Chapter 37 - 36 Fortress Agent
Lin Wu followed Maya and jumped off the container, then turned around with his shotgun aimed behind him. Quick Gunner! With a loud bang, blood spattered, and the 15% headshot chance finally triggered, a Night Demon, due to inertia, tumbled down at Lin Wu’s feet from the darkness a few meters away.
Maya turned back and saw Lin Wu holding a gun in one hand and looting a corpse with the other. She didn’t have time to argue with Lin Wu about which was more important, life or property, and blindly shot a crossbow arrow over Lin Wu’s shoulder, "Hurry."
"Hurry up," Lin Wu replied, holding the gun with one hand and firing a shot into the darkness, whether there was a target or not, just to give them a scare, then shouted, "Motorcycle."
"Alright," said Maya as she fired another arrow before turning to run. Lin Wu scored some alcohol, fired another shot into the darkness, and then fled at full speed. After the morale penalty from the deaths in Cotton was gone, Lin Wu deduced the Night Demons were slightly slower than him. Even so, he turned on a burst of speed to dash forty yards out the small iron gate and reached the streetlight in double time.
Maya had successfully stolen a motorcycle, and just as she drove up, Lin Wu arrived. He grabbed Maya’s shoulder with one hand and swung himself onto the bike with such coolness that he even impressed himself. They rode the motorcycle to the pickup truck, lifted the bike onto the truck together, and then quickly took off. They weren’t running from Night Demons, but from the guilt of thieves.
Just moments before, Lin Wu had righteously punished a girl for stealing motorcycles, and now, to his own surprise, he found himself committing the same deed, feeling somewhat hot-faced. As they drove off, Lin Wu rationalized, "They’ve already lost two people; they probably won’t need the motorcycle now."
Maya glanced at Lin Wu, not expecting him to feel ashamed of stealing.
Lin Wu pulled out the Desert Falcon from his bag, "When I went to get gasoline, I happened to catch someone trying to steal our truck."
Maya looked at the gun and said, "Nicely done. You hadn’t mentioned that before."