Chapter 460: Chapter 233: +2000 Contribution Points, New Magic

Yang Qi noticed that the man was wearing an inconspicuous string of dark wooden beads on his wrist. On one of the beads was an extremely faint, tiny carving that resembled the scale of a lizard or a pangolin.

’The target, Pangolin?’

Something clicked in Yang Qi’s mind, but his face remained impassive.

He set down his water glass and casually walked over to a nearby bookshelf. He pulled out a magazine and began flipping through it, all while continuing to observe the man from the corner of his eye.

A moment later, the man finished the video, put away his tablet, and stood up, heading in the direction of the restroom.

Yang Qi didn’t follow immediately. Instead, he waited for about half a minute before unhurriedly heading in the same direction.

As he passed a fire exit, he quickly keyed a string of code into a seemingly ordinary notepad app on his phone—the prearranged signal.

He sent out a brief description of the target: dark blue suit, rimless glasses, around fifty, in the coffee area, heading toward the restroom.

Once the message was sent, he continued walking with a casual pace, just like any other conference attendee on their way to use the facilities.

However.

As Yang Qi reached the restroom door, his superhuman hearing picked up a faint, muffled thud from inside—a sound unlike an ordinary collision. It was followed by a flurry of panicked, hurried footsteps rapidly moving away.

’Pangolin noticed?’

’And he reacted so quickly.’

A chill went down Yang Qi’s spine. He immediately pushed the door open and went in.

The man was gone. Inside the restroom, only a side door at the far end, which led to a janitor’s closet, was swaying slightly. It had clearly just been thrown open.

’He really did run!’

’He’s incredibly alert.’

With no time to think, Yang Qi blurred into motion and charged through the side door.

The janitor’s closet was narrow and cluttered. The door leading to a service corridor stood wide open.

Pangolin’s figure was just vanishing around a corner. He was moving with a speed that was completely unlike a man of fifty. He’d clearly had special training and was now fleeing for his life.

At the same time.

Yang Qi heard hurried footsteps approaching from the direction of the hotel lobby.

It was the two plainclothes officers, rushing over after receiving his signal.

They had clearly noticed the target’s unusual behavior and were moving to flank him.

Pangolin was quite familiar with the hotel’s layout. He darted left and right through the maze-like service corridors and, in moments, burst out onto an open-air skywalk connecting the main building to a side wing.

The skywalk was not empty.

A young woman who looked like a hotel intern was walking over from the side wing, a stack of documents in her arms, about to cross the skywalk back to the main building.

Her head was down, as if she were memorizing something, completely oblivious to the danger rushing toward her.

When Pangolin saw the girl who had suddenly appeared, a savage glint flared in his eyes.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he charged straight for her. His right hand shot out, fingers curled into a claw, aimed directly at the girl’s slender neck!

He was going to take a hostage!

The young woman heard the rushing footsteps and looked up, stunned, just in time to see Pangolin’s savage face lunging toward her. She froze in terror. The documents in her hands scattered across the ground with a WHOOSH, a scream caught in her throat. Her body went stiff, and she completely forgot to dodge.

Just as his hand was about to seize the girl—

At that critical moment!

Yang Qi, still seven or eight meters away from Pangolin, had a flash in his eyes. With his right hand hidden at his side, he flicked a finger.

Entanglement Technique!

Targets: the ankle of Pangolin’s striding left foot and the back of his right knee, his supporting leg.

Invisible threads of Magical Power, like the most dexterous and durable of tripwires, shot across the space in an instant, wrapping and tightening with perfect precision!

"..."

Pangolin’s forward momentum was tremendous when his feet were suddenly and tightly ensnared by an invisible force. His upper body, carried by immense inertia, continued to pitch forward. He instantly lost his balance and, in a comically pathetic posture, slammed face-first onto the smooth floor tiles of the skywalk with a dull THUD.

The hand he’d stretched out to grab the girl merely brushed against the hem of her clothes, closing on nothing but air.

The young woman was stunned by the sudden turn of events. She stared at the man who had fallen at her feet, grimacing in pain and momentarily unable to get up. Finally snapping back to her senses, she scrambled back several steps in fear until her back hit the skywalk railing, her entire body trembling.

Pangolin was completely dazed by the fall. Blood streamed from his nose, and his glasses had flown off his face.

He struggled to get up, but Yang Qi hadn’t released the Entanglement Technique. The invisible bonds made his limbs feel weak and his movements sluggish.

That brief, one- or two-second delay—

"Police! Don’t move!"

"Hands on your head!"

Sharp shouts rang out from both ends of the skywalk at once.

Two plainclothes officers, wearing conference staff vests but with eyes like lightning and swift movements, burst out from the service corridor and the exit from the side wing. They instantly surrounded the fallen Pangolin, the dark muzzles of their guns aimed at him.

Pangolin tried to resist, but one of the officers lunged forward and kicked away the hand reaching for his waist. The other officer quickly pinned Pangolin’s back with his knee and skillfully wrenched his arms behind him.

With a CLICK, a pair of cold handcuffs were snapped onto his wrists.

The entire process was as fast as lightning, a testament to their training.

"Search him!"

One of the officers ordered gruffly.

The other officer immediately gave Pangolin a quick pat-down. He pulled a switchblade from Pangolin’s waistband, found a miniature storage device disguised as a USB drive in his inner suit pocket, and finally, retrieved that strange wooden bead bracelet.

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