Chapter Eighty-Nine: Kidnapping

“Mmm...” After an unknown stretch of time, Lin Chong and the woman slowly came to amid wave after wave of jolting.

Who am I? Where am I? In that single instant of dazed confusion, the thought flashed through both their minds and vanished.

Their eyes were bound tight with black cloth; they could see nothing at all. Their hands and feet had been fastened by something unknown, leaving them unable to move, the bindings so tight they had gone numb. The only thing they could clearly feel was the constant shaking battering their bodies.

And they could tell that their bodies were bent forward at the waist, something pressing against their bellies, while their backs were firmly cinched by something else.

Only after a while did they belatedly realize that they were—

Li Xu had long since grown accustomed to Mi Lan’s neurotic behavior. The request she made in that irresistibly alluring voice did not daze Li Xu into agreeing.

Before the massive explosion rocked the hospital, inside the director’s office of Twin Lakes Central Hospital, gathered Principal Duan Fortune of Twin Lakes Academy, Police Chief Yang Zhang, and Hospital Director Qi Hong.

Little brother—ha, that title again. Only now did Shao Jian realize how foolish he had once been. Just to get close to her, he had actually set an impassable chasm before himself.

I said it was nothing, just a pure mistake. Only after the pain struck did I understand that while fending off the attack just now, I hadn’t circulated my energy, so I was unable to withstand such overwhelming force.

Zhao Yuan lightly tapped the hand bone, and it slowly rose into the air, then began, in an extraordinarily eerie fashion, to transform with a thunderous rush.

Though Immortal Spirit understood his current strength thoroughly, he still had no definite direction in mind for his future cultivation.

The space of consciousness was an exceedingly mysterious thing, containing every secret of the self. So under ordinary circumstances, so long as a person still possessed conscious awareness, no matter how powerful you were—even if you were the Heavenly Dao governing the laws of all things—you could never invade the consciousness-space of a mere mortal.

“Right, I’ll go get it now!” the head of security answered, then bolted toward the infirmary like a whirlwind.

The structures of all kinds of mecha and maglev vehicles were broadly similar; as long as one accurately grasped the internal framework and circuit schematics of a mecha, repairing one was quite simple.

They had originally gone to kill a drug lord, yet brought him back alive. They went on a peacekeeping mission and not only saved lives and displayed the nation’s might, but also helped bring about the signing of the Belt and Road agreement.

I nodded, tightened my clothes around me, and followed Mor’s father out the door. In the car I said nothing, and Mor’s father, already familiar with my temperament, took me to the hotel. The next day, once the money reached my account, I left Shanghai.

Compared with the fighting outside the city gates, Xiangxiong City itself was frighteningly quiet. Most of the beastfolk and the demigod race had all gone to battle, leaving only the purest human population within the city.

What Lu Li did not know was that the other party had already mistaken him for a spirit cultivator; he would never have dared embezzle the money of a “spirit cultivator” like Lu Li.

The moment his phone gave a soft chime, he hurriedly picked it up. He guessed it was a message from his son, and sure enough, when he looked, it was indeed from him, asking whether she had woken up yet.

This time, Ye Liang was quite fortunate. Besides obtaining a Savage Bear Pelt, he also acquired a Savage Bear Paw of rather fine quality.

Having received Lin Jiamu’s concern, Tang Ni naturally would not let pass the chance to sneer at Quan Wei. She warmly slipped her arm through the man’s, as though the tense confrontation that had just taken place had never happened.

Zhou Xia came to the window, pressed a hand to the sill, and vaulted lightly out, landing soundlessly. Qin Zheng looked at her with approval, giving her a careful once-over. Only after seeing that she was unhurt did he finally relax.

“Come on, let’s go buy snake feed!” Ye Liang scooped up Qingqing. Qingqing drew in the electric glow around her body and hid herself on Ye Liang.

“The more than two million soldiers of my Northern Defense Army remain year-round at Thousand Mountain Pass, guarding the frontier to prevent the demon tribes from invading human territory and destroying the hard-won peace of the realm.

A supermassive flying palace-fortress was clearly parked here before, so why is the ground still so perfectly level?

Though the room was luxurious, only Su Daji was inside. She stood before an oval mirror rimmed in gold, slowly combing her hair. She had already changed into another outfit—naturally, still wearing very little—so that her figure appeared all the more slender and graceful.