“You bastard! Is running all you can do?”
Gao Yan’s roar echoed through the night sky. His chest heaved violently from exhaustion, but the fire in his eyes burned even brighter.
He never would have imagined that although the man in front of him wasn’t particularly strong, his speed was as elusive as a ghost.
Every time Gao Yan thought he was about to catch up, the man would flash away in an instant, as if deliberately toying with him. It infuriated him to no end.
If Gao Yan couldn’t catch him, there was even less hope for his subordinates. They could only trail behind, eating his dust.
On top of that, the man seized every opportunity to attack the buildings and facilities along the road. His offensive power wasn’t impressive, but his talent for destruction was extraordinary, leaving the city in complete disarray.
Gao Yan had ordered his men to stop pursuing him long ago and focus on evacuating civilians instead.
Damn it. Why did this have to happen now?
Because a wanted criminal had escaped to this area, most of the Great Wall’s manpower had followed the people from the Association, leaving the city severely short on high-level defensive forces.
Aside from him, only the mayor—who was also a tenth-tier powerhouse—remained.
Why hadn’t the mayor arrived yet? Was he busy relocating civilians? Gao Yan was frantic with worry.
Chen Guan paid him no attention. He wielded the massive hammer clumsily as he dodged between the buildings in a sorry state.
There was nothing he could do about it. He was simply not very proficient with hammers.
Several times, the edge of a punch’s shock wave grazed him. His body drew ugly arcs through the air as he smashed through one floor after another and shattered wall after wall.
But the very next second, he would always charge out of the choking dust and continue his seemingly endless escape.
Chen Guan knew better than anyone that he was counting down the time.
Twelve minutes.
Three minutes remained before the fifteen-minute mark White Tiger had requested.
He had to stall a little longer and pin this enraged tenth-tier madman firmly in this patch of ruins.
Boom!
Another heavy punch came crashing down. Chen Guan raised his hammer to block it and was sent flying like a cannonball into an unfinished building. He tore through three floors before finally coming to a stop.
“Cough.”
He rose from the rubble and spat out a mouthful of saliva mixed with the earthy taste of dust. Even his fingers gripping the hammer’s handle had gone numb.
Fortunately, his powerful regenerative ability gave him the strength to fight on.
“You can’t escape.”
Gao Yan hovered outside the hole in the rooftop, looking down at him from above. The blazing red glow on his uniform receded, transforming into a layer of heavier rock armor.
At that moment, he resembled a cold stone statue of a god. His voice was utterly devoid of emotion.
“I’ll take you back and smash every bone in your body, one by one, until you tell me everything about your accomplices.”
Chen Guan raised his head, the corners of his mouth curling beneath his mask.
Accomplices? You’re not going to catch them.
Just then, Santai’s amused voice came through his earpiece.
“Done. Uncle White Tiger got them.”
It was finally over.
The taut string inside Chen Guan relaxed. He rolled his sore shoulders and looked at Gao Yan, who was preparing to unleash his ultimate attack. At that moment, only one thought remained in his mind.
Time to clock out.
“Die!”
Gao Yan’s voice was cold enough to freeze. He raised his right fist, and the rock armor covering his entire arm lit up with a blinding red glow. Terrifying energy compressed madly within his fist.
That punch could erase the entire building from the map.
There were no civilians left nearby, so he no longer needed to hold back.
Chen Guan watched the meteor taking shape. Not only did he not retreat, he instead faced Gao Yan and assumed a stance as if preparing to charge straight at him.
A flicker of surprise crossed Gao Yan’s eyes. This rat that had been running nonstop actually intended to meet him head-on?
Suicidal.
But just before Gao Yan’s fist came crashing down, Chen Guan’s figure was erased directly from space.
The devastating punch lost its target and slammed into empty air, instantly blasting the entire unfinished building into a firework of dust and debris.
Gao Yan hovered in midair, feeling the explosive shock wave behind him. The muscles on his face twisted with rage.
He whipped around, sending his mental power out like a massive net as it swept across every inch of space within a ten-kilometer radius.
Nothing.
There was absolutely nothing.
The man in the white mask had vanished without a trace, as if a drop of water had melted into the ocean. Not even the slightest hint of his presence remained.
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
A beastlike roar was forced from Gao Yan’s throat. The sound waves made the broken stones beneath his feet tremble and rustle.
Humiliation—a humiliation he had never experienced before—burned through his reason.
…
In a secluded alley at the other end of Yunlan City.
Chen Guan’s figure appeared out of thin air. The tips of his toes touched down lightly, without making a sound.
He glanced behind him. The flames soaring into the sky and the faint roars of rage came from several blocks away, like a silent movie playing in the distance.
The dim light in the alley made him squint uncomfortably.
“Arf.”
Baobao, sprawled across his shoulder, yawned. This amount of exercise was no different from a casual stroll to him. He only lazily flicked his tail.
“Good job.”
Chen Guan rubbed his little head and took a strip of dried meat from his storage space as a reward.
The mission was complete. No civilians had been injured, and they had made a clean getaway.
As for the economic losses, they could be ignored. In a world where supernatural abilities existed, an entire building could be rebuilt within a day.
Perfect.
Chen Guan had just stuffed a second strip of dried meat into Baobao’s mouth when two figures emerged from the shadows at the mouth of the alley.
One wore an eye-catching pure-white suit, with a smiling mask that looked eerily pale in the dim light.
The other was the complete opposite: a black trench coat and a black mask.
Who else could they be but his two good colleagues?
“Well, that was quite a performance.”
White Tiger’s voice came through his mask. His lazy drawl remained unchanged this time.
“The commotion was even bigger than I expected. The people from the Great Wall are probably still digging through the ruins in the western suburbs.”
Beside him, Santai removed her mask, revealing a face full of interest. She looked Chen Guan up and down, lingering for two extra seconds on the tiny purple cat buried in food on his shoulder.
“Quite a performance? Hardly.”
Santai’s gaze returned to Chen Guan’s face, and the curve of her lips grew wider.
“Your acting was terrible, Black Tortoise.”
“I could tell from several kilometers away. You swung that hammer like you were shooing flies, as if you were terrified of accidentally hurting him.”
“And this little cat of yours.” She lifted her chin toward Baobao. “So convenient. It moved everyone away without anyone noticing. If those old fossils saw it, their eyeballs would probably fall right out.”
Baobao sensed her gaze and lifted his head from the strip of dried meat. His golden, slit-pupiled eyes glanced at her once without interest before he lowered his head and continued wrestling with the boneless beef.
Chen Guan said nothing. He simply reached out and rubbed Baobao’s head again.
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