"The Enforcers got to the drop point first," Kael panted into his comms, ducking behind a rusted ventilation shaft. "I had to dump the drive in the acid vats to keep them from tracing it back to you."
Xiao Gou sat on the edge of the broken fountain, his legs dangling over the abyss where the city used to be. His knee was scraped, a raw red against his pale skin, but he didn’t flinch. He never flinched anymore. That was part of the game. shuo huang de xiao gou hui bei chi diao de 9
But that night — the boar returned, angry. It broke into the yard where Liangliang was tied up. “You caused my family to flee. Now I eat you,” growled the boar. "The Enforcers got to the drop point first,"
