Naming Technique of the Night

This road doesn't even have a name on the map!

"Boss, he's already crossed the blockade line!" the assassin pressed the communication button on his earpiece and said urgently, "I don't know how he knew there was a path here, it feels like he's more familiar with the terrain than we are."

Many assassins were stunned by this, wasn't it said that this young man had come to Xian City for the first time? How could he be more familiar with it than those born and raised here?

What they didn't know was that this afternoon, Qing Chen had spent a full three hours memorizing the entire layout of Xian City, even using Google Satellite Maps to clearly view the routes he had planned.

People naturally feel a sense of superiority in their own birthplace, treating it as their home ground.

But could the assassins really slap their chests and guarantee they knew every road in the city?

But Qing Chen could guarantee that, at this moment, he knew every road in the downtown area of Xian City!

Now, Qing Chen was the one who was most familiar with Xian City.

At this moment, the huge city model of Xian City was being built in Qing Chen's mind with blue lines, like a gigantic palace made of lines, clear and precise.

The voice came through the Bluetooth earpiece, "Zhang San, you go catch him personally."

The deep voice responded, "Okay, boss. Those who are chasing him, give me his current position."

"Feng Jin Road Five!"

"Keep close, I'll be there soon."

While speaking, a man in his thirties wearing a duckbill cap burst from a shadowy area at the end of Feng Jin Road and ran towards Feng Jin Road Five at an astonishing speed.

The snowflakes falling gently from the sky were disrupted by the turbulence he created behind him as he passed, causing them to whirl about chaotically.

In just a few minutes, he had crossed several streets and was rapidly closing in on Qing Chen's route!

At that time, as if predicting this very moment, Qing Chen suddenly turned and ducked through a small door into a residential area, disappearing from everyone's sight.

"I know this high-end area, there is a three-meter high electrified wire netting on the fence for alarms, he can't jump over it, there are four gates, all accessible," a killer said.

Zhang San entered the area while saying coldly, "I'll pursue him inside, you guys block all four gates."

From a distance, Zhang San could already see Qing Chen running agilely and flexibly through the night.

Unexpectedly, Qing Chen did not run towards any of the exits, but instead went straight into the underground garage!

Zhang San paused for a moment, "How many exits does this community's underground garage have, and do they overlap with the ground exits?"

"This community separates vehicle and pedestrian traffic, it has five exits in total, four of which overlap with the ground exits, and one is on the west side which doesn't have a ground exit," someone replied.

Zhang San understood, Qing Chen had entered aiming for that west side exit.

But the question remained, was it really his first time in Xian City? To all those chasing Qing Chen, it felt not like their home ground but that of the young man!

Zhang San was fast, but compared to him, Qing Chen was no match.

However, Qing Chen repeatedly leveraged his familiarity with the terrain to widen the gap, erasing the distance between them.

Every time Zhang San felt he was about to catch up, he would lose sight of him. By the time he spotted him again, the distance had widened once more.

This feeling was too strange, as if having all the strength but being unable to exert it.

It was infuriating.

As dozens of men spread out to intercept, no longer concerned about the complications of using firearms in the street, Zhang San pulled out his silencer-fitted pistol and pulled the trigger.

The accurate range of a silenced pistol is 20 meters, while the distance between Zhang San and Qing Chen was roughly a hundred meters.

Zhang San knew it was hard to hit Qing Chen while running, but as long as he made some evasive movements, slowing down a bit, he could close the distance between them.

However, Qing Chen didn't even make any apparent effort to dodge the bullets, as if he knew Zhang San couldn't hit him.

5 minutes later, Zhang San lost Qing Chen's trace again in another residential area and said into his Bluetooth earpiece, "Stop chasing, we can't catch him this way, we need to use cars to block the two intersections to the north."

In the Bluetooth earpiece, Huan Yu replied calmly, "Don't worry, keep driving him northward, someone is already waiting for him there."

However, as soon as the words were spoken, Qing Chen's familiar voice came through the earpiece, "Are you talking about a middle-aged man and a young man? They... are already dead."

The previously noisy chatter over the Bluetooth earpiece went silent all of a sudden.

Huan Yu glanced at the map in front of him; the people he had arranged to ambush Qing Chen were clearly still 800 meters away from Zhang San.

In other words, in the five minutes since Qing Chen vanished from their sight, he hadn't been circling or playing hide and seek but had directly, like a scalpel in the hands of a surgeon, pierced the heart of the ambushers.

This was a textbook example of chase and counter-chase, encirclement and breakout!

And until this moment, it seemed like only one person had shown up in broad daylight!

No, there couldn't be just one person, Huan Yu pondered, if Qing Chen were alone, he couldn't have managed this.

Perhaps several others were constantly providing Qing Chen with information, including assassin locations, route maps, just like rally drivers need navigators.

This was a power struggle and declaration of war between two organizations. Huan Yu even wondered at one point if Qing Chen's appearance in Xian City was also pre-calculated by Daylight.

Otherwise, why was Daylight so well-prepared?

No, if it was prepared, why didn't they bring Liu Dezhu, the Awakener, for added combat strength?

Tonight, there were too many uncertainties.

Outside of the encirclement, Qing Chen laughed, "Why so quiet? Starting to overthink, are you?"

Huan Yu laughed, "Interesting, now that you've broken out of the encirclement, where do you plan to go? Take the high-speed rail home from Xian City North Station? Or shall we continue tonight's game?"

Qing Chen also laughed, "Didn't you say it? Daylight will accompany you to the end. Don't bother looking for me anymore. Daylight awaits you all at the Weiyang Lake Amusement Park... waiting for you to come to your demise."

Huan Yu paused for a moment, "Weiyang Lake Amusement Park? That's quite a distance from you, how do you plan to get there?"

Qing Chen hailed a taxi from the roadside, "No need to worry about me, I'm taking a cab."

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