The events unfolded too quickly for anyone to react.
Jiang Nan and Nightingale had already vanished.
In that instant, Jiang Nan had slipped on his paralysis ring with his left hand and teleported right beside the middle-aged man.
His golden middle finger jabbed unhesitatingly into the man’s chest.
Shadow Demon’s eyes widened. He snarled, “You asked for this! Don’t regret it!”
He tried to force all the hostages to release their detonators at once.
By then, Jiang Nan’s finger had already pierced into the middle-aged man’s chest.
The man’s eyes bulged, his features twisted, and his body froze in paralysis on the spot.
His thumb, just about to release the detonator, lost all control. His entire body stiffened, unable to move.
Jiang Nan withdrew his finger without delay and opened a space wormhole.
His golden finger shot out again, striking another’s chest.
In mere milliseconds, he paralysed two.
Then his body vanished instantly, appearing before the next hostage, repeating the process.
Even at Jiang Nan’s speed, paralysing four was his absolute limit in that moment.
Shadow Demon: !!!
The sudden paralysis hit him like a truck. Every hostage’s Shadow Demon fragment came from his own body.
Sensory sharing.
Four layers of paralysis stacked, sending Shadow Demon into instant agony.
But it was far more than four.
The moment Jiang Nan acted, Nightingale joined in.
Her ability made her the fastest woman alive, a real-life Flash.
Her form blurred like a phantom as she dashed out, golden middle finger jabbing repeatedly. She paralysed the three on the left before they could release their detonators.
Three was her limit.
Xia Yao, of course, lived up to Jiang Nan’s instructions. The instant action began, she unleashed her wolf howl on the hooded man in the centre.
～(˶˃᷄口˂᷅) Awoo~
A puppy-like howl echoed across the plaza. The hooded man in the centre froze solid, stunned into rigidity.
His half-released detonator stopped abruptly.
With four paralysed, Jiang Nan freed up a moment to teleport over and jab one more finger.
All eight were paralysed in an instant. Under perfect coordination, the whole process took less than 0.5 seconds.
All eight paralysis sensations fed back to Shadow Demon, completely overwhelming him.
At the same time, in the crowd, three plainclothes Longyuan agents pounced like tigers on one person.
They tore open his clothes, revealing a bomb vest strapped to him. This one had failed to detonate.
The three agents subdued him, gripping the detonator tightly.
This was the anomaly detected during the sweep. They had pretended not to notice to avoid alerting him.
The hand signal from the Longyuan commander to Jiang Nan moments ago meant it was safe to act.
With inside-outside coordination, everything was under control in under half a second.
Jiang Nan let out a breath of relief.
My paralysis acupoint strike is no empty boast.
Yet at that moment, Wang Gang’s gaze in the crowd locked on a young girl.
A ferocious smile spread across her face. The instant he saw her black pupils, alarm bells rang in his head.
“Not good!”
She was surrounded by people.
In that moment, Wang Gang shoved through the crowd without a thought, charging desperately toward the girl.
The girl pulled a detonator from her pocket and released it.
“Heh heh, you still lost!”
There had been one fish that slipped the net in the crowd. The moment she released it, the blackness faded from her eyes.
Shadow Demon had completed his task and withdrawn.
The bomb vest on her body entered countdown.
3!
Wang Gang’s eyes widened like bells.
He hoisted the girl onto his shoulder. The surrounding crowd still hadn’t realised what was happening.
Wang Gang clenched his teeth, his face filled with resolve.
His legs crouched. His powerful quadriceps erupted with force beyond human limits in that instant.
The swelling muscles even tore his trousers.
“Ah!!!”
A thunderous roar.
Vigour 2.0’s devilish muscles, combined with Wang Gang’s iron will, launched him skyward.
The extreme force tore his muscles and fractured his leg bones.
“Boom!”
He shattered the marble beneath him, leaping over 40 metres into the air.
“Nan God!”
His roar echoed across the plaza.
2!
Jiang Nan’s eyes snapped to Wang Gang soaring upward. His mind blanked for a split second before he reacted.
“Fuck!”
He teleported beside Wang Gang.
He caught the girl, ripped off her down jacket.
Exposing the liquid bomb vest underneath.
Seeing the bright red “1” on the countdown, Jiang Nan’s eyes turned bloodshot.
His hands seized the vest and tore it with all his might, snapping the iron chains binding it.
“0!”
Jiang Nan opened a space wormhole high in the sky and hurled the bomb through.
He had just enough time to pull the girl into his arms, turning his back to the bomb. There was no time even to deploy a spiritual technique.
At the same time, he bellowed,
“Longyuan! Human wall!”
No need for Jiang Nan’s reminder. The instant Wang Gang jumped, the Longyuan commander had sensed something wrong.
The Longyuan troops behind the cordon stood tall, arms outstretched. Those with defensive techniques activated them.
Those without used their bodies to shield.
