The well water suddenly began to boil. The Ziwei Sword in Shen Xitang’s arms trembled violently, and blood began to seep from the dragon pattern on the hilt. She suddenly recalled the words of the shark-person in the Guixu illusion: "When the twin curse is broken, the dragon vein shall return to one." Last night, when A-Qing threw himself toward the charred corpse, gold blood had surged from her own heart as well.
"Miss!"
The distinctive partridge whistle of the Transport Gang rang out from outside the door. Tie Lin stumbled in, dragging a crippled leg, his harpoon skewering an onmyoji wearing a Noh mask. "In the hull of the Japanese ship we intercepted last night, we found twenty children’s corpses carved with phoenix patterns!"
Chapter 104