The Naming of the Night
Chapter 85

Ambush and a Visit

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How can you maximize your gains in a battle where you are fighting five opponents?

Even someone who has never fought can answer this question: a sneak attack.

Delivering a fatal blow from an unexpected angle in a secluded location is a fighting style that consumes the least amount of physical energy but inflicts the greatest damage.

The battle Qing Chen is about to face will inevitably require him to choose a sneak attack in order to minimize the number of villains.

However, Ye Wan was well aware of this, yet she hesitated to teach Qing Chen these skills.

Qing Chen had some doubts, but he didn't ask.

The battle with Lin Xiaoxiao proved Qing Chen's comprehension. After that, Li Shutong stopped caring about the matter and focused on the newly acquired score every minute.

Training for six hours and resting for one hour, Qing Chen used Breathing Technique to assist him, honing himself in an inhuman state.

The result of this intense training, which can almost destroy a person's will, is that one can strike faster and more accurately.

More than 3,000 prisoners remain locked in their cells, but this time no one makes a sound.

On the second midnight after Qing Chen's transmigration, the prisoners lay on their beds, utterly despondent, silently letting the familiar procedure repeat itself once more.

This time, Ye Wan didn't have to go through the trouble of controlling the prisoners. He simply spoke in the darkness and commanded, "Lie down on the bed."

The prisoner obediently rolled over and lay face down.

So Ye Wan said to Qing Chen, "Yesterday I showed you how to identify the front, today I'll show you how to identify the back. Actually, it's more difficult to find the spleen from the back, and to ensure that it can be inserted more quickly, you may need to hold the knife with your left hand."

The prisoners lay face down on their beds, tears of humiliation streaming down their faces.

They didn't know if the other party would come back the following midnight to figure out how to find the spleen from the side.

Return countdown 15:00:00, 9:00 AM.

The prison's alloy gates suddenly opened.

Two mechanical prison guards suddenly entered the square and simultaneously announced to Qing Chen through megaphones inside their skulls, "Inmate number 010101 has a family visit."

Ye Wan laughed, "They actually sent two robotic prison guards."

Qing Chen turned his head and asked, "Is there any difference?"

"Oh," Ye Wan explained, "It will automatically assess the danger level of the prisoners and then dispatch the appropriate number of mechanical guards. Before, it only took one to take you away, but now it has become two."

Lin Xiaoxiao said, "It seems that it also thinks you are more 'dangerous'."

One?

Qing Chen wondered if the entire prison was actually managed by that Artificial Intelligence.

That's why he had never seen a single human prison guard in this prison.

At this moment, Li Shutong looked up from the classical music score and carefully examined Qing Chen: "You must be that young lady from the Shendai family. Your prison uniform is soaked with sweat. You should change your clothes before you go to see her."

Qing Chen shook his head. "There's no need."

Li Shutong was taken aback for a moment. "Don't you care about your image? She's your fiancée, after all. I've also done some research for you. This girl is a clean slate, unlike some of the hypocrites from the Kamishiro Family."

Qing Chen explained, "Right now, all the prisoners in the prison are locked up to conceal my identity. Although they've never left their cells, they can guess that Ye Wan is teaching me how to kill, but they can't figure out who I am. If I go to see her now, and people check the time later, everyone will know that Ye Wan is teaching me."

Qing Chen looked at Li Shutong: "So, teacher, I can't go see her. Let's continue training."

"Um," Li Shutong looked at Qing Chen's serious expression, a look of astonishment gradually appearing on his face. "What you said makes a lot of sense!"

Return countdown: 9:00:00.

Ye Wan walked barefoot on the ground, while Qing Chen lay on his side on the floor watching quietly, his eyes following the movement of those big feet.

It's as if every change in the movement of those feet holds a unique mystery.

Ye Wan's feet are very large, unusually large.

However, Qing Chen discovered that the other party did not make any sound whether walking or running.

This ability is too strange. Each muscle fiber exerts force in turn, from the soles of the feet to the ankles, then to the calves and thighs, as if every movement has been calculated.

However, Ye Wan did not possess that terrifying calculation ability; it was the "experience" and "memory" that the other party had accumulated through years of training.

Qing Chen memorized all of this, knowing that this final lesson was the most important.

Without realizing it, Qing Chen closed his eyes.

It looked like he was asleep, but it also looked like he was thinking.

Lin Xiaoxiao at Li Shutong and whispered, "Boss, he's training too hard like this. We don't necessarily have to rush things. How about I get him some lethal weapons he can take back? If nothing else works, a grenade or a pocket pistol will do."

Li Shutong shook his head. "The first time you kill someone, you have to use all your strength, even if it means grinding your teeth to pieces, you have to remember clearly what it feels like to kill someone with your own hands. When the dagger pierces the enemy's body, the blood flows down the hilt onto your hand, still carrying the warmth of the other person's body. Only this unique sensory experience can make him remember what death is."

Return countdown: 2:00:00.

Two hours before the return.

The strange sound of hydraulic transmission rang out in the darkness, one after another, in perfect unison.

In the long, dimly lit corridor, the 21 solitary confinement cells were opened one by one. Jian Sheng had been transferred to another prison by Li Shutong, leaving only Liu Dezhu to live here.

Liu Dezhu peered nervously outside through the open door into the pitch-black world. "Is anyone there?"

No one responded.

He raised his voice again. "Is anyone home? Why is the door open?"

No one responded.

Much later, he finally mustered the courage to walk outside.

The corridor was empty, and the door leading to the prison square was already open for him. Liu Dezhu shakily groped forward.

Just then, he suddenly sensed something was wrong and abruptly turned around.

But there was nothing in the gloomy corridor behind him, only the faint light from the solitary confinement cells, which pierced through the corridor and cast shadows.

At that moment, Liu Dezhu felt as if he were playing a game called Silent Hill. In an instant, the whole world changed, becoming both terrifying and tranquil.

In the entire world, only he and this eerie corridor remain, where a deadly threat could appear at any moment.

He began to run wildly out of fear, glancing back as he ran, as if something was chasing him.

But Liu Dezhu could neither hear footsteps nor see anyone.

He could vaguely hear breathing, fine and long, with a strange frequency.

Sometimes he could hear footsteps other than his own, but every time he turned around he couldn't see anything, which only intensified his fear.

He ran breathlessly to the back of the bookshelves in the reading area, then cautiously peeked behind him, but still saw nothing.

The next moment he turned around in a panic, only to see a Cat Face Mask right in front of him.

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