Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 489: The Violator

Many people envied the Knights.

Those with innocent hearts envied their romance and freedom, their perseverance and courage.

Those with wicked hearts envied their centuries-long lifespans.

Generally speaking, body snatching always leaves some aftereffects. Even if the person being snatched is a B-Class expert, there will be a slight hidden danger. The more times one does it, the more accidents will occur.

Therefore, it is better to snatch the body of a young person with a lifespan of several hundred years than an expert with a lifespan of only a few decades.

A Demi-God's cultivation can be lost; as long as the snatched body is B-Class, they can always cultivate it back.

Then they can enjoy the long youth of several hundred years without any scruples.

Body snatching a Knight—this was something many people in the Shendai Family had fantasized about, but never achieved.

Now it seems there is finally hope.

Return Countdown 136:00:00.

This was the day Qing Family and Shendai had agreed upon for the exchange of Qing Mu.

In the morning, Qing Yi woke up in a small town outside Forbidden Zone 065. He got up, washed his Face[-] with cold well water, and then stood in the small courtyard he had recently bought, lost in thought.

The winter was very cold; he was so cold that his nose turned red after washing his Face[-].

He was lost in thought for a long time before pushing open the courtyard door and walking out.

Outside, many soldiers in black combat uniforms had already been standing there. When Qing Yi came out, everyone subconsciously straightened up.

Like sculptures standing before a temple, guarding him.

Qing Yi said, “Let’s go.”

Someone opened the car door for him.

The sound of hurried footsteps rose as nearly a hundred people boarded the prepared black off-road vehicles, then sped towards Forbidden Zone 065.

Killing Intent surged.

The captive, Shendai Jingbian, was sitting in the off-road vehicle with Qing Yi. Qing Chen, who should have presided over the transaction, was captured, so Shadow replaced him with Qing Yi.

There were quite a few dissenting voices within the Qing Family factions regarding Shadow’s decision. After all, letting Qing Yi do this was giving him an advantage.

But at this point, smart people knew Shadow was in a bad mood, and no one would dare to disobey his decisions.

Everything could be discussed later.

Actually, many people were gloating over Qing Chen’s capture. After all, the loss of Shadow’s confidant and heir, the young Supervisor who supported Qing Yi, was good news for them.

When the convoy set off, the outlaws in the town looked curiously at them.

Since Qing Yi came to the town, more and more Qing Family intelligence personnel and combat personnel had gathered here.

First, they were hunting for Shendai’s intelligence personnel, and then they imposed a curfew on the town. After 9 p.m., if Qing Family’s troops found anyone walking in the streets, they would shoot them dead.

At first, the outlaws in the town were a little uncomfortable.

After all, this was a famous den of iniquity in the entire Central Plains wilderness; the night was the most lively time.

But later, they had to adapt.

In Qing Yi’s words, “Anyway, everyone in this town isn’t a good person. They all committed crimes in Federation cities before coming here. They’ll get used to the curfew once they die.”

Someone was gambling at night when Qing Family troops suddenly broke in and fired a volley of shots.

The former prostitutes who had solicited clients at night were forced to operate during the day.

What had been a haven for outlaws became a model town for civilized security in two days.

All they needed was an award certificate and a banner.

Only at this moment did the outlaws, who prided themselves on their carefree lives in the wilderness, recall the terror of being controlled by the Conglomerate.

Now, this group of Qing Family’s living Yama Kings were finally leaving…

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The convoy arrived at the edge of Forbidden Zone 065.

After getting off the vehicle, a group of people pushed Shendai Jingbian towards the depths.

Shendai Jingbian didn’t speak.

Not because he didn’t want to, but because he couldn’t.

Three days ago, Shendai released news to the intelligence community that they had successfully captured Qing Chen and had taken him to the secret military base where Qing Mu had been, intending to have him raise pigs for them.

The outside world was in an uproar.

While being held captive, Shendai Jingbian overheard Qing Family combat personnel discussing and casually mocked Qing Chen’s foolishness, saying that he hadn’t even exchanged for Qing Mu before being captured by Shendai to become the new Qing Mu.

When Qing Yi heard his mockery, he poisoned him, rendering him mute.

The team walked deeper and deeper, finally stopping before a stone tablet. It was where all the outlaws made transactions. Nearby were discarded garbage and the stench of excrement.

I don’t know how many people had made irrevocable transactions here over the years.

“Security lockdown,” Qing Yi said calmly.

At this moment, the young man’s Face[-] was less naive and childish than it had been at Autumn Leaf Manor, less of a contrived maturity, but genuinely more mature.

He looked like a real commander, using his acquired skills to quickly deploy defenses nearby.

Soon, footsteps came from the north of the woods, and more than sixty people carried Qing Mu on a stretcher, slowly emerging from the shadows of the forest.

The leader was one of Shendai’s intelligence officers in the Central Plains. He looked at Qing Yi and said, “I need to confirm if Commander Shendai Jingbian is the real person.”

Qing Yi stared at him: “Where’s Qing Chen?”

The intelligence officer laughed: “He’s received his due punishment. He’s replaced Qing Mu to raise pigs in the north. I don’t know how long he’ll be there—maybe ten years, maybe twenty…or a lifetime. I don’t know if you managed to take a photo together; if so, you can still remember him through the photo. If not, maybe we’ll send you some photos later, so you can see how he’s doing.”

Qing Yi’s eyes were bloodshot—not the redness of tears, but the redness of wanting to kill.

The intelligence officer laughed: “Don’t be impulsive. This is the Forbidden Zone. With your strength, if you make a move, you won’t be able to leave alive.”

Qing Yi sneered.

Someone from deep in the woods asked, “What about my strength?”

A young man in black clothes and a black baseball cap walked out. As he passed Qing Yi, he smiled and said, “What’s the point of talking to them?”

Qing Yi wanted to say something but couldn’t.

In an instant, time seemed to suddenly become viscous.

Everyone’s movements were infinitely stretched with time.

The leaves swayed by the cold wind, like duckweed in the water, began to slow down.

The intelligence officer’s eyes, widening in terror, and his constricting pupils were all so slow.

It felt like even the terror was magnified dozens of times.

It seemed as if even the fear was magnified dozens of times.

Shadow walked through the crowd, his slender fingers stroking the necks of each Shendai intelligence officer.

The wounds slowly broke open, and the blood spurting from the severed arteries of those Shendai members congealed into droplets in the air, splashing outwards.

But it never fell to the ground.

Everyone turned into amber in time.

Like insects frozen in resin falling from a tree branch.

It was all too terrifying. The power of time was displayed before them.

There was no way to fight back.

This was the ultimate terror of the Qing Family’s Shadow when enraged—killing was as easy as cutting grass.

Even easier than cutting grass.

Shadow placed the stretcher carrying Qing Mu safely on the ground and said softly, “You’ve worked hard. Welcome home.”

Forbidden Zone 065’s judgment of breach of contract was the rule of law. Even though Shadow hadn’t participated in the transaction before, he was still judged as a violator.

While Qing Yi and the others, who had done nothing, were safe and sound.

Words suddenly appeared on the stone tablet.

“Forbidden.”

The next moment, vines erupted from the ground, and the poisonous insects in the Forbidden Zone buzzed their wings, wanting to bite the violator with their sharp mouthparts.

However, the time rule still worked on them. Shadow chuckled and turned to leave.

He walked away as if strolling in a courtyard, farther and farther away.

“Take Qing Mu home. Don’t kill Shendai Jingbian. If Qing Chen doesn’t come back, I’ll let the Shendai Family know what real cruelty is.”

The vines missed their target, and the poisonous insects bit at nothing. Everything was a step slower, except for Shadow, who remained at ease.

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After a long time, Qing Yi felt himself return to normal.

He gasped for breath like a drowning man who had just come ashore, as if time had truly enveloped the place.

Qing Yi looked back at the direction Shadow had left, then at the fallen Shendai members in disbelief.

Blood formed pools in the Forbidden Zone; none survived.

Before this, Shadow had only asked him to exchange Qing Mu, but hadn’t said he would personally come to break the contract and kill.

Actually, Qing Yi had prepared himself. He had asked his father for an expert, who was hidden in the crowd, intending to capture all the Shendai people as bargaining chips to exchange for Qing Chen’s return.

This was the first time the young man had asked his father for help, but it was completely unnecessary.

Who could have imagined that Shadow would personally take action?

The expert sent by Qing Yi’s father looked at Shadow’s departure with apprehension. Only those who had experienced it firsthand could understand how terrified he had been.

It’s like ordinary people watching physics research—at most, they’re just watching.

Only real physicists understand the vastness of the world, so vast that it makes them question their life.

Therefore, only this expert could truly understand how powerless they were against Shadow.

It was a distance they could never reach.

Qing Yi took a deep breath: “Carry Commander Qing Mu carefully and evacuate quickly. After we go out, inform the support troops; we can act in the north.”

Not long after, Shendai’s support troops lurking in the north were suddenly besieged by several Qing Family troops, each led by a Shadow Candidate, attacking viciously and cruelly.

In just thirty minutes, nearly an entire battalion of combat troops was wiped out.

The Qing Family Shadow Candidates seemed to be competing for credit, afraid that other Shadow Candidates would kill more than they did.

Their original mission was to hunt Shendai B-Class experts, but they had been waiting for more than ten days and hadn’t seen a single one, so they were all anxious!

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