Beside Secretary Zhou, Director Sun heard this and felt worry rather than joy. His expression immediately turned bleak, utterly helpless. "Now I really have to treat Xiao Tong to a feast—who knows how long that old bastard Lin will keep rubbing it in."
"Hey, he'll retire next year or the year after. He can't show off for long. Director, you absolutely mustn't begrudge this little bit of face!"
Secretary Zhou practically wanted to seize Director Sun's hand and carry him off to host the banquet.
The face belonged to the director, but the credit belonged to everyone. Besides, if everyone got credit, the director's face would look better too!
"—Fine, fine. I'll do it myself, all right?"
Director Sun snatched away the Water Mirror, cast a sidelong glance downward, and in an instant, the image within the mirror changed violently. A figure emerged, and then that person exploded.
Then came the next one, and the next, and the one after that.
The moment they were seen, the power of the decrees falling from the sky crushed every resistor into powder. Of course, they did not forget to leave a few alive from time to time, to see whether any intelligence could be squeezed out of them.
In an instant, the situation that had still been putting up desperate resistance became utterly one-sided.
In the basement, Zada had been grinning foolishly over the little girl's examination results, but now she froze where she stood. One second she had been dancing with joy, and the next, the calamity of annihilation was close at hand.
In that instant of stunned disbelief, she grabbed the terrified little girl without hesitation, rushed deeper into the darkness, and bowed before a bizarre statue as she burned incense.
Boom!
Loud explosions came one after another, rapidly drawing