He wasn't the only one.
The officials who had chosen to swallow their pride and cooperate with the drones to manage government affairs, the powerful local clans, the Transcendents from the major religions, the members of the cults—all of them wore vastly different expressions!
Moreover, those who knew Chu Bamboo personally felt an even more complex, subtle, and overwhelming sense of shock.
These were people who, despite knowing Chu Bamboo, either didn't have his number or had it but couldn't get through to him before. At this moment, a thousand thoughts could be summed up in a single sentence: 'So it really is you!'
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"...It's over!" Sun Min didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Just moments ago, she had been ranting and raving, calling the usurper a traitor to the nation, even swearing to the heavens that since intelligence suggested the Heavenly Monarch was not dead, they were duty-bound to defend him... only to now discover...
