Two people erged from the secret passage, and Li Changqing looked around the room like a curious baby, "The old man used to slip out through here for his escapades, didn't he?"
"You talk about your father like that, you're really okay with it?" Qing Chen couldn't help but laugh and cry.
Li Changqing gave him an odd look, "What's wrong with that? The old man had 11 wives in his lifeti. That's how the conglorates are."
Qing Chen was taken aback; when the old man had said on Longhu Broken Bridge, "She is still waiting for down there," he had thought the other person must be very faithful and devoted, and he had even felt admiration.
Now that he thought about it, the other person should have said, "They are still waiting for down there," right?
Qing Chen wondered, "Don't the conglorates have to comply with the marriage law?"
Li Changqing said, "Who dares to control the conglorates? The law is virtually non-existent in front of them."
This was the Inner World and the conglorates.
Even though the conglorates altered the law to their advantage with countless andnts through their own influence, they still refused to comply with it faithfully.
However, just then, Li Changqing's phone suddenly rang. She looked down at it and her mood began to drop.
"What's the matter," Qing Chen asked curiously.
Li Changqing said, "I have to go back."
"Why," Qing Chen asked again.
"There's been an incident in City 18. Qing's family's two Shadow Candidates, Qing Wen and Qing Zhong, had a conflict in the Fourth District, with multiple parties involved. It's going to be a busy night," Li Changqing said with a smile in the dim room as she looked towards Qing Chen, "Next ti if I get the chance, or maybe one day if I don't have to sell my life to Li Family anymore, let sneak out to play again, but right now I can't afford to be so reckless."
"Okay, go back then," Qing Chen murmured softly, "Take care."
"Don't worry, no one in City 18 can hurt ," Li Changqing confidently walked back into the secret passage.
Qing Chen suddenly thought, maybe this was the helplessness of the conglorates.
Or perhaps, it was the helplessness of the era.
Qing Chen turned and walked towards the door, Luo Wanya was probably getting impatient.
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At this mont.
In an apartnt in the Fourth District.
Including Luo Wanya, 14 individuals huddled together in a circle, sitting crowded in the living room.
One of the watchers said with reddened eyes, "When I was a child, my father always took to Lima Snack Street in City 7 to buy delicious candied hawthorns. You all know the candied hawthorns in the city are expensive. No one grows hawthorn in the production bases; they are picked wild by Wilderness Hunters and brought back, then coated with cheap syrup to sell at sky-high prices. Back then, I didn't realize that a skewer of hawthorns would add to our family's burden. My father always watched eat. When I offered it to him, he said he didn't like sour, but it was only when I grew up that I realized he was just unwilling to eat."
Another watcher said, "Occasionally, when we caught a fish at ho, my mother always ate only the at from the tail and the eyes. When I asked her why she didn't eat the at from the belly, she always said she preferred the tail and the eyes. Now, thinking about it, who wouldn't know that the belly at tastes better?"
Luo Wanya cleared his throat and said in a deep voice, "Family mbers, children want to support their parents, but sotis parents are not around. Trees want to stay still, but the wind keeps blowing..."
That deep voice was like an elegy at a funeral, as mournful as could be.
Before long, the room was filled with weeping.
It was at this ti that Luo Wanya got to his feet and said, "Family mbers, now that everyone has shared their secrets, we are truly a family. Do you trust each other? Let's play a little ga."
As he spoke, he pulled over a table and stood on it, "Here I stand on this table, falling backward with my face up, trusting that my family will catch . This is my trust in my family."
Having said that, Luo Wanya's chubby body stiffly fell backward, and the 13 'family mbers' behind him worked together to catch him, preventing the back of his head from hitting the ground.
"See that?" Luo Wanya said excitedly, "That's the trust between family mbers. You should try it too!"
Under his direction, everyone took turns climbing onto the table and fell into the embrace of their 'family mbers,' and not one of them landed on the floor.
After the last person fell, Luo Wanya said with overwhelming excitent, "See, this is the power of family. Your family won't let your trust fall through. Family mbers will always be each other's strongest support!"
With that said, cheering erupted throughout the room as if in joy of finding new kin.
Even the watchers were no exception...
The situation was indeed becoming uncontrollable...
As Luo Wanya watched this scene unfold, he thought if he had known it was so easy to break through the watchers' psychological defenses, he would have been rescued long ago.
But before he could rejoice, a watcher's satellite phone rang from his pocket.
The man answered the call, "Hmm, hmm, the family mbers are all fine... No, the Ti Travelers are still detained... Okay, I'll prepare to transfer them now."
In fact, short-term psychological suggestions and brainwashing couldn't withstand the harshness of reality.
A cold command from the upper echelons of the watchers' organization was enough to snap the watchers back to reality.
Those 'family mbers,' who had just been imrsed in the lush atmosphere of joy and excitent, were like being doused with a pail of ice water in the dead of winter, gradually returning to fear and sorrow.
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