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The Little Girl from Another World Unlike me, the knife used by that idiot Yue Xiao had not left fragments inside Cheng Rui’s wound. Clearly, however, the damage it had done went far beyond “only” stabbing him and nearly making him bleed to death. “Feels like I got hit by a train,” he said softly, too exhausted to raise his voice. “Did we get that bastard?” “He disappeared when my fist was halfway through him,” I told him. Chi Li was placing a cloth packed with ice against his…-
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Arrival at the Underground Base It took us nearly half an hour to reach our destination, and Chi Li moved through those tunnels faster than any normal girl should have been able to—never mind that she was carrying an unconscious person wearing a metal exoskeleton the whole way. If I had not had other things on my mind, the slowness of it would have driven me mad after tasting the freedom and terrifying speed of flight. The narrow, dark tunnel suddenly opened into a vast room flooded with light…
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Which One Should I Choose? “Can your healers treat blood infection and poisoning?” I asked. “They can cure anything,” she said, emphasizing the word. “As long as he’s still alive. But it’s too far, and you don’t know the way.” “In that case, I’ll buy us a little more time.” I did not bother explaining. With one hand, I touched Cheng Rui’s wounded side, right beside where Chi Li was trying to hold the gash shut. With the other, I touched the pool of blood on the…
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There Are Always Surrenderists I pulled the knife out. I had not sensed it until after it pierced my skin. Fortunately, it only went in an inch or two before lodging in muscle and failing to go any deeper. Of course it hurt. But the wound healed. And the ornate steel knife crumbled into ash in my hand. It was like that movie I had seen when I was ten. The one with the orcs. “Seriously? Could you try being a little creative?” I shouted at the still-invisible attacker. Cheng Rui…
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Reunion After Five Days “Okay,” I whispered. I forced back the tears that were about to fall and followed my two friends into the sewer. Cheng Rui seemed to be struggling beneath the weight of the weapon in his hands, so as we moved into the dark drainage tunnel, I used my free hand to take it from him. “Thanks. It’s light enough when I’m in armor, but the armor can’t fit into the sewer,” the boy said. He gave me a tentative smile. Then he noticed the state of my battle-damaged…
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At Last, I Found Them Dozens of arrows fell around me. Their bone-white tips exploded on impact, bursting into sprays of blazing sparks. Asphalt, concrete, parked cars—whatever the arrows struck, they burned through in seconds, even eating holes into metal. Have you ever seen those videos online of people playing around with thermite? It was like that, except the burning, spark-spitting parts stuck to whatever they hit like glue. I learned this the hard way when one arrow struck my left…
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Squeezing the Enemy into a Ball My back smashed through the brick outer wall of a motel, then through cheap interior plasterboard, then through a sofa and an old cathode-ray television, until I finally stopped against a solid mass of concrete and rebar. I staggered to my feet, shook my head to clear the stars from my vision, and spat out a broken tooth. My jaw was probably fractured. It certainly felt that way. Normally I would have been more worried about the tooth and the ugly gap in my…
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The Black Hand Does Not Take the Taunt The vague black silhouette had glowing blue eyes, yet did not exist inside my Force Sense. To my hearing, it was a region of absolute silence, as if it devoured every nearby sound. It moved in a way that was deeply wrong. Less like a living creature than a true shadow, flickering from place to place as the light that cast it shifted. Every step, every attack, every motion felt as though cold claws of fear were trying to pierce my flesh. These…
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Cheng Rui in His Mech A gaunt humanoid over two meters tall charged at Cheng Rui’s heavy armor faster than most cars on a highway. It had terrible claws and a skeletal face. The claws slammed into the thick iron plating with a deep, bell-like clang—and shattered in the process. While the monster howled over the loss of its claws, the drill mounted on Cheng Rui’s left wrist punched through its torso. Very quickly, the scream became a wet gurgle. The sharp, ultra-hard, vibrating chisel cut…
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Chi Li and Cheng Rui “Mom, you really can’t stay in the house anymore! It isn’t safe here!” For half an hour, the teenage girl had been trying to persuade her parents to go somewhere safer than this suburban house, and she was so anxious she was nearly in tears. The house’s greatest defense was a white picket fence. “Would it be safer to run into the fog while there’s a war going on?” Her mother was barely five feet tall, not at all imposing, but she still glared and repeated the…
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