Man With Super Medical Skill by Matthew

Chapter 3439 Something's Wrong

After dinner, Tertius noticed Matthew sitting quietly at the dock's edge, gazing at the water. Curious, he walked over and asked, "Mr. Larden, what are you looking at?"

Matthew, deep in thought, was pulled from his reverie by Tertius' question. He turned and replied, "I'm thinking about the dock's future."

Tertius, intrigued, sat beside him. "Isn't the dock doing just fine now? Is something wrong?"

Matthew's gaze drifted to the lake's surface, his voice barely above a whisper. "This place isn't like back home, where rules mean something. Here, they are just a flimsy illusion, broken at any moment."

"You're worried that the other docks or the Island Watch might attack us?" Tertius quickly grasped what was weighing on Matthew's mind.

cold gleam in his eyes. He had sensed

stood up and

the dock fell silent, surprised by the urgency. Yet, trusting Matthew's

woods around the dock, and get ready to hit them hard when they arrive!" Mack growled, anger simmering in his eyes as he

of the Veiled Assembly sprang into action, moving stealthily into the wooded area near the dock,

others. And yet here were these lowlifes daring to attack them. If not for Matthew's warning, they would have been sitting ducks on the

trees perched themselves seven or eight yards high, while others lay low on the ground, holding their breath and keeping a steely focus on the approach. They

crept

shiver down his men's

their torches