Chapter 322: Shui Ge's Discovery!

The moment Chu Chen disappeared, the air in the entire Russell Square seemed to have been sucked away, instantly stagnating!

The clamor of hundreds of thousands of people was cut off in the same second, replaced by a massive silence that made people's eardrums ache!

A living, breathing person, while being simultaneously locked onto by forty SAS members, twelve special police officers, and six snipers, disappeared in less than a second?

And disappeared without a trace!

The first to react were the comments in the live stream.

The latency for the five billion online viewers varied, but within 0.5 seconds of Chu Chen's disappearance, all kinds of question marks flooded the entire screen at a rate of millions per second!

No one could type a complete sentence because no one could find the accurate vocabulary to describe what had just happened!

"What's going on?" one of the special police officers said in astonishment.

"Where did he go?"

"Can someone tell me what happened?"

This was not the first time Chu Chen had disappeared like this.

During the time the Expert Group had been engaging with him, he had at least three similar records of "disappearance."

Every time it was at the final moment when the encirclement was closing in, and every time the surveillance footage showed him vanishing into thin air without any external assistance!

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have dared to believe that this was an operation a human could pull off!

The next second, just as everyone was staring at the empty stage with heavy expressions, Shui Ge, standing behind Liu Xuemin, suddenly said: "Team Captain, that special police officer is not right!"

Zhou Yun heard this and looked in the direction Shui Ge was pointing.

What he was pointing at was one of the special police officers who had just participated in the arrest of Chu Chen!

At a glance, he was no different from the others at all!

"What's wrong with him?" Zhou Yun asked immediately.

"He is wearing the standard combat uniform of the SAS, MK7 Helmet, L119A2 assault rifle, bulletproof vest, tactical belt, knee pads, and elbow pads; all the equipment conforms to the individual configuration for today's operation. But there is a problem with the embroidered logo of the Royal Military Badge on his left arm; the golden thread inside does not reflect light the same way as the others!"

The reflection is inconsistent?

As expected of the strongest brain, Shui Ge, to be able to even see that the reflection of the embroidery is inconsistent?

Hearing this, Zhou Yun was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted!

Zhou Yun did not hesitate!

As a professional pursuer, the words "observe a little longer" did not exist in his dictionary.

The sound of his tactical boots hitting the grass was like a muffled thunderclap!

Before that special police officer could even notice, Zhou Yun had already arrived in front of him!

That's right, that special police officer was Chu Chen in disguise.

Because the so-called Disappearing Technique was not a true disappearance; it was just a sleight of hand that could help a magician escape in full view of the public!

After disappearing, he disguised himself as a special police officer, muddied the waters, and prepared to escape.

But he never expected that he would be seen through by Shui Ge.

At the same time, Chu Chen also realized that he might have been exposed.

Seeing this, before Zhou Yun could walk closer, he narrowed his eyes and smiled at him.

Immediately after, he suddenly took an M18 Smoke Grenade from his waist and smashed it onto the ground between Zhou Yun and the special police officer.

"Bang!"

This was a military-grade M18 Smoke Grenade!

The gray canister popped its safety pin the moment it hit the ground, and thick white smoke gushed out of the canister at a counter-intuitive speed, forming a solid smoke wall two meters high and three meters wide within one second!

This was a textbook-level case of using a smoke grenade.

The only flaw was: the textbook didn't teach that a smoke grenade could be thrown so accurately.

The scene exploded into chaos within the smoke!

The real special police officers were looking for cover in the smoke, the crowd was screaming and fleeing in all directions, and the SAS commander was shouting "Hold all exits," but everyone's reaction was half a beat slow!

The first to react was Zhuang Yan!

Amidst the smoke, she was the first person to see Chu Chen's figure!

"He's there!"

After saying this, she didn't care if anyone else heard her, and chased after him directly!

After leaving Russell Square, Chu Chen ran into a narrow alley!

The entrance to the narrow alley was between two Victorian-era red brick buildings, no more than 1.5 meters wide!

Chu Chen's speed did not decrease at all when he rushed in; he performed an extremely clean Lane Entry Cut at the alley entrance—his right foot turned outward, the outer edge of his sole touched the ground first, and his center of gravity sank by about ten centimeters!

He used an angle almost flush with the ground to force his high-speed moving body into that narrow passage.

This move is called "Lane Entry Cut" in Parkour; it puts great pressure on the knee ligaments, but the benefit is that it can complete a change of direction without slowing down.

Zhuang Yan was about two seconds slow when she followed in.

Two seconds is fatal in a short-distance chase!

The alley was not long, about forty meters, and at the end was a two-meter-high iron fence!

Ordinary people running at full speed would choose to slow down, climb, and vault over when encountering this fence, a process taking at least four or five seconds!

But Chu Chen did not slow down. When he was three meters away from the fence, he kicked off the ground with his left foot to jump, and the moment his hands grabbed the top crossbar of the fence, he performed a "Pushing the Boat with the Current"!

This was a combination of a gymnastics move and a parkour move, using the inertia of the moment of grabbing to catapult the body upward, while simultaneously letting go of his hands; his whole body crossed the fence in an almost horizontal posture, his feet landing first, and the angle of his knees bending upon landing perfectly absorbed the impact!

The whole process took less than a second.

By the time Zhuang Yan climbed over the fence, Chu Chen was already on the opposite street.

This street was wider than the alley just now, with four-to-six-story apartment buildings on both sides; the street-facing side was typical London white stucco, and the windowsills and fire escapes formed a complex three-dimensional structure on the walls.

The route Chu Chen chose was upward—not by climbing stairs, but by using every available feature on the wall as a fulcrum: drainpipes, windowsills, wall lamps, and even the protruding brick joints on the wall; every place he could use for leverage was in his route planning.

He first performed a "Two-Step Wall Climb," using his right foot to step on a windowsill 1.2 meters off the ground to gain Force, while simultaneously grabbing the rainwater pipe clamp on the second floor, using this pivot point to pull his body high enough for his right hand to reach the fire escape railing on the third floor!

At the same time, Zhuang Yan had also not given up, chasing wildly on the street surface!

Beside her, there was a heavy flow of traffic!

Pedestrians from all directions gave way to her one after another.

That scene looked just like a Hollywood blockbuster, making one's adrenaline soar!

In the process of sprinting, her gaze remained locked onto Chu Chen's movement trajectory while she reported her position over the walkie-talkie: "The target is moving rapidly north on Yalishi Street, requesting backup! Requesting backup!"