The cold wind cut like knives, and pixelated snowflakes drifted down from the sky.
On the Ice Spikes Plains, Ice Empress and Snow Empress stood blankly before a dirt crater nearly three blocks deep.
Just minutes ago, their Far North Palace, painstakingly built from snow blocks, had stood here, along with a Snow Golem that was dim-witted but fiercely protective of its owners.
But now, after that green Creeper let out a "hiss," everything had been blown away.
Even their beds had been blasted apart, forcing the two of them to run all the way back from the original spawn point thousands of blocks away—a journey that took a full half hour.
"Xue'er's palace... Xue'er's snow sprite..."
Ice Empress looked at the few shabby wooden swords left in her inventory, and her composure completely shattered.
"LU YUAN!!!"
A piercing scream suddenly erupted through the internet café lobby. Blue flames burned in Ice Empress's eyes, and she looked ready to freeze the entire café solid.
"Delete that disgusting green thing! Right now! Immediately! Or I'll tear this lousy internet café apart today!"
Although Snow Empress was not as explosively furious as Ice Empress, her stunning face was likewise shrouded in a chill colder than ten-thousand-year Profound Ice.
Lu Yuan sat behind the counter. Facing the death stares of the two queens of the Far North, he leisurely took a sip of goji berry tea. "Deleting monsters is impossible. They're the soul of Minecraft. But..."
"But what?" Ice Empress asked through gritted teeth.
"Well, that green cucumber has a natural enemy."
Lu Yuan was stuffing fries into his mouth with his other hand. Hearing Ice Empress's impotent rage, he added indistinctly.
Ice Empress froze. "A natural enemy? There's something in this stupid game that can deal with that green thing?"
"Of course."