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“Lin Zeyan, if you’ve got the guts, let me go!” Before leaving the dorm that morning, I thought I’d finally crush my nemesis, Lin Zeyan, in today’s match—wipe that smug look off his face for good. But during the fight, a strange flood of memories suddenly crashed into my mind. My fist, which was supposed to land squarely on his jaw, lost all its strength. My knees buckled, and I stumbled straight into his arms. Lin Zeyan froze. Everyone around us was stunned. “No way, Yun Fei, are…-
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CAPTAIN HAMMER lay still a long time after the Gold Beetle had crashed. He was prone in the darkness of the forward gangway, a space not much bigger than a coffin. The great ship, stalling, nose up, as Hammer pushed back the wheel yoke, had poised with treetops brushing her keel, then dropped flat as a pancake. She broke through snapping tree limbs, crashing with shock after shock. Her splintering tail struck the ground first, taking the brunt of the blow, and was immediately shivered to kindling. Then,…-
11.9 K • Ongoing
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IT HAPPENED with a speed approaching that of lightning. Time moves swiftly in the air. It is no place to float and cogitate. The black ship shot up toward his bow. He could not climb away. He hauled her nose high, but she would not take the air. She rolled and toppled over to one side, like a terror-stiffened horse hearing a rattler’s klir underfoot. The blackbird zoomed with streaking wings. It leaped like a rocket. Level, its black wings swept by the gray boat at three hundred feet a second.…
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11.9 K • Ongoing
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CEDAR spun the propeller of the HS boat, with a sharp snap, and a quick jump away, as Hammer directed him. The loud engine yelled, the propeller blast tore up the surface of the lake. Cedar scrambled to shore and pushed the boat off, swinging it bow outward by one wing. Over the furrowing water it fled into the wind, while Cedar stood watching it a little while, saturated by the driven water of the propeller’s wake. He turned and left the shore, as he saw the boat leap off. He climbed up the slope to…
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11.9 K • Ongoing
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STABLING his white mule on the shore of Bitter Lake, Cedar heard a plane droning over the hills. He sought cover on the shore and watched it narrowly, being by no means sure that it was not the Blackbird. A gray seaplane, smaller by half than the Beetle, was sailing down from the east into the valley that cupped the lake. It came, turning into the wind, and settled its tail in the water. Its bow swung round; it churned toward the farther shore and beached in the shallows below Cedar's cabin. When its…
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11.9 K • Ongoing
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THE HOLD-UP of the Gold Beetle was not the only crime that was carried out in the next few days. On that same night, for instance, down in Tuxedo, fifteen miles away, a rich man’s summer mansion was gutted of a treasure in old paintings and hand-fasioned silver dinnerware, three times as precious—were the thief able to dispose of it at market price—as the treasure taken from the Beetle. The thief, or at least an accomplice, was immediately arrested, however. The mystery was a question, so far as the…
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11.9 K • Ongoing
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“BLACKBIRD!” Captain Hammer was muttering. “Damned murdering Blackbird! I know you’re watching me. Blackbird! I can feel your sharp eyes—” “You just rest easy, sonny,” Cedar advised patiently. “You’re in the police cabin of the Iron Mine District. Ain’t nothing going to hurt you here.” Aided by the big trooper with the mashed face, Cedar had carried Hammer into the nearby police cabin. Amsel was gone, galloping off on Cedar’s white mule, to fetch the police surgeon, who was…
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On the way home, Wang Xiaoyue blocked us at the mansion gates, her eyes wild with desperation. After her rebirth, the gap between her expectations and reality had driven her to the edge. She insisted on staying in the best hotels, but without money, she was quickly thrown out. Just as she lunged at me with a knife, both Lin Jianyu and Lin Minghao shouted in unison, “Yanran, watch out!” But the bodyguards my mother, Lin Yuxin, had hired were already on alert. They surged forward, kicking the knife…-
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As I neared my eighteenth birthday, I grew more and more anxious, as if something bad was looming. I’d learned from experience: I had cameras installed in every corner of the villa, just in case. After learning Lin Xiaoyue wasn’t his, Jianyu promptly changed her surname to Wang, making her Wang Xiaoyue. “You’re just a child we adopted. I hope you study hard and make your own way in the world,” he told her bluntly, even tearing down the apartment he’d once promised her. As if to…
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4.9 K • Ongoing
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“Dad, the girls’ birthday banquet is about to start. Don’t take Xiaoyue away,” Lin Jianyu said, returning from mingling with guests. With so many people present, Grandpa relented. “Yanran, here’s a longevity locket from Mom,” my mother said, showing me a dazzling gold locket. “Mommy~” I blurted out, overwhelmed with emotion. Lin Yuxin, strong as an eagle, teared up. “Yanran, this is from your uncle…” “Yanran, this is from your second uncle…” “Yanran, this…
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