Volume One, Chapter 34: The Duel Arena
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The following afternoon, after school, Jiang Buyue took two bottles of Fatty Happy Water from the system shop and handed them to Fatty.
“This stuff is terribly expensive, so treasure it!” Jiang Buyue said.
Fatty also knew the drink was no ordinary beverage. He agreed at once, secretly resolving to investigate its origins thoroughly once he got home. How could something taste so good?
Jiang Buyue browsed the Starfire Forum for a long while, watching countless videos.
From one of them, he learned of a place where one could rapidly increase one’s strength.
Night fell.
In a corner of the city, Jiang Buyue followed the flow of people into a building.
Wearing the Crossing Calamity Mask, he moved through the crowd like an invisible man...
Under the present circumstances, living on the first floor was extremely unsafe. If someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night, they might be another player from outside.
I immediately raised the Type 38 rifle and aimed it at the person who looked exactly like Qin Ge. It was utterly unbelievable. How could someone who had already died—someone who had been thrown into the abyss of a cliff—possibly come back to life?
However, the subtitles seemed much the same as those he had seen earlier at the food-processing plant, except that an additional advertisement had been inserted. Gu Mian had no idea what practical function the latest version had added.
Luo Yi, however, looked down on him a little. The man had not even thought of going to look for the missing person, and was doing nothing but anxiously fretting here.
In the quiet darkness, the only sound was the ticking of the clock. Luo Yi, having already changed clothes, pursed her lips and turned over into another position.
Shui Lin was no fool, either. Before leaving, he had poured the fish soup behind a nearby tree. That way, even if anyone investigated, nothing would lead back to them.
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No—instead, it was those mountain spirits that had pinned down the flashlight lying on the ground. Its beam vanished, and darkness returned.
Hu Dingbian sat on a soft sofa with one leg crossed over the other, rubbing a blue-and-white porcelain teacup in his hand.
As for the suspects who had been arrested, someone had organized the evidence and mailed it to their police station, even specifying the time they should go to Number 18 Jiangcheng Road to make the arrests.
The reflection on his glasses concealed his eyes, but judging from the aura surrounding him, he was clearly still in a somewhat irritated mood.
The moment he reached the foot of the mountain, countless martial heroes came rushing in from every direction. There were Taoists from the Supreme Temple, their robes starkly contrasting in black and white, the twin curves of the Taiji symbol upon them; monks from Mercy Voyage Temple, carrying khakkhara staffs and clad in kasayas; and disciples of the Heavenly Firmament Sect, dashing and elegant, with four-colored sword patterns. The gathering was so vast that it defied enumeration.
“How is it? Do you still want me to lie down while you take me to the hospital?”
After knocking down more than a dozen thugs, Lin Tian walked up to Zhuang Dabao with a broad smile and asked the question.
At that moment, the Cloud Mirror displayed the names of every contestant, along with the distribution of their opponents.
If Wu Tian’s former environment had been a kindergarten, then this place was a university. Wu Tian could once dominate a kindergarten, but after arriving at a university, he might not even rank among the weakest.
Nanxi stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, just as he had once encouraged her before their grandfather. A close relative had suddenly become like this, and they could all feel the same grief.
That was why Yin Xue remained on the deck of the cruise ship, watching the place from which they had departed and waiting in the hope that Lin Tian would return.
The control console had failed, so naturally he could no longer control the antimatter thrusters of the Red Dawn heavy combat mech. Yet the fact that the thrusters could not be controlled through the sensors did not mean Qin Ming would simply give up.
From scattered remarks in the past, Lin Fei had gathered that Jax was leading a mercenary group on an extremely difficult mission in Shurima. But wasn’t Jax supposed to be incredibly powerful? Why had he run into trouble—trouble serious enough to require Sivir to hurry back?
Lin Tian was involuntarily dragged along by the force of attraction, slowly moving toward Jing Hu.
When Cheng Lingzhi was brought out of the intensive-care ward, she had not yet regained consciousness. She was still wearing an oxygen mask, and her face was deathly pale. Situ Haoyu sat beside the hospital bed and reached out to touch her cheek, finding it cold.
Dragging her suitcase, she struggled toward the exit. It was early spring, and the weather was still chilly, yet her forehead was already covered in fine beads of sweat. Whether from exhaustion or urgency, no one could say.
Hearing this, the Tiger curled his lip. His expression seemed to say that even a demon of the underworld had become a hero in someone’s heart—birds of a feather flock together.
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It was not restraint, but composure. Let him be as overbearing as he pleased; to me, it was no more than a breeze brushing a mountain ridge. Of course, one still had to remain vigilant. Even if no conflict arose this time, there was no guarantee there would not be one the next.
“Brother Bi, I’m going to have some fun.”
With that, Huang Yun vaulted onto her horse and pulled the reins. The horse cried out in pain, then sprang forward at full gallop, racing down the main road like the wind. In the blink of an eye, it had covered dozens of yards.
Meanwhile, Dong Zhuo’s surviving followers—Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou, who had fled to Shaanxi—sent messengers to Chang’an to submit a petition for amnesty. They declared that they were willing to surrender all their troops and horses in exchange for the imperial court’s pardon.
Chunyu Pipi suddenly became coy. Her slender fingers twisted the hem of her clothes, and even her cheeks took on a faint blush.
In recent days, however, the Pale-Eyed Condor Shangguan Juwo had not visited the Fifth Concubine’s quarters for quite some time. He spent his days sitting in his room with a gloomy expression, and no one knew why.
Fortunately, his strategist had offered him another idea. Though it sounded rather contemptible, if it succeeded, Lin Ruyu would become his plaything. Then he could toy with her however he wished, use whatever posture he liked, and take her whenever he pleased.
A primal force burst from Chen Xiao’s body, instantly blasting away the hundreds of venomous snakes wrapped around Chen Xiaoyu. Snakes could not howl, but under that tremendous power, all hundreds of them burst apart. Blood sprayed in every direction, their bodies shattered into countless fragments that spattered across Chen Xiao.
Behind the rocky platform was a passageway. Through it, one could see a mountain valley enclosed on all sides by peaks. In the valley stood an old house built in the style of a traditional northern Chinese courtyard residence.
A hallucination? So that was it...
I breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did I realize how violently my heart was pounding. My entire body was drenched in cold sweat; it must all have been caused by what I had experienced in the hallucination.
“Why haven’t the insectoids invaded this place?”
Lei Jie suddenly thought of the question. He pondered it for quite some time but could not find the crucial point, and eventually had no choice but to let it go.
She drew in a breath and consoled herself. Triumph Base offered a bewildering variety of allowances. Although she had spent her special-mission allowance this time, she still had her rank allowance, position allowance, and various contribution allowances.
After the meeting came the welcoming banquet. Everyone appeared to be eating with great enjoyment, and from their conversations, it was clear how much they missed the food at Triumph Base.
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