I feared she might really dislocate my arm, so I decided to strike first. I immediately grabbed her arm, twisted my body, and attempted a back body drop!
This move was also taught to me by Chu Qi. When facing someone significantly lighter than me, if I couldn't win with a killing blow, I could opt for close-quarters combat and throw them. Normally, even the most skilled person would lose their combat ability for a short period after being thrown like that.
However, I overestimated myself and underestimated the person in the white vest. With all my strength, as I twisted my waist, her body, which looked no more than ninety jin, didn't budge. I only felt her palm press against my lower back. This must be the principle of leverage; she had found my fulcrum, and naturally, my lever couldn't exert force.
But my next move caught her completely off guard, because it wasn't something Chu Qi taught me; it was something I came up with on the spot!
"Heh, with you? You want to plot against— Ah! Damn you!" The person in the white vest shrieked in pain. I immediately pulled away, grabbing Chen Ke, and created distance between us.
The person in the white vest raised their left foot, cradling their foot and hissing in pain. Heh, just then, while they were caught off guard, I stomped down hard on their left foot's toes with my heel. The toes are connected to the heart, just like the fingers. When I played soccer, I was often stepped on, and the agony was no less than being hit in a vital spot by a shot.
This exchange had already confirmed that she wasn't an ordinary person, because an ordinary person couldn't have stopped my throw.
I seized the opportunity and ran out of the park with Chen Ke. The person in the white vest stumbled after us, but facing them now wasn't just me and Chen Ke, but the chillingly watchful Daji.
Within two moves, Daji had twisted the white vest's arms behind their back and subdued them. The old men and women around were looking on in confusion, watching the conflict among us young people.
The person in the white vest seized the moment and shouted, "Help, Uncle and Auntie, these people are robbing me!"
Chen Ke reacted incredibly quickly. She immediately pulled a small booklet from her pocket, opened it, and displayed it rapidly to those around: "Don't be fooled, everyone. We are police officers, and she is a wanted fugitive! Comrade Hu, take her away!"
After speaking, Chen Ke put away her "identification." No matter how much the person in the white vest protested, it was useless. The crowd chose to believe the three of us.
As we escorted the person in the white vest out of the park, Daji asked how to handle her: take her back to the hotel or kill her on the spot?
"Kill me if you dare!" the person in the white vest declared defiantly.
"Then let's take her back to the hotel," I signaled a "cut" gesture to Daji. Daji understood and struck the back of the white vest's neck with her palm, knocking her unconscious.
I had to admire Daji's skill. The force was just right, rendering the person in the white vest unconscious while leaving their legs still capable of movement. Chen Ke and another person held them on either side, making them look like they were drunk.
Walking on the street like this, coupled with Chen Ke constantly scolding her with phrases like "I told you not to drink so much, but you wouldn't listen," it looked perfectly normal. Back at the hotel, Chen Ke kept up the act, and no one paid us much attention. We got into the elevator, went up to the forty-second floor, and dragged the person in the white vest to Daji's room, throwing them onto the floor.
"Who is this?" Daji asked.
"Don't know, they've been following us," I said, looking at Chen Ke. "How do you have a police ID?"
It was normal for her not to have noticed being followed, but Chen Ke's quick thinking on the spot impressed me quite a bit.
Chen Ke giggled and showed me the ID. It turned out to be her driver's license, with a fake police ID cover on the outside.
"You used to do this often when you were with the Mohe, didn't you?" I chuckled, referring to her past as an intelligence operative for the Mohe.
"Yup, it's a family skill, so to speak," Chen Ke replied.
"So, if we encounter a situation like this, how do we wake her up?" I asked, pointing at the person in the white vest on the floor.
I genuinely didn't know what to do.
"Splash cold water on her face, haven't you seen movies?" Chen Ke said.
"...Are movies real? Why does splashing water wake up someone who's fainted?" I asked.
"It's not about splashing water, it's about splashing *cold* water. The facial nerves are extremely sensitive. When cold water is splashed on them, the sudden drop in temperature stimulates the vast network of nerves, causing them to wake up," Chen Ke explained.
So that's how it was. I went to the bathroom, turned the faucet all the way to the right to get cold water, filled half a basin, and splashed it onto the face of the person in the white vest.
As expected, the person in the white vest instantly woke up, looking at the three of us with panic. But soon, their gaze became remarkably resolute. I noticed their mouth moving, as if chewing gum. Another familiar movie scene flashed into my mind—Not good!
I immediately pried their mouth open with my hand and stuffed half a pack of cigarettes into it.