Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 389: Death Comes

“Thank you both for working overtime. I’ll treat you to a nice meal when you’re free,” Qing Chen said with a smile to Si Yue and May.

May is a young man, and Si Yue is a very young girl, looking no older than sixteen or seventeen.

In fact, she is still in high school and spends her time at school when she doesn’t have work.

The Forbidden Artifact Tribunal seems to be a relatively loose organization. They work when there’s work and live their own lives when there isn’t, and other factions don’t bother them.

Some say the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal has unique Forbidden Artifacts, just like the Shadow Gate, which can set up teleportation gates for each crow in various cities, allowing the crows to travel to the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal’s headquarters through these gates.

However, no one has ever verified this.

Si Yue’s eyes lit up at the mention of delicious food, but she immediately seemed to think of something: “No, we can’t eat outsiders’ food, or it will affect our position!”

Qing Chen couldn’t help but laugh: “Eating a meal affects our position?”

That position doesn’t seem very firm...

But Si Yue said seriously, “We don’t take a single thread from the Conglomerate. That’s our principle.”

Qing Chen was stunned. In the Outer World, they don’t take anything from the people, but in the Inner World Forbidden Artifact Tribunal, it’s the other way around.

It makes sense, though. A neutral third-party organization will be questioned if they take any benefits from either side.

Just like a mobile phone review organization shouldn’t take money from mobile phone manufacturers.

Of course, if it were Qing Chen, he would have a different way of doing things. He might have everyone pay protection...membership fees.

“Why didn’t you bring the crows this time? I mean the six-eyed crow,” Qing Chen curiously asked.

Si Yue said, “There are only six six-eyed crows in total, and the Boss took them all to the Northern Battlefield and City 19. The two of us are staying here, specifically guarding you, as instructed by the Boss.”

Qing Chen was stunned, guarding him?! How mysterious.

At this moment, an explosion came from a building near Shendai Wind Street again. Si Yue glanced at it and said, “I’ll talk to you later. We need to finish our work early.”

After saying that, Si Yue and May put their hooded cloaks back on and walked towards the explosion. The first Metahuman death of the night had occurred, but it’s unknown which side the deceased belonged to.

Qing Chen and the crows were standing in the middle of this chaos, chatting, seemingly not taking what was happening around them seriously.

When Qing Chen looked at Qing Yi, he found that Qing Yi was looking at a certain shop window, where a pitiful girl was trapped. Her boss seemed to have run away, and even forgot to open the shop window.

“What? Love at first sight?” Qing Chen asked with a smile.

“No, I just think she’s a little pitiful,” Qing Yi said.

“There are too many pitiful people in this world,” Qing Chen sighed. “Where is your contact? I’ll send you there; I have something else to do. Remember to come to Intelligence Bureau One tomorrow, I’ll inform the guards.”

“It’s just ahead,” Qing Yi pointed to the end of Shendai Wind Street.

However, at this moment, a stray bullet flew out from a building, hitting the old street lamp next to Qing Yi.

The glass cover of the street lamp shattered and fell straight towards Qing Yi’s neck.

Just when the glass was two centimeters away from Qing Yi’s neck, it was caught by Qing Chen’s quick reflexes.

Everything happened so fast that Qing Yi didn’t know what had happened, only that some dangers were normal in a battlefield.

But Qing Chen closed his eyes, recalling the events, and suddenly opened his eyes, saying, “Too many coincidences, and the danger is specifically aimed at you.”

Qing Yi frowned: “Sir, do you mean that Qing Xing’s lucky aura is affecting me?”

“It’s not certain if it’s a lucky aura,” Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “Go back first, I need to investigate.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a shout came from behind them: “Supervisor!”

Qing Chen turned his head and saw Qing Hua and Yang Xuyang and other investigators coming here.

“Didn’t I tell you to stay at Intelligence Bureau One? Why are you still running out?” Qing Chen said calmly, “Don’t worry, I’m fine.”

Qing Hua, Yang Xuyang, and others stared blankly at the surrounding ruins and listened to the intense gunshots around them.

Finally, their gaze returned to Qing Chen: Supervisor, with such a big battle going on, you still say you’re fine?

Before coming, Qing Hua had already prepared the investigators: Boss is likely to be in danger tonight. Him leaving us at Intelligence Bureau One is so we wouldn’t follow him into danger. But we have also come to know what kind of person the Boss is during this time, and we've received a lot of kindness, enough overtime pay in half a month to live comfortably for the rest of our lives.

At this moment, how can we, Team Seven, back down?

Actually, the most important points for Qing Hua were two. One was that Qing Chen didn’t want them to follow him into danger, which moved him.

The other was that Qing Chen’s plan to bring Qing Mu home moved him, and he was completely loyal to him.

However, the matter of bringing Qing Mu home still needs to be kept secret, so he couldn’t tell the investigators.

After giving them a pep talk, the investigators patted their chests and guaranteed that even if the Jade Emperor came today, nothing would happen to the Boss.

But now, listening to the commotion on Shendai Wind Street and seeing the billowing black smoke rising from the nearby building,

They felt that they had patted their chests too early.

This level of battle is not something they can participate in.

They can arrest officials, but when it comes to real fighting, Intelligence Bureau One is a bit lacking.

Thinking of this, they felt inferior when looking at Qing Chen. The Boss is already someone who can influence battles of this magnitude; Intelligence Bureau One is not really needed…

Qing Chen smiled: “Send Qing Yi to the car ahead, I still have something to do.”

Qing Hua didn’t dare to object and could only watch the Boss walk into the night.

As if the ongoing battle behind him had nothing to do with this Boss...

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Downstairs at Utopia Tower, Qing Chen waited for the elevator boredly.

After leaving Shendai Wind Street, he had not encountered any danger until the elevator doors opened.

Song Niao Niao, wrapped tightly, stood in the elevator, staring at Qing Chen through her sunglasses.

Qing Chen sighed inwardly, he was starting to suspect Song Niao Niao.

He had only returned to Utopia Tower four times, and three times he had bumped into her. What he feared most had happened!

Song Niao Niao suddenly asked: “You weren’t actually investigating those thugs, it was just a misunderstanding at the beginning, right? After all, you can’t explain why you pointed a gun at me the first time we met, nor why you said ‘again’ like that.”

Qing Chen fell silent. It seemed that she had already figured it out...

Song Niao Niao got out of the elevator and continued: “But it’s okay. I’m very grateful that you saved me that day, sincerely grateful.”

“You’re welcome, it’s my duty,” Qing Chen said before entering the elevator. The arm hidden behind the wall continuously pressed the close button.

The elevator doors slowly closed. Qing Chen looked out through the gap. Song Niao Niao took off her sunglasses and looked at him.

When the doors closed completely, the top-tier actress recalled Qing Chen’s slightly embarrassed expression when he fell silent, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

She always felt that the Qing Chen she usually saw was completely different from the Qing Chen who saved her that night.

As a top-tier star, Song Niao Niao naturally had many high-society friends.

After the kidnapping case that night, she asked her friends about the Supervisor of Team Seven at Intelligence Bureau One, and almost all of her friends who were asked spoke of this newly appointed Supervisor with awe, calling him “the living Yama King.”

Some people also speculated that he was a newly rising powerful figure beside the Qing Family Shadow and was best not provoked.

However, when Song Niao Niao recalled Qing Chen, she didn’t find the young man scary; instead, she felt he was rather cute...

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The living room on the 112th floor was dark.

Qing Chen looked at the Shadow Master sitting on the sofa and complained: “If you’re going to use me as bait, at least give me a heads-up, okay?”

“If I told you, you probably wouldn’t want to be the bait,” Shadow said with a chuckle. “Don’t take your embarrassment from seeing Song Niao Niao out on me. I’m not your father; I won’t put up with that.”

Qing Chen: “…”

Shadow said: “Also, you always go home through Shendai Wind Street. Although there are no surveillance cameras there, always taking that route doesn’t match your personality. After all, you are someone who could explore District 5 on your first day in City 10. So, you always take this route to create a stereotype for others, making it easier for them to ambush, and for me to fish.”

Qing Chen said angrily: “I did that to make it easier for myself to escape.”

Shadow was right in one aspect. He always went home through Shendai Wind Street, creating an illusion that he only took that route.

If he wanted to escape one day, someone waiting for him might miss him.

Of course, the other party might not be that stupid; this was just one of Qing Chen’s preparations.

Details determine success or failure.

“You made quite a scene tonight. I feel that Shendai Wind Street will need at least three months to be rebuilt,” Qing Chen said.

“I’ve been unhappy with that street for a long time. It’s fun to destroy it,” Shadow said with a smile. “The northern alien races building their own wind street in City 10 is annoying. By the way, the Shendai Jingbian trade will be in three days. I’ll prepare, but you have to do the trade.”

Shadow looked at Qing Chen and said, “I can do other things, but the Shendai Jingbian trade and the exchange for Qing Mu must be done by you.”

“Because only if I do it personally, will the hearts of the Qing Family intelligence system be in my hands, right?” Qing Chen asked.

“You’re smart,” Shadow praised.

At this time, Qing Chen suddenly asked: “Your bringing Qing Mu home this time is also to use his remaining value, right? If I’m not mistaken, his life may be coming to an end.”

Shadow fell silent for a moment and said: “It’s a habit, you’ll get used to it. At a certain height, you won’t feel your emotions.”

Qing Chen shook his head: “I don’t want to get used to it.”

At one point, he felt that Shadow wasn’t entirely using this matter, but the other party had become accustomed to using ‘interests’ to mask emotions.

At this time, the Qing Family Shadow calmly said: “Whether you want to get used to it is your business. You can also leave everything here; I haven’t forced you. Shadow cannot have emotions. The previous Shadow didn’t take Qing Mu, neither did I. You might find it unacceptable.”

Shadow continued: “But you must understand, although I don’t completely want to bring him home wholeheartedly, you are sincere enough. So, if you want to leave, you have to finish this before leaving.”

Qing Chen continued to ask: “But why me? I’m a Time Traveler, not a real Qing Family member.”

“You’ll know the answer later,” Qing Family Shadow asked, “I have a question for you. You want Qing Yi to be your Shadow, right?”

Qing Chen hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded: “No one said Shadow can’t have his own Shadow. He’s in the open, I’m in the dark. This is good.”

“You dare to break the rules, which is good, but have you ever thought that if Qing Yi knows that you are also a Shadow Candidate, how would he feel?” Qing Family Shadow asked, “You can say you won’t change, but would he? Killing your own friend is not a pleasant experience.”

Qing Chen was stunned. It seemed that the Shadow in the previous Shadow Succession had killed his own friend.

At this time, Qing Chen asked: “Do you think Qing Xing really has a lucky aura?”

Shadow smiled and asked back: “What do you think? I know you asked Yan Chunmi to investigate Qing Xing, but I tell you, even if your detective skills are strong, you won’t find anything. Do you think I only started paying attention to him now? I started paying attention to him after I became Shadow.”

“In the past 10 years, he has picked up money 3491 times, and none of the people who lost their money are the same. If someone deliberately threw money for him to create this illusion of a lucky aura, then picking up money is his biggest flaw because you need to find 3491 people to throw money for him.”

Qing Chen nodded. The bigger the lie, the more people involved, the bigger the flaw.

However, Qing Chen said: “But have you ever considered that there may be a group of secret members helping him create accidents, such as stealing money and throwing it on the ground for him to pick up?”

Qing Chen continued: “Although accidents seem coincidental, as long as the executor is smart enough, they can still be done seamlessly. Perhaps there are people who are good at using ‘accidents.’ Behind seemingly coincidental events, there are deeper calculations.”

Qing Chen was someone who didn’t believe in coincidences, so he would send someone to investigate Song Niao Niao tomorrow.

Her frequency of appearing in front of him was too high, so he couldn’t help but suspect her.

Therefore, when he heard the rumors about Qing Xing, his first reaction was to suspect Qing Xing.

At this time, Shadow explained: “I have also suspected the direction of this guess, but more than one hundred and thirty coincidences related to him have occurred over the years. For example, Qing Wen had a fever because of the drop in temperature, and his servant forgot to close the window, causing him to catch a cold at night.”

“Sixty-three of them happened under surveillance cameras, without anyone unintentionally cooperating and no repeating faces appearing. There is only one repeating Face^[-], and I specifically had someone interrogate that person, only to find that the person was clean and it was indeed just a coincidence that they appeared at two accident scenes.”

Qing Chen understood what Shadow meant. If there were no repeating faces, it meant it couldn’t be a team operation, or the team would be too large and easily leak information.

As long as the number of people in this team exceeds ten, Shadow would have found them long ago.

Shadow said: “Thirteen of these accidents happened when Qing Xing was hundreds of kilometers away in a neighboring city, which also ruled out the possibility of him committing the acts himself.”

Qing Chen frowned. Ruling out team action and Qing Xing committing the acts himself, it could basically be determined as metaphysics.

“So, you also think Qing Xing really has a lucky aura?” Qing Chen asked.

“I don’t believe it,” Shadow chuckled.

“Why?” Qing Chen wondered.

“No reason, I just don’t believe it,” Shadow said with a smile, “Do you believe it?”

“I don’t believe it either,” Qing Chen replied.

“Why?”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said: “The most important thing for him now is the Shadow Succession. If he really has a lucky aura, he should have become friends with me long ago. Or, his lucky aura should have been applied to me long ago, but I haven’t encountered any accidents.”

Shadow was stunned for once. He hadn’t expected Qing Chen to answer with such confidence, but after thinking about it seriously, he couldn’t refute it.

Qing Chen said: “Qing Xing probably doesn’t know that the ‘ninth’ Shadow Candidate is still alive, but this kind of lucky aura wouldn’t happen according to Qing Xing’s knowledge. If he really had a lucky aura, even if he didn’t know of my existence, I should have encountered many accidents.”

At this moment, Qing Yi and the others were like they were in a live-action version of the movie ‘Final Destination,’ not knowing when an accident would happen.

But Qing Chen had never encountered any.

Therefore, Qing Chen firmly believed that this was designed by Qing Xing, only using more sophisticated methods.

This is a world with Metahumans, and Qing Chen suspected that Qing Xing was a Metahuman.

Or perhaps he possessed a Forbidden Artifact that could influence the fate of others.

Qing Chen looked at Shadow: “Is there an unknown Forbidden Artifact that can change the fate of others?”

Shadow thought for a moment: “Huh, there actually is one. In the previous human era, there was a Metahuman with this ability, but he was killed by the founder of the Federation, Ren Xiaosu, before he grew up.”

“What ability?” Qing Chen asked.

Shadow shook his head: “I don’t know. The era is too distant. I only know he died on the street of Wangchun Gate in Luo City. This matter was recorded as ‘Yi Ren Lu’ by the Hu Family Intelligence Agency, but there was no specific information.”

Qing Chen was thinking; he actually remembered something that could do this.

Death Note.

Reasonable events written in the notebook, no matter how bizarre or coincidental, could be realized as long as there was internal logic.

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