Chapter 89: Backlash

This was the sort of thankless labor no one would keep throwing themselves into. Meng Lianqiao’s face was cold, a trace of impatience in her eyes.

“The matter at Li Family Village is long over. Why are you still wading into this muddy water? You know better than I do what kind of people they are. If you keep taking on work like this, sooner or later it will drag you under.”

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Whistling, he leaped into the deep pit. The moment he raised his engineering shovel, his foot suddenly went soft, and a huge centipede burst out of the earth.

She could readily imagine the sheer devastation that would follow once Heavenly Fire and Heavenly Water completed their fusion. That move was no different from suicide; it was sheer madness.

The bus moved quietly along the road. On both sides stretched a plain covered in wild grass more than three feet high, lush and overgrown.

Chen Tianfeng hurriedly helped Fang Yuanjin to his feet. He could not accept such a thing. Though his relationship with Fang Ting was already an ambiguous one, to have Fang Yuanjin kneel before him would be too much for him to bear.

He had intended to handle everything on his own and prove his strength to his father, but he had not expected these leopards to be so troublesome, beating him until he had no chance to strike back.

Jiang Liu kept looking back several times, his steps somewhat reluctant. Only after Dora waved at him did he finally set his mind at ease and walk out with the two demons.

After hearing the cannon fire from afar, Chen Xiaodong acted decisively. “Everyone shut down your electronic devices. The strong magnetic pulse device is about to be activated.” He ordered it switched on, and a powerful electromagnetic pulse swept across several kilometers around them.

The unfamiliar name made Xia Wan dazed for a moment. Then she instantly felt malicious stares closing in from all directions.

He had wanted to investigate Li Mochen’s background, but Long Yunxiao was useless and could not harm Li Mochen at all.

Wu Mo watched the man accept the facts with such calm that for a moment she did not know whether to laugh or not.

Perhaps because she felt a little guilty about eavesdropping on others, her fingers tightened on the tray. She did not go in, but instead hurriedly backed away and ran outside.

At this point, how could Meng Jingshan still not understand? Everything the county magistrate, Song Zhiyi, had done today was to pave the way for the Meng family.

Following the sensation, he crossed the hall and entered a spacious room. The scene that met his eyes made him pause.

Han De, twenty-nine years old, served in the infantry camp under the Great General of Northern Su. He was under the command of Cavalry Commander Cheng Meng, a member of the wealthy Han clan of Shangdang Prefecture. Since youth he had been bold and strong, fond of championing the weak and opposing injustice.

Before the rain could even reach them, the powerful aura radiating from their bodies shattered it to pieces and swept it away.

The man looked no more than seventeen or eighteen. Even while kneeling on one knee, he seemed extraordinarily noble. His features were sharp and handsome, and from him emanated a kingly presence capable of shaking the world.

The audience saw the two of them crouched on the boat, huddled together like a pair of lovers, fishing side by side, and envied them to no end.

Yan Huan truly had a headache now. He had shown her the evidence to clear his name, yet after being cursed at by her again and again, why did he suddenly feel all this was so not worth it?

Li Zichuan’s vigilance rose. It seemed this man was guarding him and Gu Li. But how did he know Li Zichuan would come here?

Meng Chao’s entire image was now laid bare before the public. Perhaps he did not care, but in the livestream he was a vulgar exhibitionist in nothing but shorts, a blood-soaked butcher who showed no mercy once he started killing.

Gao Chong only smiled.

Old Qian asked him whether he had solved the couplet. Gao Chong told him that the two responses, together with the line about the awkward domain of hooks, revealed the flaws within it. This left Young Master Qian sighing in admiration, while also giving him a deeper understanding of the elder young master of the Gao family’s talent.

There was also the possibility of elimination and selection. In other words, what should be done if the first batch of tools loaded with the sensor positioning devices were not chosen by Li Tianzhi? Zhang Zhiqiang had a plan for that as well: the other group of inept hunters who had come in the pre-dawn darkness took away not only a corpse, but also all the discarded tools.