Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 431: Melee

In the Inner World.

Some Forbidden Artifacts remain mysterious, but others have been cataloged.

A thousand years ago, during the last human civilization era, the Hu Family Intelligence Agency made its fortune with these things.

At that time, the Hu Family Intelligence Agency was just a small organization. There was an Old Master named Hu Shuo who founded several orphanages, selecting individuals from them to teach the path of Cultivation.

This Old Master, Hu Shuo, was himself the intelligence chief of a Conglomerate. After the Conglomerate was gone, he continued his old profession with the orphans.

According to the records,

Hu Shuo himself had close relationships with various powerful figures in the world. He was close friends with the saviors Ren Xiaosu and Qing Zhen, and the Demi-God Li Shentan, who once single-handedly held back a million-strong intelligent machine army, was his grandson.

In the last catastrophe when humanity faced the intelligent machine crisis, Hu Shuo single-handedly charged into an army of a million, twelve flying swords shining like planets beyond the stars.

He ultimately survived amidst the thousands of troops.

Therefore, many people actually know that the limit of the Hu Family Intelligence Agency's lineage should be twelve flying swords. However, so far, the Cultivators on this path can only begin to cultivate their heart swords at the A-Class level. Many people spend their entire lives only cultivating five or six, making it extremely difficult for anyone to reach Hu Shuo's level.

At that time, besides selling intelligence, the Hu Family Intelligence Agency's biggest source of income was compiling the data of Metahumans into small booklets, selling them to the public for one dollar each, as gossip and rumors.

They have never abandoned this tradition, and even now the Hu Family Intelligence Agency still has its official

Like a magazine

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the Hu Family Intelligence Agency has numbered all the Forbidden Artifacts that have appeared, and ACE001 to ACE0338 were all arranged by them.

In this register, Zheng Yuandong clearly remembered the function of Forbidden Artifact ACE019 Marionette, which was to control others.

Moreover, this thing was in Forbidden Zone 002, taken into containment by a certain Knight, to prevent this evil thing from seeing the light of day.

Zheng Yuandong silently looked downstairs. This Marionette had indeed appeared again, so Qing Chen's Knight identity was finally confirmed.

Before this, his judgment of Qing Chen's identity was still speculation.

Although he was sure of his intuition, he actually had no evidence.

Now he did.

Qing Chen must also know that he could guess, but the other party still exposed this information under his nose.

Is it because the other party already trusts Kunlun?

Zheng Yuandong pondered silently.

Lu Yuan looked at the Boss beside him: "Should we go down and take care of it?"

Zheng Yuandong smiled: "It's okay, let's watch a little longer."

Lu Yuan muttered, "Is this also something that Qing Chen kid did? Why do I feel like Li Yi is drunk on fake alcohol?"

This time Zheng Yuandong didn't answer.

However, he was also very curious about what Qing Chen was trying to do.

Although Qing Chen's Knight identity was confirmed, Zheng Yuandong always felt something was missing.

Subconsciously, there should be a new clue.

Only then can all the clues be pieced together to explain Qing Chen's current behavior.

On the first floor of the exhibition hall.

Qing Yuan was mixed in the Matrix team, coldly watching Li Yi in the crowd.

When Li Yi spat at Chen Sui, Qing Yuan was dumbfounded.

He never imagined that Li Yi, who usually seemed quite normal, would do such a thing, and he spat so accurately.

For Qing Yuan, the Guangming Community and his biological father who had traveled together were his biggest reliance in participating in the Shadow Succession.

Now, what Li Yi and Wang Zhenbei had done seriously harmed his interests.

If the Guangming Community became a rat everyone shouted to beat, and the members also withdrew because of this unfounded crime, how could Qing Yuan participate in the Shadow Succession? Why should he deal with those Shadow Candidates?

Qing Yuan's gaze swept through the crowd, and he began to suspect that another Shadow Candidate was targeting him, but he had no evidence.

Moreover, the most urgent thing now was how to mitigate the impact of this incident.

It seemed that Li Yi and Wang Zhenbei had to become the scapegoats of this incident, and they could not be allowed to become the stain of the Guangming Community.

Qing Yuan felt bitter. After arriving in City 10 in the Inner World, he originally wanted to unite the local Time Travelers in Zheng City to help him, but he did not expect this Dragon Lake Community to be a hindrance instead of a help.

"Should I kill Li Yi now to prevent this guy from dragging the Guangming Community down?" Qing Yuan pondered.

"No, if I kill him in public, I can't escape the consequences. Fortunately, Li Yi hasn't implicated the Guangming Community yet," Qing Yuan thought.

However, at this moment, Li Yi suddenly said, "What can you do to me? My backer is the Guangming Community. Do you know who the second Boss of the Guangming Community is? He is Qing Yuan, one of the Shadow Candidates. If you dare to attack me, wait for me to settle accounts with you one by one in the Inner World!"

After saying this, Li Yi looked down on everyone with arrogance.

Qing Yuan was immediately shocked, and his heart cried out: "Your mother!"

He didn't expect Li Yi to be such an idiot, to betray himself all at once.

This backhanded betrayal, wouldn't all the hatred be shifted to the Guangming Community?!

Moreover, his Time Traveler identity was exposed to everyone. Once it reached the Qing Family, Shadow would probably try to kill him?

Qing Yuan did not know that there was indeed another Time Traveler among the Shadow Candidates, and Shadow also knew this.

However, whether he knew or not wasn't important. Shadow didn't care about Qing Chen's Time Traveler identity for another reason, but if Qing Yuan was exposed, he might really die.

Qing Yuan was distraught.

He didn't know how things had turned out like this.

The exhibition hall fell silent for a moment.

Most people also learned for the first time that there was actually a Time Traveler among the Shadow Candidates!

That was the most concerned matter in the Inner World right now. Everyone knew that if the Shadow Candidate won, they might become the next head of the Conglomerate. That was how much power? It was almost like being one of the emperors of the Inner World!

Everyone's expressions changed when they looked at Li Yi.

Especially Zheng Yuandong.

At this moment, he suddenly completed the last clue about Qing Chen!

Surname Qing.

Shadow Candidate.

No wonder Qing Chen was targeting Qing Yuan, no wonder Qing Chen disappeared after arriving in Zheng City and created this farce.

Earlier, he thought Qing Chen was cooperating with Luo Wanya to find someone, and now Zheng Yuandong finally understood that Qing Chen was looking for this Shadow Candidate from the Guangming Community!

Those who target Shadow Candidates are most likely also Shadow Candidates.

At the beginning of the time-travel incident, He Xiaoxiao announced the Shadow Succession expansion pack. At that time, everyone knew there were nine Shadow Candidates, but the ninth one was particularly mysterious, and no one even knew their name.

Now Zheng Yuandong could almost confirm that Qing Chen was the ninth Shadow Candidate. Otherwise, why would this young man target Qing Yuan so much?

But Zheng Yuandong still found it a little hard to understand why Qing Chen could gather so many important identities.

The future imperial teacher of the Li Clan, the next leader of the Knights, and the Shadow Candidate.

Is this the true chosen one?!

Moreover, the forces to which these three identities belonged were not the same family at all. How were they connected?!

At this time.

Li Yi was still arrogant, and no one dared to move him for a while. The people from the Three Rivers area silently retreated.

However, before Li Yi could be arrogant for a minute, a cute Pikachu beside him said, "Is being a Shadow Candidate great? Do you really think that just being a Shadow Candidate will ensure you win in the end? With so many Time Travelers here, it's not difficult to ruin this so-called candidate's good deeds. Every one of you here should remember that if you find any clues related to that Qing Yuan in the Inner World, expose them all!"

A Slime said: "Yes! We can also support other Shadow Candidates and kill you!"

A green little dinosaur: "Beat the traitor!"

Qing Yuan's Face^[-] was as ugly as it could be. He didn't expect things to turn out like this.

If all the Time Travelers targeted him, then he didn't need to think about the Shadow Succession anymore.

Qing Yuan thought to himself how unlucky he was to have Li Yi and Wang Zhenbei as teammates?!

Of course, the unluckiest one was still Chen Sui.

He was covered in saliva on his right eye, but he couldn't take off his right eye yet. He had to deal with the current situation first.

Chen Sui closed one eye and looked at Li Yi with the other: "You"

Li Yi: "He, te!"

The saliva accurately passed through the eye sockets of the white mask, covering Chen Sui's other eye.

Zheng Yuandong: ""

Huan Yu: ""

Qing Yuan: ""

Chen Sui: "Get him!"

The Boss of Matrix finally put down his elegance and demeanor.

As he spoke, all the members of Matrix swarmed up, while Li Yi suddenly turned around and ran wildly towards the outside of the conference center.

Li Yi ran in front, and hundreds of people chased behind, a grand sight.

Li Yi was a D-Class, and the C-Class experts in Matrix were much faster than him, but as soon as they were about to catch up to Li Yi, they found that a young man wearing a black mask was slowing down in front.

Two bloated Slimes also blocked the way of many people.

As a result, when everyone rushed out of the conference center's gate, they were a step slower than Li Yi.

Moreover, there were many Time Travelers wearing props who simply couldn't run fast.

Qing Chen didn't want the Time Travelers behind him to catch up to Li Yi so quickly. He wanted to use Li Yi to take these Time Travelers to another place.

At this time, a Slime ran to Qing Chen's side: "Brother Chen, it's me, Xiaonan."

Qing Chen glanced at the other party and then pretended not to know.

Nangeng Chen continued: "Brother Chen, how does my Slime look?"

Qing Chen: "It looks good, but don't dress up like this next time."

Nangeng Chen: ""

It was already ten o'clock at night.

The reporters and media outside the conference center, seeing that there was no news material, were about to go home.

At this time, a reporter suddenly shouted, "Look, someone is rushing out of the conference center!"

The quick-witted reporters quickly took out their cameras, only to see a young man running wildly, followed by Pikachu, Slimes, little dinosaurs, Batman, roaring wildly as they rushed out.

During this time, some people shouted "Stop! Kill him! Get him! Beat the traitor!"

The scene was as intense as boiling water, and the reporters and media were also boiling!

This was big news. They even had the headlines figured out.

"Time Travelers stay up late at night and launch a collective hunt!"

"A shocking change in the conference center, the appearance of a traitor!"

"Pikachu and Slime team up!"

"DC Batman and Marvel Spiderman make a rare appearance together!"

The reporters thought of these headlines, their hearts trembled, and they were so excited that they couldn't control themselves.

A reporter roared, "Driver, quickly drive the car over, chase after them!"

Finally, the scene became even more shocking.

Li Yi was running fifty meters ahead of the crowd, followed by a group of cartoon characters, and behind them were reporters sitting in cars, sticking their cameras and other equipment out of the windows.

The pedestrians on the streets of Zheng City were stunned, completely unaware of what was happening.

They watched Pikachu run past them and thought, What's going on? Is this a movie?!

At this time, Qing Yuan was mixed in the crowd, his gaze fixed on Li Yi in front.

Now he couldn't kill Li Yi anymore, because he had to keep Li Yi and Wang Zhenbei alive to let them explain to Kunlun and the Time Travelers what happened.

If Li Yi and Wang Zhenbei died in the chaos, then the shit pot on the Guangming Community's head would never be washed clean.

Thinking of this, Qing Yuan also suddenly sped up and ran to the front of the team.

The Matrix thought their companions were strong, but they didn't expect that after Qing Yuan ran to the front, he seemed to be exhausted and began to unconsciously slow down, suppressing the speed of the pursuit behind.

Wait, Qing Yuan looked at Li Yi's escape route.

Wasn't he running towards the Guangming Community's headquarters in Zheng City?! That was a whole floor of office buildings newly rented after the merger of Guangming Community and Dragon Lake Community!

Moreover, he was only two blocks away!

There was no way. While running, Qing Yuan took out his phone and sent a text message to his father, Qing Yu, fearing that his father would be implicated at headquarters.

At this moment, Qing Yuan didn't notice that Luo Wanya not far behind him was staring intently at his figure, too nervous to even blink.

Qing Chen looked back at Luo Wanya, and the two of them quickly exchanged a glance in the crowd.

Qing Chen then followed Luo Wanya's instructions, turning his head to see Qing Yuan at the forefront of the team.

All this happened very quickly, so quickly that no other Time Traveler noticed that someone else was hiding in the crowd.

Just as Qing Yuan lowered his head to send a text message, a young man wearing a black mask accidentally bumped into Qing Yuan's arm.

With a clang, the phone fell to the ground.

A Slime firmly stepped on the phone.

Smashing the phone to pieces.

Qing Yuan glared angrily, wanting to see who bumped into him, but in the chaotic crowd, he couldn't tell who was who.

In the blink of an eye, Li Yi had already run to the front of the Zhongzhou Building. He didn't take the elevator, but ran up to the 13th floor through the emergency passage.

There were dense footsteps in the stairs. Only Time Travelers had the stamina to run two kilometers and then climb thirteen floors. Ordinary people would have collapsed long ago.

On the 13th floor, the headquarters of the Guangming Community was still brightly lit.

However, Qing Yuan's father, Qing Yu, was not there. There were only a few members of the Guangming Community and Wang Zhenbei.

Wang Zhenbei saw Li Yi rushing into headquarters and angrily scolded, "Li Yi, what the hell are you doing? The big Boss called me just now and said I was with you tonight?! When did I see you tonight? Also, what's the deal with Shendai and Koshima? Explain it to me, hic!"

Before he could finish speaking, hundreds of Time Travelers also rushed in with Li Yi, shouting, "See where you can run!"

This frightened Wang Zhenbei into hiccupping!

Wang Zhenbei said to the Time Travelers, "Listen to me"

Before he could finish, Li Yi suddenly turned to the Time Travelers and sneered, "You've chased me for three blocks, and now my Boss Wang Zhenbei is right behind me. He's a top-notch expert, and I'll see who dares to touch me!"

The green little dinosaur didn't care: "Let's all go together and get them!"

Saying this, he charged forward.

Wang Zhenbei saw the countless Time Travelers charging towards him and immediately despaired: "Nima"

He wasn't some expert. He was only a D-Class Inner World Awakened One who happened to have Substitution.

Wang Zhenbei had always lied to the outside world that he was a C-Class, but he had never really fought. He had only become his current position by swaggering and cheating.

Therefore, when he saw so many Time Travelers, he was already panicked.

"Listen to my explanation"

Chen Sui from Matrix rushed in front of him: "Explain your mother!"

A hard fist slammed into his eye socket.

The next moment, Wang Zhenbei was submerged in the Time Travelers.

At this time, Lu Yuan also arrived. He looked at this one-sided group beating incident and thought to himself that since time travel, this should be the biggest fight among the Outer World's civilian Time Travelers.

If this was really Qing Chen's doing, it was too crazy!

By the way, where's Qing Chen?!

Li Yi stood there taking a beating. A young man wearing a black mask squeezed into his side in the crowd and punched him in the spleen.

In an instant, Li Yi's eyes were filled with red bloodshot eyes.

However, this was an internal injury, and nothing could be seen from the outside.

Just over ten seconds later.

An astonishing scene happened. Li Yi turned into a cloud of black ash and dissipated into the crowd.

That was the appearance after being sacrificed by the Marionette.

And the culprit, Qing Chen, turned around and retreated from the battle.

He couldn't stay here to fight, because Qing Yuan had quietly left.

From beginning to end, Qing Chen had not forgotten his original intention. He was going to lure Qing Yuan out through the Dragon Lake Community.

As for the Dragon Lake Community, it was just something he conveniently destroyed.