Chapter Twenty-One: The Wound

At ten o’clock at night, the lights outside the window were already thinning and dim.

Yin Nian was at home, paging through a popular science book on criminal investigation.

As she read, she cross-checked it against the information she had gathered so far, sorting through it and picking out anything of value.

Today, Yuan Yin still had not shown her face, but Yin Nian had gotten in touch with the delivery rider. After several attempts to arrange a meeting, she finally got him out for coffee and asked him a few questions.

The rider told Yin Nian that at half past twelve that noon, when he delivered food to Mu Yuan Clinic, he called twice and could not get through. The phone kept showing that the other party was on another call. So he went straight to Yuan Yi’s consulting room and knocked. After a while, Yuan Yi finally opened the door. He remembered it very clearly: Yuan Yi looked tense, gasping for breath, with sweat all over his face.

As the saying goes, a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him. Du Kang was not a fool either. He understood that if they had come looking for him with such a show of force, they must want something from him. So he obediently cooperated, after all, there was no better way right now.

No one in Ranran’s group had any idea where Seventh Master’s sect was located, or what kind of valley the so-called valley was supposed to be.

If he had known sooner that Liu Zhiyuan also did not know where the Medusa clan was, he would not have bothered to keep dragging things out with her. It had only led to her getting tangled up with him, and to his own harem growing by one more.

But he had turned them all down.

Everything that had happened before had left him truly afraid to do anything like that again. His grandfather had also repeatedly told him that he hoped he would take over from him. He was simply too exhausted.

Water conservancy projects across the land required silver, and reports kept arriving at the imperial court, where the Grand Council handled the overall arrangements.

Thinking of this, Lin Shuran saw the cold yet fervent face of Xia Muhan rise before her.

The people outside were not wearing proper military uniforms, but she understood that this was all to avoid drawing attention.

Lin Shuran did not care how much displeasure she had caused that man. All she wanted was the information she had come for.

Shen Fei was still a little dazed after hearing the dead line from the phone. How had it been hung up just like that? She had talked for so long, and none of it seemed to have made the slightest difference. That Yu’er had such a stubborn temper. No matter how she reasoned with her, she simply would not listen.

She lowered her head slightly and said nothing more, her lips pressed tightly together, a few more degrees of watchfulness entering her eyes.

After steadying himself a little, the old monster inside the stone gate moved a few steps closer to the corpse.

News of the Azure Bronze Green Herb had long since spread everywhere, stirring envy in countless hearts and drawing many people here in droves.

“I’m just a rotten man, a murderer who has caused the deaths of many and brought ruin and tragedy to other people’s families.

That was why the local government of Yinpu welcomed Tongxin Investment Company to conduct an on-site inspection and vigorously develop local tourism projects.

She had already learned the level of spiritual masters in this world. It was far inferior to what it had been three thousand years ago. Back then, she had already stood at the very peak of spiritual mastery; now she would only be even stronger.

The two men fought expressionlessly. Even after dozens of exchanges, neither had gained the upper hand. Just when Ai Li thought they must have been taught by the same master and their moves could not break one another’s, something changed.

Huo Shengbei certainly knew that the finest squad leaders and warriors were not to be expected back.

A trace of moisture unconsciously gathered at the corner of Ai Li’s mouth. He could feel that the other person seemed to want to be friends with him, even saying something he could not make out clearly.

Su Luoluo took out her phone and was just about to call him when familiar footsteps sounded at the door.

Slap after slap rang out, battering Hou Liangping until he was dizzy, stars flashing before his eyes. For a moment, the words of humiliation stuck in his throat, choked and unable to come out.

A hand as white and flawless as jade swept through the sky, and in that instant the void abruptly became nothingness, forming vast patches of vacuum that warped the light and made everything indistinct.

Clinging to that conviction, I drank a great deal of wine—more precisely, I got thoroughly drunk with the five leading members of Tot at a nearby bar.

Under everyone’s gaze, Marilyn wore a solemn expression as she walked up to a one-armed sailor. With one hand she picked up the severed arm, then skillfully removed the bandages from the man’s shoulder in one smooth motion. At once, blood began to flow from the smooth-edged wound.