Chapter 510: Museum Melee

Xiao Chunping was slightly startled. After a long while, she chuckled:

"Silly child, there are no superheroes in this world."

"So, Grandma thinks it's ridiculous too, right?"

"Grandma doesn't understand superheroes, but the human spirit is inherently a very mysterious thing. Who can say for sure what kind of potential is hidden within it..."

Before Xiao Chunping could finish speaking, her peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a lady's embroidery on the wall of the embroidery room, which seemed to move slightly. Her eyes narrowed involuntarily.

Yao Qing was about to say something else, but Xiao Chunping patted his shoulder and said:

"Good grandson, take Zhiwei and Dr. Yang to the backyard to play."

"Huh?"

Yao Qing was stunned, seemingly not understanding why Grandma brought this up.

"A guest is coming, and Grandma needs to entertain them personally." Xiao Chunping's tone became increasingly serious, her aged eyes, narrowed into long, thin slits, looking toward the direction of the main gate.

"A guest? Grandma, did you invite a friend? I can help serve tea and water..."

"No need, go take care of Zhiwei and the others."

Xiao Chunping's tone allowed no refusal. Seeing this, Yao Qing couldn't say anything more, so he could only tell Grandma to call him anytime if she needed anything, and then he opened the door and walked out.

As the door to the embroidery room closed, Xiao Chunping leaned on her cane, walked to the embroidery table by the window, and sat down slowly...

She picked up the slender embroidery needle, her aged eyes seemingly looking through the floorboards at every embroidery painting in the museum, her expression calm as water.

"It's been a long time since anyone has seen what you look like... Since we have a guest today, come out and entertain them."

……

A light drizzle drifted from the night sky.

Nie Yu, who was about to reach the museum entrance, suddenly stopped, his brow narrowing involuntarily.

"...Something is spying on me?" Nie Yu gripped the hilt of his hunting knife with one hand, his gaze sweeping rapidly across the surroundings. There were no suspicious objects on the desolate wilderness. After a few brief seconds, his gaze locked onto the museum gate in front of him.

Under the pitch-black night, two large red lanterns stared at Nie Yu at the entrance like the eyes of some giant beast. Behind them, Nie Yu could feel a trace of an unusual aura drifting out from the void... That was the intuition unique to a hunter, the warning of [Sky Wolf]'s nature.

"Something's wrong."

Nie Yu stared fixedly at the museum in the drizzling night, his heart filled with suspicion. "...Besides that man in the brown coat, is there someone else guarding this place?"

Seeing Nie Yu stop, the eight assassins following behind also stopped. Someone asked in confusion:

"Boss, why aren't we going in?"

Nie Yu pondered for a brief moment, then said:

"Something's not right here... I'll take the main entrance alone. You guys find the side or back doors to get in. Once you find Su Zhiwei, kill her immediately."

The eight assassins looked at each other. Although they were full of confusion, they didn't dare to disobey Nie Yu's order. They immediately split into several groups and scattered around the museum to look for other entrances.

As everyone left, Nie Yu was the only one left standing alone in the empty wilderness in front of the museum with its high-hanging red lanterns.

He carried his hunting rifle on his back, hung his hunting knife behind his waist, took a deep breath, and slowly pushed open the museum gate.

Creak—

As the low sound rang out, the museum's entrance hall appeared before Nie Yu.

After crossing the threshold, he was met with a massive screen, embroidered with a bare tree branch that didn't even have many green leaves. Looking at it, it felt inexplicably bare and awkward.

Nie Yu only glanced at the screen and then moved his gaze away. After all, he didn't feel anything unusual from the embroidered screen; it seemed to be just an ordinary exhibit...

But as he bypassed the screen and was about to go deeper into the museum, a black shadow broke through the air from behind the screen!

Like a long shuttle tearing through the air, it instantly erupted with a harsh sonic boom. The black shadow's speed was even faster than a sniper rifle bullet, and in the blink of an eye, it flashed to the back of Nie Yu's head!

A crisis of life and death rose from the bottom of Nie Yu's heart. Every hair on his body stood on end. He dodged to the side without thinking, but even so, the black shadow grazed his flesh, shattering his left ear!

Whoosh—!!

Nie Yu narrowly avoided the strike, and before he could stand steady, a second black shadow shot out!

He didn't have time to feel the pain of his shattered ear. He drew the hunting knife from behind his waist, a thread so thin it had almost no width sliced from the blade, and he whipped it toward the black shadow!

A sound of metal being sliced rang out. The sharp thread split the black shadow in half from the center, and fine embroidery threads drifted from the air. Only then did Nie Yu see what the black shadow really was...

"A sparrow??"

Nie Yu stood there, stunned.

The next moment, more than a dozen flying birds woven from embroidery threads swept out from behind the screen, shooting toward Nie Yu from all directions. If Chen Ling were here, he would recognize at a glance that these were the birds that had originally perched on the screen, but these birds were no longer beautiful or leisurely; instead, they were filled with murderous intent!

"What kind of ability is this?!"

Half of Nie Yu's face was already soaked in blood, but the extreme pain didn't affect his combat thinking. He gripped the hunting knife tightly, the slender sharp thread dancing wildly with the blade, and the black-clad figure fought with the many flying birds!

Just as the museum's main hall fell into chaotic slaughter, the characters in the embroidery paintings hanging on the surrounding walls began to whisper to each other.

"Whoa, this is a real assassin!"

"He's a tough nut to crack; he didn't even change his expression when his ear was pecked off... And judging by his aura, he should be Tier 5, right?"

"Don't worry, the Master is Tier 6; solving him shouldn't be a big problem."

"How come we haven't seen other Divine Path possessors for so many years, but so many have popped up in the last two days? Are they all flocking to our museum?"

"But the Master is old, and her body isn't what it used to be... What if something happens?"

"Can you shut your crow's mouth?! This is the Master's home turf; are all of us brothers just here for free meals?!"

"Come to think of it, it has been a long time since we've come out to stretch our muscles..."

"The Master said we can act as we please this time."

"Then what are we waiting for?"

"Kill him!!"

Nie Yu slashed more than a dozen times, splitting the swarming birds in half, and only then could he stop to catch his breath... His left ear was nothing but a hollow hole, and blood flowed out continuously. If it weren't for [Iron Armor], he probably would have had half his head blown off.

However, before Nie Yu could calm his breathing, the main hall light overhead suddenly flickered violently, and finally, the bulb burst, plunging the room into darkness.

The dark green emergency exit sign dispelled some of the surrounding darkness.

Nie Yu seemed to sense something and turned his head sharply, only to see the embroidery paintings all over the walls coming to life, one eerie figure after another crawling out of the frames and surrounding him...