Chapter 323: The Whole of London is Watching Him!

Upon receiving the news from Zhuang Yan, the Expert Group and the Yingguo special police immediately began their operation!

In an instant, various parties began pouring toward Yalishi Street!

At this very moment, Chu Chen had already left the facade of the building, performing a "flying eaves" maneuver—running sideways with his body parallel to the wall, each step landing precisely on a ledge less than fifteen centimeters wide!

When he moved to the position of the rain pipe on the adjacent building, he immediately slid down half a story along the pipe and grabbed a protruding wrought-iron balcony railing on the second floor of the building opposite!

Using the strength of his arms to hang from the railing, Chu Chen's body quickly began to swing like a pendulum, and at the highest point of the swing, he immediately let go, launching his entire body through the air!

"Whoosh!"

After carving a perfect arc through the air, Chu Chen crossed the street and landed on the second-floor balcony of the building opposite!

The moment he landed, he performed a series of "roll-to-dissipate-force" maneuvers!

His right shoulder hit the ground first, followed by his back, and finally his hip; the trajectory of the roll dispersed the impact of the free fall across his entire torso, and when he stood up, his breathing wasn't even ragged!

Zhuang Yan was sprinting down the street while keeping a constant eye on his movements!

At this moment, Chen Xiong's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "Zhuang Yan, where is the target now?"

"Still on Yalishi Street, the exact location is the second-floor balcony of apartment building 178!" Zhuang Yan quickly glanced at the building's number plate and said urgently.

While the two were communicating, Chu Chen had already left the balcony and started to push forward along the roofs of this row of apartment buildings!

The roof had a slope of about thirty degrees, and the surface was slippery Welsh slate tile; stepping on it was like stepping on ice!

Chu Chen's method of dealing with this was to touch the surface with his toes, with each step spending no more than 0.1 seconds in contact, maintaining his balance on the steep roof with an almost imperceptible rhythm.

Maintaining balance is one of the most difficult basic techniques to master in Parkour because it physically defies human intuition!

But for Chu Chen, this kind of basic technique was certainly not a problem.

In the blink of an eye, he quickly crossed the roof, jumping from one ridge to another!

A three-meter drop, a four-meter span!

Seeing this scene, the live stream chat was instantly boiling!

【Holy crap, so exciting!】

【Feels like the Lightness Skill from ancient times is nothing more than this!】

【Can someone tell me how this is done?】

【Truly incredible, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't dare imagine that this is a movement a human could complete!】

A massive wave of chat messages scrolled by.

Chu Chen's route also began to head downward!

Utilizing the external stairs of the fire escape, he slid directly down the outer railing of the stairs, gripping the railing with both hands, his body suspended in the air on the outside, relying on gravity and the friction of his palms to control his descent speed.

This move looked like a child playing on a slide, but doing this at the height of six stories is not something just anyone would dare to do!

Six stories, he slid down in less than four seconds!

The moment he landed, the street opposite was the tallest building in the vicinity of Russell Square—the London Bloomsbury Building!

This building was twenty-seven stories tall, ninety-two meters!

The exterior of the building had a glass curtain wall with an overall steel frame structure; the deep blue unitized glass looked like a giant black mirror, reflecting the silhouette of the entire city and the dazzling sunlight!

Just at this moment, Zhuang Yan had also caught up!

"Stop!"

While sprinting, she shouted a warning to Chu Chen beneath the building!

The two were some distance apart, but Chu Chen could still hear her shouting.

Looking at Zhuang Yan, who was rushing toward him, Chu Chen smiled slightly and ignored her warning!

The entrance to the Bloomsbury Building was at the back of the building, and the main entrance required a key card.

Chu Chen did not choose to run to the main entrance, but instead rushed directly toward the podium section of the building—a three-story annex with a gap of about two meters between it and the main tower.

He used this gap to perform a "cat leap" along the wall, quickly standing on the roof of the podium and arriving in front of the building's glass curtain wall.

Upon arriving, Chu Chen took off his special police uniform, revealing the quick-dry rock climbing suit underneath, and began to climb upward!

Seeing this scene, the live stream chat exploded again!

【Holy crap, what's going on?!】

【What is this guy trying to do?】

【He doesn't mean to climb up from there, does he?】

【My god, how does he dare to do this?!】

【Impressive, my brother!】

With the first grip, Chu Chen's right hand hooked onto a vertical metal strip about three centimeters wide between two glass panels!

The surface of the strip had been anodized, as smooth as an unused mirror, with almost zero friction!

But his finger strength was enough to compensate for the lack of friction—his curved fingertips were like five independent hooks, embedded firmly into the gap between the strip and the glass, which was almost invisible to the naked eye.

His left foot stepped onto the horizontal strip of the next level, the width also not exceeding three centimeters.

The soles of his shoes were ordinary rubber, and the effective area in contact with the metal surface was about two square centimeters.

Relying on just this two square centimeters of friction and the support of his few fingers, he lifted his entire body off the ground!

This was not indoor rock climbing!

Those climbing holds are designed, people can grab them, the rocks have rough surfaces to provide leverage, and ropes and safety harnesses protect you.

But this was a smooth, vertical glass curtain wall that was not designed for human climbing in any way!

No pits, no protrusions, no cracks to put fingers in, no rock points to step on!

The only points of support available were those strips—three centimeters wide, smooth surfaces, one every 1.2 meters, and all arranged vertically!

This meant that every move he made required him to simultaneously face the downward pull of gravity, the scarcity of support points, and the smoothness of the surface—the superposition of these three fatal factors!

This kind of hell-level climbing is something that even the most formidable rock climbing masters on Earth in his previous life would likely not dare to challenge!

Because it really is too dangerous!

First floor, second floor, third floor!

The first three floors, Chu Chen passed with ease!

His movements were neither hurried nor slow, steady and solid; he was completely composed, as if walking on flat ground!

Upon reaching the fifth floor, he performed a "hook-foot."

The so-called hook-foot is lifting the right foot from the side of the body, using the heel to hook onto the edge of a horizontal pressure strip, turning the right leg into an additional pivot point, thereby freeing the right hand to reach for a higher position!

This movement requires astonishing hip joint mobility, yet he completed the redistribution of pivot points in less than a second, his body maintaining a three-point balance for only 0.3 seconds during the process using only his left hand and left foot!

【Damn, Chu Chen's core is really too strong!】

【How is this done?】

【No, what is he trying to do?】

Utilizing this method, Chu Chen quickly reached the tenth floor!

But after arriving at the tenth floor, due to the change in climbing conditions, he immediately switched to a "knee-fold"!

His left knee turned outward, the side of the knee pressing against the pressure strip, the angle formed by his thigh and calf fitting perfectly into the tiny corner between the glass and the pressure strip.

This movement is used to create a force to counter outward rotation, preventing the body from falling off the wall surface. His limbs were distributed on the wall in different ways, like a pianist playing Bach on a harp, every finger applying the most precise Force at the most precise position!

By the fifteenth floor, he performed a "double-foot support"—the tips of both feet stepping simultaneously onto the same horizontal pressure strip, his body leaning backward, arms stretching upward.

Looking down from this angle, a thirty-degree angle was formed between his body and the glass curtain wall, which meant that the majority of his entire body weight was supported by his toes, with his fingers only responsible for maintaining balance!

This is an extremely dangerous posture—once the toes slip, there is no second possibility, just direct freefall!

But Chu Chen did not slip.

Fifteenth floor, sixteenth floor, twentieth floor!

As the altitude increased, the Wind speed also increased to twelve meters per second, the temperature on the surface of the glass curtain wall dropped below zero, and condensed Water formed a visible layer of thin frost on the glass!

Chu Chen's fingers left five clear marks on the frosted surface, like claw prints left on a rock wall by some ancient creature.

He did not wear gloves, because gloves would reduce tactile feedback at the fingertips, and in this level of climbing, tactile feedback is the only basis that allows him to judge whether a support point is reliable!

At this moment, the people below the building were gathering more and more!

The roar of helicopters was also approaching from afar!

Looking down from above, it was as if all of London was watching him!

A ninety-two-meter glass curtain wall, smooth metal pressure strips, zero-degree surface temperature, blood-stained fingers!

Any one of these factors taken alone would be enough to make the top rock climbers give up, yet Chu Chen, with all these factors existing simultaneously, turned this wall into his staircase with inhuman calmness and precision!

The barrage in the livestream room was no longer a barrage, but a dense, unrecognizable torrent of information formed by the shock of countless people!

Five billion people typed the same meaning at the same moment, but no one could see a single character clearly, because there were too many, too fast, and too dense!

"Immediately have the Yingguo police secure the entire building!"

On the street below the building, Liu Xuemin said while walking: "Also, have the police immediately contact the person in charge of this building, disable the access control, and make sure to tell the building's security that the target is very dangerous; if they encounter him, they must not act rashly!"