Passive and Active

"Explosives were planted underground and detonated by firing rockets!"

"This method is even more ruthless than we imagined!"

Upon seeing the rockets hurtling through the sky, Ren Yisheng's back pain and leg pain disappeared, and his limbs became almost coordinated again. He dropped his wheelchair and ran away.

"Is this also a way to gain followers?"

Song Fengying raised the viewing device, and saw that the captured image showed obvious image distortion.

She patted her ears, which had almost gone deafened, and touched her hair, which smelled burnt. She looked at her assistant, Xiao Yang, who was lying on the ground more than ten meters away, wetting his pants.

This was not just a close-range explosion; it was also accompanied by a wave of fire, rock fragments, mud, dust, and thick smoke.

In this massive explosion, Song Fengying escaped the furthest, followed by Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng, then camera assistant Xiao Yang, and then Li Yingbo and others.

The air was filled with a foul stench, and the heat was so intense it felt like being poisoned by fire.

The ground looked as if it had been dug up; the grass had turned into black mud, and the nearby cement ground was cracked into pieces.

Looking at her clothes, which were now half missing, Song Fengying felt a wave of fear wash over her, realizing that this method of gaining followers was highly unusual.

She immediately cut off the live stream, which had extremely poor picture quality, and then moved closer to Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng.

"There must be some kind of positioning device in the West Gate Complex that guided the rocket artillery firing."

"Indeed, the accuracy of these rocket launchers is too high, and they're quite far from Liuyuan. There must be some kind of guidance system guiding the fire. If the rockets had deviated from their firing trajectory, we would have been in trouble while trying to escape!"

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng exchanged words back and forth.

The two were of average physical condition, but they were the first to leave the West Gate Complex and escaped the furthest distance, a full two hundred meters from the explosion's epicenter.

They were still unsure whether to assess Pei Jing's situation, but the struggle between the two sides had clearly entered a heated phase.

"Was this an explosion and shooting pre-planned by Pei Jing? Or was it orchestrated by the Pei family? Or has Qing'an not yet relinquished Pei Jing's real control?"

"Without a final decision from the top, the process of launching rocket artillery would be very complicated!"

"It took us a full forty-five minutes to get into the Liuyuan West Gate Complex. If Pei Jing were launching a rocket, it wouldn't have taken that long, would it?"

"Seizing the right opportunity is very difficult; the timing is hard to determine!"

"Did we just happen to come out at the right time, or did someone see us leaving the building, thus triggering the rocket launcher?"

"Unable to confirm!"

What will happen if we all die?

Things usually become clearer the more you examine them, but in old age, the truth and falsehood of things are hard to ascertain.

When Zhou Rihui, who was a hundred meters away, grabbed Pei Ying and came over, the group was finally able to reunite.

"That son of a bitch says he doesn't know anything," Zhou Rihui complained.

"He really doesn't know anything!"

Ren Yisheng nodded.

Having been mentally manipulated and influenced by him, Ren Yisheng hadn't gotten anything out of Pei Ying, and asking again now would be pointless.

In this incident, Pei Ying was not the manipulator, but rather a passive recipient.

"I heard you have two more brothers?" Ren Yisheng asked quickly.

"I have an older brother, Pei Min, and a younger brother, Pei Li!" Pei Ying replied, wiping the blood from her face.

"In some families, the second child is the least liked," Zhang Xuezhou said. "Parents give their first love to the eldest child and dote on the youngest, leaving the second child stuck in the middle, doing the most work but also being the least liked!"

That's true!

Ren Yisheng echoed this sentiment.

Ren Yisheng's search for answers was a form of guidance and seduction, while Zhang Xuezhou was psychological manipulation.

Li Yingbo and the others looked grim, staring intently at Pei Ying.

Without Ren Yisheng's text message notification, and given his decision based on the principle of "better to be wrong than to take risks," Li Yingbo felt he would have been reduced to ashes long ago.

The West Gate Complex housed over sixty technical personnel, several order maintenance workers, and ordinary security personnel. This bombing and explosion wiped them all out, leaving no trace.

This consequence was both shocking and frightening; even Zhou Bo, the newly appointed member of the Wanping Provincial Committee who claimed to be fearless, had his pupils dilated with fear.

"You should know now who your true partners are," Ren Yisheng whispered. "You have no other choice but us. You don't want to die again, or be kicked out after a hard-fought battle that leaves you barely alive!"

"You'd better hurry," Zhang Xuezhou warned. "If you get involved in Pei Jing's fake old age incident, you'll never be able to recover!"

"Fake old age, you mean my father...?"

Zhang Xuezhou's reminder was completely unlike what one would expect from a special task force member, but those words caused Pei Ying a pang of pain in her heart.

"You've been abandoned by Pei Jing," Li Yingbo said. "He's gone down the same path as Zhang Qiaoen!"

"Where is Pei Min? And where is Pei Li?" Zhu Liangping pressed.

"Pei Min is in charge of Qing'an military defense. Previously, she maintained security for the Youth Challenge. After the incident, she led the order maintainers to control security at Liuyuan. She also arranged for Pei Xin and others to lead Committee Member Wang and others in the search and investigation. Pei Li... Pei Li went on vacation half a month ago!"

The crowd's repeated comments caused Pei Ying's defenses to drop lower and lower.

He was unaware of Pei Jing's arrangements, but Pei Ying knew most of the relevant information about the Pei family.

He had fallen into a bottomless pit, leaving him with no choice but to choose the forces in Western Capital City.

In this struggle, he had no other choice but to break with his Lineage.

"Pei Min must have used the Youth Challenge to legitimately mobilize Qing'an's heavy firepower," Ren Yisheng said. "As for Pei Li..."

Ren Yisheng made his judgment on the former, but he did not elaborate further when he made his judgment on the latter.

He hoped that Pei Li's trip was a genuine vacation, and not a trip to Western Capital City to plot something, otherwise Pei Li would suffer a terrible fate.

"Drop!"

A slight vibration interrupted the group's investigation of Pei Ying.

Wang Haoran said he felt a violent tremor underground and asked us if something had happened here.

Li Yingbo took out a communicator, and Ren Yisheng also took out a communicator.

Just as Li Yingbo was about to open his communicator to reply, he quickly stopped when he saw Ren Yisheng's outstretched hand gesture.

"Qing'an Province seems to have a good advantage in electronic equipment," Ren Yisheng said, frowning.

You mean Old Wang?

Li Yingbo gasped.

On the bright side, Wang Haoran was still searching for Pei Jing's whereabouts; on the dark side, Wang Haoran had already been dealt with by Pei Min and her group, and the person sending them the message was someone else.

The other party can even determine their location by sending communication messages, and can also judge their situation based on the reply.

"What should we say?" Li Yingbo asked.

"Send a distress message to Wang Haoran in two minutes. The shorter the message, the better," Ren Yisheng replied.

Whether or not the snake can be lured out depends on the distress messages sent by everyone.

Passive and active can switch in an instant.

By enjoying the convenience of modern technology, we may also suffer its backlash.