Rapid response
What else could he do at a time like this?
Jiu Tian grabbed an office chair and roared toward the others.
"Get out of the way!"
Then he swung it halfway around and hurled it with all his strength.
When the people ahead saw someone fling a chair at them like a madman, they scattered to either side in fright. Tao Xingzhi was no exception. No one wanted to test how well they could take a hit at a time like this.
The instant they dodged the chair, anger flared in all of them. They wanted to beat the chair-throwing bastard from a lunatic into a twitching wreck.
But the thought had barely formed when a bang cut it short.
As everyone turned, the same thought flashed through their minds: Holy shit, did it hit someone?
Tao Xingzhi, Xiao Liu, and the official surnamed Li were closer, so they saw where the chair landed first.
In an instant, all three of their pupils contracted sharply.
Who knew how much force had gone into that throw? The chair shattered on impact, but that was not the important part.
The important part was that it had struck the air in the doorway.
No! It was not air. A faint, piercing hiss reached their ears at almost the same moment.
Suddenly, Tao Xingzhi felt his face go numb. Goosebumps erupted all over him, and an intense, instinctive sense of danger surged through him.
Without even time to think, he hurled himself aside again as fast as he could, clearing his original position.
Squelch.
A large hole suddenly opened in the chest of an engineer who had been standing beside Tao Xingzhi. Blood and tissue began flowing upward from the hole, as though traveling backward through an invisible, transparent tube.
This was