Harvest

"Kabri Jackson?" Qing Chen asked tentatively.

The Puppet Master on Kabri's hand did not react. Qing Chen knew very well that if he knew the other party's name, then no matter whether the other party was unconscious or dying, he would control the puppet with his will and make it his Puppet Master.

Now the Puppet Master can control two people at the same time. Kabri is C-Class, Qing Chen is also C-Class.

Moreover, Qing Chen has just completed the requirements for containing the Puppet Master this month.

Therefore, there's no reason why it shouldn't work.

Unless, Chilton didn't reveal Kabri's real surname before he died.

Qing Chen felt a pang of emotion. That old bastard really deserved to die; while alive, he schemed against everyone around him, and even in his dying moments, he wasn't forgetting to plot...

"Kabri Lincoln?" Qing Chen asked tentatively.

Because Lincoln led the abolitionist movement in North America and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, many Black people in North America have the surname Lincoln.

However, Qing Chen was also wrong.

"Kabri Washington?"

"Kabri Smith?"

Qing Chen tried them one by one, but none of them worked.

I can't exactly search for every surname in the United States.

He looked at Kabri lying on the ground; the other man's eyelashes trembled slightly, clearly indicating that he was awake...

However, after Kabri woke up, he didn't dare to put up any resistance, or even show that he was awake.

After witnessing Yang Yang, a Force Field Awakened, in action, he found it difficult to muster any competitive spirit and was now in a state of complete resignation.

Moreover, he has already been stabbed three times, once by Yang Yang and twice by Qing Chen.

Qing Chen knocked him unconscious for the first time. When he woke up, he found that the boy next to him was trying out his surname, and he didn't know what he was doing...

This terrified Kabri, who always felt that the person next to her wasn't a normal person.

Immediately afterwards, he started begging for mercy, only to be knocked unconscious a second time by Qing Chen with a hand chop.

At that moment, Kabri felt a sharp pain in his neck, as if it had been swollen from being hit.

This time, however, Qing Chen didn't knock him unconscious again. Instead, he asked directly, "Hey, I know you're awake. What's your full name?"

Kabri: "..."

Qing Chen raised an eyebrow. "Playing dead, huh?"

Kabri: "..."

This black friend knew perfectly well that this wicked teenager's desire to know his name was definitely not for anything good.

Qing Chen asked slowly and deliberately, "I heard you are Awakened. What are your abilities? You were so high-profile in the Outer World before. Even if you didn't say anything, I could still find out online after the storm has passed."

Kabri, with his eyes closed, said, "I can conjure up Spartan spears and shoot them out..."

"A spear is a spear, and a Spartan spear at that, what's the difference?" Qing Chen retorted.

Kabri didn't dare to talk back...

There's really not much difference. The main difference is that when he used to show off, he liked to say that his spear was the spear of the 300 Spartans, invincible, blah blah blah.

Trying to look cool is useless now.

This is not a suitable occasion.

Qing Chen felt that Kabri's ability was somewhat useless to him. After all, the ability of a superhuman below B-Class to use a projectile spear was not as good as his ability to Conquer by Virtue and fire a shot.

Those tungsten-core armor-piercing projectiles are far more effective than any Spartan Spears.

Qing Chen asked, "Then how many can you conjure at once?"

"18," Kabri said.

"Then I'll call you Spear 18 from now on," Qing Chen said calmly.

Kabri: "..."

Clearly, he didn't get the reference to The Deer and the Cauldron.

Qing Chen sighed. All he could do now was wait for the storm to pass, and then use a satellite phone to call Luo Cheng and ask the Daylight members to look up the guy's name online.

Since Kabri is so high-profile, and given that he is Time Walker star who has also made a high-profile purchase of the Radiant Brilliance, one of the world's top ten luxury yachts, his identity information should be easy to find.

After all, Kabri should have fans, and the research abilities of these fans are well-known.

Qing Chen now suspects that this guy has a middle name, otherwise how could he be so hard to guess?

"By the way, I heard you have a Forbidden Item?" Qing Chen stared intently at Kabri as he spoke.

In that instant, Kabri's gaze flickered downwards, seemingly unfocused.

That's the direction of his left hand.

Psychology is a very interesting thing; it breaks down and analyzes human instincts, but very few people can truly understand it.

But Qing Chen doesn't need to figure it out.

All he needed to know was that Kabri's Forbidden Item was now on the other person, and that was enough.

At that moment, Qing Chen suddenly noticed that Kabri was wearing a pinky ring on his little finger.

The ring wasn't pretty; it had no design whatsoever, just a simple black wire band.

When he deliberately shifted his gaze over there, he suddenly felt Kabri's arm muscles tense up for a moment.

This is getting interesting.

"Wait," Kabri said, "I can call my family, they can pay my ransom..."

Before Kabri could react, he was knocked unconscious again.

It's important to understand that while the Knights' promotions are fraught with difficulties, each promotion puts them at the top of their class. Kabri, on the other hand, is just an ordinary C-Class individual who has managed to gain some status within the Future Organization solely through his abilities.

Kabri jumped to C-Class.

After suddenly gaining power, they will look down on "inferior" fighting methods.

They disdain practicing combat skills and power generation.

Many Awakened are like this, including Liu Dezhu in the past.

But Qing Chen was different; he had been training all along.

Therefore, these people are worlds apart from Qing Chen, who fought his way up from the bottom, in terms of combat talent, athletic ability, combat experience, and control of combat distance.

As I said before, Qing Chen has spent countless hours honing his skills, and time will tell.

"For Time Walker like you to possess Forbidden Item is like putting gold on a lattice. What's the use? You might as well give it to me." Qing Chen took the pinky ring off Kabri's little finger, wondering why the other party had never used it.

Were you terrified by Yang Yang? That's part of the reason.

But Qing Chen felt that it was more likely that this Forbidden Item was functional and could not directly bring about a turnaround in the situation.

He took out a crab fisherman's dagger and slashed at it, but the blade broke, while the pinky ring remained intact.

It is undoubtedly Forbidden Item.

Perhaps many people didn't expect that Qing Chen's method of identifying Forbidden Item was so simple and crude...

Puppet Master and daifuku, on the other hand, had already experienced it...

"It's a pity. We still don't know the containment conditions for the Forbidden Item, nor do we know what its function is. It's hard to determine this thing without a long period of exploration," Qing Chen muttered. "It seems we still have to find a breakthrough from Kabri."

For Qing Chen, this trip to Europe was already quite fruitful.

I was promoted to C-Class.

The coordinates of the sunken ship treasure have been obtained.

Obtain a Forbidden Item.

Either one is something that ordinary people dream of.

Wait a minute, Qing Chen felt something was wrong. There was something he had overlooked... Knight True Qi.

Before this Life and Death Trial challenge, Qing Chen's Knight True Qi had already spread throughout his entire body with the help of the first Breathing Technique.

However, the Knight True Qi will still increase after passing the Life and Death Trial.

As a result, the amount of Knight True Qi in Qing Chen's body now far exceeds the amount he can bear, like a balloon stretched to its limit.

No, Qing Chen realized that the Knight True Qi within his body was being frantically condensed.

Until... that condensed air dripped a drop of water from the arm bone, flowed into its own bone marrow, and then flowed into the blood vessels along with the hematopoietic function.

The Knight True Qi is undergoing a qualitative change.

Qing Chen couldn't sense anything yet; he just guessed that perhaps the Knight True Qi, once completely transformed into liquid, would have unexpected effects.

However, the increase in the Knight True Qi will inevitably make the Autumn Leaf Blade even sharper. Moreover, when Qing Chen infused the Puppet Master, he could only transform the Puppet Master, into a blade.

Nowadays, it seems like there's no problem turning an entire 50-meter branch into a blade...

Qing Chen tied Kabri up with a rope and walked out of the cabin.

Seeing him go aboard the deck, Yang Yang asked with a smile, "How was it? Any luck?"

"Yes," Qing Chen nodded.

Yang Yang asked again, "Can you handle him by yourself?"

"Yes," Qing Chen nodded again.

The next second, Yang Yang closed her eyes and fainted. Qing Chen quickly supported her and carried her into the captain's cabin.

Yang Yang's godlike power at sea had exhausted much of her mental energy.

The girl appeared to be fine, but in reality, she was already at her last gasp.

However, she did not faint immediately after returning to the deck. Instead, she forced herself to stay awake and only fell asleep after confirming that Qing Chen could handle the crisis on his own.

Fortunately, Yang Yang's overexertion was not severe and would not endanger her life or abilities.

If he had taken any longer to overcome the Life and Death Trial, she might have been gone.

Qing Chen sighed, realizing he owed the other party a lot of favors this time.

The storm had subsided considerably by now. After covering Yang Yang with a blanket, he urged Zhang Jian to quickly put away the anchor and return to Amsterdam port first.

The North Pole is no longer a viable option, since all organizations will follow this lead to find it, and Zhang Jian and Old John will be in trouble, as they will definitely be severely tortured.

Qing Chen found Old John, Nedup, and Zhang Jian: "If the treasure from the sunken ship is found, I will give you enough wealth to live out the rest of your lives, and let you live a quiet life in anonymity. Are you willing?"

Old John and Nedup exchanged a glance and quickly nodded, "Yes!"

Only Zhang Jian hesitated. "We can't keep the North Pole, right?"

Qing Chen nodded. "Yes, you've seen what we've been through. In order to find clues related to me, some people will inevitably harm innocent people. If you fall into their hands, it might be worse than death."

Zhang Jian muttered to himself, "I should have encouraged you to go on the Alps and cause trouble for Craig in the first place..."

At this point, Zhang Jian suddenly said to Qing Chen, "I want to try my luck in North America under a different identity."

"You want to become Time Walker? But you're European," Qing Chen said.

If Zhang Jian were Time Walker, he would have already started abducting people back to China. But since the other party is not, no matter how hard Qing Chen tries, he cannot help the other party break through the shackles of the Outer World.

You have to go to the Inner World to "gild" yourself.

The wind and waves are calm.

The destroyer HMS Bath was the first to arrive in the Greenland waters.

Two white men and one black man stood on the deck, their faces grim as they looked at the wrecked, radiant ship.

This yacht, one of the world's top ten, cost $320 million to build. Kabri had just bought it from Fumte last month, and it's already in this state after only one month of use.

One white man lamented, "I was just asking Kabri to lend me his boat to play with, and this is what happened."

The Black man glanced at him. "Mike, shouldn't we be worried about Kabri right now?"

After a moment of quiet thought, another white man said, "Finding Kabri is the most important thing right now."

Mike, with a lollipop in his mouth, shrugged and said, "W, he's too high-profile. It was bound to happen sooner or later. I warned him before, but he wouldn't listen. To be honest, his ability was useless before he became an A-level, and it couldn't compare to modern scientific firepower at all. But what can I do if he doesn't want to keep a low profile?"

The white man, referred to as W, glanced at him and said, "Nothing's as conspicuous as you driving a destroyer."

Mike said with a smile, "But I'm the only A-level in all of North America, so isn't it only right that I'm a little high-profile?"

At that moment, two men emerged from the Radiant Strike. They spoke into their walkie-talkies, "There are no survivors on board. They were all killed by 12.7 caliber sniper rifles. What's a bit strange is that the enemy fired from the air, at a downward angle. Also, they were able to see directly into the walls even when they had no line of sight."

Mike whistled. "I know this one, it's what you call using wallhacks in CS."

W asked over the walkie-talkie, "Is Kabri among the dead?"

A future crew member from the Radiant Glory responded, "No, and there are no marks inside the ship where it was pierced by his Spartan Spears, so it seems there was no battle inside the ship."

"That's strange. Kabri is C-Class, after all. Could he have been captured before he even had a chance to make a move?" W frowned and ordered, "Investigate whether any helicopters took off from the Yamatin Islands before the storm."

The Yamatin Islands are Yamaguchi, attracting tourists year-round, which has led to the development of tourism, including helicopter tours.

If it's a downward-facing angle, it seems like the only option is to rent a helicopter in the Yamatin Islands, right?

After all, there are very few superhumans who can fly; it's considered very good if one appears every few decades or even centuries.

However, it was vaguely apparent that the Future Organization was being led by this white man known as W, while the two standing beside him showed no intention of interfering.

Mike looked at W curiously. "Could this be a trap deliberately set for Kabri?"

"No, I checked the Radiant Strike's voyage data. He came here on a whim, found the North Pole and engaged it in close combat before telling us," W said calmly to the two of them. "Kabri never reported to the organization what he was doing here, which makes me suspicious. There must be some special interests behind Kabri's actions."

W continued, "The North Pole definitely appeared here. I suspect they set a trap for Kamishiro and Kashima, and that idiot Kabri walked right into it."

At this moment, apart from those directly involved, no one knows what exactly happened in this battle; everyone can only guess.

Just then, a future member approached with a satellite phone. W answered, and someone on the other end said, "W, the North Pole has returned to Amsterdam port. We rushed there as soon as we received the news, but there was no one on board. They seem to have abandoned ship... Someone said they saw Kabri in the port; he was fine, without even a scratch. According to the witness, Kabri disembarked from the North Pole with several men and then entered the city. I sent people to search for him, but they couldn't find him."

W was puzzled. Could it be that Kabri defeated the people on the North Pole, and then, because the Radiant Strike lost power, they had to transfer to the North Pole to return to port?

But after things were over in Kabri, why didn't he report everything to the Future Organization, and instead quietly returned to Amsterdam?!

W was somewhat confused. The whole thing was strange, to the point that his logical thinking was starting to falter.

"No," W's expression turned cold. "Someone must be deliberately trying to mislead us. The Kabri that the witnesses saw may have already been taken into custody. The other side is prepared to destroy the Radiant. I don't believe that idiot Kabri has the ability to turn the tide. Let's go to Amsterdam Port."

"Wait, the Bass doesn't have clearance over there," Mike said.

"Once we reached international waters, we transferred to a speedboat to enter," W said. "At first, when I heard that Kamishiro and Kashima were targeting someone, I wasn't particularly interested. But since they were looking for him, I wanted to find him before them, after all, this is Europe, and the Future is the largest Time Walker organization here. However, I'm not just here for the spectacle anymore; I'm very interested in this person who's being hunted by Time Walker all over the world."

"Why?" the black man next to him asked curiously.

"Let's assume Kabri is indeed under control now, then the mastermind on the North Pole is still that hunted Eastern Time Walker," W said. "He clearly had the opportunity to pilot the North Pole to other cities, like other European cities where there aren't many Time Walker yet, and then leave unscathed. But he didn't do that; instead, he returned to Amsterdam and brazenly docked the North Pole in the port. Do you know what that means?"

The Black man thought for a moment, "Is it because of his skill that he's so daring?"

W shook his head. "He's telling those who are hunting him that he's back and they should prepare for war."

Abby and Mike, both Black, paused for a moment, then asked, "Are we going to war against Kamishiro and Kashima?"

"Yes," W nodded.

"Should we get involved?" Mike asked.

"Let's see," W laughed. "Letting them fight for a while won't hurt. In the Future Organization can watch from the sidelines and wait to reap the rewards."

A 5,000-word chapter, and another one at midnight tonight. Hmm, I'll watch a Chinese team match...