Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 528: A Lily

The world plunged into darkness.

Then, light returned.

Return Countdown 720:00:00.

This time travel was, once again, for thirty days.

Qing Chen had experienced countless crossings and returns, but each time he went through this process of shifting worlds, he still found it wondrous.

It was as if a deity had used the most magical means to forcefully meld two worlds together, influencing each other, gradually becoming indistinguishable.

Some things that could not be done in the Inner World could be done in the Outer World.

Some people who could not be killed in the Inner World could be killed in the Outer World.

Qing Chen looked at the black night in front of him. After a month, he was still in the foul-smelling pigsty, with hundreds of pounds of shackles on his hands and feet.

Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke were still suspended outside the pigsty.

The time discrepancy in the Inner World gave Qing Chen a strange sensation: it felt as if these two had been hanging there for a month.

This illusion stirred up emotions that had already subsided in Qing Chen's heart.

Qing Chen slowly stood up from the pigsty, waiting.

He silently counted down ten seconds in his heart.

When the countdown ended, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded throughout the A02 Secret Military Base.

The alarm hadn't sounded here for a long time. The prisoners who had been sleeping in the cell block got up one after another.

They pressed their ears against the tightly closed iron gate of the cell block, trying to hear what had happened.

But they only heard the sound of footsteps, but they didn't understand.

Qing Chen stood in the pigsty, slowly lifting the heavy shackles on his arms, stepping through the muddy ground mixed with ice shards, and walked to the edge of the pigsty.

The shackles were so heavy that everything he did seemed like slow motion, even though he had recently been promoted, he could not ignore this weight.

Qing Chen stood at the edge of the pigsty, looking towards the direction of the military camp, and slowly opened his palm, placing the lily he had been holding for an unknown amount of time beside Zhao Mingke and Wang Yuchao.

He looked at the night sky and whispered, "I wish you were born in a peaceful era in your next life, a place where birds sing and flowers bloom, where old men practice swordplay in the park, and where people sell breakfast downstairs. Children can run carefree, and the weak are not bullied."

That was something he brought from the Outer World.

Many people thought that since Qing Chen was trapped here, he must have brought something from the Outer World that would help him escape, even if he couldn't bring large weapons, a grenade would have been nice.

But Qing Chen didn't. He only brought a flower, and the gold coin the Old Master had given him.

Qing Chen smiled at the bodies of Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke, "Don't worry, I'll avenge you. Also, I'll take the rest of the Qing Family brothers out. Thank you."

This thank you was for the people here who had redeemed his once lost self.

Surprisingly, after doing all this, Qing Chen sat down in the pigsty.

He didn't immediately attack and kill, nor did he try to escape. He was calm, unlike someone who was imprisoned.

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In the military camp, Shendai Yunzhi, who was in charge of the entire A02 Secret Military Base, was looking at the dormitory with a livid expression.

The spacious dormitory that could accommodate hundreds of people was like a cabin hospital, with beds every few meters.

It should have held 621 Time Travelers participating in the training, but now it was empty, with only more than ten people left, their bodies covered in burns, gunshot wounds, and cuts.

Those ten people were emitting painful wails.

Shendai Yunzhi knew what had happened: someone in the Outer World had carried out precise killings of the trainees in the A02 Secret Military Base!

A month had passed for the Time Travelers.

For Shendai Yunzhi, his six hundred plus people were gone just after he had finished his inspection.

It should be noted that when a Time Traveler dies in the Inner World, the body will return to the Outer World.

If they die in the Outer World, they will disappear when they next cross over.

Federation news had previously reported on many people who had disappeared out of thin air. Someone was drinking in a bar, then suddenly turned into air.

It was like being erased by an eraser.

It must have been Qing Chen.

But Shendai Yunzhi found it hard to understand. He was just a prisoner. Even if a Time Traveler could move in the Outer World, how could he have done something on such a large scale!

And this was the final task Qing Chen had given Ji Guanya.

Shendai Yunzhi's satellite phone rang. Shendai Yunxiu, upon returning, immediately reported everything that had happened in the Outer World to the ten council members.

And the first thing the ten council members did was to tell Shendai Yunzhi to increase the alert level, and that reinforcements were already on their way.

"Daybreak," Shendai Yunzhi looked at the empty Time Traveler camp, then led hundreds of soldiers towards the cell block.

The commander of the A02 base was already in turmoil.

He didn't expect that the heavy blow they had suffered was just the tip of the iceberg of what had been done in the Outer World.

Shendai Yunyi, Shendai Yunjue, Shendai Yunwu, and Shendai Yunye, these four core members had all died.

And the shrine destroyed in the Outer World, and the thousands of people killed by the Master of Daybreak and Zard, this behavior was terrifying.

Is this the price of imprisoning one person?!

The price is too high!

"Open the door to the cell block... wait!" Shendai Yunzhi was about to go directly to Qing Chen, but he stopped, stood there for more than ten seconds, before his expression returned to calm: "Open the door."

He came to the pigsty and looked at Qing Chen sitting on the ground, calmly saying, "I thought you would run away the moment you came back, but I didn't expect you to be much weaker than the legends say."

Qing Chen smiled: "I guess you've just calmed down, now that you know the price of imprisoning me."

Shendai Yunzhi was speechless when his thoughts were exposed. He looked down at his feet, where a lily lay peacefully, commemorating the dead souls.

He sneered, "I thought you'd bring something life-saving back from the Outer World, but you only brought a useless flower? They're already dead; what good is giving them a flower?"

Qing Chen laughed, "Don't envy them, your own grave will grow flowers too."

Shendai Yunzhi's Face^[-] became completely gloomy.

Qing Chen said, "Want to kill me? I guess you don't dare, because there are still people waiting for me to become a B-Class. Am I right?"

Shendai Yunzhi looked deeply at Qing Chen: "Even if you guess, so what? This is the rear base of the Shendai Consortium. Nearby garrison troops and field troops patrol the wilderness all year round. Anyone who wants to save you must first pass through layers of military defense zones from the south. After rescuing you, they will also Face^[-] the pursuit of the army. The Air Fortress in the sky is enough to destroy everything. Even a Demi-God would have to avoid its edge."

Shendai Yunzhi continued, "In this situation, even if you can retaliate against the Shendai Family in the Outer World, you still can't shake the foundation of an entire Conglomerate. Even if you manage to escape the A02 Secret Military Base, you'll be caught back. As a prisoner, you should have the awareness of a prisoner. Clever talk won't help you."

Qing Chen smiled without refuting.

Shendai Yunzhi was right in one thing: the Li Clan and the Qing Family are located in the Central Plains, while the north belongs to the Shendai and Koshima.

This A02 base is located at 52 degrees north latitude, further north of the Shendai Family.

If anyone wants to save him, they must cross the entire Shendai territory to get here, then find a way to avoid all pursuits and return to the Central Plains.

On the escape route, they would also Face^[-] organized Shendai army troops, and the god-killing technological weapons of this era.

This is almost an impossible task.

This is why no one ever tried to rescue Qing Mu when he was imprisoned here.

Too difficult.

And what Qing Chen had to do was not only escape himself, but also take the Qing Family intelligence personnel from the A02 Secret Military Base with him.

If Shendai Yunzhi knew his plan, he would probably laugh.

Because this idea is too naive.

Shendai Yunzhi crushed the lily under his foot. The white flower was crushed into the mud: "Do you think the Boss of your Daybreak organization will come to save you in this situation? He's just a B-Class. Even Li Changqing's Qingshan Falcon Air Fortress has returned. Who else will come to save you? Just wait here obediently and pay for your arrogance."

Having said that, Shendai Yunzhi conducted a final check. He summoned a Shikigami and slowly approached Qing Chen.

ATS-331, Nekoma.

After this Nekoma, a Shikigami with two tails that only catches mice, approached Qing Chen, it didn't kneel down.

Having confirmed this, Shendai Yunzhi left. He still needed to report the situation of the A02 Secret Military Base.

After he left, Qing Chen stood up and said to the night wind, "You two, wait with me in this cold wind. I'll let you see this base destroyed with your own eyes. I'll bury you in the northern land, not to abandon you, but to let you see the moment the Shendai Family flag falls."

The message he sent back should have already been carried away by this cold wind.

Give those distant friends some time.

Qing Chen lowered his head and calculated the time, "Five more days."

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