Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 388: Gun emplacements and slaughter

“Arrange for everyone to take a break. There are still three days until the transaction. All the investigators of Group Seven must be in their best condition,” Qing Chen said, “Let everyone go home and rest well. Qing Hua, go tell Koshima that the transaction address within City 10 will be chosen by us.”

“Yes, understood,” Qing Hua’s heart was filled with excitement after learning about Qing Chen’s plan to bring Qing Mu home, as if she were brimming with energy.

It wasn’t just because of Qing Mu’s high status among the Qing Family intelligence personnel, but also because Qing Hua had never dared to imagine that she could participate in such an important event.

It was dangerous, but it also came with opportunities.

Before leaving the office, Qing Hua glanced back at Qing Chen. The new Boss had already taken out the map of City 10 and seemed to be carefully selecting the transaction location.

Actually, Qing Hua had been a probationary Supervisor for eight years. She knew she could be a deputy, carrying out others’ orders, but she couldn’t be the main officer.

The previous Supervisor was a boastful person. In the internal struggle of Intelligence Bureau One, she was eventually tricked by the Chen Family and resigned in disgrace.

This new Supervisor doesn’t talk much, but she manipulates the other intelligence groups.

At one point, Qing Hua thought that perhaps her opportunity had finally arrived.

There aren’t many opportunities in a person’s life, but seizing just one can lead to great success.

Qing Chen looked at the map for a long time and finally determined seven suitable locations for the transaction.

Ultimately, she needed to check them out in person.

It was already 12 midnight, eight days until their return.

Qing Zhun walked into the office with a lunch box: “Supervisor, have some food. You’ve been spending days in the office; you need to rest too.”

In the past few days, the investigators of Group Seven had discovered something: this new Boss seemed not to need sleep.

No matter when they looked into the office, Qing Chen was either analyzing case files or sitting in a chair with her eyes closed, resting.

Even the sleeping bag Qing Hua bought for her hadn’t been unfolded.

It’s strange.

Just then, Qing Chen received a message on her phone.

She looked at Qing Zhun in surprise. It was Shadow, messaging her to go back to Utopia Tower to discuss the hostage exchange in three days.

Qing Chen sighed and said to Qing Zhun, “I’ll be leaving for a while. If anything happens, call me.”

Qing Zhun asked, “I’ll arrange a car to take you back.”

“No need, I’ll walk back,” Qing Chen said.

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Outside Intelligence Bureau One, Qing Yi was asleep in his car alone. His arm was involuntarily hanging down, and he was still holding a phone that was on a call, the call duration being 3 hours and 42 minutes, the caller being Li Ke.

It seems he fell asleep while chatting with Li Ke, strangely, Li Ke didn’t hang up either.

Qing Yi was half asleep when he suddenly woke up.

He instinctively turned his head towards the gate of Intelligence Bureau One. The small iron gate under the large iron gate was slowly opening, and the person he was waiting for was slowly walking out.

Qing Yi quickly said into the phone, “I’ve seen sir, I’ll talk to you later.”

Li Ke on the other end of the phone mumbled, “Well, just tell sir directly, don’t play tricks with him.”

“Yes, I know.”

After that, Qing Yi wiped the sleep from his eyes and chased after Qing Chen.

Before running two steps, Qing Chen helplessly stopped and looked at Qing Yi: “Do you wait here every night?”

At this time, Qing Yi’s two dark circles were extremely serious. These days, he had been sleeping in the car just to wait for Qing Chen to come out.

Qing Yi stood in front of Qing Chen, looking at him expectantly.

Qing Chen reached out and patted his head. This time, the boy didn’t instinctively shrink back, but he forgot what he wanted to say.

“Is there anything you need?” Qing Chen asked with a smile, “If not, I’ll go back first?”

Qing Yi hesitated: “I’ll walk with sir.”

Qing Chen thought for a moment: “Alright.”

Qing Chen walked in front, Qing Yi carefully followed beside the man. He turned his head to look at the man and suddenly felt some fatigue in the other party’s expression.

On the building of Intelligence Bureau One, Qing Hua and Qing Zhun were standing by the window.

“Wait, isn’t that Shadow Candidate Qing Yi?” Qing Hua looked at Qing Zhun in shock, “Did you see Boss pat Qing Yi’s head just now? Was I seeing things?”

Qing Zhun shook his head: “You’re not seeing things, he really patted twice, and Qing Yi didn’t dodge either.”

“So, Boss has already chosen the person he wants to support in the Shadow Succession?” Qing Hua asked in astonishment, “But why choose Qing Yi?”

“Maybe it’s because of their relationship,” Qing Zhun thought for a moment and said, “If the Supervisor chooses Qing Yi, then Group Seven will definitely stand with Qing Yi.”

But in fact, Qing Hua didn’t care who the Boss supported, after all, the Shadow Succession wouldn’t end in a short time.

According to past practice, the third and fourth rounds would take at least half a year, or even a year or two.

What Qing Hua cared about now was why Qing Yi, a Shadow Candidate, would willingly allow someone to pat his head without any resistance?

However, as Qing Chen and Qing Yi walked towards the fifth district.

Qing Zhun and Qing Hua, standing by the window, suddenly saw two people following their Boss quietly.

“Crow,” Qing Zhun said calmly, “The Crow is here, Si Yue and May.”

“Forbidden Artifact Tribunal? What are they doing here… No, Boss is in danger!” Qing Hua turned to run outside, but Qing Zhun grabbed him: “Have you forgotten, the Supervisor specifically told us not to follow.”

Qing Hua recalled Qing Chen’s instructions before leaving, and it was indeed so.

“If the Boss doesn’t let us follow, is it because she anticipated the danger and didn’t want us to be implicated?” Qing Hua thought and said.

“Probably,” Qing Zhun replied expressionlessly, “After all, although Intelligence Bureau One has an official identity, it doesn’t have real experts; following her is useless. However, the Supervisor’s actions are unexpected. Other Bosses would probably bring a few cannon fodder to protect themselves before going out. She is quite considerate of her subordinates.”

“I feel like you haven’t fully accepted him yet? I call him Boss, but you still often use the title ‘Supervisor’ to address him,” Qing Hua said.

A person’s address to another often reveals their true thoughts.

Qing Zhun looked at Qing Hua and grinned, “I accept him, who says I don’t? Don’t slander me.”

Qing Hua didn’t speak. When the Crow appeared just now, Qing Zhun recognized the other party’s identity at a glance.

However, the two Crows didn’t wear those black linen cloaks, and Qing Zhun recognized their appearance from a distance of over a hundred meters.

This shows that Qing Zhun has excellent eyesight.

Within the Qing Family, people with excellent eyesight are usually those who have been rewarded with Jingshan Tea by the Qing Family Shadow.

For a moment, Qing Hua couldn’t figure out Qing Zhun’s true identity.

Qing Hua suddenly said, “Don’t we really need to follow the Boss? The Crow has appeared, indicating that Shendai or Koshima might attack her tonight.”

Assassination is a rule-breaking act with no political wisdom, and Shendai has been criticized by all Conglomerates for liking assassination.

Gradually, Shendai rarely used this method, unless it was against particularly important figures.

As the Supervisor of pcaIntelligence Bureau One, Qing Chen is naturally not a truly important figure.

However, the abilities Qing Chen has recently demonstrated have probably attracted Shendai’s attention.

Many people will underestimate Qing Chen because of her youth, but Shendai’s intelligence agency, “Eight-Forked,” certainly won’t.

On the contrary, they will pay more attention to Qing Chen.

An aging enemy doesn’t need to be killed; they have no ambition and will die sooner or later.

But if a 17-year-old who shows promise and manipulates Intelligence Bureau One is left unchecked, how many years will she dominate the intelligence world?

At this time, Qing Zhun thought and said, “Even if they don’t assassinate her, they will try to defeat her once, to dampen her confidence; avoiding it is impossible.”

There are too many Conglomerate geniuses in this world. They show promise and are full of vigor in their youth, but they are intentionally targeted by other Conglomerates and their spirits are broken.

Many people think that they can get back up after falling, but it’s not that easy to get back up.

Many geniuses are severely defeated once and become disheartened.

Not only Conglomerate geniuses but also various sports and athletic geniuses can win continuously when they win, their confidence grows stronger with each battle, and their aura becomes more prosperous.

But once they suffer a major setback, they will quickly leave the stage of history.

This is a subtle psychological tactic, but it is very effective.

Qing Zhun turned and walked towards his dormitory: “I’m going to sleep.”

Qing Hua looked at his back, “No, I still have to take the brothers there, in case I can help.”

“Aren’t you afraid of death? Is this something we can participate in?” Qing Zhun asked with interest.

“We can’t do nothing,” Qing Hua said, and called Yang Xuyang and others out. Qing Zhun finally didn’t go, but a cryptic smile was on his lips.

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In the Shendai romantic street in the fifth district.

The melodious singing of the dancers downstairs was drifting from outside the window.

The red and gold holographic neon lights also illuminated the unlit room gorgeously.

By the floor-to-ceiling windows, several men in black stood silently, like eternal sculptures, watching the outside.

In the headset, someone said calmly, “The target is approaching, pay attention, don’t kill the Shadow Candidate beside him, pay attention, don’t kill the Shadow Candidate beside him. Break the target’s legs and retreat according to Plan A; leave him alive.”

“Received.”

“Received.”

“….”

More than ten replies came from the headset communication channel, meaning that there were more than ten groups of assassins hidden in the Shendai romantic street, ready to act at any time.

These people are not here to kill, but to cripple Qing Chen, forcing Qing Chen to stay in bed to recover from his injuries for a short time, to dampen his will.

They don’t want to fight the Qing Family to the death at this time.

But just then, a sudden voice in the headset said with a laugh, “Good evening, everyone. You’ve worked hard. It’s so late, and you’re still assassinating our Qing Family intelligence personnel.”

As soon as these words came out, all the assassins were startled.

The assassins who were originally standing by the floor-to-ceiling windows suddenly turned around and saw a Shadow Gate open behind them, and a young man walked out.

In an instant, the assassins’ firearms all flew out of their hands, as if they had encountered a huge magnet.

The firearms that flew out were suspended beside the young man, their muzzles pointed at the assassins.

The mysterious young man, behind him was a firepower matrix like a battleship’s dense array of gun emplacements, the ability to control metal combined with modern technological weapons, looked particularly terrifying.

The guns behind him were like the hundreds of swords integrated with the Iron Throne in “Game of Thrones.”

An assassin hurriedly said in the communication channel, “Qing Ye! The Qing Family Shadow opened a Shadow Gate to send his secret troops in, retreat!”

The young man named Qing Ye laughed, “It seems I’m famous now. I can be named just by seeing me. Who leaked the news?!”

This young man who passed through the Shadow Gate is not a Shadow. In fact, many people don’t know that the Forbidden Artifactace-008 Shadow Gate can not only teleport the host but also other people.

This means that the Shadow can send his troops to any place he has been at any time.

“This is a trap,” someone said in the communication channel.

They had already realized that the Shadow Gate could open directly in the room, which means that the Shadow had been here before, and tonight was a trap set by him.

Qing Ye looked at the unprepared assassins and laughed in the secret troops’ communication channel, “Tonight, everyone will have fun.”

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…

Qing Chen took out a lollipop from his pocket and put it in his mouth. He smiled at Qing Yi, and saw that the other party was also prepared, taking out a lollipop from his pocket.

The two smiled knowingly and continued to walk forward.

The two figures, one big and one small, suddenly looked particularly harmonious.

But just as the two entered the Shendai romantic street, gunshots suddenly rang out from behind a white wine flag-covered window on the side of the road.

Qing Yi was stunned, but he heard Qing Chen say with a smile, “Don’t worry about what happened, let’s keep walking.”

The gunshots continued incessantly. In the buildings on both sides of the wide road, a fierce but invisible battle seemed to be taking place.

Qing Chen always felt something was wrong. The gunshots were too dense, as if someone had set up a six-barreled Metal Storm in the building.

It’s different from the normal shooting frequency.

No.

It’s not Metal Storm.

Qing Chen is a master of firearms. He heard that there were dozens of handguns and automatic rifles in the building, and the types of guns were different.

Strange.

The pedestrians in the Shendai romantic street fled in a panic, trying to find places to hide.

Only Qing Chen remained calm and continued to walk forward.

Qing Yi was a little flustered, but seeing his master’s calm appearance, he suddenly calmed down.

The next second, a glass window on the right building broke, and two people fell from the seventh floor.

The next second, the glass on the left also broke, and an assassin was thrown down from the building.

The broken glass fell on the ground, making a crisp crackling sound, like a unique sound of rain.

Qing Chen and Qing Yi walked indifferently under the red holographic neon lights, goldfish with huge tails trailing above their heads, chaotic crowds around them, swaying white wine flags, and girls in shop windows panicking.

This chaos surrounded Qing Chen and Qing Yi, but the street was too chaotic, and no one knew that this chaos was caused by Qing Chen.

Qing Yi turned and asked, “Sir, you knew there was danger, so you didn’t want me to follow just now.”

“Yes,” Qing Chen said calmly.

She suddenly received a message from Shadow in the middle of the night and felt something was wrong.

But at that time, she only guessed that the other party planned to use her to fish, but there was no evidence.

It seems now that the Qing Family’s Shadow Master was well prepared, intending to clean up the evil spirits before trading with Shendai Jingbian.

Qing Yi turned to look for it in the shop window on the side of the road and found that the girl he had seen a few days ago was sitting pitifully in the shop window, looking out with tears in her eyes.

Behind the shop window was a locked background wall. If there were no customers, the girl would have to sit there and kneel all night. This was also a disguised punishment from the Boss to the girl, stimulating the girl to maintain a smile and the best condition to attract customers.

Just then, an explosion suddenly came from a building ahead.

The huge shockwave shattered all the glass in the entire street.

The original drizzle of Xiao Yu seemed to become a downpour.

But Qing Chen remained unmoved.

She believed that the Shadow dared to use her to fish, so they must have been fully prepared. If fishing killed Qing Chen, it would probably be a lifetime stain on the Shadow Master.

However, Qing Yi saw it differently. He only felt that his master was extremely mysterious and calm.

Just then, Qing Yi finally plucked up the courage and asked, “Sir, can you help me win the third round of the Shadow Succession? If I become Shadow in the future, I will…”

Qing Yi had prepared many lines and said them fluently, not knowing how many times he had secretly rehearsed them.

But before he could finish, Qing Chen had already turned to smile, “Okay, I’ll help you win this third round of Shadow Succession.”

Qing Yi was stunned. He only felt that his master was like a layer of brilliance in this noisy and bustling street, dazzling.

He didn’t expect that the thing he had hesitated for so many days and prepared for so many days, but still couldn’t bring himself to say it, the other party readily agreed.

Qing Chen said to Qing Yi, “Starting tomorrow, come directly to Intelligence Bureau One and cultivate beside me.”

“Ah…” Qing Yi was stunned, “Okay… okay!”

The next moment, Qing Chen turned to the Si Yue and May behind her and smiled, “You’ve worked hard.”

They saw that the two Crows had already put on black linen cloaks and were standing dejectedly in the chaos, seemingly worried about the overtime tonight.

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