Chapter 136: The Hot Commodity

Bei Yu was trying to ingratiate herself with her. She had already succeeded in making Jiang Jiuyue lower her guard.

In this other world, meeting someone from the modern era was exceedingly rare, so Jiang Jiuyue did not reveal much about her own origins.

She merely told Bei Yu that after crossing into this world, she had become a cannon-fodder character.

“Why can’t a cannon-fodder character become the protagonist through her own abilities? I insist on being different.”

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Karl and the others were livid with rage. Several hot-tempered men were about to rush out and thrash the group, but Karl hurriedly held them back.

Only after reaching the top floor of the building did Jiang Hua realize that this was no ordinary rooftop. There was a huge glass enclosure, as well as many police officers standing guard.

This kind of patrol was effective in every respect; the only areas where it was unsuitable were towns, buildings in metropolitan districts, and mountainous terrain with extreme changes in elevation.

Sam and the others opened all the bags and emptied out their inner compartments. They found a wad of cotton cloth stuffed into the innermost part of one bag. The cloth was still damp, suggesting that someone had set it alight, sprinkled water over it, and then put it into the bag.

When the Zichou Immortal saw his precious treasure split apart by the lightning strike, he lost all reason and charged forward like a madman, intent on fighting to the death. The generals beside Mo Yun and a group of elite heavenly soldiers seized the opportunity to swarm him, restrain him, and bind him.

If others demanded entry afterward, he would have no way to explain himself to them.

“My golden hammers!” He looked around frantically, searching every inch of the water prison, but could not find the pair of golden hammers anywhere.

Gu Lingjin did not see Mo Xiao appear at all that evening. The person who brought him his medicine was Yuan Ning, which genuinely surprised him. Could it be that Mo Xiao was angry because of what had happened during the day?

It had calculated that although its opponent’s sword aura was formidable, it was not powerful enough to kill it instantly. Even if it had to endure a sword strike, it would still kill the formidable enemy before it.

Dr. August’s face had turned green. He was drenched in sweat and appeared to have very little strength left.

A human corpse, its chest split open and its entire body severely decomposed, lay on the operating table. Surgical instruments still protruded from the gaping abdomen. On a tray atop a nearby trolley lay a section of intestine that had been removed, one end extending all the way back into the corpse’s stomach.

Although his prestige and power in Nanjing were unrivaled for the moment, could he truly contend with those veteran aristocrats who had accumulated decades of influence, wealth, strength, connections, and family standing?

Although it was Liu Biao who had issued the provocation, why had Liu Biao done so in the first place? Wasn’t it because Qin Fang had distributed rewards to everyone else while singling Liu Biao out and throwing him aside?

In the Heavenly Balance Pavilion of the Tianyi Sect, there were no pill recipes intended for Core Formation cultivators. However, recipes for pills used by Foundation Establishment cultivators, as well as formulas for common medicines, were available.

Since the entire twenty-fourth floor was reserved exclusively for the company president’s offices, it was exceptionally quiet—so quiet that it was faintly terrifying.

There was another advantage as well: Jiaozhou lay at the extreme south and bordered no one. Once Sun Jian obtained it, it would belong exclusively to him, and the risk of it being seized would be relatively low.

Besides, the two had known each other for some time. Beyond their employer-and-contractor relationship, they were also fairly close online friends.

The true spark, however, had been an incident that occurred seventy years earlier. The mages of the Holy School captured a deity possessing weak divine power and sealed it inside a massive artificial magical crystal. Using super-magical-conduction technology, they transformed the divine power it emitted into pure magic power.

Lyu Yang studied at a municipal model school more than a hundred and fifty kilometers from home. With transportation so inconvenient, the round trip took at least half a day.

Of course he knew. It was just that the final outcome had been fine and was exactly what he wanted. Wasn’t that a good thing?

No wonder Qiao’er was like that. In this day and age, even learning a trade capable of supporting a family required selling oneself into servitude for three years.

He spent another several tens of thousands of yuan to acquire a cutting machine, then selected several pieces of material that were not particularly valuable.