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The chocolate waterfall cascaded down, splashing sweet and greasy drops. The syrup river flowed through the lush candy meadows, finally merging into the milk pond.

All that was seen could be eaten as sweet treats and candies.

Gouchen glanced around at the dreamlike scene of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," and couldn’t help but reach out to poke the giant rock candy shaped like a tree, causing a bunch of elderberry toffee to fall from the branches.

Touch, sight, smell, everything was vivid and lifelike.

This raised a big question mark in Gouchen’s mind—after all, he was a senior player under GOC, having undergone a full set of illusion resistance training,

yet the virtual scene created by the Crimson Cinema clearly surpassed the realm of illusions, almost bordering on reality distortion.

Just breathing the air felt like his blood sugar was rising.

"...The waterfall is very important; it mixes and stirs the chocolate, making it refreshing and frothy..."

In the distance, the factory owner, Willy Wonka, wearing a top hat and a red suit, looking somewhat neurotic with his pale face, walked ahead, introducing this fantasy candy factory to the child tourists and their parents.

You could see that Dylan was also mixed among the crowd, with an adult’s figure, wearing noticeably ill-fitting small-sized suspenders.

Swish—

Gouchen pulled out the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword, but was stopped by Li Cheng beside him, "Why are you drawing your sword?"

"To slash people,"

Gouchen looked puzzled, "No matter how realistic this place is, it’s still an illusion realm. If you slashed the illusions of Willy Wonka and Dylan’s parents, it might scare Dylan awake, right?"

"I advise you not to."

Li Cheng shook his head, "One of the iron rules of the killing field is never to compare combat power with comedic characters.

The original ’Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ is a British fairy tale novel, and Willy Wonka is a genius inventor in the story, with a lot of black technology.

Before you could kill him, he might use some matter transformation gun to turn you into chocolate."

"Then what should we do?"

"Change into suits."

Li Cheng tossed a suit to Gouchen, and the two quickly disguised themselves as government officials, stepping forward in big strides,

and before Willy Wonka could express confusion or ask questions, they spoke first, "Hello, Mr. Willy Wonka, I am a UK Trade Standards Officer,

we have received complaints that there are food safety issues here, with some of the candies produced far exceeding the sugar and calorie standards, causing consumers’ skin to turn blue and their bodies to swell."

Willy Wonka took a stack of freshly printed AI-generated photos, his mouth agape in disbelief.

"Therefore, we now require the chocolate factory to cease operations immediately. This is a court summons."

Li Cheng handed over a few more documents, fanning them intentionally to disperse the smell of freshly printed ink.

Among the crowd of tourists behind were Dylan and his parents.

Dylan didn’t look much younger than his parents, with an adult figure but wearing children’s suspenders, a lollipop in his mouth.

This also had to do with his origin—he accidentally fell into the Broken Land when he was a child, so the environment generated by the Crimson Cinema was the fairy tale movie he had seen.

His parents’ image was also stuck at the last moment they saw him as a child. In some sense, it was quite tragic.

"This..."

Willy Wonka took the court summons, glanced at it, and just as everyone thought he was out of options,

he suddenly pulled out a document from his chest, "Sorry, this is a transfer proof. I have recently transferred the Wonka Factory license to the Kawang Liwei Company,

you have got the wrong person, it is not compliant and requires restarting the investigation process."

What?!

Gouchen snatched the document, almost spraying a mouthful of water, "Your transfer agreement date is just yesterday, are you kidding?"

"Sorry, this is what British law stipulates."

Willy Wonka, sporting a bob haircut, said lightly, "I’m just following the law."

There’s a rather unrestrained loophole in Great Britain’s legal system, where if a business operator faces a license investigation by an enforcement agency, they can transfer the license to an affiliated or shell company,

doing so several times, extending the process for 6-18 months until the appeal is withdrawn, then enforcement personnel would have to restart the review process, allowing the operator to transfer the license again.

Commonly known as cooldown completed.

Kawang Liwei is just Willy Wonka spelled backward.

Where are the promised fairy tale world and the kind-hearted genius inventor? You’re just a black-hearted capitalist exploiting legal loopholes.

Gouchen’s eye twitched, while Li Cheng quickly realized, right, Willy Wonka was one of the top candy magnates globally in the fairy tale book,

if he were genuinely naive and sweet, he’d have long been defeated by competitors.

Fortunately, Li Cheng was experienced and reacted quickly, changing his words, "I’m a Trade Standards Officer, and beside me is the Environmental Health Officer, who received a report claiming your factory employs a large number of wild squirrels to peel walnuts,

and dumping wastewater containing a lot of waste syrup directly into the groundwater system.

This causes severe pollution, with the taps used for watering by nearby residents running sweet, and diabetes incidence drastically increasing by 78%.

There is a clear food safety and environmental health issue; this is a ’Health Emergency Prohibition Notice’, and the factory needs to shut down immediately."

The license transfer loophole can indeed circumvent the long-term court ban. However, an Environmental Health Officer can also demand a factory’s immediate emergency shutdown.

"An Environmental Health Officer belongs to the UK local council; are you sure this order has council authorization?"

Willy Wonka, unhurried, said, "I’m a big taxpayer here!"

The Wonka Factory is one of the top chocolate producers worldwide, although it employs only Oompa Loompas (Dwarfs), not providing local employment, the massive tax revenue is real.

As they say, Victory in Nanshan, Invincible in Longgang, Unshakeable in Haidian.

Li Cheng’s Star-casting Anvil in the seventh district court of the slum was unchallenged; consumers and business competitors couldn’t win lawsuits at all;

the Wonka Factory, with its big taxpayer card, naturally received green lights in the local council;

the boomerang hit him back, leaving Li Cheng momentarily stunned, until he saw black-skinned Dwarf employees, in blue jumpsuits, passing through the candy woods,

and immediately seized the opportunity, sharply saying, "If I’m not mistaken, those are Oompa Loompas from Africa, right?

Mr. Willy Wonka, you are suspected of violating the immigration law by aiding illegal entry, employing illegal labor, human trafficking, and modern slavery crimes!"

The original novel, published in 1964, described Oompa Loompa employees as black-skinned dwarfs from deep within Africa, smuggled into Great Britain by Willy Wonka in a slave-like manner.

At the time, the plot was primarily intended to highlight dark humor, but as times changed, it quickly became inappropriate due to political correctness, and the settings were modified to white or orange-skinned characters.

Regardless, they were undoubtedly illegal immigrants and illegal labor.

"Sorry, I don’t understand what you’re talking about. No comment."

Willy Wonka finally panicked, pressed his hand on his hat and quickly ran away in small steps.

Even if the Wonka Factory could dominate the local council and withstand court pressure,

a white capitalist shipping large numbers of Africans for illegal employment was unmistakably seen as racial exploitation by public opinion. Even if it didn’t kill him, it would peel a layer off.

He dashed off, dropping gold coins from his pockets, scattering crystalline crumbs.

At Li Cheng’s indication, Gouchen immediately picked up the crystals and pocketed them. The latter turned and said to Dylan, "Say goodbye to your parents."

Dylan, witnessing the shattering fairy tale scene, gradually broke free from the illusion’s control and, waking up tearfully, embraced his same-aged parents, and followed the two out of the screen.

"Isn’t the Crimson Cinema supposed to create horror movies?"

Barely steadying himself, Li Cheng asked pointedly, "Why did it pull people into a fairy tale movie?"

With tear streaks still on his face, Dylan hesitated, recalling, "On the other end of the Crimson Cinema is the Snake-man Kingdom. I heard a rumor,

whenever the Snake-man Kingdom encounters a major crisis, they use secret methods to enhance the illusion effect of the Crimson Cinema, without harming unintentional intruders.

It should, possibly, maybe, that the Snake-man Kingdom is in trouble?"