The map we had been given was extremely well detailed, it contained a lot of detailed information about the area including the locations of three villages, some small fresh water ponds that were located near each of the villages, and (obviously) the location of this "valley" we were looking for which was in the northeastern part of China. We had already passed through two of the three villages where we had stopped for some rest and to restock our food and water supply. We thought we had enough water to finish our journey, but we didn't expect to drink as much of it as we did, in fact we were nearly out of water within four days, but thankfully we were getting close to the third village which was located only a few miles from the Valley.

"How much further" asked Zhou Wei.

"Not that much further" I replied.

"Well we had better hurry, we're nearly out of water."

"I know, but according to this map we should reach the final village by midday."

"That's good to know. Hey, do you think these animals are going to be friendly or hostile towards us when we get there?" asked Zhou Wei.

"There's only one way to find out." I replied.

"I thought you might say that."

By midday we had come to a large hill, and were very tired and thirsty. When we got to the crest of the hill, we could see that we weren't about to get any rest yet.

"Okay," I said, "the village should be on the other side of this hi…"

What we saw absolutely horrified us…the village was on fire! We saw a small group of people coming towards us being chased by bandits and we immediately went to help them, as we got closer we could hear one of the bandits yelling.

"You! Stop right there!" he yelled.

Then, one of the villagers fell, and tumbled along the ground.

"Thought you could get away did you?" said the bandit. That was when Zhou Wei threw his axe towards the guard.

"Hey, who are.." was all the bandit said before theaxe buried itself in his chest. I then rode up and used my weapon to slash the other two bandits across their chests.

"Are you okay?" asked Zhou Wei to the fallen villager.

"Yes, but bandits are in our villager doing whatever they please. Please help us" he said.

"Good for nothing bandits!" I yelled, "Always ruining the lives of others. We must stop them!"

"I agree." Zhou Wei replied.

So, into the village we went. All we saw was bandits ransacking the buildings. We quickly went to work killing them. I was clearing out one small building when I was suddenly tackled through the wall, even though the wall was made of straw the impact from whoever hit me still hurt a lot. When I got up to look around I saw a bandit who looked to be at least twice my size advancing towards me.

"You know," I said "I've heard of eating for two people, but you look like you could eat for three or four."

"Shut the fuck up." Said the bandit, "I'll kill you, then I'll kill your little friend too." And then he charged.

We locked blades, but I quickly won the deadlock by moving to the side and tripping the bandit, which he wasn't too happy about.

"Awww, did the little bandit fall down go boom?" I asked mockingly.

All he did was growl in response, then he got back up and the fight started again. This time he got in a few good hits with his weapon, but I still managed to use my Ji to slice open his right arm, and cause him to bleed profusely. I then hit him with the butt end of my weapon, which I thought had knocked him out cold, but as I was walking away I felt something heavy hit the back of my head and I hit the ground face first. When I rolled over to see what had hit me I saw the bandit coming towards me, still bleeding profusely from the gash on his arm. As my vision became blurry I saw seven figures in the distance coming towards us, I could tell one was Zhou Wei by the shape of his body, but I couldn't tell what the others were. I saw the blurry figures fighting the bandit, and saw him go crashing to the ground just in front of me. Then, I heard some voices, one of which said "…back to the palace". , but I didn't have enough time to think about what was going to happen, and the last thing that went through my head before I blacked out was "Fatass got what he richly deserved."