Chapter 13069 — Even Without the Last Two

Even if the last two were taken out of the picture, whether he could swallow down a single Xue Wanqian was still an open question.

To say nothing of the fact that both Wu Guang and Wei Zhao were incomparably slippery characters.

If you wanted to chase them down while withstanding Xue Wanqian's frenzied assault, there was simply no way you would land a hit on either of them in the moment.

But if you left them alone, the two of them would be like flies, buzzing in to disgust you at every turn.

In the end, the Diao family's number-one seed held out for a full half-incense stick's worth of time before being ground down on the spot by Wei Zhao and his two companions.

Victory and defeat were decided.

Watching the two sides of the duel being...

The pound sterling, which had once occupied the throne of the world's foremost currency, had always been the most reliable currency within the gold standard system.

Meanwhile, at this very moment, Li Facai was pacing with short steps alone in his room, his brows tightly knit and a heavy, irresolute look of worry written across his face. On the sofa across from him sat a middle-aged man in his thirties, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a suit.

Hei Yu bowed and gave his assent; the old man waved a hand, and the void suddenly quivered a few times, splitting open into a crack visible to the naked eye. The two of them stepped through, vanishing in an instant.

The only problem was that this brand-new true qi could not be stored within the Five Elements Heavenly Mirror. As things now stood, it seemed to have taken the place of the Tianhe true qi, and with that being the case, he would inevitably have to abandon one of his cultivation methods.

What was even more peculiar was that the surfaces of the piled-up ginger were covered in carving marks—some rough and wild, some fine and delicate, some mottled, some weathered by time... The incisions ran deep and shallow, the knife work drawing its inspiration for the carving from the traces already present on the ginger's surface.

Well, fine—this line was still from the information He Ming had seen; in any case, a glorious moment was bound to come with no shortage of it. Countless flatterers.

"I heard the two of you went looking for a surrogate. If it turns out to be two sons, would you mind if they grew up to be... lovers?" Fang Luo asked with a smile.

A dull, oppressive crack of a gunshot rang out, and a long, specially made sniper round went screaming through the curtain of rain, punching straight through the target's right eye and leaving a beautiful spray of blood mist hanging in the air.

Lighting a cigarette, Li Zhonghe smoked quietly. From the large sum of American dollars he had just swindled, he took out a hundred thousand, then called the waiter over and told him to bring Li Facai to him.

The eight directors, with Dong Fucai at their head, sat along both sides of the long conference table, while a row of people sat against the wall—the management personnel of the subsidiary companies.

Du Shaofeng had long since downloaded the several pieces of software he needed from his own online drive, among them scanning tools, vulnerability-injection discovery tools, and attack-detection tools.

Leaving behind One, Two, Three, Four, and Five—counting him, the eldest, a total of six children not yet nine years old—and letting them wander the streets on their own? Did they really take them for child prodigies and superhumans rolled into one? No need to worry about passersby picking fights or pickpockets slipping through the gaps?

This was merely a manufacturing statistical report for Wuwei Commandery alone, yet it reflected the trends of the entire game.

Still, relative to the magazine's sales figures, what they cared about more was—just what was the relationship between Si Yan and An Yichen?

"Li You, you're lying!" Dad said in a dark voice, his tone utterly certain. Hearing this, I raised my head in a fury born of shame. "I am not! If she was the one who said it, you'd believe her completely, and you'd agree to it for sure, wouldn't you?!" I pointed at Li Xiu, who was watching me, and spoke with bitter vehemence.

A single sentence scared Gongsun Wushuang's tears right back into her. Unfortunately, she was born without the slightest sense of danger—had she been any other cultivator, she would long since have been on her guard and preparing for battle, or else preparing to flee. Yet she merely stood there frozen, staring at Chu Yunxi with a face full of terror and panic.

So how could she possibly resist probing into this dark-horse potential stock that had defeated her own blue-chip one?

After playing around with Teddy and the others for a while and working up a sweat, he ran off to swim, which got the girls so restless they all headed to the changing rooms to put on swimsuits, then splashed about in the water with the two lasses. Laughter and the sound of splashing water carried far into the distance.

The players shouted in low voices, their volume modest yet exceptionally firm—they all wanted to send off their former comrade-in-arms with a beautiful match.