Chapter 1180: Grateful Even After Being Sold Out

How did he return?

And how did he go out?

If he traveled back and forth by plane, there wouldn't be a complete lack of movement on the island.

Furthermore, with the surrounding environment being so complex, the possibility of a plane entering and exiting can basically be ignored.

This question was not something the two of them hadn't thought about before, but they had never thought about it as much or as deeply as they did today.

The possibility of traveling back and forth by boat was even smaller than by plane.

The two of them had observed for so many days, and there was no interaction whatsoever between the old man and the sharks.

It was just like neighbors living very close to each other in a city, separated by a single wall, yet never interacting until death!

Therefore, the only thing that could explain it was that there must be a secret passage on the island.

After the two of them confirmed this, they excitedly searched the island once, but in the end, they were met with disappointment!

They had searched every place they could think of.

But there was nothing, so after discussing it, the couple decided to follow the old man the next time he was about to leave the island, watching him twenty-four hours a day without blinking, refusing to believe they wouldn't find the exit to the secret passage.

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After Qi Heng and Shi Ran's talk fell through... no, it fell through before they even started talking.

Qi Heng was very heartbroken; years of feelings could not be let go just by saying so.

But his parents' revenge could not go unavenged.

He was convinced that Shi Youxuan and her husband were the murderers who killed his parents, and the wanted notice absolutely could not be withdrawn, even if it meant sacrificing the happy lives of the entire nation's people, he would not hesitate!

However, this was only his inner thought; he had to do this, but it could not be seen by others.

Therefore, there had to be a scapegoat to bear the people's anger for him, and this person had to be Commander Liu!

Liu Quan held military power and was accustomed to being arrogant and domineering in L Country; others had long held grievances, but they were afraid of the power in his hands and dared to be angry but dared not speak.

Qi Heng decided to make an issue of this.

The situation in the country was becoming increasingly severe; the price of rice skyrocketed, the price of sugar skyrocketed, the price of salt skyrocketed... the prices of all daily necessities required by the common people skyrocketed, reaching a point where they could no longer afford to eat.

Presidential Office high-level conference room.

A high-level meeting was held here once again, which was also full of endless arguments, and likewise, no best plan could be brought forward.

It seemed as if everything was just the same old talk, but what was different was—the content of this meeting was leaked!

The video record of the meeting, no one knew how it spread to the outside.

It first spread within a small circle among the social elite, but it soon spread to the common people, and everyone knew about it.

This video was like cold water poured into a hot wok; the entire L Country instantly boiled over!

In the video, Commander Liu was arrogant and unreasonable.

The President requested, no, almost begged Commander Liu to take out the military grain to solve the urgent needs of the people in the country.

But this plea was mercilessly rejected by him.

Commander Liu blew his beard and stared, slamming the table at the President, firmly disagreeing.

He even spouted nonsense, saying that the lives of the common people, even ten lives, were not as valuable as one life of his soldiers!

Protecting the country relied entirely on the army; without the army, L Country would be a lab mouse waiting to be slaughtered...

Actually, the logic was the logic.

But his words were too ugly and too domineering.

This made the hungry common people very dissatisfied; people took to the streets to demonstrate, strongly demanding that Commander Liu pay with his life for his crimes!

They demanded that the President take back the ownership of the army and disband the army!

And people began to miss the time when the Sheng Family was there.

Although the Sheng Family had taken a lot of money from L Country at that time, they had also done many good things for the common people; at the very least, they made people's living standards higher and higher, and everyone could live and work in peace, rather than like now, where they couldn't even afford to eat.

L Country became even more chaotic.

Conflicts were constant, and some radical common people even attacked the army to openly seize grain!

This video had been edited; it was someone with ulterior motives deliberately targeting him. Commander Liu was reckless and brave but lacked strategy, and seeing the meeting record edited like this, he was incredibly furious.

With the people's anger so intense, he did not choose to endure, nor would he let the matter rest.

In the Liu Family's dictionary, there had never been such words.

Commander Liu gave the order: fire!

He simply and crudely classified everyone who seized grain as rioters.

Bloody conflicts occurred constantly, and the high-level officials of L Country could no longer sit still.

Almost everyone now believed that Commander Liu was too arrogant and domineering, demanding his removal from office and that he be sent to a military court.

Even Liu Min was dissatisfied with her father, feeling that he was an old stubborn fool who disregarded the lives of the people.

But from beginning to end, Qi Heng had not criticized Commander Liu a single word in public.

He called Liu Quan to the Presidential Office and said to him: "Uncle Liu, my parents are gone, you are the person closest to me, and I will spare no cost to protect your safety."

"You don't need to worry about what others say or do; just do what you want to do according to your own ideas. At worst, I won't be this President anymore; it's no big deal."

"I didn't want to be this President in the first place, but my parents' great revenge has not been avenged, and I am unwilling to let it go..."

Qi Heng's words moved Liu Quan to tears.

He had originally thought that being called here would mean being severely reprimanded, but he never expected that the President would not only not reprimand him a single word but would also fully support him in doing so.

This man was soft-hearted but not hard-headed; if one were to go head-to-head with him, he wouldn't be afraid even if he ended up battered and bruised.

But if one treated him with sincerity, he could give his heart and lungs to the other person.

"President, all of this is my fault. It is that I am not competent for this position. I beg you to remove me from my post and execute me by firing squad."

He took out his service pistol, disengaged the safety, and placed it on the table.

Qi Heng immediately picked it up, engaged the safety, and handed it back to him with both hands: "Uncle Liu, doing this is a slap in my face. What kind of person do you take me for? I, Qi Heng, can let down the whole world, but I cannot let you down. You treat me just like a father would, and I naturally treat you just like a father."

The Commander had no son, so he had raised his daughter as a son since she was small.

Now, the words Qi Heng spoke only strengthened his resolve to fulfill Qi Heng's wishes and sacrifice himself!

"This matter is settled. Only my death can quell the common people's rage. If you don't shoot me yourself, I will jump from the top of the Military Department building."

"No, I forbid you from dying. This is the President's order..."

The two of them argued without reaching an agreement.

Finally, they reached a consensus—the Commander would not have to die, but he would be stripped of all his military posts, dismissed completely, and sent home to farm in retirement.

Since the engagement between Qi Heng and Shi Ran had already been cancelled, Liu Min would become his fiancée; once the mourning period for Qi Heng's parents was over, the two could be married!

The civil unrest in L Country was quelled.

It was quelled very quickly; the Commander was removed from his post by the President and dismissed completely.

The President took charge of the military himself, and the first thing he did after becoming the Military Region Commander was to open the granaries to distribute food, ensuring the common people could eat and would not go hungry.

Immediately following this, Qi Heng unleashed a series of combined measures that made everyone look at him with new eyes; it turned out this young President was no simple man.