Chapter Eighteen: The Tide Turns Suddenly

At two in the afternoon on Wednesday, Yan Ming was in his office speaking with the plaintiff in a debt dispute case and preparing to sign a legal-retainer agreement when a police officer from Ba County Precinct called to tell him that the analysis of the hair had come back. The result showed that the hair’s DNA sequence was completely different from Yang Yongfang’s, and likewise completely different from Yang Yonggui’s and Yang Yongli’s.

“How is that possible?!” Yan Ming cried, rising in shock.

“The report has already been delivered. You can come in and look at it yourself. Also, we need to record your statement again, because after investigating from many angles, we have found no evidence that the three Yang siblings were involved in harming Old Lady Yang. So we will not be opening a case. We need to reconfirm the source of the physical evidence and verify your motives and reasons for making the report.”

They did not know what fate awaited them next. Perhaps they still had a chance to cling to life; perhaps by dawn they would already be prisoners behind bars.

Fine beads of sweat still glistened on his forehead, and on his handsome face, long brows cast shade over a pair of dark, deep eyes.

Lu Tian, by contrast, seemed somewhat listless, curled up listlessly on a cushion in the corner, frowning as she scrolled through her phone.

Wei Zhuang only then remembered that this era did not yet have the notion of auctions. After a few vague remarks, he hastily ended the subject.

“If, over the next year, or even several years, this figure can be maintained, then Liuping County’s single-track backward economy will undergo a reversal, and it will also perfectly live up to Qin Yi’s idea of enterprises taking responsibility for the county and helping the entire county out of poverty!” Peng Xiao thought to himself.

As a reborn man, he had relied on all manner of foreknowledge, on navigating every situation to his advantage, and on tireless effort, to reach where he was at such a young age.

“All right, there’s no need for you to keep following Li Yaoguang. Your task is complete,” Qin Yi said after thinking for a moment. Having reached his present position, he tried not to use people like Xia Zhihao for matters that were unnecessary.

Besides, his father-in-law was already the executive vice governor. If he were promoted again, the most likely outcome would naturally be that he became governor.

“Sir Sun, why don’t I go persuade him every day from now on and think of a way to get Zhou An to go participate?” Wu Youde felt this was his moment to shine and hurriedly said.

Although they had not known each other long, through her every action he had long since detected her impulsive, sharp-edged nature.

Duan Feng’s makeup skills came from a legacy system and were seldom used in daily life. He had not expected that one day they would prove useful in the Primordial World.

Liu Miaomiao sat beside them, silently scrolling through her phone, while the others each went back to what they were doing, chewing pizza as they chatted about the topic that had not yet ended.

He burst into laughter and spread his arms wide, and behind him a giant, nauseating phantom of a ghoul’s head emerged.

“Thank you.” Tong Yue nodded her thanks. After exchanging contact information with Deputy Captain Tan, she stood and left.

It was worth mentioning that although Yi Fei appeared to be yielding, his expression remained full of arrogance. He looked nothing like someone submitting; rather, he looked more like a ruler issuing an order.

Nansheng could not fend off four fists with one pair of hands, so she first broke free of Zhao Guangwu’s restraint, then seized Zhu Huiqin by the neck with her other hand, forcing her to release her hair, before shoving her onto the bed.

Merely the aftershock of the gods’ battle had turned this region into a forbidden zone of death. It was hard to imagine what sort of scene their struggle had truly been.

Ji Xiaofu had recovered quite a bit. Seeing the pair of eyes in Ding Minjun’s face, still staring in death, she too felt her emotions calm once more.

Zhao Hongling could no longer bear to watch Old Lady Liu’s shameless behavior, nor could she stand seeing Liu Liheng being squeezed dry. She rode over and said, “Liheng has owed my mom money for a long time already. Now that he’s finally earning a little, of course he should pay back what he owes first. Liheng has given you the money he ought to give you, so stop thinking about anything else.”

This was punishment, not murder. For an ordinary person, it might be a fatal injury, but for that second senior brother of hers, whose depths she could not fathom, it was likely to heal in less than a day.

Mrs. Qin entered the laboratory and looked at those evolved mutated humans; they appeared extremely ferocious.

The two of us stood there watching, examining everything carefully, even thinking of finding a stone to test it by throwing it over to see what was really going on. But the result was that, in an instant, it frightened the two of us so badly that we stood there wide-eyed and speechless, dumb as wooden chickens.

Yan Bei had sharp eyes and immediately noticed that the clothes worn under their outer garments were the summer uniforms of Zhenhua Middle School, and her heart sank at once.