Chapter 9

Despite his extensive experience, when he heard the sound of the wind, he instinctively made a dodging move. However, his current body was still too weak, and his actions and thoughts could not keep up, so the movement he made was rather awkward, almost like a roll of a donkey.

Even so, when Chen Mu performed the forward roll, he still felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, as a fierce bloodstain was slashed across it!

His rich experience told him that he had been injured by a sharp weapon like a dagger, but the wound was not deep. Additionally, the attacker's strength was not too great, their speed was not very fast, and their weapon handling was not very proficient; otherwise, the wound on his back would not have been in its current state.

After analyzing these things, Chen Mu felt more at ease, but the only question was how the person behind him had approached him so silently?

After rolling on the spot, Chen Mu immediately pulled back a distance of two to three meters, crouched down, and turned around to look. However, he was taken aback.

There was no one in front of him, only a dagger floating at a height of about one person, swaying back and forth.

Chen Mu felt a chill run up his spine, as if a slimy frog was rubbing against his back!

In the next moment, Chen Mu's gaze became sharp. From his crouched position, he leaped up and quickly retreated, grabbing a handful of mud and dust from the ground with his left hand as he stood up.

The dagger followed closely, but Chen Mu raised his left hand, scattering the mud and dust. When the dust reached the dagger, it seemed to stick to an invisible wall, faintly outlining a human shape.

This guy was actually invisible!

Chen Mu sneered, continuing to retreat and increasing the distance. While doing so, he quickly loaded and nocked an arrow on his crossbow.

The crossbow Chen Mu bought, the Forest Leopard, was relatively easy to load. However, even with his familiarity with the crossbow, it took him about four to five seconds to load it with both hands.

Fortunately, the speed of the guy on the other side was not too fast. As Chen Mu quickly retreated, he maintained the distance, finally completing the loading. Without a word, he raised the crossbow and pulled the trigger.

A splash of blood bloomed in mid-air, and then the arrow stopped in mid-air, with a thin trail of crimson blood seeping from the middle of the arrow and flowing down, outlining the shape of a chest and abdomen.

Clang!

The dagger floating in mid-air fell to the ground. Soon after, there was another thud. Chen Mu knew that the invisible person in front of him was dead.

Although only a vague shape was outlined by the dust, Chen Mu quickly deduced the basic information about the invisible person in front of him.

Male, medium build, about 1.8 meters tall, naked...

Based on this information, it was easy for him to determine the position of the guy's heart. At this distance, the kinetic energy of the arrow was enough to penetrate two layers of color steel, let alone a naked person.

Although he was confident, Chen Mu still quickly retreated, pulling back ten meters and swiftly loading a second arrow, ready to fire.

At this moment, a circle of light points in the shape of a human body suddenly appeared next to the dagger. These light points gradually dissipated, and the arrow gently landed, with a glowing glass bead appearing beside it, inside which a syringe-like pattern slowly rotated.

Even with Chen Mu's usually stern expression, a smile appeared on his face at this moment.

This glass bead was the "Luo Bao," and the invisible person was undoubtedly an "Arriver."

Recalling quickly, Chen Mu immediately identified the person and was 80% sure of his identity.

This was the protagonist of an old movie from the year 2000, "The Invisible Man" — Sebastian. The movie tells the story of a genius scientist who developed a potion that could make a person invisible. The potion was unstable, but the ambitious protagonist injected it into himself, unable to revert afterward, leading to a drastic change in his personality, becoming deranged.

The potion could only make a human body invisible, not other objects, which is why Chen Mu could see the dagger but not the person. This was a relatively scientifically rigorous movie.

Putting away the crossbow, Chen Mu walked to the Luo Bao and picked up the glowing glass bead. He immediately knew how to use it.

According to the classification from his previous life, this was a prop-type Luo Bao called the Invisibility Potion, which could be used three times, making the body invisible for thirty minutes each time.

Chen Mu put the Luo Bao into a specially made small pocket in his pants, and the joy on his face faded.

Actually, he was not entirely satisfied with this item.

Although it could make a person invisible, which seemed quite good, in reality, it only made the body transparent, meaning that one had to take off all their clothes when using it.

If it was to be used for escape, one would have to discard everything, including clothes. If it was to be used for an ambush, one could not carry any weapons, as they would be easily noticed.

So, in practice, this Invisibility Potion was a bit like a chicken rib, neither particularly useful nor entirely useless.

However, even so, Chen Mu still felt quite good about it. After all, the probability of a Luo Bao appearing after killing an Arriver was very low.

The probability of a prop-type Luo Bao appearing was slightly better, but the probability of a power-type Luo Bao appearing was almost absurdly low. So, getting a Luo Bao on the first kill of this life was a good start.

However, during the later exchanges among major forces in his previous life, it was mentioned that although the probability of a Luo Bao appearing was extremely low, it was unusually high during the first three months of the chaos period, when the Arrivers were mentally clouded and only knew how to fight.

Most of the power-type Luo Bao appeared during this time.

This made Chen Mu think of the online games he played as a child, where there would always be double experience and double drop rates when the game was newly launched.

Shaking his head, Chen Mu looked at the sky, which was already approaching dusk. After treating his back wound, he turned and walked toward the apartment.

In the city, except for large malls, hospitals, and high-end apartments, public power was mostly out of service due to the earthquakes during the dark period. Humans are not nocturnal creatures, so it was best not to wander around at night.

Considering this, Chen Mu decisively returned to the apartment, treated his back wound again, did some exercises that would not affect his back, had dinner, and went to bed early.