Chapter 206: Chapter 153: Brother Hu is Terrified Again
When the security guard on duty in the monitoring room heard Yang Qi’s shout of "Someone’s stealing birds!" through his phone, he felt like his head was going to explode.
’Rare birds being stolen?’
"Sound the alarm! Quick!"
The shift supervisor practically roared.
A piercing alarm instantly shattered the nighttime tranquility of the Zoo.
Immediately, a series of actions unfolded rapidly.
The monitoring room immediately pulled up the feeds from all cameras in the Bird District.
A call went straight to the mobile phone of Security Chief Zhao Dalong.
All night patrol teams were ordered to converge on the Bird District immediately.
At the same time, a call was made to 911...
The once-sleeping Zoo suddenly burst into a flurry of activity.
Lights in various sections switched on one after another, and the sounds of footsteps, walkie-talkie calls, and starting vehicles mingled in the air.
Inside the Bird District.
Yang Qi caught up to the two thieves, who had fallen but scrambled back to their feet.
He used the military Arresting Skill he had just learned from Chen Ze these past few days to twist one of the men’s arms, driving a knee into his lower back in a single, clean motion.
"Ah—it hurts, it hurts!"
The man cried out in pain and began to beg for mercy.
Without another word, Yang Qi pulled off the man’s belt and used it to tie his hands behind his back.
The entire sequence took no more than five or six seconds.
The other "bird thief" had taken the opportunity to make a run for it, already more than twenty meters away and about to turn down another path.
Yang Qi’s gaze sharpened, and he raised a hand from a distance.
’Entanglement Technique!’
Invisible threads of Magical Power wrapped precisely around the man’s ankles.
THUD.
The fleeing "bird thief’s" forward momentum came to a sudden halt, and he once again crashed wretchedly to the ground, his chin slamming into the concrete with a pained grunt.
By the time the dazed man struggled back to his feet, Yang Qi was already on him, grabbing his arms from behind and yanking them upward—
"It hurts! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts! Ahhh—"
His bloodcurdling scream carried far into the night.
...
「Meanwhile.」
Chen Ze, who had just returned to duty tonight, and another security guard, Lao Hu, were running toward the Bird District with high-powered flashlights and walkie-talkies.
Just as they passed through a small bamboo grove, two men in black masks and baseball caps suddenly rushed out from a fork in the path ahead, running straight toward them!
Both parties froze for a second.
The two masked men clearly hadn’t expected to run into security and instinctively skidded to a halt.
The next second, they turned without hesitation and bolted down a darker side path.
"Stop!"
Chen Ze shouted as he and Lao Hu gave immediate chase.
As he ran, Chen Ze grabbed his walkie-talkie to report, "Two suspicious individuals spotted! Heading toward the Reptile House! Requesting backup!"
A response from another patrol team came back immediately.
"Copy that! We’ve spotted two over here as well! We’re closing in!"
Chen Ze and Lao Hu were both startled.
’More than one group of thieves?’
’Did they split into three groups to cause trouble at the same time?’
’This is a premeditated diversion!’
Despite their shock, the two of them picked up their pace.
Lao Hu, relying on his familiarity with the terrain, took a shortcut to head them off, tackling one of them from the side.
The man was pinned to the ground and struggled to fight back, but Lao Hu held him down firmly with an Arresting Skill.
Meanwhile, Chen Ze was hot on the heels of the other one.
The man was a fast runner, clearly in good shape.
Chen Ze pursued relentlessly. Seeing the distance close, he lunged forward, reaching for the man’s shoulder.
The man reacted quickly, twisting aside to dodge and throwing a powerful backhanded hook straight at Chen Ze’s face.
Chen Ze was inwardly shaken.
’These moves!’
As he blocked, he used the momentum of the attack to close the distance, aiming for a chokehold.
The two exchanged several blows in an instant.
The man’s moves were ruthless and direct, like the unrefined style of a street brawler, yet they were mixed with some kickboxing techniques, and he was very strong.
In the faint, distant light, Chen Ze finally got a clear look at the eyes under the brim of the man’s cap.
’Fierce... and familiar!’
’And looking at his height and build, the power and style of his attacks...’
A name flashed through his mind like lightning!
"It’s you! Zhang Chenghu!"
A cold glint flashed in Chen Ze’s eyes as he snarled, "You actually dare to come back to the Zoo and cause trouble?!"
When he had been beaten up before, Chen Ze hadn’t known his attacker’s name.
It was only after giving a statement to the police that he learned Zhang Chenghu’s name and background from them.
A local from the White Tower District who’d made money from property demolition, he owned several entertainment venues and had a gang of thugs on his payroll. He was a regular at the local police station.
He never imagined that after being released from detention, this thug, far from showing any remorse, would immediately gather his men to take revenge on the Zoo.
His identity exposed, the ferocious glint in Zhang Chenghu’s eyes intensified, and his face twisted under the mask.
’Since I’ve been recognized, there’s no need to hide anymore!’
"So what if it is? I’m going to ruin your damn Zoo tonight!"
Zhang Chenghu let out a low roar and stopped holding back. His attacks grew more vicious, aimed at Chen Ze’s vital spots like his throat and groin.
Chen Ze’s gaze turned icy as he calmed himself.
It had been three years since he’d left the military, and he had indeed gotten rusty, but his foundation remained.
The pent-up humiliation and anger from the past few days now fueled his will to fight.
He stopped clashing head-on and instead made full use of his military Arresting Skill techniques, dodging and weaving as he looked for an opening.
They exchanged a flurry of blows on the dim path, grappling fiercely before tumbling to the ground in a tangled heap.
"Ahhh—"
Suddenly, Zhang Chenghu let out a bloodcurdling scream.
Chen Ze had executed a clever joint lock, seizing an opening Zhang Chenghu exposed during an attack, and with a sharp twist and pull—
CRACK!
Zhang Chenghu’s right arm had been brutally dislocated.
...
By the time Zhao Dalong, Huang Zhongmu, Jiang Kai, and other senior members of the Zoo’s management arrived in a hurry, the situation was already mostly under control.
All the captured "thieves" were gathered in the brightly lit small plaza in front of the office building.
