Naming Technique of the Night

"Who ended up with the Taboo at last?" Qing Chen asked.

Qing's shadow sipped his tea lightly, "I don't really care about such matters. It will eventually return to Qing's Family."

"And what about Qing Wen, how is Qing Wen?" Qing Chen asked.

"Qing Wen just got shot, he won't die," Qing's shadow remarked.

"Wait, didn't you retrieve the lost Taboo object of Qing Zhong? Then why would it return to Qing's Family?" Qing Chen inquired curiously.

"It's just that I don't need to take action personally," Qing's shadow said indifferently, "Those who suddenly emerged to assassinate the Shadow Candidates must be the so-called Time Travelers. They have been in this world for so long yet haven't understood one thing, corporations are something they cannot contend with, nor provoke."

Qing Chen fell silent. This Mr. Shadow probably didn't know that he too was a Time Traveler.

And those Time Travelers involved in the plundering of Shadow Candidates were probably in serious trouble, unsure if he knew any of them personally.

Compared to other major figures he had met, in fact, Qing's shadow seemed more like a superior.

Nothing seemed very important to him, nor did he need to personally do anything. These superiors were like gods worshipped by the world, just quietly watching over humanity.

"Alright, you rest well, I'm leaving," Qing's shadow said, "But at the end, I must say, it doesn't matter whether you join the Spy Bureau or not because you think life is a multiple-choice question where you can choose left or right. However, years from now when you look back at all this today, you'll realize life never really gave you a choice. The conclusion has been written by fate long ago; it's just a matter of time."

Qing Chen didn't respond to that topic, but sincerely said, "Thank you for saving my life and for staying by my side until I woke up."

"I just didn't have a peaceful place to drink tea in City Number 18," Qing's shadow explained.

With that said, he opened a Door of Shadow and disappeared to an unknown location.

The whereabouts of this Qing's Shadow were always elusive, no one knew what he was about to do, nor where he would be the next second.

Qing Chen recalled the ease with which the Shadow had killed Wang Bingxu in the Jinmao Tower, suddenly wondering about the kind of strength it must take for the Shadow to kill a B-Class Genetic Warrior so effortlessly.

Moreover, the ability he displayed at that moment to control the passage of time was terrifying.

Qing Chen drifted into sleep.

Sleep was the most wonderful part of life; once you were asleep, the outside world ceased to matter to you.

Qing Chen did not know that tonight nearly all the powers were focused on one matter: who was the sharpshooter who had saved Li Changqing.

Some had hired a retired military sharpshooter and immediately created a model to simulate tonight's wind speed, distance, and conditions for that person's assessment.

However, this sharpshooter indicated that from the simulation of the entire incident, the sniper indeed possessed an absolute gun sense within 2600 meters.

Especially the last five continuous shots, this almost miraculous one-to-five sniper battle, surpassed all his understanding.

To complete those five shots was not simply about pulling the trigger five times.

This god-like sniper had to calculate five totally different trajectories in advance and then rapidly switch between each trajectory within 2.5 seconds.

This was something unthinkable.

Some asked him to guess the identity of this sniper, wondering if he might know the sniper, but he stated that currently, no one in the Federation met the criteria.

Subsequently, many powerholders chose to directly purchase data from Hu's Information Agency in hopes of discovering the identity of this sniper.

The result was that even Hu's Information Agency reported having no information on this sniper, unable to sell any related information.

At that moment, all powers started planning to raise their new security levels, to prevent public assassinations during significant speeches.

But the question was, if for a single speech, they had to protect a radius of 2600 meters, even expanding security to dozens or hundreds of high-rise buildings, wouldn't the cost be too excessive?

It might be better to cancel the speech altogether!

From now on, keep all significant announcements indoors!

Indistinctly, some even ranked Qing Chen's threat level on par with A-Class experts.

That night, the Li Family began a citywide manhunt, quickly targeting hundreds based on the clues exposed by the Jindai family during this incident.

Among them were employees of the City Number 18 Immigration Office who had assisted the Jindai family in entering the city, along with dozens of PCE Security Management Committee detectives.

Following the money trail, more than ten wealthy businessmen were also arrested.

This raid continued until dawn and only gradually concluded. Numerous federal reporters, foregoing sleep, chased those involved in the arrest operation everywhere, trying to get firsthand news.

However, the Li Family did not tolerate their free reporting this time and detained these reporters temporarily in the PCE Security Management Committee's detention centers under the pretext of disturbing public order.

For a time, the whole city was fraught with anxiety.

Under Li Changqing's leadership, even the Li Family underwent a rare internal purge.

Fifty-six people were placed under house arrest at the mansion in the back mountain.

That mansion in the back mountain, akin to the unfathomable and deep palaces of old, resembling a Cold Palace where no one inquired about them.