"Dad, don't worry, I'm feeling better lately, and I don't feel as nauseous as before."

Han Duoduo's eyes reddened, and she gently pushed Han Ziang's hand:

"Dad, try this! Doesn't this taste like the food I ate when I was little? It's filled with rose jam, and it smells so good! Peiqiang and I specially saved this for you."

Even little Liu Qi was very sensible and let his grandfather eat glutinous rice balls without crying or fussing at all.

"Why……"

Han Zi'ang picked up the cold glutinous rice ball and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing that no one was watching, he chewed it a couple of times like a thief.

"It smells so good! It tastes so good! Ah, this is the taste I remember when the seawater hadn't yet risen up, my family made these kinds of glutinous rice balls once. It's been so many years since I've tasted this flavor... By the way, why hasn't Peiqiang come back yet after being gone for so long? The gala has already started."

—The gala, like the news broadcast, belongs to the "we won't stop broadcasting unless the earth explodes" camp.

“He might be on a mission and told us not to wait for him. Don’t worry, I put some dumplings in his pocket so he won’t go hungry.”

Han Duoduo smiled, but a hint of worry flickered in her eyes.

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...

Government meeting room at Shanghai Shelter No. 3.

It was the same familiar conference room, and the same familiar Wang Jianning. However, this time there were many unfamiliar faces on the table, and the military ranks on each of them seemed very heavy.

Everyone remained silent, repeatedly watching the footage recorded by the body camera:

Liu Peiqiang, dressed in a black cotton-padded coat, walked out of an abandoned residential building. He then looked at Wang Jianning and gestured for him to step back. As if by magic, countless bags of rice appeared out of thin air behind the two of them.

[Captain! What's that?!]

It's food! It really is food!!

Protect Liu Peiqiang! Quickly!!

The footage from the body camera was shaking violently. The conference room was completely silent; you could even hear the person filming the video pounding their heart.

[Control the scene! Contact the security force and prioritize the protection of Liu Peiqiang. I repeat, prioritize the protection of Liu Peiqiang!]

Stay alert! Stay alert!

[Disperse the civilians! Quickly!!]

[Click—]

After the video finished playing, the conference room remained quiet, like the calm before a storm.

Even though the video was so clear that everyone could see the stubble on Wang Jianning's face, and the technician slowed down the footage a thousand times, no one could figure out where the rice and flour came from.

It was practically a miracle.

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