Chapter 1 The Dragon City Rises

The next morning at nine o'clock, Washington, D.C.

Wang Xiao, Wang An, and a group of Wang family members arrived in Washington by plane, preparing to meet someone very important to them.

Under the protection of guards, they came to an office building belonging to the Chinese Legion. Led by the guards, they entered a spacious reception room.

After a long while, a sound of footsteps rang out.

An old man with white hair and a slightly hunched figure, walked slowly, escorted by guards, into the room.

When he entered, all the Wang family members stood up. Wang Xiao even took two steps forward, hurriedly supported him, and shouted respectfully and concerned, "Uncle!"

The guards left the room and closed the door, leaving only the Wang family members inside.

The old man was expressionless and looked around before slowly sitting on the sofa with Wang Xiao's support.

Everyone was silent for a while, and the atmosphere in the room was a bit oppressive.

After a long silence, Wang Xiao took the lead to break the atmosphere and said very frankly, "Uncle, we are here this time to take you out. You have suffered a lot these years... it's time to enjoy life."

This old man with white hair was the one who developed Su Tiannan in prison back then. Due to his long life in prison, his skin was a little pale, and he looked a little weak.

His previous generation and peers were all dead. At this moment, he was the most senior member of the Wang family.

The old man didn't answer directly, but looked at Wang Xiao and asked, "Do you have a cigarette?"

"Yes." Wang Xiao hurriedly took out the high-end cigarettes from his pocket and handed them over.

The old man took the cigarette, and Wang Xiao helped him light it.

After taking two puffs, the old man slowly said, "Including this year, I have lived in prison for fifteen years. That place has adapted to me, and I have adapted to it as well. Now, letting me out... where can I go?"

Hearing this, Wang Xiao couldn't help but fall into silence, not knowing how to answer.

The people in the room also felt a strange emotion and lowered their heads without interrupting.

After a long silence, Wang Xiao slowly said, "Uncle, we didn't do anything wrong. It was the Hua District that abandoned us. You have been inside for fifteen years, and the fact that you can finally walk into this building is not due to their efforts, but to our family's compromise."

"It hasn't been easy for you these years, I understand even if you don't say it." The old man took a deep breath, looked at Wang An, whose appearance had changed drastically, and then at Wang Xiao, who was full of vicissitudes, couldn't help but sigh and said slowly, "Our Wang family line took the wrong side in the Hua District and suffered suppression. It was my father, Wang Zongxiao, who kept a low profile and led the family to survive. Xiao Xiao, Xiao An, do you still remember what we came to District One across the ocean to do in the first place?"

Wang Xiao shook his head, and Wang An remained silent.

The old man took a puff of cigarette and did not answer the question, but continued, "In prison for these fifteen years, I have been telling myself that this is the price I have to pay for coming here to achieve that goal! It was also by relying on this breath that I lived in it for fifteen years. Now, you suddenly tell me that the goal no longer exists. Then we came here, and so many people died, but in the end, we surrendered to the enemy who slaughtered us, that's not right... Xiao Xiao, anyone has the right to complain and be dissatisfied. But many things can't be done, these are the words my dad told me when he was alive."

Wang An looked at him blankly, but Wang Xiao was a little anxious and persuaded again, "Uncle, I know you have suffered a lot, but your thinking is a bit too extreme! What have we gained these years? Apart from the cold spirit tablets, and the yellow paper burned on the road every fifteenth day of the first month!!! What else do we have??"

The old man waved his hand, interrupting him, "This is not extreme, it is faith. You can't understand how I spent these fifteen years inside. Just like I can't understand what you and Xiao An have encountered outside these years. We are a family, this is a fact that can never be changed. But, on this matter, I can't walk with you..."

"Uncle..."

Before Wang Xiao could finish speaking, the old man gently patted him on the shoulder. In his pair of cloudy eyes, there was a kind of unbreakable firmness: "Xiao An, I live in a turbulent era, and I can't deny my life. You have already made a decision, and it seems that it can't be changed. However, I will not go with you. Even if I am the only one left of those Chinese who fled overseas, I will persevere and never compromise with District One. Remember the question I asked you, this is the ideal I came to this land to finally achieve!! Why insist again and again, because I have seen too many brothers who once fought side by side die on this matter!! Including your father, many founders of the Huagong Association! If I compromise today, not to mention national stance, I will first betray them, betray a group of dead people!! Do you understand?!"

After speaking, the old man put out the cigarette, slowly stood up, his figure seemed to be even more hunched, dragged a pair of old legs that had long been rheumatic, and walked out limping with the last trace of stubbornness in his heart.

Looking at his figure, Wang Xiao followed and stood up, saying with tears in his eyes, "Uncle!"

The old man waved his hand, said nothing, ignored the obstruction, and pushed open the door of the room alone, stepping outside.

This old man's name is Wang Tianxi. His father was the patriarch of the Wang family in Dragon City near the old Ninth District of the Hua District, named Wang Zongxiao.

After the unification of the Hua District, Wang Tianxi followed the family development model left by his father and came overseas with funds and clansmen.

Initially, he planned to stay here to develop, but because Jiangzhou's mother had some relationship with the Wang family, she pointed out a way for the Wang family, letting them develop an association overseas. Because she knew that sooner or later, tens of millions of overseas Chinese would want to find that way home.

So, Wang Tianxi finally embarked on the road of developing the association and, together with a group of members, created the prototype of the Overseas Chinese Workers Association.

But unexpectedly, before the first independent war broke out between Dragon City and District One, the first batch of awakened overseas Chinese were betrayed on the road to independence and were completely annihilated.

This included Wang Tianxi and the group of people of Su Tianyu's father.

At that time, Wang Tianxi was arrested and sentenced for espionage, facing the death penalty. However, in order to protect him, the Hua District secretly arrested a very high-level spy belonging to District One in the Yameng area, using this to check each other.

District One chose to compromise, spared Wang Tianxi's life, and made an agreement under the same conditions, keeping him imprisoned in a cell.

However, as time went by, Wang Tianxi was still unwilling to bow his head to District One, so some high-level officials wanted to sentence him to death again. However, at this time, the Huagong Association had formed a certain scale, and the upper levels were also worried that it would anger this association, which had a very high influence among the Chinese, so they ultimately did not implement such a decision, and wanted to use him to contain the Huagong Association, and constantly brainwashed him along the way.

As a result, so many years have passed, no matter how threatened or lured, Wang Tianxi has never compromised!

Now, the fact that the entire Wang family has turned to District One has become a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed. The only thing Wang Tianxi can do is to separate himself from the family.

He is already this old, he cannot deny his life and betray those who once fought side by side with him.

At the age of sixty, he has never forgotten why he came here in the first place...

He clearly knew that he could not persuade Wang Xiao and the others, but he would not collude with them!

The moment he walked out of the room, looking at the guards standing outside the door, he knew what he was about to face. However, he had already made his decision.

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Guada area.

General Palu held the phone and roared angrily, "God, say it again!!"