Naming Technique of the Night-Chapter 795 - 478, Trace

Chapter 795: 478, Trace

A C-Class Civilian Airship was flying through the endless airspace, heading from south to north.

Airships are divided into four classes: A, B, C, and D.

A-Class and B-Class are military grade and capable of carrying weapons.

C-Class and D-Class are for civilian use. Among them, the former is commonly used for operations such as travel between City No. 10 and City No. 18, the most common high-end mode of transport being the C-Class Airship.

D-Class is for home use and belongs exclusively to the wealthy.

Inside the cabin were four people, one in charge of navigating while the other three frantically cleaned the cabin, even using strong acid detergents in an attempt to erase all traces of blood.

They wore simple full-coverage transparent breathing masks to avoid inhaling toxic gases produced during disinfection.

The cabin had already been cleaned, but they feared the residual DNA wouldn’t pass the airspace blockade inspection.

The person piloting the airship said, “We’ll enter the airspace controlled by the Federal Group Army in another 120 kilometers, and it’s already under full radar coverage by that madwoman Li Changqing. Hurry up and clean. If anyone boards for an inspection, we must not let them find any clue, or we are all dead!”

“We’d like to speed up too, but how the hell can we with this mess? And I don’t get it, didn’t they say there won’t be any danger? How come suddenly it’s like the whole world is looking for us?!”

“Especially since yesterday, if it weren’t for another airship drawing Qing’s attention, we might have already been caught by the Shadow.”

The pilot whispered, “Strange, who is distracting them for us?”

“Maybe those above want to help us out of this?”

“Do you believe that? We’re already pawns, those above won’t help us.”

At that moment, the sky suddenly darkened.

The shadow of the clouds covered the airship.

The pilot cursed in annoyance, “Why is it snowing again? I need to initiate the fixed route… Wait! Fuck!”

The pilot casually opened the 360-degree panoramic view, and in an instant, their scalps felt as though they had exploded.

All they felt was as if a massive mountain had descended from the heavens upon them.

That unrivaled sense of oppression, with just one glance, made you want to kneel and worship its majesty.

It was humanity’s most extreme imagination of the term ‘war machine.’

The pilot turned around and roared with desperation, “It’s the Qing Shan Air Fortress! That crazy woman Li Changqing actually brought out the Qing Shan Air Fortress! Dammit!”

As it turned out, the shadow that had just enshrouded them was not the dark clouds of an impending snowstorm, but the sky-obscuring presence of the Qing Shan Air Fortress!

The majestic presence of this aerial overlord was so vast that they almost believed it to be a natural meteorological phenomenon.

It was an aerial fortress of the same class as Qing’s Divine Wand Number, a strategic weapon on the front lines of battle.

Equipped with the most advanced nuclear power reactor, a main firepower electromagnetic cannon with a range of 230 kilometers, and cruise missile silos.

And countless unmanned drone combat swarms.

That was merely the base function of the aerial fortress, just as no one knew, before the destruction of Prison No. 18, that the Divine Scepter ship was connected to that Scepter of the gods 800 kilometers high in the sky.

Inside the airship.

The four people looked in desperation as the shadow above the sky approached closer, “Is it coming for us?”

“No shit, the Qing Shan Air Fortress would never take off without a clear target!”

“So what do we do? How can we escape?”

The pilot gave his companions a look as if they were idiots, “The Qing Shan ship is here and you ask me how to escape? The best I can tell you is to admit your fault and hope they leave us a whole corpse.”

Companion: “…”

Taking a deep breath, the pilot said, “Initiate the self-destruct sequence for the sake of our families up north.”

Having said that, he entered the password and pressed a red button in the cabin.

However, just at that moment, they all felt as if they entered a state of weightlessness, as if something above the sky had already taken hold of them.

The next instant, an extremely thin laser swept across and actually sliced through the massive airship.

Like cutting bread, the tail of the airship was severed by the laser.

There lay the airship’s self-destruct program’s timed bombs…

Only then did the pilot completely despair; Li Changqing wanted to capture them alive!

In the sky, a huge hatch opened beneath the Qing Shan Air Fortress, like a giant beast opening its gaping maw to swallow the sliced-up airship into its belly!

Shortly afterwards, an A-Class Floating ship flew out from the bottom of the Qing Shan Air Fortress, heading directly toward the mountainous area in the west.

Although the aerial fortress was majestic, when it came to speed, the A-Class airship was faster.

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Next to the lumberjack’s cabin, an A-Class Floating ship slowly descended.

Dressed in Federal Group Army uniforms, Li Changqing and Lao Shijiu, with dozens of fully armed soldiers, walked out of the cabin.

Behind their ears, each wore a metallic disc, which was the highest standard bone-conducting communicator used by the Federation Army—concealed and with an even longer effective range.

As soon as they pushed open the cabin, Li Changqing saw six bodies dead from poison and the bed where Qing Chen had once lain.

She assessed the situation calmly, her slender fingers tracing across the bed where there were still speckles of blood. Not far away lay bandages that had been changed.

In just a few minutes, Li Changqing made a judgment, “These six people have been silenced. They changed Qing Chen’s dressings here and then Jindai Yunhe took him away alone. Bring the Mechanical Hunting Dogs and track Qing Chen by his blood traces.”

Six Mechanical Hunting Dogs were brought in and, after sniffing the blood on the bandages, they ran frantically towards the mountain path outside the house.

Li Changqing followed behind, but Lao Shijiu said, “Boss, the weather is cold. You should return to the airship and follow from the sky.”

Li Changqing shook her head, “We are already very close to Qing Chen. In case we suddenly engage in close combat on the mountain path, you won’t be able to cope. Stop talking nonsense and let’s move. The airship should be on alert and enter combat mode.”

As they traversed the rugged mountain path, Li Changqing saw signs that soldiers had turned over…

On the ground were bloodstains left by someone being dragged along the mountain path and stones.

Blood footprints, deep and shallow.

Li Changqing knew these were evidence of Qing Chen’s torture.

Just thinking about it briefly made it clear that Qing Chen had been dragged along this mountain path, the captors didn’t even allow him shoes, making him walk barefoot for tens of kilometers on the snowy road.

As these thoughts crossed her mind, Li Changqing clenched her fist so tightly that her fingernails dug into her palm.

Lao Shijiu at her side also felt extremely agonized. Having followed Li Changqing for nearly a decade, he had never seen his boss in such a state.

He whispered, “Boss, you should be careful too. There might be traps on the road, and someone might be using Qing Chen to lure you out…”

“Don’t worry, I am aware,” said Li Changqing calmly, her tone tinged with boundless fury.

She wanted to walk the same path of suffering that Qing Chen had endured, to remember everything he had gone through in her heart, and then exact it doubly on Jindai.

There were no ambushes along the way, and by the time they arrived at the farmhouse, it was eerily quiet.

Several corpses of Jindai Assassins were scattered outside the farmhouse, the “extras” that Qing Chen had killed upon his arrival.

Lao Shijiu crouched down to examine them for a moment and murmured doubtfully, “Boss, did someone rescue Qing Chen? He was so severely injured, and after being dragged barefoot over tens of kilometers of mountain roads, he shouldn’t have been able to kill so many people, right?”

Li Changqing nodded, “Possibly, maybe they received assistance when they arrived here.”

Many people were searching for Qing Chen, including their ability to find the trace of that C-Class Civilian Airship, which was thanks to an anonymous tip from a mysterious person.

In the Central Plains, there are thousands of airships taking off and landing. Verifying the flight trajectory of each one takes time, and the other side has disguises as well.

Li Changqing wanted to find that airship and she could eventually find it, but now the most important thing was to rescue Qing Chen quickly.

The anonymous person was very mysterious; even though Li Changqing utilized the most powerful information technology troops in the military, they still couldn’t find any trace of that person.

This was very strange. Could it be that Qing Chen also knew a hacker capable of contesting the Federal Group’s military? She had never heard of such a person before.

Lao Shijiu arranged for soldiers to search the farmhouse. He stopped Li Changqing and insisted on confirming that there were no traps inside before allowing his boss to enter.

The soldiers had just rushed in when someone shouted, “There’s a neural connection device here!”

Li Changqing was stunned for a moment, then charged in like a madman.

However, as soon as he saw the two bodies in a vegetative state and one corpse beside the bed, he suddenly felt at ease, “They must have tried to possess Qing Chen, but they didn’t succeed.”

If they had succeeded, they wouldn’t have left behind three dead bodies here.

At that moment, Lao Shijiu furrowed his brow, “There are no signs of a rescue attempt inside… So, are those corpses outside all killed by Qing Chen?”

It seemed so.

No one had come to rescue Qing Chen; he himself had held on for tens of kilometers over mountainous terrain and had even killed seven of Jindai’s assassins upon arriving here.

Thinking this, Lao Shijiu found it hard to believe but for some reason, he felt that this indeed was something the young man could have done.

Li Changqing was examining the two devices for neural connection and possession when he suddenly wondered aloud, “Strange, these two devices seem to have malfunctioned?”

A soldier connected a laptop to the device, checked for a moment, and then said, “Boss, the damage to this device wasn’t caused externally, it’s been formatted from the inside… Quite strange. Also, the nanorobots inside are severely depleted, only 27% of storage remains. These nanorobots should have undergone strict Federation encoding processes, they can’t stay inside a human body, but there are no remnants on the ground either.”

Just then, soldiers called out from outside, “Sir, we’ve found where the bodies were buried.”

Li Changqing got up and strode out quickly; the mechanical hunting dogs were barking madly at some fresh mud, where a soldier was digging up the earth with tools, revealing more than a dozen bodies beneath—women, children, and men.

Another person, wearing gloves, was collecting samples next to the hole, where the brown-black soil was also stained with dark purple from seeped blood.

A soldier reported, “Sir, after verification, they are all agricultural producers from this production base and citizens of the Federation… Jindai didn’t even bury their own people’s bodies; there’s a problem. There are traces of fingers digging at the edge of the pit, along with bloodstains.”

Li Changqing looked at the edge of the pit and suddenly said, “Bury them, and fill the pit back up. It wasn’t Jindai who buried them; it was Qing Chen who dug this grave with his hands and personally buried these people.”

Her heart ached faintly as she raised her voice, “We’re getting very close to Qing Chen. Keep looking for me, even if Jindai runs to the ends of the earth, we have to find them!”

However, just then, an A-Class floating ship overhead sent a warning through the communication channel, “A life form is rapidly approaching from 2.2 kilometers away on the ground.”

The life detection radius of an A-Class floating ship is 10 kilometers. The sudden appearance of someone at 2.2 kilometers indicates that… someone has been using camouflage coating technology, lying in ambush nearby.

Li Changqing calmly asked, “People from Jindai, coming for us? No, that’s not right…”

Li Changqing always felt that if it were Jindai’s people, they would have chosen a much better spot for an ambush, and they also wouldn’t have revealed so much information here, like the fact that they tried to take over Qing Chen using the neural connection method.

But if it’s not Jindai’s people.

Who else would know that Qing Chen was brought here, and also know that Li Changqing would come?

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There will be another chapter before 11 p.m.