On this side, Qiao Nian had just walked out of the elevator and had not yet met up with Nie Mi and the others when he heard Nie Mi arguing with someone.
"Why are you suddenly not letting us in?"
"terribly sorry."
"I'm not forcing you to apologize. If you suddenly don't let us in, you should at least give us a reason. Otherwise, since so many of us are here, what do you want us to think?"
"Feel sorry."
"I told you, I don't want your apology. I just want to know why you stopped us outside! We have an invitation to your cocktail party, but you won't let us in, and you don't even give us a reasonable explanation. Is this how you treat guests in the Independent Continent?!"
Qiao Nian raised his cold black eyes slightly, somewhat surprised.
She rarely saw Nie Mi so angry, it must be because he encountered something particularly infuriating.
Qiao Nian had his shirt collar slightly open, one hand in his pocket, and walked towards the direction where the dispute was happening with an arrogant posture.
As soon as she got there, she saw Master Cheng, Liang Conglin and others were there, as well as her father and several old professors.
Nie Mi was arguing with the doorman at the entrance of the banquet hall. His face was red and his neck was thick. He looked very angry.
She walked over, raised her eyes slightly and asked, "Dad, what's wrong?"
Jiang Zongjin turned around and saw Qiao Nian. He explained in a deep voice, "Mr. Nie led a team to attend the cocktail party. We took out the invitation card for the cocktail party, but the doorman refused to let us in. When we asked them, they didn't tell us the reason. Mr. Nie was so angry that he started arguing with them, but the other party refused to give a reason except to apologize..."
Qiao Nian understood immediately.
This situation is really infuriating.
Qiao Nian raised her eyes and saw that the doorman still had the same attitude. He apologized sincerely, but refused to let her in. "I'm very sorry."
Master Cheng came over at this time, and when he saw Qiao Nian coming down, he greeted Qiao Nian, and then said to Jiang Zongjin and the others, "I asked someone about it, and the other party vaguely told me that we had offended the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, and the people from the Chamber of Commerce Alliance were trying to make things difficult for us and deliberately prevented us from entering."
"How could they?" Liang Conglin figured out the reason before he finished speaking, and his face suddenly turned pale and ugly: "Is it because of the chip incident?"
"It should be." Master Cheng nodded.
Liang Conglin was choked up. "The Qi family was unreasonable and wanted to force the plagiarism on us. We were just acting in self-defense. How can they put all the blame on us?"
Master Cheng had a stern expression and was not in high spirits. "The Qi family is a member of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, and they will definitely protect their own people. Even if the Qi family has fallen, they will still stand up for the Qi family. To put it bluntly, they are not deliberately making things difficult for us for the Qi family, but to save face for their Chamber of Commerce Alliance!"
The Chamber of Commerce Alliance is not a particularly powerful force in the Independent Continent, but it is also a mid-level force of moderate size.
They are outsiders.
Even a powerful dragon cannot defeat a local snake, let alone a group of people engaged in scientific research!
In the territory of the Independent State, even if others want to make things difficult for them, they are completely helpless!
"Tell Mr. Nie to come back first! We will not attend the cocktail party tonight." Master Cheng said calmly.
But he knew in his heart that the Chamber of Commerce Alliance would never give up.
They will definitely continue to make trouble in secret, and I am afraid that they will be blocked from the next cocktail parties they are going to attend just like today.
(End of this chapter)