Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 507: Using Oneself as Bait

The silence of the snowy mountain was shattered by a sudden avalanche.

Blood gushed from the bodies of the Shadow Agency members, gathering into streams below the mountaintop.

Shinguji Maki watched Qing Chen stand in the sunrise, exhaling a plume of vapor.

She swore it was vapor, and she could even see a rainbow in the sunlight.

This scene truly overturned Maki's worldview. In her past life, humans were weak; a cut from the edge of a piece of paper could cause a sore on their skin.

But everything Qing Chen did tonight was like opening a door to a new world for her.

Behind that door was a more magnificent side of this world.

Qing Chen stood on the mountaintop; today's breakthrough gave him new surprises.

The greatest advantage of a Knight is that after completing each Trials of Life and Death and entering a new strength level, they don't need to slowly increase their strength like others; instead, they directly reach the peak state of their current level.

This means that the moment Qing Chen entered B-Class, he reached his peak.

Below A-Class, few could be his opponent.

But the problem is that this world is fair; there are advantages and disadvantages.

Knight has always been synonymous with powerful individual abilities, but they have always lacked true large-scale destructive capabilities, and Li Shutong is no exception.

For example, Chen Wudi, the first Demi-God recorded in Federation history, was said to be able to shake enemies within a hundred meters into dust with one move, Tianqing.

For example, Li Shentan, the spiritual Demi-God recorded in Federation history, could hypnotize 5,000 people and once abducted an artillery regiment to kill the enemy.

According to the records of the "darkest hour' before the destruction of the previous human civilization era, he sacrificed himself, transformed into the will of the world, and controlled one million people to resist the AI army for half a day, buying the Northwest Army crucial time; he was like a real-life cheat code.

Hu Shuo, the founder of the Hu Family Intelligence Agency, was invincible with his twenty-four jade swords, a true harvesting machine on the battlefield.

But the Demi-Gods of the Knight Order have rare rivals in single combat but lack the ability to take on thousands.

In the past, the Knight Order compensated for this deficiency by relying on numbers. Twelve A-Class masters leveling the Southwest Snowy Mountains was like a game; they could even capture the Buddha Master amidst thousands of troops.

That's not possible now. Although the upper limit of Knights is stronger, their numbers are scarce, and the glory days are long gone.

For example, if various Demi-Gods were to guard a city, others would sit in the city and destroy enemies as they came.

A Knight's method of guarding a city is not to sit in the city but to leave the city, to hide in plain sight.

To make everyone fear the consequences of being assassinated or avenged by a Knight.

Simply put, in cluster warfare, Knights aren't as tough as other Demi-Gods.

However, the appearance of liquid Knight True Qi in Qing Chen's body brought a great change to his future.

This is the first Knight in the history of the Knight Order with full attribute points and large-scale destructive skills...

At this time, Qing Chen, at the peak of B-Class, could kill more than 300 people within a hundred meters. If he reached A-Class, a single breath of vapor could probably be devastating.

This time, one breath of vapor exhausted all the Knight True Qi in his body. If he reached A-Class, his continuous combat ability would be even stronger.

The only pity is that Qing Chen found that even if he opened his Gene Lock again, the thunder in his body didn't upgrade with it.

Does he need to receive enough mental stimulation again?

Or there's another way, which is to continue completing Trials of Life and Death, continue challenging the limits to release potential. When potential is repeatedly "incompletely' released, it will be like his initial situation where Cultivation couldn't fully release his potential, ultimately accumulating power for the next awakening.

Qing Chen didn't rush to harvest the battlefield but sat on the mountaintop, took out a dagger from his pocket, and calmly scooped out the bullet embedded in his thigh muscle.

And waited for his Knight True Qi to slowly recover.

Shinguji Maki watched this scene; she felt the pain, but Qing Chen didn't even frown.

She suddenly wondered what this brother had experienced to Face^[-] pain so lightly.

She knew that might be what she would experience in the future.

Moans of pain echoed through the mountain.

Shinguji Maki suddenly looked at Qing Chen and nervously asked, "Brother, will I have to go to the pigsty too?"

Qing Chen couldn't help but laugh and cry. Under these circumstances, the little girl was concerned about this.

He said seriously, "Yes, you have to go too."

The little girl showed a look of struggle and finally lowered her head, "Okay."

Qing Chen continued to adjust his breathing. The dopamine produced by the Breathing Technique quickly soothed his nerves, even allowing his body to mobilize all its energy to heal wounds.

He didn't bother with the Shadow Agency people; he let them moan.

From the time he encountered the wolf pack, he had been constantly suppressing, enduring, and enduring pain.

Until today, one breath of vapor blew away all his frustrations; it was time to collect some interest.

However, Qing Chen didn't have a penchant for torturing enemies; he was simply exhausted after experiencing Trials of Life and Death, climbing to the top of the mountain twice, and then blowing out all his True Qi in one breath, and his leg was still injured...

More than 300 enemy soldiers should have only died a few dozen; others might still have the strength to make a desperate counterattack.

So Qing Chen had to wait, to wait for them all to die.

At this time, Takeda Hideo slowly stood up in the snow. He didn't have the courage to climb the mountain anymore and turned to run down the mountain.

He guessed something. Shendai's control over Japan's Time Travelers was extremely strong, and there were no hidden super masters.

Encountering this kind of Time Traveler, who is almost like a chosen one, in this remote area, is most likely the Joker the entire organization is looking for.

It's not shameful to lose when encountering this kind of person, but he had to report this.

However, before he could run two steps, he saw Qing Chen on the mountaintop use a bit of his newly recovered Knight True Qi to flick a snowflake, piercing Takeda Hideo's skull.

Qing Chen continued to wait, waiting for a Shadow Agency member who wasn't so seriously injured to get up, and then use his newly recovered Knight True Qi to shoot snowflakes.

Like a whack-a-mole game, whoever shows their head gets hit.

Shinguji Maki looked at this scene and suddenly asked, "Brother... where are we going next?"

Qing Chen was silent for a while and said, "If you may not be able to set foot on this land again in the future, what do you want to do?"

The little girl lowered her head and thought for a long time, "Are we going to a very far place?"

"Yes."

"Then... can I take a look at my mother?"

"Huh?" Qing Chen looked at Shinguji Maki.

The little girl said softly, "Although she left me, Grandma said she had no choice; she needs to have her own life... I don't blame her, but I want to see if she's doing well now, just take a quick look. Of course, if this will disrupt your plans, then I won't go; I can not go see her."

Qing Chen grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, put it in his mouth, and slowly melted it with the temperature of his mouth and drank it as water. He thought for a while and said, "Actually, I'm in a similar situation to you, but you let go earlier than I did. I'll take you to Hokkaido; see her and forget about it."

A few hours later, Qing Chen finally got up to kill the remaining enemies up close. After Qing Chen confirmed that all the Shadow Agency members were dead, he finally took the little girl's hand and walked down the mountain from Ao Sui High Peak.

He didn't go back to Bai Chuan Village.

Shadow Agency people would soon arrive here en masse. They would find the corpses on the snowy mountain; that was the lesson Qing Chen left for them.

But it was just the beginning.

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In fact, the Shadow Agency reacted faster than Qing Chen expected.

Last night, before Takeda Hideo went from Bai Chuan Village to the snowy mountain, he had already reported it in advance.

When he arrived at the place where the vanguard's vehicles were destroyed and people were killed, he reported it again.

So the Shadow Agency knew they were ambushed.

Now Takeda Hideo and others have been out of contact for nearly ten hours; even a fool knows something is wrong.

And the most crucial thing is that the Shadow Agency quickly locked their suspicions on Joker. They almost dispatched half the troops from Osaka City Hall, planning to blockade the entire Takayama Hida and vowing to find this mysterious master.

The Shadow Agency's masters arrived quickly.

They climbed Ao Sui High Peak and then saw the shocking scene.

More than 300 people lay injured in the snow; their clothes and skin were almost undamaged.

A total of 361 people, 270 of whom died of blood loss.

According to the corpses' shapes, some judged that they were instantly injured by some strange method, because their formations were not scattered when they fell.

This is shocking.

Some suspected that Joker had reached A-Class strength; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to do all this.

Now the Shadow Agency is a little panicked. If an A-Class master is determined to play assassination in Shendai's territory, how much power would they lose to kill this A-Class master?!

The cost is too high!

No, they cannot let Joker have the chance to return to the city; they must kill him in the Takayama Hida mountain range!

Within a day, thousands of Time Travelers from Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe organized and drove to the northern, southern, and central parts of Takayama Hida.

They tried to blockade the entire mountain range.

However, while the Shadow Agency was spending a lot of manpower and material resources tracking Qing Chen and Shinguji Maki in Takayama Hida, news came out of Osaka City Hall...

In Japan, on the top of Mikenyama Mountain in Aichi Prefecture, the Martyrs' Shrine of the Seven Soldiers, which buries the remains of seven war criminals,

The three Togo Shrines used to worship Togo Heihachiro, who seized privileges in Northeast China from Russia,

The giant shirt shrine that enshrines Yamashita Tomoyuki, who invaded Beiping after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, and the Xingya Guanyin Temple that enshrines Matsui Iwane, the executioner of the Nanking Massacre,

Were all precisely bombed at almost the same time.

If the bombing of the shrine in Tokyo last time was a coincidence, just the spontaneous behavior of Li Clan Time Travelers and Qing Family Time Travelers after completing their mission,

Then this time, it was a planned event with organization and discipline.

These places were originally guarded by the Shadow Agency, but because of the Takayama Hida incident, they had to withdraw their personnel.

Thus, some were responsible for attracting manpower to Takayama Hida, and some were responsible for precise bombing.

Ji Guanya and Si Nianhua, as the heads of the Li Clan and Qing Family in the Outer World, had already been restricted from entering Japan.

The reason they risked sneaking in this time to personally command everything was for this moment.

When they contacted Qing Chen at Daybreak Villa and asked what kind of cooperation he needed, Qing Chen only instructed this one thing.

This is also why Qing Chen came to Japan this time to complete the Trials of Life and Death; he was willing to use himself as bait.

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