A sense of dizziness came over Myers:
From receiving word that Night City troops had been spotted outside Los Angeles to losing contact with Los Angeles, the great fire in Texas, and the terrorist attacks that plunged Iowa City and Las Vegas into utter chaos, less than five minutes had passed!
In just five minutes, the united, powerful New America had become as precarious as a strapping boxer rushed into the ICU!
Her New America was not the only one attacking Night City this time.
Su Xia agreed with him. That was indeed the case: Zhou Zhining seemed to have no need to conceal her identity, yet she had deceived them with a fake blood sample earlier. Why was that?
I held my older sister's hand, resting my head against its back. My eyes reddened, and tears pattered down for a moment, bitterness filling my heart. If she learned of this, I did not know whether she could bear such a blow.
As long as she could stay safely by his side, he would gladly accept it even if she called him ugly every day.
On the other end of the phone was Gu Xixi's good friend, Bai Suzhen. Two years older than Gu Xixi, Bai Suzhen had married after graduating. Her husband, Teng Qiming, was the perfect man: tall, rich, handsome, and devoted to her as though she were his very life.
"If you don't want it, forget it. You can spend Christmas alone, then. I'm not keeping you company." She bent down and put the ticket back on the coffee table.
The river was called the "River of Gears." Its source was neither a mountain range nor another river, but lay underground.
At those words, Long Shiqi's heart lurched, and he felt that something had gone terribly wrong.