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Chapter 104 Inside the Pagoda 2 Despite this, I still hoped He Yu would put the knife down, but he refused, saying he felt more at ease "interrogating" with the blade already in place. People in this line of work really love waving weapons around, and I couldn't talk him out of it at all. So as soon as Tian Xiaoqi regained even a shred of consciousness, He Yu pinned her shoulder with one hand, the sharp blade of the combat knife resting against the fabric of her collar, a technique used to prevent…- 540.0 K • Completed
- Chapter 105: Inside the Pagoda 3 At the mention of this, we all fell silent. He Yu shot me several looks, and as we exchanged glances, both of us knew the other had plenty of thoughts running through their mind. But since we considered Tian Xiaoqi an outsider, none of those thoughts could be voiced right now. Tian Xiaoqi spoke with such sincerity that I took her word for it for now. As Tian Xiao's biological grandson, Tian Yuqing had been shipped abroad by his grandfather before he even turned…
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- Chapter 100: Xiaoqi's Suspicion Before I could react, I heard a sharp crack from my knee. It was clear the anesthesia had started to take effect, because I didn’t feel any pain. Still, the sound echoed in my ears and made my teeth ache just listening to it. Tian Xiaoqi clapped her hands and stood up, tossing me some bread from her bag. After taking a swig from her canteen, she said, “Take off the top of your wetsuit. I need to check the wound on your back.” I froze for a second, thinking how…
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- Chapter 93: The Burial Coffin Later, the two of us chatted some more, and I realized that He Yu had an extremely stereotyped view of the Lu Clan. It was so intense that I started to wonder if someone from a branch of the Lu Clan had offended his family in the past. Otherwise, where would all that resentment come from? Chen Canghai turned out to be pretty skilled at wilderness survival. I had been too caught up in conversation to notice earlier, but now I realized the pile of coffin boards we used to…
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- Chapter 94: Infant Corpse I was at the back of the group. Just one glance at He Yu’s reaction after seeing what was inside the coffin, and I knew something was seriously wrong. He had spent a full twenty minutes earlier with a waterlogged corpse without so much as flinching, but now he was sucking in a sharp breath. That told me whatever was in this coffin might be beyond what I could handle. But I had already walked over. The moment I peeked inside, my stomach turned violently. What lay in…
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- Chapter 95: A Strange Message I lunged forward so fast that both my hands barely managed to grab one of Chen Canghai’s. After these recent ordeals, my upper body strength had clearly improved a lot. But I was panicking. With so many loose stones already falling from the edge, it was obvious that the rock here was unstable and brittle. If I pulled too slowly, the next to fall might be the two of us, so I was desperate to haul Chen Canghai up. So I shouted at him, “Give me your other hand too!…
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- Chapter 97: Encountering the Infant Corpse Again The process had been grueling, but I’d finally figured out the pattern. With that, things became much easier. Chen Canghai would jump first, then it’d be my turn. I stood in place, watching him arc gracefully through the air in a perfect parabola, feeling intensely envious. Why was everyone so damn capable? It was like I was the only clueless idiot on the entire ship. I crouched slightly and slowly edged toward the rim of the stone pillar…
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- Chapter 98: The Same Tunnel When I woke up in the tunnel again, I had no idea how much time had passed. I had collapsed inside without any warning, head facing inward and feet pointing out, still frozen in my last crawling posture. I lay there for a while. At first, I thought I’d arrived in the underworld, but when I realized I wasn’t dead, I sat up too fast and nearly scraped my head on the ceiling of the tunnel. My back felt cold. I shifted my shoulders slightly and noticed I couldn’t…
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