Roughly the moment Simon raised his wineglass, Luo Yan sensed that something was wrong.
Although Simon wore a broad smile, although he looked perfectly normal.
Luo Yan's instincts, however, sounded the alarm in time.
His instincts had been honed through countless battles and repeated brushes with death.
Thus, when that nearly invisible Black Thread shot from Simon's sleeve, Luo Yan had already detected it.
He caught it between two fingers at the last moment, moving even faster.
Looking closely, he saw that it was a thin black needle.
It was barely thicker than a strand of hair and black from end to end. No wonder it had been so hard to notice.
The sudden turn of events left the entire scene deathly silent.
Everyone stood dumbfounded, their minds temporarily short-circuiting as they struggled to react.
However.
Someone reacted very quickly.
Anna. Kalena.
A biting wind suddenly whipped up around the woman. Frost then spread toward Simon, freezing both his legs.
Only then did Anna cry out in a trembling, shrill voice, "Simon, what are you doing?"
She panicked.
Luo Yan was a colonel of the Strategic Affairs Department and the captain of the Heavenly Fire Squad, a major figure ordered to attack the White Swan Action Group.
Simon was a high-ranking officer of the White Swan Action Group and her deputy, yet he had attempted to assassinate Luo Yan in full view of everyone.
And on top of that.
She had personally brought him before Luo Yan.
All of this had happened because Simon had just told her that he wanted to meet Luo Yan.
Anna had not suspected a thing. She had even been happy to see her deputy grow closer to Luo Yan.
She had never expected Simon to use the opportunity to approach Luo Yan as a