Kiana: OMO

Seeing this, Bronya fired an entire magazine at the man.

Yet no matter how many shots she fired, he remained standing stiffly upright.

"I feel great right now."

"This power! It's so powerful! Hahahahaha!!!"

The middle-aged man laughed maniacally, his expression twisted. "All right, Silver Wolf. Now you should go keep that guy company."

Bronya's pupils contracted. She casually tossed aside her gun and drew a dagger.

What was wrong with this guy?

Bullets couldn't kill him?

Whoosh—

In just a few seconds, Bronya discovered that he had already reached her!

How was he so fast?!

He threw a punch!

Smack!

"I'll say it again: don't touch her with your filthy hands."

"Lin Nai?!" Bronya looked utterly shocked.

A living person?

Was this for real?!

"Hey, hey, Bronya, I'm here too!" Kiana jumped out.

Lin Nai, who had suddenly appeared, effortlessly caught the man's punch, leaving the middle-aged man terrified.

"You... you're not dead?!"

"I crawled back from hell to get revenge on you." Lin Nai chuckled and threw him away with a backhand!

The middle-aged man landed in a backflip, rose to his feet, and revealed a mocking smile. "Can you really do it?"

"How would I know if I don't try?"

With that, Lin Nai walked toward the man with a smile on his face.

"Ho ho, after witnessing my current power, you didn't run away and actually walked toward me, Buka?"

Oh, so your name was Buka.

What a shame.

He'd already called you "the middle-aged man" for nearly two chapters. There was no point giving you a name now.

"If I don't get closer, how am I supposed to beat you senseless?"

Lin Nai walked forward, rubbing his fists together, already itching to punch that old face of his!

He already wanted to make this old man drop Gold Coins!

The two stood facing each other.

Yet before Lin Nai could make a move, the other man suddenly started twitching bizarrely, greatly shocking Lin Nai.

Creak, creak!

"Urgh! Hnghhhhhh!!!"

The man suddenly screamed, frightening Lin Nai into repeatedly backing away.

Someone was having a fit!

Wouldn't this give him epilepsy, or some other weird contagious disease?

"Hm hm hm ahhhhhhh!"

"Kiana, save me!!!"

The foul shout scared Lin Nai so badly that, like a rabbit, he turned around and bolted!

This guy was sick!!

Retreat!

Retreat now!!

"Lin... Lin Nai?"

Kiana and Bronya stared in bewilderment at Lin Nai, who had shielded them in front of himself.

"Sorry, I'm really pretty scared when people start having episodes..." Lin Nai chuckled awkwardly.

Seriously.

Splat!

The man fell to the ground, motionless.

He looked suspiciously dead.

"Did he die?" Kiana stood on tiptoe and peered over a few times.

Lin Nai took a look. "Seems like it... There's no energy response anymore, but there's still quite a lot of Honkai energy left in his body."

"Honkai energy? Huh? That guy had Honkai energy?"

"Mm... I can feel it."

Lin Nai nodded, narrowing his eyes slightly as he sensed carefully.

His life energy was gone, but there was plenty of Honkai energy left.

Bronya did not understand all this stuff about Honkai energy, but she felt it was necessary to explain what had happened earlier.

"I see. So that means... that person injected an unknown liquid?"

After roughly hearing the account, Lin Nai and Kiana showed looks of sudden realization.

But what was that liquid?

Lin Nai then picked up the syringe from the ground. There was still a tiny bit of residue inside.

They could only deal with these things later.

They currently had no way to test it.

They had no idea what was inside.

But it definitely wasn't anything good...

So next came the most crucial matter!

"Lin Nai, you... why are you okay?"

"Urgh!"

Kiana: Oh my god

"Then, Lin Nai, please tell Bronya why you are standing here perfectly fine right now."

"Gulp!"

"And why were you and Kiana here?"

Lin Nai hurriedly looked toward a certain Kiana.

Kiana's gaze wandered as she guiltily whistled, completely ignoring Lin Nai.

Lin Nai: ???

Kiana?

Kiana, help me out?!

Why are you just watching?!

Did you really betray me?!

Kiana!!

Kiana: Oh my god.

"Haha... Urgh! Aah! Aah↗aah↘aah→aah!"

Lin Nai collapsed to the ground. "I suffered severe internal injuries..."

Bronya narrowed her eyes. Her gray eyes were filled with disbelief and suspicion.

"Lin Nai."

"Here!"

Lin Nai sprang to his feet in a sudden kip-up.

"Tell Bronya the truth." Bronya said this while wearing a cat-faced scowl.

Bronya: (? _ ?)

"Um... I'm sorry." Lin Nai apologized sincerely. "Bullets don't really do much to me."

"Mm, and then? Why were you here?"

"Uh, well... I used a tiny little method to lock onto your location..."

Lin Nai sighed and pressed his hands together. "I'm very sorry."

Back then.

The flash Bronya had seen was not light reflecting off glass, but a sniper scope.

Even Kiana's intuition had detected it.

Lin Nai had only needed to sense things slightly to know.

Hm?

How did he sense it?

Ask this land.

To prevent Bronya from being left alone and attacked, he had used energy to lock onto Bronya.

That way, if she ended up alone, it would not be a problem of him failing to reach her in time.

"I wanted Bronya to step out of her psychological trauma..."

"Even at the cost of getting yourself hurt?"

"Mm... They were only a few bullets..." Lin Nai did not dare look at Bronya's face.

He had not stepped in to save Bronya immediately.

Instead, he had waited until now...

"Lower your head."

"Mm?"

"Lower your head."

He did not know why, but Lin Nai lowered his head anyway.

Then he felt a hand rest on his head.

It gently patted him.

"Thank you..."

"Huh?" A surprised expression appeared on Lin Nai's face.

Bronya withdrew her hand, her expression still unchanged.

"Bronya does not know what patting someone's head means, but Kiana is always happy whenever she does it."