Volume 1 Chapter 39 Investigation
Mu Rou-shuang was deeply moved by Lin Yu.
Zhang Manlin, however, looked stunned and lost. She had never expected Lin Yu to politely decline her. It was the first time she had been rejected by a man!
"Well, alright then..." Zhang Manlin managed to squeeze out a smile, trying her best to ease the awkwardness, but as she turned away, she gave Mu Rou-shuang a resentful look.
Mu Rou-shuang could not help but chuckle. Although the two had a deep friendship, women often competed with one another in secret. This time, Mu Rou-shuang had clearly come out on top! She felt delighted, and her favorability toward Lin Yu skyrocketed.
"Sigh." Zhang Manlin gave Mu Rou-shuang a light nudge. "My dear friend, you should be bolder. Don't let him slip away, or you will regret it forever."
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"That's not it. It's just that the Qin Clan is hosting a banquet tonight, and I think it would be better if you looked a bit more formal," Xiao Hanyi explained after a moment of thought.
The breathing sounds echoing from the magma lake could only be coming from that strange beast; there was no need to wonder.
"Do you think Fairy Xiao is unaware? She simply doesn't wish to lower herself to argue with a Qi-refining disciple like you. If a single word of today's events leaks out, go to the Discipline Hall and accept your punishment yourself!" Qin Yousang reprimanded with a stern face.
"I think you're the one who's tired of living!" Beside him, Elder Guo said in an extremely cold voice.
This guy was radiating foul and ominous energy, yet his personality was cheerful—it clashed completely with his aura.
"It is a bit much, but for us, this is a good thing, isn't it?" the senior brother said with a smile.
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Li Wei did not respond. His teeth were grinding together with a cracking sound, and the muscles in his cheeks twitched incessantly, as if he might shatter his own teeth at any moment. The veins on his forehead bulged, his body trembled constantly, and one could vaguely see the muscles beneath his skin snapping and knitting back together.
"Snap!" The long whip struck the ground fiercely, carving a fissure into the earth. Dust filled the air. Though Ning Xiang’s strike had missed, he was not anxious; he swept the whip along the ground toward Xu Jingnian’s feet, intending to trip him.
At that moment, he heard a snide, mocking laugh: "Is she afraid to come?"
Zheng Zeyu’s face was full of despair. Just as he thought there was no hope left, Lin Chushuang suddenly spoke up.
He called his mother to tell her he was safe, and repeatedly urged her over the phone to hire a caregiver if she was too busy to manage.
Immediately after, the spiritual energy in his body surged out like a tidal wave. With a violent tug of his arm, he actually lifted the nearly two-hundred-pound burly man and tossed him into the air like a fallen leaf.
Liu Qingyan led the team, reminding them to bring their belongings, and they began to line up toward the teaching building that had been designated as the examination hall.
Thus, under Mingxin’s worried gaze, Yun Cheng took a deep breath. Like a tranquil lake in an ancient forest, his surface was calm and ripple-free, yet deep beneath lay hidden currents.
Because of such matters, she had spent quite a bit of her own money and had been criticized and punished by the hospital several times.
Although the Crown Prince had incurred the Emperor’s wrath and was confined to his quarters some days ago, he had been released before his time was up, showing that the Emperor still favored him.
Looking at Zhong Minghui, he tried to force a hug on Jiang Ling but failed; instead, he ended up embracing the security guard who had come forward to lead the way.
He gripped his sword hilt tightly, his internal spiritual energy gushing out like a burst river levee. With a roar, he swung his sword to strike at the black force.
"How is it? Are you okay?" Luo Zhan looked at the wound on his arm. The muscle had been sliced open by a bayonet, but the bone was untouched; as long as it didn't get infected, it would be fine.
So, without a second thought, she pushed Jiang Chen inside. "Come with me and help me see which outfit looks good."
Thinking of this, Zhou Qiang took out a sound-transmission talisman, crushed it, and looked at Liu Zhi, who was lying paralyzed in the center of the arena, his expression shifting between varying shades of uncertainty.
Upon hearing the name Gu Pengfei, Jiang Bofa’s hands trembled, and a delicate optic nerve snapped.
In the city, it wasn't something a hotpot restaurant could sponsor or imagine, unlike a coffee shop; it was the management across the street and modern culinary technology that dominated the mountain peak. City dwellers loved this world-famous hotpot.
This person was inattentive to Ye Yuqing, even showing signs of negligence, which was only natural and not surprising. If this person were to be polite to Ye Yuqing, that would be the strange thing that warranted caution.
Furthermore, when the great rivers and waterways flow into the sea, they pass through many mountains and rivers. The mountain gods and river deities of those lands are rarely kind. Although a dragon’s successful journey through the water helps increase the spiritual luck of its starting point, it only diminishes the spiritual luck of the territories belonging to the local mountain and water deities along the way.
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After Fang Bing left, Ling Feng entered Qi Lin’s room, and a man in a suit also arrived at Fang Bing’s side.
The police and military personnel responsible for the evacuation were very diligent, but they inevitably encountered some people who had no fear of death.
"It was a black bottle." Although Jiang Mufeng had never used such an item, he had seen one before. Otherwise, he wouldn't have known that a soul-detention bottle had such a function.
Wang Cuixiang had never stepped into the kitchen while at her parents' home. After marrying Tian Jinxi, they had always eaten at the factory canteen, and later, after having children, they would bring food home.
If those villains had truly merged completely, it would have been impossible for the previous plans meant to lure them out to have yielded no reaction at all.
Although Devil Fruits had existed in this world for so many years, people’s understanding of them remained very limited.
Others let out painful groans, but because there was no air medium, no matter how heart-wrenching their howls were, only they themselves could hear them.
Zhou Ming reached out, and most of the jade talismans around him collapsed, turning into sand and scattering away, leaving only about two thousand talismans remaining.
Mo He carried a three-thousand-pound iron ball and finished a lap, taking 14 hourglasses. Yue Peng carried the three-thousand-pound iron ball and finished a lap in 13 hourglasses. Deng Yingtian tried to lift a four-thousand-pound iron ball but gave up after only half a lap.
Under such circumstances, the fact that the Sword Villa had been able to hold its ground locally without expanding outward was already quite rare.
If it hadn't been for the original Qin Guanglin instead of a reflection, the long-premeditated thunderous strike might have succeeded in ambushing and killing the reflection.
Especially after hearing the conversation of those people just now, a powerful force pulled her back into those painful memories once again.
"Are you done?" What the hell? How many sentences had they even spoken to each other? And only "like"? Men’s words are deceptive ghosts; did she not know that?
He Xue Mountain. It rains all year round; there is much water and many white apes. There is a monster that comes out whenever it rains; it looks like a human, but its facial hair and complexion combine to look like a ghost mask; it likes to wear a demon mask.
In an instant, countless images flashed through my mind: in the frozen wasteland, Zhen Yan lay beside me, her eyes closed forever.
Following that, it was the lungs and kidneys; one became as hard as iron, and all the tendons, bones, and skin of his body seemed to be strengthened, his strength breaking through to eight thousand pounds.