The Sealed-Off Building
Ling Xiao froze, then immediately switched to the pommel and smashed it against the glass with even greater force.
Bang! The impact was dull. Ling Xiao was confident that this blow could shatter even the Public Security Bureau's standard polycarbonate riot shields, yet the ordinary tempered-glass window did not so much as develop a crack.
This was absolutely abnormal!
But Ling Xiao had no time for further attempts. The anomaly had already rushed out of the room, charging at him in a twisted posture at terrifying speed!
Ling Xiao's room was at the end of the corridor, more than fifty meters from both the elevator lobby and the stairs. If he turned and ran, with nothing obstructing the anomaly, it would catch him before he even made it halfway... Not to mention that in a chase like this, his back would be completely exposed. Once it caught up, he might not even have a chance to fight back.
And a head-on confrontation... If he could not even outrun it, Ling Xiao did not think he and Chirou had enough strength to kill this anomaly.
In that fleeting instant, countless responses flashed through Ling Xiao's mind. In the end, one enormous word surfaced in his thoughts: stall.
This was the testing base of Tianshu Tower's Ability User Management Department. A group of fairly powerful Ability Users was permanently stationed here, along with heavily armed guards and all kinds of light and heavy weapons... As long as he made enough noise and held out long enough, someone would notice what was happening.
By then, whether it was Ability Users, Anomaly Hunters, or cutting-edge modern weaponry, any of them could deal with an anomaly that possessed only close-combat capabilities.
The moment Ling Xiao made up his mind, the anomaly was