His personal account suddenly gained tens of millions of followers, and many people regarded him as an opinion leader.
The people of the lower three districts were jubilant, even though Kamishiro and Kashima had sent even more soldiers to suppress the revelry.
The victory last night was enough to drive the people of the Lower Three Districts into a frenzy, but under the call of the Parents' Association and Gao Wen, they gradually regained their senses.
They did not rush out of the lower three districts to riot, nor did they attack the political centers and spiritual dojos of Kamishiro and Kashima.
Gao Wen stated on his social media account: "The real opportunity has not yet arrived. We will continue to wait for the night to pass and the day to come."
Kamishiro and Kashima deployed troops into the lower three wards to impose martial law and curfew, continuing their search for the PTA's whereabouts. However, this one day gained was enough time for the remaining family members to evacuate.
Just then, someone dialed Gao Wen's number: "Hello? Is this Mr. Gao Wen from Hope Media?"
“This is me,” Gao Wen said calmly, looking at the 'unknown number' on his phone. “Who is this?”
The voice on the phone was icy: "I'd like to discuss something with you. Could you please clarify on your social media accounts that the parent-teacher association is an outright criminal organization, not the righteous organization you portray it to be?"
“I’m sorry, I can’t do that,” Gao Wen said calmly. “I’m just writing down everything I’ve seen, heard, and felt for the public to see. They have the right to know the truth, and I hope that what the media has been doing for over a thousand years is simply recording the truth.”
“Hopefully the media hasn’t taken such a radical stance before. You’ve gone beyond the realm of truth. Truth has no stance, but you do,” the person on the phone said.
Gawain smiled and said, "Now, the world needs a stance."
"Understood. Have a pleasant life."
The call ended.
Gao Wen stood in the empty office for a few minutes in silence.
A few minutes later, he seemed to have mentally prepared himself and took out the Weixing-11 pistol from the drawer.
But he quickly sneered, "You're just a reporter, and you think you can fight someone? You're too naive."
As he spoke, Gao Wen actually put the pistol back into the drawer.
When he arrived at the lobby on the first floor, he looked at the names of the media veterans on the wall.
In the most conspicuous place, a sentence is engraved: "Record the truth, even if it means dying nine times, I will not regret it - Jiang Xu".
Jiang Xu was the editor-in-chief of Hope Media more than a thousand years ago. He spoke out against injustice and was eventually assassinated.
At this moment, Gao Wen felt as if he had crossed a thousand years of time and space and found a kindred spirit.
Then he strode away from the Hope Media Building.
The streets of City 10 are gradually becoming more lively, and even the dazzling neon lights have been lit up again. People are also relaxing and having fun in the city after work.
The disaster is over; the living should not dwell on yesterday.
Suddenly, Gao Wen felt as if someone was behind him, but when he turned around, he found nothing.
Gao Wen shook his head. He didn't look back anymore, but walked step by step towards his home, looking intently at the street, as if he were saying goodbye.
At the entrance of an alley ahead, someone coldly watched him, and a voice came from the communication channel: "Prepare to make your move, kill him and then retreat."
The next moment, two people emerged from the alley ahead of Gao Wen, carrying pistols.
They raised their arms in preparation to fire.
But at that moment, a booming sound came from above, and a sniper bullet pierced the assassin's chest.
In the darkness, Xiao Qi jumped down from a second-floor room by the roadside and grabbed another assassin by the neck, but didn't kill him.
Gao Wen stared blankly as Xiao Qi knocked the assassin unconscious and handcuffed him.
"What are you doing...?" Gao Wen asked in a low voice, still shaken.
Xiaoqi grinned and said, "Our parents said that once you publish the article, given Xiaori's... Shendai's personality, he might choose to assassinate you, so we must protect you well."
"That parent guessed it, didn't he leave six days ago?" Gao Wen asked curiously.
"Yes, I specifically told them before I left," Xiao Qi explained with a smile, "Isn't that amazing? A perfect plan!"
Gawain thought he was going to die tonight.
Xiaoqi laughed and said, "We don't have any political wisdom, we rely entirely on brute force and popular support. As for Kamishiro and Kashima, they don't really have any political wisdom either, they just like to carry out assassinations every day, and kill those they can't control. It just so happens that we've always suspected that there are still Kamishiro's intelligence agents alive in City 10, so we'll use you to help lure them out. Don't worry about it, okay?"
Six million people survived in one city.
Even if the parents' association doesn't want to admit that there are members of the Shindai among the refugees who fought side by side, they must face the reality that spies will inevitably exist objectively.
At that moment, a message came through the communication channel in his earpiece.
After listening for a while, Xiaoqi smiled and said to Gao Wen, "Alright, you're safe now. All 12 intelligence agents from the Divine Era have been captured. The Parents' Association will arrange for dedicated personnel to protect you. Don't worry, they won't invade your privacy."
"Wouldn't this be too much trouble for everyone?" Gao Wen asked.
"No," Xiao Qi laughed, "Once the new world arrives, we won't have to do this anymore. Don't worry, it won't be long."
As she spoke, Xiao Qi shouted into the communication channel, "Fall back! Everyone worked hard tonight interrogating them. I need to find out exactly how many lovers they have. After we get the intelligence network, I'll treat everyone to hot pot in the Fourth District tomorrow. Xiao Ying said there's a really delicious hot pot place there!"
After saying this, the members of the parents' association gathered on the street, then put their arms around each other's shoulders and escorted the few survivors away.
Along the way, passersby would sometimes ask curiously, "Brother Qi, who are these people?"
Xiao Qi explained excitedly, "These bastards are all lackeys of the God Era. They wanted to kill Mr. Gawain, but we caught them!"
Loud applause erupted from both sides of the road, and some people praised Xiaoqi for her good work.
In City 10, the family members no longer need to hide. They stand openly in the sunlight, doing the right thing, and are supported by the people.
As Gao Wen watched Xiao Qi and the others from behind, he felt as if the city itself had come alive.
“This is a new world now,” Gawain said with a smile.
Book 5, Chapter 5 of the Night: Aria
Chapter 715, Turbulent Times, A New Journey
City No. 20, a place for spiritual practice.
A young man sat cross-legged on the wooden floor of the dojo, while in front of him sat twelve assassins dressed in kendo uniforms, all in black, silent and menacing.
The young man spoke up: "The patriarch is the one who leads the Qieshe Yumen lineage, and we are the people he trusts most. Now, someone has come to the gate of the dojo and killed hundreds of people from our Xinjing Dojo, yet left unharmed. We absolutely cannot allow this to happen again."
It is a well-known fact throughout the Federation that the Qiesheyu tribe produces elite warriors. They have a whole set of brainwashing procedures to make young people become more radical and more loyal after they come here to train.
The young man who led the Chise Gomen was named Kamishiro Unmasu, the twelfth grandson of Kamishiro Chizan, the head of the Kamishiro family.
At this moment, Shen Daiyun picked up a hard drive and said, "Someone has already sent us information about the culprit, Qing Chen. He helped us eliminate the parent-teacher association in the city, which has already shown his stance. Although I don't know why this person is using a puppet to send information, the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Kamishiro Un'ichi continued, "The war ahead has paused for a while. Before the new war begins, we must eliminate this person. Some people suggested hunting down important figures in City 10, but killing a hundred people in City 10 is not as effective as killing him. As long as he is dead, or even if we stop him from progressing on his cultivation path, we can achieve our goal. Everyone, the glory of the Kamishiro family rests on your shoulders."
The twelve assassins before him performed a deep bow: "Jade Shatters!"
Kamishiro Un'ichi said, "Everyone, the airship that will take you to your destination is ready to take off from the port. Please make sure you complete the mission."
The twelve assassins rose and walked outside, ready to behead the boy named Qing Chen at the most opportune moment.
After the twelve assassins left, another young man in a black suit emerged from the darkness behind the dojo: "We'll make our move in the inner world, while in the outer world, I've already notified the Kingdom and the Future Organization. They'll be there to snipe Qing Chen. This plan can't fail. Qing Chen is already one of the biggest obstacles to our southward advance. He's still weak, but we absolutely can't let him continue to grow stronger. Twelve B-rank assassins probably won't be able to kill him."
With a swift movement, Shen Daiyun opened his folding fan and chuckled, saying, "When a knight challenges a life-or-death trial, he's no different from an ordinary person. Back then, even an F-rank would be enough to kill him. Even if he isn't killed, once he interrupts the life-or-death trial, it will be enough to stop him on his path of cultivation. Besides... if both worlds try to kill him together, how could he possibly survive? The real focus is on the overseas forces intercepting and killing him in the surface world. This time, we must make him exhausted and ultimately die before his own life-or-death trial. The hatred between us and the knights must end in this generation."
"It seems he has taken on a few apprentices?" the young man in the black suit asked.
“That’s right. According to the information given by that puppet, Qing Chen now has two knight apprentices, one is Hu Xiaoniu and the other is Li Ke. Although he has other apprentices, none of them are knights.”
The young man in the black suit nodded: "If there are only two, then we'll deal with them after we kill Qing Chen and Li Shutong. They're nothing to fear. By the way, who exactly is that puppeteer?"
Kamishiro Unichi shook his head: "I don't know, and we don't need to know right now. We need to unite all forces that can be united, and not alarm him for now. Let's eliminate the knights first."
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In Forbidden Land No. 002.
Li Ke and Li Yunjing were sitting by the campfire.
The banished immortal, Li Yunjing, sat cross-legged in meditation, his mind completely focused.
Dingdong just delivered some fruit, and now she's off playing somewhere again.
They are waiting for someone.
Li Ke was the eldest disciple among all of Qing Chen's disciples, and the old guys doted on him so much that Li Ke was somewhat overwhelmed.
In the wind, a group of old men asked:
"Are you Li Ke?"
"Never learn from your master or grandmaster. With their personalities, even a dog would dislike them."
"They're always thinking about our forbidden things..."
Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
"When are you going to bring your baby here so we can see him/her? And maybe have a baby here too, and we'll have Dingdong help you take care of the child."
Li Ke responded awkwardly, "I'm still young, I just turned 15."
“At 15, people in our generation already had two children. What’s wrong with the Li family? They’re so slow and inefficient. Each generation is worse than the last.”
One of the Knights, a member of the Li family, responded, "Stop making things up about our family. There are 13 members of the Li family in the Knights alone. If we really got into a fight, you wouldn't stand a chance."
"Oh, so you're forming cliques, aren't you?!"
The old folks started arguing amongst themselves, and Li Ke breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they didn't have time to attend to him.
The satellite phone rang.
Li Ke picked up the satellite phone, only to hear Qing Yi on the other end blurting out, "Didn't the master tell you? I was fighting alongside him in City 10..."
Li Ke listened with a smile for a while: "Alright, alright, I know you are now in charge of the Secret Service for Mr. Shen, and I also know that you went through disasters with him, helped him rescue the teachers and students of Qinghe University, and finally helped him find the location of Shendai Yuncang and left a mark... Hmm, very impressive."
"Did your husband praise me when he called you?" Qingyi asked curiously.
“He praised me,” Li Ke said with a smile. “He said Qingyi has grown up and can stand on his own now. He is very relieved that you are in City 10.”
"Ah...really?" Qingyi asked on the phone, "By the way, has the master's new apprentice arrived at your place? It's a little boy named Zhang Mengqian."