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"So you mean, nobody talks about that period anymore, neither the public nor the mainstream media, they just deliberately ignore it, as if it never happened. It seems quite complicated..." Ye Qian turned to ask, "Xiao Xiang, were you in Xin Hai at the time?"
"Uh, I was in the Secret Realm back then..." Ji Xiaoxiang said blankly, "But I've forgotten everything, I only know that my dad died inside... and the familiar faces I saw afterwards, I never saw them again... Only my mother, who worked at the port, managed to escape the disaster..."
"Sorry..." After a brief silence in tribute, Ye Qian looked towards Li Qingming.
"It's shameful to say," Li Qingming said with a resentful look, lowering his head, "at that time, those two women had me held down, drugged with anesthesia, and carried away. Otherwise, that Secret Realm wouldn't have been left for the hermit to deal with."
"That makes sense..."