Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 884: Purging the Clan

“Why isn’t the Airship’s searchlight turned off yet?!” Old Two roared in the forest.

Every member of the Black Knights had lived for hundreds of years, experiencing countless battles large and small. They had faced assassinations, Forbidden Artifacts, and Metahumans more times than ordinary people could imagine.

Therefore, Old Two possessed extremely strong combat instincts and wisdom, like a sharpshooter who, given enough talent, could develop excellent gun skills after firing ten thousand rounds.

When he caught Shadow's movements and saw it make two snips behind the officer, he immediately understood that it was a Forbidden Artifact, and it required two strong light sources to create two Shadows!

He immediately ordered the Airship’s lights to be turned off. Although this would plunge them into darkness, it was better than facing two Shadows of the same level!

But the communicator shouted, “Communications are jammed! We can’t contact the Airship!”

Old Two’s heart skipped a beat. He looked around fiercely, “Old Three?! Is that you!”

No one spoke in the forest, but he knew very well that this was Joker’s signature move, an electromagnetic pulse. That was how Joker had shot down a Shendai Consortium Airship in the sky!

Now that Old Three had possessed Joker, naturally he would have this ability too.

Thinking of this, Old Two’s expression softened, “Old Three, although Big Brother told you to act a little more realistic, you’ve killed too many people now. Big Brother is angry, and he sent me to take you back. Look what you’ve done. I always told you to read more and not be so reckless. Now look at the trouble you’ve caused! Come out, Second Brother will take you back to Silver City, we’ll stop the plan for now.”

He wanted to trick Old Three, whose intelligence wasn’t particularly high, into coming out. But as soon as he finished speaking, he saw two more Shadows rushing into the crowd from the outside, killing indiscriminately, as if they hadn’t heard a word.

Old Two could only hear the scissors clicking, “Damn it, Big Brother wants to kill me!” Old Two was furious, “Saying it's a good show, it’s all a lie. Big Brother wants to kill me…No, Old Three might also be a problem!”

At this time, Old Two realized something was wrong:

The two Shadows in the forest, while extremely ferocious, were completely different from Old Three.

Old Three was reckless but lacked skill, completely unable to achieve the level of killing everyone in the crowd with every strike.

They had mastered body snatching technology far beyond their time, but the problem is everyone had plundered others’ memories, so they knew very well that turning memories into their own abilities took a long time.

Either three or four years, or ten years.

How could Old Three have adapted to Joker’s body so quickly and used his skills so skillfully?

Moreover, the Airship above had also noticed the problem. The soldiers on board could not use large-scale killing weapons and could only use machine guns to aim and lock on to these black shadows, but the palm-sized machine gun bullets that came flying by did not affect them, they only retreated a step and then charged again!

This is probably Joker possessing Old Three!

In short, Old Three is powerful, but not this powerful! At this moment, seeing more and more Shadows in the forest,

Old Two suddenly shouted into the forest, “Joker, is that you?!” But still no one answered.

Countless Shadows were fighting in the crowd, but once they killed their host, they would instantly turn into a wisp of black smoke and dissipate. So, there were many people in the forest at first, but then they quickly decreased, until the whole forest seemed empty and somewhat desolate. Old Two found that this thing, whether it was Old Three or Joker, seemed to have deliberately spared him. Everyone else was dead, only he was left alive! Wait a minute… Marionette!

This guy is planning to use Marionette on him!

Otherwise, why would he be the only one left alive?!

Old Two hurriedly gestured towards the Airship, signaling them to land and lower a rope ladder to help him escape. Although he thought he was powerful, he did not have the courage to face East Continent’s Joker alone!

However, just then, a missile suddenly came from afar, leaving a long tail in the sky above the treetops. With a loud boom, it hit the Airship above Old Two’s head!

Old Two was shocked. He looked towards the distance and saw Old Five’s exclusive Airship flying quickly towards them.

“Damn it!” Old Two was furious. Old Five was taking advantage of his illness to kill him. Or perhaps Old Five and Big Brother had joined forces to kill him? Tonight was too chaotic, and Old Two could no longer distinguish the truth.

The Airship above slowly fell, and Old Two knew that if he waited any longer, he would die, he had to run!

He ran into the forest, two black shadows blocking his path.

Old Two’s eyes lit up, and he rushed towards the left Qing Chen Shadow, “There’s a gap here!”

In an instant, Old Two fought with the Shadow. The Shadow attacked, but Old Two kicked it away before it could strike, “Almost got me! This one is only B-Class. In fact, although Silhouette can create two Shadows with two light sources,

the light sources will always have a difference in strength, so one Shadow is the main body’s A-Class, and the other is B-Class. Therefore, these Shadows are a master and a servant.

Before, Old Two was frightened by the main Shadow and had no time to distinguish in detail. Now that he had to escape, the life-or-death crisis forced him to remain calm, and he finally discovered that the two Shadows’ speed and strength were completely different.

He found the weakness!

In the forest, Qing Chen let out a soft sound of surprise. He somewhat underestimated Old Two. To have lived this long and still hold the second seat in the Black Knights, he was indeed somewhat capable. However, it wasn’t a problem.

At this moment, Old Five sat in his Airship, laughing loudly, “Old Two is definitely going to cry now. His body snatching device is on that Airship, let’s see how he’s going to snatch bodies now! Let’s go, let’s go, we’ll do this and run!”

The officer beside him worried, “But you shot down an A-Class Airship. What if the Duke blames us?”

Old Five waved his hand indifferently, “What’s to be afraid of? Big Brother hasn’t liked Old Two for a long time. And I’m saving Old Three, how could Big Brother blame me? When calculating the losses, I will compensate him with an Airship.”

Old Five was a scoundrel with a strong sense of chivalry. He knew Old Two was going to take over Old Three, so he came to cause trouble and didn’t intend to fight directly.

He didn’t know that his shot disrupted Old Two’s fleet’s deployment and ruined Old Two. Old Five said, “Let’s go, fly back fifty kilometers, we’ll start pretending to chase Old Three from there. By the way, where are the others?” “They’ve already started the ground search, Old Four, Old Six, and Old Seven, each with a team.”

Old Two ran alone into the forest. He kept looking back, but the two blurry shadows followed him without immediately attacking. Old Two roared, “Joker? Old Three? Who are you?!”

No one answered him. The people in the forest didn’t seem interested in talking. The two shadows kept adjusting their pursuit, as if they wanted to drive him to a certain place.

He felt a sense of crisis. Why were they driving him away?

Was there something waiting for him ahead?

No, he couldn’t follow their rhythm!

In an instant, Old Two, running wildly, tilted down in a strange posture, turning his body 180 degrees, from running wildly to a sudden stop, then bursting out again. His muscles exerted unparalleled strength, rushing directly towards the B-Class Shadow behind him.

He had to break the deadlock!

He couldn’t be chased anymore!

Old Three must be waiting for him ahead. If he was really driven by the Shadow, he would definitely die, so he had to run back!

“Do you think I’m a three-year-old child? When I was fighting on the battlefield, you weren’t even born yet! Playing mind games with me? You’re not worthy?!” Old Two roared as he charged towards the B-Class Shadow.

In the blink of an eye, Old Two used a sophisticated wrestling technique. He grabbed the B-Class Shadow’s elbow joint with his left hand and its waist with his right hand, his right leg inserted behind the B-Class Shadow.

“Go!”

Old Two simply twisted his waist, his whole body like an axis and lever, forcibly lifting the B-Class Shadow from the ground and throwing it more than twenty meters away, crashing it hard against a large tree!

This set of movements was smooth and seamless, something that couldn’t be achieved without tens of thousands of repetitions!

In the early years, the Black Knights’ foothold didn’t rely on dirty tricks and conspiracies. During the turbulent times in the Roosevelt Kingdom, they had fought hard for military merit in the pacification campaign!

In those days, the twelve Knights on the battlefield were terrifying to the enemy!

Old Two hadn’t fought personally for a long time.

At one point, when he used his previously practiced fighting skills, he vaguely returned to the battlefield of those days.

At that time, everyone drank and ate meat together, shoulder to shoulder when faced with danger, carrying their brothers and fighting their way out of encirclement. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Those songs seemed to fly thousands of kilometers, over mountains and seas.

But when did they start to become so grim-faced and rough-looking? When did they start to suspect and harm each other?

It seems to have been since they became dukes and marquises. Some people could share hardships but not wealth. They seem to be such a group of people.

Old Two desperately continued to escape. If he survived, he would find Big Brother to have a drink and chat about the past.

But he didn’t have the chance.

Just as he had run a few steps, a figure flashed from behind the tree trunk, Joker!

In an instant, Old Two felt his elbow being grabbed, and the opponent’s waist suddenly twisted, causing him to lose his balance and fly out, hitting a tree! As if responding to the words, “When I was on the battlefield, you weren’t even born yet”, the opponent defeated him with his own best wrestling technique, without the slightest chance to fight back!

Old Two fell heavily against the tree. At that moment, Qing Chen poured his Knight’s Qi into his body, causing Old Two’s tears to stream down his face, his eyes sore and unable to open.

With a creak, the tree Old Two crashed into disintegrated from the inside and slowly fell down.

Just now, after Qing Chen’s Knight’s Qi was poured into Old Two’s body, it was projected onto the tree behind him with the impact, turning the plant fibers inside into wood chips. Old Two endured the pain, groped for the ground, and slowly stood up, “You are Joker, Old Three isn’t this insidious.” He finally confirmed that the person in front of him was Joker, it couldn’t be Old Three.

Qing Chen smiled without speaking. Old Two continued, “I’m curious, we have never had any accidents with body snatching, why could you kill Old Three?”

Qing Chen still didn’t speak.

Old Two closed his eyes, letting the tears fall. He silently felt the strange oppressive feeling, his whole body filled with anger, “Tell me, let me die understandingly!”

“Do you deserve it?” Qing Chen’s voice drifted from the forest, “You’ve disgraced the Knights.”

Old Two looked up, his ear tilted to discern Qing Chen’s position, “Your East Continent Knights have orthodox inheritance, we don’t, that’s all. Do you think we don’t want to take the right path? We do! Don’t judge from your position. Put yourselves in our shoes, and you might do the same thing!”

Qing Chen nodded, “I’ve thought about what you said. It’s undeniable that until you get to that point, no one knows what will happen. But I can understand using magic potions, but I can’t understand possessing your disciple.”

Recalling Li Shutong’s appearance, Qing Chen said, “Knights are passed down from master to disciple. The master is the disciple’s support. When the disciple encounters danger, the master stepping forward and saying I’m here is more helpful than anything else. Your disciples trusted you, looking forward to a bright future, but they didn’t know that from the beginning, their master only had their bodies in mind. It’s too ugly.”

Old Two was silent for a long time, “But our lives are too short, if we could live to 251 years old like you.”

“Then you would possess your disciples at 251 years old,” Qing Chen shook his head, “It’s just that you possess fewer disciples, there’s not much difference.”

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Old Two suddenly raised his hand, and a golden winged insect suddenly flew out of his sleeve, rushing towards Qing Chen’s face like lightning.

The insect hadn’t even reached Qing Chen before it sprayed venom from its tail.

But it didn’t land on Qing Chen, but on the Shadow.

Old Two had been talking to Qing Chen to close his eyes and find his position, but the problem was that Qing Chen had Old Three’s memories. He knew very well that the other party had a Forbidden Artifact called a Golden Winged Insect hidden in his sleeve.

The Black Knights had almost no secrets in front of Qing Chen.

At this time, the Golden Winged Insect was firmly held in the Shadow’s hand, unable to move. Qing Chen lightly and gracefully leaped in front of Old Two, “Don’t worry, you won’t die yet. I’ll have your brothers accompany you, including Silver Duke. Your branch of Knights, isn’t worthy to stay in this world.”

As he spoke, Old Two felt a cold thread wrapped around his wrist. Then, he lost control of his body.