Chapter 108: The Genius

After the incident, the emergency lines at New City Police Bureau were almost overwhelmed, with everyone speaking up for the alien named Wedell and demanding that the officer who had mistakenly killed him be duly punished.

“Just say I’m not here.” Zize’s mind was in turmoil, and he did not want to deal with Heliang, so he once again had Warm Breeze send him away.

The old madam had indeed stopped speaking to her and no longer accepted her gifts. If even the old madam had lost confidence in her, perhaps she too had begun to lose faith.

Ho Tingxiao, who had followed behind her as she came down, said nothing. When Jing Jiaren turned toward the door, he stepped forward, took her hand, and led her to the car.

Inside the car, Wu Yurui saw the caller ID and froze for several seconds. Her eyes were still swollen and red from crying.

“Boss!” The two men, stunned by the earlier turn of events, finally came back to themselves. The man with the knife helped up the man he had accidentally injured, then walked over trembling.

“Be good.” Mo Xuan’s tone grew entirely gentle. He had already made a show of supporting Yaoguang, whether because he could not resist such kindness or because that one word of praise had reached the very depths of her heart.

The other three were different. Each held a strip of spicy snack food in one hand while excitedly standing on their chairs and pointing at one another, insisting the others had to eat it. They were even more out of control than if they had been drinking.

Her delight came from the feeling that Han Yi was beginning to accept her; her unease came from the sense that she was standing before a pit of self-torment and was about to step into it.

From the outside, it looked like a huge gear turning at a slow pace, rather like the wheel standing before the headquarters of the Light of Salvation, the one that converted light and heat into electrical power.

“So now you’re satisfied, Inspector Jiang!” Chen Qiyu sat down heavily, gasping in great gulps, and asked with force.

Could it be that he had some unspeakable hardship? Could it be that he already had a family? While Liu Mama and Biluo were cooking in the kitchen, they talked and guessed.

The campaigns of recent days had left Er Qing no time to think of anything else. Today, suddenly idle, he should have been able to sleep deeply at last despite his utter exhaustion, yet he felt no trace of sleepiness at all.

Gu Niannu could not help worrying for Ye Feng. If the people of the Great Ease Sect and the Black Water Sect discovered him, they would surely not let matters rest.

Perhaps it was the same as Feiyu’s condition. There was something in his body that shared a source with the giant race. Perhaps he would not fear the Heart-Piercing Art, but just like Feiyu, he could never again draw his heart back into his body.

Murong opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, Feng Linglang, who seemed already impatient from waiting, bent down, reached out, and directly gripped her shoulder to lift her onto the horse. After settling her securely in place, he gave the order to depart.

The three of them went downstairs early in the morning for breakfast. There were indeed very few people at that hour; laborers looking for work were already waiting at the docks, hoping to seize jobs.

“Bastard, you actually left Nuale by the seaside? After all these days, let alone the danger of the beach, she’d have starved to death by now. I think I should just drag you in myself.”

Murong was momentarily stunned, then smiled and nodded. “Indeed.” It seemed the girl was truly devoted to Feng Jinxuan and had plans to spend her life with him.

She disliked owing others favors; by the same token, she also disliked causing trouble for other people. The trouble that had befallen Quan Chen was because of her.

After greeting everyone one by one and drinking some red wine, Li Jianqing called him over to play cards. He glanced at his watch and shook his head.

Meanwhile, Lao Ma and Hong Shuangxi reached out as if to move Monta’s hand away, but I shouted curses loudly enough to stop them.

The old funeral singer was just about to obey the order when he discovered that Wei Ziye was at this moment seated high upon the divine emperor’s throne, eyes closed in repose, with no further commands issued. He could not help growing anxious, yet dared not disturb him, and could only stand below the hall in restless urgency.

“Yes. After research by culinary scholars, the nutrition and flavor contained in iron-backed crayfish are more than ten times those of ordinary crayfish, when measured by the same volume.

Those who followed Pei Yi would only report to him in the simplest terms that they were safe, cutting out every detail they could. Han Dong could not possibly know how Pei Yi had become so soaked.

“Yuyue, if I leave this place, could you see me part of the way?”

The rate of advancement aside, there was actually such an oddity as raising the level of the culinary heart before raising the overall level?

Ever since An Ran returned, she had sensed that something was very wrong, and now he was asking her to go have a talk with him. Had something truly happened?

Ding Auntie had in fact already been thinking of leaving. Back then, the contract she had signed with Qiao Anming was for two months.

The next day, Qin Shao carefully inquired about it, and the streets were calm and peaceful; not the slightest rumor about the theft at the Duke of Wu’s mansion had spread.

After all, some secrets cannot be kept merely because you choose not to speak; a master cannot truly rest easy for that reason alone. Otherwise, why would people say that only the dead can keep secrets?

Lin Ruhai did not know exactly what Jiusi had taught Daiyu, assuming only that they were methods of self-protection. Hearing her say so, he did not take it too seriously. Since Daiyu was not especially resistant to the idea of being adopted into another branch of the family, he simply agreed to her request.

The Imperial Guards are the emperor’s most trusted personal troops, and they proved through concrete action that this vote had been fair and impartial.

Only while bathing did he notice the bruises at her waist; in some places the skin had been rubbed raw, and when the hot water touched them, the broken skin swelled red and angry.

This was the fruit of their own folly. Some of them even harbored resentment that Zhangmu had not completely wiped out Yuan Xiu and Miao.

It was said that she had once pursued Lan Yuchen for a very long time, but in the end, because of an urgent matter at home, she left Maple Forest Academy, and then Lan Yuchen chased after her all the way from City A to America.

And one of the reasons he had persisted for so many years in searching for the child of Aunt Rui was precisely this.

Outside the Spirit-Testing Hall, quite a crowd had already gathered, evidently drawn by the earlier commotion and coming to investigate. They saw Xiao Yuanshan carry Ziling and Zhuang Jian out through the air, descending slowly to the front of the hall.