Chapter 156: The Exchange

As General Manager Li’s voice rang out, Feng Su immediately turned around, his eyes lighting up.

“Weiwei, you finally came.”

“I wasn’t here, and you still seemed to be having a wonderful time.” Li Jiuwei teased him, casting a casual glance around.

Feng Su put an arm around Li Jiuwei and led her forward. The two were so intimate that outsiders could hardly find a way to intrude.

Gambling on stones was an entertaining pursuit—provided one either had money or possessed the necessary skill.

When it came to stone gambling, Zhou Hui had experience—

Le Bing suddenly bit down hard on her lip. The pain sharpened her awareness. She remembered what the spatial bowl could do, and concentrated all her magical power on activating it. The power within her body began to whirl frantically.

Fang Zheng tilted his head toward the sky and said, “It came from wherever it was supposed to come from.” There was no helping it; some things were impossible to explain, so he might as well make up something offhand.

Even if the Zheng family learned of what had happened and resolved to avenge Zheng Yong, the forces they could dispatch would only be able to intercept the major roads and deal with the various powerful factions. No one would search the mountainside. No one would imagine that Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun, those two “murderers,” would take such a long detour, traveling along so many pointless roads.

After saying this, Shangguan Fei looked at Yu Wei with emotionless eyes. Yu Wei stood frozen in place as she watched him stride away. At that moment, her heart seemed to be crushed, leaving her unable to breathe, as though she were about to die.

Yet in the next instant, they all collapsed onto the ground, completely drained of strength. What was happening?

That force of gravity was terrifyingly strong. It sucked so hard that all the skin on her body creased, bending her entire form nearly double. She tried desperately to struggle, but she could not summon even the slightest bit of strength.

“No… No! Let go! Let go! I’ll let you go, so release me first!” Le Lan cried out in alarm, hurriedly explaining herself. When she had moved just now, she had felt a faint stinging in her skin, and the place seemed slightly damp.

Yu Weiyan suddenly felt a little desolate. For someone like her, how difficult must it be to find a person who truly loved her in return?

“Hehe, it was my fault to keep my beloved consort waiting so long.” As Baili Wuyou spoke, he stretched out his long arm and drew Consort Qin’s delicate, boneless body into his embrace.

In this way, he had completed the thought that had arisen after his moment of impulse. Scorpion would no longer spend his life bound to the fate of being forcibly killed as he had been before.

Come to think of it, things were still fairly decent for now. The media retained at least a little integrity. Once the entertainment industry became more developed in a few years, all sorts of extraordinary things would happen. Some celebrities who had poor relations with the media would be vilified beyond recognition, while others would wage vicious public battles with reporters amid a storm of sensational drama.

“That makes sense! Con artists these days never do things the ordinary way. They use all kinds of methods, and some of them are unbelievably extravagant…” Father Lin nodded emphatically in agreement.

That was why the statues of so many Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Vajra warriors, and Arhats were usually depicted in one of four expressions: compassion, wrath, smiles, or sorrow.

Tang You’er lowered her head helplessly, yet she still could not suppress the tremor in her heart, as though the rain that night had disturbed the ripples across a tranquil pond.

Hearing this, the convoy leader hurriedly said, “Others may not know who that mysterious support-class professional is, but I was right beside Luo Yi just now and saw it with my own eyes. With a single lift of his hand, he caused the captain of the adventuring party—who had been on the verge of defeat—to surge instantly in combat strength and crush his opponent.”

Reminded by Luo Yi, everyone abruptly came back to their senses. At that moment, nothing was more important than opening the treasure chest.

Chen Cao said nothing as he listened, but he was reminded of the Nine-Faced Laughing Fox’s words: the Old Ghost was playing an enormous game of chess.

“My heavens!” Rodney’s eyes were already moist, while Elma had long since collapsed against his back, sobbing.

Her face had been pitted and covered in scars, hideously disfigured. How could it have—after only two days—recovered into a beauty with the appearance of a celestial maiden?

“General Manager Wang, you can rest assured. Every prime advertising location in Ji’an City is under our control.” Lü Chaohui made the guarantee with absolute confidence.