Kingdom of Corrosion

"How shall we bet?"

Lin Wu said, "Let’s bet on the odd or even number of bullets in the magazine of my Silencer." Lin Wu pulled out the magazine of the Silencer.

Nightmare gritted his teeth and placed the Dawn Medal on the ground: "Fine, I bet on even."

Lin Wu flipped the bullets with his thumb: "Odd, even, odd, even, odd, even... odd! Sorry about that." Lin Wu lifted the magazine to show Nightmare clearly.

This little trickster! Nightmare was speechless, waving his hand, "Take it. I hope you’ll come blackmail me after you’ve taken it."

Unexpectedly, Lin Wu picked up his own Forest Wolf that was placed on the ground: "Let’s collaborate again if there’s a chance, goodbye." And he was gone.

Nightmare shouted angrily, "Are you crazy?"

Lin Wu turned to look at the medal on the ground. Nightmare squeezed out a smile for the first time in 27 years: "Take care on your way, don’t fall to your death."

Lin Wu snorted and left with Maya. Maya didn’t participate in their bet, knowing that Lin Wu was testing whether Nightmare was a trustworthy collaborator. Lin Wu had applied several rounds of pressure; if Nightmare turned hostile in those earlier rounds, Lin Wu would have definitely offered apologies and smiled, believing that due to Maya’s presence, Nightmare wouldn’t go as far as killing him.

After confirming that Nightmare was a trustworthy collaborator, Lin Wu didn’t take the medal to blackmail Nightmare into taking both Forest Wolves. Instead, he left the medal for Nightmare. Maya was relieved by this; the young man was growing all the time and had a promising future. So she told Lin Wu the details about the Dawn Medal mission.

Lin Wu wasn’t interested in this explanation, his mind on something else as he asked, "Do you think I could get infected if I accidentally drank some river water?"