61: Chapter 61 A Textbook Over-the-Shoulder Throw Teaches You a Lesson

An awkward silence permeated the air of the Cloud Top Restaurant.

Empress Su Hongyi, who just minutes ago wanted to make Donghai City flow with blood, was now being forcibly hoisted by two burly Special Police officers, looking like a village woman throwing a tantrum.

"Let me go! I am an Empress! This is blasphemy against a deity!"

Empress Su Hongyi's shrieks were sharp and grating; all her previous majesty was gone, replaced only by hysterical, impotent rage.

This scene struck Lin Fan, who was standing nearby, like a heavy hammer against his heart.

She was his woman.

She was the "Hongyi" he had sworn to protect for a lifetime, for whom he had even hidden his identity to marry into the Su family, willing to endure all scorn just to cherish her in the palm of his hand.

Now, these ants dared to drag her like a dead dog right in front of him, the "Asura Dragon King"?

An unprecedented sense of humiliation instantly broke through the dam of Lin Fan's reason.

"Ah—!!"

Lin Fan let out a beast-like roar from the depths of his throat.

In the past, this roar would have been accompanied by the sounds of dragons and tigers, shattering the eardrums of everyone nearby.

But now, in this damnable "All Beings Equal Domain", it was merely a slightly louder wail.

But he couldn't care about that anymore.

So what if he had no Internal Energy? So what if he lacked the Dragon Divine Arts?

He was a Dragon King who had crawled out from mountains of corpses and seas of blood; even relying solely on his Physical Body, he had once single-handedly slaughtered an entire mercenary group!

"Gu Changan! I'll have your life!"

Lin Fan's eyes were bloodshot as he snatched up a stainless steel table knife that hadn't been cleared from the table yet.

The knife wasn't sharp, and it was still stained with the steak sauce from the meal Empress Su Hongyi hadn't finished. But it was the most decent weapon he could find at the moment.

"The Dragon King cannot be insulted! Touch my woman, and you all will die!"

Lin Fan stomped his foot on the ground and lunged forward like a cheetah.

Although he had lost the enhancement of True Qi, the muscle memory he had honed on the battlefield for years remained.

This charge was surprisingly fast, whipping up a whistling wind.

The nearby Special Police instinctively raised their shields to block him.

"Don't move."

Gu Changan's voice sounded flatly.

He didn't even turn his head; he just slightly raised his hand, signaling the Special Police behind him not to fire.

Facing the desperate man charging at him with a table knife and a ferocious expression, Gu Changan's Face showed no emotional fluctuation. He simply removed the rimless glasses from his nose in a leisurely manner and handed them to Chen Xiaobei beside him.

The movement was as elegant as if he were preparing to enjoy an afternoon tea.

"Publicly attacking the police for the sake of some ethereal Face." Gu Changan murmured softly, "Truly hopeless."

At this moment, Lin Fan had charged to within a meter behind Gu Changan.

"Die!!"

Lin Fan raised the table knife high and stabbed fiercely at Gu Changan's carotid artery.

If this strike connected, it would kill not just a man, but even an ox on the spot. A cruel light flickered in Lin Fan's eyes, as if he had already seen the scene of blood splattering.

However, the next second, the scene froze.

Just as the tip of the knife was about to touch the collar.

Gu Changan moved.

There were no flashy afterimages, nor earth-shattering special effects.

He merely took a small step to the front left, his upper body slightly turning to the side.

"Whoosh!"

The sauce-stained table knife stabbed through empty air, grazing Gu Changan's ear; the sharp blade even severed a strand of his hair.

Lin Fan missed his strike, his body involuntarily lunging forward due to inertia.

At that very instant, Gu Changan's right hand shot out like lightning.

"Slap."

That long, bony hand clamped onto Lin Fan's knife-wielding wrist with absolute precision.

Without Internal Energy to protect his body, Lin Fan's wrist was as fragile as a thin twig in the Face of Gu Changan's System-enhanced grip.

"Snap."

Gu Changan pressed his thumb hard against Lin Fan's wrist bone and shoved downward violently.

A sharp pain struck, and Lin Fan's fingers instantly lost sensation; the stainless steel table knife clattered to the floor.

But this was only the beginning.

Gu Changan didn't release his grip on the wrist; instead, he pulled Lin Fan toward him and simultaneously stepped forward with his right foot, wedging it right between Lin Fan's legs.

Turn, thrust hips, exert force.

Every movement was as standard as a textbook demonstration.

This was the most basic, yet most practical police grappling technique—the shoulder throw.

"Up."

Gu Changan gave a low shout.

The power of his waist and abdomen exploded instantly.

Lin Fan felt the world suddenly flip upside down. His hundred-plus-pound body traced a perfect parabola over Gu Changan's back.

"Bang—!!!"

A dull, loud thud shook the entire restaurant.

Lin Fan slammed heavily onto the hard marble floor.

There was no cushioning to this; it was a solid, hard collision.

The broken glass shards on the floor instantly pierced his back, his internal organs shuddered violently from the impact, and the air was forced out of his lungs. He couldn't even scream, only opening his mouth wide like a fish out of water, making "he-he" gasping sounds.

Pain.

So painful.

Lin Fan felt as if his entire skeletal frame was about to fall apart. He tried to struggle and get up, but a foot wearing a polished leather shoe had already stepped heavily onto his shoulder blade.

"Stay still."

Gu Changan knelt on Lin Fan's back with one knee, skillfully pulling another pair of handcuffs from his waist.

He grabbed Lin Fan's still-trembling arm and roughly twisted it behind his back.

"Click."

The sound of the metal locking was crisp and pleasant.

This "Asura Dragon King," who dominated overseas and was claimed to be invincible, was now pressed firmly to the ground, his Face against the greasy floor and glass shards, held down like a cockroach.

"Lin Fan, you are now under formal arrest for assaulting a police officer and attempted murder."

Gu Changan's voice came from above, as cold as an iceberg that had never melted in ten thousand years.

"Let... let me go..."

Lin Fan spat out a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood foam; even at this point, he still couldn't accept reality.

"You don't fight with martial virtue... you cheated!"

Lin Fan struggled desperately, not even noticing the handcuffs digging into his flesh. He glared at the ceiling with bloodshot eyes.

"If you have the guts, drop this damn Domain! Let's have a duel!"

"If it weren't for this Domain, I could crush you with one finger! I am the Dragon King! I am invincible!"

"I don't accept this! I don't accept this!!"

Listening to Lin Fan's venomous roars, Gu Changan straightened his slightly ruffled cuffs and took the glasses handed back by Chen Xiaobei, putting them on.

He looked down at Lin Fan beneath his feet, his eyes filled with a trace of pity, but mostly mockery.

"A duel?"

Gu Changan crouched down and reached out to pat Lin Fan's Face, which was twisted with anger and pain.

"Mr. Lin, have you been reading too many web novels, and your brain has rotted along with them?"

"I am a state official, a law enforcer. Behind me are 1.3 billion people, the complete state apparatus of violence, and the most cutting-edge scientific research power."

Gu Changan pointed at the armed Special Police around him, then pointed to the satellite orbit above, which was invisible but still present.

"This is reality."

"The reality is that I can track you with satellites, use infrasound waves to shatter your ghosts, and use a field generator to seal your supernatural powers."

"And you, apart from shouting slogans and waving a broken table knife around, what else do you have?"

Gu Changan stood up, took a white handkerchief from a Special Police officer, and carefully wiped the fingers that had touched Lin Fan, as if they had been contaminated by something dirty.

"Your so-called invincibility is a joke in the Face of science and law."

"Take him away."

Gu Changan tossed the handkerchief onto Lin Fan's Face, covering his expression of unwillingness.

"Wait! Team Leader, these two have a foundation, after all. To prevent any accidents on the way, I suggest taking forced sedation measures."

Chen Xiaobei walked over, carrying a metal case.

The case opened, revealing several injection guns as thick as a finger, filled with a light blue liquid.

"This is the 'Type III Spiritual Power Blocker' recently developed by the bureau, mixed with high-concentration potent anesthesia, specifically targeting individuals with abnormal physical constitutions like these."

Chen Xiaobei adjusted his glasses and flashed a set of white teeth, "One shot, and even an elephant would sleep for three days."

Lin Fan heard this, and a look of fear finally appeared in his eyes.

"No! Don't touch me! I am the Dragon King... you can't..."

"Hiss—"

Chen Xiaobei didn't waste words, simply picking up the injection gun and jabbing it into Lin Fan's neck.

The high-pressure airflow instantly pushed the liquid into Lin Fan's body.

Lin Fan's struggle came to an abrupt end.

His pupils began to dilate, and his eyelids became as heavy as lead. That arrogant, ferocious aura quickly dissipated, replaced by an endless drowsiness.

"Hong... Hongyi..."

In the last moment before losing consciousness, the scene he saw was Empress Su Hongyi also being pressed to the ground, injected with the agent, and then going limp like a rag doll.

That arrogant Empress ultimately failed to wait for her nine-generation elimination game.

A few minutes later.

The doors of the Cloud Top Restaurant swung open.

Gu Changan walked in the lead, followed by four Special Police officers dragging the unconscious Empress Su Hongyi and Lin Fan.

Their expensive clothes were dragged along the floor, covered in dust and stains, making them look utterly wretched.

Outside the police cordon downstairs, a crowd of onlookers had already gathered.

Seeing the two lunatics who had wanted to tear down the building and kill people just moments ago being dragged out like dead dogs, a burst of enthusiastic applause erupted from the crowd.

"Great arrest! These psychos should be locked up!"

"Scared the hell out of me, that woman's eyes were glowing earlier, I thought it was the end of the world!"

"Thank you, officers! So satisfying!"

Flashes went off one after another, and countless mobile phones recorded the scene.

No one cared whether they were some Dragon King or Empress; in the eyes of the common people, these were just two terrorists endangering public safety.

Gu Changan stood by the police car, watching the two being thrown into a specialized riot prisoner transport vehicle.

"Clang!"

The heavy door slammed shut, completely severing the connection between the two and the world.

At the same time.

That familiar mechanical electronic sound rang in Gu Changan's mind right on time.

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully capturing two illegal Transmigrators/Awakened ones.]

[Detected that target "Lin Fan" possesses the "Dragon King God of War" halo, and target "Empress Su Hongyi" possesses the "Empress Reincarnation" halo.]

[Evaluation of this law enforcement operation: Perfect.]

[Reward settlement in progress...]

Gu Changan's lips curled up slightly as he opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.

"Drive, back to the bureau."