As dawn broke, the campfire extinguished, leaving behind white ash and wisps of white smoke rising from it from time to time.
Everyone slowly got up from the ground, laughing at each other's foolish actions with headaches and dizziness.
At this moment, Qing Chen looked at them and said loudly, "The final pleasure is over. I want to ask you, are you ready to fight?"
Everyone gradually quieted down and looked at Qingchen solemnly.
Qing Chen then asked, "I ask you, are you ready to fight the enemy to the death?"
"Ready!"
“Let’s go back to the Eastern Continent and resolve those hidden dangers,” Qing Chen said.
The next moment, Qing Ji opened the Shadow Gate, and Chen Zhuoqu and the others also opened the Key Gate.
Qingchen led the way inside. Behind the door was City 10, the headquarters of the Parents' Meeting.
The moment he stepped inside, the metal storms protecting the city defenses of City 10 and the five cities of the Qing Clan in the southwest were all activated. From today onwards, entry is permitted, but exit is not.
Immediately afterwards, the second-in-command led the giants out of the key gate.
Qing Chen looked at Luo Wanya: "After the city is locked down, it will be a city-wide search. With the 631 telepathic giants as the core, set up 631 testing points in the city and screen all 10 cities within 3 days!"
Is the Fate Master the nemesis of the Puppet Master?
No, it's the giants.
This is why Qingchen was determined to take in Heiyeyuan; this is the gift he prepared for Zongcheng.
Chapter 905, Screening!
Back in City 10, Qingchen even felt a sense of familiarity breathing the air.
Black Spider followed him out of the Shadow Gate. This was the first time she had escaped the shadow of the Roosevelt Kingdom, and she suddenly felt a sense of freedom.
It's like suddenly escaping a repressive family and entering a free world.
She said softly, "Can I walk around and take a look?"
"What do you want to see?" Qingchen asked curiously.
Black Spider bluntly stated, "I want to see if the people in your city can truly live in peace and prosperity. Only by seeing the smiles of the residents can I judge what kind of person you really are."
Qing Chen suddenly countered, "Actually, you still have many informants in Storm City, right? You also have an intelligence network in your hands. You want to choose a suitable master for it? Then go and take a look. You will find the answer you are looking for."
Black Spider put on a hat to cover his blond hair and turned to walk into the city, but after only five minutes he was attacked by the grid leaders, and a fight almost broke out...
The Black Leaf Royal Court gradually emptied out. After obtaining Qing Chen's consent, all the giants wanted to visit the Eastern Continent... They had never been to a human city before.
No, giants have entered human cities, but they were all captured by the Roosevelt Kingdom.
At this moment, with the departure of the parents' meeting and the giant, the adjudicators on the Storm Sky Fortress could no longer successfully cast their curses.
They put down the potion with satisfaction and wiped their sweat.
Everyone worked from yesterday evening until this morning, without sleeping or closing their eyes for a full 13 hours, using black magic against the clock. On average, each person successfully cursed 46 people, which was almost their limit.
In this dark room, one expensive potion after another was brought in, only to be turned to ashes by their spells.
However, it was all worth it.
Duke Storm walked in from outside and looked at the assembled Arbitrators: "How is it?"
An elderly adjudicator chuckled, “Your Grace, we have successfully cursed 4,701 people. If nothing unexpected happens, they should all be dead by now.”
Duke Storm nodded in satisfaction: "Very good. We have dealt a heavy blow to the Parents' Association, killing almost half of their elites. Otherwise, these tens of thousands of C-rank soldiers would have posed a threat to us in the future. Everyone, go and have dinner. The restaurant has prepared exquisite dishes. Take a good rest. When you wake up, we will have already arrived at the Central Royal City. Next, you will all receive personal rewards from the King."
Duke Storm smiled; things were going more smoothly than he had imagined.
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How difficult is it to kill a puppeteer?
His puppets mingled among the crowd, each with a unique face, and each living a normal life according to their own identity and behavioral logic.
Puppets don't have labels on their faces saying "I am a puppet." Even if you torture them to extract a confession, they can still stubbornly refuse to admit it, even at the cost of their lives.
Previously, Qing Chen planned to use the most ruthless and extreme method, the same method Zero used to control all of humanity during the last decisive battle:
The plan is to dump nanobots into water sources and have people all over the world drink them, with One controlling these nanobots.
Once the nanobots connect to each person's neurons, Yi can quickly identify from each person's mind who is the puppet and who is a normal person.
In this way, they will definitely be able to find more than half of the puppets.
Once more than half of the puppets have been killed, the control will end, and the nanobots will be slowly eliminated from the body without any aftereffects, following each person's metabolism.
This was what Qing Chen had discussed with Li Shentan when he went to City Prison No. 5, and he eventually obtained Li Shentan's permission.
This is also what Xiaoqi is leading the team to do. With the help of the Qing family, City 10 has been producing nanorobots completely independently, but they have not yet been released into the water source.
But Qingchen suddenly realized that the method of Zero controlling all of humanity is actually written in the history textbooks of various conglomerates, and many people know it.
So, does Zong Cheng know? He definitely does.
So, when using nanobots to kill the puppeteers is currently the only way in the Eastern Continent.
Did Zongcheng deliberately provoke and anger me in order to force me to use this method and then complete my plan?
This is perhaps... the scene that Zongcheng wanted to see.
But Zong Cheng didn't understand giants. He didn't know anything about the giants of the Eastern and Western Continents. He probably never thought that there was a race that could naturally restrain him!
Even Qingchen didn't expect this!
Previously, although he knew that Dingdong had the talent of telepathy, how long would it take to screen someone using only Dingdong?
Now it's different. With 631 giants, as long as the efficiency is high enough, a city can be screened in three days.
At this moment, the streets of City 10 are slowly becoming lively.
The giants emerged from the key gate and took to the streets.
They looked around the human city with curiosity, finding everything new and fascinating.
However, the residents of City 10 were not afraid of them... after all, they had all taken turns giving the giants a topknot several times.
Some members of the parent-teacher association even recognized the gust of wind they had been given a blessing from, and immediately waved excitedly: "Wind!"
These giants are really friendly!
One little child even came over and patted the giant's leg.
The giant smiled simply. The humans here didn't seem to harbor any malice towards them like those on the western continent.
Qing Chen then said, "Everyone, let's get down to business first. We'll screen City 10 first. Of course, before we do that, let's do some preparatory work. Lao Luo, go and gather all the talent in our city! Municipal and computer science people, have them gather at the municipal center."
News of the giant's arrival in the city had spread like wildfire, but suddenly all communications in the city were shut down. All information base stations and information towers were rendered unusable, leaving only the internal local area network available.
This was the first thing Qingchen did.
The second thing Qingchen did was to specifically reorganize the administrative districts of City 10, changing the previous structure of Districts 1-9, reappointing and dismissing the administrative management of each district, and re-dividing it into six districts: Old City District, Luolong District, Xigong District, Jianxi District, Chanhe District, Mengjin District...
These names have no real meaning; they were simply copied from district names in Luocheng because Qing Chen was lazy and wanted to save time. They sounded familiar.
After the reconstruction of City 10, the convention of numbered zones was still maintained.
But here's the problem: driven by ingrained habits, people in the Upper Three Districts tend to look down on residents of the Lower Six Districts, and Qingchen feels this shouldn't be the case.
People may indeed be divided into different classes, but they shouldn't be categorized into different classes from birth.
City residents found the division of the city districts somewhat novel, but until this point, they still had no idea what the parents' meeting was about.
The third thing was that the members of the parent-teacher association were the first to undergo telepathic testing.
Parents who have undergone psychological testing are divided into groups of six to guard every building in the city.
Then, groups of 12 people were formed to block off each street.
The puppeteer and the virus are different. All he needs to do is find all of the other party's puppets within these three days.
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The operation began.
In City 10, 631 screening points were set up. Residents came out of their homes and, guided by members of the parent-teacher association, walked past the giant one by one, keeping a distance from each other.
Once the giant senses the puppet, it will immediately point it out, and then nearby PTA members will immediately carry out the capture.
But just then, the giant pointed at the woman passing in front of him: "Rip!"
The parents were all puzzled. Was this thing Zong Cheng's true form? Should they tear it apart on the spot?
That's far too cruel...
But then Kacha translated for them: "This person is not a puppet, but a spy sent from elsewhere with ulterior motives."
The parents' meeting members were shocked!
Is this for real?!
Xiao Si grinned as he looked at the middle-aged woman: "She's definitely going to get a collective third-class merit award! Grab her!"
The residents were stunned, staring blankly at the giant... Could it be that this giant could see through their secret?
But is this really reliable?!
The next moment, the giant pointed at a middle-aged man who had just arrived in front of him: "Rip!"
Kacha Translation: "He's a murderer who's killed so many people! There are still three girls being imprisoned in his basement, five meters underground. They're so pitiful."
As he spoke, tears welled up in the giant's eyes. He could even see the scene of this perverted murderer and the girl's pleading expression.
The middle-aged man's expression immediately changed when his secret was exposed: "Don't listen to his nonsense!"
Xiao Si and the others' expressions changed, and they said in a fierce voice, "Press him down there, damn it, go search his house!"
Forty minutes later, news of the parents rescuing three girls from the basement of the psychopathic killer's house began to spread within the city's local area network.
Many people witnessed Xiao Si and his gang escorting the pervert into the house. A short while later, three thin and terrified girls were escorted to the car by Xiao Si and his gang, their faces covered.