Night’s Nomenclature

With the sound of current passing through, the light rail started.

The light rail in the afternoon was not so crowded, completely different from the morning.

Qing Chen, Yangyang, and Zheng Yi sat in the empty train, and the mood gradually changed.

Yangyang, who was sitting next to Qing Chen at first, sat down next to the silver-haired girl. This was quite abrupt, which made the silver-haired girl feel a little uneasy.

Yangyang sat down with a smile and asked, “Zheng Yi, we’ve been classmates for so long. I still don’t know where you live. Would you mind sharing?”

Zheng Yi gripped tightly onto the strap of her bag again. “The 132nd floor of the Luoshen Building, but it’s a rental apartment. My family lives in District 9. It’s too messy there, so my mom let me rent a place here.”

Yangyang suddenly asked, “Do you mind having a roommate?”

“Ah?” Zheng Yi tightened his grip on the straps of her bag, “But it only has a living room and a single bedroom.”

To be honest, she was more than willing to split the rent with someone, so that she didn’t have to bear all the rent and could have more money saved up for college.

She goes to work every afternoon and goes to cram school at night, but no matter how much money she tried to save, it seemed that she just couldn’t make enough for tuition. She was always short by a little.

It would be great if Yangyang could be her roommate, especially since Yangyang was a girl she admired.

Yangyang smiled and said, “That’s fine, I can sleep on the floor!”

Zheng Yi was a bit surprised and said, “Err… It won’t be fair then… I can pay 60%, no, 70% of the rent.”

“Deal.” Yangyang said happily as she turned to look at Qing Chen with a smile, “You should be happy now that you got a free gravity field. Why do you look so disappointed?”

Qing Chen: “…”

She sat back beside Qing Chen, “By the way, how are you thinking about participating in the protest?”

“It’s only been about two months since we first transmigrated,” said Qing Chen in a low voice, “I don’t believe that you can empathize with the sufferings of Inner World people in just two months, and even if you did, I don’t believe you that dare to come forward and start a protest so quickly.”

“So?” Yangyang asked, tilting her head.

“So behind this protest, you have another purpose,” said Qing Chen, “Or, you and the organization behind you have another purpose.”

“You guessed it right,” Yangyang said with a smile, “but not completely.”

Qing Chen thought for a while and said, “Although I don’t agree with those students’ actions now, I still appreciate the pureness of those students who insisted on handing out those flyers despite being laughed at. I hope your organization will not take advantage of this kind of people.”

“As I said, your guess wasn’t completely correct because before we helped them facilitate the protest, they had already taken action. We just helped,” Yangyang said with a rare serious expression.

Yangyang continued, “Qing Chen, have you ever wondered who made us travel here and why the person did it? I couldn’t understand this at first, and many people were also confused. But I’m thinking now that time travel might be made for people like us to help change this world.”

“Yangyang, those students can’t succeed,” said Qing Chen.

Yangyang tilted her head and asked, “Qing Chen, do you believe in miracles?”

Qing Chen hesitated for two seconds and answered, “I do.”

“Those students do too,” said Yangyang with a smile, “Those who believe in miracles are miracles themselves.”

The afternoon sun streamed through the windows, but the light rail quickly moved into the shadow of the steel forest.

When they arrived at the 66th floor of Luoshen Building, Yangyang walked off the platform first, and even turned her head to wave at Qing Chen behind her, “Why are you still standing there? Let’s go home!”

“You don’t treat yourself as a guest at all,” Qing Chen exclaimed.

Zheng Yi silently followed behind the two of them. She suddenly found a problem. The two of them sometimes walked really close and sometimes further away.

In fact, when people walk side by side, there was a natural safe distance. Most people consider that to be around a meter. If a couple walked on the road with a distance of more than a meter, they probably wouldn’t make it very far.

But Zheng Yi was a little puzzled. The distance between Qing Chen and Yangyang was completely erratic, which made her feel a little elusive.

They were like a couple but also seemed different.

When they reached the 132nd floor, the silver-haired girl watched the two walk into the same room.

She stood outside the door blankly and even forgot to open the door of her own apartment.

Was it really that kind of relationship?

Zheng Yi opened the door silently. She took out a protein bar from the refrigerator, poured out two multivitamin tablets from the medicine bottle, mixed them with plain water, and swallowed it.

Because the protein bars she bought were cheap, the nutrition content was relatively simple, so she must take extra vitamins to supplement her daily needs.

She silently counted the remaining protein bars in the fridge. Calculating how many more days those could last her.

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…

At this moment, Yangyang looked around Qing Chen’s apartment, “The Luoshen building is an old apartment building, but the renovation of your house is completely different from the looks outside. I didn’t expect you to be so poor in the Outer World but so rich here.”

Qing Chen completely ignored her ridicule, “Just set up the gravity field already. I’m going to start cultivating.”

Having said that, he went straight into the bedroom.

Yangyang followed behind and said, “Hey, don’t tell me you won’t even let me see how you cultivate!”

With a bang, the bedroom door closed, and Qing Chen locked it from the inside.

While making the gravity field, Yangyang asked, “Is cultivating under additional gravity really useful?”

Qing Chen didn’t answer, because if he did, the breathing technique would be interrupted.

In fact, until today, the gravity field still had a great effect on his breathing technique.

He even asked Li Shutong yesterday what level he would be if he returned to an ordinary person with the reverse breathing technique.

After testing, Li Shutong gave a rather surprising answer: He was approaching Level F.

In the Inner World, anyone beyond Level F would be considered a superhuman, yet Qing Chen was able to approach this standard by training as an ordinary person.

Qing Chen’s perseverance should ultimately take credit for this, but the combination of the breathing technique and the gravity field also contributed greatly.

Even Li Shutong couldn’t be sure if Qing Chen’s potential could not be fully released after going through several life and death stages, where those potential would go.

Li Shutong has never seen such a situation before…

Outside the bedroom door, Yangyang felt a little bored seeing Qing Chen ignoring her. She sat on the sofa and fiddled with her mobile phone to check the news.

However, while she was browsing, Yangyang suddenly started panicking. She sat up straight, brought her knees together, and placed her hands obediently on her knees.

Even the gravity field that she was applying stopped abruptly.

A few minutes later, someone in the hallway outside entered the password and opened the door.

Yangyang looked at the middle-aged man in front of her at a loss, and the middle-aged man was obviously surprised when he saw Yangyang.

Yangyang said obediently, “Hello.”

Li Shutong smiled. “Are you Chen’s classmate? I’m his father.”

“Yes, I’m his classmate,” Yangyang answered, “I came to ask for help with the homework.”

Li Shutong said with a smile, “Pretend I’m not here, just treat it as your own home. I’ll cook for you two.”

Qing Chen came out upon hearing the noise and looked at Li Shutong, whose face was different. Obviously, his voice and actions were the same, but his appearance was completely different.

He wondered how his master did it.

Yangyang stood up and said to Li Shutong, “There’s no need for that. I have something else I have to do. See you next time.”

Then, Yangyang rushed out of the room.

“Hey, you should stay for dinner,” said Li Shutong looking at Yangyang’s back as she closed the door.

Qing Chen said helplessly, “Please stop the nonsense. I haven’t even seen you cook even once after I arrived at the Inner World. You’re probably going to give all of us food poison.”

“Look what you’re talking about,” Li Shutong said unhappily, “Your master is an authentic Knight. There’s no Knight in the world that doesn’t know how to cook!”

As he spoke, Li Shutong’s face started changing. Instantly, he returned to his original appearance.

Qing Chen asked curiously, “What kind of ability is that?”

Li Shutong explained with a smile, “Don’t be too curious, you will know soon.”

“With your ability, you can definitely know that Yangyang is coming to the apartment in advance,” Qing Chen thought and asked, “So you came here just because you don’t want to miss out on this?”

“That’s right,” Li Shutong said as a matter of course, “I was in the middle of something, but One told me that a girl was coming home, I immediately ditched what I was doing and came back immediately!”

Qing Chen felt that he had completely underestimated Li Shutong’s desire to join in the fun. This master regarded watching Qing Chen’s fun as a top priority in his life.

Moreover, why was One also helping with his?!

There was even a whistleblower in this apartment!