Out along the newly completed sixty-lane surface of Asteroid Highway #888 in Sector 4, four figures dressed in High-Visibility Bright Orange Reflective Safety Vests layered over Pink Floral Chore Aprons were sweating buckets. Meanwhile, they laid the final mile of golden roadside curbstones.
They were the four captured outer Script-Kings of the Heavenly Script Pavilion. The King of Betrayal (Trainee #1), the King of Despair & Plague (Trainee #2), the King of Plunder (Trainee #3), and the King of Massacre (Trainee #4)!
Under the terms of Gu Changsheng’s [Compulsory Community Service & Tuition Repayment Contract]. All four former fifth-dimensional overlords had their cultivation sealed down to Rank 1 Early mortal bricklayer level unless they were actively swinging a pickaxe. This pushed a wheelbarrow, or spreading mortar with a trowel for the public good.
Over the past several hours of non-stop highway construction under Captain Xing Si (Clone #401) and eleven-year-old Ao Xing’s conductor whistle. The four former Script-Kings had chipped and paved ten thousand miles of smooth, indestructible asteroid highway:
- The former King of Betrayal, whose purple-slapped cheeks had finally gone down thanks to Chief Nurse Hua Er’s herbal ointment. Was carefully checking the alignment of every curbstone with a wooden spirit-level so he wouldn’t get rapped on the knuckles by Monitor Xiao Yi’s ruler.
