Chapter 31: An Email
"If you won't answer it, I'll do it for you." While Shi Ran was still hesitating whether to pick up, a large hand reached out, grabbed the phone, and swiped to accept the call.
"Ranran, where are you?" Zuo Jiaqi’s voice came through the speaker.
"She has work commitments tonight," Zuo Yelin replied coldly.
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"Greetings, Eldest Princess." As expected, it was Murong Xing who had arrived with her entourage. Lixiu bowed her head in salute, feeling a slight sense of nervousness.
The Storm Eagle let out a long cry that seemed to carry a hint of mockery. As it flapped its wings and descended to the ground, it stirred up a violent gust of wind, sending sand and stones flying.
Back then, when Liu Yiming proposed the idea of lighting fires at both the inner and outer entrances of the underground tunnel to smoke out the village, Sun Xiaohu felt that smoke alone wasn't enough. Thinking they should add some "extra seasoning," he tossed a large paper bag of black pepper to Liu Yiming.
Hearing Wang Fang say this, Ji Weiwei’s mouth fell open so wide it looked like she could fit a large salted duck egg inside.
Everything in the universe follows certain rules. The creation of divine abilities is merely at its beginning; there is infinite potential for growth in the future.
Of course, this was only Jiu Ge’s conjecture. As for the actual level of strength, Jiu Ge would have to test it himself.
"But how can we trigger the Thousand-Change Demon Realm?" Tu Buyu asked with a sense of frustration.
Suddenly, two figures lunged at the dark shadow, one after the other. The fat man used all his strength to sweep at Yang Qingfeng’s legs. Enraged, Yang Qingfeng took a step back, retreated his left foot, and kicked at the fat man with his right. The fat man was sent flying, crashing into several large trees; he convulsed all over and fell into a dead faint.
As for the changes on their faces, these veterans knew them all too well, having witnessed such reactions more times than they could count.
Anyang spoke immediately, and before Itsuka Shiori could react, he began pulling her toward the location of the aerial warship.
Before Sakuno could even open the bento box, Echizen, having caught the familiar scent, had already guessed what was inside.
The people attending the meeting were titans of the medical world, many of whom were Nobel laureates. Hearing Lin Zhengyuan’s words, they fell silent; naturally, they were well aware of this sensational global news.
Even General Budo had to praise him as a young man who had already achieved mastery in martial arts.
Du Feng was left between laughter and tears. There was no way to settle this score, especially since he had been the one to cause trouble at their establishment first. He was destined to swallow this bitter pill.
Such people are notoriously difficult to deal with. To those desperate outlaws, money is everything; as for the law and the future, those are matters that have nothing to do with them.
Twelve thousand of it came from the rewards of the main storyline and random tasks, while the remainder was accumulated from the daily tasks completed over the past few days.
More than a dozen muskets, including the two belonging to Zhu Pingjin and the eunuch Zhang Wei, were placed on the front line. Behind them stood nearly three hundred pikemen from seven guard platoons. Because the mountain path was narrow and the front was not wide, the pikemen were arranged in nearly twenty ranks. Behind the pikemen were the archers composed of local chieftain soldiers.
Boss Rhino naturally did not share Old Nine’s belief that jade gambling was truly that simple. Although he appeared simple-minded, he was actually quite shrewd, which was how he had become the leader of the Rhino Tribe.
"20 centimeters? Then let’s set the filter criteria to anything under 30 centimeters." Blue continued to input information into the Pokémon Encyclopedia before clicking the filter button.
This was an opportunity others could only dream of; without spending a decade in the barracks and earning military merits, such a chance would be impossible to come by.
Delicious, so delicious, oh my goodness! She had truly suffered these past few months. This life of eating gourmet food whenever she pleased was exactly how she was meant to live.