Chapter 129: Sealing the Artifact

At the very instant the innocent little girl’s laughter rang out, Miao Jinyue felt a sharp pain in her heart. It was as though something connected to her heart had been forcibly torn away, like a piece of flesh ripped directly from it. An agonized, horrifying scream escaped her lips involuntarily.

Her legs gave way, and she nearly collapsed. When she lowered her head, she saw that the plain white dress across her chest had already been soaked crimson with blood.

The puppet doll in Lu Chenyuan’s arms, its tiny wooden hands—

When the car stopped at the entrance of the building, Jia Fengchun opened the door and stepped out before the driver could even get down, then went straight inside.

“What do you mean, making trouble for no reason? This isn’t a fair contest at all!” Li Tian roared.

He fed the reporters a mouthful of official platitudes and empty formalities. The truth, of course, was that Spark Technology had placed its settlement accounts and its interbank and cross-border payments with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

Tossing and turning, sighing again and again—there had been far too many separations and deaths, far too many tragic stories, during this recent stretch of time. They had filled him with an indescribable fear. Life was truly fragile; if one more misfortune befell him, it would all be over.

“No one should be able to help you, Director Chang. Who’s going to take responsibility when something this serious happens? If you put other people’s work under your own name, then when everything blows up, you’ll have to bear the consequences!” Shang Yang said with an ambiguous smile.

The moment his voice faded, footsteps suddenly rang out. A man wearing a level-three helmet and carrying a level-three backpack began circling the house.

Lu Jinming spread his hands. “This thing is a particle battery. At present, we truly have no way to deal with it.”

It was estimated that after mining for a month, Spark Mining Company would have an output worth as much as eighty trillion dollars.

“You—you really are… Who are you? How can you project your internal energy outward?” Yao Guiyi did not answer Qin Mu. Instead, he questioned him in return. He had to figure this out, because it would determine whether he should flee immediately or continue attacking Qin Mu.

His head gave a sudden buzz, humming like countless bees circling around him. Wang Liu’s words—“He went through your bag”—kept repeating over and over in his mind.

Andrew saw that the beastmen were still standing there in a daze. He walked straight over, snatched the roasted meat from their hands, and then led his companions off to the side to eat. The beastmen whose food had been stolen stared at the meal they had worked so hard to obtain, unable to believe that it had simply vanished.

The next day, Ye Weilan rose early and prepared a lavish breakfast. After the family of four had finished eating, Qi Ye went off to attend to business while Ye Weilan took the two children out.

She had made something shaped like a spear, but felt that it was not powerful enough, so she made a slight improvement. When used to attack someone, it looked like an ordinary spear on the surface. But as soon as a certain button was pressed, a string of iron needles would shoot from its tip, catching the enemy completely off guard.

The two of them carefully pointed out the locations to Ling Luoyu and told her where the trees and undergrowth had suffered the most damage.

Before they even landed, they could already see from a distance that the Seventh Hall, once clean and orderly, was drenched in blood.

The guards around Li Moying also drew their weapons at once, forming a defensive formation in front of him.

As traces of the Azure Lotus spiritual light flowed into him little by little, Jiutian felt a chill spread through his abdomen.

Several other phoenixes in the clan had eaten multiple pieces of fried chicken, but from beginning to end, he had eaten only three drumsticks.

Upon hearing this, Shuangzhi raised her head slightly and glanced at Master Fu. Was it unexpected? In truth, Father clearly understood that Huang An’s death in their shop was highly unusual. He had merely endured it because he did not want to confront Prince Yu directly.

After finishing the cards for all her acquaintances, Chu Yue suddenly remembered that she seemed never to have sent New Year’s greeting cards in return to her former patients. Perhaps that was why, this year, hardly any patients had sent her New Year’s greeting cards.

Yun’er had spent three years in the Mountain God Temple without ever descending the mountain. Now that she had come to the town, she felt as though she had returned to the human world. Moved by the sight before her, she could not help thinking of everything she had experienced over those three years, and her heart grew heavy. Ye Shaoyang noticed that something was wrong with her mood and comforted her for a while.