Volume One, Chapter 46: If You Like Her, Then Go After Her!

"Hmph, if you like him so much, then go after him. There's no need to be polite with me."

Liu Yanran put on a proud and aloof expression, acting as though she couldn't care less. However, Qingqing and Tingting were her best friends of many years; how could they possibly not know that she was only saying the opposite of what she truly felt?

The two of them merely wanted to tease Liu Yanran and provoke her a little, having no actual intention of competing for Chen Fan.

Never would anyone have imagined that a tiny brooch would push the atmosphere at the auction venue to a climax.

The guests present were all whispering among themselves: "Just who are the people in boxes number eight and thirteen? A brooch like that is worth thirty million at most, yet now they've driven the bidding up to over sixty million."

"Who knows..."

Lin Yunfei was completely bewildered by Elder Long's words. He looked around in all directions and found no one had appeared, having no idea where this so-called trouble was supposed to be.

"It really is time to go over." Ye Jia muttered, gazing at the fleeting shadow without ever shifting his gaze away.

Bosen went up to the second floor, and all the hostages were driven into this spacious area before the iron gate outside was shut.

Moreover, Xiang Chunmei also knew that she had indeed promised Hu Tianqing previously that if he wanted to come back and help out at the firm again, she could not refuse him.

"Xiangyun, Fairy Yunxiao took the Rolling Curtain scroll last time, I wonder how things are going with it?" Luo An sat comfortably on Xiangyun's back and asked leisurely.

The commander has been slain! Regardless of whether they were players from the Tiansha Kaixuan Alliance or the Wangzhe Alliance, everyone was momentarily stunned upon hearing the prompt.

However, neither Gu Junzhuwan nor the player in black responded to Zhan Xue's question. For a moment, the hall fell into silence once again, with only a member notification popping up in the guild channel.

It was not a matter of distrusting Duan Muyang, but rather that this affair concerned Su Su's reputation. Therefore, Yu Sheng was unwilling to speak of it, and Gu Jianghai remained tight-lipped as well.

"You only ever think about eating. I'm here to talk to you about business." Judging by her voice, Pan Yuyi had reverted to her usual fierce and bold captain persona, having apparently walked out of the shadows cast by this recent Nanyang expedition.

Yu Sheng sighed softly, straightened up, and began to tidy her clothes. He had already walked over to the desk, picked up her incessantly ringing phone, and lowered her gaze to look at it. It was Duan Muyang; the call currently ringing was from him, and the dozen or so missed calls right before that were his as well.

Wei Rui was also a man of rare intelligence in this world. His narrative was filled with a deep sense of admiration and envy toward that Lady Fan, which showed that Lady Fan's methods had genuinely won his complete respect—yet why would Lady Fan place herself on the opposing side of this game of chess?

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Bai Suzhen, Lin Yang, and the divine physician departed through the passage, after which Bai Suzhen destroyed it completely. From that moment onward, the Searching Deity Palace was buried in eternal darkness, never to see the light of day again.

The other party was the local security department, informing him that approximately twenty minutes prior, a large-scale conflict had erupted among local gang organizations.

"No, it's just an ordinary bowl of meat soup, for you," Ansen said, pushing the bowl a little further forward.

At this very moment, the expressions of the two individuals were completely serene, resembling a pair of motionless statues. Furthermore, not the slightest trace of vital energy fluctuation could be sensed within either of their bodies.

Yuan Xiang could not see those figures as eagles soaring across the vast grasslands in any way; she simply lifted her feet and walked straight toward the opposite bank.

"Has the Prince already arrived in the capital?" Wei Rui suddenly recalled the matter concerning Xiao Hong. By his calculations, he should have returned to the capital by now.

Instantly, a boundless wave of bone-chilling cold surged forth, rapidly condensing into a thin layer of ice wall in front of him.

"Just what on earth are you? Why do you look exactly like me? What is the meaning of all this?" Android 18 asked in utter bewilderment.

Wherever the flood dragon passed, the sand and rocks between the two figures were completely shoved aside, forming a long, deep channel.

The wall here had a hollow section right in the middle, which was why he had later chosen to hide the doll inside it.

"You cunning fox! I didn't do it on purpose, I was just trying out this advanced technique for breaking formations and failed for a moment!" Lin Xuan cursed in pain, yet he simply could not shake off the fox's relentless pursuit.

As for the other cultivators of the Ye family, they looked toward the Wei family with eyes brimming with murderous intent, while the members of the Wei family clustered tightly together, clutching the medicinal pills given to them by Lin Xuan.

Egos never imagined that this gunner, whom he had only met a few times, would turn out to be a distinguished legendary figure—such a young and powerful legendary mage.

There were no military facilities on the mountain, nor any military base, nor was it his own home, so he had no way of blocking people. Could someone really just use a "military exercise" as an excuse to bar others from ascending the mountain?

Qi Ziliang simply hadn't thought of it in that direction beforehand. Prompted thus, he grasped the logic almost instantly and could not help nodding repeatedly. Changyao, sitting nearby upon hearing this, merely lowered her gaze indifferently and took another sip of tea.

Lin Xuan gripped an archaic, unadorned long sword in his hand. He looked extremely exhausted, with a lingering sense of desolation etched between his brows.

Although chewing gum was not considered a particularly rare commodity in this era, and its price was far lower than that of chocolate, the soldiers' allowances were scarce, and they wouldn't casually chew gum on ordinary days. Rather than chewing a piece of gum, they would much rather buy another pack of cigarettes for a real kick.

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The only thing that could be confirmed was that this was a Heaven-tier martial art—immensely powerful and unquestionably capable of contending with the [Six Mysteries Heavenly Sword], or perhaps even surpassing it.

"You're exaggerating. I just suddenly felt a bit dizzy," Kirishima Yoshino stretched lazily and sat down on a bench placed atop the roof.

"Since you like her so much, and have already settled on her as marriage material, why not simply marry her? This Yifei fellow is rather strange," Leng Ran could not help blurting out. Yet the moment the words left his lips, he instantly regretted them, feeling somewhat awkward and uneasy.

The moment he appeared, two gazes locked onto him, scanning him thoroughly from inside and out within the span of a breath.

"What on earth is this thing?" The Purple-Gold Divine Dragon muttered in slight astonishment, discovering that the dissipating energy was actually gradually eroding the surrounding air, and this fluctuation caused him to feel a trace of a threat.

After using complex finger incantations to bestow the strongest possible protection upon her pair of purple pupils, Lin Ansheng drew a dagger in full view and ruthlessly stabbed it straight toward Lin Yue'er's eyes.

Ning Pengpeng uttered a word of thanks, then picked up the spoon, scooped up a wonton, blew on it gently, and popped it into her mouth.

"I'm not that busy. You should escort the guest upstairs first; he must not be allowed to take a single step away from this place. I'll wait for you upstairs..." Hall Master Sanyu was uneasy after all, and spoke far more than usual. Yet it didn't feel nagging; instead, she felt as though she might have overlooked something important.

When Mo Tianxing returned a moment later, he held something new in his hands—a transparent crystal box that reflected a dazzling, dreamy radiance under the sunlight.

"How many spirit stones do the high-ranking executives of the four major factions take in every month?" Seeing the wild boar enter, Tang Chuan blurted out this exact question.

As long as one held the sound-transmission bell, messages could be sent out no matter where one was, and any danger could be reported to Emperor Mingye in a timely manner.

The tank cultivators let out a collective muffled groan and stumbled back a few steps. Their martial avatars also violently trembled, clearly having suffered an unprecedented impact.

A dark shadow sprinted with lightning speed behind Cecilia, and a long, whip-like arc of light in its hand traced a long ellipse through the air, lashing viciously toward Cecilia's back.