Using Himself as Bait

The silence on the snow-capped mountain was shattered by a sudden avalanche.

Blood gushed from the bodies of the members of the Mysterious Affairs Department, gathering into streams below the mountaintop.

Jingūji Maki watched as Qing Chen stood in the morning sun and exhaled a breath of cloud.

She swore it was really clouds, and that she could even see a rainbow in the morning sun.

This scene truly overturned Xiao Zhenji's worldview. In the past, humans were weak, and even a slight cut from the edge of a piece of paper could cause a cut to the skin.

Everything Qing Chen did tonight seemed to have opened a door to a New World for her.

Behind that door lies a more magnificent side of this world.

Standing atop the mountain, Qing Chen was pleasantly surprised by today's breakthrough.

The knight's greatest advantage is that after each Life and Death Trial, they enter a new level of strength, instead of slowly increasing their strength like others, they directly reach the peak of their current level.

This means that Qing Chen reached his peak the moment he entered B-Class.

Below Grade A, it's hard to find anyone who can rival him.

But the problem is that the world is fair; there are advantages and disadvantages.

Knights have always been synonymous with strong individual abilities, but they have always lacked truly large-scale destructive capabilities, and Li Shutong was no exception.

For example, Chen Wudi, the first demigod recorded in the history of the Federation, was said to be able to turn enemies within a radius of 100 meters into dust with a single move called "Heavenly Collapse".

For example, the demigod Li Shentan, recorded in the Federation's history, was a spiritual being capable of hypnotizing 5,000 people and once abducted a brigade of artillery to kill the enemy.

According to the records of the "darkest hour" before the destruction of the last human civilization era, he sacrificed himself and transformed into the will of the world, controlling millions of people to hold off the Artificial Intelligence army for half a day, thus saving the Northwest Army from its last chance of survival. He can be described as a human cheat code.

The founder of the Hu Corporation Intelligence Agency, known as "Hu Shuo," possesses twenty-four Jade Sword whose ability to reap the battlefield is unparalleled, making him a veritable battlefield harvester.

However, while the demigods of the Knight Organization are unmatched in one-on-one combat, they lack the ability to take on a thousand men single-handedly.

In the past, the Knight Organization made up for this deficiency by having a large number of people. Twelve A-level experts could sweep through the southwestern snow mountains as easily as playing a game, and they could even be captured by the Buddha Lord amidst a massive army.

That's no longer the case. Although the Knights have a higher potential, their numbers are scarce, and they've long lost their former glory.

To give an example, if each demigod had to defend a city, the other people's method would be to sit in the city and wipe out any enemies that came.

The way a knight protects a city is not by sitting in the city, but by leaving the city and living in seclusion in the city.

This instilled fear in everyone of the consequences of being assassinated or seeking revenge by the knight.

Simply put, when fighting in groups, knights are not as tough as other demigods.

However, the appearance of liquid Knight True Qi within Qing Chen's body has brought great uncertainty to his future.

This is the first knight in the history of the Knight Organization to have maxed out all attributes and possess a wide-area-of-effect skill...

At this moment, Qing Chen is at the peak of B-Class, and he can kill more than 300 people within a hundred meters. If he were to reach A-level, a single breath of cloud would probably be enough to destroy everything.

This time, a single breath of cloud exhausted all the Knight True Qi in his body. If he had reached rank A, his ability to sustain combat would have been even stronger.

The only regrettable thing is that Qing Chen found that although he unlocked his Gene Lock again, the lightning in his body did not advance along with it.

Do we want him to suffer enough mental trauma again?

Or there is another way, which is to continue to complete the Life and Death Trial, continue to challenge the limits and unleash potential. When the potential is released "incompletely" time and time again, it will be like his initial state, where cultivation cannot fully unleash his potential, and ultimately accumulate power for the next awakening.

Qing Chen did not rush to reap the rewards of the battlefield. Instead, he sat on the mountaintop, took out a dagger from his pocket, and calmly plucked out the bullet embedded in his thigh muscle.

And wait for the Knight True Qi to slowly recover.

Jingūji Maki felt pain watching this scene, but Qing Chen didn't even flinch.

She suddenly wondered what this brother had gone through to be able to face pain so casually.

She knew that was something she might have to go through in the future.

The wailing from the mountain was incessant.

Jingūji Maki suddenly looked at Qing Chen and asked nervously, "Brother, will I have to go to the pigsty too?"

Qing Chen was both amused and exasperated; the little girl was actually focused on this matter even in this kind of environment.

He said seriously, "Yes, you have to go too."

The little girl looked conflicted, but finally lowered her head and said, "Okay then."

Qing Chen continued to adjust his breathing. The Dopamine produced by the Breathing Technique quickly soothed his nerves and even allowed his body to mobilize all its energy to heal the wounds.

He ignored the people from the Mysterious Affairs Department, letting them wail in despair.

From the moment he encountered the wolf pack, he constantly suppressed, endured, and suffered.

Today, having exhaled all the frustrations, it's time to reap the rewards.

However, Qing Chen didn't have a penchant for torturing enemies. He was simply exhausted after going through a Life and Death Trial, climbing to the mountain peak twice, blowing out all his true energy in one breath, and suffering a leg injury.

Of those three hundred-plus enemies, only a few dozen should have died; the others might still have the strength to launch a desperate counterattack.

So Qing Chen wants to outlast them all.

At this moment, Takeda Hideo slowly stood up in the snow. He no longer had the courage to continue climbing the mountain, so he turned around and ran down the mountain.

He guessed one thing: the Shindai had extremely strong control over the Time Walker in the island nation, and there was no such thing as a hidden super master.

To suddenly encounter such Chosen One, a Time Walker, in this desolate wilderness, is most likely the Joker the entire organization is searching for.

It's not shameful for him to lose to someone like that, but he has to pass this message back.

However, before he could run two steps, he saw Qing Chen on the mountaintop use the little Knight True Qi he had just recovered to flick a snowflake that pierced the back of Takeda Hideo's head.

Qing Chen continued to wait, waiting for a member of the Mysterious Affairs Department who wasn't so seriously injured to get up and then use his newly recovered Knight True Qi to shoot snowflakes.

It's like a game of hitting a mole; whoever shows their head gets hit.

Watching this scene, Jingūji Maki suddenly asked, "Brother... where do we go next?"

Qing Chen was silent for a moment before asking, "If you find it difficult to set foot on this land again in the future, what would you want to do?"

The little girl lowered her head and thought for a long time, "Are we going to a very far place?"

"Um."

"Then... can I go see my mother?"

"Hmm?" Qing Chen looked at Jingūji Maki.

The little girl said softly, "Although she left me, Grandma said she had no choice; she still has her own life to live... I don't blame her. I just want to see if she's doing well now, just a glimpse from afar. Of course, if this will disrupt your plans, brother, then forget it; I can choose not to go see her."

Qing Chen grabbed a handful of snow from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth, letting the warmth of his mouth slowly melt it and drink it like water. He thought for a moment and said, "Actually, my situation is similar to yours, but you let go of it earlier than me. I'll go with you to Hokkaido, and once you've seen it, you'll forget about it."

A few hours later, Qing Chen finally got up to kill the witnesses at close range. After confirming that all the members of the Mysterious Affairs Department were dead, he finally took the little girl's hand and walked down Mount Okuhotaka.

He never returned to Shirakawa-go.

The people from the Mysterious Affairs Department will soon arrive here in large numbers. They will find the corpses on the snow mountain, a lesson left to them by Qing Chen.

But this is only the beginning.

In fact, the Mysterious Affairs Department reacted even faster than Qing Chen had anticipated.

Last night, before heading to the snow mountain from Shirakawa-go, Takeda Hideo had already reported the situation here in advance.

Upon reaching the location where the vanguard unit's vehicles were destroyed and personnel perished, they reported back again.

Therefore, the Mysterious Affairs Department knew they had been ambushed.

Takeda Hideo and the others have been out of contact for nearly ten hours now; even a fool would know something bad has happened.

Most importantly, the Mysterious Affairs Department quickly focused their suspicions on the Joker. They mobilized almost half of the Osaka City Hall's forces to blockade the entire Takayama Hida, vowing to find this mysterious master.

The experts from the Mysterious Affairs Department arrived quickly.

They climbed Mount Okuhotaka and then witnessed the astonishing scene.

More than 300 people lay wounded and injured in the snow, their clothes and skin almost completely unharmed.

A total of 361 people were affected, of whom 270 died from excessive blood loss.

Based on the shape of the corpses, some people judged that they were injured in an instant by a strange method from the front, because when they fell, their formation did not even break.

This is absolutely shocking.

Some suspect that the Joker may even possess A-level strength, otherwise he wouldn't be able to accomplish all this.

The Mysterious Affairs Department is now truly panicked. If an A-rank is determined to carry out an assassination in the God Era territory, how much manpower would they have to expend to kill this A-rank?!

The price is too high!

No, we can't let this Joker have a chance to return to the city. They must kill him in the Takayama Hida Mountains!

Within a single day, thousands of Time Walker from the cities of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe drove in an organized manner to the northern, southern, and central parts of Takayama Hida.

They attempted to blockade the entire mountain range.

However, just as the Mysterious Affairs Department was spending a lot of manpower and resources to track down Qing Chen and Takayama Hida Jingūji Maki.

Suddenly, news came out from the Osaka City Hall again...

Located atop Mt. Sane in Aichi Prefecture, within the island nation's territory, is the Martyrs' Temple of Seven Warriors the remains of seven war criminals are buried.

The three Togo Shrines are dedicated to Togo Heihachiro, who seized the privileges of Northeast China from Russia.

The Kyojin Shrine enshrines Yamashita Tomoyuki, who invaded Beiping after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, and the Kōa Kannon Temple enshrines Matsui Iwane, the perpetrator of the Nanjing Massacre.

They were precisely blown up at almost the same time.

If the bombing of that shrine in Tokyo last time was just a coincidence, a spontaneous act Time Walker the Li and Qing Time Walker after completing their mission.

So this time, it was an organized and disciplined premeditated incident.

These places were originally guarded by a Mysterious Affairs Department, but due to the Takayama Hida incident, they had to transfer their personnel away.

So, some people were responsible for attracting manpower to Takayama Hida, while others were responsible for precise blasting.

Ji Guanya and Si Nianhua, as the heads of the Li and Qing families in the Outer World, had long been restricted from entering the island nation.

The reason they risked their lives to smuggle themselves across the border and personally direct everything was for this very moment.

When the two approached Bai Zhou Villa and asked Qing Chen what kind of cooperation he needed, Qing Chen only gave them this one thing.

This is also why Qing Chen came to the island nation to complete his Life and Death Trial; he was willing to use himself as bait.

There will be another chapter at 11 PM.