Chapter 1217, Chips

Just six hours after Luo Lan and the others left Barrier 111, the Qing Clan suddenly held an extremely high-profile press conference.

As the 111th Barrier was the center of power for the Qing Clan, there were naturally a large number of news reporters stationed there.

Ever since the Wang Clan unified the Central Plains, the Qing Clan hadn’t held a press conference in a long time, and everyone was eager to know the Qing Clan’s attitude towards the Wang Clan, so this press conference was naturally overcrowded.

The invited reporters and photographers and cameramen were allowed to sit in the front row, while those who were not invited waited anxiously outside the door.

However, before the press conference even started, Qing’s staff invited these uninvited reporters in as well, which was a bit of a surprise to everyone.

Under normal circumstances, such an important conference is of course to pick “controllable” people to attend, and now Qing’s approach, on the contrary, as if they are afraid to participate in the lesser number of people.

In the conference hall, each reporter held his own small notebook, carefully confirming whether his recording equipment can work properly, a few photographers and cameramen were squatting in the front row of the conference hall waiting.

Qing Yi walked up from the backstage wearing his own military uniform and calmly looked at the reporters in front of him.

For a moment, everyone quieted down.

Qing Yi said in a deep voice, “This time, there will be no questions from reporters for the time being, and the purpose of holding this press conference is to inform you that Mr. Qing Zhen, the chairman of the board of directors of my Qing Clan Consortium nowadays, has already departed for Wang Clan to consult with Mr. Wang Shengzhi.”

“The Barrier Alliance has been at war for a long time, and Mr. Qing Zhen is willing to risk his life to go to the Central Plains just to quell the war, so that the people don’t have to suffer from war anymore.”

“I hope that Wang will respect my Qing’s sincerity and show Wang’s sincerity.”

“During this period, I, Qing Yi, as the highest military commander of the Qing Clan, will temporarily take over all affairs of the Qing Clan.”

Qing Zhen’s speech was written by a penman in the Qing Clan, and was said with the sole purpose of letting everyone know about this consultation in the name of peace.

If the Wang Clan ended up house arresting or killing “Qing Zhen” and Luo Lan, then the Wang Clan would first have to face the accusations of the whole world.

As soon as this news came out, all the reporters were in an uproar, and just when they wanted to ask something, Qing Yi had already left under the protection of the soldiers.

Everyone did not expect that Qing Jian would dare to take the initiative to go to the Central Plains to negotiate with Wang Shengzhi.

They could foresee that tomorrow, all the newspaper headlines would, I’m afraid, be about this news.

There was no bigger news than this in the entire Barrier Alliance.

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Qing Zhengnan woke up, and when Qing Yi told him what had happened after his coma, he immediately set about arranging this press conference.

There was no time to regret that his previous arrangements hadn’t been thorough enough, nor was there any excess emotion, after leaving the 111th barrier Luo Lan must have left the southwest at full speed, no one could catch up.

So all he could do now was to remedy the situation and put on a few more layers of insurance for Luo Lan.

The exposure of the news media and the expectation of peace from all the people of the Barrier Alliance were all the leverage Qing had today.

However, it was not enough.

After the press conference, Qing Yi was escorted back to Gingko Manor, and the outside world began to speculate that if “Qing Zhen” was under house arrest in the Central Plains, then Qing Yi would be the next head of the Qing Clan.

No one realized that Qing Zhen had not left the Qing Clan at all and was still here.

Qing Yi walked over to Qing Zhen’s side and said softly, “Second brother, why don’t I lead the troops to the borderline and wait, if big brother is really held back, I will lead a raid on Barrier 61 and snatch big brother back.”

Qing Zhen shook his head, “No, I need you to be the spokesperson to stabilize the situation now, now that you have temporarily taken over the Qing Clan, as long as you are still around, the hearts and minds of the Qing Clan won’t collapse just yet. Moreover, the Wang Clan is in full swing now, you giving up your home field advantage to go to the Central Plains will only be a pointless sacrifice.”

Qing Yi could feel that Qing Zhen was now incomparably calm.

It was not that Qing Zhen was naturally calm, but that the other party had the ability to force himself to calm down.

Qing Zhen sat on the cushion and thought for a long time, so long that Qing Yi felt as if he could feel, the flow of clouds on the distant mountains outside the door.

For Qing Zhen, even if he was as smart as he was, it was impossible for him to be as calculating as an artificial intelligence, so all he could do was to use time to make up for the holes in his calculations.

He deduced all the clues over and over again, and always felt that something was missing, as if he was facing an invincible opponent.

It was not that Qing Zhen was not confident enough, but the AI was too powerful.

After a long time, Qing Zhen suddenly sighed, “It’s still not safe enough, the other side controls the communication satellites, and most of the newspapers deliver their news through the communication satellites, if the other side directly cuts off the source of communication after noticing our purpose, then the news of our conference may not be delivered to the Central Plains and the Northwest, so we have to do something more! ”

“What should I do?” Qing Yi asked, before this Qing Zhen had said about the satellites, of the 9 satellites of the Barrier Alliance, 1 was originally in the hands of the Wang Clan, 1 was in the hands of the Fire Seed, and the remaining 7 were in the hands of the Green Harvest.

Now that the Wang Clan has unified the Central Plains, all the satellites are in the hands of the other side, and the Qing Clan has long ago all but deactivated all satellite phones and even banned them from being turned on.

Especially the Qing Clan’s intelligence staff who are lurking in the Central Plains.

Because this satellite phone as long as the power on, will be the other side to obtain the location, have a satellite phone intelligence staff are generally high-level now, if the high-level all dead, I’m afraid that the entire Qing’s intelligence field are going to suffer a devastating blow.

“You confirm with the most trusted newspaper if they can contact Central Plains,” Qing Zhen said.

Qing Yi went out to confirm, and as a result, just as Qing Zhen had expected, the channels of communication between Southwest and the outside world had been rigidly cut off by the AI.

All satellite phones had lost their signals.

The other party’s tactics were more ruthless and determined than imagined, and it seemed that they wanted to scrap all the chips in Qing’s hand.

Then, the people of the Central Plains would not be able to learn the news that Qing Zhen and Luo Lan had gone to negotiate, and the Northwest would be even more unable to obtain information from here.

“Find ten soldiers you trust and split into different routes to the Northwest 144th Barrier to find Ren Xiaosu,” Qing Zhen said.

Qing Yi froze for a moment, “Find him for what?”

Qing Zhen explained, “If there is anyone in this world other than you, me, and Zhou Qi who is willing to fight to the death for my brother, there are only two, one is my brother’s adjutant, Tang Zhou, and the other is Ren Xiaosu.”

Qing Yi thought for a moment and asked, “Second brother, do you think that as long as Ren Xiaosu gets the news, he will definitely go to the Central Plains?”

“Well,” Qing Zhen nodded, “Moreover, there aren’t many Transcendents who can save Luo Lan from Wang, and with the strength of Wang and the AI today, Transcendents would have to submit before this war machine. But if there really is anyone who can snatch someone from Wang’s hands, Ren Xiaosu must be one of them.”

“And that would be enough insurance?” Qing Yi asked.

Qing Zhen still shook his head and sighed, “Perhaps that AI Zero can think of that as well, it’s just a matter of seeing if the message can reach Ren Xiaosu.”