On the Ark.

As he spoke, Kado kicked Ifrit's body with his foot.

Himer stared blankly at Kado: "What did you say? Saria ruined Rhine Life for Ifrit?"

"Oh?" Kado raised an eyebrow, then shook his head involuntarily. "It seems you don't know about this. Tsk tsk tsk, Himeru, what can I say to you? Back at Rhine Labs, you and Saria were clearly the best partners, so why is there such a big difference? You seem smart, but you're actually naively foolish, while Saria is the complete opposite. If it weren't for Saria, do you really think you and this little one could have lived peacefully on Rhodes Island for so many years?"

Himer was stunned.

"How... how could this be..."

She murmured to herself and knelt on the ground. Both her body and mind were struck down, leaving her at a loss.

“You should thank me,” Kado said. “At least I let you know about this before you die. As payment, I’ll accept Ifrit.”

Kado's words pulled Himer from her chaotic thoughts. With all her might, she crawled toward Ifrit, screaming at the top of her lungs, "Stop! You bastard... Give Ifrit back my Ifrit..."

Kado sneered, bent down, and prepared to pick Ifrit up, but the moment his hand touched Ifrit's body, the cold muzzle of a gun was pressed against the back of his head.

"You have chronic dermatitis, try moving it again?"

Kado and Himer were both stunned.

Kado slowly turned his head, and his eyes widened when he saw who it was: "How could it be you?!"

Himer cried out as if she had seen a lifeline, "Dr. Lin! Please, please save Ifrit!"

Lin Ye looked down at Ifrit's current state and felt a pang of heartache. After hearing Himer's words, he nodded: "Don't worry, I'm already here. This old dermatitis is fine today..."

"Dr. Lin, watch out! Behind you!" El's voice suddenly rang out.

Lin Ye subconsciously turned around and saw two long-sword-wielding men who had appeared behind him at some point, now less than twenty meters away. If it weren't for El, who was resting nearby and heavily injured, noticing him, he probably would have had his neck silently ripped off by these two!

After Lin Ye discovered them, the two longsword-wielding men stopped lying in wait, suddenly leaped up, and charged towards Lin Ye.

"grass."

Lin Ye cursed under his breath, first smashing the butt of his rifle into the back of Kado's head, knocking him unconscious, then suddenly turning around and pulling the trigger on the two long-sword-wielding men.

Two gunshots rang out, followed by an even louder "Holy crap!", because the bullets grazed the longsword man's body but missed.

Both shots missed.

Lin Ye couldn't help but curse himself: "How the hell can my marksmanship be so terrible?!"

However, cursing was useless. The two longsword-wielding men were almost at his face, so Lin Ye immediately took two steps back and then drew his black steel sword.

Facing two opponents alone, Lin Ye has absolutely no chance of winning without using a Leaping Wave Strike to deliver a fatal blow.

So Lin Ye retreated while trying to feel the tide.

"Dr. Lin, catch!"

El's voice rang out again. Lin Ye turned slightly and saw that El had also thrown his sword over, which startled him.

Oh, I think I bragged to him during the day that I was a dual-wielder... Now it seems that El believed me.

Dual swords it is.

Lin Ye picked up El's sword with his left hand, striking the same pose as the night before last.

Actually, he doesn't know how to use a knife with his left hand, but with the help of Leaping Wave Strike, he only needs to swing the knife with all his might, and few people can stop him.

Lin Ye took a deep breath. Whether it was because he was truly at a life-or-death moment, or because he had gradually become more proficient with the Leaping Wave Strike through repeated use, he soon heard the sound of the waves. So he stopped retreating, held his breath, and prepared to meet the two knife-wielding men head-on.

However, he soon heard a faint whooshing sound.

puff.

A tearing pain shot through his lower back and abdomen. Lin Ye looked down and saw that an arrow, which seemed to have come from nowhere, had pierced right through his abdomen.

The accumulated force dissipated in an instant, and the thug rushed in front of him. He was powerless to resist, and the knife sliced ​​almost half of his body open from bottom to top.

"Lin Ye!"

"Dr. Lin!"

He heard Himer and El calling his name, but it was no use. He took two steps back, leaned against the wall, and slowly sat down, his blood staining half of the wall red.

"This is fucking..." Lin Ye cursed under his breath, his body swayed, and his phone slipped out of his pocket. It rang again as it fell to the ground, and he saw Skadi's name on the screen.

He put down the knife and tried to pick up the phone.

But soon, the phone was crushed by the heavy boots.

He struggled to lift his head and saw the knife-wielding man standing in front of him slowly raise his knife.

"Damn it," Lin Ye muttered, "Let's have a one-on-one fight if you dare."

The hand holding the knife swung it down.

Then the knife broke in two, and the body of the person holding the knife shattered into two pieces in an instant, like a collapsing block.

"Why didn't you answer my calls?" someone whispered to Lin Ye.

Lin Ye was stunned.

He saw the other person clearly.

Amidst the overflowing blood, her long, gray hair danced like surging waves.

Chapter 187 Why Won't You Answer My Calls (Part 2)

Lin Ye stared blankly at Skadi, who had suddenly appeared, thinking he was hallucinating from blood loss. It wasn't until Skadi bent down and removed his heavy gas mask, freeing him from the suffocating confinement, and he caught a whiff of her unique body scent amidst the strong smell of blood, that he realized he wasn't hallucinating. (Continued from the previous chapter. Readers suggested that it wasn't appropriate for Lin Ye to remove the gas mask, so this has been changed to Skadi removing it for him.)

"Why... are you here?" Lin Ye's voice was very weak.

"If you had answered my call earlier, things wouldn't have turned out like this."

Skadi took the medical vial that Ace had given him from Lin Ye's pocket, opened it, and evenly sprayed the liquid onto Lin Ye's wound. Although it wasn't as immediate as Nightingale's and Shining's treatment, the bleeding stopped visibly, and the pain subsided quickly, gradually clearing Lin Ye's muddled thoughts. He then noticed that the two fire-wielding attackers who had attacked him were now corpses, and mangled ones at that, while Skadi's greatsword was dripping blood onto the ground.

This was the first time Lin Ye had seen Skadi make a move... no, to be precise, he didn't even see it; by the time he realized what was happening, Skadi was already dead.

As Skadi treated Lin Ye's wounds, a flurry of footsteps echoed in the hallway. Lin Ye turned his head to look, his pupils narrowing slightly.

Because they saw dozens of rioters pouring out of the security passage, including a red-haired giant wielding a spiked club and armed men with chainsaws.

"Damn it!" Seeing this scene, El couldn't help but curse, "Why are there still so many people?"

Hermer's expression also turned ugly.

But Skadi seemed oblivious, her back to the mob.

Lin Ye couldn't help but say, "Skadi, behind you..."

"Quiet," Skadi said. "I have something important to tell you."

"Is something more important... than what's happening right now?"

“Hmm.” Skadi nodded. “You hung up on me three times…”

"Is this something important?!"

“Yes, I’m not joking with you.” Skadi finally finished treating Lin Ye’s wounds, then slowly stood up and looked down at Lin Ye. “I don’t usually call people. If I do, it’s because it’s something important and you have to answer.”

Normal villains wouldn't allow the heroes to chatter on and on, and thugs were no exception. As Skadi and Lin Ye were talking, several longsword-wielding men rushed over, moving so fast that Lin Ye could already see the cold light reflecting off their blades.

"I'll take it! I'll take it! I'll definitely take it next time!" Lin Ye was almost going crazy. "Grandma, please, please take care of the enemies behind you first!"

Skadi still spoke slowly.

"If there's a next time..."

Her movements were swift; when the thugs were less than five meters away from her, she finally drew her sword. Two seconds later, the thugs' heads flew into the air, their bodies still in a charging posture, but they had lost their momentum. After staggering a few steps, they collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Lin Ye was truly stunned.

Skadi tilted her head and looked at him, deep in thought, seemingly troubled.

“If there’s a next time… I don’t think I can do anything about you then.” Skadi sighed softly. “You’re really a difficult person to deal with.”

Lin Ye swallowed hard, looked at the corpses surrounding Skadi, his lips twitched, and then forced a smile: "Don't worry, I'll definitely answer your call next time."

"Hmm, that's good." Having received Lin Ye's promise, Skadi was finally willing to focus her attention on the remaining opponents, but she still seemed a little listless. "If the opponents are just these guys, I'm still not quite in the zone."

What the heck is this lack of responsiveness?!

Lin Ye was about to remind Skadi not to let her guard down when he suddenly remembered something and immediately shouted, "There are crossbowmen on that floor across the street! Be careful!"

"Understood." Skadi glanced at the factory building across the street and said indifferently, "Why bother coming out and making a fool of yourself with such a shoddy disguise?"

The moment Skadi finished speaking, Lin Ye felt the dry air become damp in an instant, and there was even a faint salty smell in the wind.

This is the taste of the sea.

Leaping through the waves?

Lin Ye stared intently at Skadi's back.

As one of Rhodes Island's undisputed top fighters, a warrior comparable to Shining, the Sarkaz swordsman, Skadi has always given off a lazy, listless vibe, even speaking slowly. But at this moment, Lin Ye clearly sensed that Skadi's aura was different, like... the suffocating depths of the sea.

Click.

Lin Ye's eyes widened. He discovered that the ground beneath Skadi's feet was cracking rapidly like a spider web, with small stones being lifted into the air by some unknown force and then crushed.

The sound of waves reached his ears again. Lin Ye initially thought it was the crashing of the waves, but he soon realized that it wasn't. In the surging waves, he seemed to hear the mournful cry of an ancient and powerful creature.

What's this?

……

Faust witnessed everything that happened on the opposite floor and slowly lowered the crossbow in his hand.

"Faust!"

The sound of the cane tapping the ground rang out, and Faust turned his head to see Mephistopheles walking quickly toward him. Mephistopheles called out loudly.

Why don't you attack?

“Because it’s pointless,” Faust said softly. “That woman saw through my disguise. With her here, we can’t win.”

Mephistopheles stood before Faust, his brow furrowed. "That woman? Who is that woman? Do you know her?"

“Hmm.” Faust said, glancing at the building across the street. “I heard of her when I was a bounty hunter. She was the most expensive, and the best, a hunter from the deep sea.”

"From...the deep sea?" Mephisto was quite surprised. "Could it be to fight those monsters? But why is she here?"

Faust shook his head.