Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 834: Storm City’s Massive Search

Returning to the land of the East Continent, even for just a minute, felt comforting to Qing Chen.

Even facing the stern Old Master,

it felt a little more benevolent.

Qing Chen looked at the Old Master: “How does it feel to be back in the game?”

The Old Master thought for a moment before saying, “No one has mentioned paying me yet. Let’s forget about stock options; we still need a salary.”

Qing Chen couldn’t help but laugh. This guy really thinks of himself as an employee.

Silence fell between them again.

Li Kerou thoughtfully asked, “Are you used to the food outside?”

Qing Chen replied, “I’m not used to it. It’s always steaks and hamburgers, but they’re not as good as a plate of shredded potatoes from home.”

Li Kerou asked again, “Is it dangerous now?”

“Yes, I’m trying to solve it, and time is of the essence,” Qing Chen answered.

The questions Li Kerou asked were what a father would want to ask but couldn’t bring himself to.

The Old Master, having been the Head of the Qingshi Clan for so long, had long been accustomed to the perspective of looking down on the world. His thoughts, desires, and plans were all extremely grand. Asking him to show tender concern for his son felt unnatural to him.

So Li Kerou kindly asked all the questions a father would ask, so the Old Master wouldn’t have to, and feel embarrassed.

As for her own motives for asking, that was uncertain.

Perhaps this is why Li Kerou was able to become the housekeeper of Gingko Manor in such a short time. However, he didn’t have much time for reminiscing.

A from the West Continent reminded him of something: many people had already guessed White Light’s true identity, and a new investigation would be launched targeting this identity.

This infiltration and lurking was like a long-drawn-out battle, each side constantly finding the other’s weaknesses and then launching attacks and defenses.

Currently, Qing Chen could only defend.

He said to Li Kerou, “Who are the people currently gathered in City 5?”

Li Kerou took out a transparent tablet and handed it to him: “The list is on it. Clicking on the list will also show what each person has been doing recently.”

Qing Chen glanced at her. This girl had everything prepared.

Black Widow stood silently in the command room.

Aboard the Storm, she waited. She knew White Light wouldn’t keep her waiting too long.

Then, someone suddenly said, “White Light is online!”

Black Widow coldly said, “Cast the net! No exceptions, regardless of life or death, regardless of cost, confirm the status of each target, and see if they are in the Virtual Realm! This is Plan A. If you encounter resistance, immediately implement Plan B!”

“Most targets are in their homes, and one target is even a Marquis. We can’t force our way in…”

Black Widow’s face was grim: “Of course, we can’t kill them, but can’t we just go in and take a look? We Arbiters don’t need to be so timid.”

At Marquis Kennedy’s manor.

The new driver leaned against his car, smoking a cigarette. The villa was brightly lit, and maidservants scurried around preparing late-night snacks.

In the slave quarters nearby, the foreman was playing cards with the slaves.

Only the driver was out of place, belonging neither to the villa nor the slave quarters.

He had a miniature earphone in his ear, his communication channel open.

As he smoked, someone on the communication channel said, “White Light is online. Check if Lanshan, Chixue Squad, and others are also online.”

After receiving the order through his earphones, the driver casually extinguished his cigarette and quietly walked towards a dark, deserted area.

Once he reached a blind spot for the surveillance cameras, he moved like a gecko, agilely climbing the exterior wall of the villa and silently climbing to the second floor.

The driver expertly climbed to the window of the entertainment room and cautiously peeked inside. Except for two B-Class Gene Soldiers guarding, everyone else was in the Virtual Realm.

The driver was about to leave, but at that moment, the two Gene Soldiers spotted him and immediately shouted, “Who’s there?!”

In an instant, the two Gene Soldiers from the Chixue Squad acted decisively. They charged to the window, leaped, used their elbows to shatter the glass, and jumped from the second floor to chase the driver.

The sound of shattering glass echoed, followed by fragments falling like rain. Lanshan and others were connected to the Neuron, completely unaware of the commotion outside the Virtual Realm.

Yellow and Green had already caught up with the driver.

The driver was not strong and was subdued by the two in the blink of an eye.

Green pressed his head firmly to the ground, coldly asking, “Who sent you? If you don’t talk, I’ll cut off your ears and eyes!” The driver sneered, “Someone will call you soon. Don’t worry.”

“Calling? It doesn’t matter who calls,” Green was about to use torture, but his phone rang the next second.

Someone on the phone calmly said, “This is Arbiters. Release our people and cooperate with the investigation. The electronic operation order signed by the Storm Duke has been sent to your phones. After reading it, cooperate with the investigation. Failure to cooperate will be treated as treason.”

The call ended.

Green checked his phone and saw the operation order. His expression immediately changed. It was Arbiters!

The Arbiters, a violent intelligence agency, were not someone he could afford to offend!

In the entire Roosevelt Kingdom, the main city and four ducal cities were under high-pressure control by intelligence organizations. Intelligence organizations like Arbiters would initially use covert methods, but once discovered, they would immediately reveal their identities and use more extreme methods to solve problems!

“Let him go,” Green said to Yellow.

The driver stood up, brushing off the dust. New orders came through the communication channel: “Don’t alarm the target. Wait for aerial fire support to arrive, then forcibly log the target suspects offline.”

The driver immediately understood that his superiors had felt the wrath of the Storm Duke. They would use a more aggressive method to verify their identities.

Since White Light was online, they would directly force the target suspects offline. Whoever went offline after White Light would be White Light!

The next moment, an Airship descended from the sky island, escorted by two helicopters, circling above the Kennedy Manor.

Similar situations were unfolding simultaneously in dozens of places across the city.

Storm City’s powerful aerial Fighter Jet fleet was deployed. After all, with Joker’s strength, after being forcibly logged off, he could very likely make a final desperate struggle or even break out.

Once aerial support arrived, the driver quickly rushed into the villa. He went to the entertainment room and turned off the virtual devices of Lanshan and others.

Yellow and Green could only watch, not daring to say anything.

Lanshan, who was happily leveling up, woke up to find the driver was the culprit and was furious, wanting to beat him up. Black also looked livid.

However, Green stopped them, whispering that it was an Arbiters officer.

The driver looked coldly at everyone and reported on the communication channel: “Forcibly logged off.”

On the other side, the command room on the Storm confirmed that White Light had not been affected, so they ordered: “Retreat, assemble at the Airport, and prepare to return by Airship.”

“Received,” the driver replied calmly, then swaggered away.

The people in the entertainment room were shaken and felt somewhat stifled.

Black frowned and asked, “Why are we being targeted by Arbiters?”

Arbiters was a dark cloud hanging over everyone in Storm City. The driver was only a D-Class, yet with his Arbiters identity, he could do whatever he wanted, and seven B-Class experts didn’t dare to do anything to him. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

This was the ferocity of the Arbiters.

Lanshan frowned, looking at the Airship and Fighter Jets quickly leaving in the sky, wondering what he was thinking.

At that time, the young man responsible for keeping an eye on the housekeeper downstairs in the apartment building in the eighth district received an order and immediately turned towards the apartment building.

Aerial support had arrived!

He pressed the 67th-floor elevator button, intending to forcibly unlock the door to confirm whether the housekeeper had entered the Virtual Realm.

If the housekeeper was indeed in the Virtual Realm, he would immediately reveal his identity and forcibly log him off.

Actions like this took place in 121 locations, covering a vast area.

Black Widow wanted to end it all tonight.

In the elevator, the intelligence officer checked his weapons, methodically removing the magazine to check the bullets, then reinserting it into the holster under his ribs.

He had anticipated the possible conflicts, but he was fearless.

The intelligence officers knew that if the person they were watching was Joker, they might die upon discovering his identity.

The elevator rapidly ascended, reaching the 67th floor.

However, when the elevator doors slowly opened, the intelligence officer responsible for surveillance was stunned, because the housekeeper was standing outside the elevator doors, calmly walking in, not even glancing at him, and pressing the ground floor button.

The housekeeper glanced at him: “Which floor?”

The intelligence officer hurriedly said, “Ground floor. I forgot to press the button.”

“Okay,” the housekeeper said nothing more.

The atmosphere in the elevator was tense and suffocating. The intelligence officer stood beside the housekeeper, sweat slowly trickling down his back. The elevator reached the ground floor, and the two walked out of the elevator without incident.

After the housekeeper walked a few dozen meters, the intelligence officer whispered, “Target 12 did not enter the Virtual Realm. He just left the apartment. We don’t know where he’s going.”

The other side of the communication channel was silent for a few seconds: “Clear suspicion, but continue to track him to see where he’s going.”

White Light was still online, but the housekeeper had gone out, so the housekeeper was cleared of suspicion.

The intelligence officer followed the housekeeper for a while and saw him enter the best-known fried chicken restaurant in District Seven, buying two hamburgers, a portion of fries, and a large portion of fried chicken.

He then turned back to his apartment.

The intelligence officer whispered, “He just bought some food, nothing unusual.”

Black Widow’s voice came from the communication channel: “Stand down.”

The intelligence officer was stunned. Black Widow herself was personally watching this person.

Tonight’s operation started quickly and ended quickly.

But the most unexpected thing was that all 121 operations were concluded, with a total of 235 suspects investigated, and all suspicion cleared.

The command center on the Storm fell silent, and everyone began to doubt: Had their search direction been wrong from the start?

Entering the Virtual Realm requires brainwave verification, one person, one number, there has never been an exception.

After 235 suspects went offline, White Light remained online, wandering in the toxic circle.

This could only mean they had suspected the wrong person.

Even Black Widow began to doubt if she had overlooked something from the start. Perhaps Joker hadn’t landed on the beach from the beginning but had used a more sophisticated method to infiltrate, like the perpetrator in Blackwater City.

If this were true, finding Joker would be like looking for a needle in a haystack!

“Sir, should we continue to investigate these 235 suspects?” someone whispered, “That Marquis has already filed a complaint with the kingdom, saying we are overstepping our authority.”

Black Widow pondered for a moment: “Don’t waste too much manpower and resources on monitoring them for now. The elders are coming for a meeting, and we’ll re-examine the new direction of the investigation!”

In the housekeeper’s residence, Qing Chen wore virtual glasses and was immersed in the Virtual Realm.

Chen Zhuocai, Li Tongyun, and others curiously looked at the room, and the robot girl in the room.

Chen Zhuocai, the female workaholic, wanted to pinch Yi’s cheek, but Yi smiled and pushed her away: “Don’t touch me randomly.”

Li Tongyun curiously asked, “Are you human?”

Yi replied in a somewhat formulaic manner: “No, I am his service robot.”

Li Tongyun exclaimed: “I didn’t expect Qing Chen gege to be this kind of person!”

Dayu and Zard were walking around the room. The curtains were drawn, and Zard peeked through a tiny gap, looking at the Storm in the distance: “Wow, their Air Fortress is parked right above the city.”

At that moment, the door opened, and the ‘housekeeper’ came back with a bag of fried chicken and hamburgers.

He took off the Forbidden Artifact ACE005Da Fu from his face, revealing Hu Xiaoniu’s true appearance. He smiled and said, “We shouldn’t have been discovered. Let’s eat fried chicken.”

The containment condition of the Forbidden Artifact ACE005Da Fu is knowing its name, just like when Li Shutong gave Da Fu to Qing Chen. Qing Chen briefly lent this Forbidden Artifact to Hu Xiaoniu, successfully concealing his identity.

Actually, if the other party wasn’t sure White Light was Joker, Qing Chen wouldn’t have been able to clear his suspicion for a while, but once they knew, clearing his suspicion would be much easier.