Chapter 958 Herding

After a while, they suddenly heard the clacking of the bones again.

They looked down to find that the skeletons were gathering around them once more.

So without hesitation, they ran away from the wave of skeletons.

But this time, they didn't go as fast as they did before.

Instead, they deliberately went slower just to see how the skeletons would react.

This time, instead of turning right away, the skeletons continued to surround the building that they had been on.

It seemed like their guess had been correct.

The skeletons had been drawn by the skeletal hands that grabbed Angela and Yuki's feet. Now that those skeletal hands were gone, they would be able to sneak around without being surrounded by the skeletons.

With this, they would be able to sneak out of the city.

However, Lin Fan didn't seem to want to go just yet.

He couldn't help staring at the skeletons that were gathering around the building that they had been in previously.

As he stared at them, there was a strange look that appeared in his eyes.

As they were familiar with him, they could tell that he was thinking something crazy…So the three of them couldn't help feeling a bit worried.

When he had this look in his eyes, it was never a good sign.

And as they had expected, it wasn't a good sign.

"You want to do what?" Momonga said in a voice filled with disbelief.

Both Angela and Yuki also looked at Lin Fan with eyes filled with disbelief without saying anything.

Lin Fan just nodded and repeated, "I want to catch another one of the skeletons and absorb that strange power again."

Angela didn't waste any time to come forward to hit Lin Fan, but Lin Fan dodged out of the way instead of letting her hit him.

Even if she did hit him, she would always hold back, so he was able to dodge. But he didn't dodge when she hit him because he knew that it would be much worse to dodge than to let her hit him.

Still, he dodged this time because it was important for him.

Angela couldn't help revealing a shocked look as she looked at where he had been standing.

Lin Fan said with a serious look, "I can sense something when I absorb that strange power and it gives me clues as to why we're here. I need to absorb a bit more of that strange power and then I'll be able to figure it out."

Seeing how serious he looked, all three of them didn't argue with him.

Instead, Momonga asked, "How do you plan on isolating them to do this? Not to mention, you lost control of yourself just from absorbing that little bit of power from those hands. Do you really think that you can keep your consciousness if you absorb even more of it?"

Lin Fan didn't speak right away when Momonga said this since he knew that he was right.

Last time, it had been hard for him and it was only the strange power inside of the skeleton's hands. If he were to absorb all of the strange power inside an entire skeleton, it would be very likely that he would be taken over.

And there was the problem of isolating it to capture it.

The skeletons that were awake were all part of the horde right now. As for the ones that weren't awake…

While they could try to capture the ones that were still sleeping inside of the buildings, it would be hard for them.

They couldn't sneak up on them since there was something that allowed the skeletons to see through their camouflage.

So there really wasn't a good way for them to capture a skeleton for Lin Fan to drain the power of.

Not to mention that they would have to restrain Lin Fan while he was absorbing the strange power.

No matter how they looked at it, it was just too dangerous.

But Lin Fan wouldn't back down as he said, "Let me test something first."

All of them were confused when they heard this, but they waited for Lin Fan to do what he wanted to do.

Lin Fan jumped onto another one of the other buildings and suddenly raised his hand.

They couldn't see exactly what he was doing, but they were able to sense it.

He was gathering a ball of that strange energy in his hand.

Nothing happened at first when he did this, but then…

The skeleton horde that they had been watching suddenly started to slow. It didn't take long before the skeleton horde suddenly came to a stop and turned in the direction that Lin Fan was in.

After a slight pause, they suddenly started moving towards the building that Lin Fan had been on.

Lin Fan dropped the ball of the strange energy that he had gathered and jumped back to where the other three were.

The skeletons didn't seem to notice him at all as they continued to head in the direction of the building that Lin Fan had dropped the ball of strange energy on.

At the same time, they noticed that the skeletons in the surrounding buildings also started coming out.

They followed the skeletons in the horde and went towards the building with the ball of strange energy on it.

When the three of them saw this, they couldn't help being surprised.

They had already guessed that the strange energy was most likely what had attracted the skeletons to them, but they never expected Lin Fan to be able to use the strange energy like this.

When Lin Fan returned, he asked, "How about it? Do you think that we can do it now?"

Momonga stroked his chin before nodding in agreement.

If there was a safe way to do this, then he was in agreement of doing it.

Well, "safe" was a relative word.

There was still the danger of Lin Fan being taken over by the strange energy like last time.

But there was nothing gained if they weren't willing to take a risk.

Lin Fan knew that Momonga would be on board the moment that he saw this, so the only one that he had to convince now was Angela.

The one that surprised him was actually Yuki who firmly rejected it.

Even Angela only mildly rejected it and seemed like she could be convinced.

When asked why she rejected this proposition, Yuki said, "I don't want to see you hurt."

Lin Fan couldn't help being touched and confused when he heard this, but Yuki immediately shut him down by saying, "It's not you that I'm worried about, it's big sister."

Earlier when she had seen how worried Angela had been about Lin Fan, it felt like her own heart was being torn out.

She didn't want to see that happen again, so she was firmly against this plan.

Lin Fan looked at Angela with a hint of guilt in his eyes, but his determination came through in the end as he said, "This is the only way for us to get the information that we need, so we have to do this."

Yuki raised her hand and there was a ball of snow that was gathered around it as she said, "I'll stop you, even if I have to use force."

All three of them were shocked when they saw this from Yuki.

She had always been the most indifferent part of their group when it came to things like this, so they never would have expected her to take such a strong stance on this matter.

Angela quickly came over and said, "Yuki, don't do this."

Yuki revealed an aggrieved look and said, "Big sis, I can't stand this fellow hurting you like this. If he does it again, I'll hurt him before he can hurt you."

Lin Fan could see the serious look in her eyes and couldn't help taking a step back.

But Angela stopped her before she could do anything and said, "Yuki, you can't do this. It's hard enough for him already, you can't make it harder for him."

Yuki just revealed an aggrieved look, but she still dropped her hand since she knew that Angela was right.

Angela patted her on the back before looking at Lin Fan and saying, "Be safe."

She had been hesitating, but after thinking about how serious Lin Fan was about this, she decided to trust him.

Unless he had a reason, he wouldn't do something like this.

So the fact that he wanted to do this meant that he must have a very good reason for this.

Lin Fan revealed a touched look before reaching his hand out and saying, "Come with me."

Angela was caught off guard by this, but she took his hand only after a slight second of surprise.

She didn't know what he was planning, but since he had offered, she would go with him to the end.

This was actually Lin Fan's plan against the strange energy.

What had awakened him in the end was Angela's voice.

He didn't know how it had awakened him, but he knew that it had done it.

Since her voice could awaken him, then that should mean that if she was with him…he should be able to break free of the assault of the strange energy.

So this time, they would go together.

If they broke through the strange energy, it would be together.

If he was taken over by the strange energy, then Angela could kill him before he did something that he shouldn't do.