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Chapter 496: Chapter 496: Spiral Trajectory

Of course, she couldn’t possibly be merciless to Honglian and Wang Baihu.

Lin Qing crouched down, took a deep breath, then sprang off the ground with her legs, charging towards the two! Wang Baihu, in shock, had no choice but to fire his gun — this time, it wasn’t a tranquilizer dart from his gun, but real bullets.

For Lin Qing, who was once a future warrior, she was all too familiar with such weapons.

She could even judge the direction of the gun barrel by the slightest tremor of the opponent’s wrist. Without the support of solo fire control and micro-movement prosthetics, dodging handgun shots at close range was a routine task for her.

But in Wang Baihu’s eyes, Lin Qing’s moves were nothing short of ghostly. He felt as if his mind was being read; just at the moment before pulling the trigger, the opponent had already dodged the shooting line, and all three bullets were astonishingly fired into the air.

However, Wang Baihu wasn’t someone easy to deal with.

He calmly released the handgun, his eyes fixated on the Wanderer’s knife, assuming a standard capture stance.

In terms of agility, he feared no one.

As long as the opponent dared to stab over, he would undoubtedly grab their wrist and fiercely throw a back drop.

Even if danger arose, the team leader would teleport him out instantly.

However, Lin Qing did not stab the knife at anyone at all.

She dashed right through the middle of the two!

Not good! Honglian reacted immediately — the real target was the glass wall behind them!

"Stop him!" she shouted to her teammates.

Yet it was already too late.

Lin Qing had already swept past the two, slamming like a cannonball into the glass curtain wall. She realized that the scene outside the building hadn’t changed much, indicating that she was still inside the Window to the World. This was not surprising; if Honglian stayed too far from the trap, she wouldn’t be able to deal with enemies crossing from the point of intrusion. When they were uncertain of the Wanderer’s movements, guarding the vicinity of the entry point was undoubtedly the safest choice.

The impact was so strong that Lin Qing’s head was buzzing, as if the bones in her arms were about to break. Fortunately, she still had a knife; by reversing the handle, it became a small but effective glass breaker.

The glass shattered with a crash from the violent impact!

Lin Qing fell from the third floor.

Just before hitting the ground, she curled her body like a cat, rolling with the momentum to successfully absorb most of the impact.

The tourists on the street were stunned and slack-jawed by this scene.

Not because someone fell from a building.

But because of the half-transparent Lin Qing!

The invisibility talisman hadn’t fully worn off, presenting her as a "strange person" whose figure could be seen but whose details were hard to discern in the eyes of the tourists.

Quite a few people immediately took out their phones, wanting to capture this unbelievable scene.

Crackle!

A burst of dazzling electric sparks suddenly exploded from the streetlamp, instantly turning the area beneath it pitch black. Then, the power outage rapidly spread around, extinguishing shop signs, tree lights, and mall fluorescent lamps in succession. The dimness of dusk, like an invisible hand, covered the entire street.

The tourists, in a panic, screamed and dodged the flying sparks, no longer able to pay attention to the half-transparent figure.

Lin Qing couldn’t help but smile.

This was clearly the Logistics Team exerting its power.

It seemed that the agency hidden beneath the surface wasn’t without its weaknesses...

The Mechanism would rather let her escape than have this abnormal incident attract too much public attention.

In these few seconds, she had confirmed her relocated position — it was actually just directly above the intrusion point room, only separated by one floor.

Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the power outage, Lin Qing rushed into the mall, heading straight for the Erosion Zone. Several plainclothes agents tried to intercept her, but all were easily shaken off by her.

This time, there shouldn’t be any more traps.

Just as the invisibility talisman was about to lose its effect, Lin Qing dove into the Erosion Zone.

"Stop, don’t think you can escape!"

Honglian, rushing down the stairs, tried to follow but was grabbed by the arm from behind by Wang Baihu.

"No!" the companion exclaimed anxiously, "Look at the erosion; if you enter, this thing will overflow!"

He was telling the truth.

The currently dark green Erosion Zone had already swallowed the door frame completely, occupying nearly half the room. If a few more Ability Users entered, it might directly expand into the mall, which was a scenario the Dimensional Limit Mechanism absolutely did not wish to see.

Honglian shook off Wang Baihu’s hand, angrily stomping the floor.

"Damn it, you escaped fast enough!"

She hadn’t expected the Wanderer to appear so quickly. In such a limited time, the Logistics Team could hardly evacuate the mall and set up a complete quarantine zone; she was only able to use the empty rooms upstairs to lay a simple "cage."

"Let’s first report to the chief, the brothers over there need support too," Wang Baihu frowned, "Hopefully, the exploration team doesn’t encounter the Wanderer before the Erosion Zone stabilizes."

Despite being somewhat unwilling, Honglian temporarily had no better option and sullenly pulled out her walkie-talkie, "Hello, this is the Red Lotus Team, confirming the Wanderer’s appearance: suspected male, between twenty and thirty years old, unknown abilities, highly resistant to anesthetics. The individual has currently fled to the Erosion World, during the capture, secondary exposure occurred; the scene is temporarily secure, over."

...

Five days later, Honglian received a preliminary exploration report on the Erosion World.

The opposite side was a world whose historical trajectory was extremely similar to this one, representing a relatively dangerous type of invasion within the erosion classification, possibly causing difficult-to-erase historical contamination and future paradoxes to this world.

The agency headquarters had officially named it the C98 intrusion point.

The recommendation was to conduct covert observation and prevent all agents from entering the world without authorization before discovering the whereabouts of the Wanderer.

"Looks like that person won’t appear again in the short term." Wang Baihu relaxed back in his office chair, hands behind his head, "Once the erosion subsides, we can seal that room with reinforced concrete, and this hidden danger will be considered fully resolved."

Honglian put down the report, remaining silent.

Overall, this incident hadn’t caused any bigger waves; the flaw of the person falling from the third floor was covered up by the Logistics Team with the excuse of reflective clothing and a magic performance. There was virtually no online discussion about it; instead, the massive park power outage made urban news.

That result could be considered quite lucky; the head only verbally reprimanded her and didn’t even deduct her salary.

However, Honglian felt an ominous cloud in her heart that wouldn’t go away.

Because that person disappeared without a trace.

The exploration team, after crossing the intrusion point, although not setting up camp immediately, left two hidden cameras capable of operating independently, primarily to record the expansion of the Erosion Zone. Theoretically, these two cameras should have captured the direction the Wanderer escaped to, but afterward, they scrutinized all the recordings and found no trace of the male figure.

For the exploration team at that time, this was undoubtedly a good thing, at least not having to worry about encountering the Wanderer and being attacked by an enraged opponent; but in Honglian’s eyes, the situation seemed quite strange.

Could this person have the ability to control erosion, allowing him to travel to multiple different places through a single intrusion point? If so, this would be a first in the Mechanism’s history.

This also means that it would be even harder to catch him.

Don’t come back, and don’t attempt to interfere with history, just disappear quietly... Honglian clenched her fist and silently vowed, or else I will make you pay a lifetime’s unforgettable price!

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