Volume 1, Chapter 30: The Poisoning

Jiang Jinshu looked puzzled.

"What?"

Shen Nanyue spoke up.

"My ten thousand taels of silver. Since Tao Feng has betrayed me, I will no longer concern myself with his future. Give me back the money I gave you previously!"

It was nothing more than falling into a trap; by the time it was realized, there was no turning back, leaving no choice but to continue on this path until today.

Qin Tianci gradually unleashed his full strength, exerting his entire power to grapple with the divine monk Yikong, yet he could not make the slightest headway. Whether it was the "Hunyuan Lingxiao Arts," the "Marrow Cleansing Sutra," or the "Sinew Changing Sutra," every move and internal energy strike he launched was neutralized by the divine monk one by one. Qin Tianci suddenly found himself in an extremely perilous situation.

"Sun Yuqi is currently being held off by Captain Lin, so he probably cannot attend to them. It is best to let them stay in the cave for the time being; it is safer there," Su Hang said, leading Sanniang out.

However, once the balance is broken, no matter where it happens, it will inevitably churn the currently calm waters into raging waves.

Unfortunately, the Daoist master was far too ignorant of the nature of painted-skin ghosts. A painted-skin ghost is not human; if a human dies, the child in her womb dies with her, but that is not necessarily true for a painted-skin ghost. When a painted-skin ghost dies, her unborn child can continue to develop using the mother's flesh and blood until it bursts forth.

Once the bowl of soup spilled onto the ground, a pungent white smoke immediately rose from the floor, accompanied by a hissing sound, as if the wooden floorboards were being corroded. This was no sobering soup; it was nothing short of sulfuric acid.

"Let go of me, the medicine has already been applied..." She struggled, but with only her left hand capable of exerting force, she was like a mayfly trying to shake a tree in his presence.

But unlike Tong Guan, Gao Qiu could not achieve the "sharing of blessings and hardships" that Tong Guan did. Despite having dozens of generals under his command and an army of one hundred thousand, Gao Qiu’s favoritism meant that these one hundred thousand imperial troops were like scattered sand, each fighting for their own interests.

Liu Siyang could not figure it out, and Ji Ting told him that the princess had only one jade bracelet left on her wrist; later, it was discovered in the bag he carried with him and was handed over to the state.

At this moment, he hesitated. Chen Kang directly shook off Mr. Jia's arm and then grabbed the disheveled man on the ground, pulling him up.

A-Wei took the cigarette from behind his ear and handed it to Fourth Brother, sighed at him, and then walked into the shop alone.

Manbao was horrified, her gaze inevitably sliding toward the customers who were still eating. Were they alright? No, would their restaurant even be alright in the future?

Standing on the high-rise and looking down at the landfill, it was an eyesore beyond measure. Human bulldozers and excavators had mined less than one ten-thousandth of it. Abandoned buildings were time-consuming and labor-intensive to clear.

Ding Yuan immediately went to the technical department to provide the requirements. Once he returned and combined them with the scope provided by Luo Yin, he would be able to determine the order for Fang Jinshi’s investigation.

Although danger always dogged her steps, Mu Shangqing considered herself no porcelain doll; she was not so fragile as to require protection at every moment.

As a woman from the countryside, she had raised a PhD student in medicine; Jiang Ruo’s character and capability were beyond reproach.

Chu Nan swallowed hard. He had only ever seen zombies in Lin Zhengying's movies, and now, seeing a zombie for the first time while being tasked to eliminate it, Chu Nan felt both a touch of fear and a sense of anticipation.

The car at the entrance was none of her family’s, and certainly not her father’s. It bore out-of-province license plates; it was clearly an uninvited guest.

"What? Detention? What is going on?" Wen Luan was taking the fall for someone else—how could he be detained when nothing had been properly investigated?