latelenovela Chapter 427
Chapter 427
The meaning is very clear: your life is now in my hands.
Seeing that the other party had been knocked away, Fang Qianqian quickly did a somersault to her feet and looked at the two of them warily.
"Fang Qianqian," Zhong Ming was interrupted halfway through his sentence.
Fang Qianqian shouted, "Don't move! Prove you're who you are first!" Her imposing manner was evident as she drew her ring-shaped sword and lowered her stance, displaying a similar air of authority to her sister.
Zhong Ming's hand flashed, and the Cold Strike of Spring appeared in his hand. He raised his hand to strike.
Upon seeing the sudden cold snap, Fang Qianqian's momentum immediately vanished, and she swiftly hid in a corner.
"Captain, Captain, you're here? Who is this person...?"
Suddenly, the old woman's voice came from outside, "Young man, please don't damage my things while you're catching the thief! They're very valuable!"
The old woman chose to protect her property over fleeing.
We don't have many years left to live, what are we afraid of? If there's money, take it; if not, we'll just die here.
The old woman mustered her courage and peeked out from behind, only to see a gleaming hook-and-sickle spear and a menacing ring-pommel sword, ready to demolish houses and break pillars. Just one glance was enough to send a surge of anger through her; a sharp pain shot through her chest, and she collapsed to the ground, repeatedly crying out, "Ouch!"
Zhong Ming had no intention of provoking a conflict. The relationships within Cliff City were too complex and intertwined. He took back his weapon and then said in a voice loud enough for the whole room to hear, "Since we're all on the same side, let's talk again when we get back."
"Captain, this..." Fang Qianqian found it hard to accept, because he was just a hair's breadth away from having his neck pierced.
He had absolutely no trust in this guy wearing the bell-shaped scale armor.
"This is an order. Who dares to disobey?"
Fang Qianqian instinctively walked quickly behind Zhong Ming, unkindly using him as a barrier, and glared unkindly at the guy in the scale armor.
She obediently sat back in her wheelchair, but showed no intention of moving.
Zhong Ming knew very well that returning to the camp had to be done secretly, mainly because his castle was now gone, which was causing some trouble.
"Fang Qianqian, go back and tell your sister that our Third Guard Team needs proper accommodations."
"Okay, Captain, but don't we have half a castle to live in?"
"It collapsed."
"Oh, ah? How many people from that construction team will end up in jail?" Fang Qianqian looked at Zhong Ming in shock. "I've only been out for a few days and my family is already gone?"
Wait, how many days have I been out? Those buildings are really something else, they've left me a bit confused and I can't tell the time anymore.
"It's a long story. Go and pester your sister. Even if you're locked up, you can't live in the open, right? I can stay in the maintenance team, but the other team members need to have accommodation too."
“Yeah, me and Youcai… Hey, Captain, so is this guy our new team member?” Fang Qianqian’s hostility lessened a bit; if she was wary before, she was suspicious now.
"No, no, it was an accident, that's all." Zhong Ming walked behind her helplessly and began to push the wheelchair.
"Oh, by the way, give me some money."
"Huh? Captain, you're short of money?"
Fang Qianqian was slapped as soon as she finished speaking. "I told you to give her two pieces of money!"
Nearby, a young woman was slumped against the wall, while the old woman had been calling out at the door for a while, her voice booming and powerful, practically screaming "I'll pay you back!"
So, a few shiny gold things appeared on the bed.
.....
The three of them arrived at a fork in the road. Zhong Ming said to Fang Qianqian behind him, "You go back first. Your sister needs to talk to you. I have to go to the military merit point exchange office to take care of something. I'll be back in a few hours."
Fang Qianqian left without any suspicion. Zhong Ming turned around, chuckled to himself, and tapped her on the head.
"Now, you are my clone, understand?"
She nodded obediently, and then she heard Zhong Ming shamelessly say, "So you should generate some gold coins first."
Miss Yao: ? ? ?
"Why are you looking at me? I've used all my spirit stones to treat illnesses. If I could be cured directly, why would I be in a wheelchair?"
She turned her head and looked Zhong Ming up and down. Although her face was obscured by the helmet, her meaning was clear.
'You need a wheelchair even like this?'
Zhong Ming hummed twice and began to mutter, "This is all for your own good. I have to buy a clone technique, right? This money is for your cover, isn't it?" "I don't know how to create paper clones." "You know what the Yanlang Army's exchange shop gives out; they only give one-time jade slips. If you want to teach someone after learning, you either have to spend years painstakingly organizing the knowledge and patiently guiding your apprentice, or you have to learn how to make jade slips yourself. I can't do either of those."...
Zhong Ming kept talking as he walked, occasionally leaning close to her ear and speaking in a randomly varying distance.
At first, she was annoyed and gradually became irritated. Then, other sounds seemed to begin to echo from within the gray-white scales. Under the continuous onslaught of layers of sound waves, she clearly realized what it meant to "pay money to buy peace and quiet".
'I've never seen such an annoying person in the entire Scarlet Cloud Pavilion.' She wanted to use a seductive spell on him right then and there, but before, Zhong Ming was wearing a helmet, so the effect of the seductive spell might have been blocked. Now that she was wearing a helmet and walking on the streets of Cliff City, she didn't dare to take it off at all.
Helpless, she took out her little pipe, tapped it lightly, and a spirit stone fell out of the tobacco bowl.
Zhong Ming's eyes widened when he saw it.
"What kind of treasure is this? Quick, tap it a few more times."
She looked at him as if he were a fool. 'There's a storage stone hidden inside? Is that some incredible secret?'
This guy is ugly and has wild ways of doing things, but he's a decent person.
She tossed it gently, and Zhong Ming immediately caught the flying spirit stone. It was a high-grade spirit stone, very good, hehe.
The paper doll clone spell is a practical spell that everyone knows, so it shouldn't cost too many military merit points, right?
He pondered for a moment, then remembered that the paper doll clone didn't need to be "crafted" separately and placed inside the armor; that must be a high-end method of clone crafting. And then...
She's started rambling again.
Twenty minutes later, the two of them arrived at the entrance of the merit point exchange hall. Zhong Ming held three high-grade spirit stones in his hand and looked at Miss Yao sitting in the wheelchair with delight.
This isn't just a wanted criminal, this is a wealthy tycoon.