Chapter 743: 435, The merged group chat, new faces!
Zard: “Whose turn is it to share strategy? Come on, come on, come on, come on, I can’t wait. If you don’t share now, the group admin is going to kick people out.”
Everyone seemed to hear this chatterbox buzzing in their ears.
Liu Dezhu: “I’ll share a strategy: The North American Time Traveler has a lot of taboo items, and moreover, the genetic potions there are relatively cheap, but they have serious side effects.”
The Breaker: “The Shadow struggle has escalated to a fever pitch, and Qing Xing is suspected of possessing taboo items that could control others’ fates. He has caused several ‘accidents’ for Qing Wu and Qing Wen. Now Qing Wen is trying to seize this opportunity to join forces with Qing Wu, but Qing Wu has refused. His response was that in the struggle for the Shadow, everyone should rely on their own abilities. Teaming up is too low-level. By the way, Qing Wu is a B-Class Expert. The Qing’s Family’s cultivation tradition starts at the age of 9, but he began at just 4 years old. He is considered a top cultivation prodigy within the Qing’s Family.”
The Breaker: “There are quite a few factions within the Qing’s Family supporting him to become the Shadow Candidate.”
Li Si: “Why, aren’t Qing Wen, Qing Xing, and Qing Yuan good enough?”
With that comment, Li Si had effectively excluded the star-chasing Qing Shi…
The Breaker: “The temporary assessment by the internal bigwigs is that Qing Wen appears strong on the outside but is weak internally, Qing Xing has the taboo items but lacks a firm hand, and Qing Yuan is not bad, but the bigwigs would rather the next Shadow be a martial fanatic unconcerned with worldly affairs than a shrewd and strong person.”
Everyone understood. The power of the Shadow is immense, as within the Qing’s Family, their status is second only to one and above tens of thousands.
If the Shadow is too dominant and too smart, then the chances of the faction leaders getting pushed around become very high.
Power would be concentrated in the hands of the Shadow and the Family Head.
If the Shadow is a martial fanatic, then naturally the faction leaders within the Qing’s Family can play their little games.
The Breaker: “The current Shadow has suppressed the factions too harshly, and dissatisfaction has slowly grown within everyone. Nobody wants the next Shadow to be like that.”
The Shadow’s job is not only to deter external threats but also to ensure internal unity and centralization of power.
The Breaker: “Recently, the Qing’s Shadow has unusually publicly supported a matter, which you might have heard about—the PCA Federation CIA’s 10th City exchange with Jindai Yasuhara. The newly appointed Inspector of Intelligence Department One, Group Seven, has arrested quite a few people within the Qing’s Family and even cut off many of their financial avenues.”
The Breaker: “It is said that before our return, the Qing’s Family internal meeting was just convened, with the faction leaders preparing to interrogate the Shadow about his recent actions and to impeach him. They knew internally that he wanted to swap Qing Mu, but Qing Mu’s value is to stay in the North, not to return to the Qing’s Family. The faction leaders were ready to question whether his decision was wise.”
Qing Chen was startled. He knew why the Shadow wanted to swap Qing Mu—it was because he wanted to win over the hearts of the entire Qing’s Family intelligence system.
However, Qing Chen hadn’t realized that in doing this, the Shadow was also under a lot of pressure.
He had never mentioned this to Qing Chen.
The Breaker: “This generation’s Shadow has made too many enemies. After stepping down, he’ll probably be placed under house arrest at the Qing’s Family Ginkgo Manor and spend the rest of his life there… How about it? Is the strategy I shared detailed enough? Selfless enough? From now on, show me some respect!”
Zard: “You’ve finally proven yourself; I’m relieved.”
In fact, many members of the group were curious.
This Breaker seemed to be without desires, sharing critical information every day without holding back.
You’d have to be in a very key position within the Qing’s Family to know so much, right?
But what’s in it for him?
Qing Chen even began to wonder if this guy was Qing Huai’s uncle. After all, that uncle was nothing more than a relative by marriage with a rank of only a Lieutenant Colonel—could he know so much?
In the midst of the bustling chat, Qing Bao meekly said in the group: “I don’t have any strategies to share recently; can I owe it for now?”
Actually, Jindai Kongyin did have strategies to share, but those could easily expose her as Jindai Kongyin.
She feared that after Ice Eye realized she was Jindai Kongyin, she would embarrassingly have to cough up a three-bedroom apartment.
Though Qing Chen had guessed as much…
Taboo ACE-999: “Agreed.”
He Xiaoxiao: “Agreed.”
Li Si: “Can I owe it too? I haven’t gotten hold of anything recently…”
“Li Si has been removed from the group chat.”
Nan Gengchen had been watching the messages in the group beside Liu Dezhu and burst into laughter: “Hahahaha, why is Li Si so pitiful? These people are downright sexist; why is it that girls can owe it, but boys can’t?”
Liu Dezhu glanced at him: “Are you more pitiful than him?”
But Qing Chen knew that Jindai Kongyin wasn’t kicked out because her identity was quite special; in the future, she would always have new information.
Li Si was kicked out because Kyushu must have determined that he was just a freeloader.
He had been clamoring for nearly half a year about clinging to the coattails of a Shadow Candidate, but so far, he hadn’t succeeded…
Just then, Nan Gengchen suddenly received a text message.
He took one look and hurriedly ducked aside.
In the Daytime group system, Monopoly suddenly sent him a private message: “For ten grand, I can forge an identity and network protocols for you to re-enter the chat. Kyushu’s control over the group chat isn’t that strict, and the identity I provide for you has a certain status in the Inner World, so they can’t verify if you are the person or not.”