Watching the Northern King stand up, his entire body radiating an utterly terrifying aura, it was obvious he had used some kind of Secret Technique to briefly return to his peak. Faced with his questioning, Lin Yu could only smile again.
How could he know what Lu Gu was thinking?
After all, just now, he had merely been improvising as a Xia Jin expert—according to Lin Yu's observations, the experts in the Black Marsh World were all arrogant, conceited, and utterly unrestrained in speech.
The humans of Xia Jin were the same. In fact, it would be more accurate to say they were "especially so."
So, Lin Yu's words had only been meant to establish his persona and mock She She. He truly had not known that the Northern King still possessed the ability to recover at the last moment.
However...
Now that it had actually happened, Lin Yu was not surprised either.
After all, situations where a top expert like the Northern Witch King was so gravely wounded that he could only cling to life, yet had secretly kept another trick up his sleeve, might be unexpected in the Black Marsh World, but to Lin Yu...
He had seen more than enough of them in all kinds of works.
Ever since Wang Chongyang hid inside a coffin and ambushed Ouyang Feng, it had practically become an unspoken rule that top experts would always leave themselves at least one chance to counterattack.
Regardless of whether the other party had one or not, you still had to guard against it.
Even outside fictional works, Lin Yu's own past experiences had included something similar: after he killed Nian, the other party had come knocking at his home not long afterward.
In short...
Although he had not anticipated it, Lin Yu could still