The Naming of the Night
This attack had clearly been premeditated. The war robots had pinned Qing Chen's convoy in a narrow street, then destroyed everything in an extremely short time.
Just as Qing Chen leaped out of the vehicle, the car behind him was struck by a missile.
The tremendous blast and wave of fire sent Qing Chen flying through the air. He crashed into a shop by the street with a thud, shattering its glass doors.
"They're trying to kill me outright," Qing Chen thought. "Then it can't be Old Two or Old Five. It has to be the royal family."
Old Two and Old Five still wanted Qing Chen alive, but the royal family wanted him dead immediately.
There had to be someone from the royal family within the Black Knight Order, because only Black Knight members knew about "Old Three taking over joker's body, then disguising himself as Old Three." What a tangled mess.
But without a doubt, someone among the Black Knights was colluding with the royal family.
Qing Chen had crashed into a large fresh-food supermarket in a wealthy district. It was morning, and the store had only just opened.
He ran deeper inside, and the war robots immediately followed him into the supermarket.
These war robots fought in an extremely brutal manner. Whenever shelves blocked their way, they simply blasted them apart with pulse cannons.
The hum of pulse weapons charging rose and fell throughout the supermarket.
As he ran, Qing Chen shouted, "The Roosevelt Royal Family actually dares to openly attack Black Knights in Silver City? Once my big brother establishes a nation on the Eastern Continent, he'll wipe out your Kingdom of Roosevelt!"
The war robots advancing in coordination visibly paused upon hearing that. Not because robots could be surprised, but