As night fell, a sleek sedan with a silver body came from the outside towards Greentown, and instead of heading towards Greentown's downtown area, it made a half-circle around the outer ring road and headed for the suburbs on the other side.

The silver sedan drove into the forest and soon came to the purple gold flower manor on the outskirts, because they were notified in advance, and everyone in the manor knew that the master's family was coming back, so the tall wrought iron gate had been slowly opened before the car approached.

When the car stopped in front of the main house, the servants of the manor were already lined up here, waiting for a long time.

A middle-aged man who looked like a butler walked up quickly and opened the door to the back seat of the car.

"Miss Alice, welcome back."

A tall young woman stepped out of the car, nodded at the butler, and a smile squeezed out of her mouth.

This middle-aged man, who is in his fifties, has been working for the Christie family for more than thirty years, and he also grew up watching Alice, so he can be said to know her quite well.

Therefore, he immediately saw that something was wrong with Alice's smile, but he didn't show it.

As a subordinate, he knows that as long as he does his duty, it is enough, and it is not a good quality to talk too much and assert himself, and no master will like it.

So he just quietly welcomed Alice into the house.

Whenever and wherever she was, Marwa, who was always like a shadow, stepped out of the car and followed Alice.

The butler led the way, and the three of them went straight to Alice's bedroom, and after making sure that Alice had no other instructions and only wanted to rest this morning, the butler withdrew from the room, and gently closed the door, leaving the space for Alice and Marwa.

When there were only two people left in the room, Alice's originally calm breathing immediately became rapid, and she clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, looking like she was holding back her anger.

Seeing this, Marwa hurriedly leaned over, put her hand on Alice's shoulders, and whispered comfort while patting lightly.

Alice has not been a weak person since she was a child, and she is also a person who knows how to control her emotions, if it hadn't touched her bottom line, she wouldn't be as excited as she is now.

However, she quickly collected her emotions, and her trembling shoulders stopped.

"It's okay, Sister Marwa, I'm worried about you." Alice patted Marwa's hand on her shoulder and said.

Marwa just shook her head, she was still dressed in a black professional dress, her long chestnut hair was coiled behind her head, and her straight legs were wrapped in black silk stockings, full of the allure of a mature woman.

"There are still some days before the patriarch's seventieth birthday banquet, and I can't imagine that these people are almost unbearable, not only did they send people to kidnap you, Miss, but after they failed, they dared to humiliate you and the master in public at the family dinner." Marwa spoke, and a hint of anger appeared on her face.

"Sister Marwa, my brothers are just pawns pushed to the front, just bait used by the uncles above to test our side."

Alice, who was still angry just now, now comforted her Marwa.

"And their real target is not me, but my father, or Uncle Raul, whom my father has taken root to."

"I understand, but I just can't get used to the faces of those guys." Marwa listened and nodded, she still saw through these relationships in the matter, but the temper that she could bear was not called a temper, she would still be angry when she should be angry, especially the person she was wronged was the person she cared about the most.

Alice's bedroom was large, divided into two rooms, the inner one was a real place to rest, and the outer room was used for study and living, and the two did not continue to stand, but walked to the side of the outer room and sat down in a chair.

"Sister Marwa and I are in the same mood, so why don't we leave overnight and return to Greentown?" Alice smiled, looking like her mood had completely changed, and she continued.

"Now that Elder Yinhua's injuries have improved a lot, and most of his strength has recovered, many people can't sit still immediately, knowing that I have a good relationship with Elder Yinhua, so now they immediately regard me as a target."

"Don't worry, I've contacted someone to strengthen the manor's defenses, and I've hired a few masters to be your personal bodyguards through the dark platform."

Knowing that these are extraordinary times, Alice did not refuse.

"Is it a secret warrior?"

"That's right." Marwa chuckled, and could see that she was a little disdainful of these so-called masters: "I never expected them to be able to hold off the real masters, as long as they can withstand the fatal blow for you." ”

At the end, she added: "Finally, there will be me in front of Miss." ”

"I've always known that." Alice said, smiling at Marva.

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The end of the year is getting closer and closer, and the festive atmosphere in the town is getting stronger and stronger, and everyone who goes out is smiling, looking forward to the arrival of Kaiyuan.

Especially in Greentown University, because of the preparation for the carnival at the end of the year, the campus is used as a venue for activities, and people come and go every day, and the construction is in full swing, and simple sheds and stages are built to prepare for the carnival.

This carnival, which has been held for many years, has long become a traditional event for all the residents of Green Town, and it has a lot of weight in everyone's hearts, so everyone involved in the preparation of the event has put in 100% enthusiasm.

Compared with the increasingly lively outside, Gong Bing is like an otaku, nesting in his own home for several days, practicing all day without leaving home, and increasing the intensity of his cultivation.

Because whether it is the Aegis Gong or the Gathering Method, the cultivation of both has now reached a critical point and can break through at any time, so Gong Bing has only recently increased the intensity of his cultivation.

And today, there are still three days before the year-end vigil, Gong Bing finally feels the limit of the two, he believes that the breakthrough is just around the corner, and the success is today.

Therefore, from the beginning of the morning until the evening, except for a little food in the middle of the afternoon, he never even went out of the door, and stayed in the room.

If he hadn't greeted him beforehand, his mother Rose would have broken into the door, and since he had spied a glimpse of her mother's true face that night, Gong Bing knew that she could really do something to break in.

Because the mother didn't want her only son to starve to death in the room because of martial arts practice.

When the clock had just crossed midnight, Gong Bing, who had been sitting cross-legged on the bed, was shocked, his eyes opened suddenly, and his sharp eyes flashed like a glimmer of light in the dark room.

At this moment, Gong Bing's facial features seemed to have broken free from the invisible shackles, broke through the thick shell, and spread out towards a farther place, a larger range, or even a higher space.

Like glass that has been wiped away from thick dust, the world in front of you becomes clearer.

The corners of Gong Bing's mouth couldn't help but rise, revealing a bright smile, because he knew that his Nian Gathering Method had finally broken through.

However, before he could continue to feel the changes brought about by the breakthrough of the Nian Gathering Method, the Aegis Skill, which was originally only a thin layer, actually operated on its own at this time, so that Gong Bing had to suppress the joy that had just risen and devote himself to the cultivation of the Aegis Skill.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a roar that only Gong Bing himself could hear sounded in his body, and then Gong Bing's body swelled in a circle, the bones around him also rattled, and the bed under him sank suddenly, as if overwhelmed.

Time passed minute by minute, and after a while, when all the movement was over, Gong Bing had become unrecognizable, a layer of sludge-like things was expelled from his body, and the whole person felt as if he had just rolled in the mud.

Gong Bing's whole body was full of strength at this time, and his spirit was unusually full, and his state had never been so good again.

But there was a wry smile on his excited face.

"Huh...... The smell on his body is really smelly, a hundred times worse than the medicinal smell of cultivating the Nian Ju Method. Gong Bing's nose moved, and he looked under him as he spoke: "This sheet and mattress, and even the bed frame can be regarded as scrapped, and even the effort to replace it is saved, just replace it with a new one." ”

The smell was so strong that Gong Bing couldn't stand it himself, he didn't think about it anymore, and immediately bounced up from the bed and rushed out of the room directly.