Chapter 35: The Common Fear of One's Wife

The Prime Minister’s residence was sealed, its property confiscated, and the members of the Yuan family nearly found themselves sleeping on the streets. Fortunately, Yuan Jinjin still had a little money left.

That night, they made do at an inn.

“Father, Mother, what on earth happened? How could His Majesty suddenly change his mind and forbid you from leaving the capital, then confiscate all our family’s property?” Yuan Jinjin still knew nothing about what had happened that day.

Yuan Shangwu slammed his hand onto the table. “Isn’t it all because of that idiot Yuan Peipei? Father—

“The Heavenly Thunder Pass tests the body, while the Earthly Fire Pass tempers the heart... When I was young, these old bones of mine once challenged it as well...” Lei Chan seemed to have been stirred by memories of the past, and could not help murmuring with a sigh.

But the bandits of Phoenix Mountain were no pushovers either. She knew that the Japanese soldiers had nothing on them but a pair of trousers, and with fewer than thirty men, they were badly outnumbered by the more than five hundred bandits. Their fighting strength was therefore quite limited.

“Uh... should we fight or not?” Jiang Yang gazed at the insects before him and began to hesitate.

“I understand now, Brigade Commander. You’re worried that our troops will become locked in positional warfare with the Japanese devils. If that happens, the enemy’s artillery and aircraft will finally have room to show their strength!” Lu Shanzi immediately slapped his forehead and said this to Tao Ping.

Hearing Hamo’s words, even Nicholas, who usually contradicted him at every turn, did not argue. Instead, he lowered his head and fell into thought.

Xia Guoqiang was very satisfied as well. After all, this was not a professional shooting range, and the results were greatly affected by external conditions. To achieve such a score was already quite impressive.

Because spellcasters were so rare, the battles fought by the overwhelming majority of players still remained at the physical level—simply exchanging blows with blades and guns. It was not unusual to occasionally see a mage cast a spell, but a scene like this, in which someone was burned to ashes merely by a pat on the shoulder, was probably something more than ninety-nine percent of the players had never witnessed.

“Nuan Nuan, are we really going to look for Tao Bao? He’s busy flirting with girls. Wouldn’t it be inappropriate for us to go?” Gao Yan asked.

Only now did Xu Zhijie realize that all his previous work had been in vain. As long as he gave Phantom Dragon his design concepts, Phantom Dragon could use its own strengths to produce the finished product. All that effort he had spent entering the microscopic world had been completely unnecessary.

In a magnificent residence not far from the Linzhou branch of the Hongwei Escort Agency, a richly dressed middle-aged man sat in the seat of honor. Beside him sat another middle-aged man who resembled him to some seven-tenths, and the two appeared to be speaking in hushed voices.

Her body had not yet recovered. Although she had not done anything strenuous, she was still slightly worn out after a full day.

“Can you tell me something more specific? I really want to know what exactly happened,” Xiao Yi said.

He watched with extraordinary concentration and care. To an outsider, it was an extremely strange sight.

The Monkey and I each carried Liu Changting and Zhao Chunfeng into the car. Liu Changting wore an expression of terror, while Zhao Chunfeng still had his eyes closed, and it was impossible to tell whether he was alive or dead. At least his nose had stopped bleeding. Once we were seated, Ma Jie started the car and sped forward.

On the fourth day, ninety thousand troops of the Green-and-White Army and ten thousand Imperial Cavalry stood outside the city gates, facing off against two hundred thousand soldiers of the Situ Army. The battle continued until dusk, with both sides suffering roughly equal losses. The Imperial Cavalry, however, was almost completely unharmed.

Although everyone held spirit stones in their hands and restored their magical power while fighting, the spiritual energy they absorbed was still somewhat insufficient.

Ye Yunshi held the pure-gold name card in her hand. It bore no title, only the name Su Wuming, yet she treated it as the lifeline that would enable her to rise and carefully slipped it into her handbag.

When I saw the text message, I was both amused and exasperated. I had never even taken her in—so what was there to say about being banished to the cold palace?

I glanced back at the Monkey and the others. They were all gathered around Marshal Feng and had not noticed the change on my side.

Ye Xi clenched her fist and thought bitterly, “If I had known, I would have taken a few more pictures of those stones just now.” After offsetting the cost of her earlier purchase, she would still have had some left over. Zhai Tiancheng could not help laughing.