Night’s Nomenclature
chapter-229

The Haitang Boxing Gym was bustling with people. Ticket sales alone were 40% higher than usual. A staff member recalled that the last time it was so lively here was more than a year ago.

At this time, the host was chatting with the audience on the stage, which was part of the match to warm the crowd up.

However, Li Changqing was not willing to listen to the voice of such an insignificant character. She shouted toward the outside of the door: “Yue Er, go inform Haitang Boxing Gym and ask for this host to get out.”

Li Yinuo looked at her aunt who was famous for her thunderous tactics and didn’t know how to react to this, “Aunt, this is a necessary procedure, and the boxers are warming up in their respective locker rooms at this time. If they are rushed into the ring, the boxers may get injured due to insufficient warm-up. If that’s the case, it wouldn’t be a fun match to watch.”

“Well,” Li Changqing thought for a moment and said, “That makes sense.”

Qing Chen, who was warming up in the locker room, was doing his pre-match warm-up and stretching exercises seriously, as cautiously as a student who was about to enter the college entrance examination checking his pencil pouch.

At any given time, he was always ready to deal with everything and never slacked off.

The door of the locker room suddenly opened, and Jiang Xiaotang walked in casually.

Qing Chen stood up and put on his shirt. She chuckled and said, “Why, are you afraid of your sister seeing you? You will only be wearing shorts when you go to the boxing ring later.”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said seriously, “It’s different. We dress differently for different scenarios for a reason. There are only two of us in the locker room now, and I dress appropriately as a sign of respect to you, sister.”

Jiang Xiaotang praised, “Before, I was worried that you would learn bad things in District 4, but now it seems that you won’t. Remember, be careful of the men and women in District 4. None of them, including me, are good people.”

Qing Chen was stunned. This sister was so ruthless that she even scolded herself.

But Jiang Xiaotang continued, “I feel a little uneasy tonight, so I came to see you. Are you ready?”

“Ready,” Qing Chen nodded.

“If you want to cancel the game tonight, I can cancel it for you at any time,” Jiang Xiaotang said.

“No need,” Qing Chen shook his head.

Jiang Xiaotang thought for a moment and said, “Although the octagonal cage cannot be opened again after it is closed until the winner is decided, I can make an exception for you. During the boxing match, as long as you raise a thumb, I will immediately let Ji Hao go in to save you. Do you understand?”

Qing Chen said sincerely, “I understand.”

He didn’t know why Jiang Xiaotang wanted to let him know this, but he felt that there wasn’t a reason for her to be so kind to him.

“Sister,” Qing Chen asked, “Why are you so nice to me?”

Jiang Xiaotang smiled calmly: “Because your master once raised me. On the night they were arrested, I should have protected certain people, but I didn’t do it because I was afraid. I owe him my life, and since I can’t pay him back, I might as well pay it back to you.”

In fact, when Li Shutong brought Qing Chen here for the first time, she already knew Qing Chen’s identity.

Qing Chen now understood. No wonder Lin Xiaoxiao had always harbored resentment towards Jiang Xiaotang, it turned out to be because of some past events.

He thought for a moment and said, “Sister, you must have been young back then, right?”

“I know that you wish to comfort me. I was 19 years old that year, but that is not a reason to be a coward,” Jiang Xiaotang said, “He saved me from kidnappers when I was very young. If it weren’t for your master, I might be like many other women in District 4, attracting guests on the streets instead of sitting in this Haitang Boxing Gym and enjoying life. He gave us our lives, including Lin Xiaoxiao, Ye Wan, and Li Dongze. I should have given my life back that night eight years ago, but I was scared.”

Jiang Xiaotang still remembers very clearly that on the evening when Li Shutong rescued her, he had asked her if she would be willing to give her life back if she was needed one day. If she was willing, he would give her a new life. If not, he could find someone to foster her.

Jiang Xiaotang had answered yes, and then Li Shutong bought her delicious candies, and a lot of new clothes. He gave her a home, and many brothers and sisters.

To this day she still remembers that the new clothes she wore that day had small red flowers printed on them and the candy she bought was from Lin’s Candy in Changming Lane, District 5, City 18.

But she didn’t keep her promise eight years ago.

After the incident, Jiang Xiaotang kept waiting for Li Dongze to come and kill her, but he never came.

During these eight years, she had never stepped out of the Fourth District. She knew that Li Dongze wanted to kill her very much, but he must not have done it because Li Shutong did not agree.

Li Shutong was still the Li Shutong who valued his people more than anything else, and he had never changed.

Qing Chen shook his head, “Sister, I am not in a position to forgive you on behalf of anyone, but since Master has brought me here and let you know my identity, it means that some things should remain in the past.”

Jiang Xiaotang stood on tiptoe and touched Qing Chen’s head. She smiled, “Maybe.”

Qing Chen wanted to dodge the hand, but in the end, he didn’t, because he felt the warmth of this hand was pure.

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In the private room.

“By the way,” Li Changqing suddenly said, “Do you know the boxer named Guang Xiaotu?”

Li Yinuo replied, “I have seen his boxing matches, but I don’t know him personally.”

“Really? I heard that you three often come here, and after this Guang Xiaotu boxer showed up, you come even more frequently,” Li Changqing said with a smile, “You used to come here every weekend, but now you come every day.”

Li Yinuo’s heart trembled; she knew that her aunt was one of the real powerful figures in the second generation of the Li family.

The Li family was a behemoth, so even if Li Changqing only controlled a small portion of the family’s power, it was enough to make people feel frightened.

In City 1’s power struggle, Li Changqing was not inferior even to the older generation of the Chen family members.

Now in City 1, more than half of the city councilors support the Li family.

This kind of person is definitely not as easy to deal with. She did a thorough investigation before coming!

Li Yinuo was thinking about how to answer, but heard Li Tongyun say sweetly, “Aunt, I begged Sister Yinuo to bring me here. I like the boxer named Guang Xiaotu. I am his fan! He fought fiercely in his first match and even made a tigerweight boxer cry. Later, he fought six games in a row. All the tigerweight boxers were no match for him. He is undefeatable!”

“I see,” Li Changqing smiled and patted Xiao Tongyun’s head, “It’s normal for you to like him, but remember to keep up with your studies as well. I heard that you often dozed off during class in the family school recently, and you also bullied other boys.”

Li Yinuo didn’t expect that Li Changqing would even investigate Xiao Tongyun.

However, when facing the powerful Li Changqing, Xiao Tongyun did not appear to be nervous. Instead, she behaved appropriately and tactfully.

Every word she said was just right.

“I admit that I dozed off in class, and I won’t in the future,” Xiao Tongyun said, “but if someone says that I was bullying the boys, then, I wouldn’t agree. Isn’t it because some of the boys in our family are just too weak?”

This seemed to hit the mark in Li Changqing’s mind. The young aunt smiled and said, “I just spoke to the head of the school this afternoon. The family school must reopen the martial arts academy to cultivate masculinity within the family’s next generation.”

Li Changqing was a very prominent figure within the Li family, so she never tolerated the younger generations being weak.

When she learned that Qing Chen was also a boxer, she did not feel that there was anything wrong with it. Instead, she respected him a little more.

At this time, Li Yinuo grasped a detail from Li Changqing’s words. To start a martial arts course in the school… there must be a teacher for that, right?

Wouldn’t Qing Chen be a great teacher for that?

Suddenly, cheers were heard outside the private room. The next moment, the spectators in the boxing ring stood up and watched Qing Chen walk into the octagonal cage.

Nan Gengchen and Li Tongyun also stood up and walked to the glass, watching attentively.

Li Changqing suddenly smiled and said, “You may not know yet, Miao Qifeng bought a genetic injection from the black market merchant Su Xingzhi 7 days ago, which I provided a while ago. Therefore, Miao Qifeng is most likely no longer E-level, but D-level. There is a boxing gym that is jealous of Haitang’s business and wants to cut off Jiang Xiaotang’s business and beat Guang Xiaotu to death in the octagonal cage.”

Li Yinuo’s eyes suddenly widened. She didn’t expect such a thing to happen. Miao Qifeng was going to cheat under everyone’s noses!

Moreover, if he challenged the gym like this, he would seriously provoke Jiang Xiaotang. As long as Miao Qifeng still wanted to live in City 18, he would inevitably face the pursuit of Haitang Boxing Gym, and other boxers would also spurn him.

But it seemed that the benefits he was given were enough to make Miao Qifeng take the risk!

Li Changqing smiled and said, “This matter was conspired by the other four boxing gyms. If Miao Qifeng wins tonight, they have prepared a vehicle to send him to live in City 20, in the Kamidai family’s territory. In addition, they will give Miao Qifeng a large sum of money to settle down, including tonight’s prize money. Miao Qifeng is no longer in his prime, at the age of 37, he can no longer fight, and he wants to retire.”

“What if he loses?” Li Yinuo asked.

“The four boxing gyms will kill him to silence him of course,” Li Changqing said with a smile, “but they probably haven’t seriously considered this issue.”

That’s right, how could a land cruiserweight be unable to beat a tigerweight boxer? That was a whole level of difference!

The next second, Nan Gengchen wanted to run out of the private room. His first reaction was to quickly warn Qing Chen before the game started. Once the octagonal cage was closed, nothing he said would be of any use.

However, a small hand beside him secretly pulled his sleeve, signaling for him to not act rashly.

In the eyes of Li Yinuo and Li Changqing, Li Tongyun and Nan Gengchen just liked to watch Qing Chen’s games, and they had no connection with each other as time travelers.

If Nan Gengchen revealed the fact that he knew Qing Chen at this time, people would soon associate Qing Chen with the possibility that he might also be a time traveler!

This kind of information exposure was extremely fatal in the current environment of the inner world where time traverlers are hated.

“It’s about to begin,” said Nan Gengchen.

The boxing match was about to begin. The private room fell silent, and everyone looked at the octagon cage seriously.

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Qing Chen stood in the center of the octagonal cage. Outside the black iron cage was a vast but noisy world. People were shouting, like balls of fire.

It was clearly early winter, but it felt like a scorching summer, with countless cicadas chirping in the trees.

The boy’s eyes suddenly narrowed, recording and analyzing everything in front of him.

The host in a tuxedo stood outside the octagonal cage, took off his hat, and bowed to the audience in the stands like a clown.

A gambler waved the tickets in his hand and roared at the top of his lungs. His face flushed due to lack of oxygen and veins bulged on his neck.

In the crowd, a middle-aged man was looking at him with a smile. His face had changed, but his white sportswear was particularly eye-catching.

In the sea of irrational people, this person’s calm and rational smile was like a ray of clear spring.

Just as he said, he would only accompany Qing Chen for this short journey, filled with wind, snow, and sunshine. From then on, he would not ask where Qing Chen would go. But he would still watch secretly.

Qing Chen smiled in the octagonal cage, and the boxing gym seemed to quiet down, and the shouts from the host and the audience died out together.

Qing Chen realized clearly that this was the last time his master would watch him fight before his master would leave.

Li Shutong clearly realized that Qing Chen lacked combat fundamentals, so he sent his precious disciple to the ring and let him go through the dangers in the octagonal cage.

Now, that precious disciple was about to prove himself in this boxing ring. How could he not want to come and take a look?

After watching him fight, his master could then feel comfortable enough to leave.

Li Shutong discovered that Qing Chen in the octagonal cage showed no fear at all.

That was good.

Those who could climb up the Qingshan Great Cliffs with bare hands have already thrown away the “cowardice” in their lives at the foot of the cliff, and all the will to “retreat” has dissipated in the morning sun on the horizon.

Only the words “forever young” remain, and the courage that young people should have to live a life without regrets.

At this time, the first boxer slowly walked into the octagonal cage. Qing Chen glanced at his opponent and then said to the referee, “No need to close the door.”

The referee was surprised for a second. Before he even had time to understand what Qing Chen meant, he saw the teenager had already dashed in front of the tigerweight boxer.

Qing Chen swung his fist, as fast as lightning. His opponent immediately raised his arms in front of his face to block it, using his arm bones as a fortress.

However, before his opponent could figure out how to respond to the next attack, the teenager suddenly retracted his arm and struck the opponent’s fortress with his elbow.

This was a move derived from the top elbow technique of Baji Fist.

He has mastered all the fighting techniques in the Outer and Inner Worlds.

The power of his elbow was like a bull in the wilderness, opening up the opponent’s defense with all its strength. The opponent’s arms shattered under the force.

Taking another step, the teenager twisted his waist and turned around, kicking his right foot up and forward on the opponent’s mandible. The murderous aura of Muay Thai was undeniably powerful.

The boxer flew backward, hitting hard onto the octagonal cage and stopping for a moment before falling to the ground.

In his last boxing match, Qing Chen showed his unparalleled technical talent. It was a collection of all the essence of contemporary fighting skills. The carefully calculated changes made the skills he demonstrated that night were like art.

And now, Qing Chen showed off his raw power without mercy. A Knight’s strength was invincible at the same level and he was infinitely close to D-level’s strength.

Therefore, when this strength was revealed, his opponent felt like a scarecrow in the wheat field, being easily punched through.

It was not until then that the referee understood why the teenager said that there wasn’t a need to close the door, because it was indeed a waste of time.

Everyone in the private room was stunned, especially Nan Gengchen and Li Tongyun.

They knew very well that two months ago, this teenager was just an ordinary high school student.

Li Tongyun found it difficult to connect the person in front of them with the brother who made fried rice for her.

Li Changqing sat calmly on the sofa, there was a hint of joy in her eyes.

Among those present, it seemed that only the demigod Li Shutong closed his eyes and was deep in thought. The moment the defeated boxer hit the octagonal cage, Qing Chen had already begun using the method of “beating someone like hanging a painting”.

Qing Chen just used his technique to exert 100% of his strength and achieve the effect of 120%.

Using his waist as the axis and the earth as the foundation, he could pry everything open.

Qing Chen used his body as if it was a cold machine.

“Next,” Qing Chen in the octagonal cage looked at the referee at the door.

“Oh, yes,” the referee came back to his senses, “Now, please welcome the next boxer, Cheng De… Cheng De has withdrawn from the game! Now, please welcome… the third boxer has also withdrawn from the game!”