Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 925: Escape, Escape

Qing Chen was almost at the end of his rope.

Since leaving the water park, he had barely drunk any water or eaten anything.

He had stubbornly carried the kayak along the way because it was the only thing that could hold some water. But when he reached the slide area, and while he was riding the slide, the water inside spilled out. Later, under the effect of the mental pollution, Qing Chen even developed an attachment to the kayak.

He dragged the kayak everywhere, using it as a bed, sometimes not even realizing he was still dragging the thing. At this point, Qing Chen had no chance of winning a fight against Chen Yu, who was well-rested and prepared. No, to be precise, just surviving would be a good outcome.

However, what Chen Yu didn't expect was that even in this state, Qing Chen was not so easy to catch or kill. The rules of entering and exiting the haunted house, which had previously caused Qing Chen the most trouble, now became his greatest reliance. Moonlight spilled down from afar, paving invisible, dark paths for him in the maze.

Qing Chen shuttled back and forth between shadow and light, as if the haunted house maze had opened hundreds of colorful doors for him. He quickly entered one after another, like taking steps into a dark abyss.

The pain in his arms was transmitted to Qing Chen's mind through his neurons, but he didn't feel anything. At one point, he even hoped the pain would come more violently.

Only then could he feel his own existence. Not as part of the amusement park.

At this moment, a Flying God Woman in the air spotted Qing Chen. Like an arrow from a bow, she arrived before him, and pulled off a red silk from herself, flinging it towards Qing Chen. But the next moment, Qing Chen vanished before her eyes, disappearing to an unknown place. The red silk hit the empty space with a crisp sound, like a whip cracking the air.

Chen Yu frowned slightly. He realized that Qing Chen's disappearance was due to his use of the haunted house's maze principle...Someone being able to figure out the mechanism of the haunted house maze and escape from it is understandable. After all, games are meant to be solved. But now Qing Chen had not only escaped the haunted house maze, but was even using its rules against them!

Even for those who built this haunted house maze, this would seem like an incredible fairy tale. For a moment, Chen Yu was unsure whether Qing Chen was blindly running away or had already grasped the rules of this haunted house maze.

Chen Yu controlled a Flying God Woman to ascend into the sky to oversee the situation, while the remaining three began to pursue and intercept Qing Chen. This haunted house maze, stretching for hundreds of kilometers, suddenly became a huge chessboard, with Chen Yu as the chess player, and Qing Chen as the pawn crossing the river.

No, Qing Chen was no longer a pawn; he was now a guerrilla fighter who came and went without a trace.

Three Flying God Women quickly formed a triangle formation, firmly blocking the direction Qing Chen might escape. Each of them was about one hundred meters away from Qing Chen, which was the distance Qing Chen had jumped each time previously.

But before they could descend and attack, Qing Chen simply took a step forward and penetrated the encirclement of the three Flying God Women, appearing two hundred meters away.

Even though Qing Chen was seriously injured, he could still set up a trap based on their assumptions. He made Chen Yu think his jumps were only limited to 100 meters each time, but he revealed his trump card when they were attempting to kill him.

Even though the God Women could fly in the air, their speed and strength far surpassed Qing Chen's, and they outnumbered him, yet he moved like he was strolling in a garden within the haunted house maze. No A-class could easily toy with a Demi-God outside the haunted house maze, and Qing Chen couldn't do it either! But he could now. Qing Chen couldn't kill the God Women and Chen Yu, but it was also difficult for the God Women to find him. The key was that he didn't intend to kill anyone either. He just wanted to buy time.

At this moment, a sound of clashing metal suddenly echoed through the amusement park.

It was like someone in the depths of the Forbidden Zone was clashing two long swords, calling out to sleeping spirits and immortal fighting spirit. No, to be precise, this was Li Shentan's psychological suggestion.

In the visitor's guide, Ren Xiaosu kindly reminded visitors that they should leave Ginkgo Garden as soon as they heard the sound of clashing metal. But Li Shentan had planted a key suggestion in this visitor's guide.

Like a magician performing on the street, he said to a guest, “When you hear me snap my fingers, you will fall asleep.” This snap of fingers is the key suggestion.

After entering the amusement park, you repeatedly remind yourself that if you hear the sound of clashing metal, danger will definitely come, and at that time, Ginkgo Garden will kill people, and turn into a wild beast. Therefore, when the sound of clashing metal really rang out, the key suggestion arrived, as if a magician suddenly snapped his fingers on a dark stage. Your mind begins to enter another state, and the mental pollution instantly escalates.

This is the demonic whisperer who manipulates people's hearts.

Qing Chen stepped into the shadow and rounded a corner, suddenly seeing someone standing ahead...Cao Wei.

The C-class Gene Soldier Qing Chen had killed in Forbidden Zone 002, his first “opportunity” to climb Qingshan Cliff. Cao Wei looked at Qing Chen and laughed, “If you hang around long enough, you’ll end up having to pay.”

Qing Chen passed him without expression. “You're not a Time Traveler, how do you know the lines from Infernal Affairs?”

Cao Wei: “Maybe I am a Time Traveler too.”

Qing Chen: “Heavenly King covers the earth tiger.”

Cao Wei: “Pagoda supress the river demon！”

Qing Chen: “Palace jade liquid wine?”

Cao Wei: “One hundred and eighty a cup!”

Qing Chen laughed nervously, “Interesting, interesting. Is this the hypnotic method of the demonic whisperer? Yi, look at what your brother did. What a load of crap, Ginkgo Garden. Your brother is too lacking in ginkgo! Cao Wei, I won't kill you today. Let me kill Chen Yu first! Before dawn, you will all die!”

Chen Yu, outside the haunted house maze, frowned. Cao Wei...Who was Cao Wei? Who was Qing Chen talking to? Was he going crazy?

At this time, Chen Yu had observed that Qing Chen's distance each time he used the maze rules to penetrate was about two hundred meters. So he widened the God Women's blockade to three hundred meters! One God Woman attacked while the other three acted as mobile units, ready to kill Qing Chen whenever he appeared.

But just as they were about to succeed in their encirclement, Qing Chen suddenly stepped back. This time, he directly penetrated four hundred meters. The previous brute-force method of exhaustive search had finally come in handy. Qing Chen wasn't using the rules because he hadn't fully understood them. However, eighteen thousand variations were enough for now.

Time passed second by second. No matter how the God Women pursued and intercepted him, Qing Chen easily resolved the situation using the myriad changes in the haunted house maze. Chen Yu suddenly laughed.

He could only marvel that this Qing Chen was indeed the person chosen by the Old Master on Ginkgo Mountain, and the carefully selected closed-door disciple of Li Shutong. An invincible Knight warrior who possessed the wisdom of the Qing Family. These two combined were enough to make people fear him.

This Qing Chen must not be allowed to live, he must die today!

At this moment, Chen Yu turned his head and was stunned. “Father, why are you here?”

Chen Chuanzhi stood with his hands behind his back and calmly asked, “Why haven't you killed Li Shutong yet?”

Chen Yu hesitated. “I haven't found an opportunity. I originally planned to kill him during the Battle of the Northern Gods, but I found him to be at the height of his power, and Shendai Qianchi and Li Bingxi both had a way out, so they weren't good candidates to work together.”

Chen Chuanzhi sneered, “You brought dozens of scrolls with you at that time. You clearly could have killed him alone, why didn't you?” Chen Yu bowed his head in silence.

Chen Chuanzhi stepped forward and pressed, “Are you afraid? Are you afraid that the gods and Buddhas in your paintings still couldn't stop Li Shutong's speed, and still couldn't stop a Knight's full-strength attack? Is that it?” At this time, Chen Yu slowly raised his head. “Back then, when you crushed twelve paintings in one go, weren't you also easily broken through by him? He set your paintings ablaze, and didn't you lack the courage to seek revenge on him?”

“You brat!” Chen Chuanzhi slapped Chen Yu in the face. “Shut up!”

However, Chen Yu continued regardless. “If you hadn't destroyed Chen Jiazhang's path of the Knight, none of this would have happened. Chen Jiazhang had always intended to compete with you, why did you harm him?”

Chen Chuanzhi roared, “What do you know? Power cannot be kind-hearted, cannot be merciful, cannot be hesitant!”

Chen Yu laughed. “Father, since you're already dead, don't interfere with the affairs of the mortal world. Rest assured and watch, I'll do better than you. The path of the Knight will be completely severed in my generation.” Having said that, he suddenly looked towards the haunted house maze.

The next moment, Chen Yu pulled out the last two scrolls from the Qing Niu's back and crushed them together. Two Vajrapani with three heads and six arms appeared.

“Go,” Chen Yu took out a green bamboo from his sleeve.

The bamboo was as crystal clear as jade, about the thickness of an index finger. This was a Forbidden Artifact created by the Chen Family’s Black Tortoise. It could greatly improve the speed of painting. It was also a Forbidden Artifact that all Chen Family painters yearned for.

The Vajrapani strode into the haunted house maze, their every step was the same as Qing Chen's previous traverses.

This Chen Family Demi-God, after just watching Qing Chen move once, had memorized the route Qing Chen had taken, accurately controlling the Vajrapani to attack.

Their speed was much faster than Qing Chen's escape. Qing Chen's arms were crippled, but they weren't. Qing Chen was A-class, but they were Demi-Gods.

The two Vajrapani were already chasing Qing Chen, one step behind. Just as Qing Chen was about to step into the next space, he had already stepped out, but the two Vajrapani appeared out of thin air behind him, their Vajras falling like thunder. With a loud bang, Qing Chen's back was severely injured, and he fell forward into the shadows and disappeared. Not only was his left shoulder shattered, but his right shoulder blade was also shattered.

Fortunately, the Dragon Fish's power helped to reduce the impact of the Vajras, otherwise, if the shattered bone fragments had pierced his heart, Qing Chen would have died instantly! Chen Yu used the simplest method: to walk Qing Chen's path and leave him with no way out.

Qing Chen had his own super-memory method, and Chen Yu had his too. This Demi-God drew a map of the maze in his mind, and then linked Qing Chen's route on that canvas.

The so-called “having a clear picture in mind” is like when a painter observes bamboo, when it comes time to paint the bamboo, he can paint it vividly and precisely, even without looking at it. The haunted house maze didn't favor anyone. The paths you can take, others can take as well! The shadows you enter, others can enter without any difference. Qing Chen is in danger!

However, when the two Vajrapani followed Qing Chen into the next shadowy passage, they suddenly couldn't see Qing Chen's figure. Only a brilliant ray of light pierced through the maze walls – the power bank.

The last time the power bank was used was outside the Imperial Base. Since then, he had experienced two returns and three transits, and it had been 35 days. The power bank could be used!

The amusement park rules forbid the use of any tools, but Chen Yu was already breaking the rules using paintings and the Forbidden Artifact to kill him, and if he didn't use it, he would surely die. He didn't know what rules Chen Yu would face, it was likely he would fall into the same mental pollution as him. And though he would continue to deepen his mental pollution, he had no choice. Chen Yu and Qing Chen had both chosen to fight each other while breaking the rules!

If his hands weren't crippled, he would have even used the syringe to draw his own blood to eliminate the negative state.

Even though using the syringe would result in even harsher punishment, but now he had to drink poison to quench his thirst. Even if you know it's a glass of poison, you have to drink it.

At this moment, Qing Chen used a god-like maneuver twice in a row, instantly escaping the observation range of the God Women. His figure was blocked by the maze walls, so even if Chen Yu used “having a clear picture in mind,” he couldn't use the same method to follow Qing Chen's path.

Qing Chen once again gained the opportunity to delay time.

But Chen Yu wasn't in a hurry. He seemed to be gradually understanding the rules of the haunted house maze, and calmly manipulated the Vajrapani to move towards two positions.

He was playing a game of chess, using fixed positions to restrict Qing Chen's range of activities, little by little restricting Qing Chen's movement, and forcing Qing Chen to the corner of this huge chessboard! Chen Yu looked up at the sky, the moonlight was gradually coming overhead.

He smiled at the more than a dozen people around him. “He has no way out. When the moon rises overhead, in the maze…to be precise, in areas north of 28 degrees north latitude, you will not see the moon directly above your head.

However, at noon and midnight, the shadows of all the maze walls will be negligible, making it impossible to pass through. There is still an hour until midnight, just wait 20 minutes, and Qing Chen will have no way out. At that time, it will be Chen Yu's time to kill.

At this moment, Qing Chen, in a sorry state, stumbled to a long passage. Then, the thugs he had killed on Laojun Mountain appeared before him. “Why did you kill us?” Qing Chen turned to retreat, but saw Shendai Yunhe, Shendai Yunwu and others blocking his way. “Why did you kill us?” The next moment, Qing Chen laughed bitterly. “Get out of the way, or I'll scatter your ashes!”