The painted woman's enthusiasm didn't last long. After squatting outside Xu Huo's door until he woke up the next morning, she rushed in and said she didn't want the laboratory anymore. People were too unpredictable, and she might get the floor dirty while skinning them.
Xu Huo paused. "You really skinned them?"
"Not yet," the painted woman said indignantly. "I just tied them up and tossed them around a few times, and they started crying and screaming. They even attacked me with poison gas grenades!"
Xu Huo relaxed a little. "Then don't play that anymore. How about challenging Xiao Yuan and the others to see who can write the most characters?"
All the painted woman's indignation vanished. She looked everywhere except at Xu Huo, then backed away. When she reached the doorway, she turned into a sheet of paper and slipped out beneath the door.
Xu Huo smiled. After breakfast on the Third Floor, he familiarized himself with his items again, then took out "Perfect Assistance" and tested how well it worked with the Black Knife.
The Black Knife's advantage lay in the extreme hardness of the materials it was made from. It could withstand direct clashes without being easily damaged, and it was highly destructive to lower-level items. Its one drawback was that it couldn't attack at a distance. "Perfect Assistance" could extend the reach of its slashes. Of course, the item worked with many Attack Artifacts, but the Black Knife benefited the most. Although its ranged attacks couldn't match the knife itself, they were still formidable, on par with B-level cutting items like "Little Triangle."
"Perfect Assistance" could attach itself to other items, but it wasn't very convenient to retrieve, so Xu Huo planned to find a cord and thread the item onto it. Then he could simply