Lin Yixin smiled at me as she lay limply against my chest. Her long eyelashes looked like they had caught a bit of dust. She tried to push herself to a standing position, but I held her still and said, "Stop. You’ve been logged in for 24 hours straight, haven’t you[1]?"

"Mn. Swallow Ear Canton was a tough bone to break, so…" she replied with a nod.

My heart ached like a bitch as I examined the fatigue trailing her expression. I looked around to take my mind off things for a bit. Breeze and Rain was nailed to the wall by a fiery scepter, and Flowing Cloud was lying face down on a heap of sand with a blood-drenched cape. She had been stabbed in the heart, and her killer was none other than the girl in my arms.

There were two other corpses slightly farther away from here. The first one I checked out was Little Piglet. He had a Level 220 sword in his hand, and he was sitting against a wall. His throat had been cut, but he clearly died with a smile on his face. Not far away from him was India’s number one mage, Lui Lok. He had a spear lodged in his chest, and if I remembered correctly, Little Piglet was the one who killed him. Finally, the third corpse was a handsome man lying face up in a pool of blood. His fists were clenched tightly even...