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Chapter 257 Knife in the Dark
CLANG! The house rang to the din of clashing steel. Lu Shengnan, who was earlier dumbstruck with surprise when I rushed upstairs, came up and rejoined us. She was just up the landing on the second story, just in time to see Lin Feng skipping back. His whip lunged forward from within his pouch to meet the woman's dagger that peeked with a cold gleam from her sleeves.
With her face covered, her eyes, looking oddly similar to Huang Li and Cao Xuedong, reflected neither compassion nor remorse. The right sleeve of her clothing flapped emptily without a forearm, but the tiny dagger gleamed from inside, aiming straight for Lin Feng's throat.
The tip of Lin Feng's whip came with intense force and fury. It snapped at the dagger thrusting at him and deflected it and Lin Feng immediately yanked at the whip, withdrawing it. The force sent the woman in black lurching from the force of her stroke being parried hard. But I knew better than to idle! Before she regained her
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Once Upon a Time Chapter 259 My Father and Master Six
I lighted a cigarette. But deep inside, I was grimacing quietly. Huang Li looked utterly ignorant about the woman in black. I jabbed a finger at the black plastic bag on the floor. "That is the souvenir left by a mysterious guest who came calling last night after we solved the problem at your house. Don't you want it back?"Huang Li's face convulsed into a disdainful moue. "I don't know what you're talking about," she muttered firmly and that made Lin Feng and I looked at each other again. "Oh yeah," I went on, "That guest has a stare that resembled both you and Cao Xuedong. So I wondered if you might know each other." Looking rather pale now, Huang Li hissed, "I don't know who you're referring to. And what have you done to Xuedong!?"Huang Li's apparent ignorance rather bothered me but it did not prevent me from keeping up my smile. "Well, since you insist that you don't know our mysterious guest. I guess we'd better just leave it at that. As to Cao Xuedon
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Once Upon a Time Chapter 261 Time-travel
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Our party of three young men and six female ghosts walked through the wormhole rimmed with sparkling lights that shone like diamonds. The familiar scene and sensation moved Lin Feng to tears. He wiped his wet eyes, gasping, "Oh, my God! I really thought we would be trapped forever in the past! I'm so relieved that we're back!"Recovering from the shock and consternation, we found ourselves in an empty stairwell. Lin Feng rubbed a hand on the steel railing and felt a hand emotionally on the wall peeling with paint. "It's true," his eyes were ringed scarlet and wet and he said, "We're really back! Steel railings and heating radiator, oh!" Lin Feng had always longed to return since we stepped into the past. We had spent such a long time there that we were beginning to forget how modern-day Wu Zhong looked like.I left Lin Feng to his histrionic revels about returning to the present and began looking around. It had been so long and we were losing touch with mod
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