The sea-sinew ropes bundled into balls looked space-consuming but were actually very light, which explained why the fourth truck's total weight was only just over 10 tons.
Rope balls the size of hula hoops were carried down from the truck and piled on spread waterproof cloth. Staff weighed and recorded each one individually. Judging by weight alone, they matched the manifest records exactly without any discrepancies.
Snake crouched down and tried pulling at a corner of a rope ball...
2025-08-18 10:20:38 +0000 UTC
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With the scale of a shelter city, if they truly wanted to strictly investigate smuggling, it would actually be as easy as turning one's hand.
They would only need to register all goods when merchant convoys entered the checkpoint, then verify against the registration list when goods were shipped out. Comparing the two would easily expose any smuggled items.
But the reason no shelter city chose to do this, instead tacitly allowing merchant convoys to trade freely after passing insp...
2025-08-18 10:17:44 +0000 UTC
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As a newly emerging territory, Vast Sea Territory had development opportunities everywhere, with blank fields in every direction.
However, all previous development had been highly dependent on the lord's investment, with severely insufficient self-sustaining capabilities.
Agriculture, for instance, was a typical microcosm of the territory's development.
Food self-sufficiency was a development goal that Vast Sea Territory had marked as a red line, and it was also one of the f...
2025-08-18 10:10:55 +0000 UTC
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The past few months of Sky Empire Year 1427 were the most stable and peaceful months that Copperbeard had ever lived through.
Copperbeard was a slave's name. At the end of last year, he had huddled in an underground pit in the northern Fang tribe's slave camp, with heavy snow falling outside and bone-chilling cold inside the cave.
He thought he would surely die.
One-third of that batch of slaves eventually died, but Copperbeard was lucky enough to survive.
But what goo...
2025-08-18 10:10:21 +0000 UTC
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The strength displayed by the armored warrior was somewhat beyond normal parameters, causing everyone from the front lines to the rear camp to fall into a brief state of speechlessness.
Everyone just watched this guy drag the magnetic combat vehicle like a rabbit dragging a fallen mammoth, like an ordinary person pulling an overturned armored car, with some apparent effort, swaying unsteadily, step by step, pursuing forward.
Those footprints were pressed quite deep.
However,...
2025-08-18 10:09:50 +0000 UTC
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The Blood Fortress, which was formerly known as Razor Fortress, was built with its back against the most treacherous section of Flag Mountain.
The fortress designer must have fully considered the prospect of facing prolonged orc sieges and the possibility of the outer city falling. Therefore, within the outer city, near the deep Flag Mountain ridge, they erected an inner city.
The inner city's building materials were quarried from the Dark Steel Valley to the south. This dark stee...
2025-08-18 10:09:16 +0000 UTC
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The mercenary group members who had formed a shield-and-spear formation stared blankly at the bizarre spectacle before them.
The charging wave of the orc army seemed to be severed at the waist by a giant scythe! The front ranks of orcs and wolves fell, rolled, and shattered in masses under the metal storm! The cavalry in the rear, driven by massive inertia, had no time to turn and met the same death storm, tumbling together with their fallen comrades ahead.
The mere few hundred me...
2025-08-18 10:08:39 +0000 UTC
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Chen Mo's idea was excellent, and he was even deeply moved by his own cleverness.
Being able to solve problems with wisdom rather than bullets was a big step toward maturity for a lord.
Although the permanent magnet he envisioned would still need to be provided by home, at least Lord Chen had used his brain for once.
His family would surely be gratified!
Calculating the time, he still needed to wait here for a week before the next altar cooldown period would end.
2025-08-18 10:08:10 +0000 UTC
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Lord Chen Mo's graceful demeanor of pointing out the country's affairs and commanding with vigorous spirit vanished without a trace like mist scattered by a fierce wind when the dawn's first light appeared the next morning.
He was even somewhat flustered and exasperated!
Although the exploration team had only fought one battle, adhering to the rigorous and meticulous traditions inherited from East Xia, the assault team had continuously deployed a large number of concealed surveill...
2025-08-18 10:07:38 +0000 UTC
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What exactly were ruin guards? Even Chen Mo, praised by Vast Sea Territory's people as all-knowing, couldn't explain it clearly.
According to the Magic Academy, this was called a "manifested spirit."
Ominous things formed by ruin cores that had condensed through some special mechanism, driving regional spiritual energy to coalesce in the magical black mist that had accumulated on ancient battlefields.
It was said these had no relation to the original soldiers, being merely a...
2025-08-18 10:07:09 +0000 UTC
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Doyle was a fourth-tier undead mage of the Eternal Night level, and also the captain of the "Night’s Edge" mercenary group.
You couldn't tell from the name what connection this mercenary group had with undead mages. After all, for those wealthy merchants and rich families, being associated with undead mages always felt somewhat uncomfortable.
And these very people happened to be the big patrons of mercenary missions. A single escort mission could offer dozens or even hundreds of...
2025-08-18 10:06:35 +0000 UTC
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Chen Mo arranged the military training time for three weeks. That is to say, he planned to launch exploratory development of Blood Fortress in late June.
From the beginning of the Year of Thunder of the Resting Moon, arriving at this desolate land with only salt frost covering the ground and ruins scattered about, in over five months, the territory had achieved construction accomplishments that drew attention from all informed parties.
During the period when the troops were sharpe...
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God's Imitator — Chapters 61 to 70
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2025-08-17 11:10:27 +0000 UTC
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Lind currently had quite a few tasks on his hands. Besides the 6 major tasks for prison upgrades, there was also the task of eliminating the Grande Gang.
Now there was another wish mission.
However, he expressed that having more debts wasn't worrying, since the tasks didn't have any time limits anyway. As long as he completed them, he could get rewards.
Of course, Cohen's wish mission wasn't difficult and wasn't as troublesome as James's.
He just wanted a promotion and...
2025-08-17 11:03:44 +0000 UTC
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Ottavio Miller was just a microcosm of the American prison system.
Like that judge who later desperately sent juveniles to prison, which was far more vicious in nature than this case.
But Lind didn't care about wrongful convictions in other prisons; he only cared about his own little territory.
He could exploit criminals, he could use criminals, but he absolutely could not wrongfully convict criminals.
Even the most heinous killer, once in prison, he would view with fa...
2025-08-17 11:03:14 +0000 UTC
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"Sue us?" Lind said in surprise, "What human rights of theirs have we violated?"
Angelina didn't speak, just stared at Lind with a look that said "are you kidding me."
Even with Lind's thick skin, he couldn't withstand such a direct gaze. He coughed twice and said, "Alright, I was just trying to make them work hard so they could become useful people when they return to society. Who in the prison doesn't understand my good intentions?"
"So what's his name?"
"I don't kno...
2025-08-17 11:02:47 +0000 UTC
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A week later, the electric shock interrogation room was officially completed.
But the electric shock control equipment would take a few more days to arrive and be installed.
Lind had originally planned to use this time to find a hacker to help set up an overseas website, but he was worried that if someone traced back to the hacker, they might sell him out.
So he planned to handle production and sales himself.
Moreover, this wasn't difficult. The prison had recently rec...
2025-08-17 11:02:14 +0000 UTC
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Lind hadn't expected the guard tower to make a great contribution on its very first day after completion.
If there hadn't been the tower and sniper rifle, even if the guards had discovered these Mexicans, they could only have notified James and the tactical squad.
With the two groups exchanging fire, who knows what might have happened.
If these Mexicans had escaped, it would have been even harder to deal with them later.
Fortunately, the goddess of luck lifted her skir...
2025-08-17 11:01:45 +0000 UTC
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Inside the vehicle, several dark-skinned Mexicans were loading bullets into their guns.
"Diego, how much longer?" A gunman with yellow hair stuffed the remaining magazines into his waist and looked at the driver.
The bearded driver Diego checked his watch, "Three more minutes until we reach the prison."
After speaking, Diego lit a cigarette for himself, "You guys be careful, don't drag it out too long."
The bald Mexican in the passenger seat mocked, "Don't worry, Diego...
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Lind looked at the dazzling array of firearms on the table, unable to resist touching each one.
Like caressing a lover's body, the smooth feel was utterly captivating.
Especially the M82A1 sniper rifle. This thing was produced by Barrett Company, specifically designed to deal with trucks and helicopters, a famous anti-materiel rifle.
It could be said that with this thing, even if the drug dealers drove out an armored car, it would be useless.
Besides it, the other item...
2025-08-17 11:00:47 +0000 UTC
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Lind encountered no obstacles on his way back to the prison.
In fact, after taking out those drug dealers blocking the road, James's wish mission was already completed.
And the rewards were quite generous.
First, after James's loyalty was raised to maximum value, a new identity was unlocked.
[Tactical Commander: When serving as squad leader, personal ability +50%, team coordination ability +50%, team members' loyalty +50% improvement speed]
This identity was diff...
2025-08-17 11:00:19 +0000 UTC
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9 PM.
Val Verde County, outside the villa of the Iron Riders Gang boss.
A Dodge pickup was parked nearby.
Inside the vehicle, Lind had already changed his outfit. Not only was he wearing a bulletproof vest and gloves, but he had also put on a balaclava.
James across from him wore the same gear, clearly dressed to play bandits.
"Let me emphasize once more," James spoke into the radio, "Covert operation, don't disturb the nearby neighbors."
"If you encounter ...
2025-08-17 10:59:53 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix's mouth wasn't hard to pry open.
After Lind had blinded his eye, he fell into an infinitely depressed state.
James didn't even need to torture him much before he spilled everything.
In reality, the news that his family had been taken hostage by drug dealers came from a guard.
It was the guard who had resigned two days ago after Parker's vehicle crash incident.
The guard told him that if he didn't follow the drug dealers' wishes, they would kill all his br...
2025-08-17 10:59:22 +0000 UTC
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One strike successful!
From the shadows, Li Chang'an breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, this person didn't have very good defensive magical artifacts, otherwise a prolonged battle would have been inevitable."
That Ghost Needle just now was shot out by Big Yellow.
Big Yellow's strength was greater than this robber cultivator's.
However, if it came to direct combat, a life-and-death struggle, it would be difficult to determine victory or defeat in a short tim...
2025-08-17 10:54:43 +0000 UTC
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In the Zheng family's library, a large collection of cultivation techniques and spells was stored.
According to legend, there was a fire-attribute technique that reached the superior grade, making countless rogue cultivators with fire spiritual roots covet it.
Additionally, the other four attribute techniques all had mid-grade ones, and they were high-quality among their class.
"I hope this favor can be exchanged for a chance to enter the library," Li Chang'an thought.
2025-08-17 10:54:12 +0000 UTC
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Zheng Qingqing gave her conditions.
As long as Li Chang'an was willing to become a guest elder, she would help Li Chang'an enter the Zheng family's library and freely select a wood-attribute cultivation technique.
The Eternal Spring Technique that Li Chang'an currently practiced was really too ordinary.
Even among low-grade techniques, it was considered inferior, not much better than defective techniques. It provided little help to his cultivation and was even somewhat of a ...
2025-08-17 10:53:42 +0000 UTC
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"Don't be anxious, speak slowly about whatever it is," Zheng Qingqing said in a gentle tone with a smile.
Zheng Ming took a deep breath.
Then he began recounting what he had experienced in the secret realm.
When he mentioned that Xu Fugui had used a large number of mid-grade talismans, Zheng Qingqing was slightly startled, a trace of surprise flashing in her beautiful eyes.
"Are you trying to say that Xu Fugui's talismans were given to him by Li Chang'an?"
"I..."...
2025-08-17 10:53:10 +0000 UTC
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The next day, early morning.
Li Chang'an had already finished dismantling the Shadow Chasing Puppet.
He studied the spiritual patterns on the materials for a while and found them too complex.
"I can understand the outermost spiritual patterns, but the deeper ones are too difficult. This core region's spiritual patterns are especially complex. Could this be the reason I can't control it?" Li Chang'an pondered.
In the end, for safety's sake, he stored the puppet's core c...
2025-08-17 10:52:37 +0000 UTC
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"Strange, the patterns on this component are already carved, so why can't it conduct magical power?" Li Chang'an was puzzled, his face full of confusion.
"Where did it go wrong?" He fiddled with the component for a while and finally discovered his error, correcting it promptly.
Before he knew it, most of the day had passed. Li Chang'an had only successfully crafted three components, while a large pile of wasted precious materials had accumulated beside him.
He felt some hear...
2025-08-17 10:51:54 +0000 UTC
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Li Chang'an focused intently, sitting cross-legged before his desk. He held the talisman brush in his hand, slowly drawing complex patterns on the talisman paper.
The entire room was silent, so quiet he could hear his own breathing.
Suddenly, Li Chang'an's brow furrowed slightly as he stopped drawing.
"Failed."
A wisp of blue smoke rose from the talisman paper, and the patterns drawn on it slowly lost their spiritual essence. Spiritual power dissipated, turning it into...
2025-08-17 10:51:18 +0000 UTC
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