Ari had barely closed the armored car door when the ground shook with a strange vibration. It wasn't a loud explosion, but a high-pitched "chirp" that cracked the glass and made Ari's ears ring in pain.
(Ari Internally: My God! What is this sound? I feel like my head is going to explode! "Sonic explosives".. the Silent Hunter isn't joking; he's trying to paralyze us with frequencies before he starts sniping. Hold on, Ari, no time to faint now; Lu Ming needs your focus!)
Lu Ming sat beside her, his eyes fully turned to a radiant gold; the curse was reacting to the sonic frequencies as if they were provoking the beast hidden in his genes. He began exhaling hot breaths, and his claws started shredding the car's leather seat.
"Ari.. the Hunter.. he's using Beta frequencies to force the transformation," Lu Ming said in a choked voice. "He wants me to lose control and destroy everything."
(Ari Internally, looking at Fang's electronic gear: He wants to turn him into a raging beast to kill him easily? Not on my watch! The Silent Hunter relies on physics? Well, I'll show you what I learned from those boring science classes at university!)
In a flash, Ari grabbed Fang's radio and pulled the large headphones. She began fiddling with the frequencies, tapping on the digital screen Fang had given her earlier.
(Ari Internally: If sound is the weapon, then Noise Cancelling is the shield! I'll invert the sound wave to create a zone of silence around the car. Take that, you boring Hunter!)
Suddenly, a total silence fell inside the car. The whistling stopped, and Ari breathed a sigh of relief. Lu Ming began to regain his composure slowly, his eyes returning to black as he looked at her in total amazement.
"You.. disabled the sonic weapon?" Lu Ming asked, stunned. "How did you know the counter-frequency?"
(Ari Internally, wiping sweat from her brow with a proud smile: "Maid's intuition," sir! Or maybe because I spent hours fixing my broken headphones in the past. Look at him.. he's looking at me like I'm a walking miracle! Yes, Lu Ming, I'm not just a 'maid '; I'm your personal survival engineer!)
But the joy didn't last long. Something hard slammed into the roof of the car. It was a strange metallic "arrow" piercing the armored roof, with a gas canister at the end beginning to emit purple smoke.
"Master! Sedative gas!" Fang shouted. "The Hunter wants live samples of the beast's blood!"
Lu Ming pulled Ari to his chest, covering her face with his shirt. "Ari.. don't breathe! I'll get you out of here even if I have to crush the mountains!"
(Ari Internally, nearly suffocating from his scent mixed with smoke: His shirt.. again! I'm in danger of dying from gas, but I might die from this proximity first! Lu Ming, don't let him take your blood.. your blood belongs only to me!)