Chapter Sixteen
Jia’s exoskeleton crested the stairs. No terrorists or undead emerged from the palace to attack her. She sighed. “Ok, I take it back. We are all kinds of ridiculous. We’re about to face jiangshi.”
“You’re the one who wanted to test fate,” Erik grumbled. Maybe he was a little superstitious, but he didn’t care to admit it after everything they’d just discussed.
“No, that’s not it.” Jia pointed her rifle toward the massive bronze door, her gaze skimming the worn characters and the dragon carved into the door. “We have all this advanced VR and AR, and what do we do with it? Practice how to kill people and blow up stuff. We could go on a virtual vacation anywhere, but it’s nothing but training. Our fun is us blowing up an unusual type of enemy.”
“What’s the point of a fake v
