179: Chapter 179 Plundering the Power of the Nameless
Beneath Dongjiang City Fourth High School.
That old door slowly creaked open.
There was no room behind the door.
Only a well.
The well's rim was low, built from grayish-white stone, its edges polished to a shine as if touched by countless hands.
The well water was pitch black.
The bottom was invisible.
A second later.
A voice drifted up from beneath the well.
"Who erased my name?"
The voice wasn't loud.
But as those words fell, it was as if the entire Blue Star had been muted.
Inside the Huaxia Supreme Command Center.
The large screen in front of Xiao Zhenjiang flickered frantically.
National Household Registry.
Awakening Archives.
Military Rosters.
Civil Affairs System.
Blood-red garbled code popped up simultaneously across all of them.
[Name field abnormal.]
[Name field abnormal.]
[Name field abnormal.]
A technician's face was deathly pale, his fingers trembling.
"Commander!"
"National name data is disappearing!"
"It's not being deleted, it's... it's that the System is starting to refuse to acknowledge these names ever existed!"
Xiao Zhenjiang's expression immediately darkened.
"Activate the new Awakening Array."
"Switch all birth records, military records, and household records to the local Blue Star backups immediately!"
"Quick!"
In the underground passage.
Two characters floated up in front of Li Yan's chest.
[Li Yan]
A second later.
Those two characters looked as if they had been soaked in water; their edges began to blur and disperse.
Li Yan's expression changed, and he cursed on the spot.
"Again?"
"Are these things addicted to checking household registrations?"
Jiang Feng raised his hand and pressed it on his shoulder.
The two characters that were about to disperse instantly stabilized.
A System prompt popped up.
[Detected: Nameless Well Overflow Rules.]
[Effect: Strips names, erases titles, weakens reality anchors.]
[Plunderable.]
Jiang Feng looked toward the well's mouth.
His tone was very flat.
"Plunder."
[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]
[Plundered Nameless Well Overflow Rules.]
[Gained All Attributes: 20 ganges sand.]
[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 370 ganges sand.]
The well water suddenly sank.
As if a large ladleful had been scooped out.
The name on Li Yan's chest lit up again.
He glanced down and let out a sigh of relief.
"Good grief."
"I almost lost my household registration."
The Dragon Girl, holding the infant pod, added seriously.
"Uncle Li Yan almost became a passerby."
Li Yan's mouth twitched.
"Longlong, stop kicking me while I'm down."
Zero Seven, however, couldn't bring herself to smile.
She stared fixedly at the well, the black and gold papers in her hands burning hot.
"Mr. Jiang, this thing is even more dangerous than the Naming Room."
"The Naming Room changes names."
"The Nameless Well makes it so a name never existed in the first place."
Zhang Changlin's expression also darkened.
"In other words, it doesn't change the records."
"It directly makes it so the records have no right to appear?"
Zero Seven nodded, her voice tight.
"Yes."
"If it spreads to the entire Blue Star, everyone will become Nameless Ones."
"No names."
"No kinship records."
"No Awakening records."
"And no belonging."
Li Yan's face went completely dark.
"Isn't that just formatting the whole world?"
The voice from beneath the well rang out again.
This time, it carried a hint of childishness.
"Names are locks."
"Only by erasing them can it be clean."
The well water began to churn.
A small hand reached out from the well.
That hand was very white.
So white it was bloodless.
Its wrist was wrapped in dense, broken threads.
At the end of each broken thread hung a blurred name.
Pangu.
Nüwa.
Zhu Long.
Xing Tian.
And countless other illegible characters.
Zero Seven took half a step back, her face turning even paler.
"It's not The Name Writer."
"It's the thing whose name was erased."
"Sealed within the Nameless Well is the first name to ever be discarded."
Jiang Feng walked to the edge of the well.
The small hand slowly rose and pointed at Jiang Feng.
In the next moment.
Two characters appeared in front of Jiang Feng's chest.
[Jiang Feng]
A large amount of blackish-gray mist surged from the well water.
The mist did not attack his Physical Body.
It only lunged toward those two characters.
[Nameless Rule is overriding.]
[True Name Self-Sustenance in effect.]
[Override failed.]
[Nameless Rule intensity increased.]
[Override failed.]
[Nameless Well attempting to invoke Blue Star's subterranean ancient traces.]
Beneath the well's rim, old patterns began to glow.
Those patterns were identical to the etchings on the Eye of Eternity wreckage, the Awakening Array roots, and Pangu's remains.
Jiang Feng's gaze turned cold.
"It's even connected to my home's foundation?"
He raised his foot and stepped on the well's rim.
Crack.
A fissure split open at the well's mouth.
The small hand beneath the well stopped.
"Do not step on it."
Jiang Feng looked down at it.
"You let go first."
The well water boiled.
More small hands reached out from the well.
They grabbed at the Void Realm.
A second later.
Above the entire Dongjiang City, everyone's names surfaced.
On the streets.
Names lit up on some people's chests.
Household names floated above some people's heads.
Some people had just run out of buildings when their names began to fade.
"What was my name again?"
"What... what is my son's name?"
"Mom! Look at me! I'm your son!"
"Don't scare me, who are you exactly?"
Panic exploded instantly.
It wasn't death.
But it was more terrifying than death.
People were alive, but their names were gone.
Their relationships were gone.
The right to be remembered was also gone.
Tianshu Dragon Garden.
Liu Cuilan was bringing dishes to the table.
Three characters also floated in front of her chest.
[Liu Cuilan]
As soon as those three characters appeared, the gray mist lunged at them.
The Dragon Girl Clone staying at home immediately bared her teeth.
"Bad mist!"
Liu Cuilan was stunned for a moment.
She looked down at the characters on her chest, then out the window.
"Why am I wearing a name tag now?"
Jiang Jianguo snatched up the ruyi heaven-breaking staff, his face darkening.
"Whoever dares touch your name, I'll smash them."
Just as the gray mist approached Liu Cuilan.
A colorless light lit up on the doorframe.
That was a rule Jiang Feng had left behind earlier.
[Entry forbidden without family permission.]
The gray mist slammed into the doorway and was blocked on the spot.
Liu Cuilan watched in wonder.
"This doorframe is quite effective."
Jiang Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief.
"Our son installed it; the quality is definitely good."
Underground.
Jiang Feng saw this scene, and his expression didn't change.
Only the force beneath his foot grew heavier.
The entire well sank half a foot.
[Touching the main outer wall of the Nameless Well.]
[Plunderable.]
Jiang Feng spoke calmly.
"Plunder."
[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]
[Plundered Nameless Well Outer Wall Rules.]
[Gained All Attributes: 30 ganges sand.]
[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 400 ganges sand.]
A ring of the well wall exploded.
The names hanging above Dongjiang City instantly stabilized for the most part.
Xiao Zhenjiang's communication came through.
"Jiang Feng, can you hear me?"
Jiang Feng said: "Speak."
Xiao Zhenjiang's voice was very heavy.
"The national name System is malfunctioning everywhere."
"Civil affairs, military records, Awakening archives, birth records—all are being contaminated."
"We are using the new Awakening Array you gave us to hold the line."
Jiang Feng looked at Zero Seven.
Zero Seven immediately handed over the black and gold papers.
"These are the Naming Room evidence and the Mythical Model General Directory fragments."
Jiang Feng flicked his hand.
The two pages of paper pierced through space and landed directly on Xiao Zhenjiang's command desk.
Xiao Zhenjiang pressed down on them.
On the paper, all the records unfolded.
Birth.
Awakening.
Mythical Models.
Naming Room permissions.
First Blue Star production line.
Nameless Well Overflow Rules.
A line connected from beneath the Fourth High School to the Original Blue Star, and then back to the depths of the Blue Star.
Inside the command center, all the high-level officials fell silent.
They finally understood.
This wasn't just a disaster.
This was the result of the Blue Star's fate having been written by outsiders for far too long.
Jiang Feng's voice followed.
"From this day forward."
"All Blue Star birth records, Awakening records, and name archives will be kept by the Blue Star itself."
"Whoever reaches for them, I'll cut their hand off."
Xiao Zhenjiang stood up straight.
"Understood."
"Huaxia will execute this."
Li Yan grinned.
"Those words are way more effective than any meeting."
The small hand beneath the well suddenly clenched.
"Names bring conflict."
"Surnames bring bloodlines."
"Belonging brings favoritism."
"Favoritism causes order to collapse."
"Erasing everything is the only way to be fair."
Jiang Feng looked down at the well water.
"Your kind of fairness is quite a shortcut."
"If you get rid of all the people, there's no one left to argue."
The Dragon Girl nodded seriously.
"Bad kid is being lazy."
The voice beneath the well paused.
Then.
The well water surged upward.
A child crawled out of the well.
It looked only five or six years old.
It had no hair.
No eyes or eyebrows.
Its face was a complete blank.
A stone tablet hung from its chest.
There were no words on the stone tablet.
But the moment everyone saw it, their hearts felt hollow.
As if something very important had been quietly taken away.
Zero Seven's voice was tight.
"The Nameless One."
"It's not a living being."
"It's a fragment of the first name erased by The Name Writer."
The Nameless One raised its hand.
Above Dongjiang City, all names trembled simultaneously.
It wanted to drag an entire city directly into a nameless state.
Jiang Feng moved.
One step.
He appeared in front of the Nameless One.
The Nameless One raised its hand, striking a gray light toward Jiang Feng's chest.
Jiang Feng didn't dodge.
The gray light slammed into the two characters [Jiang Feng].
Those two characters didn't budge an inch.
On the contrary, the Nameless One's palm cracked on the spot.
[True Name Self-Sustenance triggered.]
[Nameless Override backlash.]
[Plunderable.]
Jiang Feng grabbed its wrist.
"Your rules are not bad."
"But don't use them at my doorstep."
[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]
[Plundered Nameless Override Core.]
[Gained All Attributes: 40 ganges sand.]
[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 440 ganges sand.]
The stone tablet on the Nameless One's chest finally lit up briefly.
Half a character surfaced on it.
It wasn't Pangu.
It wasn't Jiang Feng.
Nor was it any mythical name.
That half-character looked as if it had been scraped by a knife, with only one stroke remaining.
Zero Seven's pupils constricted.
"Is this... Blue Star's old name?"
Zhang Changlin looked at her.
"Blue Star has an old name?"
Zero Seven's voice was dry.
"It might not be the planet's name."
"It's the true name of this world before it was turned into a testing field."
Suddenly, the sound of chains came from the bottom of the well.
Clang-clang!
A thick black chain flew out from the well, wrapping around the Nameless One's neck to drag it back down.
For the first time, the Nameless One began to struggle.
It had no face.
Yet it gave the impression that it was afraid.
Jiang Feng reached out and grabbed the black chain.
A System prompt popped up.
[Detected: The Name Writer's True Body Sealing Chain.]
[Purpose: To seal the fragment of the first name.]
[Plunderable.]
Jiang Feng's fingers tightened.
"Plunder."
[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]
[Plundered The Name Writer's Sealing Chain.]
[Gained All Attributes: 50 ganges sand.]
[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 490 ganges sand.]
The black chain shattered inch by inch.
The stone tablet on the Nameless One's chest glowed intensely.
Another stroke was added to that half-character.
From deep within the well, a voice finally came that didn't belong to the Nameless One.
It was flat.
It was cold.
"Jiang Feng."
"You have overstepped."
Jiang Feng looked into the depths of the well.
"Are you coming down, or am I coming up?"
The well water parted.
A stone coffin was revealed at the bottom.
The stone coffin was covered with names that had been scraped off.
In the center of the coffin lid was a closed eye.
That eye slowly opened.
The System prompt instantly turned blood-red.
[Detected The Name Writer's True Body Projection.]
[Detected the first layer of the core stamen of the entire book.]
[Detected Blue Star's true old name fragment.]
[Warning: Target's status is higher than the Original Blue Star.]
[Warning: Target is reading the family anchors of Liu Cuilan, Jiang Jianguo, and Jiang Feng.]
Jiang Feng's gaze turned completely cold.
From inside the stone coffin, that voice continued to ring out.
"Do you want to know what Blue Star was originally called?"
"Kneel."
"And I will show you."
The mouth of the well fell silent for a moment.
Li Yan's face was ashen.
The Dragon Girl bared her little teeth.
Zero Seven felt a chill down her spine.
Only Jiang Feng looked down at the stone coffin.
Then, he said flatly.
"Who do you think you are?"