The Card Apprentice

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The demonic woman looked up to see Chen Mu half in the air, while Chen Mu was feeling his waist loosening and his whole body falling. Without waiting for him to call out, it tightened again on his waist to stop him still in the air, leaving him close enough to almost touch that demonic woman.

Good opportunity! Chen Mu looked forward with bright eyes. He only had to grab the woman and seize the initiative which had fallen into his hands.

But, it was very evident that his adversary’s reactions were quicker than his, and she had methods that were hard to predict.

Chen Mu’s two hands and two legs were suddenly bound, and his bound hands and feet started to come together in one place, until his body was quickly bent into a bow facing down! It didn’t occur to him that the weird black vine would know when to bind up his hands and feet.

The part of the vine that was binding him at the waist loosened up suddenly and slowly slipped open. The black vine sticking to his body gradually took on a slippery feeling, which made his hair stand on end all over.

The thing that was the most inconceivable was that he didn’t see any actions from the demonic woman who was directing the black vine. That kind of unconventional phenomena made him feel a repeated chill from the bottom of his heart. He wouldn’t have felt so nervous even if he thought he was facing some high-level card artisan, since what he was facing then was something he didn’t understand at all.

Chen Mu at his most basic was an ordinary person, or at least he thought he was.

His two hands and two feet were bound behind him, tied into a loop and hanging, which made him look like a pig ready to have its chest cut open.

Unfortunately, his perception wasn’t strong enough! If his perception were sufficiently strong, he would absolutely be able to activate his apparatus just by using his perception, without using his hands, which would have given him a slim chance for survival. But that was a little far from where he was right then. He’d lost any countermeasures.

It had been a bad day! Just when he had thought that he had escaped into the blue, he fell back into the tiger’s mouth.

The demonic woman was very close to Chen Mu’s face, but she didn’t seem interested in his face, and was pulling off the ‘cloth-strip shirt’ from his body.

She, what is she thinking of doing!

Chen Mu’s face had turned a little white. He was bold enough, but that business was not included in his boldness. Looking at the horrifying face of that demonic woman, he felt his stomach churning.

The demonic woman stuck out her finger. She was wearing extremely thin black gloves on both of her hands. She lightly stroked Chen Mu’s chest a few times with her black fingers. And then she closely examined the muscle on his arm, his calf, and his abdomen. ƒ𝑟𝙚e𝔀𝗲𝒃n𝒐𝘷𝗲Ɩ.c𝗼𝚖

“Who are you? Why have you grabbed me? What are you thinking of doing?” Chen Mu asked in a deepened voice.

The demonic woman wasn’t paying any attention to him, as though she hadn’t heard.

Suddenly, the demonic woman stopped what she was doing with her hands, and tilted her head to hear. Seeing that, Chen Mu also quickly listened very closely, his hearing now much more acute than before. But apart from some sound of wind, and the occasional rustle of leaves, he didn’t hear any other stirrings.

Was she being deliberately deceitful? Chen Mu looked skeptically at the demonic woman, wondering if her hearing could be better than even his which had already gotten to a pretty scary place.

Chen Mu suddenly found his body in free fall, though he didn’t call out, but looked calm. Although he didn’t understand his adversary’s objective, he believed that she would have killed him earlier if she’d wanted to kill him, and he absolutely wouldn’t have gotten so far.

Without waiting for him to hit the ground, the remaining vine quickly unrolled toward Chen Mu, and wrapped him up like a dumpling in the blink of an eye, covering even his mouth, so he couldn’t make a sound.

The demonic woman lightly cradled Chen Mu, and started running deeply into the jungle.

Opening his eyes wide, Chen Mu was shocked. The demonic woman’s speed was extremely fast, and her body was nimble. The burst power of her pair of legs was stunning, and her balance was strong to some unimaginable extent, as she was able to leap forward through the gaps among the tree trunks. She had lightly picked up Chen Mu in her hands as though he were nothing.

Chen Mu, on the contrary, was occasionally whipped head-on by tree branches on his face.

The demonic woman suddenly stopped, and listened again carefully for a while. That time, Chen Mu could barely hear what sounded like peoples’ voices not far away, but unfortunately, his mouth was bound tight.

He saw the demonic woman pull out a light green card about the size of a book of matches. The pattern on the front of the card was made up of a group of light green lines.

Chen Mu couldn’t help paying more attention to the demonic woman. What was this? A card? Could she be a card master? He casually glanced at her wrist, where there wasn’t any apparatus!

No way! Chen Mu was surprised. He sensed a fluctuation in the demonic woman’s perception. Chen Mu would never have been able to get to that point with his original strength. But they were so close together.

Although there were stark differences between her perception and his, he was still one hundred percent certain that the little fluctuation just then was perception.

That light green-faced card in her hand suddenly disappeared. It disappeared right before his eyes! Chen Mu didn’t blink during the whole process.

Could there actually be supernatural events in this world? Chen Mu was sweating in his mind.

The demonic woman put Chen Mu down on the ground, freeing her other hand. Laying on the ground, Chen Mu was watching her every move without moving his eyes, for fear of missing some detail.

The demonic woman’s left hand pulled out a very fine light-colored thread from the middle finger of her right hand. This green thread was as fine as a hair. Never mind being in the forest, if anything were ever put in front of your eyes, you might not see it if you didn’t pay attention. Chen Mu paid attention that time, to the middle finger of the demonic woman’s right hand. He didn’t know when a thick roll of fine green thread had been added there.

Looking all around at a glance, the demonic woman carefully took the thread drawn from her middle finger and tied it to the base of a tree. When she had tightened it, she turned around, and suddenly fired with her middle finger toward the place where Chen Mu was.

Sheeoouu! Chen Mu felt only a green shadow flash before his eyes. After he came back to his senses, he was surprised to find that a fine green thread had been stretched straight in front of his face, just five centimeters from the tip of his nose. The thread was stretched perfectly straight, and if you looked very closely, there were tiny rays of light flowing, too small to notice.

You would certainly not notice that kind of arrangement in the jungle.

The demonic woman looked as though she hadn’t planned to stop there, and she set it up in several other places as well, which were unfortunately behind Chen Mu’s back.

After having finished that part, the demonic woman picked Chen Mu back up, and jumped away.

She was going toward where there had been the sound of people. Chen Mu quickly determined the direction as the sound from that group of people grew more clear in his ears.

She is luring them! Chen Mu quickly understood the demonic woman’s intention.

Sure enough, things developed exactly as Chen Mu had anticipated.

“Who is it?””Who is it?” Several abrupt shouts, and then people were rushing in their direction.

Xiu, xiu, xiu, Several wavy blades shot from behind the shrubbery with amazing momentum.

The demonic woman picked up Chen Mu and turned around to run. Her face had no expression during the entire process. Even the look in her eyes didn’t change at all. This gave Chen Mu the impression that she had done this same sort of thing many times before.

“Over there, I see him!””Quick, go after him!”

That group of people had evidently discovered the demonic woman, and were immediately giving chase.

The demonic woman’s speed time wasn’t so fast that time, just a little bit faster than the ones chasing her. Chen Mu really admired the demonic woman’s inner qualities. While wavy blades would come whizzing from behind, the demonic woman was doing the work of luring without any urgency, as though these wavy blades didn’t exist.

So here we are! Chen Mu called out in his mind at the place that the demonic woman had just prepared. He stared with his eyes wide open, wanting to see what the arrangements the demonic woman had just made were actually going to do.

But the demonic woman wasn’t going to let him be, as she picked him up with one hand and quickly re-entered the bushes.