Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 421: Going Home

Abi and Capri vanished like phantoms, using a Joker card to mock the entire European branch of the Future Organization before making a clean getaway.

Legends about them spread throughout the Time Traveler circles in Europe and North America.

Upon reviewing the events, people discovered that Capri and Abi, almost single-handedly, ignited a massive conflict within the European Time Traveler organization, resulting in heavy losses for Future, Shendai, and Koshima.

Some speculated that they were undercover agents from another organization in North America. Capri's previous flippant and ostentatious demeanor was even lauded as the best male lead performance.

Everyone believed that everything Capri had done previously was an act.

Like those powerful figures in past power transition stories who endured humiliation and underwent rigorous weight training.

Abi's acting skills were slightly less impressive, but she was praised for her ability to infiltrate and almost become the leader of the European branch.

Of course, the Future Organization had some doubts.

Their first point of doubt was why Abi and Capri deleted all their online traces before leaving?

Was it to start anew with new identities, thus cleansing their past?

This seemed to be the most reasonable explanation.

For undercover agents, a new beginning is necessary after their identities are revealed.

Everything from the past must be discarded.

The Future Organization's second point of doubt was how the skilled hacker who deleted everything managed to do so without leaving a trace?

Moreover, why did they play a game of Big Rich Man after deleting all the information?

Was this a hint, or a mockery?

The third point of doubt was whether Joker was a person or a new organization?

There was no record of the Kingdom using a Joker card.

All of this remained a mystery. The Future Organization couldn't figure it out, nor could they explain it to the outside world.

All they knew was that Mike and W were later summoned back to North America for a debriefing and to summarize the operation.

Furthermore, Abi and Capri never reappeared.

Unknown to them, the mastermind had already boarded a smuggling boat arranged by Kunlun, preparing to return home.

He would later explain his survival by claiming that he had been forced to jump overboard and escape Capri at sea.

Everyone had previously assumed he was dead, but that was just speculation. No one had actually verified it with Capri.

As long as Zheng Yuandong, He Jinqiu, Old John, Neidapu, Zhang Jian, and Yang Yang remained silent, no one would know the truth about the Greenland Sea.

No one cared much about what he had done in Europe.

In this incident, he was merely a nearly forgotten supporting character.

At least at this moment, few people knew he was still alive.

The events in Europe were quickly spread online by enthusiastic North American netizens.

As a result, people all over the world began to pay attention to the matter. After all, it was the first time that the major Time Traveler organizations had clashed.

However, the public's focus was on the abilities used by these Metahumans and which Metahuman was the strongest?

Was it Mike, with his ability to emit rays, or Koshima's Li Yunze?

Did anyone use a Forbidden Artifact in this battle? What was the effect of the Forbidden Artifact?

Which side had the better strategy?

In short, the public's attention was more like watching a competition. If possible, they even wanted to create comparative data for each Metahuman.

Only a few people noticed the inconspicuous information at the beginning of these reports: Capri had killed an Eastern Time Traveler at sea before disappearing without a trace in Amsterdam.

In these stories, Joker and A-Class Metahumans were the real protagonists, while Qing Chen was a supporting character whose name the media didn't even bother to investigate.

This supporting character was currently sitting in the cargo hold of a smuggling boat with Yang Yang, looking at the dark surroundings.

They weren't on a cruise ship, but a small cargo ship from China, with all Chinese crew members.

They weren't given the crew quarters they had been promised, but the cargo hold.

At that moment, the door to the cargo hold opened, and someone tossed in a bowl of porridge: "Here, eat."

The tone was as if a villager were feeding a dog.

Qing Chen and Yang Yang exchanged smiles, seemingly without any grievance. Qing Chen asked with interest, "We paid enough money and booked crew quarters, including meals with two meat and two vegetable dishes. What you are doing is quite different from what you promised."

The man sneered, "Will you eat or not? If not, I'll throw it into the sea. You'll understand who's in charge on this boat after you've been hungry for two or three days."

The man continued, "I've seen a lot of stowaways like you. Who do you think you are? On this boat, you can't just eat whatever you want. Or should I go catch a tuna for you and make you sashimi?"

Qing Chen said, "That's false advertising."

The man sneered, "You all have criminal records, right? You dare report me? Once we reach the shore, scram. If you continue making trouble on the way, I'll throw you into the sea right now."

This was Qing Chen's first experience with smuggling.

He had heard that many smuggling boat operators would first lure people onto the boat and then abuse the stowaways.

Over the years, countless stowaways had suffocated to death in the cargo holds.

After all, those who want to smuggle don't have legal status, and they are outnumbered by the crew on board.

Before leaving, the man sneered, "Any other questions?"

"Yes," Qing Chen raised his hand, "I haven't actually eaten tuna sashimi before. I would like you to help me catch some, thank you."

The man was stunned, then burst into laughter. He rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Qing Chen, "I think you're really itching for a beating!"

Half an hour later, except for the helmsman, all the crew members were bruised and silently standing on the deck fishing for tuna.

There were only three fishing rods on the boat, but over twenty crew members. Those without rods were standing there in fishing poses.

It wasn't that they wanted to pretend; it was because the two heroes behind them wanted to watch them fish.

Someone whispered to the captain beside him, "Captain, didn't you say you caught two fat sheep this time? These are not fat sheep, you've caught two dads!"

On the streets of Amsterdam, a tall white man was walking. This was where Li Minghao detonated the C4 explosives.

Burning ruins lined both sides of the street. The once beautiful city had suffered a sharp decline in tourism and many residents had fled to other cities to stay with relatives and friends.

The white man stopped at a certain point.

He wore a gold badge on his chest, with "Kgdo" engraved on it.

Kgdo, Kingdom.

The next moment, blue shadows appeared on the street, as if someone had used a blue highlighter to outline the entire street.

Then, the blue shadows began to shift constantly.

Shadowy figures appeared on the street, but they were all walking backward.

The real world never changed, but the shadows were like someone rewinding a movie, replaying everything that had happened on this street in perfect clarity.

The shadows flowed backward faster and faster, until the moment of the explosion.

The soaring flames silently retracted, and the shattered trash cans were seamlessly pieced back together.

The Time Travelers who had been blown away by the flames returned to their original positions, as if nothing had happened.

"No," the white man calmly stated, "Capri and Abi were already missing during the explosion."

He waved at the shadows in front of him, and the images flowed backward again.

It was the battle between Li Yunze and W. The white man watched intently but didn't linger.

Until a certain moment, his raised hand suddenly clenched, and the image paused.

The white man walked towards W's rear and saw Capri and Abi standing in place.

But at this moment, he suddenly saw the threads wrapped around their wrists, and the shadows had even outlined the Marionette's strings.

The white man followed the threads, finally finding someone in a corner. The person was looking down, wearing a hood, their Face^[-] obscured.

But when the white man tried to see their Face^[-], the person suddenly looked up!

For a moment, the white man's heart skipped a beat, and the blue fluorescent shadows dissipated as if he had seen an unseeable existence.

This was a strange phenomenon that had never happened before.

The white man had never experienced this before, even when replaying the shadows of Mike, W, and Li Yunze.

Could the other party already be a Demi-God?

No, if the other party was a Demi-God, they wouldn't need to go to so much trouble. No matter how many Time Travelers came, they wouldn't be enough to defeat a Demi-God. If a Demi-God really appeared in the Outer World now, they would be invincible.

The Inner World's Conglomerates still have the means to control Demi-Gods and have real experts.

But the Outer World doesn't.

If a Demi-God appeared among Time Travelers at this stage, they would have already razed every organization.

The white man tried to use his ability to replay the event, but found that his power had failed on this street!

He frowned and made a call: "First, Li Yunze held back a lot of power. This A-Class expert needs more attention. He is very calm and very terrifying. Second, besides Abi and Capri, there's a third person. Although I can't figure out his identity, I can't even see his Face^[-] through the shadows. But I'm sure he's the one who orchestrated everything, the Joker."

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