Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 872: Storm Approaching

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On Airship Eleven.

Qing Chen sat in a chair in the command room, silently pondering the prophecy Xiao Zhenji had drawn.

The person whose eyes flow with light will be swallowed by the light. The person who pursues ideals will betray them and fall into the abyss.

The former is definitely himself. At first, Qing Chen thought "being swallowed by the light' referred to a big explosion, such as the moment the Eternal Spear fell.

However, although that explosion was violent, it did not affect him.

So, where will being swallowed by the light apply?

And that person who pursues ideals and betrays them, Qing Chen always thought it might be the Storm Duke, but now it seems that the other party has never pursued any ideals, only power.

Strange, this prophecy has not shown any signs so far.

At this time.

"Cough, cough, cough," He Jinqiu coughed violently. No matter how hard he tried to suppress it, he couldn't stop it.

These days, Qing Chen could even feel that the other party's condition was deteriorating at a visible speed.

When he first met He Jinqiu in the West Continent, this once heroic Boss He was only a little thinner, but now he really looks sick.

In the command room, Old Eleven asked strangely, "What kind of disease do you have? There aren't many incurable diseases in our Roosevelt Kingdom now. If it doesn't work, just replace the organs, replace them all over the body, it should be cured. Is the salary Bolton gave you not enough for treatment? Then come to me…"

Barton glared at him: "Are you finished? You're a playboy who eats, drinks, and plays. Why are you always poaching my people?"

Old Eleven shrugged: "It's fun."

He Jinqiu explained: "I have cancer, and the cancer cells have spread throughout my body."

"Oh, this is incurable," Old Eleven said carelessly, "If it wasn't discovered and treated early, it would definitely be too late now. Now it is said that there are drugs that can coexist with cancer, but the technology is not yet mature, and it is easy to turn people into monsters. However, since there has been a breakthrough in this technology, maybe one day cancer can be completely cured."

He Jinqiu replied with a smile: "I won't live to see that day."

Old Eleven pondered: "If you had the Forbidden Artifact "Death's Cup', it would be fine."

"What does this Forbidden Artifact do?" Qing Chen curiously asked.

Old Eleven became interested: "This thing is quite magical. Fill the goblet with your own blood, and the blood will turn into a cup of poison. As long as you drink it, you can remain in a state of suspended animation, no matter how long, you can live like a vegetative person, without eating, drinking, or breathing, and you won't age. It's also easy to wake up. A direct blood relative also puts a cup of blood and gives it to you to drink, and you will wake up."

"This isn't used to treat diseases," Marquis Barton was stunned: "What's the point of being a vegetative person all the time?"

Old Eleven continued: "Before, a person had lung cancer, and he thought he wouldn't live. But the doctor said that the targeted drug for his lung cancer would be developed in at most two years. So, he drank a cup of poison, wanting to wait for technological advancements before coming back to life for treatment."

"Then what?" He Jinqiu asked.

"Oh, then his son died in a car accident. Although the targeted drug appeared, there were no direct blood relatives to wake him up," Old Eleven said with a smile: "Do you think he's unlucky?"

Qing Chen asked: "Who has this Forbidden Artifact?"

Old Eleven shook his head: "I don't know. I haven't paid attention. Help him back to his room to rest, we still have a few hours before we arrive at Silver City."

Back in the room.

Qing Chen looked at He Jinqiu and asked softly: "How are you?"

He Jinqiu thought for a moment: "I should have about a month left… Of course, it could be shorter."

If Boss He wasn't so strong, he would have been bedridden long ago.

Qing Chen remained silent; he could feel the other party's unwillingness.

He finally Cultivated to A-class, only one step away from Demi-God, but now, because of an incurable disease, he will die in the best time of his life.

If it were him, he wouldn't be reconciled either.

Qing Chen typed on his phone to prevent eavesdropping devices in the room: "Actually, I always knew that drugs that coexist with cancer have side effects. After injection, you will become very bloodthirsty and extremely crave protein… But I once saw a test subject underground, he still retained his consciousness. According to him, over the long years, he has learned how to control his desires."

He Jinqiu looked out the window and responded in writing: "You're thinking that maybe I'll become that kind of monster?"

Qing Chen nodded: "I know what you want to do. Cancer, True Sight Eye, drugs that coexist with cancer, you've almost gathered all the known conditions for the path to becoming a god, but you're missing one last thing… You don't have a Knight's body, and you haven't opened the Gene Lock that the Knight opens."

Therefore, Qing Chen knew that if He Jinqiu rashly used the drug, he wouldn't become a god; he would become a gray monster.

He Jinqiu: "I was also hesitant before, but I no longer have the chance to open the Gene Lock. Later, I thought, Ren Xiaosu's ascension to godhood was a chance encounter. Is it possible that the technology of coexisting with cancer doesn't require Gene Lock, but A-class strength? And those who became gray test subjects were ordinary people."

Qing Chen asked: "What exactly is the Easter egg in World 1?"

He Jinqiu: "Ren Xiaosu, it's an Easter egg left by Ren Xiaosu, about the path to becoming a god. But he only talked about how he used the Black True Sight Eye to seal his spiritual will, preventing his will from merging with the world, and then, after his body also surpassed the Demi-God limit, he completely released all his spiritual will to complete the transformation from human to god. From then on, you will be independent of the world's will; you will be a world yourself."

He Jinqiu: "He also said in the end… Don't reconcile with the world, what you insist on is meaningful, even if your sharp edges are broken and bloodied by the world, those sharp edges are the most precious things in your body, blood, and spirit. I didn't quite understand what this meant, whether it was related to becoming a god, or maybe just chicken soup."

Because there is only one successful case of Ren Xiaosu, everyone cannot use overlapping elements to accurately analyze the necessary conditions for the path to becoming a god.

Even Ren Xiaosu himself may not be able to confirm that the Knight's path is necessary. To be precise, the path to becoming a god is never just one path.

It is precisely because Ren Xiaosu himself cannot be sure that He Jinqiu wants to gamble.

He has no choice.

Qing Chen nodded: "I understand what you mean. I'll help you gamble. But if you become a test subject, I will find a way to imprison you until you learn how to control your desires."

He Jinqiu laughed: "If I really become a gray-skinned test subject, you'd better just kill me. I can't accept myself becoming such an ugly monster. Remember to burn me to ashes, don't let anyone see what I look like after I die."

Boss He is still that elegant Boss He.

Qing Chen also smiled. He turned and went out, pulling Barton aside and asking: "Marquis, can you tell the Fifth Princess to help find the drugs that coexist with cancer? As long as you help me get this drug, it will be considered as repaying the previous merits, and I won't be poached by Silver City."

Barton's eyes lit up, and he quickly nodded: "I'll call right away."

At this moment, Barton was competing with Old Eleven, and Qing Chen made such a simple request. How could he not be satisfied? This is not a particularly precious drug, it's just a bit unorthodox.

He immediately made a call on speakerphone, and the Fifth Princess on the other end didn't hesitate, and directly promised, saying that the research institute that researches this drug is in her pharmaceutical company.

At most eight hours, her people can get the drug and send it to Silver City as quickly as possible.

The Fifth Princess instructed: "This drug currently has major flaws and is not recommended for He to inject. If He loses his mind after injection, he must be killed."

It seems that the Fifth Princess knows very well that this kind of drug can create ferocious, gray-skinned test subjects. Those test subjects have an extreme craving for protein and are easily turned into man-eating monsters.

But He Jinqiu has already considered the consequences.

After hanging up the phone, He Jinqiu felt much lighter, whether he lived or died, there would be a result.

However, two hours later, the Fifth Princess suddenly called: "The research institute in Storm City was suddenly attacked by mysterious experts of unknown identities. They destroyed all the data and took away the only two samples of the drug! The most crucial thing is that the AI didn't alert us or issue an arrest order. The other party left no trace at all, escaping along the blind spots of the surveillance cameras."

Qing Chen and He Jinqiu looked at each other, feeling that this was too coincidental.

They had just made this request to Barton, and the lab was attacked immediately?

The security measures of that research institute were not strict, but the lack of warning from the sky-eye system caught Qing Chen's attention.

The other party should have decided to act temporarily, otherwise the time wouldn't be so coincidental.

So, a person who temporarily decided to act, but was able to perfectly arrange the route so that the sky-eye system could not find any clues or traces?

Even Qing Chen would find it difficult to do!

At one point, He Jinqiu even thought that Qing Chen had sent someone to steal the two doses of medicine, but he knew it was impossible.

So now there are three possibilities.

The first is that the Fifth Princess didn't want to give it, but didn't want to refuse Barton's face, so she staged a play, pretending to get it, then falsely claiming it was stolen.

The second is that a Fate Weaver used prophecy to perceive something and arranged this robbery.

The third… When Qing Chen thought of the third possibility, he fell into serious thought.

He Jinqiu stood there, his energy and spirit seemed to dissipate in an instant, and even his expression became much more tired.

When Qing Chen looked over, Boss He smiled: "This is probably fate."

"I'll go back to Storm City to track down the culprit right away," Qing Chen said solemnly: "I don't believe they left no clues at all."

He Jinqiu said: "It's definitely too late, and maybe they directly destroyed the medicine… I'll go wash my face."

As he spoke, he went into the bathroom, Qing Chen could only hear the sound of rushing water, and Boss He seemed to be in a daze, until half an hour later, he came out of the bathroom.

He Jinqiu typed on his phone to show Qing Chen: "Before I die, I'll help you destroy the imperial military base. This is the last thing I want to do. Where are the coordinates?"

Qing Chen replied: "700 kilometers south of Silver City."

He Jinqiu and Qing Chen both had determined expressions on their faces. If this military base isn't destroyed, the East Continent will always be under the shadow of nuclear deterrence…

…

…

"How about we go hunting?" Old Eleven suddenly said in the command room: "It's too boring to go back to Silver City so early, let's go get some game!"

Barton complained: "You were slow on the return trip, and now you're making excuses not to return to Silver City. My wife's Airship has arrived in Silver City, but we haven't yet! You just want to delay time, trying to poach people before we reach Silver City!"

Old Eleven smiled: "So what? Otherwise, jump down?"

Marquis Barton looked at the ground through the window, then shrank his neck: "Let's go hunting!"

He Jinqiu typed on his phone to Qing Chen: I looked at the map, this place is only 230 kilometers from the military base. With our speed, we can get there in one day. After we land, we'll follow Old Eleven to hunt, then quickly leave the team.

Qing Chen looked at the map on the Holographic Sand Table, pondering.

On the holographic map, the ground is flat and empty 230 kilometers away.

But he knew that the imperial military base was there.

However, Qing Chen had a strange sense of worry.

After thinking for a moment, he typed back: "We'll act after the hunt begins."

Airship Eleven slowly landed on the ground.

Old Eleven changed into a training uniform and unloaded dozens of mountain off-road motorcycles from the Airship. The three huge wheels of this motorcycle were like a giant's feet, with extremely strong grip.

Old Eleven laughed: "How about we gamble? If I hunt more game than you, you'll give me your butler."

Barton was furious: "Bullshit! You have more than 300 soldiers with you, how can I compete with you? Besides, he's a free man, not my slave. Why would I use him as a bet?"

Old Eleven snorted: "Chicken."

With that, he twisted the throttle and rushed out, the huge tires kicking up dust, making Barton choke on dust.

Barton sat on the motorcycle for a long time without knowing how to drive it: "Butler, butler! Why isn't this working when I twist the throttle? Oh? Where's the butler?"

Barton turned his head, but found that He Jinqiu and Qing Chen had already ridden their mountain off-road motorcycles far away, and he could only watch their backs slowly disappear.

"He probably doesn't want to see me lose to the Black Knights, so he went to help me hunt game," Marquis Barton thought sadly…

But strangely, from morning to evening, Qing Chen and He Jinqiu never appeared again.

Old Eleven came back with hundreds of game, but he was shirtless, carrying a wild boar king on his shoulders, with bloodstains on his body.

Barton saw this fierce scene, his heart skipped a beat. At this moment, He and the butler were gone. Even if he killed himself and exposed his body in the wilderness, no one would know.

He nervously said: "He and the butler will be back soon, don't do anything rash…"

Old Eleven chuckled: "You can't even lie."

Marquis Barton said timidly: "Did you see them when you were hunting?"

"No, but I know what happened," Old Eleven shook his head: "Don't worry, we'll wait here for two days, as for whether we can see them again, I can't say."

Barton was stunned. What happened that he didn't know about?

However, at this moment, Old Eleven said to several soldiers: "Take Marquis Barton to the Airship, confiscate his phone and all electronic devices, don't let him go out, don't give him a chance to contact the Fifth Princess!"

Barton was startled. Old Eleven is far from as friendly as he imagined!

"What are you trying to do?" Barton was lifted up by the arms and dragged into the Airship. He roared: "Do you have some kind of conspiracy? My wife won't let you off!"

Under the setting sun, Old Eleven sat sideways on the motorcycle and lit a cigarette.

He looked towards the imperial military base, not knowing what he was thinking.

A thick cloud floated in the sky, completely obscuring the setting sun.

Drip, drip.

Raindrops fell on the ground, stirring up the smell of soil.

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