Acting as a Tiger's Accomplice

Hearing that Qing Chen intended to place everyone under house arrest in the military camp, many people panicked.

All the politicians fell silent, because they knew that if City No. 10 contained only Qing forces, then the young man before them had the final say.

Life and death, reward and punishment—all rested on a single thought of his.

Even if Qing Chen killed them all now, he could simply claim, "They died in the Rat Tide. What a tragedy. Our heartfelt condolences." No one would be able to uncover the truth, because the Qing Clan was destined to write the true history of this event.

So the politicians were unwilling to speak. With their lives in someone else's hands, all they had to do was cooperate. They absolutely could not be stubborn.

Politicians were different from the financial groups' dead warriors. They were people who sold themselves to the highest bidder, so whoever offered the better price now had their allegiance.

But some celebrities were different. Some had become trainees from elementary school onward. Some young men had been meticulously shaped into exactly the type wealthy men and women loved. Some actresses had been crafted to perfectly fit the tastes of ordinary male citizens.

In other words, they had not seriously studied academic subjects since elementary school.

At that moment, a male celebrity was being escorted toward the camp by shadow soldiers. He shouted hysterically, "What right do you have to imprison us? Li Yunxuan of Kashima and I are close friends! You can't treat me like this! Does the Federation even have laws anymore?!"

This male celebrity had made a joke of himself two years ago when he went onstage to read an award citation and got three characters wrong in a single passage.

With someone taking the lead