Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 977: Amnesia

Countdown 08:00:00.

In the dimly lit safe house, a sudden light spilled out.

Black Widow and one or two others watched quietly. Qing Chen had been unconscious for only six days, but it felt exceptionally long for them.

During this time, Qing Chen didn't breathe, or even have a heartbeat. If it weren't for the warmth of his body, they would have thought he was truly dead.

Now Qing Chen's condition has changed, and any change is good news.

The next moment, a heartbeat echoed in the safe house—strong, powerful, and rhythmic.

Black Widow whispered, "Boss might wake up!"

Qing Chen's eyelids fluttered, until he opened his eyes.

Black Widow suddenly felt like she couldn't sense Qing Chen anymore, as if he had disappeared from this world.

Even though Qing Chen was looking directly at her, her sixth sense was useless! Black Widow approached, "Boss, are you okay?"

Qing Chen looked at Black Widow seriously, "Yeah, I'm fine."

His eyes were cautious, just like when he first arrived at Prison 18. Like a wild beast entering new territory, silently surveying everything.

To be precise, his memory wasn't entirely gone.

Because they needed to sever his ties with the Inner World's will, all his mental will related to the Inner World was sealed. But unlike Ren Xiaosu…he had memories of two worlds.

For Qing Chen, everything seemed to have returned to a few months ago. He had just reported his father's gambling to the neighborhood committee at the end of Seven Mile River Bridge, made all the preparations, waiting for the countdown to return to Ling, and then he was transported here…

His interaction with the Inner World's will began from that moment. His later memories were all gone, but his earlier memories remained.

He was still that 17-year-old high school student who had never seen the world.

So, in Qing Chen's understanding, this was his first time traveling through time.

After the countdown to Ling, would he be transported to such a strange world?

Qing Chen quickly analyzed everything: He didn't know where this dark little house was, but he could hear the sound of water outside, the sound of rats running in the water… Was this a sewer?

He didn't know the identities of the two women beside him. Did he substitute someone in this world, taking on someone's identity? Boss? Why did they call him Boss? Qing Chen didn't know how to deal with these two women yet, but he knew he couldn't reveal his identity as a time traveler, or the countdown on his arm.

His bone-cutting knife was gone, indicating that items couldn't be carried through time travel.

At this time, Black Widow asked, "Boss, how long is the countdown on your hand left?"

Qing Chen: "…"

That's unexpected.

The other party actually knew he had a countdown on his arm?! Wasn't this a giveaway? Qing Chen's brain raced…Could it be that everyone in this world had a countdown on their hands?

He resisted the urge to look at the countdown on his arm, and casually asked back, "How long is your countdown left?"

Black Widow: "…"

One: "…"

They were stunned.

Black Widow and One were both stunned.

One mumbled, "Don't joke with us, this joke isn't funny…Qing Chen, I'm One!"

Qing Chen knew he had said the wrong thing, and quickly tried to smooth things over, "Yeah, yeah, I know you're One."

One: "You know nothing! If you knew, you wouldn't be like this now!"

Qing Chen: "Don't question your Boss."

One: "You're Black Widow's Boss, not my Boss!"

Qing Chen: "…I just woke up, my head is a little muddled."

One was certain that Qing Chen was suffering from amnesia.

The Path to Becoming a God wasn't a secret to Qing Chen's team. He had already informed everyone of the dangers he would face, so that everyone could be prepared. There was no need to hide it.

But Qing Chen's current state…was a bit strange.

He had amnesia, but not completely.

One seemed to realize something. She was artificial intelligence, with extremely strong thinking and computing capabilities.

So when she heard Qing Chen's words, she immediately thought of the principle of the Path to Becoming a God that Qing Chen had previously mentioned, and roughly guessed Qing Chen's current mental state…But, watching Qing Chen act it out in person, it was so interesting…

One casually asked, "You wouldn't be a time traveler from another world, would you?!"

Qing Chen's heart tightened, "How is that possible?! Time travel is fake."

"Mm-hmm." One played along, "You fought with someone earlier, and accidentally got hit on the back of the head with a stick. Is your thinking a little confused now?"

Qing Chen: "Yes!"

One pointed at Black Widow and asked, "What's her name?"

Qing Chen: "Um, what was it again?"

"Her name is Black Widow, she's your subordinate." One said, "I'm your girlfriend."

Qing Chen: "You're not."

One got angry, "You remember this though! So annoying!"

Qing Chen had already reacted. He was certain that these two unfamiliar women knew his identity as a time traveler, and that they had known each other for a long time. The person they knew wasn't the person he had substituted, they knew him.

Now, he chose to get straight to the point: "What happened? This isn't my first time traveling, is it? But why don't I remember anything?"

One and Black Widow breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he was willing to communicate honestly, that was good enough: "From the time of your first time travel, it's been a long time. We'll roughly tell you everything you've experienced, and see if it can awaken your memories."

The two of them spent seven hours hard-core telling Qing Chen's story.

Qing Chen was stunned, "So much has happened…"

But for a normal person, it was like listening to someone else's story; he didn't have any sense of involvement.

Those somewhat familiar names were incredibly unfamiliar.

At this moment, Qing Chen found it hard to believe that he had built such a large organization, become the Head of the Qingshi Clan, and taken a key step on the Path to Becoming a God, leading to his amnesia…

However, in his brain's analysis, he confirmed that there were basically no logical loopholes in the seven hours of the story.

It's difficult to tell a seven-hour story without logical flaws.

The only loophole seemed to be that the Qing Chen in that story had become a very glorious person, influencing others with his actions, doing many selfless things.

But Qing Chen was still cautious and selfish, and didn't think he would do such things.

Just like when he first entered Prison 18, he only hoped he could survive. He didn't care much whether others lived or died.

One asked, "What happened during the days you were unconscious?"

Qing Chen muttered to himself, "I seem to have lost something very important, but I can't remember what I lost."

A ten-year-long dream, and everything in that dream vanished.

The feeling was like a shooting star across the sky, fleeting.

You might see other shooting stars in your life, but it's no longer the same one.

One and Black Widow looked at each other, "What do we do now?"

Black Widow whispered, "Now that Boss is awake, that's good news. I'll go out and scout around. If there's no danger, I'll try to contact Qing Ji and have him take Boss back to the East Continent. Once…once I don't come back within an hour, you take him and hide here, and wait for the opportunity."

Now their communication with the outside world was cut off, and no one knew what was going on outside. Going out to scout was no different from committing suicide.

But Black Widow knew that they couldn't wait any longer.

Qing Chen looked at Black Widow questioningly, "Is it still dangerous outside? Then maybe you should wait a little longer, go out when it's safe."

Black Widow turned to Qing Chen and smiled, "Boss, many people are waiting for you to come back. I can wait, but they can't. From the moment I formally called you Boss, I've been ready to face danger."

Qing Chen was silent. He was astonished to find that after waking up from this long dream, "yesterday's' self was just a student, but today's self was already worthy of others sacrificing their lives for.

This was a bit abrupt for him.

Black Widow turned and walked out. But at this moment, a War Robot followed the dark sewer system, its target clear. It made a splashing sound as it walked, startling all the rats in the sewer.

The War Robot came to the entrance of the safe house and knocked on the wall, "Open the door."

One heard the sound outside and turned around sharply. She looked at Black Widow, with a puzzled expression, "Does anyone else know the location of this safe house?"

Black Widow shook her head blankly. She drew her pistol, silently loaded it, pointing it at the door. In her understanding, no one should know about this safe house!

At this time, the War Robot outside said, "One, it's Ling."

One was startled. Black Widow said, "Open the door. If Fate Weaver finds this place, no matter how we struggle, it's useless."

The door to the safe house opened, and a seemingly ordinary War Robot walked in and closed the door.

One of the greatest advantages of artificial intelligence is that they can have countless clones. Even if Ling was commanding the battle in the East Continent Federation at this time, he could also operate on multiple fronts in the West Continent simultaneously.

Qing Chen saw the War Robot and his pupils contracted suddenly. One and Black Widow had talked about so much before, he was skeptical. The seven-hour story was not as impactful as this Iron Man-like robot!

The other party stood there, proving the difference of this world.

Ling looked at Qing Chen, "Have you lost your memory?"

Qing Chen: "…It seems that everyone knows I've lost my memory. It feels like I've been played."

Black Widow looked at Ling and asked, "How's it outside?"

Ling shook his head, "The city is now blocked by Royal Capital's Weiwu troops. The entire city's signal is shielded and in communication silence. There are drones patrolling everywhere. I've lost access to the Skynet network and can't secretly transport you out."

Black Widow's heart sank. They couldn't even send out a message from here.

She asked in confusion, "How did you know about this safe house?"

Ling replied, "All clues to the future are hidden in the past. To build such a safe house, a large amount of soil and bricks must be brought out, materials and weapons must be brought in. In addition, the water flow rate of the sewer system will be affected during construction, and all this is impossible to escape my observation."

Black Widow realized how terrifying artificial intelligence was.

"What now?" One asked.

Ling said, "Wait quietly in this safe house. The surface can't be blocked forever, and the city can't be kept in communication silence forever. Also, Qing Chen won't be amnesiac forever. If he can recover his memory, then everything will no longer be a problem."

"Then how do we help Qing Chen recover his memory?" One asked.

After saying that, the three of them looked at Qing Chen at the same time, while Qing Chen sat innocently on the bed. He didn't even think he had amnesia, because he remembered everything from his first 17 years of life perfectly.

Ling said, "Let's help him get to know this world again. Maybe if there are more memory points, it can help him remember everything."

One shook her head, "We've told him everything he's experienced, but he doesn't show any signs of recovering his memory. A02 Base, He Jinqiu, Li Xiurui, and Yang Yang, the memory points I thought were the strongest, he doesn't remember any of them."

"Maybe he has to see it with his own eyes before his memories can be awakened…" Ling suddenly controlled the War Robot to throw a punch at Qing Chen, but the whistling fist stopped abruptly in front of Qing Chen, held in Qing Chen's hand and unable to move.

The alloy steel fist was squeezed by Qing Chen's flesh and blood, making a creaking sound, gradually deforming.

Ling: "Eh?"

Qing Chen was stunned and quickly let go, "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I don't know why this happened, are you hurt?!"

Black Widow looked astonished. She hadn't even seen Qing Chen's movements!

It was so fast that it was invisible!

So, Qing Chen only sealed his spiritual will, but his former power was still in his body.

Qing Chen also looked at his palm in disbelief, "Is this still my body?"

Ling seemed thoughtful, "Yes, at least it has some self-preservation ability."

One asked, "Do you still have thunder plasma in your body?"

Qing Chen hesitated, "Can a human body have thunder plasma? That's a little unscientific…"

One: "…"

They opened some food and gave it to Qing Chen, but he was like a bottomless pit, eating more than twenty compressed biscuits and drinking more than twenty bottles of water in one go.

Qing Chen's previously thin and sunken cheeks, which had been thin and sunken from illness, were visibly replenished, with no abnormalities.

So after becoming a god, Qing Chen had a new ability: he could quickly convert the energy he had lost into his body just by eating, like the Giant Race!

Qing Chen patted his stomach and looked at One, "Thank you!"

Ling looked at One and found that her daughter was somewhat depressed, "What's wrong?"

One replied, "I suddenly thought of a problem. In TV dramas, the male leads all recover their memories when they see the people they yearn for, but he didn't recover his memories when he saw me."

They knew that to help Qing Chen recover his memory, they had to find the anchor in his heart to help him recognize himself again.

Ling was silent for a moment, "I've said it before, don't have feelings for humans."

And now, it was clear that One couldn't be that anchor.

One stubbornly said, "You have feelings too, why are you talking about me! He liked Yang Yang all along! It's normal that I didn't have a chance later. He liked one person after another; I don't like it anymore!"

Ling suddenly said, "But now you have a chance. His life has become a blank slate. No feelings, no memories, the first person he sees when he opens his eyes is you. In this part of his life, you appeared first."

One was stunned.

Qing Chen was a little embarrassed beside them, "What are you…talking about? I don't understand."

One turned to Qing Chen, "Do you remember Yang Yang?"

Qing Chen was puzzled, "Yang Yang? It's so familiar, but I can't remember where I heard this name."

As he spoke, he fell into thought, as if this name had a much greater impact on him than others…

However, this seal couldn't be easily broken just by mentioning a name.

Ling looked at One, "If I were you, I wouldn't mention Yang Yang's name again."

One turned her head, "I won't do such a cowardly thing! I'll teach him everything from today onwards. I'll find a way to help him recover his memory! When the surface isn't so strict, I'll send him back to the East Continent!"

Ling smiled without speaking, "Anyway, you can't send him back now. Get along with him for a while."

After finishing, Ling controlled the War Robot to sit aside and enter standby mode.

Qing Chen suddenly said, "The countdown on my arm is almost over. Where will I return to?"

One was stunned, "We don't know. After you completed the last two Trials of Life and Death in the Outer World, you disappeared. The last confirmed place you appeared was in Mexico's Swallow Cave."

When the world lit up again, Qing Chen was lying on a makeshift wooden bed, staring at the ceiling…

He had just barely accepted the fact that there were robots in the world, but when he returned, he wasn't in the No. 4 courtyard on Xingshu Road, but in this strange place.

At this moment, there was a loud voice next to him, speaking gibberish.

Qing Chen turned to see a foreign aunt looking at him with excitement.

It was Spanish, Qing Chen affirmed in his heart, although he hadn't studied Spanish, his memory was extraordinary. He could determine it just by listening to the accent.

The common language in Mexico is Spanish.

So, he didn't return to the No. 4 courtyard on Xingshu Road, but really returned to Mexico.

This also showed that everything the girl named One had described to him was true.