Chapter 52: A Flagrant Provocation

“Of course. As long as you’re happy, Grandma will be happy too.”

At Old Madam Gu’s words, Lin Zhiyi smiled gently.

After signing the rental contract, Qiao Weiwei returned to find the three of them happily discussing the wedding.

Preferring to avoid making trouble, she decided to go straight to her room.

Seeing her come back, Lin Zhiyi’s lips curled into a faint smile. “Weiwei, are you free tomorrow? Could you come with me to try on wedding dresses?”

Besides feeling triumphant, I was already in high spirits, and this news made me even happier. The Mr. Chen before me seemed just like Comrade Lei Feng, doing nothing but good deeds.

“So you were originally living in Chaos City, until a monster captured you and turned you into a fish. And now that monster has taken your form and is impersonating you?” Tianqi recapped.

When they had gone to pay their respects after the wedding, Shen Yuechen had quietly calculated the journey. It would take no more than half an hour to get from the Zhu family to the Shen family, so an hour would be plenty for the round trip.

For a moment, I was caught between two choices. I wanted to get rid of this so-called Spirit Crone, but I also wanted to go back and protect my body. I was so anxious I felt drenched in sweat, yet not a drop had formed. I was a spirit, after all—how could I sweat?

I hadn’t brought anything with me. Of course, Tongtong and the money were essential; without them, I’d be just an ordinary person, helpless even against the weakest ghost.

She didn’t quite understand. Even if some of those who had once known medicine and alchemy were less able to absorb the knowledge passed down by their Valley of the Medicine King, surely there would still be some benefits.

Yes, he had forgotten just how much pain loving Ye Qianmo had brought him. But he couldn’t forget that he had once loved her. He wasn’t sure whether he still did; he only knew that he wanted her to be happy.

With a half-smile, Zhu Jintang said, “I won’t be going.” Then he bent down, took off his shoes, and lay half-reclined on the bed beside Shen Yuechen.

Excruciating pain surged through her as thousands upon thousands of needles, fine as ox hairs, pierced her body. With her cheek and jaw pressed down beneath a foot and cracking apart, Gu Yuehua nearly screamed herself to death.

Hearing Zelin’s words, Xiang Tianci showed no reaction, but Su Zisheng clenched his fists and watched her tensely.

“Because I have a way to make the people who follow me stronger, giving them a better chance of surviving in this apocalypse,” Zhang Jiayue said with absolute confidence.

“We’ve uploaded the data we observed to Houston. I hope it’ll be useful, but I can’t imagine how we could destroy this planet… with nuclear bombs? I think that may be our only option.”

“Heh. So after all that, you still need us? You’re not exactly making a good impression,” Bugs Bunny sneered.

Just as she was now, nestled in Brother Han’s warm embrace, yet unable to drive the chill from her body.

She was merely a little disheartened, but she understood that she wasn’t the Earth; not everyone would revolve around her.

“Brother, let’s find somewhere to rest.” She had already handed all her shopping bags to her brother to lighten her load, but after the ordeal in the haunted house, the emotional jolt of seeing someone who looked like him, and then walking around for a while, Xia Hanqing was indeed a little tired.

“Hmph! At least you know how to behave…” Qiuluke snorted at Liu Tianyi, then locked the family heirloom magazine away again and hid it somewhere no one could guess.

“Lord Augustine, did the Beast God say anything else? For instance, how we might get through this disaster?” Min Nuan paused, then asked. Perhaps the Beast God had given them some guidance.

Xia Lei’s words struck a chord with the others. Their job was simply to receive orders and carry them out; anything else was beyond their station.

On the other hand, earth-aspected spirit stone deposits were the rarest of all. Even unaligned spirit stones were more common. Most earth-aspected spiritual energy was scattered through the ground, with only a little in the air, and places with earth-aspected spirit stone deposits usually had earth-aspected spirit treasures as well.