Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 878: Injection of Medicine, He Jinqiu’s Illness

Night's Nomenclature, Chapter 878: Injection of Medicine, He Jinqiu's Illness! Return Countdown 40:00:00, 8:00 AM.

In the Royal Capital.

He Jinqiu stood on the rooftop of a tall building, his expression weary as he looked down at the countless people below.

This was the meeting point he had agreed upon with the Black Knights.

According to the agreement: He would create an opportunity for the Black Knights to capture Qing Chen alive, and in return, the Black Knights would give him two vials of medicine here.

Boss He looked downstairs, where dozens of plainclothes officers disguised as passersby were quietly infiltrating the building where he was.

The crisis approached silently, but he smiled silently, unconcerned.

Now, his life was nearing its end, and he didn't want to involve others in his troubles.

Boss He had even cut off contact with Nine Provinces, traveling across the ocean on his Jade Heart Sword to the West Continent in search of a glimmer of hope.

At that time, Boss He had already fought alongside Daybreak, Guardians' Union, and Kunlun against the Rat Tide, overturning the overseas situation. He felt he had done what he should have done, fulfilled his duties and responsibilities, and owed no one anything.

He could be free from worries and didn't need anyone's help.

He Jinqiu knew very well that if he spoke up, his old squad leader, Zheng Yuandong, would undoubtedly accompany him on this journey, even if it was just to see him off.

But he didn't want to do that.

If a person cannot find a way to survive, then let them die.

At one point, he had prepared himself to die, charging into Silver City and shattering all his Jade Heart Swords until he collapsed and died.

This would have been in line with his definition of life.

But he never expected that Qing Chen would be willing to put himself in danger to find a glimmer of hope for him.

The moment Qing Chen stepped into the elevator, He Jinqiu wanted to tell the young man, let's forget it, let's fight our way out again, don't get on the elevator.

But Qing Chen's expression at that moment...was even more resolute.

He Jinqiu stroked the Truth Coin in his hand, not knowing when he had stopped using it...was it after the Rat Tide?

That day, he felt like he was back on the flood control embankment, with his old squad leader shouting slogans, and someone in the distance saying that the west bank had broken again.

The floodwaters washed over their bodies, but no one retreated.

If only he hadn't gone to the peacekeeping force.

Or, if only he hadn't joined the army. Then none of this would have happened.

At this moment, the rooftop door behind him opened, and a middle-aged man slowly walked in, carrying a black box.

"Where's what I want?" He Jinqiu asked, stroking the Truth Coin.

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Don't worry, we won't break our promise. The box contains the two vials of medicine that were lost from the laboratory."

He Jinqiu didn't respond, but instead took out a small gold bar and melted it into the Truth Coin.

"My debt is repaid."

Soon, the pattern on the front of the Truth Coin changed into two intertwined ears of wheat, confirming that the man was telling the truth, the medicine was inside.

He looked up at the other party and said, "I've learned about the Black Knights' way of doing things. You're using something that rightfully belongs to me to make a deal with me."

The middle-aged man laughed, "Serve us, and you'll understand what the Black Knights mean on this continent. They can give you everything you've never imagined: female slaves, money, power."

He Jinqiu smiled, "If I wanted those things, I would have gotten them long ago. Now, let's settle the score between us. You made me betray the people I fought alongside, and for that alone, dying a hundred times wouldn't be enough. Today, I'm collecting some interest, and one day I'll send all the Black Knights to join you."

The middle-aged man's expression turned serious, "Do you know the consequences of making an enemy of the Black Knights?"

He Jinqiu retorted, "You're just a thug in the Black Knights, aren't you? Let me ask a presumptuous question, are you at the Demi-God level, or did you bring a Demi-God with you?"

The middle-aged man was stunned, "Demi-God?"

"If you didn't bring a Demi-God, you're all going to die today," He Jinqiu said with a smile.

After the Dominating Vessel arrived in the East Continent Federation, it sent back a lot of information, and they spent half their time gathering intelligence.

They discovered that the East Continent was very unstable. Because it had experienced a technological crisis, its military and technological capabilities were far behind those of the West.

Therefore, the people of the West Continent felt superior to those of the East Continent, like city dwellers looking down on country folk.

But the problem was that the cultivators of the East Continent were not behind at all. In fact, the various Breathing Techniques were the orthodox cultivation methods of the world; the East Continent had them, but the West Continent did not.

And most importantly, these people didn't seem to fully understand what the name He Jinqiu meant.

The next moment!

In certain corners of the building, Jade Heart Swords that had been hidden earlier suddenly flew out, harvesting all the armed personnel in the building.

Jade Heart Swords pierced necks, blood spraying like water guns onto the floor.

First floor, second floor, third floor...

The Black Knights' hidden forces in the Royal Capital had prepared thoroughly for this transaction, but it seemed insignificant against the Jade Heart Swords.

If it weren't for this transaction and Qing Chen's plan, he could have killed even the Fate Weaver at the military base.

In such a narrow corridor, how could Fate Weaver avoid nine heart swords?

He Jinqiu looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and asked with a smile, "What gave you a sense of security?"

While he was chatting and laughing on the rooftop, the building below was already a river of blood. The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes slightly, "Do you think you can leave the Royal Capital alive?"

He Jinqiu thought for a moment before saying seriously, "I know you must have follow-up plans to target me, and I'm not sure if I can escape, but my fate is uncertain, but yours, I've already written it for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, nine Jade Heart Swords pierced through the glass of the building and hovered on the rooftop.

The nine Jade Heart Swords surrounded the middle-aged man, blocking all his escape routes.

"You can't escape," said the middle-aged man.

"So what?" He Jinqiu said calmly.

In an instant, nine Jade Heart Swords pierced through the middle-aged man's body.

He saw vehicles speeding towards him, and the nine Jade Heart Swords beside him merged into one longer and wider sword. He Jinqiu leaped lightly and landed on the Jade Heart Sword, like a celestial riding a sword, his posture straight as he soared into the air.

Unification.

This was the nine-sword unification technique from the Hu family's Jade Heart Sword lineage.

In this lineage, there were two strongest techniques. The first was Unification, where cultivators could ride the wind and sword, traveling thousands of miles a day.

The second was the noontide technique at the Demi-God level, which required twelve Jade Heart Swords. The heart swords could weave a real sword net, devastating everything within 800 meters.

In the Hu family's lineage, cultivating the ninth heart sword meant stepping into the threshold of Demi-God, and cultivating the twelfth meant officially entering the Demi-God realm.

Heart swords are extremely difficult to cultivate. Only after reaching A-level can one start to slowly refine the first heart sword. Even Li Changqing has only just cultivated the third heart sword. Because it's so difficult, it's been a long time since anyone has seen the nine-sword unification.

Let alone noontide.

At this time, He Jinqiu rode his sword through the air above the steel forest, effortlessly passing through the solemn and desolate buildings, appearing like a celestial being.

He flew into the sky, soaring for 600 kilometers before slowly landing on the ground.

The moment he landed, Boss He coughed up a mouthful of blood, dizzy and almost fainting. He had wanted to wait and return to the East Continent to inject the medicine, but now it seemed he didn't have the chance.

"No time," he smiled, wiping the blood from his lips.

Boss He sat down on the ground, carefully opened the black box, and looked at the two gray vials inside. He took out a syringe, aimed it at his chest, and without hesitation, injected all the medicine into his body.

In an instant, he felt his internal organs burning. The gray medicine was like a mass of molten magma, flowing back and forth along his blood vessels.

His body's cells divided repeatedly, and then suddenly broke their cell walls and fused together.

The cancer cells suddenly became incredibly active. They acted like viruses, constantly engulfing normal cells, dividing into new cells, and then fusing into new cells.

Cancer cells are caused by mutations in human genes. In every person's body, gene mutations occur every second, but some people can repair these mutations, while others cannot.

That's why many Gene Soldiers die of cancer in their later years.

After a person gets cancer, the cancer cells grow wildly, relentlessly draining the host's body to preserve themselves.

Human cells are single-celled, while cancer cells are multinucleated and oddly shaped. So, when they grow, they gradually accumulate into tumors, distinct from normal cells.

Now, in He Jinqiu's body, all the cells were slowly merging into double-nucleated cells! When all the cells are different from normal cells, abnormal becomes normal.

But the problem was that this was different from Ren Xiaoli's description. Initially, Ren Xiaoli's cell nuclei all became diamond-like, oddly shaped single nuclei, not the ordinary double nuclei now!

He Jinqiu knelt on the ground, feeling the pain as if tens of thousands of bullet ants were biting him. He struggled to tear open his shirt, watching the gray color spread from the injection site on his chest.

Was he inevitably going to become a gray experimental subject? To become that kind of monster?

Sure enough, the path to becoming a god is currently only one that Knights can take. Sweat dripped onto the soil, and his will began to waver.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have fainted long ago, but He Jinqiu didn't.

Strangely, along with the pain, his body began to secrete a large amount of endorphins to alleviate the pain. The pain was mixed with a strange feeling of relief, very strange.

His mental will began to spread, as if about to merge with the will of the world, but when the will of the world began to contact him, it actively refused.

As if...the will of the world also had its own choices.

In a daze, he seemed to be back to the days when he joined the army.

His father was silent in the room, while his mother hung a large red flower made of silk on his chest, to send him off to join the army.

He Jinqiu was stunned, "Dad, Mom, I don't want to go."

His usually taciturn father suddenly widened his eyes, "You say you won't go now and you won't go?"

He Jinqiu thought for a long time before saying, "If I go, I might be betrayed, I might get cancer, I might die."

His father glared at him, "What nonsense, my He family doesn't have cowardly descendants." Saying that, his father took out a rolling pin from the kitchen, saying he would break He Jinqiu's legs.

His thoughts raced, He Jinqiu seemed to be back on the flood control embankment, carrying sacks behind Zheng Yuandong.

He Jinqiu wanted to cry, he whispered tentatively, "Squad leader?"

Zheng Yuandong, carrying his sack, didn't even turn his head, "What? Don't complain about being tired. My second squad doesn't have deserters. Hold on, if we're going to die, we'll die in the flood."

He Jinqiu was stunned, "Squad leader, do you regret joining the army?"

Zheng Yuandong laughed and scolded, "Regret? I regret it to death. If I had known it was to be the squad leader of you bunch of useless brats, I wouldn't have gotten on the armed forces' vehicle!"

He Jinqiu laughed. He followed Zheng Yuandong into the stormy night, all the comrades jumping into the rapids together, all wearing red vests, their bodies covered in sunburns, peeling layer after layer of skin.

In the floodwaters, someone in the distance shouted, "Second squad, second squad! The bank has broken here, get over here!"

Zheng Yuandong shouted, "Second squad, those who aren't afraid of death follow me!"

"Squad leader, we've run out of sacks! They've blocked other places!" He Jinqiu shouted.

"You damn fool, can't you use your body to block it?" Zheng Yuandong grumbled.

He Jinqiu suddenly realized that the squad leader back then had a really bad temper and often swore. The squad leader later wasn't like that at all; he always wore a tunic suit and looked very respectable...

They blocked the flood for a whole day, from morning to night.

Until new troops replaced them.

All the soldiers of the second squad dragged their tired bodies back, and the people spontaneously came to offer comfort. Some people stuffed warm eggs into their soaked, cold, dirty hands. The old village head kept saying that the soldiers had worked hard.

He Jinqiu wanted to give the egg back, "Sir, we have rules."

Zheng Yuandong stopped him, "Forget it, eat it."

Thinking back now, the squad leader back then was much more flexible than he was.

He Jinqiu's body ached, his consciousness in that era was like a clear observer, yet he was in the midst of it all.

Back in the dark green tent, they lay on their cots without even taking off their shoes.

The snoring was soon thunderous, but He Jinqiu couldn't sleep.

He suddenly asked, "Squad leader, do you regret coming here?"

Zheng Yuandong thought for a moment and said, "You damn fool, you're not tired enough yet; you still have time to think about this nonsense. If you're okay, go for a ten-kilometer armed cross-country run, then come back and ask me."

He Jinqiu: "?"

He laughed, very hard. It turned out that the pain he had experienced had become the most beautiful memories.

Those images began to disintegrate, leaving only the soil of the West Continent before him.

At this moment, He Jinqiu's entire body had turned gray. Tiny fangs grew from the two canine tooth positions in his mouth, and his nails grew two centimeters, looking particularly ferocious.

Tired.

Extremely tired.

Unprecedentedly tired.

He lay on the ground, watching an airship arrive overhead, with the Black Knights' insignia painted on it.

Soon, someone descended on a fast-roping rope and used a strange vine to wrap around He Jinqiu's wrists.

In an instant, He Jinqiu felt he had no strength left.

This vine came from the Forbidden Forest. Even Storm Duke, when he was bound, could only be slaughtered.

Of course, Storm Duke didn't fight to the death. No one knew for sure if this thing worked on Demi-Gods.

He Jinqiu was tied with a safety rope around his waist and quickly pulled into the airship. Old Five of the Black Knights sneered, looking down at him lying on the floor, "Do you think you can run anywhere?"

He Jinqiu ignored him and fell into a deep sleep.