Less than two seconds had passed. Before the man could even register what had happened, his forehead was pierced, and he toppled straight backward, his eyes wide with disbelief.
The thread that had pierced his head retracted into Pania's curved candy cane in a flash, without a single drop of blood on it.
When the other two saw the slightly darker-skinned man fall, they immediately checked on him. Finding that he no longer had a pulse, both their faces filled with fear.
Pania particularly enjoyed seeing fear on other people's faces. Just as she was about to give the other two another scare—
A skeletal old man who had been hiding in the shadows suddenly darted out. Moving even faster, he slit both their throats with swift, precise, ruthless strokes of a knife made entirely of bone.
After killing the two men, the old man immediately set his sights on Lin Mo.
Although Holland had said Teng Hai thought highly of the boy and that his only job was to watch him, the old man believed that if Lin Mo couldn't survive an encounter with him, he wasn't worthy of Teng Hai's regard.
The instant Holland's bone knife was about to slice across Lin Mo's neck, Lin Mo reflexively stepped back. The blade swept past less than a centimeter from his throat.
The old man's first strike missed, but he had no intention of giving up. The instant he missed, he redirected the bone knife and thrust it hard toward Lin Mo's heart.
Noticing the old man's movement, Lin Mo immediately twisted to the left and dodged.
But the old man reacted quickly, adjusting the knife's direction at once and stabbing at Lin Mo again.
Lin Mo dodged back and forth countless times. Although he could see every move the