"A Shendai Demi-God has fallen?!"
This sentence exploded in the PCAIntelligence Bureau One of City 10 like a thunderbolt.
In that large office, everyone who had been reading newspapers and drinking tea looked up in astonishment.
Qing Shi, who was chasing stars, put down her phone.
Even the agents who were watching the Federation ball game and participating in gambling looked towards the source of the sound.
It felt like a startling thunderclap in the warm spring, causing the insects to crawl out of the ground...
A Demi-God's fall is enough to shock the entire Federation.
It's like a star falling from the sky.
Qing Shi and Qing Wen looked at Qing Xing. Qing Wen frowned and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"I'm not talking nonsense! I received the Hu Family Intelligence Agency's daily newspaper, and it's mentioned in the newspaper!" Qing Xing explained, "The Hu family wouldn't say it without evidence, they're not unscrupulous reporters who cover gossip! Today's newspaper not only mentioned the fall of Shendai Qianchi, but also that Qing Chen has brought back all the Li Clan and Qing Family personnel from the entire A02 base."Qing Xing continued, "This morning, two Class A Airships took away these people, and the award ceremony was completed on the spot."
The Hu Family Intelligence Agency's daily newspaper is published at 8 am every day, like subscribing to a newspaper. The annual membership fee is 8 million, and it's full of explosive news about Metahumans.
Of course, the most important intelligence is sold separately. For example, news that cannot be hidden, like the fall of a Demi-God, will be announced by the Hu family in advance.
When the Hu Family Intelligence Agency first launched its internet newspaper, many people said that no one would subscribe to something so expensive. However, those who said so were wrong.
In the end, it proved that a single Conglomerate might subscribe to more than 20 copies, each faction would subscribe, and they wouldn't share them with others.
In the entire Federation, any organization with a little ambition and ideas would subscribe to a copy.
Wealthy Metahumans would also subscribe out of boredom. After all, even high-level Metahumans are not short of money. Many B-Class Metahumans are already very wealthy.
An annual fee of 8 million is nothing to them.
When everyone subscribes, if you don't, your information will lag far behind.
Half of the content in the Hu Family Intelligence Agency's daily newspaper is made up gossip, such as an Awakened One deciding to star in a movie, a Cultivatior hooking up with a star, or a Cultivatior being kept by a big shot in a Conglomerate.
There's also a Conglomerate big shot bringing back a rare pet from a Forbidden Zone.
This is just for fun, anyway, they're idle.
But the daily newspaper also contains very important content: for example, a Forbidden Artifact suddenly changes hands, who owns it now, and what new Forbidden Artifacts have appeared in the Federation.
Occasionally, major events like today will occur.
Today's newspaper only has two pieces of news: Qing Chen has destroyed the A02 base and brought more than 900 prisoners safely back to the Central Plains.
The other thing is that a Demi-God has fallen!
At this time, Qing Wen and Qing Shi also took out their phones and confirmed that the Hu Family Intelligence Agency had confirmed the news: Shendai Qianchi died of serious injuries after the battle with Chen Yu!
The location of the battle was the uninhabited snowfields in the north.
Compared with the fall of the Demi-God, everything Qing Chen did seems insignificant, but smart people will notice the correlation between the locations of these two events.
Qing Chen's destruction of the A02 base and the fall of the Demi-God are definitely not two isolated events!
The Shadow Candidates fell silent in the office, everyone wondering what they were thinking.
At first, everyone thought that Qing Chen, the Qing Family genius, was going to die. After all, the Qing Family and Li Clan used so many manpower and material resources, but they couldn't save him.
How could a person who was taken to the rear base of the Shendai survive and come back? Unless they become a vegetable like Qing Mu, losing all their use.
Within the Qing Family, many factions no longer paid attention to this matter, but when everyone was almost about to forget Qing Chen, he came out of that extremely cold place.
Not only that, but he also brought back all the prisoners of the Qing Family and Li Clan with the Steam Train.
This move is enough to make him a god within the Qing Family. At least in the Shadow forces, some people have secretly called Qing Chen the military god, and there is a gradual trend spreading in other factions.
The bigwigs of various factions could not openly stop it, so they could only temporarily allow this sentiment to spread among the military.
Military god Qing Chen, this new title seems quite good, but the sudden rise of a Qing Family member to surpass all Shadow Candidates and become a god makes Qing Wen and others feel uncomfortable.
The Shadow Candidates should be the focus of everyone's attention.
However, this increasingly influential military god Qing Chen doesn't seem to have returned with the prisoners. Qing Wen heard that the Ginkgo Medal was not awarded this morning, and Qing Chen was absent!
Qing Wen glanced at the others, then sent a message to a Kestrel under him: "Investigate Qing Chen, I want all his information."
After a few seconds, the Kestrel replied: "I refuse."
Qing Wen was stunned. He is a secret agent in the Secret Spy Agency, and he is the Kestrel's direct superior.
Before this, the Kestrel had never refused any of his requests, but now he suddenly changed his attitude.
Qing Wen frowned and sent a message to another Kestrel, and the other party's reply was also concise: "Refusal."
Qing Wen's temples throbbed. He suppressed his anger and asked, "Why."
This Kestrel replied: "?"
The Kestrel's meaning was very clear. When I ask a question mark, it's not that I have a problem, but you have a problem.
Qing Chen, a Qing Family hero who has just received the Ginkgo Medal, you want to investigate him? First ask all the Qing Family intelligence personnel if they agree.
It must be said that the Qing Family intelligence personnel's mood is also very ups and downs.
At the beginning, when Qing Chen said he wanted to exchange Qing Mu, some intelligence personnel secretly paid tribute to him.
Later, Qing Chen was arrested, and the intelligence personnel became angry, and many secret agents went to the Caramel Bar.
Later, everyone confirmed that Qing Chen was locked up in a pigsty, and all the intelligence personnel began to grieve.
Now Qing Chen has created a big reversal, and the intelligence personnel wished they could take a month-long vacation and celebrate by drinking every day.
Of course, this is an idealistic statement, but the reality is that anyone who wants to investigate or threaten Qing Chen, anyone who treats Qing Chen as a hypothetical enemy, is the enemy of all the intelligence personnel of the Secret Spy Agency.
Qing Wen frowned and put down his phone. It seems that he has to use his father's people.
No, he should first incite others to feel the threat from Qing Chen.
Qing Wen looked at Qing Shi: "Xiao Shi, what do you think about this matter?"
Qing Shi was stunned: "Shendai Demi-God died, so what."
As she spoke, she printed the photo of Qing Chen from the Hu Family Intelligence Agency's daily newspaper and pasted it on the partition of her office.
The photo also had a fluorescent pen writing: Qing Chen brother, add oil.
Qing Wen: "???"
Just as Qing Wen was feeling upset, Qing Chen, who was re-entering everyone's sight, disappeared.
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In City 22, the neon lights of the entire city have been changed to red, preparing for the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
Various virtual stores are having discount promotions. Some places have also launched synthetic protein with better taste and dumpling shapes, so that the poor can improve their diet during the Spring Festival.
Qing Chen walked silently along the street towards the Ninth District.
Suddenly, he saw a magician in a tuxedo standing on the street, smiling and performing close-up magic, surrounded by children.
This thin magician was too young, looking only about twenty years old.
He took off his top hat, revealing a head of silver hair. When he smiled, his big eyes narrowed into slits, looking particularly kind.
Qing Chen involuntarily stopped.
He saw the magician put a deck of cards into his top hat, then tilted it to let all the children see the cards inside.
The next second, his top hat suddenly turned over, and countless candies continuously fell out of the brim.
Those candies were colorful and very beautiful, and the children scrambled to pick them up.
At first, Qing Chen thought that there was a mechanism in the top hat, just a hidden compartment that replaced the playing cards with candy.
But later he didn't think so, because the magician raised his top hat high above his head, allowing the candy falling out to bury himself into a small mountain.
The volume of those candies far exceeded the limit that a top hat could hold!
After the candy completely buried the magician, some children curiously dug away the candy, but the magician was gone!
Qing Chen felt a little surprised. Where is this magic? This is clearly magic!
This is a Metahumans!
But just as he was about to leave, someone called out to him from behind: "Qing Chen?"
Qing Chen turned abruptly, and saw the magician looking at him with a smile.
But the problem is that when he arrived in City 22, he had already changed his appearance with the Forbidden Artifact ACE-005. Why could the other party recognize him?
The magician smiled and said, "Let me introduce myself, I'm Yi's uncle, Li Shentan."
Qing Chen was stunned on the spot.
The name Li Shentan is too familiar.
In the Federation's history, no matter where it is, it records that Li Shentan, at the end of the previous human civilization, single-handedly stopped the millions of waves of the intelligent machine crisis.
In the end, Li Shentan, because his degree of fusion with the world exceeded 70%, his body turned to ashes, and his consciousness was imprisoned above the vast sky.
And, the other party said, the other party is Yi's uncle.
When did Yi have an uncle?
No, no, this is Yi's brother, it's just that he doesn't admit it himself.
At first, Qing Chen was curious why Yi's brother didn't let Yi call him that. Now he understands, it turns out that there is a difference in generations...
Qing Chen calmed down: "Hello, is there anything?"
Li Shentan smiled and said, "If you keep coaxing my niece to help you do things, go around causing trouble, and teach her online dating, I'll kill you."
Qing Chen was stunned for a long time. Is it for this matter?
But the problem is, he admitted to coaxing Yi to help him do things, but what's the deal with teaching her online dating? Yi actually blamed him for online dating!
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