Chapter 224: Doihara Sets His Sights on Chongjin

January 30, 1933 (the 22nd year of the Republic of China), Tianjin, China.

Disguised, Doihara stood at the entrance of the Bankishi Agency on the streets of Tianjin, utterly unable to understand why, having been away from Tianjin for only a few years, there were suddenly so many Japanese secret agents here.

The crucial problem was that all these Japanese secret agents were working against him.

He couldn't kill them, and if he fought them, the opposition would find out immediately—it was a terribly sticky situation.

Having run to the Bankishi Agency three times in person, he failed to see Bankishi even once.

After everyone took their seats, the registrar first handed the confessions of the several mountain bandits to Hua Mingzhou. Hua Mingzhou glanced over them roughly and then set them aside.

The large orange cat had been staying in the central room all along; the first thing the boys saw when they walked into the room was a huge pile of orange fur curled up on the table.

The current Shengshi Group was still in a state of deficit. Due to the group's precarious predicament, both its hotels and shopping malls had virtually no customer traffic to speak of.

His mind was buzzing. He felt as though a chaotic mess of memories had all come rushing back, yet at the same time, it seemed as if he had not thought of anything at all.

The three who had not met Zhao Qingxin and Chen Ying noticed their two companions' expressions look wrong and instantly grew vigilant, but the tip of Chen Ying's sword was already pressed against the throat of one of them.

Moreover, the base damage of hero skills was tied to the level. Being two levels ahead naturally meant dealing heavy damage to opponents.

However, looking at Shen Yunxi now, she seemed to have lost her mind, rubbing herself continuously against him. He was a person with mysophobia; angered that his clothes had been soiled by Shen Yunxi's rubbing, he tossed Shen Yunxi onto the ground and stood up in disgust.

Seeing the gang leader chatting happily with Hua Mingzhou and the others, Lin Shuifu took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to slip to the back and instruct the servants to prepare wine and food. Sure enough, that evening, He Jiuyun kept Hua Mingzhou and the others overnight.

The situation he had just witnessed already proved that this fellow possessed a profound mastery of formation techniques, at least on the level of a generational grandmaster.

He had long harbored suspicions regarding Zhou Tian's identity, and the royal family of the Dayan Dynasty had carried the surname Zhou since ancient times.

Even when doctors and nurses approached Jiang Chengyan wishing to examine him, Su Ciyi would narrow her eyes, her once-clear apricot eyes filled with vigilance and killing intent, looking ready to strike at any moment.

Seeing Zhu Qin rise from the ground and about to pounce upon Zheng Qiu, Yan Yang's icy voice directly frightened everyone into dumbstruck stillness on the spot.

From a concept car to mass production and market release, an automobile still has to go through a long waiting process.

Outsiders mocked him, thinking that despite being the legitimate eldest young master of the Jiang family, he was completely unvalued by them, suppressed ruthlessly by an illegitimate son, and plagued by illness, frail and weak, possessing merely a tough exterior while being hollow within.

In the past, the technology Chen Zifan obtained through [Decoding Mountain Stronghold] lacked high complexity, allowing him to directly purchase machines from the market and upgrade them. However, with the elevation of his level, the lack of high-end production equipment had also become a drawback.

Dissatisfied, she placed the chicken neck back onto the desktop, picked up another piece, and discovered it was half a chicken head.

Sheng Chi currently felt only that his stomach was growling with hunger and he was seeing stars, yet he stubbornly refused to touch even a single chopstick of the food sent by his old man.

Ruan Jiaojia looked around the courtyard; it didn't look like a place where anyone lived permanently, and a thin layer of dust still coated the handrails under the covered walkway.

Accompanied by an unwilling roar, the final outcome of this battle finally surfaced.

When Zhu Da and Scholar Qin conversed, the expressions of the two guard knights were full of curiosity, though Zhu Da could not see them. Yet the reason for their curiosity could be guessed by Zhu Da and his companions—it was nothing more than the fact that the two men's dialogue didn't sound at all like an adoptive father and adoptive son, but rather like peers interacting on equal terms.

Scarcely anyone among the various circles in Huairen County had not heard of Dachuan Hang and Riverside New Village. Firstly, both places were within the county; secondly, both locations were legendary; and thirdly, both were flourishing immensely.