NOVPUBHotel's ninth floor, outside a certain room.
The sudden bullet made Reesi, who had fallen to the ground, shrink her pupils, Luo An glanced at Reesi to make sure she wasn't injured, and immediately picked up the room card to open the door.
The four SWAT officers behind them, seeing this, did not hesitate and immediately took cover behind their ballistic shields, raising their rifles as they rushed into the room.
"Freeze! Get down!"
"Put your hands up!"
Three unclothed young women in the room were panic-stricken in the face of the SWAT officers entering and shouting orders, and promptly laid flat on the bed facing the barrels of the guns.
On the other side, a rope dangled from the room's balcony.
Luo An, following the SWAT officers, clearly saw that a shadow slipped down the rope from the balcony the instant they broke into the room.
Luo An quickly went to the balcony, gave the rope a quick shake to check its length, and immediately pressed the communicator, commanding coldly:
"Lock down floors four through eight!"
"Understood!"
The communicator crackled with the synchronized response of the SWAT team members, and upon seeing Reesi coming to the balcony, Luo An said in a grave tone:
"Have someone check the hotel's elevator shafts carefully, Jianaya might choose to escape through there."
"OK."
Reesi nodded, acknowledging the command, and Luo An reholstered his Glock 18 at his lower back, leaping over the balcony onto the protruding wall on the opposite side.
Then Luo An bent down, jumped off the balcony, fingers gripping the balcony edge, and, to the shocked gazes of Reesi and a few SWAT officers, he suddenly let go with both hands!
Reesi was startled by Luo An's action; she quickly leaned out from the balcony, and then with a baffled face, she realized Luo An was hanging by his hands from the balcony wall of the eighth floor.
"Fu-k!"
Watching Luo An let go and jump to the seventh floor balcony, Reesi inhaled sharply, cursing Luo An for being reckless, and at the same time, turned and left the room quickly with two SWAT officers:
"Inform the hotel to stop the elevator operation! Check the elevator shaft carefully!"
Down at the street outside the hotel, the looking-up SWAT officers saw Luo An without any protective measures, descending balcony by balcony solely relying on his arm strength and hand grip, their faces turned pale, and their expressions changed.
Bang! Bang!
Suddenly, as Luo An leaped to the fifth-floor balcony, two gunshots rang out abruptly from there, startling the agents below, and their hearts jumped into their throats.
On the other side, inside the fifth-floor room, disbelief spread across Jianaya's face.
She had been holding her gun, guarding the rope she had left behind, ready to send anyone who came down the rope plummeting to the ground with a single shot.
What Jianaya never expected was that Luo An, relying only on his arms and with no other preparations, jumped down from the other side of the balcony!
Nevertheless, the experienced Jianaya quickly swung the gun's muzzle and pulled the trigger, but in her moment of surprise, Luo An reacted faster.
With a powerful grip, he flipped into the balcony, Luo An successfully dodged Jianaya's first bullet, while the second one grazed his calf slightly.
A few drops of blood seeped onto his trousers, but Luo An could care less, he slightly lifted his head, grinning, revealing a smile to the coolly dressed, brown short-haired Jianaya:
"I Found You."
Luo An thought his smile was amicable, but in Jianaya's eyes, it was the most horrific smile she had ever seen in her life!
Especially the moment she recognized Luo An's face, Jianaya's pupils constricted, and her body hairs stood on end.
She had seen Luo An's face in the portraits of Los Angeles' Underworld and had heard about Luo An's actions in that bank robbery case.
At that time, Jianaya had just memorized the name Luo An Greenwood and his face, but she didn't take it to heart.
As a former CIA agent, Jianaya was all too familiar with the Federation Government's operations and believed that Luo An's true capabilities were probably only about eighty percent of what was reported in the news.
But now, with one bullet missed and one grazed, Jianaya, confident in her marksmanship, couldn't help but curse:
What on earth are the higher-ups of the Federation Government thinking? Why put such a terrifying guy in the FBI? Are they misusing talent?!
Bang bang bang bang——
Pulling the trigger on the pistol crazily towards Luo An's position, Jianaya turned and ran out of the room with long strides.
With a strong stomp of his right foot, Luo An flipped his body to the left at an extremely fast speed to dodge the bullets. His eyes were locked on Jianaya's retreating figure as he pounced at her like a cheetah.
Boom——
The instant Luo An's right hand clutched Jianaya's nape, she suddenly turned around, her hands crossed to catch his right hand, and leapt onto his shoulder. She wrapped around him like a snake, spinning rapidly, and finally slammed Luo An to the ground with force.
Lying on the ground, Luo An's head firmly trapped between Jianaya's long legs, he showed no panic and asked:
"Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? You're quite good."
With her hands gripping Luo An's arms tightly, Jianaya sneered:
"Thanks for the compliment, but this is the technique to send you to hell."
"Is that so? But there's a saying you should know, 'sheer strength can break through any trick.'"
Luo An grinned, his left hand pushing off the ground with force, suddenly lifting Jianaya and himself up from the floor.
Taking advantage of his right hand being caught by Jianaya, a confused Luo An suddenly smashed her against the room's wall.
Bang!
Under the terrifying force, an indescribable sense of intense pain instantly came from Jianaya's back.
Jianaya's face turned livid:
"You..."
Before she could finish her words, Luo An continued to swing his right arm, smashing it fiercely against the hotel wall.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three muffled sounds of flesh hitting the wall echoed through the room, Jianaya's complexion shifted from blue to pale, blood spilled from the corner of her mouth, but she still locked Luo An's head with her legs and clung to his arms with all her might.
Seeing Luo An was about to hit her against the wall again, Jianaya changed her expression and suddenly grabbed Luo An's right fingers, preparing to twist them in the opposite direction.
Feeling Jianaya's movement, Luo An's expression turned grim, and he suddenly changed direction, slamming his right hand, which had been hitting the wall, down onto the floor with great force.
Thud——
The tiles on the hotel room floor shattered instantly, Jianaya's face changed, and blood uncontrollably sprayed from her mouth.
Yet Jianaya chose to keep her hold on Luo An's body. Luo An, no longer wanting to waste time with her, raised his left hand to grab Jianaya's foot and jerked it to the side.
Crack!
"Aah——"
Beads of sweat popped out instantly from Jianaya's forehead. Luo An's left hand followed with force, prying open the weakening thigh from his head, and then threw Jianaya forcefully out of the room.
Bang!
The room's door was instantly smashed down to the floor from inside out, Jianaya lying in the hallway, staring at the approaching Luo An with a grim face, blood spurting out, before she fainted unwillingly.
A few SWAT members who arrived nearby saw this scene, their faces filled with shock, as they all swallowed nervously.
"Call an ambulance quickly, she can't die, she's still useful."
Luo An casually instructed the SWAT members, then bent down to quickly search Jianaya, finding something resembling a phone card.
"OK, no problem."
The SWAT members hastily nodded and pressed the communicator. One of them, seeing Luo An's calf still bleeding, hurriedly said:
"Deputy Group Leader Greenwood, let's get someone to bandage you up."
"Thanks, no need for now."
Luo An thanked them and then looked at the card in his hand and pressed the communicator, saying:
"Mona, bring the laptop to the scene, I need your help here."
