Chapter 581 - 371: Silent Slaughter
In the Municipal Center District’s Heaven-Reaching Tower, an unprecedented catastrophe descended upon this place.
In the New Moon City region, corporate giants have numerous offices, and countless subsidiaries under their direct control, with members spanning various industry fields.
And those who can work in the Heaven-Reaching Tower are undoubtedly elite employees of the corporate giants. They consider themselves superior, disdainful of breathing the same air as ordinary people, looking down upon the mortal world from above.
In their eyes, this city is just a gigantic game board, and the lives of the lower class are mere pieces placed on the board for them to toy with at will.
When they win, they shout with satisfaction, happily taking the spoils.
When they lose, it’s just a lost game, complaining casually, and then starting a new round.
For a hundred years, it has been a cycle of winning and losing, with one batch of pieces replaced by another, but those behind the scenes are always pleased.
However, until March 20th of Dawn 153rd Year, the arrogance of corporate giants that lasted for over a century was completely shattered.
After Fenrir broke through the Crown Plaza barricade and stormed into the Heaven-Reaching Tower, the most frenzied slaughter began.
Searching and killing room by room, rampaging floor by floor, the blood of corporate employees flowed like rivers as guards and automatic defense weapons daring to resist were shattered. No matter how thick the security doors, they couldn’t stop the Wolf King’s advance.
From the outside, the building of Heaven-Reaching Tower kept exploding, flames and smoke rising with Fenrir’s rampage across various floors, slaughtering one floor and moving upward, slaughtering another and continuing upward, getting higher and higher, as if piercing through the entire tower.
No mercy, no compromise, only slaughter repaying sins with blood.
On the 199th floor of the Hegemony Company Tower, Zhao Yiming walked with a somber expression under the escort of guards. In this critical moment, he still walked unhurriedly, maintaining the demeanor of a major leader.
The main reason for his calmness was that Fenrir was still rampaging in the lower-mid floors, temporarily posing no threat to the upper floors.
The executives had ample time to evacuate; they just needed to go through the emergency passage to the aerial transport level and board a hovercar to leave.
Despite the strength of Fenrir’s Azure Wolf Blood Code, it couldn’t magically grow wings to pursue a hovercar.
At the emergency passage, Zhao Yiming saw another escort team ahead, and it was quite special—the one being escorted was a middle-aged man lying on a mobile hospital bed, with his whole body attached to various life-support tubes.
Zhao Yiming tightened his loose tie a bit, approached the middle-aged man, and nodded: "President Jiang."
This person was none other than Jiang Yuan, the president of Hegemony Company’s New Moon City branch.
Although the outside world called Zhao Yiming "President Zhao," his actual title was Vice President. Simply because Jiang Yuan’s health was poor, he couldn’t work normally, thus the presidential power was transferred to Zhao Yiming.
Even though Jiang Yuan was no longer in charge, his title remained, and he had deeper prestige and connections in the headquarters, so Zhao Yiming had to remain respectful in front of him.
Jiang Yuan wore a breathing mask, his half-open eyes didn’t look at Zhao Yiming, only a weak voice came: "Xiaozhao, you know my health is not good, and I haven’t managed branch affairs for many years."
"Back then out of many executives, I chose you because of your outstanding ability, extraordinary vision, everything done in your hands can be perfectly managed, you contributed greatly to the company."
"But the problem lies here, you’re too enthusiastic about making achievements, power-hungry, wanting to control everything, always finding ways to prune those that displease you."
As he spoke, Jiang Yuan slightly turned his cloudy gaze to glance at Zhao Yiming: "I’ve told you many times, pacifying is better than exterminating, don’t punish your subordinates at every turn."
"Use benefits to divide them, create conflicts to dissolve them, let them resent each other, weakening themselves, and observe from the sidelines, that’s the ultimate way."
"But you had to bring people directly into the fray to crush Wolf King, just to present a tribute to the headquarters better, hoping to sit in my position sooner."
"What’s the rush? In a few years when I retire or die, won’t this position eventually be yours? Can’t you wait even for this short time? Eh... young people act recklessly, really recklessly..."
Jiang Yuan closed his eyes as he spoke, it was unclear if it was due to insufficient oxygen or utter disappointment with Zhao Yiming, he said no further words to the junior he personally promoted.
Zhao Yiming just gritted his teeth and listened to the reprimand with bowed head, not daring to respond, nor having the face to do so.
When Jiang Yuan stopped speaking, Zhao Yiming made way for him to pass first, following closely behind.
They arrived at the aerial transport level, where hovercars and transport crafts were ready and waiting to allow executives to evacuate.
Zhao Yiming respectfully saw Jiang Yuan onto his dedicated transport craft. Before he could say ’take care,’ he suddenly heard a hum, and the activated transport craft’s engine abruptly shut down, with all indicators off.
Zhao Yiming frowned deeply, questioning the pilot: "What’s happening?!"
The pilot’s face was full of confusion, hands unsure where to put them: "I... I don’t know... The launch system should be fully automated... I didn’t touch anything; it suddenly broke down..."
At that moment, the anomaly erupted without any warning.
All aerial transports in the bay one after another lost power; helicopters, hovercars, and transport crafts, one by one, fell into paralysis, no matter how the pilots operated, it was useless.