Paige was shaken, and fear filled her eyes. "Yes, yes! But I couldn’t help it. If I disagreed to that, I’d be taken away to jail by the police."Slap!Carol slapped her face.She viciously said, “What does it matter to me if you go to jail or not? What I care about is my fifty billion! Now, you have messed it all up. What will you compensate me with? With your life?”Paige trembled while looking at her husband's corpse. She then kneeled heavily on the ground. “No, no! Carol, I'm your aunt. I’m your aunt. There are not many people left in our family. Please, don't kill me! Don’t you forget, when you were small, I loved you very much.”Carol laughed coldly.Then she said, “Okay, then you come with me. I want you to do one thing for me!”***It was almost ten o'clock when they arrived at the night market street.Alex was not familiar with this place, plus it has been a few years since he last came here. He had forgotten about this place a long time ago. However, at this hour, the
When Alex Rockefeller witnessed this scene, he was a little dumbfounded. His mouth opened even wider when he heard the final sentence. “Maya, is it your birthday today?” Alex asked.Despite knowing each other for many years, Alex actually didn’t know which day was Maya Howards’ birthday.Before Maya answered, a middle-aged person wearing a chef’s hat walked out from the kitchen. He seemed elegant, and he looked rather good too. When he smiled, he even had dimples… Alex suddenly thought of a male celebrity, Tom Cruise. This person did look somewhat like Tom Cruise.However, right then, Alex’s mysterious pearl in his energy core suddenly vibrated profusely.It gave Alex a fright.‘What’s going on?’ he wondered.The last time the mysterious pearl vibrated was back in Michigan’s House of Treasures when he found the core of an Ancient Thunderclap Wood. Ever since then, it never vibrated again to warn Alex of anything. He didn’t expect it to start vibrating here. Moreover, as the man g
Alex Rockefeller was shocked.He looked at Maya Howards with a stunned expression. “Was it me? Did I bully you? Are… Are you sure?”Maya wrinkled her nose and looked at him. “Yes, it was you! On the first day I worked in Papa’s restaurant, you called me out for being clumsy. You said I carried bowls too slowly and even served food to the wrong customers. You also said that someone like me isn’t suited to work as a waitress. Do you know how upset I was because of you on that day? I cried for two hours. After that, I secretly vowed that I’d be the best waitress possible.”Alex felt tongue-tied.After that, he finally recalled the incident.It really did seem to have happened. However, he wasn’t a university student yet at the time. Instead, he was in his third year of senior high at a high school in California. That day, he came to meet some friends who were slightly older than him. After that, he ended up on a particular street in the night market.Back then, Alex had ordered a bo
Alex Rockefeller immediately felt awkward.He had no idea it was Maya Howards’ birthday today. How could he have prepared a gift?Maya knew that he must not have known. That was because she had never mentioned it to him after all these years. Besides, Alex had always been thinking about Lady Dorothy Assex. How would he have known about Maya’s birthday? However, to avoid embarrassing Alex any further, Maya started to speak. “If it’s not a special gift, don’t bother saying it out loud. I want a very special gift.”“What is it?” Alex was stunned for a moment.Maya pointed at the tears that had silently rolled down her cheeks. “Kiss my tears dry. That’s because you caused these tears.”As soon as she said this, not only was Alex stunned but everyone else around them was also stunned.The old, handsome Mr. Hanson, especially, had a brief glimmer in his eyes.Meanwhile, Alex sensed the mysterious pearl in his upper energy core vibrating even more intensely.He felt as if it would soo
The man in the ghost mask was stunned for a moment.“What do you mean? Do you know who I am?” he asked in a spooky voice.His voice sounded as if it came from beneath manholes. It was very uncomfortable to listen to.Alex Rockefeller sighed softly. “I hoped it wasn’t you!”Maya Howards seemed a little surprised. “Do you know him?” she asked Alex.The ghost-mask man sneered. “Stop pretending. How could you know who I am? Cut the crap, young man. Will you get lost or not? If you don’t leave, you can stay here forever. This time next year, it’ll be your death anniversary,” he said.Unexpectedly, Alex also said something that greatly stunned Maya, “Who’s pretending here? Do you think I can’t recognize you just because you put on a ghost mask and modified your voice a little, Papa?”“Ahh—” Maya immediately cried out. “H-he… Is he Papa? How is that possible?”Of course, Maya couldn’t believe it.She also refused to believe it.In her heart, Papa was a significant person. She had sa
“Maya, don’t blame me! When the time comes, I’ll only absorb your blood essence, but I won’t take your life! From then on, you’ll live as a normal human being. I’ll give you some money. You can leave California and make a living out there!” Papa Hanson said.“Hahahahaha!” Maya Howards started laughing.However, her laughter was filled with desolation.Suddenly, she seemed imposing. She had fully revealed all her martial arts cultivation.“Half-stepped Grandmaster!” Alex Rockefeller looked at Maya with an incredulous expression upon his face.Alex was the one who introduced martial arts to Maya, and he was also the one who designed the cultivation techniques specifically for her. But within a short amount of time, she had actually managed to break through to half-stepped Grandmaster. If Zayn Stoermer and the others found out, they might be so depressed that they’d jump into a river to cool off. This was way too unacceptable!Despite working hard to cultivate all their lives, other
Boom, boom—The mysterious pearl in Alex Rockefeller’s upper energy core jumped around intensely, causing some kind of rumbling inside of him. In fact, it appeared in between his eyebrows as if it was going to leap out from his body on its own.‘Another pearl!’ Alex could see it clearly.The pearl Papa Hanson retrieved was almost identical to the one in Alex’s upper energy core. Based on the aura it emitted, Alex was certain it was the same type of object.That explained why Alex’s pearl had such a huge reaction.‘What exactly is this pearl?’ Alex wondered.Apart from feeling surprised, Alex also felt unceasingly curious. Could these pearls have come from the same roots? In fact, would they eventually combine?As Alex thought about these things, Papa Hanson spat a mouthful of blood. “Young Rockefeller, I didn’t want to kill you at first, but you asked for it. Some things just weren’t meant for you! The fact that you get to die today because of my Celestial Oceanic Bead will be a
Right then, Alex Rockefeller’s voice could be heard somewhere nearby. “Is this all you’ve got? How dare you even dream about stealing my woman away from me? Are you still in a dream?”‘What?’ Papa Hanson quickly looked over at Alex.In the end, he realized that Alex was still trapped by the prison of Oceanic Force and couldn’t escape at all.Papa Hanson started laughing loudly. “You’re the one who’s in a dream! Don’t you know that there’s no way for you to escape now?”As soon as he finished speaking, Alex stomped his foot forcefully.The Oceanic Force that surrounded him instantly shattered into pieces, almost like tofu. The Oceanic Force had turned into its pure form once again.“What?“How is this possible?”Papa Hanson’s face was drained of color from shock. He didn’t expect Alex to be so strong that he could even break free from the Oceanic Force prison that Papa Hanson himself was most pleased with.However, in the next second, something even more terrifying happened.A