Chapter 567
Sophia pressed the doorbell a few times before the door swung open automatically. Pushing through the
main gate, she entered Linus’ front yard. The French windows were dark and bleak as if no one was
home. But after taking a couple of steps, the house lit up and Linus came out of his workroom.
He opened the door to let her in.
“Sophia, what brings you here?”
This belongs to N?velDrama.Org.
She looked at him still dressed in his work attire and guessed, “You’re still working at this hour?”
“Yeah.”
When he saw the injuries on her lips and neck, he inquired, “What happened to you?”
Without hesitating, she answered, “I went out for a night run and slipped because the ground was too
slippery.”
Linus casted a quizzical nce at her but did not press further. He did not know about the bad blood
between her and Phantom Wolf. He assumed that Phantom Wolf had gotten attacked by Nichs’ silver
needles when he was trying to harm the Fletchers.
Sophia stated her purpose foring, “I noticed that Nichs has an additional defense feature now
thates with a gun. The silver needles inside of it seem quite good. Can you give me the link from
where you purchased them from? I want to stock up for Nichs.”
He took a look at Nichs and figured that Sophia had already found out about the properties of the
silver needles. “That item can’t be listed on the market legally, but I still have a lot left. I’ll give you a
dozen.”
She quickly interjected, “No, no. How much are they? I’ll buy them from you.”
She felt bad enough to ask him for things. Those were all valuable and high-tech products!
Linus did not refuse either. “Okay, I will issue an invoice to you in a bit.”
This time, Sophia felt at ease leaving Nichs with Linus to get the ammunition replenished.
Before he brought Nichs down to his workroom, Linus said to Sophia, “Have a seat. I will go and get
the items from my workroom.”
Because his workroom could contain some undisclosed and confidential things, she knew better than to
follow him downstairs. Instead, she sat in the living room and waited.
The pets in his house came running out to see her. When she was leaning against the soft sofa, a
Dragon Li cat came over and cozied up in her arms. The purring sound of the cat was slowly making her
sleepy.
When Linus brought Nichs down to the basement, Phantom Wolf had already disappeared. He
probably went to rest, he thought.
Linus proceeded to disassemble Nichs’ exterior and check his defense system. As it turned out, Fass
had personally upgraded him and gave him an incredibly fast response time.
Additionally, the backdoor Linus hid in the system had been closed permanently. If he wanted to open the
back door, his only option was to reinstall a new system. At this point, however, there was nothing more
he wanted to gain out of it.
This was a warning from Fass. Linus was not going to be reckless and defy him.
Fass knew about all the deals he made in the dark but did not ever stand in his way. Since he was
stopping him now, he was not going to step out of line either.
He still did not have a way to duplicate the silver needles that Fass installed in Nichs, so he put in
another set of silver needles with the same specifications and simr results.
After finding more silver needles in his inventory, he packed them all up and gave them to Nichs to
take home so Sophia could replenish them for him.
Suddenly, he remembered the injuries on her face and neck. He took out some fast-working paste
medicine for treating wounds from his first-aid kit and put everything into the littlepartment in
Nichs’ stomach. There was some space in there to store a few small items.
Once everything was settled, Linus rebooted Nichs and connected him into the system. Entering the
video management center, Linus wanted to watch the clip of Nichs carrying out the defense function
to see if Phantom Wolf was exposed.
When the video started, it showed Nichs going on a night run with Sophia. She looked back at him
several times and always had a happy look on her face.
All of a sudden, a shadow came in from the side and pulled her into a corner. Nichs quickly followed
after them and recorded everything in high definition.
In the video, the man had Sophia pressed against the wall and was kissing her in a frenzied manner. Her
small body was close to being forced into the wall itself. Her small arms iled around helplessly and her
nails left desperate marks on the wall.
Tearing off her clothes, he reached a hand under it and started fondling her like a mad person to which
she could only let out cries of despair.
At this point, Nichs had identified the situation before him and set his defense feature in motion. He
fixed the man as his target and, in a short time, shot a continuous stream of silver needles at him. After
he hit all the vital points, the man’s body shook and he turned around to look at Nichs. Linus was able
to see his face now—it was Phantom Wolf.
Linus’ mind went nk at that moment, and he felt all the blood in his body rush to his head. He looked
over at the surveince footage of the living room and noticed that Sophia, who was sleeping on the sofa
just before, had disappeared. All that was left behind was her army coat on the ground.
The person Phantom Wolf attacked was Sophia! Not Nate!
Yet, he put them together in the same space!
An overwhelming fear washed over him.
He immediately went to check on the surveince footage and saw two dogs barking uncontrobly as
they ran up to a guest room on the second floor. Linus dropped his tools and rushed up to the second
floor. When he got there, he saw the two local breed dogs scratching at the door.
How could he have left her in the living room by herself?
Fortunately, the room doors here were not heavy and he was able to burst into the room with one kick.
Rushing in, he saw Sophia lying unconscious on the bed while Phantom Wolf was pressing her down
from on top as he tried to peel her clothes off.
The veins on Linus’ clenched fists popped up.
How dare he hurt her here? How dare he hurt her right under my nose?
Before Linus could do anything, however, the robot came from behind him with an aloof expression and
shot two silver needles into Phantom Wolf’s bareback which prated deep into his skin. Immediately,
he went weak and limp while still on top of Sophia.
Linus took two steps to reach them. He pushed a half-naked Phantom Wolf away and found Sophia in
deep sleep under him. The lower hem of her sweater had been lifted, revealing her fair stomach and pink
bra.
She was breathing slowly as if she had fallen asleep. Her stomach was rising and falling while there
were a few more fresh scratch marks on her skin.
Seeing as how she did not wake up even after he kicked the door down and made all that noise, there
was definitely something wrong.
Linus gripped Phantom Wolf by the throat. “What did you do to her? Tell me what you did to her!”
But Phantom Wolf waspletely paralyzed now and he could only speak. When he saw the worried
look in Linus’ eyes and felt like he had hit a nerve with him, he scoffed. “I just took some anesthesia
needles from your toolbox. She’s sleeping.”
Linus red at him. When he remembered what he saw in that video—her cries of despair and helpless
struggles—he felt like his heart was being ripped to pieces. It was as though he could feel her fear and
desperation. In the heat of the moment, he clenched his fists tightly and sent a punch across Phantom
Wolf’s face. Once he was done hitting him, Phantom Wolf had lost two teeth.
“I won’t let you hurt her! I won’t let you!”
Linus punched and kicked him continuously in a rage, but Phantom Wolf did not make a sound.
A bizarre thought then rushed into his consciousness, and he suddenly became mad. He now had an
urge to kill Phantom Wolf.