"Xiao Gang! Are you all right?"
Flender rushed forward and helped Yu Xiaogang up from where he sat slumped on the floor, his face deathly pale.
Yu Xiaogang was still trembling uncontrollably. His lips quivered, but for a long moment he couldn't force out a single word.
The icy killing intent and the terror of coming face-to-face with death in that instant had left him completely frozen.
He had truly thought he was going to die.
"That woman definitely picked her moment!" Zhao Wuji ground his teeth. The phantom of the Great Vajra Bear still flickered faintly behind him.
"We only got here this afternoon, and she already dared to sneak in and attack us tonight? Does she really think Shrek is some soft target she can push around?!"
"Exactly! The nerve!"
The other teachers joined in, cursing angrily.
Flender, however, furrowed his brow.
He examined the wound on Yu Xiaogang's neck closely.
It was shallow, just a scratch, and the beads of blood that had welled up had already begun to congeal.
With the speed and strength that Female Assassin had just displayed, if she had really wanted to kill Yu Xiaogang, he wouldn't even have had time to call for help.
Then what had she come for...?
A warning?
A threat?
Or... something else?
Flender was frowning in thought when he suddenly sensed someone at the doorway.
He jerked his head up—
Liu Erlong and Yu Tiancheng stood beyond the shattered doorframe, quietly watching the chaos in the room.
"Xiao Gang! How did you get hurt so badly?"
Flender's eyes darted about. He immediately put on a look of deep sorrow, took a jar of medicine from his Soul Tool, and made a show of applying it to Yu Xiaogang.
Hearing Flender's words, Liu Erlong instinctively started forward