My gorgeous wife
Chapter 867 - 839: Unexpected Event

Chapter 867: Chapter 839: Unexpected Event

To speak of the name Lilith, it indeed carries the meaning ’belonging to the night’.

However, it’s quite rare to find someone who would state it so bluntly like this girl did.

Li Chen’s gaze towards the girl turned somewhat surprised.

He could also tell that this girl seemed a bit slow-witted, or rather, a little dull perhaps?

The two had a meal together in a nearby restaurant, and Li Chen didn’t have too many thoughts about the girl; he simply lent a hand out of convenience.

"Li Chen, thank you, goodbye!"

After the meal, Lilith stood up, waved at Li Chen, and then quickly left.

It seemed like she wasn’t the least bit interested in Li Chen.

Li Chen scratched his head. She really was a strange girl.

From their earlier conversation, Li Chen had come to a conclusion.

This girl was just too naive. Li Chen couldn’t figure out how such an innocent and even somewhat dazed girl had managed to survive, let alone travel from abroad to Linchuan.

Shaking his head, Li Chen stopped pondering and drove straight back to his villa.

Night fell, and the stars scattered across the sky.

Li Chen was sitting in the courtyard, cultivating.

Cultivation is a very monotonous and boring task, but Li Chen knew it was something that had to be persisted with, for only through continuous effort could one’s cultivation slowly break through.

This was an essential process of accumulation, and not even Li Chen could skip it.

Just then, Lin Yi came out of the room.

"Your phone!"

Li Chen opened his eyes and caught the phone thrown by Lin Yi from the house.

Looking at the number on it, Li Chen’s face showed a trace of confusion.

Why would Catherine be calling him at this time?

"Hello?"

However, as soon as Li Chen answered, he found out that the person on the other end of the call was not Catherine.

"Sir."

The speaker had a deep, masculine voice.

"Quentin? Why is it you? Isn’t this Catherine’s phone?" Li Chen’s brow furrowed as he asked.

"Sir, Catherine... has had an accident!"

Upon hearing this, Li Chen’s expression suddenly changed.

...

Nether Army Base.

After receiving the news, Li Chen immediately left the villa and rushed over here.

In the laboratory room, two girls were lying on beds, connected to medical devices.

Looking at Catherine and Alice lying in the beds, Li Chen’s face couldn’t help but turn grim.

The accident, it turned out, involved not only Catherine but also Alice.

"What on earth is going on?" Li Chen’s expression darkened as he turned to the Nether Army Generals behind him and asked in a deep voice.

Catherine and Alice were like Li Chen’s left and right-hand subordinates.

Without them, it would be like severing one of Li Chen’s arms directly, and arranging many matters would become troublesome.

Since Catherine returned, Li Chen’s workload had lightened up considerably, and this was evident in many aspects.

And the importance of Alice goes without saying.

But now, both Catherine and Alice were injured together, and although there was no danger to their lives, Li Chen could not help but feel a bit of anger.

Hearing Li Chen’s words, the people behind him were a bit reluctant to speak.

Normally, Li Chen was very approachable, but when it came to serious matters, no negligence could be tolerated.

Especially when Li Chen was visibly angry, one had to be even more careful with their words.

The gazes of the people exchanged, and in the end, it was the Nether Princess who was chosen to speak as a woman.

"My lord, here’s what happened..."

The Nether Princess’s face also looked somewhat ugly. Although there was no special reason for Li Chen to lash out at them on a whim, it would be terrifying if he really got angry.

"In the past few days, we were feeling bored staying at the base, so we wanted to stroll around the streets of Linchuan..." As she spoke, the Nether Princess quickly waved her hands and continued, "We had been doing this before, every once in a while, taking a couple of days to stroll the streets of Linchuan, and we had never encountered any issues before, plus we had other Nether Army soldiers watching over us."

"What about this time? What exactly happened?" Li Chen’s expression was still somewhat grim.

But he also understood.

This incident truly wasn’t their fault.

Although they were his subordinates, they were also human, and moreover, women.

Women will always have some different hobbies.

This point, Li Chen had gradually come to realize through his interaction with Lin Yi. Even he could not force Catherine and the others to stay cooped up in such a place for the sake of training their abilities.

Moreover, for these few women, staying amongst a crowd of men all the time wasn’t suitable either.

"This time..." The Nether Princess began, but her expression suddenly changed.

"We do not know what exactly happened. But while we were shopping, we were suddenly attacked." The Nether Princess spoke with an ugly expression, "Several of our brothers who were secretly protecting us were immediately taken down on the spot."

"My lord... I’m sorry. This time, it was my fault. I didn’t protect them well enough!" The Nether Princess came in front of Li Chen, knelt on one knee, and bowed her head.

In her eyes, among the three women, only she was of the combat type, yet she failed to protect the other two, so the fault of this incident indeed lied with her.

However, after some time, Li Chen sighed softly.

"Forget it." Li Chen slowly shook his head and placed a hand on the Nether Princess’s shoulder: "Stand up."

"This time, it truly was negligence. Not just you, but I too was negligent." Li Chen shook his head, "I had thought that recent matters had been mostly resolved, so I relaxed quite a bit, and this mood was also conveyed to you all."

"But, we still have many enemies!"

Hearing Li Chen’s words, the Nether Princess lowered her head deeply, not knowing how to respond.

"By the way, how many attackers were there this time, and how strong were they?" Suddenly, Li Chen turned his head to look at the Nether Princess and asked.

Although the Nether Princess was a woman, her strength was quite formidable within the Nether Army, and Li Chen was curious about the capabilities of the enemy she could not fend off.

"The enemy, there was only one!" Saying this, the Nether Princess couldn’t help but show a very ugly expression again.

"With the opponent’s strength, I couldn’t resist at all." The Nether Princess said with her head lowered, "If it weren’t for others arriving in time, I fear that I might have fallen too."

"Hmm?" Li Chen’s eyes narrowed slightly.