"Brother Chang Qing." With a brilliant smile on her face, Lin Yaoyao pointed at a cake shop not far away: "Let’s go check it out over there!"
She and Liu Hongzhao had been through quite a few worlds, including modern ones, but mostly for missions, so they seldom had the chance to explore such worlds leisurely.
"Let’s go." Zheng Yichen held Tanshia Firlo’s hand, nodded his head, and White, taking advantage of his young age, kept holding onto Zheng Yichen’s hand when going out.
There was also a cat hanging on his shoulder, which drew quite a bit of attention, as the cat spirit cloak could now change its form.
This made their outings much more convenient since wearing the cat spirit cloak normally, after all, could feel a bit... hot, I guess.
Especially when moving around in places like the upper city district.
"Delicious." Lin Yaoyao had a blissful expression on her face; everything Zheng Yichen bought seed delicious to her.
Zheng Yichen smiled and looked out the window, thinking that it had been a long ti since he had had such a leisurely period. Ever since going to the world of magic, it was always one thing or another going on, or on the way to sothing.
Now he had so brief leisure ti.
"Brother Chang Qing..." Liu Hongzhao, watching Zheng Yichen whose gaze was outside the window, paused for a mont before speaking: "You can go take care of your matters first."
"Ha~ There isn’t much left to deal with," Zheng Yichen said with a smile and a shake of his head: "Just reserve a dozen or so hours, it won’t affect anything. Later I’ll take you guys to... the amusent park?"
He thought about it and realized that since he had transmigrated to this world, he hadn’t been to such a place.
Now, thinking about taking the kids, the idea of going there to play just ca to mind. It’s just that those he was taking with him were far from simple and couldn’t be treated like normal children. Letting them go there to play seed a bit...
"I want to go!" Lin Yaoyao, eating cream cake, imdiately said.
They wouldn’t be in Hazy City for too long, so naturally, they wanted to play as much as they could while there was ti.
"Alright, let’s head out after we’re done eating."
Zheng Yichen smiled and pulled out his phone to check the ti. The weather had been nice for the past two days, just a light fog, but still clear enough for a normal outing.
Liu Hongzhao and the others weren’t too interested in shopping, but they were very interested in fun and leisure activities, as if to make up for a childhood they never had... well, considering their age, it’s not really making up.
Even the thrilling attractions that posed no real challenge to them, Liu Hongzhao and the others could still enjoy imnsely.
"Brother Chang Qing, is that... a swimming pool?" Qi Xiangyun looked at the area next to the amusent park and asked curiously.
Zheng Yichen nodded, "Water amusent park."
"Oh——" Qi Xiangyun didn’t ask any further questions.
Although they had traveled through quite a few worlds, their perceptions were still mainly based on their own native world. Looking over at people wearing swimsuits, they definitely didn’t want to do the sa.
Qi Xiangyun sneakily glanced at Zheng Yichen. In a private place, well... she definitely wouldn’t mind wearing a swimsuit, but this kind of public place was a no-go. She didn’t think there was much of a difference between those swimsuits and the underwear she was currently wearing.
Walking past a ghost house with the three little ones, Qi Xiangyun said, "Ghost house? Qi Family Town has researched quite a few spells related to ghosts, both for commanding ghosts and for dispersing them."
"...What do you research that for?"
"Just part of the developntal research, you know. There are still a lot of skeletons in Qi Family Town. Many people who go to martial arts training halls have gotten used to their presence, treating them as predecessors."
Predecessors? Zheng Yichen imagined it, and well, in a sense, they indeed were predecessors, right?
After all, being a skeleton ant they hadn’t been dead for just a short while.
In Qi Family Town, those skeletons played a significant role, serving as important sparring partners for newcors practicing martial arts. Without those skeletons, the newcors’ accumulation of real combat experience would not be swift.
"Shall we go in and take a look?"
"Sure, but you’re not allowed to attack the staff," Zheng Yichen quickly reminded them, thinking of the three little ones’ combat abilities.
Even Liu Hongzhao, who usually wasn’t very expressive, imdiately nodded: "We won’t."
They indeed didn’t attack the staff and even seed much more timid after going in. The ghost house in Hazy City was infused with high-tech elents and was huge, with many visitors.
Despite being in different areas, they could still hear various screams coming from a distance, which made Liu Hongzhao and the others act even more timid and squeeze close to Zheng Yichen while in the ghost house environnt.
"You guys..."
"Hahaha—Brother Chang Qing, I’m scared." Lin Yaoyao, with a fearful expression on her face, squeezed tightly onto Zheng Yichen.
Is this really being scared? She’s laughing.
Zheng Yichen glanced at the sowhat embarrassed staff playing ghosts nearby and quickly said, "Kids don’t understand..."
Looking at Tanshia Filo sitting on Zheng Yichen’s shoulder with a face full of curiosity, the haunted house staff left sowhat disappointed.
How clueless can you be, not even afraid of ghosts?
"Brother Chang Qing, let’s play again?" After leaving the haunted house, Liu Hongzhao’s red pupils, which had been disguised, looked at Zheng Yichen. She wasn’t too affected by the haunted house, but the idea of being close to Zheng Yichen inside was very appealing to her.
On their way inside, they saw quite a few couples huddled together, where being close to one another in the haunted house seed like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Elsewhere, those couples at most would just hold hands.
"Yes, yes, let’s play again. There are so many paths inside, since we’re here we might as well try them all." Lin Yaoyao quickly suggested.
"Then it’s not just one more ti."
Zheng Yichen didn’t expect that they would be so interested in such a place...
A scream.
Looking at his subordinate being taken down not far away, a young man’s expression showed a bit of panic and more forced calm: "You... you’ve won already, I will stop all activities... "
"It’s too late." Ahn Longling walked over, looking sowhat sympathetically at the young man, who was also from the Ahn family. Ahn Longling had seen him at family gatherings; technically, he was even her cousin once removed.
Too bad he did sothing he shouldn’t have.
"You can’t kill ! We’re both from the Ahn family, you won’t get away with it if you do!" The young man finally lost control over his inner panic but was not yet desperate, since the Ahn family had its rules.
Generally, they didn’t engage in internal bloodshed; even if soone failed in so struggles, they would at most beco marginal figures in the family, casually assigned to ’clock in for work’ sowhere else, cut off from the core family affairs.
If Ahn Longling killed him now, she would bear the guilt of murdering a family mber.
"No, there will be no consequences for . So things you did very secretly, but once done, they’re done, cousin, prepare to experience a new life." Ahn Longling smiled: "Our sister Ahn Ke needs talents like you."
"...Her?" The young man’s face turned from panic to terror: "No, you can’t do this, I need to make a phone call!!"
"Haha~" Ahn Longling chuckled softly, snapping her fingers to one side, and an armored action team mber took out a cell phone, which Ahn Longling tossed to the young man: "Go ahead, this is a purge operation."
"Purge?" The young man felt more uneasy. He looked at the phone thrown to him with a hesitant expression, and suddenly he lost the desire to make a call.
A purge operation ans that Ahn Longling’s action is recognized by the high levels of the Ahn family, what that implies is obvious. At this point, making a phone call frightened the young man into thinking if it was a bluff from Ahn Longling.
Whoever he calls gets into trouble.
"I trust the family will give justice!" The young man decided not to call.
Calling could implicate those who could help him; not calling might still afford him a helping hand.
Yet, by the ti he was sent to Ahn Ke’s research institute, the young man completely despaired. He saw the person he had previously wanted to call, also there, albeit lying down.
At this mont, he was certain that what he had done was completely exposed.
Stealing the family’s secret research; the family allowed so intense internal competition, and even failure wouldn’t lead to death, but that didn’t include betraying the family!
In the ti Ahn Ke was away, quite a few people in the Ahn family were tempted by the things she left behind. In the first month, no one dared to do anything unusual. By the second month, people started to entertain so ideas.
While Ahn Ke was away, although her research institutes were heavily guarded, without the person in charge, so things could be manipulated.
Before the second month was over, so started to take action. Ahn Ke could return at any ti, and of course, so hoped that woman would just disappear forever.
The research Ahn Ke engaged in recently was too important. Because of the Essence of Life, the Ahn family had quite a few intense fights with other Hazy City families, although they ultimately prevailed. However, information about the Essence of Life was also learned by others.
Those outside the family had no chance to obtain more useful intelligence, but those within it could, and the stakes were very high—so high that many were tempted.
Along with the developnt of the family, one could gain a lot, but so could gain even more after obtaining certain things, even without the family’s support.
He was one of those with such ideas...
The not-aging and Undead promises of the Essence of Life, if obtained, along with a prepared escape route to a proper Phenonon, ant that the Ahn family likely couldn’t pursue him there in the future.
As for convincing the other family mbers, they were just tools to be used, to obtain what he wanted, and then escape as soon as the goal was achieved.
The plan was good, but before it was completed, was it already exposed?
"Don’t hold on to any hope, you know the consequences of betraying the family and trying to steal the Essence of Life research results all too well." Ahn Longling had no intention of toying with her prey, directly piercing the young man’s last sliver of hope.
She continued: "Just live your life well here, cousin."
After she finished, she left the research institute. The operation was not over; there were still many people who needed to be sent here today.
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