Shadows of JiangXi

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Elias jogged through the muddy forest, twelve nuggets and a combat jeep. That was a pretty good batch, too bad most of them were probably going to die. JiangXi wasn't exactly renown for going easy on people, especially not once the dead of night set in.

He slid down into the mud and under brush, lifting his rifle up as he scanned the trees around him, watching as one of the nuggets was frantically running away from a Bun-bun... the fauna on the planet, for some sick and bizarre reason, had been named after cutesy woodland creatures.

The carnivorous Bun-bun, Teddies, Mr. Mole... now that one was truly terrifying... of course there were hooters and flappers in the night... and that was if they were lucky and the wild turkeys weren't about... as big as T-Rexs and far more viscous.

No JiangXi was not a forgiving place to be, and for most of the nuggets, it was going to be their last night alive.

Elias made to get up, and flattened himself again quickly as somewhere deep in the forest, the roar of a jeep engine could be heard. The devil woman was trying to scare them, the problem was all she was going to accomplish was stir up something large, mean, and definitely aggressive.

The Lieutenant didn't really want to hang around and find out what that was, he was up and sprinting again, weaving through the trees again, heading for the bridge that would take him across the southern canyon and back towards his base camp, at the edge of the old Warner estate.

Putting distance between him and the dead men, and then warming himself by a rousing fire...

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