Upon hearing this, Deng Yuqi immediately grew anxious and urged, “Mr. Shen, please stay calm! I’m already near your company, coordinating with the Special Tactics Division agents to investigate the ‘Anomalous Space.’ If what you’re saying is true and the car is currently speeding down the highway, any reckless move could lead to a fatal crash. Please trust us!”

What frustrated Deng Yuqi the most were people like Shen Ge—those who refused to stay put and wait for help. In fact, she almost wished he were like those victims who froze in terror upon encountering the supernatural.

At least those people would cower in a corner, trembling, rather than actively seeking danger.

Technically, according to official directives, the core mission of the Special Tactics Division was to minimize the impact of supernatural incidents, with the safety of those involved being a secondary priority.

But Deng Yuqi disagreed. As the person in charge of supernatural incidents in Rong City, she believed it was her duty to do everything possible to ensure the safety of civilians caught in such events while also containing the fallout. She had always strived to uphold this principle.

Coming from a family of police officers, Deng Yuqi had been raised with the belief that “you must live up to the uniform you wear.”

So, when Shen Ge’s call came in, despite her role as the head of Rong City’s Special Tactics Division—which technically meant she should have remained in the command center—she rushed to the scene without hesitation.

However, according to updates from the already-deployed Team 2, the situation on-site was far from “optimistic.” The biggest obstacle? Rong City’s most notorious problem in recent years due to rapid development—rush-hour traffic.

Two blocks away from Shen Ge’s company, the roads were already gridlocked. And now, with her attempt to seal off the route of the speeding car Shen Ge was trapped in, the sudden roadblocks had caused a massive traffic jam.

Of the two emergency response vehicles dispatched, only one had managed to reach the vicinity of Shen Ge’s company.

The silver lining was that Team 2, responsible for detecting “Anomalous Spaces,” was already in position and conducting a rapid sweep. Unfortunately, Team 1, tasked with tactical support, was still stuck in traffic.

Sometimes, help wasn’t delayed intentionally—it was just… traffic.

Deng Yuqi stepped out of her car and flagged down a young man on an electric scooter, flashing her badge. “Hello, I’m from the Municipal Bureau. We’re in pursuit of a suspect and need to requisition your—”

“Yeah, right. Lady, you’ve watched too many movies. Sorry, I’ve got deliveries to make!”

 The young man ignored her completely, swerving onto the sidewalk and speeding off.

Despite Deng Yuqi’s striking appearance, the young man wasn’t about to hand over his scooter.

Clearly, the safe and orderly environment of modern China made such movie-like scenarios—or situations that might happen abroad—seem more like prank shows to the average citizen.

“…”

Deng Yuqi was at a loss for words. Just then, Shen Ge’s voice crackled faintly through her Bluetooth earpiece.

“Hey, driver, mind scooting over a bit? Your seat’s pretty spacious—how about we squeeze in together?”

*“You’ve been driving this long and only got up to 130 km/h? Your skills are lacking… Let me take over. I’m a veteran Need for Speed player!”*

“…”

This idiot!

Deng Yuqi’s head throbbed with frustration. As part of the Special Tactics Division, she despised dealing with reckless fools who ignored orders during supernatural incidents. If not for her duty to protect civilians caught in such events, she would’ve had zero interest in interacting with Shen Ge.

Had Shen Ge known that his antics had planted seeds of disdain in Deng Yuqi’s mind, he might have doubled down just to provoke her further.

After all, testing the Special Tactics Division’s capabilities was one thing—but earning their disgust was another.

This supernatural incident had struck too suddenly. Combined with the low frequency of such events, the Special Tactics Division had mostly operated in a perpetual “standby” mode. Their downtown branch wasn’t even equipped with helicopters.

Though Deng Yuqi had already requested helicopter support from the Quanlong Mountain base, Shen Ge’s situation was deteriorating too rapidly. She couldn’t afford to wait.

With no scooter to commandeer, Deng Yuqi resorted to grabbing a shared bike, cutting through alleys as she raced toward Shen Ge’s company—leaving bystanders stunned.

“Whoa, is that woman an extreme sports enthusiast? Who rides a shared bike like that?”

“Holy crap! She’s like Jackie Chan!”

“She’s flying! Damn, that Passat owner’s gonna be pissed—she just dented his roof!”

“Well, she wasn’t gonna jump the Audi A8 next to it, was she?”

Indeed, Deng Yuqi seemed possessed by Jackie Chan’s stuntman spirit, turning a shared bike into an extreme sports vehicle. Blocked by a Passat and an A8 at the entrance of a pedestrian street, she opted for the cheaper car, lifting the bike’s front wheel and riding straight over the Passat’s roof—nearly giving the driver inside a heart attack as he almost swallowed his cigarette.

While Deng Yuqi was pulling off her bike stunts, Shen Ge was engaged in his own high-speed antics. After multiple attempts, he confirmed that the driver was as unresponsive as a wooden puppet—even slapping the man’s face with his shoe elicited no reaction.

Shen Ge squeezed into the driver’s area, trying to kick the man’s foot off the accelerator. But the driver’s body was immovable, like a block of wood.

Most cars were equipped with BOS (Brake Override System), allowing the driver to stop the car by hitting the brakes even if the accelerator was floored. But at speeds over 100 km/h, slamming the brakes in a lower-end vehicle could send it into a deadly spin.

Just as Shen Ge’s foot hovered over the brake pedal, the driver’s eyes suddenly glowed with an eerie black light.

Crack.

Crack.

The driver’s head slowly turned to the right, each movement accompanied by the sickening sound of snapping bones. Fortunately, Shen Ge had been monitoring the driver the entire time. Seizing the one-second pause in the movement, he activated his ability—“Immobility”!

His shadow seemed to come alive, slithering forward and enveloping the driver like a living shroud.

At that moment, Shen Ge noticed something strange—the previously night-like streets warped the instant he activated “Immobility.”

Darkness and twilight flickered, as if two different worlds had overlapped.

For a brief moment, Shen Ge thought he saw other vehicles on the road ahead—but they vanished just as quickly.

Given the current time, the real world should indeed be in twilight.

“A spatial collision?” Shen Ge recalled how the supernatural entity “Immobility” had dragged Cheng Shengnan into an Anomalous Space yesterday, rendering her invisible.

Now, by using “Immobility” on the driver—who was himself a supernatural entity with his own Anomalous Space—the two spaces had collided, causing the distortion.

However, Shen Ge’s mental energy was draining at a rate of 10% per second. With 166% reserves, he could sustain “Immobility” for only 16 seconds at most.

He was torn between deactivating the ability to observe the driver’s next move or maintaining it until his energy depleted, potentially pulling himself out of the driver’s Anomalous Space.

Suddenly, the roar of an engine erupted from the left side of the road, followed by the blinding glare of high beams from behind.

“Mr. Shen, I’ve entered the Anomalous Space with the rescue vehicle. Stay calm and refrain from reckless actions. I’ll get you out!”

Deng Yuqi’s voice came through the phone.

A few minutes earlier, Deng Yuqi had used her expert driving skills to cut through the pedestrian street and reach Shen Ge’s company, rendezvousing with Team 2.

But based on Shen Ge’s description, they found no trace of the suspicious black car on the right side of the street outside the company.

Without locating the source, they couldn’t dismantle the Anomalous Space.

Despite the urgency, the Special Tactics Division could only resort to a basic grid search. Just as they were running out of ideas, the detection equipment suddenly picked up an energy fluctuation—a brief but unmistakable distortion from an Anomalous Space collision near the newsstand beside the building.

“Who activated a supernatural artifact?” Deng Yuqi demanded over the comms.

All agents denied it. Huo Yu, a seasoned investigator, speculated, “Boss, could it be a collision inside the Anomalous Space?”

Did Shen Ge have a supernatural artifact too?

As the spatial distortion grew fainter, threatening to vanish entirely, Deng Yuqi didn’t hesitate. She jumped into the driver’s seat of the rescue vehicle, revved the engine, and charged straight into the warping Anomalous Space!