Chapter 439 - 228 A1_3
"Ah, a Sudoku lock," Lin Wu groaned as he examined the door lock, immediately feeling a headache coming on.
Maya smiled inwardly, shouldered past Lin Wu, and began to manipulate the Sudoku grid with her fingers. She had only made it halfway when a sound of someone hitting the floor echoed, and both turned to see Nightmare already lying dead on the ground.
"Damn!" Lin Wu exclaimed, "She was telling the truth."
The two of them held their guns at the ready and slowly advanced. Suddenly, Maya turned around but there was nothing behind her. With their backs to each other, they reached Nightmare’s corpse, and Lin Wu bent down to turn over the body, revealing a bleeding wound on the back of Nightmare’s head.
Lin Wu instinctively looked toward the statue in the nearby pool, an ancient Chinese stone sculpture of one of the Four Heavenly Kings, granite-colored. As his gaze met the statue, it blinked—an ability similar to Lin Wu’s unique Wind Stab Skill. The statue then lowered its head, charged out from the pool, and passed under Lin Wu’s armpit in an attempt to stab him in the back of his head with a reverse grip knife.
Lin Wu activated Wind Stinger, tumbling into the pool and narrowly evading the deadly strike, "Complain, where’s player protection? Glug glug..." he sputtered, gulping down water. For a moment, Lin Wu was confused; player protection only applied in player versus player combat.
Hearing the commotion, Maya swiftly turned around, only to see the marble-colored dwarf transform into a shadow that zipped into the bamboo grove by the road. As he entered the grove, his body seemed to turn the color of the bamboo and he disappeared with it.
With a dagger in his left hand and a pistol in his right, Lin Wu stood in the pool and said, "We’ve encountered an expert of our own level. " Besides skills similar to the Wind Stab Skill, the dwarf’s Chameleon Skill was akin to one of the Concealment abilities of the Hunter’s skill that Lin Wu had yet to learn.
Maya didn’t dare move, asking, "NPC or player?"
"I hope it’s a player," Lin Wu responded.