Abyssal Invasion, I Wield Dark Authority – Chapter 90

Ch 90: Boating, Upgrade

When leaving the Night Watch Community, it was already past eight in the evening.

The lights were just coming on, and the neon signs were flashing.

Qin Jin-Nian stood at the main entrance of the Night Watch Community and exhaled deeply…

Qin Jin-Nian naturally declined Lin Yun’s suggestion during the meal.

If Lin Yun were his real sister, it would be fine. But these adopted siblings… there was no reason to live together.

Besides, this was the Night Watch’s nest… Who knows what big shots were hiding here? Living here?

But Lin Yun still said that she had left a room for Qin Jin-Nian… Even if he didn’t live there often, he could come over occasionally.

She especially mentioned that in the future, during holidays, as long as Qin Jin-Nian didn’t go home, he must go to her place… She said that in this world, besides Ningning, she had no other relatives. Qin Jin-Nian was now her only relative besides Ningning.

To this, Qin Jin-Nian didn’t refuse…

He was also relatively concerned about Ningning, especially now that the two of them had a common little secret.

And this was the Night Watch’s nest… Who knows when he could get some extraordinary intelligence that would be hard to collect outside…

Of course, Qin Jin-Nian wasn’t very concerned about all of this right now.

The key was…

“More than 28,000 Shadow Points, this time, I don’t know how much I can improve my superpower…”

His eyes were bright, and he had been holding it in all day. He was now a little impatient.

After a slight thought, he opened the phone navigation. A moment later, he turned his head and glanced at the Night Watch Community behind him. He left with measured steps.

Not long after, a black motorcycle emerged from an alley, silently merging into the traffic, and then leaving… Well, the city lights were brilliant, but the headlights of this black motorcycle weren’t on…

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An hour later, outside Qinghe Lake Park, a black motorcycle drove into an unmanned alley, but it didn’t come out again.

When he came out, it was Qin Jin-Nian, wearing casual clothes.

Outside Qinghe Lake Park, there were crowds of people, shoulder to shoulder. Many small stalls were set up along the road, and the stalls were flashing with lights, displaying many small, light-up toys, attracting many children.

Qin Jin-Nian joined the crowd and walked into the park. Before long, he had arrived at the usual ‘fishing’ shore.

The shore was crowded with people. In the center of the lake, there were also boats. People were boating.

Boating on the lake was a relatively famous recreational activity in Qinghe Lake. From time to time, there were bursts of clear laughter and screams from the center of the lake.

There were many stalls for renting boats, basically forming a line along the lake shore.

Qin Jin-Nian went to one of the boat rental points and asked the stall owner about the price of boating.

“Handsome, we charge by the hour, it’s very cost-effective. The boats come in big and small sizes. The big boats are 180 yuan per hour, and the small boats are only 60 yuan per hour.”

The stall owner enthusiastically introduced it to Qin Jin-Nian.

“I want a small boat, rent it for the night, how much?” Qin Jin-Nian asked.

“Understood, handsome, you want to go night fishing, right? Our small boats are 500 yuan for the night, plus a deposit of 1,000 yuan. You just need to return the boat before nine o’clock tomorrow morning. If you exceed that time, we’ll charge 60 yuan per hour. Less than an hour is charged as one hour. Do you think that’s okay?”

Hearing that Qin Jin-Nian wanted to rent for the night, the stall owner didn’t find it strange. After all, there were a lot of fishing enthusiasts at Qinghe Lake, who often rented boats for the whole night.

At the end, he also smiled and introduced, “We also have fishing gear for rent, handsome, do you need it?”

Fishing gear?

Qin Jin-Nian smiled and shook his head: “No need, I have fishing gear prepared… I’ll just rent a boat.”

“Okay.”

He immediately paid, and the boss wrote a note and handed it to Qin Jin-Nian, to use when returning the deposit.

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Then he took Qin Jin-Nian to choose a boat.

Qin Jin-Nian quickly chose a black awning boat. The boat had a paddle at the bow. The boss got on the boat and gave Qin Jin-Nian a simple introduction to the items on the boat, such as where the flashlight and other lights were placed, and roughly taught him how to row the oars, and then left.

Qin Jin-Nian used the bamboo pole to prop up the shore, and the boat was gently sent to the deep water area. Then he placed the bamboo pole under the gunwale, rowed the oars, and the boat slowly slid out…

Don’t mention it, it’s quite fun.

So Qin Jin-Nian didn’t use his shadows, just slowly rocking the oars, and the boat moved forward steadily.

Gradually, the noise on the shore became smaller and smaller, and only some other small boats were wandering by.

Qin Jin-Nian didn’t moor nearby, but rowed the boat and went further into the depths.

Gradually, he moved away from the bustling area. The cool lake wind filled the cabin. Standing at the bow, Qin Jin-Nian felt very comfortable.

He put down the oars, turned his head and looked around, and found that only a few boats were moored near the shore. Then, from the lights on these boats, he could see that the anglers were sitting at the bow, fishing…

Well, these past two days, Qin Jin-Nian hadn’t come to Qinghe Lake because of Ningning’s matters. It seemed that these anglers should have started catching some big fish, right?

Qin Jin-Nian smiled and then looked around, feeling that this position was not bad…

That’s right.

Qin Jin-Nian came here precisely to upgrade his Authority.

The last time his Authority was upgraded, he was at home. Although he was in a daze during the process, he still remembered some fragmented images of the shadows in the air at that time…

But at that time, it didn’t cause too much of a commotion because his Authority was still weak at the time.

But now, the second upgrade of his Authority would cause a bigger commotion, and the resulting movement would be greater.

After all, a fifty-meter-long black shadow… could basically extend directly from his house to the bottom of the building.

If there was a commotion, even if no damage was caused, it would probably alarm the Night Watch.

Only in the center of this lake, the area was large enough, and it was also late at night. Even if you looked closely, you couldn’t see it very clearly. As long as no substantial damage was caused, no one would notice.

He exhaled lightly, sat at the bow, and looked at the panel.

First to be upgraded, was definitely ‘Shadow Control’…

As his main combat skill at the moment, it naturally needed to be leveled up as high as possible.

When the Shadow Points reached one thousand, the panel prompted that it could be upgraded. It could be seen that upgrading ‘First Sense I’ with shadows only required one thousand Shadow Points.

The others, he would consider later.

Thinking of this, Qin Jin-Nian took a deep breath.

With a thought, the small plus sign after the Authority ‘Shadow’ was clicked…

Immediately, a line of text appeared on the panel…

【Shadow Points -1000, you are upgrading the basic Authority ‘Shadow Control’. 】

【Basic Authority ‘Shadow Control’, upgrade successful. Current level: Lv:2…】

【Your ‘Rank’ has been improved, current ‘Rank’ ━ First Sense II. 】

Boom!

When the panel refreshed, a booming sound also came from Qin Jin-Nian’s mind.

The next moment, a sense of dizziness, far stronger than the first upgrade, suddenly swept over, making Qin Jin-Nian’s consciousness, in an instant, as if pulled into a completely dark world…

And this time, he was prepared. He tried hard to widen his eyes, wanting to see clearly the scene of this world…