Chapter 582 - 371: Silent Slaughter (Part 2)
At the same time, all the surrounding control lights, electronic doors, and all devices dependent on electronic systems were completely down, as if a deadly and invisible electronic plague was spreading rampantly.
As Zhao Yiming was at a loss, he received a call from the information security department: "President Zhao! The electronic system terminals of the Heaven-Reaching Tower have been breached by some kind of virus! The source is unknown! All electronic devices have been completely paralyzed! Please evacuate through the ground manual passage immediately! Please immediately..."
The people from the information security department didn’t have a chance to shout a few more times before the communication system was also paralyzed by the unknown virus, and the countless people in the Heaven-Reaching Tower lost contact with the outside world, turning into isolated islands trapped on a vast ocean.
Seeing the frightened faces of the executives around him, with the reverberation of the vibration approaching from below the floor, a cold current spread from Zhao Yiming’s spine, as if to freeze his limbs.
For the first time in his life, this human elite felt true fear.
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On the lower floors of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, the battle was incessant.
The battle at Crown Plaza seemed brutal, causing significant casualties, but mainly due to the initial dense formation, which Fenrir effortlessly swept through.
Later, as those people reacted, spreading out their formation, Fenrir’s efficiency in killing naturally decreased.
There were 12,000 Extraordinary Warriors deployed at the Heaven-Reaching Tower, and only over a thousand, about 10% of the total, died directly at Crown Plaza.
Later on, Fenrir no longer tangled at the plaza, charging directly into the Heaven-Reaching Tower, with the remaining over ten thousand Extraordinary Warriors closely trailing behind, intending to block and delay her onslaught.
It wasn’t that loyalty inscribed in their bones overrode their fear of death, but rather that, for these people, they had no choice.
Advancing held a slim chance of survival if they were lucky; even if they unfortunately died in battle, their beloved friends and family would still receive corporate benefits.
Being a deserter, or intentionally dawdling behind, headquarters had the absolute capability to investigate and settle accounts later on, using inhumane torture to make them spend the rest of their lives in suffering, and ensuring their families received the same "treatment."
Therefore, at this moment, these Extraordinary Warriors had only one choice, which was to suppress their fear of death, using their lives to block Fenrir at all costs, covering the leaders’ retreat.
During this process, Prosthetic Implanters continually pounced onto Fenrir, using laser blades to stab into her flesh until they were turned into irreparable scrap metal by the Azure Wolf Claws.
Mechanical Ferocious Beasts, controlled by the Spiritual Brain Modifiers, launched suicidal charges one after another, tearing at Fenrir’s body with claws and fangs while alive, and even in death, using their massive bodies to block her path.
Blood Code Carriers also unleashed various abilities on Fenrir, constantly causing injuries; even if hit by a fierce counterattack, nearing death, they would still bite a piece of flesh off her.
In the corridors of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, various shattered corpses lay scattered everywhere, forming a grotesque carpet of blood and flesh.
By this point, the major corporation’s deployed Extraordinary Warriors had lost nearly half their number. Indeed, this relentless assault had caused severe wounds to Fenrir; the tall Azure Wolf body was already wrapped in muddy blood, more than half of which was her own, covered in vicious wounds everywhere.
However, the most terrifying aspect of the Azure Wolf Blood Code is precisely here; the more injured the carrier becomes, the stronger the Blood Code Power grows.
With every step towards their life’s end, the Azure Wolf Blood Code Carrier would continue to grow stronger until their body collapsed under the ravaging power of rage.
Compared to the battle at Crown Plaza, Fenrir’s strength at this point was several times greater due to her injuries, her offensive becoming increasingly violent, with claws tearing through all the mega-corporation warriors and those employees fleeing in disarray, continually moving upward.
She had already ascended over half of the 200-floor high Heaven-Reaching Tower.
"Boom—" With the corridor wall being shattered, Fenrir’s Azure Wolf body burst through, sending all the panicked employees of the mega-corporation fleeing through the emergency evacuation passage tumbling to the ground.
"Tear, tear, tear—" One after another, before they could even get up to continue escaping, they were shredded by the Azure Wolf Claws amidst the horrific sound of flesh being torn apart.
Fenrir charged toward a stumbling, long-haired woman at the end of the corridor, about to tear her apart, when she suddenly fell to the ground, arms wrapped tightly around her head, her high-pitched voice whimpering constantly: "No! Don’t kill me! I’m just an outsourced worker, and there’s a child in my belly!!!"
The woman was wearing cleaning staff clothes, and with disheveled hair, burying her head in her arms and sobbing, her belly ridged and round, apparently pregnant for several months.
The Azure Wolf Claw, suspended above the woman’s head, paused for a moment before retracting.
"Boom!" Fenrir smashed through the nearby isolation door with a backhand, continuing her charge toward the higher floors.
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Finally, amidst the slaughter with the remnants of the mega-corporation’s warriors, Fenrir reached the flight vehicle area on the 150th floor.
Some of the previously gathered mega-corporation executives had already fled in various directions, while others pinned their hopes on the engineers quickly fixing the system, continuing to wait here for evacuation.
Whether the former managed a lucky escape is another matter, but the latter made the most erroneous choice of their lives.
Because, until the last moment, the electronic system was not restored.
"Boom—" As the heavy alloy isolation door of the vehicle area was torn open by claws, all the mega-corporation executives stranded there saw that blood-drenched Azure Wolf body.