All Chapters of Once Upon a Time: Chapter 281 - Chapter 290

Mr. Huang stared at me as if he was surprised at my introduction. I smiled and stepped closer to him, offering a hand. "Well, I must say, as Huang Li's former classmate, I'm sorry to hear what she's gone through. Considering our friendship, I felt it right to come and meet you." With feigned embarrassment, I scratched my head, trying to look as sheepish as possible before I went on, "We're sorry we came empty-handed; we don't want to be untactful since you being in your office might attract a lot of unwanted attention."A look of comprehension broke on his face just as immediately before a slight hesitation, then he took my hand and shook it.The shake of hands was deliberate. Before this, my shaking hands with Huang Li, Cao Xuedong, or even Sergeant Zhan at the police's District Headquarters had always resulted in me experiencing hallucinations as soon as we came into contact. It was my own way so far of determining if anyone was a descendant of Tribe Nine

The end of the corridor was a particularly dark corner, hindering us from seeing who it was or what had been broken. Without even any signal from me this time, Na San charged again into the darkness with me screaming urgently, "Careful!" But Na San kept his pace as if he had not heard me.Fearing for his safety, I ordered my wolves to go with him. Then I grabbed Edelweiss's hand and we chased after him. The corridor was not a long one; it only looked long because of the shadows when it was but only a few paces to the stop.We reached the end to find the large glass pane smashed to bits and the night winds were pouring in like a dam being broken. The eerie silence was broken by the mad howling of the winds and the snapping of our clothes. We looked out and saw Zheng Shuang sipping nervously on his cigarette on below a nearby corner. I shouted at him, "Hey! Did you break this glass pane?" The sudden cry jolted him and he jumped. Then he instinctively looked u

Jin Qichen turned a hair, shifting from terror into anger and slammed his fist into Na San's face. Only what bothered me was, Na San was allowing himself to be beaten; the poor servant even tilted his face so that his master could get a better angle. But I could not stomach such abuse. So I got up, raised a foot, and shoved it at Jin Qichen's waist, causing him to lose balance and fall.Edelweiss looked equally perturbed herself. She drew nearer to Jin Qichen and was about to reciprocate the abuse he had inflicted on Na San, but Na San loped forward and wrapped his arms around her ankles, begging between chokes and sobs, "Please, My Lady! Mercy, please! His Highness has endured a terrible ordeal! Please, no more!" "All right, all right. Let go. It's unsightly for you to be hugging my wife's legs," I muttered smilingly with a hand on his shoulder to calm him and Na San quickly released his hold.I bent down and stared at Jin Qichen, whose eyes were filled wi

"Goddammit!" Edelweiss and I swore together. The doors grew wider and only then I fully noticed how different was the tenth floor this side to the tenth floor of the real world! The scene outside the elevator doors gave way to a black, empty space. The sprawl of office cubicles that stretched far carried webs of fissures and clefts that coursed jaggedly along the broken tiles on the floor and through them, one could see what laid underneath: a deep, black chasm of nothingness. So were the walls, I realized. Craggy cracks climbed the walls like vines and the same black hole of oblivion peeked from outside. It appeared as though the entire tenth floor of the Fog World was suspended in the midst of outer space.And right outside the elevator doors, some distance away from the office floor in the middle of this Lovecraftian dimension, was a gap. That was where Na San had plunged into!Edelweiss and I shared a grave look. The gap was easily more than fifty meter

I doubt anyone would feel pleased to find themselves in such a snag! Not anyone sane, at any rate! There was no time to think who this woman could be and with my fingers still held in the Seal of the Sword, I beckoned for my sword and it freed itself from the ground, zipping back to me in a swift, deadly arc and stopped right at the woman's throat.Then the impossible took place. My ordinary sword hovered dangerously close to the woman, just above her shoulder. Then something strange happened to her shoulder; the white fabric of her dress fluttered awkwardly as if she was smoke and fume drifting in an unnatural wind for a brief split-second and she, her pace hardly stopping, came nearer with every step as if she had not noticed the inexplicable phenomenon! Na San stepped courageously forward, shielding me but he did nothing else. He did not know how he should react too.Seeing Na San placing himself in front of me, the woman in ancient garb shuddered again