Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 442: A Tael of Gold and a Secret

Qing Chen was busy all night.

It was not until dawn that he changed his clothes and came to the third district.

He was wearing Bluetooth earphones, and Yi said in the earphones: "For this project, charging you 100,000 yuan from Outer World isn't excessive, is it?"

I don't know when it started, but Yi has become so humble when asking for money.

In fact, the value Yi demonstrated tonight was worth 10 million yuan.

Making it impossible for even Conglomerate to trace the source of the call is not something ordinary people can do.

Qing Chen thought for a moment and asked, "What have you been busy with lately? There's no news of you in Inner World."

Yi said, "Didn't I tell you before? My brother woke up. I went with him... I can't tell you."

Qing Chen was stunned; there seemed to be a secret here.

Although he still didn't know who Yi's brother was, the other party was a person who had lived for thousands of years, witnessing over a thousand years of history in the Federation in a completely virtual form.

The things such a person would do are extremely crucial.

For example, in the internet, hunting down all humans who used Neural Link technology to attempt immortality, almost single-handedly changing the way humans live.

If he hadn't hunted down those consciousnesses, Inner World might be even more bizarre, and everyone might continue to live in another way after death.

This action also affected the Mechanical God Sect.

In other science fiction novels and games, the Mechanical God Sect uploads consciousness.

But the Inner World Mechanical God Sect can only think about it...

Qing Chen curiously asked, "By the way, have you ever asked your brother why he hunted down those uploaded consciousnesses?"

Yi said, "Because he thinks no one can bear the boredom brought about by longevity. A few people might, but when it happens on a large scale, on the one hand, it affects my safety. If hundreds of thousands of people's consciousnesses are deliberately gathered together, there will be very troublesome things happening. On the other hand, many people will develop self-destructive tendencies in the network."

Qing Chen understood; one aspect is to protect his sister, the other is to protect the world.

That brother is quite responsible...

What would such a brother do after suddenly waking up?

"So what is your brother doing now?" Qing Chen asked.

"Oh, he's gone to perform street magic," Yi said, "It's his hobby."

"Wait?! Performing magic?" Qing Chen was stunned. "Does he have his own body?"

Yi didn't answer, seemingly unwilling to say more.

Qing Chen thought for a while, "I'll transfer the Outer World money to you when I get back. By the way, you charged Nangeng Chen, right?"

"Don't worry about that," Yi said, "It's not easy for me to save money in Outer World!"

"Okay," Qing Chen sighed. Others fleece Yi, and Yi fleeces Nangeng Chen. Where can you reason with that?

"Does your brother know about the Time Traveler?" Qing Chen asked, "What does he think about it?"

He wanted to use the opinions of this mysterious existence to try to understand the hidden story behind the time-travel incident.

However, Yi said, "He knew a long time ago. He doesn't have any opinion."

"Huh?" Qing Chen was stunned. "Knew a long time ago?"

Qing Chen suddenly felt that "knew a long time ago" might not mean the past few months, but a very, very long time ago.

Even before the time-travel incident?

"How long ago?" Qing Chen pressed.

But Yi no longer answered the question.

Qing Chen arrived at the third district building, where the house Li Clan Old Master left him was located.

122nd floor.

Originally, while taking the elevator, Qing Chen was worried that he might encounter Song Niao Niao again.

He knew that Song Niao Niao had already moved out of Utopia Tower because when the pca investigator worked on the case, they leaked case information, leading the media to know the address of the first-line actress.

So, since then, Qing Chen has been worried that the actress might have moved to the third district...

Fortunately, she wasn't there.

Qing Chen pressed the password and opened the door.

The room wasn't very big, nor was there anything like an armory. It was like an ordinary inheritance given by an elder to a younger generation, nothing special.

The room was dusty, but three things caught Qing Chen's attention.

A map spread out on the table, a medium-sized gold coin, and a letter.

Qing Chen curiously picked up the map and blew on it, and the dust floated away.

This was a map of the Federation, with red lines drawn on it, marking routes, nodes between routes, and precise dates and times.

Qing Chen knew that this was something Old Master deliberately left for him, but he hadn't figured out what it was.

He then picked up the gold coin, and knowing it weighed about 50 grams, a tael.

Originally, Qing Chen thought it was a Forbidden Artifact, but he quickly found out that it wasn't.

Finally, Qing Chen opened the letter.

"He's already gone, why leave a letter?" Qing Chen was a little reluctant to open it, because it would bring back the memory of that farewell under the rising sun.

Inside, was a farewell letter written by Old Master himself.

"Kid, when you see this letter, I should have already parted ways with you on Qingshan Cliff. From now on, we will hardly see each other again. You rush towards the rising sun, while I turn into dust."

"This map is the route and timetable of Forbidden Artifact ace-012 Steam Train."

"The gold coin is one I've carried with me since I was young."

"The Steam Train circles the Federation every 27 days. Its journey has nothing to do with passengers. No matter who is on board, it will follow its own goal, chasing the wind of the wilderness, crossing the Leiqiu Plain, and passing over the Yunwu Marsh. It will go to the farthest snow mountain, the northern grassland, and the southern sea."

"When I was young, I envied it very much, thinking it was really free, able to go wherever it wanted."

"So I prepared a gold coin to carry with me at that time, thinking that if one day I happened to meet it in the wilderness, I would spend 27 days following it to tour the Federation once, to be a romantic person like a Knight. Let those who are chasing after me, wanting me to deal with official business, worry. Haha."

"Pack your bags, prepare food and water for 27 days, and some changes of clothes. Use the Forbidden Artifact to take a spontaneous trip."

"Perhaps there will be other people getting on and off the train along the way. He might be a fugitive, a runaway rich lady, or a traveler like me."

"Perhaps the breeze from outside the window blows in, and I watch the scenery receding behind me. If someone from the family calls me via satellite phone, I'll solemnly tell them that I am talking to the world, don't disturb me."

"However, I don't have that kind of willful qualification."

"So I never had a chance to use this gold coin."

"Now it's yours."

The letter ends abruptly here.

At this time, Qing Chen finally understood the true meaning of "If I were a boy again, a tael of gold, a tael of wind."

It turns out that Old Master's greatest wish in his youth was to ride the Steam Train once and tour the Federation once.

And this tael of gold was the ticket to freedom for the young Li Xiurui.

Qing Chen silently wiped his eyes, memorized the contents of the map, and burned it.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Qing Chen frowned. Who would come to find him at this time?

He looked at the surveillance camera outside the door, and it was Shadow...

He had impersonated the other party several times overnight, and after being warned, he impersonated several more times.

Shadow has come to settle the score.

Qing Chen held his breath and pretended not to be home...

However, he can be sure of one thing, the condition for using the Shadow Gate is that the host must have been to the place.

But he heard Shadow sneer coldly outside the door, "Open the door. You have the guts to impersonate me despite my warning, but no guts to open the door? If you wait for me to open this door myself, you'll be dead."

Qing Chen silently walked over to open the door, smiling, "Shadow Master, didn't we just meet a few hours ago? Why are you here again?"

Shadow passed by him, looking at the dust in the room, "Clean it up quickly. It's annoying to look at."

These words also seem to be saying Qing Chen, he is annoyed to see Qing Chen now.

Shadow stood by the window and said, "Do you know that besides you and Qing, I've only met other Time Travelers once? I let Qing Ye issue tasks, and when he issues tasks, he has to carry my electronic beacon, only then is it truly "Shadow's order'?"

Shadow continued, "After you impersonated me, those candidates all felt strange, but they didn't dare to ask directly, making me prepare to go to sleep in the middle of the night. Then I received several calls from their leaders, all indirectly asking what was going on."

Shadow Candidates are not stupid; if they have doubts, they will try their best to confirm the authenticity of Shadow.

However, in this not very clever deception, the only thing Qing Chen can rely on is not his acting skills, nor his understanding of Shadow's way of speaking, but Shadow himself.

After the candidates have doubts, they will go to Shadow for confirmation, and Shadow will help Qing Chen patch things up.

Qing Chen happily asked curiously, "How did you tell them?"

"How else?" Shadow said angrily, "I asked back, what, is my word no longer useful?"

Shadow said, "Isn't Qing Yi your person? You even tricked him. Are you still human?"

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "So, why are you so good to me? I've always had a question about this. I'm clearly a Time Traveler, an Outer World person, yet you have helped me a lot. Why?"

Shadow turned around from the window and asked, "How do you know you are definitely an Outer World person?"

Qing Chen was stunned.

The meaning hidden behind this sentence is too shocking...

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