Volume 1, Chapter 24: Preparing for the Aftermath

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The bearded Night Elf looked at Yogg, the Night Elf with overgrown grass, and couldn't help but find it amusing. He thought to himself, "He still doesn't know that Razel has already married and moved to Darnassus."

This was likely because Eve had only focused on copying confidential data related to the cults from within the two major financial groups; there was simply no time to copy the vast amount of redundant data, and so those files were left behind.

Upon hearing Arthas's words, Invincible reared up, let out a loud neigh, and turned to gallop toward the distant wilderness.

The three top-tier classes in the senior year were in an uproar. The overachievers could not believe that a slacker from an ordinary class had suddenly emerged to take the top spot.

Some had planned to travel to distant places with friends; others had planned to spend seven days and seven nights with their long-distance partners; still others just wanted to stay home, or were forced to do so due to a lack of funds.

One can imagine how suffocating and blinding that incredibly dense gas must have been when a fog large enough to cover an entire hillside condensed into five clusters, each only ten meters in diameter.

Among the more than 1,400 people, the professionally trained soldiers appeared noticeably more composed than the others. In contrast, the ordinary citizens and students grew increasingly nervous as the vast herd of beasts approached, their hands trembling uncontrollably.

"Brother Hao, I’ve been selected as an exchange student too! I can go with you now, heh heh!" Hou Jialin rushed over to tell Jiang Hao on the way home from school.

After saying this, he switched off the sound-transmitting bamboo slip. Lan Yunchen didn't pay much mind to the connection being cut.

She was a shrewd woman. Once I was captured, she must have immediately sought out the reasons from various sources, eventually connecting with Xu Huizu. Upon learning that my arrest had nothing to do with harboring Daiqin, she immediately went to reach out to him—after all, he was a major benefactor, and it was worth keeping him on her side.

At this moment, she watched as several classmates scurried over to her father, using the opportunity to speak ill of her in a roundabout way.

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By the time the busy day finally ended, Yinxiang realized he hadn't yet written the letter to Niansheng; the hour for Guanzhu's dismissal from school had long since passed.

"Tell me, who did you come here with this time?" After finishing a cigarette, Lin Xuan asked slowly.

Xiao Yan subconsciously reached out and tugged at Xu Jinqiao’s sleeve, feeling a sudden surge of nervousness.

The naive assumed that Su Jinghui simply valued Nanny Rong highly, but those with deeper insight wondered: was this not Su Jinghui’s way of signaling that her people were not to be trifled with or taken by others at will?

Wu Chenglin and Wu Donghai’s expressions shifted drastically. They knew that Ye Xiangchen was powerful enough to rival some of the reclusive masters who never showed their faces.

Around the middle of the night, he seemed to be in distress. His body trembled uncontrollably, yet he tried hard to suppress it for fear of waking me. He climbed out of bed with soft, ginger movements, intending to go outside. I wasn't actually asleep, so I wrapped my arms around his waist from behind and rubbed my cheek against his back; he couldn't help but shudder visibly.

"Bring a basin of cold water and splash it on him. If he still doesn't wake up, we'll have to send him to the hospital," Qiao Yufan said thoughtfully.

Niansheng paused. She understood this logic perfectly well, which was why those thoughts were nothing more than wishful thinking. "If you weren't my older brother, and I were still myself, would it have been impossible for us to be together?" Niansheng asked softly.

But how could Qinglian and the Sword God be intimidated by the gazes of others? When they swept their icy glares across the crowd, the vast majority of those present bowed their heads, not daring to meet their eyes again.

Wuming had long anticipated their meeting. At the same time, he understood that their encounter was only a matter of time, as would be their eventual recognition of one another.

Hua had guessed correctly, but not entirely. He looked around and saw that there was nothing else left in the cavern hall, so he turned back. On the platform, the Soul-Bearer was circling the jade box, unable to look away. The demonic flower within the box had instantly stopped withering and was gradually regaining its vitality.

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He kept calling out Yaoxi’s name, his focused expression a mirror of Yaoxi’s own. Unfortunately, Yaoxi seemed to hear nothing; she offered no reaction to his calls.

By now, the people at the reception desk had been divided into two groups. The first group, those interviewing for the sales manager position, would be interviewed first; those applying for other roles handed in their completed forms and waited in line.

As soon as Shen Xiyi emerged, the first thing he saw was not his own subordinates, but the artillery battery across the river. The Flag of the Sun and Moon Shining Together was raised above it.

The army was not large—only three hundred men—but Zhu Houhuang treated these three hundred as the capital for his rise. No matter what one intends to do, having an army in one’s hand always makes things easier.

To keep the grand formation of humans and demons from breaking, the five demons had to be prevented from attacking, and the only way to achieve that was to disperse them with heavenly thunder.

"I don’t know what your relationship is, and I don’t want to know. All I know is that you’ve used such tactics to bring me to this place. I am very unhappy right now, so I want to leave. Do you understand?" Lin Ran said, feeling quite speechless.

"The maritime merchants are barely keeping their heads above water, and some can’t even afford their daily meals. If you masters continue to squeeze us, I fear Lingzhou will soon be filled with many more starving corpses!" the leader interrupted.