The evidence is conclusive!
Xiao Si originally wanted to kill the scumbag on the spot, but since it was wartime, even if he killed a scumbag, no one would say anything to him.
But Xiaoqi arrived in time to stop it: Although we are superhumans, parents need the rule of law. The giant's telepathy is temporary, only order and system can last.
Xiao Si only gave up after hearing what he said.
Within just one hour, before many puppets were found, a bunch of criminals and spies were discovered. City 10 solved 22 cold cases in a single day, some of which involved serial murders in the distant City 7 who fled here and were planning new killings.
The plan was aborted before it even began.
As one case after another was solved, the residents looked at the giant with no more doubt; those murder cases were the best proof of that!
At this moment, someone was hiding behind the curtains in the residential building, secretly observing the giant downstairs, his face gloomy.
The giant's telepathy was like a fine sieve, filtering out all the impurities of the entire City 10.
Chapter 906: Courtesy first, then attack
There are three types of chess players.
The first type of player doesn't know how to plan; his vision isn't on the overall situation, but only on one side.
This is considered low-class.
The second type of player knows how to plan. Although he can see the big picture, he is ignorant of the details, lacks inspiration, and never makes a brilliant move.
This is considered crossing the threshold.
The third type of chess player has a profound understanding of the game, possessing both impartiality and unconventionality. They have a clear grasp of the entire situation and can foreshadow events from the very first move on the board. From that moment, they know they want to win and how to win.
This is considered to have entered the inner circle.
Zongcheng belongs to the third type, or rather, he has completed the transformation from the first type to the third type.
When he first emerged from underground, he was the first type of player, and he did many foolish things, leaving many hidden dangers.
Back then, he had no teacher; he was just a blank slate who emerged from an underground base, clueless about social interactions and how to operate a business.
Later, he suffered a great loss because of his identity as 'Liu Yue'. He thought that by controlling an army, he could rival the conglomerate, but it turned out to be not so easy.
So Zongcheng used his experience and lessons learned over hundreds of years to gradually accumulate knowledge and finally made himself the third type of player.
Sometimes he felt that the world was a bit unfair. The art of diplomacy and strategy that some members of the Qing clan could learn in just a few decades or even a few years, required him to learn for centuries.
But he later accepted it and diligently laid the groundwork.
But today he suddenly discovered that there is another kind of chess player in this world whose game is outside the chessboard.
In Zong Cheng's calculations, he had never considered the existence of giants... He didn't even know there were so many giants in the Western Continent, so how could he calculate it?
For the past ten years or so, his opponent has been the old man Qingxun from Ginkgo Mountain. The opponent's tactics were indeed cunning, pulling strings and pulling roots, uprooting much of his influence, but not causing any serious damage.
His power base is already secure; he can no longer be killed by conventional means.
Now, his chess player has changed to Qing Chen.
He began to challenge Qing Chen, forcing Qing Chen to take a gamble.
But now, the giant suddenly appears in City 10 and, in a magical way, finds out his puppets that he planted in the parent-teacher meeting one by one.
It's like he's sitting in the park, playing street vending with an old man, and he's having a great time, about to win.
Suddenly, a giant's 120-yard foot appeared beside him and kicked him in the face, almost knocking him off the chessboard...
The puppet in the darkness laughed: "What a surprise. This new player seems a bit unreasonable."
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Within City 10.
Parents' association members were maintaining order: "Everyone, just line up and walk past that giant one by one. Hey uncle, why are you looking away? Did you do something wrong?"
When everyone looked at him, the man quickly explained, "I didn't dodge, I just have a slight squint..."
The giant's capture of fugitives had become famous in the city. To make the residents understand the giant's role, Xiaoqi even paraded some extremely heinous prisoners through the streets in a truck, letting everyone know what heinous crimes they had committed and how they were captured.
These are just the more heinous criminals; there are countless other petty criminals as well.
For example, some pickpockets were screened by giants when they walked in front of them, and the giants even found out where the stolen goods were hidden and how to sell them through telepathy.
In a single day, dozens of pickpocketing dens were busted, and thousands of stolen items were seized.
The parents' association even set up a lost and found office specifically for this purpose, so that people who lost things could go and look for them.
A small businessman had just arrived in City 10 to do business when his goods were stolen. When he went to the lost and found office and got his goods back after verification, he was so excited that he almost knelt down before Xiao Si...
As a result, residents were indeed less resistant to the screening.
Some people were just wondering if the giants would detect their theft...
Gradually, in just one day, the citywide screening was more than half completed. By the afternoon of the second day, the screening sites were no longer so crowded.
At this point, the list of people who still hadn't participated in the screening was released, totaling more than 10,000 people.
These people stay at home, and for whatever reason, they simply refuse to come out for screening.
Xiao Wu said, "I don't know how this puppeteer spreads his knowledge. What if he turns other people into puppets if we don't get rid of these people?"
Qing Chen replied, "Although I am also very wary of this matter, everyone doesn't need to be too tense. Think about this: if this puppeteer can turn someone into a puppet just by touching them, then the whole world should be his puppet by now."
Qing Chen continued, "Therefore, there must be restrictions on the creation of puppets. I have a few guesses. First, he must personally create each puppet. Second, there is a limit to the number of puppets he can create. As long as the previous puppets are still alive, he cannot create new ones."
Otherwise, why would they bother dawdling here? Wouldn't it be better to just take control of all of humanity?
A few hundred years is enough time for them to control all of humanity, isn't it?
He looked at the black spider and asked, "Any experience from the Western Continent?"
“No,” Black Spider shook his head: “The Western Continent only feels that his method of transmission is too strange and we must be careful, but we have not figured out any pattern.”
Qingchen nodded: "So, now that things have come to this point, we don't need to rush."
Xiao Wu scratched his head: "So we just ignore them?"
"Of course not," Qing Chen smiled. "Don't worry, I'm not that merciful to my enemies either."
Immediately afterwards, the parents' association members, following the list of names, went door-to-door to screen the giants!
The giants walked on the crowded emergency staircases without complaint, running around with their families... Now, one-tenth of the giants have joined the parent-teacher association, which is considered their responsibility.
Knock, knock, knock, a knock sounded on the door: "Is anyone home?"
An elderly man came to open the door, looking somewhat bewildered, and asked, "Who is it? Who are you looking for?"
Xiao Wu glanced at the giant beside him, and the giant shook his head.
Xiao Wu said with a smile, "We are the grid leaders of the parents' association downstairs. We brought you rice and peanut oil because we see you are getting old."
After saying that, he put the rice and peanut oil into the house and also helped the old man take the trash downstairs.
The old man's eyes welled up with tears: "So it was the parents' meeting! You're all so kind! Thank you so much!"
After leaving the house, Xiao Wu had someone use a life detector to check: "Are there any other people in the house? Are there any areas covered by tin cloth?"
The family members beside him shook their heads: "No."
“Let’s go, next one,” Xiao Wu said.
Arriving at the next house, Xiao Wu held the life detector that Qing had brought over. He watched as a person inside paced restlessly, but showed no intention of coming out to open the door.
Xiao Wu didn't waste any words and left six family members to stand guard at the door with life detectors.
These family members are pretty ruthless; they brought their own food and cushions, sat down by the door, and didn't plan to move.
The reason why six people stayed behind was that two Shadow Force gene warriors led four C-level soldiers, which is considered the highest-configured tactical squad for the parent-teacher association at present.
With this configuration, even if an A-level enemy appears, they can barely hold out for a while until the Shadow Force arrives and kills the enemy.
Of course, the probability of the person inside being an A-level expert is extremely small.
On the other hand, they can form two groups to play Dou Dizhu (a card game), which will keep them from getting too bored.
These family members had no sense of shame. When residents saw them outside, they were immediately shocked: "What are you doing here?"
The family members responded with a smile, "There's someone inside who hasn't been screened and refuses to come out; we're waiting for him."
"Then how long are you going to have to wait?" the residents exclaimed in surprise.
The family members didn't care at all: "Wait until he's starving."
In just one day, after door-to-door screening of a list of more than 10,000 people, only 3,190 people remained unidentified.
Of these, 3,121 people were kept under surveillance at home, and 69 people tried to escape but were unable to leave the city. They needed screening certificates to find accommodation, food, and transportation.
They suddenly discovered that during this special period, in this special city on the 10th, even buying a protein bar required a screening certificate.
If you can't produce proof, the boss will immediately call the parents' association, and then a massive crackdown will begin.
With nowhere else to turn, they were all arrested by the parents' association. After the giants screened them, 90% of these 69 people were spies of Kamishiro, Kashima, and the Chen family, 5% were spies of the Li family, and 5% were puppets.
On the fourth day, some of the people inside finally couldn't take it anymore.
A young man opened the door and looked at his six family members outside with grief and indignation.
He knew that no matter how long he endured, even if he starved to death in his room, he couldn't escape it.
The family members dropped their playing cards, stood up cheerfully, and said, "Brother, you've finally come out! Are you hungry? What would you like to eat?"
The young man said with great distress, "I only stole a few things, is it really that big of a deal?!"
The parents' meeting didn't explain the purpose of their screening, so the public assumed they were catching criminals.
The family laughed: "Alright, come with us. Don't try to get close to us or touch us. Remember, breaking this rule will kill you. If you don't break this rule, you can dance all you want on the street."
After saying that, the six parents, three in front and three behind, escorted the young people to the unified screening point.
All six of them were excited; they were finally about to break through these people's defenses!