"Old Qin!" Xiao Qi cried delightedly outside the cell. "Holy shit, you're finally saved!"
Qin Shuli looked up blankly. "Did something happen to me? Why am I in the secret prison?"
Xiao Qi teased, "You blacked out after drinking yesterday. We told you to go home and sleep, but you insisted on running naked through the streets. We couldn't stop you, so the peacekeepers arrested you and brought you here."
Qin Shuli laughed when he heard that. "Something else must have happened, right? My work has been important lately. I wouldn't drink."
"Ha ha ha, we actually couldn't fool you," Xiao Qi and the others burst into laughter. "Old Qin, the Puppet Master controlled you. The Parent's Association found a way to save you."
Qin Shuli's first reaction was, "Did any other brothers become puppets? Were they saved?"
Xiao Qi felt a little wistful. Qin Shuli had truly devoted everything to the Parent's Association. He had only just been saved, yet the first thing he did upon waking was worry about everyone else.
He truly deserved the position of the Parent's Association's Head Butler.
Beside him, Xiao Wu also sighed. "Just a few days ago, we witnessed the Parent ascend to demigodhood. Now the Parent has found a way to break the puppet control too. Amazing! But when I think about how the Parent did it, it somehow feels only natural..."
Before this, no one had ever imagined that the Puppet Master's puppets could actually be saved.
After the puppets within the Parent's Association had been exposed, the family members looked at their former comrades-in-arms, who had fought shoulder to shoulder with them and were now turned into puppets. There was only indescribable fury in their hearts.
What was Qin Shuli's standing within the Parent's Association? He had never mentioned