After Yasuji Kamishiro was taken away, Shadow asked, "What are your plans next? Your gang in City 22 is quite interesting. Are you going back to continue developing it?"
Qingchen shook his head: "They don't need me there anymore... What do you think of this club?"
His subtext was that since the Shadow had discovered what he was doing, it must also be able to astutely realize that this matter would have an impact on the entire federal power structure.
As a beneficiary, Shadow is unlikely to allow the parent-teacher association to continue in this manner.
However, Shadow just laughed and said, "I don't have many years left to live, what does this have to do with me?"
Shadow looked at Qingchen: "You still haven't answered me where you're going next? Do you know that the entire Secret Service is waiting for you to return? There are countless people there, just like those two secret agents, waiting for you to return and hold power."
The fact that Qing Chen was able to break out of Base A02 was already shocking enough, especially since he brought more than 900 intelligence personnel with him.
Now, Qingchen has become incredibly audacious and has gone to capture Kamishiro Yunhe and Kamishiro Jingcheng alive.
One is an A-level expert who has been famous for 13 years in the Kamishiro Foundation, and the other is one of the Ten Attendants.
Qing Chen had not communicated with the outside world for the past two days and had no idea how much of a sensation this matter had caused throughout the Federation.
Those were the Ten Attendants, the top figures in the entire Federation's power pyramid, and they were just arrested like that.
When this news came out, the entire Secret Service was in an uproar.
Who wouldn't want a boss who's practically a cheat code?
At this moment, Shadow changed the subject: "However, your identity as Boss Bai Zhou has now been completely exposed."
“Oh no,” Qingchen suddenly looked up and said.
"Hmm? Is there any danger?" Shadow asked curiously.
“No, no…” Qingchen said.
He wasn't thinking about whether there was any danger, but rather how to face those he had deceived...
Back then, Qing Chen played two roles for a long time, and he even praised "Qing Chen" in the group as the boss of Bai Zhou!
This is going to be a disaster!
More importantly, Huan Yu should also know his true identity. I wonder if the other party has recovered his strength and is preparing to take revenge on me again?
Chapter 586, Return
In City 21, Shindai Unra, still wearing his white hunting robe, sat at the memorial service.
At the memorial service, everyone was dressed in black suits, making him stand out conspicuously.
At this moment, one of the Ten Attendants, Shindai Yasuie, came to him. The old man's hair had thinned so much that his scalp was visible. He looked Shindai Yunluo up and down and said without any attempt to hide his feelings, "He is quite a good prospect."
Kamishiro Yunra smiled and replied, "Thank you for the compliment."
He sat in his seat, his smile unchanged.
The memorial service began, and a huge photograph of Chiaki Kamishiro was placed at the front of the mourning hall. The person in the photograph was kind and approachable, completely different from the person in real life.
Shindai Yunluo smiled at the person next to her and said, "Tell me, why is it that he was so gloomy and terrifying when he was alive, but was put in such a kind photo after his death? Is this the legendary yin-yang face?"
A young member of the family sat next to him, and upon hearing this, he began to tremble and dared not say a word...
Kamishiro Unsou hurried past this grandson whom the ancestor loved most, followed by the entire faction belonging to the Onmyoji.
A force to be reckoned with within the family.
Although Kamishiro Senka is dead and the head of the family holds the greatest power, the Onmyoji will not disappear.
For nearly a thousand years, power has been shifting between these two systems, and everyone has gotten used to it.
The young Shindai Yuncang walked past quickly, then turned back and looked down at Shindai Yunluo, who was sitting in his seat: "Follow me, and I will give you everything you deserve."
Kamishiro Yunra thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "I don't even know what I deserve, so how can you give it to me?"
Kamishiro Unsou nodded and continued walking towards the main seat.
Kamishiro Unra tucked her hands into the sleeves of her hunting robe, feeling a strange sensation, though she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
The memorial service was a long and complicated affair, and the young people could only endure it.
It started in the morning and didn't end until evening.
At sunset, Kamishiro Unra left first, returning to City 22 aboard his Class B airship, the 'Unra'.
Kumashiro Unshu and Kumashiro Sora were left behind and led to the backstage area of the memorial service.
They stopped in front of a black curtain and stood respectfully.
Behind the black curtain, someone whispered, "Kamishiro Yunxiu, would you be willing to temporarily assume the position of director for Kamishiro Yasujiro?"
Kamishiro Unshu lowered his head and said, "Although Director Jingcheng was kidnapped by villains, I believe he will definitely come back. Patriarch, let's keep this position for him."
Behind the black curtain, the other directors whispered, "Patriarch, we can use political leverage to bring Director Jingcheng back. We can return the mineral distribution rights that we obtained from the Qing family years ago."
But then the head of the family said, "This time it's different. He won't be coming back."
The patriarch's voice was aged yet steady, naturally conveying a sense of authority.
The patriarch said, "It's settled then. Kamishiro Yunxiu will take over Jingcheng's previous projects and affairs. Also, Kamishiro Jingyan, you should step down. Your position will be given to Kamishiro Yuncang."
Behind the black curtain, after a long silence, Kamishiro Yasuie said, "I understand."
Shen Daiyunxiu knelt down outside the curtain, performing a deep bow in the dogeza style: "Thank you for your grace, Master."
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...
In the wilderness, Yangyang, holding Qingchen and Zhang Mengqian's hands, landed in a production base.
Yangyang asked curiously, "Is this the place that Shendai Yunhe took you through back then?"
“Yes,” Qingchen nodded.
The production base is abandoned, the buildings are damaged, and all the producers were killed by Shindai Yunhe and others. It is likely that the Federation will not send people to cultivate and repair it again until spring.
Qingchen hung the Shendaiyunhe on the wall, and then, together with Yangyang and Xiaomengqian, dug out the frozen bones from the soil and buried them in the distant wilderness, erecting a tombstone.
If they didn't do that, the people sent by the Federation would definitely clear them out and throw them into the wilderness to be eaten by wolves.
Kamishiro Yunhe said from a short distance away, "Although I can't see, I can guess where this is. So you brought me all this way here to use me to apologize to them?"
Qing Chen glanced at him but didn't say anything.
Kamishiro Yunhe continued, "Or perhaps you want to use these innocent, tragically deceased bones to make me repent from the bottom of my heart? What a delusion! My heart is as firm as a rock."
Qing Chen said, "Don't overthink it. I'm just asking you to pay for their lives."
Kamishiro Yunhe sneered: "Is it going to go to the lake where the film crew is stationed, and the cave where you used to hide, and bury all the bones in the ground next?"
Qingchen thought for a moment and said, "Do you have anything that you cherish?"
Kamishiro Yunhe retorted, "What, you want to destroy what I cherish? You have already destroyed it. What I cherish is the status I painstakingly climbed up from the bottom to achieve. You don't understand how much humiliation I endured and how much dog food I ate for all of this."
Qing Chen did not respond.
After burying the remains at the production base, Yangyang led the two of them to the cave where they had once hidden.
Zhang Mengqian and Yangyang offered to help dig the grave, but Qingchen refused.
He personally buried one skeleton after another, devoured by wolves, in the ground and carved stone tablets for them.
Zhang Mengqian looked at her boss and asked curiously, "Boss, let me help you dig."
Qingchen shook his head: "You'll remember it better if you dig it yourself. Go and cook with your Aunt Yangyang. Tonight I'll teach you how to cultivate and give you an initiation."
Zhang Mengqian suddenly asked, "Boss, is this the Cundi Dharma that Lao Luo and the others practice?"
“Yes,” Qingchen nodded.
Zhang Mengqian stood beside the grave Qing Chen had dug up, hesitating for a long time: "Can I not learn this?"
Qingchen looked up at him: "You can't take the other path."
Zhang Mengqian stubbornly said, "Then I'd rather not take any other path."
Qing Chen shook his head: "Whatever you say."
“Okay,” Zhang Mengqian said as she ran off into the sunset.
Qingchen collected all the remains into the grave, then sat beside it and carved a tombstone in the sunset. The tombstone was engraved with the names of everyone in the film crew.
Kamishiro Yunhe lay on the cold ground not far away and suddenly said, "Next, it's time to kill me, isn't it?"
Qing Chen nodded: "Yes."
After a long silence, Kamishiro Yunhe let out a long sigh: "This time, I don't want to go through the trouble of killing you again. Even if I kill you, I still won't be able to deal with that girl. To be honest, all the previous Force Field Awakeners will become isolated. One day, their world will only contain Force Fields, and they won't see you as a person. In their eyes, a person will no longer be a person, but just a Force Field. Are you prepared for this?"
Qing Chen stopped carving and glanced at Shen Daiyunhe: "What kind of time is this to still be thinking about destroying someone's heart?"
“This isn’t about attacking someone’s heart, it’s just stating the facts,” said Kamishiro Yunhe calmly. The two bloody holes on his face made him look gruesome. “My mother was a servant of the Kamishiro Group. She signed a 999-year labor contract with Kamishiro. Who knows why the labor contract had to be for so long? Kamishiro Jingyan raped her and then gave birth to me. Although I have the surname Kamishiro, I’m always inferior to others no matter where I go.”
Qing Chen said, "I'm not very interested in your background."
Kamishiro Yunhe: "Later, I volunteered to join the Federation Army Group, wanting to make a name for myself. I trained like crazy, always charging ahead in small-scale battles, killing the most wastelanders, and then sending my salary back to my mother. I fawned over my superiors; he liked cherries, so I led my troops to the wasteland to pick them for him. He complained that there were no women in the barracks, so I went and robbed women from the wasteland for him, washed them clean, and brought them to his bed. I massaged his legs, rubbed his shoulders, washed his feet, and acted like a grandson to him. One day, someone called me and said that my mother had hanged herself at home. When I got home and saw that the salary I had sent her was untouched, I suddenly had an epiphany... Isn't that strange?"
Kamishiro Yunhe: "I was lucky too. I was already a B-rank when I first awakened. After returning to Army Headquarters, I started to rise rapidly. Later I found out that it was Kamishiro Yasuji who was working hard to promote me. I took advantage of a military exercise to kill my superior, and then I awakened again as an A-rank... Life is truly ironic."
As the setting sun shone on his skin, Kamishiro Yunhe said, "It's evening now, isn't it? Sometimes I'm not sure what I've lived for. When I first joined the army, my greatest desire was to become a high-ranking officer. But later I found out that even at A-rank, I still had to pretend I didn't know that Kamishiro Jingyan was my father, and I also had to pretend I didn't know what he had done to my mother."
Qing Chen: "Why are you telling me all this?"
Kamishiro Yunhe: "It's more like I'm talking to myself."
Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "It is precisely because of these experiences of yours that your fighting instincts are destined to be stronger than theirs."
“What’s the use?” Kamishiro Yunhe sighed. “Come on, I’ve said everything I need to say. Let’s do it.”
Without any hesitation, Qing Chen raised the black sniper rifle from a distance.
Kamishiro Kumo smiled wryly: "So cautious... I suppose you'll reach the highest position someday; only someone like you is qualified."
He had just said so much, but it was hard to tell whether he was trying to lower Qingchen's guard or if he was really giving him his last words.
But it doesn't matter anymore, Qingchen won't give him another chance.
Qing Chen shook his head: "Sorry, I'm not interested in that kind of power. I just want to change some things."