floor of Leiming Building. Yan Chunmi arrived 15 minutes in advance, but did not see her new boss.

She muttered, "He's someone who doesn't like to arrive early, but he won't be late, will he?"

At this moment, Qing Chen's voice came from behind her: "You ate three servings of takoyaki, two skewers of oden, a bowl of braised chicken rice, a steak, and why are you so able to eat? Isn't it said that you will go to the crew for auditions tomorrow? Do third-tier stars not need to do body management?"

Yan Chunmi turned around abruptly and saw her new boss's calm expression.

She suddenly realized that the other party had been following her all the way, but she hadn't noticed at all.

In fact, Qing Chen not only knew how much she had eaten, but also knew that when she passed the first traffic light after leaving Utopia Tower, she took her left foot first.

Qing Chen walked past her and entered the Caramel Bar: "You need to be more careful when eating in the future."

Yan Chunmi stubbornly bit her lip. She is already the best Kestrel in the group. If she is not cautious enough, then others are even worse.

This new boss didn't want to remind her of anything, but was using his actions to give her a Show of Power, making her work honestly and not overthink.

Someone who can follow a person for several kilometers without being discovered naturally has the ability to kill her silently.

In fact, a batch of new secret spies will be joining this time, in addition to Shadow Candidate Qing Yi, Qing Shi, Qing Wen, Qing Wu, Qing Yuan, and Qing Xing, there are four others.

These ten secret spies in total must re-recruit their 12 Kestrels, making them sincerely admire them.

If they cannot win over the people, then the secret spies are only empty-handed commanders, after all, all the intelligence and operational capabilities of the secret spies come from the Kestrels.

The Kestrels are the elites of the Qing Family intelligence system. It is very difficult to win them over, which means that the person in the position of secret spy must be very capable.

Qing Family is a Conglomerate that attaches great importance to internal competition, from Shadow Succession to secret spies controlling Kestrels, those with ability will rise, those without ability will get out, never showing any mercy.

Therefore, Yan Chunmi cooperated with Shadow Master to make fun of Qing Chen today, and wanted to make things difficult for him.

As a result, the slap in the Face^[-] came so quickly.

Yan Chunmi watched Qing Chen walk into the Caramel Bar and quickly followed. She curiously asked Qing Chen: "Boss, when did you start following me?"

Qing Chen said: "From the moment you left Utopia Tower, but I went back once after you sat down and started eating braised chicken rice... It's not a good habit to look through other people's things."

He arrived in City 10 for the first time today, that's where he rented, and there were no personal items of his, so Shadow Master didn't tell the other party this information, otherwise the other party wouldn't have rummaged through the house.

Yan Chunmi said: "Boss, don't bluff me, I didn't look through your things."

Qing Chen looked at her: "You only rummaged through the closet, nothing else."

For Qing Chen, he could see at a glance whether there were any changes in his home.

Now Yan Chunmi was really surprised. She was about to say something, but Qing Chen didn't give her a chance: "Don't explain anything, we're about to cooperate to complete Shadow Master's mission, it's normal for you to want to examine your new boss, but this kind of thing only has one chance."

Yan Chunmi whispered: "Yes, Boss."

Qing Chen asked: "Where is the Secret Spy Agency hidden?"

Yan Chunmi took Qing Chen to the depths of the Caramel Bar. There was an elevator belonging to Leiming Building that could directly go to floors 2 to 132.

Entering the elevator, Yan Chunmi pressed the buttons 4, 10, 2, 18, 3, 16, 5, and 17 on the floor numbers.

The letters on the elevator buttons flashed white and then went out together.

With a hum, the elevator did not go up, but went down.

Qing Chen silently counted in his heart. When it was the 32nd second, the elevator slowly stopped falling and reopened.

In front of them was a small office with dim yellow lights. An old man wearing reading glasses was sitting at a dilapidated desk, looking up at the two people in the elevator.

He pondered for two seconds and said: "Qing Chen, you are the first to arrive, Shadow Master mentioned you."

Qing Chen got out of the elevator: "What should I call you?"

The old man took off his reading glasses and smiled: "Just call me Old Shen."

Qing Chen looked at the other party, his eyes paused on the reading glasses for a moment.

Old Shen smiled: "I, Old Shen, have poor eyesight but a sharp mind. You're curious why I wear reading glasses, right? After all, it's a problem that can be easily solved with a simple operation. Wearing reading glasses is so troublesome, right?

Qing Chen frankly said: "I am a little curious."

Old Shen said: "I haven't left this underground place since 32 years ago, and I haven't had a chance to have eye surgery. Besides, people in my position can't accept anesthesia, not even local anesthesia. If it affects the nerves, or if someone takes the opportunity to give me a truth serum, that would be a big trouble."

Old Shen continued: "Moreover, today's technology is hard to guard against. If someone implants something in me during eye surgery, then all of you will be in danger."

Qing Chen silently looked at the room, and saw three wooden doors behind Old Shen.

He couldn't imagine what it was like for a person to sit underground for 32 years. If it were him, could he bear such loneliness?

Qing Chen asked: "Old Shen, is your surname Shen?"

Old Shen smiled: "This position can't be occupied by outsiders. My surname is Qing, and my name is Qing Shen."

Old Shen stood up and opened one of the doors behind him. There was another small room inside, filled with bookshelves, and on the bookshelves were neatly arranged paper file bags.

Qing Chen didn't expect that in this high-tech era, the Qing Clan Secret Intelligence Agency was still using the oldest method to record the information of all secret spies.

Old Shen took out a new file bag for Qing Chen: "This is the information of all your Kestrels. Memorize it here, and then I'll burn it. Check if the seal is intact. Shadow Master personally delivered this information. I haven't touched it. I don't know who your Kestrels are, only you know."

Qing Chen thought to himself, with the ability of the Forbidden Artifact ACE-008 Shadow Gate in Shadow's hands, it is quite convenient to enter and exit here, but he didn't expect Shadow to attach so much importance to the Kestrel's information that he personally delivered it to this underground place.

Qing Chen curiously asked: "What's behind these three doors?

"You're quite curious," Old Shen said with a smile, "The door on the right is my living room, the one on the left holds information about all of you secret spies and your Kestrels, and the one in the middle has Hexogen explosives. If anyone invades, I will be blown to ashes with the invader."

Qing Chen silently observed the other party's expression, but found that the other party had no psychological burden when saying this sentence.

He opened the Kestrel information and read it for a full half an hour.

This includes the contact information, cover identities, intelligence gathering directions, height, weight, three sizes, and skills of the 12 Kestrels.

There is only one point, the paper information originally wrote the strength level of all Kestrels, but it was completely erased with a black pen, as if someone did not want Qing Chen to know it so easily.

Needless to think, it must be Qing Family Shadow who did it. Except for this Shadow, no one would make fun of the important information of the Secret Spy Agency.

After half an hour, Qing Chen returned the information to Old Shen.

In fact, Qing Chen could remember it at a glance, but he didn't want Yan Chunmi and Old Shen to know that he had a photographic memory.

Old Shen opened the drawer under his desk, which contained a small incinerator.

Old Shen muttered: "You looked very carefully. Other secret spies finished in ten minutes. Let me think, what else is the process... Oh, right, there's an oath, but Shadow Master said that you don't need to take the oath, so please go back."

Yan Chunmi was stunned, no oath?!

Why?

You know that all secret spies who come here must take an oath, this is the established procedure.

The Shadow Master specifically instructed that Qing Chen did not need to take an oath, there must be a deeper meaning behind this.

But, she couldn't figure out why.

"Is that all?" Qing Chen asked, "Shouldn't you issue something? Like weapons?"

That's how spies are portrayed in movies. After becoming a top spy, you get some high-tech weapons, such as eavesdropping shoes, pens filled with high-performance explosives...

And a ring that symbolizes the identity of a top spy.

Old Shen asked with a smile: "What else do you want? If a secret spy needs to come to me, Old Shen, to find weapons, what kind of secret spy are you? Should I give you a badge to wear on your chest and tell everyone on the street that you are from Qing Family's Secret Spy Agency?"

Qing Chen was not annoyed, he just calmly said goodbye and turned to walk into the elevator.

Old Shen watched him leave with a smile, as if he had done a very ordinary thing.

In the elevator, Qing Chen suddenly said: "Yan Chunmi, before I came, you should have been the secret spy above this group of Kestrels, and after I came, you became a Kestrel."

Yan Chunmi smiled: "How could that be? I've always been a Kestrel."

While speaking, Yan Chunmi looked straight at Qing Chen, without touching her nose or glancing in other directions, everything was normal.

Qing Chen smiled without speaking, but he already had the answer in his heart.

In his judgment, Kestrels would not be qualified to enter this underground place at all. Old Shen is too important, and the information in this underground place is too important.

Therefore, Yan Chunmi must have a more important position, at least higher than a Kestrel.

The elevator went up slower than it came down.

In the slow ascent of the elevator, Qing Chen asked: "Why is Old Shen willing to sit here for 32 years?

Yan Chunmi thought for a moment and said: "I heard that 32 years ago, his whole family was murdered, and only he survived. After recovering, he devoted his life to finding the murderer to avenge them and preventing other members of the Qing Family from suffering the same fate, so he was willing to stay here."

"I understand," Qing Chen nodded. Hatred is the greatest motivation for a person to live.

Back at the Caramel Bar, Qing Chen walked straight out: "You can act freely. I'll call you if I need you. Before that, don't appear in front of me."

Yan Chunmi's heart skipped a beat. Although the young man in front of her was so young, he gave her a strange sense of oppression.

After Qing Chen left, Yan Chunmi sat in the empty booth of the bar.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man in a gentleman's hat behind her asked with a smile: "How is the new boss?"

Yan Chunmi didn't turn around, she just sighed softly: "He's more capable than I imagined, but he seems a little difficult to get along with."

"It's a little disappointing. Our team is so strong, but we weren't assigned a Shadow Candidate as our boss," the middle-aged man said, "I envy the other teams. If those teams bet right, they can get the credit for following the right leader. If they serve the new boss to the position of Shadow, the whole team can rise to prominence."

Yan Chunmi thought for a while and said: "But you also didn't think about what would happen if you bet wrong. There are six Shadow Candidates, do you know who can laugh to the end? If you follow the wrong person, what you Face^[-] is elimination and retribution."

"What are you afraid of? We can run away," the middle-aged man laughed, "Or do you want to run away with me?"

"Don't joke around. I don't like men of your level," Yan Chunmi sneered, "Besides, the person who can become the Shadow must be the smartest. Do you really think the other party will let the Kestrel escape unharmed? Think about the current Shadow Master. Do you have the confidence to escape from his grasp?"

The middle-aged man thought of the Shadow Master and suddenly felt a chill.

He is a being that would cause awe just by mentioning his name.

At this time, Yan Chunmi got up and left: "Work hard, this new boss is not simple, maybe there will be a surprise."

What she didn't say was, why did Shadow Master specifically instruct that Qing Chen didn't need to take an oath...

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