Chapter 46: Tenderness

At this moment, everyone stood ramrod straight, eyes fixed on their noses, noses pointed at their hearts.
“Captain, we’re being wronged here! The guys are doing somersaults—doesn’t that count as exercise?”
“Yeah, Captain, the kid was hungry, so I ran ten kilometers on foot just to buy him some snacks.”
“And me, I carried half a pig on my back…”
“Sister Yiyi, so you’re here! I’ve been looking all over for you!” Mo Lei came up behind me, a hint of complaint in his voice.

Inside the villa, Zhang Jianan and the others were waiting for Sheng Fenghua and Si Zhanbei. As for Gu Shaoyang, he had been locked up, his phone and everything else confiscated.

The sandstorm raged on until the next morning before it finally ceased. The Wrangler was almost buried up to its hubcaps in yellow sand, but our tent, sheltered beneath a thick canopy of trees, had only been covered by about half a foot of sand. Packing up our things and pushing the vehicle took us well into the morning.

As for the sorcerers serving the Turquoise City, they had recently been using “resolving grievances” to scare people. Whenever there was any conflict, they would immediately invoke the phrase, “This matter seems related to resolving old feuds,” and it worked every time.

However, just as Black Iron was about to make his move, a violent beam of golden light suddenly streaked from the horizon, crashing down fiercely on the fleeing Hao Chen.

“You have some nerve talking! You stole my man,” Feng Nuoxi, thinking her father had arrived and she now had backing, grew all the more pleased with herself.

In an instant, both doors slammed shut at the same time, locking James and the others inside, and the code immediately became invalid.

After ten years, Lou Cheng had become something of an old ghost himself, well-versed in the ways of the underworld, which made him the perfect person to answer Li Chang’an’s questions.

For some reason, after hearing that Xiao Ran was also going, I suddenly felt energized and really wanted to go too. But I had already turned them down, so I was embarrassed to speak up again—otherwise, Xu Jingru would surely get the wrong idea.

Meanwhile, Mo Yi felt his consciousness slipping away, overcome by an irresistible drowsiness, making him want nothing more than to surrender to sleep.

“This time the offer is a lot more sincere than the last. The split is seventy-thirty, a slight improvement, but still not good enough,” Miao Jueyang closed the agreement with a calm remark.

Everyone in the building looked at Chu Haoran as he walked in, their faces filled with surprise. After all, Chu Haoran hadn’t come to work in a month, and his sudden appearance drew all eyes to him at once.

“Haha! So this is the big boss of Auntie Town? Honestly, I think you’re not even as good as Auntie Town herself—at least she can shout a bit,” Gao Feng taunted me as I backed off.

“Then you knew he was up to something and still walked right into his trap?” My voice was tinged with urgency.

It could be said that half the rich young men in Donghai had dealings with Brother Snake. But no matter how much he advertised, there were still people he dared not touch. At most, he would just help those young masters bully the defenseless.

“How did you know I bought roast goose from Daqianmen? Even Da Huang’s nose isn’t as sharp as yours. Come on, let’s go inside! I’ll have a drink with you too,” I said, carrying the roast goose as I entered the house with Old Bai. Without another word, I tore into a goose leg.

“A token? Let me think. You know I’ve always been content with little, not one for material things, so I rarely carry much with me. Let me see what I can find. By the way, what are you planning for your friend? The cost of a blood transfusion is too high,” the Medicine King said, frowning in thought for a moment.

“From a microscopic perspective, animals are made up of particles, just like this world! Transmitting particles in a particle environment is like taking a high-speed train to another city in the macroscopic world. The principle doesn’t change; as long as we control the strength of interactions between particles, there’s no risk of disintegration!” Engineer Yang replied.