During the period before the forum was held, there was plenty of time for all this to ferment.
Ever since people heard that personnel from the Department of Defense and Strategic Command would attend, along with various international powers, their opinion of the forum had risen another notch.
People from all walks of life frantically wanted to join, and because of its special nature, many international media outlets had arrived early and stationed themselves outside the forum venue.
Police Station, Bureau of Investigation, National Security Committee...
All kinds of police officers, investigators, and agents were spread throughout the forum grounds. Whenever an invited guest arrived and walked down the long red carpet, they would provoke gasps from the onlookers.
Many of them did not necessarily know who these people were, but they all assumed that they had to be extraordinary.
Those who had never experienced the Federation's "equality and freedom" found it difficult to understand the Federation's passion for certain things. For example, some foreign envoys and official representatives found it hard to understand the cheers and screams directed at them.
But they found it... quite comfortable. The illusion that "even in a foreign country, people are cheering for me" continued to affect them.
This made every one of them act especially gentlemanly. Some would even take the initiative to linger on the red carpet for a while, waving at the people and interacting with them briefly.
Apart from certain people prone to fanaticism staring blankly at signatures on their autograph boards that they could not recognize, the atmosphere at the venue was still quite good.
Political leaders, major capitalists, representatives of conglomerates, military representatives, and renowned domestic and foreign scholars might not be familiar to the public.
They rarely appeared at nonprofessional events, but considering the atmosphere, Lin Qi