The Lin Household Is Living It Up, All Thanks to My Nephew Lin Ming's Sacrifice!

The Lin Household Is Living It Up, All Thanks to My Nephew Lin Ming's Sacrifice! Silence! All of you, listen up! A guard captain in Liu Household attire, his aura at Tier Four, stood atop a hastily erected platform and barked through a loudspeaker.

"By the joint order of Old Patriarch Liu and the Defense Committee! To ensure the integrity of North District's defensive system and prevent spies from infiltrating and causing chaos, North District is under military control effective immediately! Anyone without a specially approved pass is forbidden from entering! Violators will be treated as storming a military restricted zone and killed without mercy!"

The icy voice was like freezing water in the dead of winter, extinguishing the last hopes in most people's hearts.

A pass? Only prominent families, high-ranking officials, or those who had made "major contributions" to the defense were qualified to receive one. What could ordinary civilians like them possibly offer in exchange?

Amid the despairing cries and curses, a man and a woman shielded a well-dressed teenager of sixteen or seventeen, whose face carried a mix of smugness and nervousness, as they struggled through the crowd and reached the checkpoint.

The man was around forty, dressed in a fine suit. Though somewhat rumpled, it was clearly expensive. He was Lin Feng.

The woman was Liu Qingqing, still well-maintained and charming, though panic was written across her face at the moment. The boy was their precious son, Lin Zihao.

"Move aside! We have a pass!"

Lin Feng puffed out his chest, trying to look calm, but his trembling hands exposed his nerves.

He carefully took a gold-trimmed metal card from his pocket, bearing the Liu Household's special emblem and intricate anti-counterfeiting runes, and handed it to the guard blocking the way.

The guard captain took the