Chapter 52 Breaking the Impasse

Yu Xiangsi, however, leaned back comfortably in her chair. "I've always believed that a great rule in our company is leaving a paper trail for everything. The handwriting on this handover slip is indeed mine, but this document is not the one I submitted."

"Nonsense!" Qiao Zhilin immediately retorted. "How can you prove that?"

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A strode over aggressively, the attack looking fierce, but Long Li merely flicked his fingernails, pivoted his body casually, and tripped the charging figure, sending the opponent sliding face-first across the floor.

Hearing that Zeng Guofan had returned, Li Chendian swept away all the gloom from his face, dropped to his knees, and kowtowed three times toward Tachibu.

Hearing this, Su Yunxiu smiled and nodded, greeting them neither servilely nor overbearingly. Then she picked up her wine glass, intending to toast, but was forcibly made to switch to coconut juice by him.

A cold wind slipped down my back, and in my thin attire, I shivered slightly. He silently draped a plain cotton long robe over my shoulders—it was his coat, and I caught a faint scent of mint mixed with fresh grass, clean and elegant.

"Our combat strength here is indeed a bit weaker than theirs, but their marksmanship is poor, and our grenades and incendiary bombs are more than sufficient. Don't worry about our casualties; doing it this way will actually minimize our losses. You go ahead first!" Ling Feng said.

Having finally waited for the heat on her face to subside, Su Yunxiu poured herself a glass of cold water and was about to drink when a warm body pressed against her back from behind.

The population of Luzon was small; the population of a single town was comparable only to that of a township administered by the Qing Dynasty. The bulk of the tax revenue essentially came from Vigan and the local merchants and artisans of Laoag.

First of all, these men were locals from Henan who had suffered enough at the hands of the roving bandits from Shaanxi. Following the Battle of Kaifeng, the Henan soldiers willing to surrender and pledge loyalty to Chen Shuren already held a certain degree of animosity toward the Shaanxi rebel army. Led by Yuan Shizhong, they would likely risk their lives to pledge their allegiance when fighting Zhang Xianzhong.

Mother Lin patted her hand soothingly, her voice slightly choked, and told him everything she knew from beginning to end.

Long Li could not fathom the intentions of King Xingye, but he guessed that the other party might take action, so he immediately mobilized his body's primordial energy to prepare for any response.

That day, when he received Rong Di's phone call—with his son telling him about his bizarre experience of switching bodies with a cat and the miraculous apartment—he finally realized that his son was living in his grandmother's house. It was then that he made up his mind to meet his mother.

"Understood, this servant knows." Yuling sighed, wishing fiercely that she could severely punish those wicked people.

The true physical body of Duan Chen, Immortal of the Dao, hovered high in the sky, silently watching the City Lord's Mansion below. He slowly released his divine consciousness to infiltrate and investigate, but the mansion was protected by operating arrays and defensive barriers, which actually managed to block his divine sense entirely.

Only halfway through the meal, for some unknown reason, Yuanxiao began to wail incessantly, and no matter how Murong An coaxed her, she could not be calmed.

"I never expected Uncle Liao Bing to have such a heavy taste," the wizard said, holding back a smile as he looked at him with an expression of admiration.

Lin Fengjiao was quite well-informed; after all, previously both Su Jingxiang and the Lin family had shown a subtle tendency to align themselves with Wen Yeyu's sphere of influence.

Amidst the battlefield, countless fighter jets plummeted from the sky, and missiles streaked toward the monsters.

Opposite the Ultra Brothers, the chest of Chaos Ultraman began to flash with a red light, and as Ultramen themselves, the Ultra Brothers naturally knew what a flashing color timer signified.

Thinking back to when she first met Duan Chen, his strength was already superior to hers. Later, the two of them entered the Northern Source Immortal Palace together, and Duan Chen remained far ahead, while she was forever left chasing his shadow.

The inner gardens within the garden and the nearby damaged houses and shops—all the repair costs for these would be covered by the deceased Tu Yuyan. After all, the current situation was entirely caused by him, and since he was completely alone without any relatives, all his assets would be contributed to the Xisan Garden.