Chapter Ninety-Eight: No One Holds Anyone Back

So even Shen Ci himself had begun to doubt himself.

Had he really said the wrong thing?

Had he just spoken to her too harshly?

Zhou Qin'er left in desolation, and in the end vanished from Shen Ci's sight.

The moment she reached a place where no one was around, Zhou Qin'er's expression changed completely. It was utterly different from the one she had worn just moments before.

Shen Ci, too, wore no pleasant expression.

He had never expected that she would actually believe him and return to his apartment. The instant she stepped through the door, I hooked my arms around his neck, wrapped my legs around his waist, and kissed him fiercely, teasing and tempting him.

"Hu Peng was an honest man to begin with. How could he possibly gamble? This is clearly your scheme," Yue Ming snapped, pointing at Mister Gao's nose.

"Didn't I tell you that before filming these things, you must make ample preparations, and that on the day of shooting there must absolutely be no mistakes? What do you mean by telling me now that something has happened to the person?" Before Yu Kexin could even finish speaking, she saw the tall man turn and reprimand another, shorter man.

Xiao Wei smiled and replied, "No, I just came to use the restroom."

He left the staff looking blankly after him and strolled out of the East Slope Detective Agency as casually as could be.

Fang Hanchong glanced around and once again rushed toward the new location Wang Ming had just sent by voice transmission. The exact place was a secluded valley in a mountain range several hundred li outside the city.

When Wang Ming understood that number, each primordial great being in his eyes seemed to be carrying a gigantic thermometer, the rise and fall of the red line inside it becoming the scale by which the fortune of heaven and earth was measured.

Thinking that Si Junhao was still waiting for her, Ai Mu moved toward the side, intending to go around Mu Xinghong and leave. But while she wanted to keep her distance from him, Mu Xinghong had no intention of letting her off.

Sometimes the Japanese habit of obsessing over details is rather endearing. Take intelligence gathering, for example: the Japanese are very good at it. At times they can perfect one thing to the extreme, whereas white people are not as good at that. The white gunmen under Bai Qi were all action men; if you sent them to gather intelligence, they could end up losing even themselves.

"Grover, you win. Now let's talk properly," Wayne said, setting down his pack and glaring viciously at Grover from the high stool by the bar.

This could be called a true slaughter of death. The troops in this city were nowhere near elite, and perhaps that was the tacit understanding between the two empires. It was precisely because of that understanding that Lao Jiu was able to exploit the opening.

Seeing the prisoners as docile as sheep, the warden nodded in satisfaction. He then led a group of jailers out of the huge room and locked it from the outside.

"Forget it, leave him alone. If he's gone, then he's gone," Nan He said, waving a hand to signal that they should end the topic there.

The Soul Summoning Art consumed a great deal of demonic power. The rabbit spirit had already lost half his cultivation, and after using that technique, he was utterly drained and fell straight into a deep sleep.

He was already in a bad mood, and on top of that, when he had been working on the nascent product earlier, he had received help from a good friend.

The man beside him was also scolded red-faced. He grabbed his son and his wife and hurried off.

In one breath, Lao Jiu arranged nearly everyone's assignments. Next would come the final frenzy of withdrawing from Dream City. He wanted to bring about a transformation across the entire game while everyone was still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year.

"I don't know." Qi Yao had originally been going to find Nan He, but not long after she came out of the flowering tree, she was struck unconscious by a sudden force. By the time she woke again, she was trapped inside the flowering tree.

It is said that within a few hundred li around, there was no one who did not know her, no one who had not heard of her. The mere mention of Zhang Yafang's name rang like thunder.

"Well... um... you know, I did this for your sake, to win you a realm to rule. I'll make it up to you more in the future," Lao Jiu said a little awkwardly.