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"Hey, are you here to go shopping with me or to work?" Nono seemed a little annoyed that Caesar had left her hanging.
Caesar is always like this; he gets all worked up whenever it involves slaying dragons.
Last year was the same. There was a dragon invasion, and he immediately abandoned his girlfriend who was celebrating her birthday and went solo with the long-legged girl. This made Nuonuo very unhappy, so she drove to the top of the mountain with Lu Mingfei in a fit of pique.
"Why don't you go find Senior Sister Susie?" Gu Ran said to Nuonuo. "She and Ling are in the underground parking lot. I feel that you and Susie are truly in love."
"That's right, that's right, Susie is my true love!" Nono glared at Caesar, then tried to get down, but Caesar grabbed her hand and wouldn't let her go.
"Gentlemen, why don't you continue choosing a phoenix coronet?" the old man selling phoenix coronet and wedding robes said to Caesar and Nono with a professional smile.
Caesar is a big client. He previously said he wanted to order a top-quality traditional Chinese jewelry piece made of two kilograms of gold, 108 red coral beads, and 12 pieces of icy jadeite!
The old man didn't want to miss out on this foreign sucker so easily.
"I'm not picky! I'm not getting married!" Nono said in a huff, turning around and walking out of the shop.
Caesar had no choice but to follow.
Despite her antics, Nono knew the mission was important, so she didn't go far. Caesar continued to exchange information with Gu Ran.
Gu Ran bought three bottles of soda from the vending machine and gave one to Caesar and one to Nono.
The three chatted idly in the corridor on the second floor, where they could see people coming and going on the first floor below.
"I actually have something I'd like to ask you two seniors," Gu Ran said, leaning against the railing. "Have you thought about life after marriage?"
Caesar and Nono were both visibly taken aback.
Nono snorted coldly: "I haven't agreed to get married yet!"
"Why would you ask that?" Caesar looked at Gu Ran with a wry smile.
Gu Ran said, "I feel like I have a fear of marriage. I'm always worried that my family will treat my wife badly in the future, and that she will have to bear unnecessary pressure. You know, she's just an ordinary person."
Actually, this was just a prelude. Gu Ran wasn't afraid of marriage; she just wanted the two of them to think things through.
He continued, "I often think that if she had married into a rigid and feudal family like the Zhang family, she would have been in great pain. She is a very cheerful and playful girl, how could she be willing to be confined to a high-walled mansion?"
"Of course, I can take her away and fly away, completely disregarding the resistance from the aristocratic families. In fact, that's what I plan to do. After all, I'm freer than Senior Caesar and can be unrestrained."
At this point, Gu Ran looked at Caesar and Nono: "And what about you? I'm curious how you plan to deal with all this? Will you also run away? Or will you compromise with your families and let the bride stay in the desolate inner palace like the empresses of ancient times, waiting for the king to return?"
Caesar dared not look at Nono. In his eyes, Nono was such a fun and lively girl, and if she were bound by her family, she would surely suffer greatly.
He knew Gattuso's living conditions better than anyone, and he also had his mother's experience to learn from...
He then realized that he had never considered Nuonuo's future before rashly proposing to her and even submitting a marriage application to the school.
Nono was also deep in thought, but no one knew what she was thinking. However, Gu Ran and Caesar both noticed that she sighed softly, as if she felt somewhat helpless.
"I'm going to the restroom." Nono turned and left, wanting to be alone for a while.
"Hey, Caesar, Gu Ran? You're both here!" On the first floor, a group of foreigners dressed in the clothes of the Qing emperor followed by a large red sedan chair.
More than thirty foreigners, dressed in bright yellow dragon robes and wearing sunglasses, swaggered into the wedding building and strolled through the streets and alleys. To outsiders, they looked like a foreign tour group.
The leader was Tang Sen, who worked in the construction industry in Chicago. He knew Caesar and had also seen Gu Ran at the auction.
Caesar was a social butterfly, and he naturally responded when others greeted him, so he gave Tang Sen a friendly hug and a greeting.
"Nice dragon robe!" Gu Ran shook hands with Tang Sen. "Where did you buy it?"
"It's a group purchase, super cheap!" Tang Sen said proudly.
"Group buying? Could it be that Kangaroo Group Buying that I invested in?!"
"Yes, yes, yes, it's Kangaroo Group Buying. You've got good taste in investing in it!"
"Oh, not at all. In the internet industry, it's still the West that's in the lead."
"But soon, your Chinese internet companies will catch up!" Tang Sen laughed. "After all, your 996 and 007 work schedules treat programmers like animals, even worse than withholding wages from migrant workers!"
"It's just a necessity for development; things will only get better and better in the future!"
Gu Ran and Tang Sen had a pleasant conversation, and Caesar asked Tang Sen why he had come here.
"Oh, we're here to pick out a traditional Chinese wedding dress. One of the guys has taken a liking to our tour guide," Tang Sen explained.
Caesar breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that these people had also received intelligence from Wang Gongchang.
Tang Sen leaned closer to look at Caesar's compass and asked curiously, "What is this thing? Why is it spinning so fast? Is it welcoming me?"
Caesar paused, glanced at the constantly spinning compass, and immediately became serious.
At the same time, the entire building began to tremble slightly, and everyone around felt it; it was an earthquake.
Gu Ran stood still, watching the things around him vibrate. He immediately communicated with Susie through the earpiece he was wearing, using a throat microphone.
"Come downstairs quickly, there's an earthquake, don't run around."
“Okay… but I feel like there’s something underground,” Susie said. “My Word of Power is Sword Control, and I feel like something is affecting my magnetic field.”
Chapter 296 Defending the Wedding Building
Due to the earthquake, the wedding building immediately began broadcasting emergency announcements, and everyone evacuated in an orderly manner.
"Emergency notice! Emergency notice! A minor earthquake of less than magnitude three has just occurred. The shopping mall will be temporarily closed. All personnel in the building must evacuate in an orderly manner!" This recording was being played through all the loudspeakers in the wedding building.
Zhang Wanjun, along with the Zhang family, began to check each floor and drove away all the remaining people.
Because of Zhang Wanjun's instructions last night, the shop staff evacuated very quickly today, and the wedding building was almost completely cleared out in less than five minutes.
Caesar and Gu Ran did not leave, but instead watched the erratic pointer and remained where they were.
He asked Tang Sen and Gu Ran, "Did you hear anything?"
“There’s noise of evacuation everywhere,” Tang Sen said.
Gu Ran looked at Caesar: "What did you hear from your Word of Power domain?"
"The sound of wind, a sharp sound of wind." Caesar and the others were all in the center of the first floor, looking at the various floors. "Something is flying..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Dick Tudor, who was carrying a hunting knife, suddenly drew it out and slashed through the air, cutting down a bronze-colored animal made entirely of bones.
Gu Ran also pulled out the Catfish Tail Short Sword from his training uniform, and with a backhand motion, drew a cross in the air, shooting down a rapidly flying Bonewing Bird.
"What...is this?" Tang Sen asked in horror.
“A ghost bird…” Caesar’s records included this information. “This is a female sickle weasel!”
"Prehistoric remnants?" Tang Sen looked around. No one noticed them except for a security guard who ran over. Tang Sen immediately used a shopping bag to cover the two corpses to prevent the secrets of the dragon race from being revealed.
"It's alright, he's one of my men." Gu Ran raised his hand to stop the security guard. "Have the general public all evacuated?"
"Yes, it's all been evacuated." The security guard answered Gu Ran respectfully, looking at the bones on the ground with some fear, and asked in a low voice, "Is this what we're facing today? How many are there?"
Gu Ran looked at Caesar.
Caesar activated his Word of Power at full power, paused for a moment, and said in a trembling voice, "Several thousand... tens of thousands... countless."
"Close the doors! Quickly, seal all the entrances and exits!" Gu Ran ordered.
"Okay!" The security guard immediately went to make arrangements. They had already conducted a drill last night, so as soon as the order was given, the door was quickly closed.
"Nono!" Caesar was most worried about his girlfriend, so he immediately ran to the second-floor restroom, taking out his phone as he ran and calling the Mint Club, demanding that they buy the wedding building within fifteen minutes!
Mint Club said it was impossible, but after checking, they found out that someone from the Gattuso family had contacted them twenty minutes earlier, and the price had been agreed upon. The wedding building now belonged to the Gattuso family.
At the same time, Gu Ran also received a phone call. Twenty minutes earlier, the Gattuso family seemed to have received some advance notice and took the initiative to buy the building. The price was as Gu Ran had suggested: three hundred million US dollars after tax.
A few months ago, Gu Ran bought it for $8000 million, and now it has more than tripled in value.
This is what he had told Zhang Wanjun before about making a quick buck.
After Percy bought the building, he was confused because the other party seemed to have prepared all the formalities in advance, and there was even an accountant on site to calculate the pre-tax price for Percy, and they were not willing to compromise on the price.
But the Gattuso family was not short of money, so they didn't say much and signed the promissory note.
After receiving the documents for the wedding building, Percy went straight to the first floor, intending to seal off the entire building.
But they found that security guards had already closed the gates tightly.
He assumed it was Caesar's order and paid no attention.
At this moment, Lin Fenglong, who was supposed to go to the island nation, rushed over and explained to Parsi the seriousness of the current problem.
The current situation is the King of Earth and Mountains using the world-destroying power of Shiva's Dance of Karma.
Furthermore, the Nibelungen beneath the wedding building was collapsing, and the Kamaitachi, not wanting to die with it, all surged out.
"What we need to do now is to seal off every exit of the entire building with steel plates!" Lin Fenglong suggested.
“I don’t have enough manpower,” Percy said. “My orders are to keep Caesar alive.”
“No, you have enough manpower!” Lin Fenglong pointed to the mixed-race people from North America and Chicago around him. “And there’s a steel plate shop over there…it looks like someone deliberately prepared it!”
Percy glanced at the shops not far away. The wedding building sold wedding supplies, and this steel shop stood out conspicuously.
Moreover, the store was still open.
Pasi didn't have time to investigate further. He immediately negotiated with the mixed-race people in North America and used his "money power" to buy the steel shop as well.
On the other side, in the lobby on the first floor of the wedding building.
At this moment, Susie and Zero, carrying their suitcases, arrived at the lobby on the first floor and met up with Gu Ran.
Caesar also found Nono in the women's restroom on the second floor, and they met up in the lobby on the first floor.
The weasel kept roaming around, occasionally pouncing on Caesar. The group didn't have time to catch up and immediately formed a defensive formation.
Susie, Gu Ran, and Caesar reported: "It seems like a crack has appeared underground, but we can't see the bottom. We can only see these weasels surging up!"
Zero opened his combat kit and distributed tactical weapons such as bayonets and daggers to Nono and Tang Sen.
Nono, with her keen observation skills, immediately noticed the problem: "It's strange. They're all hovering above us, not escaping, but just probing and attacking us like seabirds diving to eat sardines."
"It seems we have something attracting them." As he spoke, Gu Ran waved his hand and launched a Wind Release: Shuriken into the sky.
The shuriken, imbued with wind release, could even cut through rocks. In an instant, the shuriken sliced through one Kamaitachi after another during its flight, finally embedding itself in the ceiling.
This shuriken killed dozens of Kamaitachi. Gu Ran didn't even need to aim, which shows how densely packed the Kamaitachi were!
"Awesome! But are these weasels gathered here because of their bloodline? After all, the bloodlines of the people in your academy are too awesome!" Tang Sen looked at Gu Ran and Caesar, both of whom had the best bloodlines in their families.
Everyone present nodded in agreement. Apart from Tang Sen, whose bloodline was a bit weaker, the rest of them all had excellent bloodlines of the academy's A-level.