BXBX NOVEL Chapter 23: Monster (1)
Even though he could see that all of them were moving towards him, Lin Fan just had a calm smile on his face. It was almost as if he didn\'t see them, or rather didn\'t care that they were all charging at him.
It was as if…they were nothing more than air to him.
The men were all angered by this, but they remained focused as they surrounded him to make sure that he couldn\'t run away. Then once he was surrounded, they all slashed out at him with their weapons.
But right before their weapons to make contact, Lin Fan seemed to disappear.
With the way that he disappeared without a trace, it was almost as if he had never been there in the first place.
They all quickly looked around to try and find him, but they couldn\'t find a single trace.
That is until they heard a voice say, "Over here."
Then they all turned in the direction of the voice and found that Lin Fan was standing behind the leader once more.
The leader also wanted to turn to look at Lin Fan, but then he felt a bit of pain coming from his neck which caused him to stop turning his head. When he looked down, he found that Lin Fan had once again put a sword to his neck.
The rest of them also saw this and they were about to move forward to surround him, but Lin Fan simply said, "Freeze."
The moment that he said this, all of them found that they weren\'t able to move a single inch. It was as if there was some kind of strange force that had frozen their bodies and they could only stand there in place.
Seeing this, Lin Fan then said, "Drop your weapons."
At this, all of the men looked on with shocked and confused looks as their hands released the weapons that they had been holding.
Seeing this, the leader shouted, "What do you think you\'re doing? Why are you listening to him?"
But not a single one of them was able to give an explanation.
They were all too focused on their own hands, looking at them with looks of confusion and shock.
After all, not a single one of them could understand what had happened just now.
There was some kind of uncontrollable force that had compelled their hands to open and drop the weapons that they had been holding. It was just as strong, or even stronger than the force that was freezing them in place.
Since they couldn\'t understand what was happening, they couldn\'t say a single thing in response to this.
Seeing that they weren\'t saying a thing, the leader roared out, "Surround him and don\'t let him escape! What do you fools think you\'re doing!"
All of them wanted to flinch, but their bodies wouldn\'t listen to them. The only thing that they could do was reveal a scared look as they were frozen in place.
The leader looked like he was about to explode when he saw that they didn\'t do a thing, but Lin Fan just said, "Calm down, they can\'t move even if they want to. Plus, all this yelling is hurting my ears."
The leader\'s face twisted when he heard this and he was about to turn his head to roar at Lin Fan even though there was the blade at his neck, but he found…that he wasn\'t able to move at all.
So instead, he opened his mouth to roar out again.
It was just too bad that Lin Fan had already expected this. He just calmly said, "Silence."
As soon as he said this, the leader found that he couldn\'t make a sound. In fact, he couldn\'t even open his mouth as he was just frozen in place.
At this, even if he was a fool, he understood what had happened.
Everything that was happening now was all because of Lin Fan.
The reason why they couldn\'t move, the reason why his subordinates had dropped their weapons, the reason why he couldn\'t say a thing…
It was all because of Lin Fan.
As he realized this, there was a shiver of fear that ran down his spine.
He did all that he could to open his mouth and ask Lin Fan what he wanted, but he couldn\'t open it no matter how hard he tried.
Lin Fan just casually stood there behind the leader, but he no longer kept the sword at his neck. After all, it wasn\'t as if the leader could do anything even if he didn\'t keep the sword there.
After taking a step back, he looked at the others with a smile on his face and said, "I bet all of you are wondering how I figured it all out, right?"
They didn\'t give a response, but it was clear by the look in their eyes that they were indeed curious about this.
But then Lin Fan\'s smile became wider as he said, "Is there a reason I should tell you? After all, you\'re all going to die here."
At first, they looked like they wanted to shout at him for playing him like this, but then the latter part of his words sank in.
They all looked at him with shocked expressions, as if they couldn\'t tell if he was serious or not.
But just seeing that smile on his face and the way that they looked at him, they could tell that he was indeed serious.
They wanted to say something, but they also couldn\'t open their mouths at all.
When Lin Fan had forced the leader into silence, they had also heard him say it, so they were also forced into silence along with the leader.
So there really wasn\'t anything that they could do now…