According to the latest revised version of the "Mysterious Creature Research Institute Field Operations Department Agent Action Manual 4717", Chapter 4, Section 6, field agents, when faced with unknown entities, must prioritize the use of remote weapons far over close combat weapons. Direct contact with entities must be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
Although the ruler-radius in Ling Xiao's hand had returned to normal, he did not rush forward to engage the "woman" in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, without hesitation, he jumped off the bed and sliced open his aluminum suitcase with a knife.
A pile of folded clothes tumbled out of the suitcase. Ling Xiao, quick-eyed and swift-handed, grabbed the tactical flashlight that rolled out with the clothes, adjusted it directly to the highest intensity strobe mode, aimed the lamp head at the "woman," and flipped the switch!
