Chapter 493: Light-Speed Crash

As long as someone is still trying their best, is that necessarily stronger than giving up completely?

Hearing the female police officer's plain yet firm words, Li Ang couldn't help but borrow Heishanyang's soul-vision to observe the state of her soul.

That bright-white soul, though tinged with a lingering touch of irritability, its glow slightly a bit dazzling, was nonetheless persistently burning with effort, and beating with incomparable fervor.

Just like a small flame that had just been lit, striving to radiate heat to its surroundings, attempting to use its still-young firelight to bring a touch of warmth to the small slice of world beside it.

Unfortunately, what was closest to her now was not a fragile soul waiting for warmth, but a surging cold fire in desperate need of release.

……

This person… in the future will definitely become our obstacle!

Although she knew this kind of inference was somewhat absurd, looking at the female police officer's eyes, the female criminal couldn't help but have such a thought surface in her heart.

Human nature always pursues stability, and is also good at numbing itself. Even if life is painful right now, as long as there is still hope for the future, most people will not pursue change.

Only someone like herself, who has experienced the deepest despair, who has been pushed to a corner with no way out, will truly go all out, steel their resolve to take revenge on everything that once hurt them, so…

You are a good police officer, but also our enemy!

Listening to the sincere assurances beside her ear of "Please trust me one more time" and "I will definitely get to the bottom of this," the female criminal's eyes not only did not soften, but instead grew increasingly sharp along with the promises.

Just as the leader said, when exactly the "new world" everyone hopes for will arrive is actually not decided by us, but depends on the speed at which the entire kingdom rots!

Only by thoroughly stirring up this nation's boils, even adding fuel to the fire, letting everyone personally experience its decay and unsightliness, can those fellows content with the status quo give up their false hopes, stand firm, and rise up with us to overthrow it!

So whether it's the reform-minded princess, or the Minister of National Defense who is desperately trying to maintain the military, or you, who have close ties with the current Minister of National Defense, are all targets that must be eliminated!

'Ah ha~ Li Ang, look quickly!'

The changes on the female criminal's soul naturally could not escape the notice of Heishanyang, the great demon.

Watching her soul gradually shift from blood-colored to murky, feeling the surging killing intent leaping along with the flame, Heishanyang couldn't help but close his eyes in rapture, and with a blissful face delivered his judgment:

'One does not approve of the other's actions, yet plans to spare no effort to save her; the other, although she acknowledges the other's goodness, has already prepared to kill her with her own hands.

How wonderful. For some so-called great belief, one can unscrupulously commit evil without any restraint. This kind of filthy, sticky soul is truly fantastic!

As for the other one, when sincere goodwill from the bottom of her heart receives the other's extremely vicious response, what kind of evil thoughts will erupt in her heart?

Ahahaha! Too wonderful! I can't wait to see her reaction!'

"……"

How does a perfectly good great demon always talk like someone with Stage IV Cancer?

The foot stepping on the ram's head added a little force, and after rolling around on the dirty floor of the carriage for good measure, drawing a stream of curses from Heishanyang, Li Ang silently gripped the Holy Spirit pendant and prepared to act to save her.

If the one being targeted was someone from the Lane family, that would be fine. Even if he didn't add insult to injury on the side, an occasional "rescue arriving too late" was still possible.

But judging from the conversation he had just overheard, although the female police officer was a bit stubborn and a troublesome busybody who wouldn't leave well enough alone, she really wasn't a bad person, so if he could lend a hand, he still had to lend a hand.

Watching the rebel's state warily, the moment the darkness in her soul surged upward and she reached for the female police officer's neck, Li Ang activated the pendant a step ahead, creating an invisible palm that pressed firmly down on the bandage on the female criminal's wrist.

"How could this be?" A searing pain instantly shot through her wrist. The bandage that should have flown up was pinned down dead by some invisible force, and the female criminal turned pale with shock.

However, the instant she noticed the abnormal movement, the female police officer had already slightly turned her body, met the hand reaching for her neck with her shoulder, and then with the edge of her other hand, struck hard just below the styloid process of her ulna.

Then, taking advantage of the gap while the female criminal's elbow and wrist were numbed by the strike and unable to change posture, she hooked her right wrist while simultaneously twisting her shoulder, bending it into a reverse-joint elbow lock that completely sealed off her force.

Finally, dropping her center of gravity and following up with a wrist-fold and shoulder-push, with the momentum of nearly slamming headfirst into the floor, she threw her entire body straight off the seat, slamming onto the carriage floor with a thud.

Although this whole sequence sounded complicated, the female police officer executed it with astonishing fluidity. In the time it took Li Ang to shake off the overcoat draped over his head, she had already completed the entire set of movements, dragged the female criminal "rolling" off the chair, and cleanly finished the restraint.

"……"

Good grief… so you had this trick up your sleeve too?

Looking at the female police officer, whose left knee was pressed against the criminal's lumbar spine, both hands reverse-twisting her right arm and pinning her shoulder socket, holding her entire body firmly against the floor, Li Ang couldn't help but open his mouth wide in surprise, a flash of relief passing through his eyes.

Fortunately, he had a good enough temper and hadn't gotten into a fight with her before. Otherwise, given his own combat ability, his end probably wouldn't have been much better than this female criminal's.

And in less than 0.2 seconds, after regaining control of the criminal who had wanted to attack her, the female police officer, following the requirements of police procedure, instinctively immediately raised her head to look around, confirming whether there were any other hidden accomplices, and then…

"You?!"

"I'm just passing through!"

Looking at the female police officer, whose two delicate eyebrows suddenly shot up, her pretty face a jumbled mess of shock, hesitation, panic, resolve… as if she had knocked over a spice shop, Li Ang sat back down in his chair before she could get up and pounce.

"I'm also on field duty, and I got on the carriage before you!"

After emphasizing his current position as briefly as possible, Li Ang reached for his credentials and waved them at the ticket-selling auntie, who had rushed over from the front row with her eyes wide, ready to curse the three of them out.

"Police escorting a criminal, please cooperate."

"So what if you're police? I'm still a Level 2 carriage clerk from the Road Administration! Even if you're police, you still…"

"Secret Investigation Bureau police."

"Sec… never mind then…"

Looking at the unmistakable Police Department emblem on the cover of the credentials, the ticket-selling auntie couldn't help but shrink her neck. After clearly seeing the female criminal locked in a submission hold on the floor, the bellyful of fury about to erupt was instantly doused.

Under the bewildered gazes of the passengers, her two slightly bow-legged short legs spun half a circle as swiftly as a compass, her short, stocky body twisted back with surprising agility, then she hunched over and clip-clopped back to the front row, plopping herself back into the ticket-selling seat.

And the female criminal, half her face pressed against the floor, the instant she caught sight of Li Ang from the corner of her eye, was as if struck by lightning, and instantly figured out the entire "cause and effect" of everything.

"Despicable!"

(End of this chapter)