Chapter 1468: Chapter 1468: The ‘Visitor’ in the dical Room
Outside Ains City Defense Army Hospital
A dense crowd of vehicles waited outside the hospital, as each journalist, equipped with professional caras, quickly exited the front doors of the hospital and entered the waiting vehicles.
Soon after, the vehicles left, and new ones arrived.
“I have to hurry back to write the report. See you next ti!” a male reporter smiled and greeted the long-haired female reporter beside him, then swiftly stepped into the vehicle in front of him.
“See you next ti!” The long-haired female reporter also smiled and bade farewell to the male reporter.
At this mont, a black business van stopped in front of the long-haired female reporter.
The door of the van opened, and the long-haired female reporter stepped aside, allowing those behind her, including the cara crew, to enter the van first.
She then turned her head to glance at the old-fashioned and unassuming City Defense Army Hospital behind her.
A black device slipped from her sleeve and fell into her palm.
The cara crew’s shout reached her from behind; they had successfully boarded the vehicle.
Subsequently, she turned around and walked towards the open black van in front of her, slowly entering it.
The dark car door closed, and under the dim sky, it drove into the night.
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Vitran Kwoat Group Mansion Archive
The lean man quietly turned over to the next page of the book.
From the Federation’s third century to the fifth century, the developnt of the Kewort Group was not all smooth sailing, but despite ups and downs, its size did not diminish but rather increased.
Along with the rapid developnt of federal technology, the opening of safe caravan routes and airlines, it gradually beca a federation-wide conglorate.
But the true leap of the Kewort Group into a major conglorate was during the Federation’s fifth century, under the controversial presidency of Seville.
Seville was the only president of the Federation to serve five consecutive terms.
In the fifth century, for one-fifth of the ti, the Federation was under his rule, and he held onto the highest power of the Federation until his death.
And the ti of his rule was the most ‘turbulent’ period of the Federation.
From the various roles of He Ao’s different copy worlds’ mories, although the history textbooks of different schools and cities in the Federation may differ sowhat,
overall, the entire Federation acknowledges that, before Seville ca to power, the Federation was already on the brink of civil war.
However, this ‘highly likely’ civil war never truly occurred.
According to the history books, Seville used his excellent political skills to resolve the intense internal conflicts within the Federation and prevent the civil war from happening.
Almost all history books of the Federation do not elaborate on what Seville specifically did or what policies he implented.
However, it is clear that after Seville’s era, so erging conglorates appeared on the historical stage.
Kewort Group was one of them.
At the ti, the leader of the Kewot Family had invested a large amount of money in Seville’s election campaign.
After Seville was elected, the Kewort Group beca a vanguard for this legendary president, supporting Seville in nearly all his policies,
even if this policy was highly unfavorable to the Kewort Group in the short term.
Perhaps due to this ‘primitive investnt’ and ‘loyal dog’ approach, the Kewort Group experienced significant growth during Seville’s era.
Of course, this loyalty only lasted while Seville was alive.
After Seville’s death, the Kewort Group truly entered its period of great developnt.
During this period, the Kewort Group quickly capitalized on its acquisitions from Seville’s ti, going public smoothly, and leapt into the ranks of the top fifty major conglorates in the Federation.
Additionally, the Kewort Group invested heavily in Seville’s forr opponents and actively campaigned in favor of a constitutional andnt to limit presidential terms, facilitating its passage in the Federal Assembly.
The patriarch of the Kewot Family, who had once backed Seville, later successfully supported several presidential candidates.
Through a series of transactions, rgers, and financing, by the end of the Federation’s fifth century, the Kewort Group successfully beca one of the top twenty super-conglorates in the Federation.
This was the first glorious period of the Kewort Group and the most glorious mont for the Kewot Family.
From the described developnt history of the Kewort Group, nearly every direct mber of the Kewot Family at that ti was embroiled in charges, involving both civil and criminal cases.
However, these family mbers ultimately relied on enormous financial backing and the Federation’s best lawyers to receive acquittals or guilty verdicts with no prison ti.
This developnt history emphasized the ‘wrongdoings’ of the Kewot Family and even provided examples to illustrate the family’s ‘unpopularity’ and ‘loss of public support.’
For instance, the arrogance of the Kewot Family mbers once led to so of the ancient families of the Federation excluding them from various party invitation lists.
And behind this flourishing prosperity lay the reality of the group’s shares being scattered, no heirs in the family, and the group gradually escaping the Kewot Family’s control.
This prosperity continued until the then-chairman of the Kewort Group’s board, the head of the Kewot Family, and the one who initially bet on Seville, old Kevort, passed away.
At that ti, the Kewort Group was the twelfth-largest super-conglorate in the Federation, with opportunities to break into the top ten.
However, that was the last highlight for the Kewort Group.
After old Kevort’s death, the Kewort Group seemingly entered a downward spiral, facing various issues.
First, the newly constructed building collapsed, causing massive casualties and failing to control the narrative, leading to a huge public opinion storm that affected the entire Federation.
Then several mines experienced successive collapses, causing further massive casualties and igniting more public controversy.
This series of incidents did not quickly subside but repeatedly ‘resurfaced’ over several years.
Due to these calamities, the financial condition of the Kewort Group beca precarious, and its stock price plumted.
During this period, the Kewot Family changed seven or eight leaders, but none could alter the group’s declining trend.
In a bid to save the group, they resorted to various financing thods, which eventually beca debts linked to the Kewot Family.
Ultimately, after a series of share transactions, at the beginning of the Federation’s sixth century, the Kewot Family was ousted from the board of the Kewort Group.
But by then, the Kewort Group had already fallen to below the top-fifty conglorates.
Another century passed until recent years, when a ‘discovery’ of a powerful rare earth mine happened, allowing the Kewort Group to just about crawl back into the Federation’s top twenty.
However, the Kewot Family of those days was already gone.
According to the developnt history, after being ousted from the Kewort Group, the Kewot Family rapidly declined and faded into the masses.
Of course, one cannot fully believe everything in this developnt history.
Just as the argunts of the founder of the Kewort Group may not necessarily be genuine, the current board of the group, which dominates this developnt history, also has its own stance.
If we only look at the logical progression within the developnt history, the entire Kewot family follows a normal trajectory of flourishing, reaching a peak, becoming complacent, and then declining.
But the “failure” of the Kewot family actually has a very unreasonable aspect.
That is the “Seven-color Flower.”
According to the information He Ao obtained from Colin’s mory, the Seven-color Flower has a total of seven petals. The founder of Kewort made two wishes, using two petals, and a certain generation of the Kewot family made one wish, using one petal.
That ans, by the ti the Kewot family was ousted from the group, the Seven-color Flower still had four petals left.
And from the perspective of the Seven-color Flower being stored in the underground vault of the Kewort Group in Denno City, the Seven-color Flower had always been in the hands of the Kewort Group.
So, why didn’t the Kewort Group use the Seven-color Flower to make a wish back then, to give the family a chance to “catch its breath”?
Even though the Seven-color Flower might require so costly price, given the family’s decline, whatever cost might not be that important anymore.
So, did the Kewot family not want to use the Seven-color Flower, or was there so reason why they couldn’t?
Combining this with the fact that after being cleared out of the group, the originally boisterous family fell into complete silence.
The “defeat” of the Kewot family back then might not have been that “dignified.”
Whether the bloodline of the Kewot family still exists today might even be a question.
The lean man climbed up the bookshelf and inserted the book in his hand back into place.
He Ao raised his head, looking at the books on the bookshelves on both sides, and began to slowly search.
Would the Seven-color Flower leave a trace within the Kewort Group?
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Ains City Defense Army Hospital
Once again a gentle rain began to fall from the sky, the darkened firmant making the sun lose its color.
The shift-change nurse had already rotated once, and Vigina stood by the bedside in the dical room, looking at the dim night outside the window.
Her wristband was showing fragnts of reports related to “Paxiu.”
About ten minutes after the group of reporters left, the first batch of reports had already appeared on the front pages of major news websites in Ains.
The photos these reporters used were all provided by the City Defense Army, with low clarity, taken when Paxiu was previously in the hospital, showing the scar-covered body of “Paxiu.”
Throughout the entire press conference, the City Defense Army was essentially discussing the heroic deeds of “Paxiu.”
Vigina could roughly understand the reason why the City Defense Army arranged it this way.
The City Defense Army was unable to influence the specific direction of the dia’s reporting. What they could do was emphasize the heroic deeds of “Paxiu,” using powerful heroism to overshadow any doubts the public might have about “assassin Paxiu.”
After all, everyone wasn’t blind; given that the two “Paxiu” looked so similar and had the sa na, suspicion was inevitable.
And in the reports Vigina saw, almost all ntioned the problem of association between the two “Paxiu.”
However, so reports were more conservative, suggesting that the two Paxiu could be “biological brothers,” while others directly rged the two and began discussing why the assassin who attempted to kill the president would also save a city.
No matter how it was said, the hype of the Dark Lizard “attacking the city” last night combined with the fervor of the presidential assassination case, instantly igniting the entire public discourse.
Among the supporters, many believed that “Paxiu” was completely wronged, and from the heroism of saving the city, he should be a good person. The assassination of the president must be the result of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service Bureau’s incompetence, pinning the bla on an innocent man.
Opponents, on the other hand, believed that the assassination of the president by “Paxiu” was true and that the city rescue was false, a play orchestrated by the City Defense Army.
With so many “hotspots” and “disputes,” the topic’s public discourse gradually spread across the entire Federation.
Even in Dawn City and Vitland’s networks, nurous dia outlets were reporting on this issue.
However, Vigina herself wasn’t really concerned about this point. Unskilled in the art of public opinion and not well-versed in politics, after getting exasperated by the kinds of derogatory comnts she saw from “opponents” online about “Paxiu,” she no longer looked at the comnts.
The one thing she was most concerned about was that “Paxiu’s” physical condition indeed seed to have “stabilized” alongside the spread of the discourse.
The previously rapidly weakening trend had completely changed at this mont, and the entire Qi even gradually began to stabilize.
The dical experts hired by the City Defense Army ca again, extending the potential survival span for “Paxiu” from two days to a week.
One optimistic expert even stated that if this trend continued, “Paxiu” might even live for a month.
This unconsciously led Vigina to start imagining that Paxiu might even have a chance to gradually “recover” along with the spreading of public opinion?
Of course, she also knew that she might be thinking too much.
Pulling back from her tangled thoughts, she turned off her wristband and sat down on the chair next to her.
From her position, she could neither interfere with the nurse’s normal dication replacent and monitoring nor clearly see the state of “Paxiu”.
And at this mont, she suddenly noticed what seed to be an exceptionally light red glow passing over “Paxiu’s” skin.
She was slightly taken aback, looking at Paxiu’s motionless body and still-dim green gem, sowhat Losing God.
Just now, what was that, so kind of “automatic” reaction?
However, the red light seed to be just a flicker, and the nurses around didn’t notice it.
At this instant, she felt as if her thoughts were slowly slowing down, and the actions of the nurses around her quickly “slowed down.”
Ti seed to begin to stand still at this mont, the originally bright light illuminating the entire rest area rapidly dimming.
Click——
Accompanied by a crisp sound, a fine crack climbed up the green gem suspended in mid-air.
At the mont of hearing this sound, Vigina barely ca to her senses, she opened her mouth wanting to shout loudly, but it was as if her throat couldn’t exert force, and she couldn’t make a sound.
All the nurses around had completely stopped moving, seemingly pressed with a pause button.
The world beca completely silent at this mont.
For so reason, at this instant, Vigina recalled that piece of silence she encountered at the airport.
And at this mont, a dark shadow suddenly erged from the position of the dical room’s door.
That shadow seed to have no entity, flickered a few tis, and then almost instantaneously appeared beside “Paxiu” lying near the hospital bed.
Faint red light, almost reactive, appeared on the surface of “Paxiu’s” body.
Click——
A new crack extended out on the surface of the gem, whose brilliance was nearly swallowed completely by darkness.
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