Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 485 320, Reverse Brainwashing_2

Two people emerged from the secret passage, and Li Changqing looked around the room like a curious baby, ”The old man used to slip out through here for his escapades, didnʼt he?”

”You talk about your father like that, youʼre really okay with it?” Qing Chen couldnʼt help but laugh and cry.

Li Changqing gave him an odd look, ”Whatʼs wrong with that? The old man had 11 wives in his lifetime. Thatʼs how the conglomerates are.”

Qing Chen was taken aback; when the old man had said on Longhu Broken Bridge, ”She is still waiting for me down there,” he had thought the other person must be very faithful and devoted, and he had even felt admiration.

Now that he thought about it, the other person should have said, ”They are still waiting for me down there,” right?

Qing Chen wondered, ”Donʼt the conglomerates have to comply with the marriage law?”

Li Changqing said, ”Who dares to control the conglomerates? The law is virtually non-existent in front of them.”

This was the Inner World and the conglomerates.

Even though the conglomerates altered the law to their advantage with countless amendments through their own influence, they still refused to comply with it faithfully.

However, just then, Li Changqingʼs phone suddenly rang. She looked down at it and her mood began to drop.

”Whatʼs the matter,” Qing Chen asked curiously.

Li Changqing said, ”I have to go back.”

”Why,” Qing Chen asked again.

”Thereʼs been an incident in City 18. Qingʼs familyʼs two Shadow Candidates, Qing Wen and Qing Zhong, had a conflict in the Fourth District, with multiple parties involved. Itʼs going to be a busy night,” Li Changqing said with a smile in the dim room as she looked towards Qing Chen, ”Next time if I get the chance, or maybe one day if I donʼt have to sell my life to Li Family anymore, let me sneak out to play again, but right now I canʼt afford to be so reckless.”

”Okay, go back then,” Qing Chen murmured softly, ”Take care.”

”Donʼt worry, no one in City 18 can hurt me,” Li Changqing confidently walked back into the secret passage.

Qing Chen suddenly thought, maybe this was the helplessness of the conglomerates.

Or perhaps, it was the helplessness of the era.

Qing Chen turned and walked towards the door, Luo Wanya was probably getting impatient.

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At this moment.

In an apartment in the Fourth District.

Including Luo Wanya, 14 individuals huddled together in a circle, sitting crowded in the living room.

One of the watchers said with reddened eyes, ”When I was a child, my father always took me to Lima Snack Street in City 7 to buy delicious candied hawthorns. You all know the candied hawthorns in the city are expensive. No one grows hawthorn in the production bases; they are picked wild by Wilderness Hunters and brought back, then coated with cheap syrup to sell at sky-high prices. Back then, I didnʼt realize that a skewer of hawthorns would add to our familyʼs burden. My father always watched me eat. When I offered it to him, he said he didnʼt like sour, but it was only when I grew up that I realized he was just unwilling to eat.”

Another watcher said, ”Occasionally, when we caught a fish at home, my mother always ate only the meat from the tail and the eyes. When I asked her why she didnʼt eat the meat from the belly, she always said she preferred the tail and the eyes. Now, thinking about it, who wouldnʼt know that the belly meat tastes better?”

Luo Wanya cleared his throat and said in a deep voice, ”Family members, children want to support their parents, but sometimes parents are not around. Trees want to stay still, but the wind keeps blowing...”

That deep voice was like an elegy at a funeral, as mournful as could be.

Before long, the room was filled with weeping.

It was at this time that Luo Wanya got to his feet and said, ”Family members, now that everyone has shared their secrets, we are truly a family. Do you trust each other? Letʼs play a little game.”

As he spoke, he pulled over a table and stood on it, ”Here I stand on this table, falling backward with my face up, trusting that my family will catch me. This is my trust in my family.”

Having said that, Luo Wanyaʼs chubby body stiffly fell backward, and the 13 ʼfamily membersʼ behind him worked together to catch him, preventing the back of his head from hitting the ground.

”See that?” Luo Wanya said excitedly, ”Thatʼs the trust between family members. You should try it too!”

Under his direction, everyone took turns climbing onto the table and fell into the embrace of their ʼfamily members,ʼ and not one of them landed on the floor.

After the last person fell, Luo Wanya said with overwhelming excitement, ”See, this is the power of family. Your family wonʼt let your trust fall through. Family members will always be each otherʼs strongest support!”

With that said, cheering erupted throughout the room as if in joy of finding new kin.

Even the watchers were no exception...

The situation was indeed becoming uncontrollable...

As Luo Wanya watched this scene unfold, he thought if he had known it was so easy to break through the watchersʼ psychological defenses, he would have been rescued long ago.

But before he could rejoice, a watcherʼs satellite phone rang from his pocket.

The man answered the call, ”Hmm, hmm, the family members are all fine... No, the Time Travelers are still detained... Okay, Iʼll prepare to transfer them now.”

In fact, short-term psychological suggestions and brainwashing couldnʼt withstand the harshness of reality.

A cold command from the upper echelons of the watchersʼ organization was enough to snap the watchers back to reality.

Those ʼfamily members,ʼ who had just been immersed in the lush atmosphere of joy and excitement, were like being doused with a pail of ice water in the dead of winter, gradually returning to fear and sorrow.