Golden kitchen light spilled out of the open lid of [Dad’s Care-Package Upgrade Box] as it floated above the white-jade platform of the Floor Three mezzanine.
Down on the bronze gauges of the Central Printing Press, the red countdown needle clicked steadily past the twenty-minute mark. Twenty minutes was all that stood between ten trillion mortal and immortal worlds and the permanent lock-in of the Chief Author’s Mandatory Orphanhood Overwrite. Across the vast cavern of the Ink-Sea Library below, ten trillion red-bristled Auto-Quill Brushes were still racing across open jade pages, carving fatal carriage wrecks, false treason charges.
Mysterious kitchen poisons into the lives of innocent mothers and fathers.
Three miles away on the western gallery of Floor Two. Gu Changsheng parried another furious downward smash of Grand Proofreader Mo Wu’s mountain-sized Iron Stamp of Tragic Canon with a casual upward flick of his battered [Frost-Pine Town Iron Wok Spatula].
CLANG—HUMMMMM!
Sparks of warm golden hearth-fire sprayed across the black stone balcony as the twenty-foot literary censor skidded backward through the air. While keeping Mo Wu and the ten thousand stampeding Censor-Ink Golems completely occupied with his glowing charcoal scroll of misspelled insults against Lin Fan. Gu Changsheng focused half of his spiritual sense into the [Upgrade Box] hovering in front of his children on Floor Three.
