Night's Nomenclature Chapter 443

Qing Chen stood silently in the dark room.

The silence lasted for an unknown amount of time, until the sunlight outside became intense.

Shadow drew the curtains in the room.

"You mean, I'm from the Inner World," Qing Chen said calmly, "So, I possess the bloodline of the Qing Family's Qing Zhen branch, exhibiting abilities that surpass ordinary people."

There are no Metahumans in the Outer World, and Time Travelers must also come to the Inner World to be eligible for awakening and Cultivation.

It's like the Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs; a crab costing just a dozen yuan can be sold for a very high price after a bath in Yangcheng Lake.

And Qing Chen's hyperthymesia is not actually hyperthymesia, but his ability.

In fact, after realizing his photographic memory, Qing Chen also thought he had hyperthymesia.

However, true hyperthymesia only possesses the ability to remember, but not the ability to organize and analyze.

Qing Chen is different.

Shadow smiled at him: "It's shocking, isn't it? I was also very shocked at the time. The Outer World often uses the term "public beta testers' to describe Time Travelers, which is actually quite accurate, because there are public betas, there are also beta tests."

It did shock Qing Chen.

Because this means that the time travel incident is man-made!

A mysterious existence, for unknown reasons, started its testing more than ten years ago, first beta testing, then public testing.

What kind of person has such power?

"Who created the time travel incident?" Qing Chen asked, frowning, "Are there really gods in this world?"

"I only know that it's someone who has lived for a long time," Shadow said, "I have guessed his identity, but the result is too shocking, and I'm not sure if my guess is true, so I won't mislead you."

Qing Chen said: "So, He Jinqiu and Zheng Yuandong are beta testers from the Outer World, and I'm a beta tester from the Inner World? Who else is a beta tester?"

He thought that only the Outer World could travel to the Inner World, but he didn't expect that the Inner World could actually travel to the Outer World, though the number is very small.

If there are two beta testers from the Outer World, then correspondingly, there must also be two beta testers from the Inner World, or even more.

However, Qing Chen has never discovered such people in the Outer World, or perhaps, the other party is very mysterious, so mysterious that no one has noticed.

"Oh, I don't know if He Jinqiu and Zheng Yuandong are beta testers," Shadow said with a smile, "It's just that there was no difference in their behavior around the time the so-called time travel incident began, and they disappeared in the Outer World for 12 years, only reappearing half a year before the real mass time travel event. Interesting, isn't it? I spent a lot of effort to find out about these two people. This information would be worth a fortune if sold."

Qing Chen thought that if he was really a beta tester, it would mean that the rules of the beta test and public test were completely different.

During the public test, when the Time Travelers came to the Inner World, time in the Outer World would stop.

During the beta test, beta testers like Qing Chen, He Jinqiu, and Zheng Yuandong were in two worlds, but time was moving forward in parallel, and the world didn't stop for anyone.

Otherwise, when I came to the Outer World as a baby, my age should still be a baby when I returned to the Inner World.

When I traveled, another Qing Chen also just entered Prison 18, the same age as me.

What about that Qing Chen?

Where did that Qing Chen come from?

Did someone replace the Outer World Qing Chen and wait for the public test to open before I traveled back?

No, according to the time travel mechanism, when I traveled to the Outer World to become a beta tester, the Outer World Qing Chen should have already been annihilated.

Qing Chen asked: "Since you say I'm from the Inner World, who is the Qing Chen who replaced me in the Inner World?"

"There is no such Qing Chen," Shadow said calmly, "It was just me occasionally appearing in your image, so everyone thought you were very mysterious, always living in seclusion, and even within the Qing Family, before you became a Shadow Candidate, few people knew of your existence."

"Why did you occasionally pretend to be me?" Qing Chen asked in confusion.

Shadow smiled: "Because someone asked me to. When you first entered Prison 18, that cell was originally empty, didn't you notice? Prison 18 always brings in new inmates at 12 o'clock at night, so no one would know how many new inmates came in."

Qing Chen shook his head.

Someone knows how many new inmates came in.

Yi must know that the number of prisoners is wrong, and must know that his sudden appearance is problematic.

This would be impossible without Yi's cooperation.

Therefore, the cameras in Prison 18 were always aimed at me, and Yi started observing me from then on.

And the person who created the time travel incident is most likely Yi's brother.

That existence who has lived for a long time, like a god.

Yi just said that her brother has known about the existence of Time Travelers for a long time, and recently she went to an unknown place with her brother to do mysterious things.

This mysterious matter may also be related to Time Travelers.

But what is he after? Is it just for fun?

Yi once said that her brother thinks that humans live too long, they will get tired of the world and have a self-destructive tendency.

Or they want to change the world.

So, did Yi's brother want to find some fun because he lived too long?

Qing Chen couldn't be sure.

Shadow said with a smile, "Actually, I almost became a beta tester too. When he found me, I refused. If I became a beta tester, I would definitely try to find others, so, in your impression, is there such a person?"

Qing Chen searched his memories... Huan Yu?

He had always guessed that Huan Yu had schizophrenia because the brother he mentioned was a bit strange.

So, could Huan Yu really be a beta tester, and something went wrong during the time travel, resulting in the simultaneous existence of two Huan Yu consciousnesses?

Qing Chen shook his head: "I can't think of it for the time being, how many beta testers might there be?"

"I don't know," Shadow laughed, "However, these beta testers have probably grown up silently."

Shadow said, "You only need to know why I didn't kill you."

"Then why didn't you kill Qing Yuan? He's a Time Traveler," Qing Chen said.

"Don't always fight and kill," Shadow said.

"You, who uses Metahumans to grow Jingshan Tea, told me not to fight and kill?!" Qing Chen raised his eyebrows.

Shadow said calmly, "Now you're pretending to be me, deceiving all the Shadow Candidates into killing Shendai, aren't you afraid that the Federation civil war will start again because of you?"

Qing Chen thought for a moment and asked back, "Without me, will the war stop? Shadow Master, I act according to my own heart, not morality. I'm not a good person, just like you."

"Alright, I warn you again not to impersonate me. On the one hand, you might be exposed and die, and on the other hand, you're really lowering my standards."

"You let the Shadow Candidates go to the small town outside the Forbidden Zone 065, just to help you kill Shendai?" Shadow asked, "Is it that simple?"

Qing Chen fell silent.

Whether to kill Shendai or not is secondary. Qing Chen's main idea is to let Qing Xing and Qing Yuan go to a remote place with few people.

Qing Chen needs to deceive him to go elsewhere to observe whether he carries the mysterious Forbidden Artifact.

In the city, it's too easy for him to hide something.

But from City 10 to the wilderness, the target of the Forbidden Artifact will be narrowed down too much.

Qing Chen believes that in the Face[-] of the dangerous wilderness, the other party will definitely bring the Forbidden Artifact, no matter how they carry it, there will always be clues.

Qing Chen suspects that Qing Yuan's ability to control puppets has a distance limit.

For example, Marionette has a 50-meter distance.

Qing Yuan's control distance might be longer, but the puppets can't be completely independent, right?

Of course, it's also possible that they are truly independent.

Then Qing Chen's deception to the wilderness will be a good opportunity to observe some clues.

In any case, getting the Shadow Candidates to a strange and desolate place is beneficial to Qing Chen.

This is the real reason why Qing Chen deceived the Shadow Candidates into going to Forbidden Zone 065.

"Let's go," Shadow said, "Hurry up and clean this place. I came here to drink tea, not to eat dust."

Qing Chen raised his eyebrows: "You're a bit too familiar, aren't you? You came here to drink tea, and I have to clean up here?"

"Are you more familiar than you impersonating others? Get out and clean before I settle the score with you," Shadow said, then opened the Shadow Gate and left.

Qing Chen looked at the surroundings. It was indeed quite dusty. He rolled up his sleeves, found a rag, and spent three hours cleaning the place.

He sat on the sofa and calmly thought about and digested everything Shadow had just said.

Shadow rarely tells the truth, so you have to think carefully after listening to it.

For so many years, he never thought that he might come from another world.

Qing Chen found it a little hard to digest this information.

Did I travel here when I was a baby? Or after I had a photographic memory at the age of six?

Before that, Qing Chen's memories were chaotic, but after that, he remembers every detail clearly.

If Zhang Wanfang and Qing Guozhong are not my biological parents, who are my biological parents?

This is probably the key to Shadow's help.

In addition, how many beta testers are there, and what were He Jinqiu and Zheng Yuandong doing during their past time?

Qing Chen felt that when other beta testers from the Inner World surfaced in the Outer World, amazing things might happen.

Or maybe... another beta tester, like myself, is completely unaware of this?